on forces few friends of fans german. military industrial complex starts october twentieth on g.w. . lead. player. this is d w news live from berlin turkey and the us meet over the case of the missing saudi journalist top u.s. diplomat mike pompei o serves as a messenger for saudi arabia as he holds talks with turkey's president the kingdom promises a full probe facing mounting pressure over the disappearance and suspected murder of a saudi journalist. also coming up w.

goes to rocco one year after its liberation from the i guess we look at how the u.s. is willing and unwilling to help in the city airstrikes largely just reuters plus the speed bump that is stalling but i'd say the irish border issue remains a key sticking point that has thrown negotiations into near chaos will the e.u. get to reset main more time to find a breakthrough. and germany football coach who often lopes offers another painful loss but is the step to cling to his job after an improved performance against france. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program we begin with mounting pressure on saudi arabia over the disappearance of the dissident saudi journalist jamal khashoggi turkey says that home at. to enter the saudis consul residence later today

officials there believe that he was murdered and his body removed u.s. secretary of state by pompei o has met with turkey's president directly tie affair to want over the case bringing with him a pledge from saudi arabia to carry out a full investigation washington post on who is in front of the saudi consuls residence residence in istanbul so as we just heard there yulia the u.s. secretary of state might come pale meeting with president ed i want also with the turkish foreign minister this morning any word on what's come out of the meetings. well speaking to journalists the turkish foreign minister set the meeting with pomp aoe was and i quote him beneficiary and fruitful but according to what we hear from behind the scenes the talks are not satisfied at all there was speculation whether the u.s. would offer some kind of deal which also said as far as the saudis but at the moment i can tell you more about this mr cho issue also said he hopes to auction

vesey gaiters will finally be allowed inside the saudi consuls residence so the building here right behind me which they couldn't do yesterday as we know the saudi consul himself is no longer here he left for saudi arabia yesterday raising suspicion that he actually escaped being afraid of what investigators might find inside the premises investigators have searched at the saudi consulate just a few hundred meters away here and a source familiar with the investigation later confirmed to us they indeed found evidence as suggesting mr bush was killed or to look asian see or seem to be linked to some in this to geisha and investigators seem to believe that his body or he dead or alive has been taken from the consulate to the residence here so it will be really interesting what kind of evidence will emerge once investigators are going inside the very building behind me tell us a little bit more about that evidence yulia because

a pro-government newspaper there has published reports of an audio recording related to control sheiks disappearance apparently what more can you tell us about this. well this is the paper you have mentioned it's a pro-government newspaper and there has line today is this in it which translates into the sound of the slaying and they claim that there is a or dio recording proving basically how mystical she has been tortured and brutally killed they all citing a source that listened to the recording but the journalists have apparently not listened to the recording themselves in the recording it says we also hear the voice of the saudi consul saying basically to the alleged killer look eyes can you do this please outside you can get me into serious trouble once again i advise some caution here because the evidence has not been officially released by turkish police. actually they're just leaking bits and pieces of information to media so

what journalists are doing around here they're trying to puzzle it together coming up with theories and speculation so this is the latest story here from this pro-government newspaper. yulia han joining us from istanbul thank you. it was a year ago that the so-called islamic state was driven out of its self declared capital in syria the northern city of raka rocket is now under the control of kurdish forces but the fight lasted for months and saw thousands killed local militias fought on the ground while u.s. planes bombarded i-s. from the air the city is now free of the militants but lines in ruins are reporters . and visited rocca on an embedded trip with the u.s. army they looked at how the city and its people are recovering. abdullah is happy to see us in his classroom it's a place of safety where he can finally learn and play with other children. it's

a year since he lost his hand he and his friend solder fridge which had a booby trap inside. there we were playing with it and it exploded two children next to me died and an old man was badly hurt. i was to buy a piece of shrapnel here two of my friends died in. high file ali teaches the special class addressing the particular needs of his able to and traumatized children she wasn't allowed to work at all when the high as were in charge. all she says about that time is that it was hard for everyone to have an end up fighting we notice the children freeze up whenever they hear shots and explosions which are still frequently are. there they completely unsettled me that i may do it or when. the united states funds the class

