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 german chancellor angela merkel says that those responsible for the killing must be held accountable for when the 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 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. but. we tell the story of a syrian child bride living in lebanon on her mother sees marrying her off at fourteen years old as the only option to pay the bill. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program german chancellor angela merkel has backed a plan on arms sales to saudi arabia following the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi as international condemnation grows the saudi foreign minister calls it a huge and grave mistake but doubts remain about riyadh's account of final moments as well as the claim that the country's crown prince had no part in ordering the

killing. 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 us outside the scope of their authority 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 while rhea 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 man 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. fault and it 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 shop. but i agree with all those

who say that the already limited exports can't continue and the situation with currently in the shut. down to name them all nixon is 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. and let's get more political correspondent hans brandt joins us in the studio welcome to you hans as we just heard there saudi arabia by his 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 conservatives and the social democrats in their 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 this situation creates a new situation in a lot of ways and since this german government as michael himself says is already hesitant about exporting 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 conflicts 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 lead let's 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 punishment of those 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 and so there is going to be further developments on that and it will take some time before i think everyone will accept. the explanations are being given to political correspondent hans brunt thank you. and let's get a quick check now some other stories that have been making news around the world australian prime minister scott morrison has officially apologized to thousands of victims of child sexual abuse he admitted that the state had failed to protect children in institutions like churches and orphanages the apology comes a year after an official inquiry revealed widespread child abuse over many decades . u.s. president donald trump says that full efforts are being made to stop the progress of thousands of hundred 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 and 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 and 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 their heart health first has more. but first we're going to head to lebanon what now the country hosts more than a million syrian refugees many live in extreme poverty and often parents see no alternative to marrying 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 didn't use i.e. travel to a refugee camp in the bekaa valley in an exclusive report she let a fourteen year old girl who was about to be wed. say last fall when it 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 or trying syria to a refugee camp in lebanon's bekaa valley. this tent is home to her her mother and three siblings it's difficult to make ends meet with u.s.

troops got 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. mark 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. all the rules 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. if we were in syria and there was no war i would never have done this i would have left a study even my son who is top of his class now has to work. that last year our tenth 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 their 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 mother who 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 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 share 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 our mayor diaz 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 in. the afghan government has promised to investigate all complaints but the credibility of the selection 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 french icky british political foundation he is their country's director for afghanistan welcome good morning good 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 serious or violent incidents with casualties across the country including a suicide blast at a polling station in kabul the handling of the elections most according to many observers quite chaotic but at the same time there was also the first time since two thousand and one that the afghan government was fully in 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 mention what it means for afghans to be heading to the polling so does send us 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 regard today 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 they are many lessons i believe that have to be learned for the upcoming presidential elections in april two thousand one thousand 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 taliban and doha there is a time when no that'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 there 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 i am hopeful of the afghans going to go to at the end of the day a better moment we are not yet peace talks those are just brito it's two potential peace talks about the talk about. from the future political foundation as we

mentioned you are there countries director for afghanistan and we thank you so much for sharing your insight this morning thank you for having. germany's capital club have to berlin hosted freiburg in the bundesliga on sunday in a match that ended even under a duda open to the scoring but it didn't take long for fiber to respond have a look. andre due to his head his heart is striker. dion is one of the bundesliga his best keepers and berlin's a lympics stadium is a fortress where the capital club has lost this season by in munich came here and lost in fryeburg right next to try their luck but berlin showed no mercy dude with an excellent solo goal after just seven minutes. it was goal number six of the season to do the making the slovak the most dangerous midfielder in the league. then this happened. the rocket of

a strike from fry birds robin cuff made it one rule. could do nothing to stop the shot which took a deflection all the way into his net. norwegian keeper did most to block this shot just before the end but had his home winning streak is over. and sunday saw another game with glad taking on minds the guests how did to be in the fold since two thousand and fifteen and that wasn't about to change halfway through the first half gladbach broke the bonus league as best offense target hazard setting up your notice to fun for the open are after the break it was ten minutes of madness has it set up to make it to the fifty third minute hazard adding another and host man completing his hat trick in the sixty third for the finals for us winning streak continues so here is a roundup of all of the weekend's results as they stand there's been that drop

