this is d.w. news live from berlin saudi arabia calls the killing of jamal khashoggi a huge and grave mistake as international pressure grows over the journalist out of german chancellor angela merkel says that those responsible for the killing must be held accountable for alleged is ready to suspend arms sales to riyadh. also coming up vote counting begins in afghanistan's first parliamentary election in nearly a decade violence killed or injured hundreds of people over the weekend as the chaotic pole was extended into

a second day and. i stopped going to school on the seventh grade because i got engaged my mother knows him he came and told her that he wanted me and that was. the story of a syrian child bride living in lebanon her mother sees marrying her off at fourteen years old as the only option to pay the bill. kelly welcome to the program german chancellor angela merkel has backed a ban on arms sales to saudi arabia following the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi in its consulate in istanbul the international community has raised doubts over riyadh's official account of death as well as the claim that the country's crown prince had no part in the killing russia type heir to juan has

promised to reveal the results of turkey's investigation soon. this is previously unseen c.c.t.v. footage of jamal khashoggi saying goodbye to his fiance it was the last time she saw him she waited for hours in front of the saudi consulate while her husband to be was killed inside the saudi foreign minister described it as a tremendous mistake the vigils who did this to piss outside the scope of their authority there obviously was a tremendous mistake made and what compounded the mistake was the attempt to try to cover up we are determined to uncover every stone we are determined to find out all the facts. denies the involvement of crown prince ben solomon the international community remains skeptical of service question whether to shook his demise was indeed caused by a fistfight. the premeditated nature of his killing seems to be underlined by the arrival and same day departure of what appears to be

a fifteen month saudi killer commando on the day of his death. on sunday evening turkish president. and u.s. president donald trump agreed in a phone call on the need to clarify the case out of one said his country would disclose the result of its investigation in the coming days. what are we are looking for justice here and this will be revealed in all its naked truth not through some ordinary steps but in all its naked truth is out of our loving. germany britain and france also reacted in a joint statement condemning the killing and demanding clarification. the alternative is a top and that we condemn this act in the strongest tuns there is an urgent need to clarify what happened this issue is far from having been cleared up and those responsible is still not held accountable they can chop. my agree with all those

who say that the already limited confidence in you and the situation with currently in the shut. down than in them all nukes and saudi arabia is germany's second largest market for arms sales observers say freezing arms exports to the kingdom could weigh on bilateral ties for years to come. now let's get more political correspondent hans brandt joins us in the studio welcome to you hons as we just heard there saudi arabia by its german arms the germans have continued to sell those arms despite the conflict in yemen do you think the case could be the final straw but one has to say that there's a new coalition between. those and the social democrats in the coalition agreement which they signed in march said that they would not sell to any participant in the human conflict that includes saudi arabia so there is potentially

a new situation there but in fact a large number of arms exports have been approved before the us government took over and those exports are continuing in fact this year they will more than four hundred million euros of explosives have gone to saudi arabia already this carries obviously makes the situation creates a new situation in lot of ways and since this german government as america is already hesitant of politics supporting all the saudi arabia i think this case potentially could lead to a situation where germany will simply stop those exports completely how much leverage would you say the german government has when it comes to saudi arabia well the relationship between germany and saudi arabia has been tense in the last year or so the previous foreign minister the german foreign minister accused saudi arabia of engaging in adventures in his region i think he was talking about the conflict in yemen that led to saudi arabia withdrawing its ambassador from germany

last year and only this year in september when the new german foreign minister apologized for misunderstandings between the two countries the ambassador returned . it's a tense situation and it was in fact being in some sense repair in the last couple of weeks and the situation with the case leads to further tensions and it's unclear where it's going to do that talk a little more about those tensions because we know that riyadh for its part that it says that there was this fight in the saudi consulate that ended in accidental death but international powers they are not buying it are they so what comes next. very unclear i think the international pressure for some sort of deep an investigation into what exactly happened there is rising in germany great britain and france have demanded a further investigation a. clear identification of those responsible and a punishment of was responsible there is some kind of talk about some united

nations investigation possibly being stalled over this case being paused to the international code in the hague so there is going to be further developments on the line and it will take some time before i think everyone will accept. the explanations are being given to political correspondent hans ponte thank you. well now let's get a quick check of some other stories that have been making news around the world australian prime minister scott morrison has made an official apology to be thousands of victims of child sexual abuse he admitted the state has failed to protect the children from crimes committed over decades the apology comes a year after an inquiry reveals that the extent of abuse of children by clergy orphanage supervisors and others in positions of power so. u.s. president donald trump says that full efforts are being made to stop the progress