we are on a trip organized by the u.s. army and state department they want to show us what has been achieved since the victory over as in russia and they want to encourage small countries to fund the stabilisation of the city. the security measures during our visit here in the aca a very very tight they have been several terror attacks over the past months and there are still i is sleeper cells operating in the city. the fight against the so-called islamic state in russia which included u.s. airstrikes destroyed more than seventy percent of the city. there's not much left barely any hospitals homes or anywhere to live and no mains electricity but people are slowly coming back. we really need work they don't have work you can't eat or drink work is the most important thing we shovel how much

that it luckily some schools are opening again and we registered our children my daughter was not allowed to study under i.r.s. now she's in the first grade even though she's older but still she's allowed to study that's not the fact that the u.s. has been giving what it calls stabilization eight to rocka that means clearing mines and rubber repairing buildings and supporting local people but it doesn't mean large scale reconstruction. the united states has said that in terms of rebuilding their camp again until we've got here reversible progress towards a political solution through the geneva process and so that's what we're looking towards it's. irreversible progress on the political front. the future of syria is being negotiated far away in geneva by the u.n. sponsored talks there have stalled and in rocka the pressure is on. the longer reconstruction takes to begin says co-chair of the council. the greater the danger

that i as might gain support among the people. the help offered so far is like um but it's not enough meeting with the u.s. representative the council vent their frustration they've heard that u.s. president on a tramp cut about two hundred million dollars from syria's stabilisation eight. in libya model as if those who destroyed the city should rebuild it and what will we expect the coalition of the united states to help us with this they promised they would. for now it's projects like this that's a civil council is focusing on repairing rack us infamous stadium. the foreman in march tells us islamic state terrorists carried out mass executions here and that they tortured hundreds of civilians in the cellars. i hope that the

stadium will be full again one day and the people will come and play sports here again. like they did before the i.a.s. took control that's what we're hoping for. the first game sergio to take place here in a couple of weeks they could offer brief respite from everyday life in the ruins of russia. and for more on the situation in iraq we are joined now by a german journalist and long time syria observer kristen helberg welcome. so it's now one year on since rocker was liberated and as we saw there there is a great deal of resentment against the president already has for not doing more to help rebuild. why do you think that they are not loosening the purse strings i think they have to two reasons first of all there really is a lack of funding a lack of support we just heard the young men saying that destroys rocca is supposed to rebuild it and the you as have really kind of try to avoid this social

responsibility saying that now it's others that are supposed to finance the real construction of the same time these kurdish authorities like a certain amount of legitimacy because rucka is a mainly arab city so they have this double problem lego funding and like of which of them it seems like the state was quite a hard battle indeed for rocca how hard did it hit the city there were among the most destroyed cities inside syria it's full of mines that have not exploded at so it's very dangerous for people to come back and to try to rebuild their houses they explode very regularly and there is really a lack of equipment for mining for example we ask ourselves why the local civil defense doesn't really have the technical equipment and the means to do that this is one of the big problem the other problem obviously is the infrastructure that is not being with on the largest scale and it's kind of ridiculous to say that we are waiting for progress in geneva for a political process that it's that is that any way to rebuild iraq up because it's

really you can just take responsibility for the regions that you have destroyed although for good reason to eliminate isis but in the end the people down there in iraq are they feel to you as is letting them down right now let's talk a little bit more about the elimination of isis another challenge that is also on the horizon and the fact that this was the jihadist capital for so many years i mean how much support does the so-called islamic state still have in the city is it even possible to gauge that the problem is the frustration of the people i mean we saw that people behaved in a different way there were people who cooperated with isis for personal reasons for security reasons but there were really convinced of this ideology of this project on the other hand you have no. this prostration about you know the living conditions the people would be ready for any radical groups would come back so that really the problem is there of a social fabric as well you have a lot of accounts to be said that you have families whose son has joined isis has now become the son of the neighbor so how are these people supposed to recounts

high and that's a big problem social reconciliation there's no justice there's no system of different system functioning so this is another big problem how these all of these people supposed to live together they say that you know in order to have that reconciliation you often you need the truth first another area where we don't necessarily know the food full truth and this is something that amnesty international is really calling for answers on is the fact that there are allegations that the u.s. air strikes that they were responsible for thousands of civilian deaths potentially unnecessarily here how important is that for the city's future to know what actually happened there to have a proper investigation it is very important and i think amnesty international has signed rightful claim see it they did some research of certain families who were almost entirely eliminated by u.s. yes trikes and we can see a difference between the strikes under president obama and then when trump came to college we need change to become became more relentless but the fact is that in