between harris and freiburg we mentioned and glad bucs gold mines that you just saw elsewhere fired scott a much needed win against wolfsburg dortmund security a massive victory over stood guard nuremberg went down to hoffenheim and leipsic shared the spoils leverkusen and hanover also each took away a point and braman beach on friday frankfurt dumped. let's see how those results affect the standings dormand say on top of gladbach raman byron munich they are all moving up and are all in hot pursuit leipsic and hared to both drop places none of the sides in the bottom half manage to win leverkusen and chocolate continue their poor starts to gut and swap places at the bottom. well gary hart is here we're talking also about something that is falling credit rating as you can see dressing agency moody's has italy's credit rating by one not

over concerns about rome's plans for larger deficits and the already high public debt load one hundred percent of g.d.p. italy has the highest national debt in the eurozone after greece rome says it's ready to discuss its budget with the european commission after clashing with the bloc last week over its plans to increase borrowing one underlying concern is italy's shaky banking sector which has only just recovered from the financial crisis but now italian banks are being blackmailed by the new populist government into financing their expensive election promises italy's banks are in trouble again. just as they were getting over the last crisis a 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 to ninety five billion a 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 now held by italian banks is nearly as high as their own capital reserves are risky situation rome is also ignoring e.u. budget guidance causing alarm in brussels and among investors in banks. joined by your kramer he's the chief economist. in frankfurt good morning explain that to us please the italian state is putting pressure on italy's banks to buy government bonds or face 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. the pressure on banks is constant this has been done by all of the other previous governments also but you're right none of the governments before pursued such an irresponsible budgetary policy and this it does show that this indeed shows that this government made up of 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. at the maximum there 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 makes sure unfortunately that the debt to g.d.p. ratio in the future will not decline and this is a big big risks. you're kind of the chief economist of come out one joining us from

frankfurt thank you. the uncertainty over breaks it is giving french customs officials a headache at the moment trucks are still able to travel in and out of the u.k. without hindrance and the rules governing the feel strange of goods in the e.u. but when britain leaves the import and export duties are put in place customs officers and french ports will have to bear the brunt of breaks it. most companies opt to cross the channel by ferry it's cheaper than using the tunnel each day up to fifteen ferries make their way from dover to cali carrying british goods to mainland europe two million lorries used the route last year but checks are only carried out randomly this trucks heading to the netherlands. we checked to see if he was carrying more than ten thousand euros because if so he should have declared it sometimes drivers are carrying as much as two hundred thousand and then they need to explain the source of the money it may come from arms trafficking. and will

customs have more work post breck's it will stricter controls increase congestion. there won't be more controls but there will be more customs formalities seven hundred additional customs officers will be employed over the next three years to process the flow this month french customs are working to raise companies' awareness about the clearing process through customs we tell them it's a piece of cake and to get ready to. get ready fair enough but what for exactly this haulage company organizes sixteen thousand shipments to britain annually. but i'm not afraid of the changes in the customs process i'm concerned about my customers not being able to export anymore or that they could face difficulties in the export process. i'd lose some of my contracts.

there are plans to expand the port of cali adding new debt and passenger terminals should we end up with a disorderly breck's it things around here are set to become a good deal more complicated. berlin will limit the impact of bans of diesel cars the german chancellor says the bans are disproportionately in cities where nitrogen levels only marginally excessive string of cities across germany are said to introduce bans on diesels considered the primary cause of marginal pollution. government recently announced measures designed to rein in pollution levels while averting our broadband one involves financial incentives for drivers to buy a new car carmakers are not happy with the idea of retrofitting engines.

talks ignored italy's downgraded budget as the promise of more stimulus boosted chinese stocks for a second straight session chinese president vowed to support the country's country's private sector. plans to personal income taxes also improved investor sentiment following signs of slowing growth shanghai composite index is now on track for its largest gain in two years after surging more than four percent. today . off the top stories we're following for you here on the german chancellor angela merkel has called for free. in the wake of the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi international leaders have questioned the killing of its consulate in istanbul. that's all the news for up to date thanks for watching.

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