of thousands of central american migrants making their way to the u.s. border he says that they have to apply for asylum in mexico and if they don't the u.s. will turn them away the group crossed into mexico from guatemala over the weekend. eighteen people have been killed and more than one hundred seventy injured after a passenger train in northeastern taiwan investigators are still examining the cause of the accident the island's worst rail disaster in more than three decades. you're watching news still to come on the program italy's banks are in trouble again while rome and the e.u. are at loggerheads over government spending now moody's has downgraded the country's credit rating to one notch above junk status more on that with their heart first coming right up. but first we're heading to the country hosts more than a million syrian refugees many live in extreme poverty and are often and often the

parents of those children see no alternative than to marry off their children to save money aid groups have warned that the number of child brides is growing in lebanon where there is no minimum age of marriage. or him travel to a refugee camp in the big bekaa valley in an exclusive report she met a fourteen year old girl who was about to be wed. last fall when i was just starting a new semester at school. this year she's getting ready for her wedding but i stopped going to school in the seventh grade because i got engaged my mother knows him he came and told her that he wanted me and that was that. my his just fourteen years old when her fiance first brought her her engagement ring it slipped off her finger and had to be resized to fit her small hand. she fled were

trying syria to a refugee camp in lebanon's bekaa valley. the stent is home to her her mother and three siblings it's difficult to make ends meet with good a bonus if they say i need to pay for electricity household expenses i also have medical expenses two of my children have chronic asthma when they have attacks at night there's nothing i can do. marsh won't be the first in her family to be married off as a girl her mother wed when she was fifteen eight organizations say the humanitarian crisis has seen child marriages increase within syrian refugee communities. many like my house no longer have a childhood with few responsibilities to look forward to. who also will saw what i have to get married because of our situation there are many things i need that i can't get i don't have any married friends and don't really know what marriage is.

in lebanon one in five syrian refugee girls between fifteen and nineteen is married with more than two thirds of syrian refugees in lebanon living in poverty many parents see marrying their children off as the only option to pay the bills. you know if we were in syria and there was no war i would never have done this i would have left a study where even my son who is top of his cluster now has to work. that last year or ten burned down i'm still in debt because of that we left with nothing but the clothes on our backs. but parents are not the only ones to blame there is no minimum age of marriage and lebanon and some religious communities groups even younger than fifteen can marry activists like him nor are calling for that to

change. we need a law that would set the minimum age for marriage at eighteen and to punish the shakes who officiate such marriages they're giving away it goes right there marrying them just on paper but it's not officially registered anywhere. a lot. such a law is nowhere in sight however and so in a few weeks will become yet another child bride in lebanon should be sent back to syria to her future husband. and elsewhere voting has closed in afghanistan's chaotic parliamentary election authorities were forced to extend the vote over the weekend after hundreds of attacks killed more than fifty people still despite the bloodshed around half of afghanistan's registered voters braved the polls in the first such election in eight years. for the second day in a row long queues formed outside polling stations in the afghan capital some people

waited for hours to cast their vote although doing so cost dozens of people their lives on saturday on the first day of voting militants launched deadly attacks in at least ten provinces but in a country where elections when possible for years even the threat of death wasn't enough to stop citizens from exercising their democratic rights the afghan president was full of pride in a word that the afghans didn't only show their enemies that they wouldn't surrender to any threats or warnings they also showed the world that they will only accept democracy in their country. but again there were problems with the voting process devices used to identify voters didn't work and there were reports of election materials being incomplete or missing entirely but it was i'm a and it is and we came here to vote yesterday but there were many irregularities the biometric system failed and there weren't enough workers at the polling center

we are all here to vote again today but everything is very slow i know that but then in. the afghan government has promised to investigate all complaints but the credibility of this election is increasingly being questioned according to the national electoral commission almost one hundred fifty polling stations remain shut on sunday. let's get more on the afghan poll we are joined by miracle going to from the fridge icky birth political foundation here's their countries director for afghanistan welcome good morning morning. can these elections deliver a credible result well the election has indeed and sadly been marred by violence by attacks and also severe technical shortcomings we've seen a series of violent incidents with casualties across the country including a suicide blast at a polling station in kabul the handling of the elections was according to many observers quite chaotic but at the same time it was also the first time since two