iraq a most of the people left the city before so in the case that they had stayed would have been even more personal losses but it would be important obviously need to do some research and find out why the you as yes trikes have hit the city in this extent and with this major destruction a story that in so many ways is only just beginning for iraq kristen helberg joining us to put it all into perspective thank you thank you. for that now a quick check of some other stories making news around the world. protesters trying to stop women from accessing one of india's most sacred hindu sites have been moved by police the country's top court has ruled that the temple in this. state of corrales must allow women of all ages to enter but traditionalists including women are opposed to the decision. israel has conducted twenty airstrikes on gaza and closed its border with the palestinian territories this comes after a rocket fired from gaza struck

a house in southern israel early on wednesday israel blames hamas which runs gaza for the rocket attack but the militant group has denied responsibility and canada has become the second country after uruguay to legalize recreational marijuana people there can now buy possess and use small amounts of the truck legalizing marijuana was a campaign promise of prime minister just to do who says it will protect minors and reduce organized crime. diplomatic sources say that the european union has offered to extend the transition period for britain's exit from the block by a year it's a possible concession to britain's prime minister theresa may ahead of a summit of e.u. leaders in brussels later may is under pressure to break the deadlock over the issue of the irish border northern ireland is set to become the u.k.'s only land border with the e.u. both sides want to avoid a hard border which would reinstate physical checks that could hamper trade and

travel between northern ireland and the irish republic but they can't agree how a key part of the negotiation is a so-called backstop a fallback plan should the u.k. leave the e.u. without a deal but there's no agreement on that either. you see in the u.k.'s gregg's it minister dominique robb was somewhere in there on his way to the commission that was some day we all thought a deal was close at hand the excitement was palpable. but the chief negotiator tweeted this despite intense efforts some key issues are still operating . so we all went back to bed because we'd heard that one before. yes the biggest issue still is the border between northern island which is part of the u.k. and the republic of ireland which belongs to the e.u. . we need more time to find this global

agreement than reached a decisive step forward that we need to finalize the negotiations for an orderly brags to negotiations sort of what i will have to do for you. same old same old i know that there with me. everybody wants to avoid the hard border after all many people lost their lives during the irish troubles when there was one the e.u. has suggested pushing it into the irish sea but to recent may reject an external border separating two parts of the u.k. . the problem is supposed to be solved by a political agreement but in case they fail to reach one the e.u. wants a so-called backstop that's an insurance to avoid a border but it also means effectively that northern island would stay within the e.u. regulations now some are calling for

a backstop to the backstop oh well never mind yes terribly complicated but the bottom line is this the e.u. is chief negotiator and the u.k. brags that minister have been negotiating. and negotiating. then the u.k. changed its brags it minister and they negotiated some more and it looks like finally the e.u. and the u.k. might be ready to agree on something don't ask me about the details it includes things like back to the backstop yes very tiring. and if that weren't enough the real front line is now in the u.k. i continue to believe that a negotiated deal is the best outcome for the u.k. and for the european union i continue to believe that such a deal is achievable. not everybody still in the disunited kingdom the brics the tears are waiting to tear apart whatever theresa may brings home from brussels and

that would mean no deal. and so the banks and saga continues now to football into another saga world champions france came from behind to beat germany two one in the nation's li the last another blow for germany who have struggled since then airlie exit from the world cup it's now their worst calendar year ever with six defeats in twenty eighteen but under fire germany coach love radically switched his tactics and his side at least showed some improvement. toni kroos gave germany an early lead from the penalty spot it was a boost for a young side which saw five changes and one griezmann levelled after the break with a stunning header yet let it go much red man wasn't done yet a spot kick ten minutes from time sealed the two one win for france. it was your cumulus fourth loss in six competitive games but he was upbeat about his new team

and new tactics. i'm disappointed about the result even if this defeat feels different from the last last saturday against the dutch for guns so i'm stuck not because of the result. because of our performance which i must say was great because you know course article which was. it is the first time since two thousand that germany have lost consecutive competitive matches france meanwhile are on course for the nations league semifinals. there's a difference between the sides we are full of confidence and we know that confidence bring success the german team have less confidence and so are less efficient when difficult. germany's nations league hopes are over still needs a win in november the last group game at home to the dutch another defeat could risk the end of his long tenure. now monica jones has news on the business front

indeed and european car sales sarah faltered in september is also make a struggle to meet the demands of a new tougher emissions test folks back in sales in europe fell almost fifty percent for the month at chrysler and rain also on declines of closer to thirty percent the new worldwide harmonized light vehicle test became mandatory on september the first forcing some carmakers to put the brakes on delivery while awaiting certification. and for more let's preserve it only by standing by for us on the streets of frankfurt only what caused this dramatic slump in sales how much of that is really down to the new emissions test. i think most is down to the new emissions test when you look at the numbers for the european car sales from january to september they're up by two and a half percent and now suddenly they're down by this huge margin the auto industry says it was just surprised by all the parameters that had to test for all the different models and that now it's just taking huge amounts of time volkswagen

c.e.o. have it is said recently they're working at full capacity and more in order to meet these test criteria and why is the test so expensive well test things that weren't tested before it really measure its fuel consumption and emissions it's supposed to at least an average daily driving different speeds braking acceleration stops it takes all this into account and the car manufacturers have to also take into account the testing for each and every model to see the cars whizzing by here i bet each and every one has to be tested individually because they all have different engines transmission's weight and optional what i owe well a lot of hurdles to overcome in frankfurt thank you so much. what makes an economy competitive and how does your country compared to the rest of the welts while these other questions research us of the world economic forum has spent months trying to answer in that global competitive front porch and in a moment we'll talk to the lead study but first

a look at the report's results. it's a highly coveted tree that gives one country an edge over another and now thanks to a study by the world economic forum the most competitive economies in the world have been revealed the study's authors looked at a variety of factors including innovation and how dynamic a country's business environment is they were also interested in technological readiness as well as the state of a country's health and education systems. so who came out on top let's take a look at the results. coming in at number one is the world's biggest economy the united states it's good especially high on the business dynamism measure number two might surprise you it singapore a country of just five million people it's defining competitive feature was openness third prize for competitiveness goes to germany which did especially well in the area of innovation the other top performers were mainly in europe with japan

and hong kong standing out in asia. but the report suggests that even top performers should not rest on their laurels while the united states gained a lot of points for its dynamic entrepreneurial culture the study points out that it did relatively badly on other measures like health. health adjusted life expectancy that is the number of years a person can expect to stay healthy is only sixty seven years in the u.s. that's three years below the average of advanced economies and for more on that competitive index i'm joined by the guy get the lead off this report good to have you with us first of all what surprised you the most when doing that say. well i think that. the new era are we entering with a force into revolution. show. the complexity of mastering the gross conundrum and there are

a number of factors. now or more than it ever and it did on the writer a few years back and therefore now the challenges that not only you need to master know that traditional drivers of crawl and a soul into a mental such as governance and else an infrastructure but you also need to look at other scenes and innovation capacity is become i mean and in at the city of not just florida for the most economies but but many are emerging economies as well as as an engine of growth for for the future so yeah i mean a lot of of learning something these three year fourteen building the new index. geiger there the lead author of the world economic forum competitive index we do experience some sound issues so we have to leave it here at this point but thank you so much for your time. moving on now to the head

of the international monetary fund who will not be attending a key investment conference in saudi arabia a spokesman for christine legarde now says she is deferring her trip to the middle east lagat had said last week that she still intended to attend the conference despite being quote horrified by the disappearance of a saudi journalist. is the saudi consulate in istanbul a conference next week was intended to highlight saudi arabia's move away from an oil based economy like god now joins the heads of companies like google and j.p. morgan chase who all canceled their appearances. and that flicks beat investor expectation to act nearly seven million new subscribers in the last quarter the streaming service reported the profit more than tripled from a year ago and revenues remained strong netflix has invested heavily in all riginal programming but investors have worried about subscriptions keeping pace of the new figures a boost in value of netflix twelve percent in after hours trading parts of

a positive day on wall street. and here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you. u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o has been in turkey for talks with president and over the disappearance and suspected murder of a saudi journalist when they had visited saudi arabia which he says has promised a full investigation. hasn't been seen since he entered the saudi consulate in istanbul two weeks ago. you're watching the news coming to your life from lynn more coming up at the top of the hour in the meantime you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our web site and that is t w dot com thanks for joining. us.

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