thousand and one that the afghan government was fully and independently in charge of handling the elections so yes they have been handled very poorly and they have been security showed interest but again it's also the first time that the afghan government was in charge of their own elections and people came out to vote despite this violence what does that say to you about the significance of these elections in particular i think that's the real news you know. ordinary voters people young and old male and female came out again to the polling station cost to devote to fight threats made by the taliban in the so-called islamic state knowing that they are risking their lives and i think we could even fully you mention mention what it means for for afghans to be heading to the polling centers knowing that they are risking their lives so i think the afghan people have not failed in terms of the election process on saturday about the afghan government and in particular the afghan independent election commission could have done a better job i believe how so in terms of you know all the technical glitches that we sort of a major technical glitches with regard to it by a medic verification system that has been used many polling centers remain closed

even in the capital kabul there was a shortage of a personnel a polling station so many lessons i believe that have to be learned for the upcoming presidential elections in april two thousand nine hundred that is in one year's time we know also and in the meantime that the peace process i think we can call it continues the united states now directly negotiating with the taliban they've been doing this as of you know a few weeks ago tell us a little bit more about that because i mean the afghan government has been surprised by that they have bypassed the afghan government and they are now out of the loop is that the correct approach when i believe it's good that the united states are now talking directly to the top. and doha there is a time bin note it's getting increasingly increasingly narrow so for peace talks in whatever shape or form to commence it has to be done fairly quickly but rightly due to the fact that the afghan government doesn't seem to be in the loop it's also that civil society stakeholders are not included in the process of women have no say at the moment so yes there needs to be a peace still in the needs to be a peace deal fairly quickly but it cannot be rushed into any peace process takes

time and needs to be inclusive and credible and that means that afghans have to be included in the first place just briefly are you hopeful given the current approach imo hopefully if the afghans get included at the end of the day you have at the moment we are not yet peace talks those are just breach hopes to potential peace talks about the taliban. from the future of ybor to political foundation as we mentioned you are their countries director for afghanistan and we thank you so much for sharing your insight this morning thank you for having. to some other news now and counter protesters in the german city of dresden have swapped a demonstration by the anti islam an anti immigrant piggy to live meant to get out was celebrating its fourth anniversary in the eastern city where it's monday night marches gained international notoriety and fuel to the rise of the alternative for germany political party but police say that anti picky them artists outnumbered piggy to supporters two to one. fearne open minded to this. some ten thousand people marched through the eastern german city calling

for love not hate inclusion and respect the state of saxony is premie i also took part in the protest you know you get your money now months out ladies and gentlemen it's up to us to make our country open minded and friendly so the children and young people feel welcome here so that people from other regions can choose to come here and i'm glad to see so many people here today who want exactly that to songs too much because you know. they came together in defiance of another rally that of the anti immigrant piggy to movement. picky is the acronym for pottery arctic europeans against the islam isolation of the west. the ban is warning the german chancellor that days are numbered the group is marking the fourth anniversary of its founding. in twenty fourteen and held its first so-called evening stroll

through to. support for its regular rallies swell during the migration crisis but its momentum appears to be fizzling out piccy does rally on sunday with five thousand people wolf by the counter demonstrations many residents tired of being linked to the far right. people up close at the far right rallies for at present. many people think. and that's just not the case. this year i. don't care and my commute will certainly. organizers say it's the first year different groups joined forces to oppose. this is true and it's really great for us we've worked with this for years to overcome political differences and to be united on this one issue. these activists united in their rejection of xenophobia and racism.

when. we're talking about a debt downgrade for italy this morning. rating agency moody's has cut italy's credit rating by one not so concerns about rome's plans for larger deficits and the already high public debt load at one hundred thirty two percent of gross domestic product its lee has the highest national debt in the euro zone after greece last week rome also clashed with the e.u. commission over its plans to increase borrowing the downgrade now will make borrowing even more expensive for. the country's shaky banking sector which is only just recovered from the financial crisis but now italian banks are being blackmailed by the new populist government into financing very expensive election promises. italy's banks are in trouble again and just as they were getting

over the last crisis the mountain of debt is shrinking cash reserves were growing and bottom lines were beginning to shine. in march this year italy's top twelve banks had a market capitalization of one hundred thirty billion euros but since dropped a ninety five billion fall of over a quarter and they continue to lose value. part of the reason is the new government in rome and its budget plans the banks are under pressure to buy government bonds as well that brings more money into the treasury if the banks don't cooperate rome is threatening to raise taxes the value of the government bonds no held by italian banks is nearly as high as their own capital reserves risky situation room is also ignoring e.u. budget guidance causing alarm in brussels and among investors in banks. joined by he's the chief economist at command spungen frank good morning explain that to us

please the italian state is putting pressure on its allies banks to buy government bonds or face higher taxes that's blackmail isn't it. yes effectively yes but this is nothing new we have seen this over the past couple of years because foreign investors have become more and more reluctant to buy government bonds and therefore the government put pressure on domestic financial institutions such as insurance companies or on bank to buy italian government bonds . is this another sign that populist governments haven't got a clue about economics they promise more welfare without being able to finance it. as a pressure on banks as concent this has been done by all the other previous governments all right none of the governments before have pursued suction irresponsible or

budgetary policy and this is this impeach. this government made up. off left and right wing populist do not have a good understanding how the financial markets and the economy work. that's not standard procedure is it it's downright dangerous don't you think. i think it's absolutely dangerous you know the debt to g.d.p. ratio is more than one hundred thirty percent of g.d.p. that means more than double as high as the mastery treaty allows at the maximum this is a big problem and insofar you have to bring down the accumulated level of debt to g.d.p. ratio and therefore the previous as a government promise to bring down the deficit that means the amount of new debt down to zero point eight percent of g.d.p. and now the government wants to make more deficit up to two point four percent and

this make sure unfortunately that the debt to g.d.p. ratio in the future will not decline and this is a big big risk. here kind of the chief economist of come out sponge joining us from frankfurt thank you. thank you. among the many headaches caused by briggs it for its exit from the e.u. a very particular one regards the british overseas territory of gibraltar the tiny land strip of barely seven square kilometers is located at the very south of the iberian peninsula bordered to the north by spain now and britain leaves the e.u. next march that border will be more significant than ever as gibraltar which is limited government powers will then no longer be part of the european union negotiations between spain and the u.k. appear to have been fruitful though in the special segment of the break that agreement defining legislation for gibraltar is ready but it can only come into

effect as part of the broader briggs's deal so as there was the actions on that proved difficult people in gibraltar are losing some sleep. over eight thousand spaniards cross the border into gibraltar every day to work many are concerned that things won't be so easy once britain leaves the e.u. . that a vast single minute instead of taking five minutes across the border it could take hours three to four hours. and they're worried about the same thing in the small spanish city on the border trade with the british enclave is a key source of income here and many fear that business will be hurt after breck's it. mean there were a few my business depends a lot of gibraltar that one of them is selling motorcycles and it depends as much as ninety percent i also sell furniture and the turnover that i make with gibraltar and cross border workers is about forty percent for the sort of way that would be

and. gibraltar is one of the most densely populated places on earth and britons living here voted against bragg's it. just brought there is also a duty free paradise millions of tourists come here to take advantage of prices that don't include value added tax it's a good deal for everybody but for how much longer. today we don't yet have an agreement a final agreement in relation to matters relating to taxation and fiscal matters but i think we've made a lot of good progress there because we share objectives and so if you share objectives and you haven't yet reached technical agreement you can continue to be optimistic that the technicians will be able to give effect to the agree with him principle that there is between the politicians. the plan is for gibraltar to maintain its advantages both as a workplace and as a shopping paradise. spaniards and britons living on the rock what the same things

. the promise of more government stimulus boosted chinese stocks for a second straight session chinese president xi jinping has vowed to support the country's private sector plans to cuts in personal income taxes have also improved investor sentiment following signs of slowing growth the shanghai composite index is now on track for as large as the gain in two years after surging more than four percent today. that's all your business here's a reminder of the top stories we're following for you here today german chancellor angela merkel is cold for a phrase on arms sales to saudi arabia in the wake of the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi international leaders have questioned saudi claims for killing in its consulate in istanbul was accidental. the washington news.

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abductions and murders the rangers are still here. we have chosen this work and we're ready to give our lives to save the mountain gorillas from extinction. mangers and for longer national park in congo trying to fight off thousands of heavily armed rebels who run the land of its natural resources. protecting resources and go rely have attacked in sixty minutes d w. it was spinal consuming conflict for over. thirty years turning your whole. but canon's field to determine its outcome. in negotiations lasting many years

mediators succeeded in teaching agreement. it was the birth of modern diplomacy. sixteen forty eight to peace starts october twenty fourth on t.w. . alone a very warm welcome indeed to focus on europe but the number of refugees making their way to europe has now gone down for three years in a row that is in part due to the fact that the so-called islamic state has been losing influence in many areas that it previously controlled in countries like iraq and syria but the fear now is that a growing number of posts turn.