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this is due to the news live from berlin nuclear talks in russia in the drafts of a new arms race the united states dispatches its national security advisor to moscow for tough talks on arms control that's after washington says it is ready to withdraw for him and his store treaty on intermediate range missiles. also coming up german chancellor angela merkel says she is ready to suspend arms exports to saudi arabia critics have condemned riyadh for the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi. also coming up the terrible choices facing families fleeing syria.
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i stopped going to school and it's been great because i got engaged my mother noticed him he came and told her that he wanted me and now that. we're going to tell the story of a syrian child bride living in london on a mother seems marrying off for a fourteen year old as the only option to pay the bill. and donald trump's worst nightmare thousands of migrants from central america march towards the u.s. border they've reached mexico but trump says he could deploy the army to stop them from getting any. time soon it's almost gone but it's good to have you with us the u.s. national security adviser john bolton heads to moscow today for what could be tough talks on arms control that's after washington announced it would withdraw from a nuclear arms agreement with russia u.s. president donald trump accused russia of violating
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a thirty year old treaty on intermediate range missiles and threatened a fresh arms race with moscow. this is what the drama is about medium range nuclear ballistic missiles that have been on a self-imposed by the u.s. and russia since the end of the one nine hundred eighty s. that may be about to change u.s. authorities believe russia may have developed a weapon systems like these in breach of the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty. we're not going to let them violate a nuclear agreement go out and do weapons and we're not allowed to wear the ones that have stayed in the agreement and we bought it great but russia has not unfortunately wanted the agreement so we're going to terminate it we're going to pull out. the kremlin has denied trump's allegations saying it has not produced any missiles that are prohibited by the i.n.f. treaty the prospect of a unilateral u.s. withdrawal has caused shock in moscow. the i.n.f.
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treaty was seen as a major breakthrough in nuclear security when it was ratified by former soviet president mikhail gorbachev and u.s. president ronald reagan in one nine hundred eighty seven it came after a tense period of confrontation in the heart of europe. with very short flight times nuclear annihilation of european capitals was only five to fifteen minutes away trump has said the u.s. will start developing these capabilities again if russia and china don't agree to stop have to develop those weapons unless russia comes to us and china comes to us and they all come to is that they say let's really get smart and let's none of us develop those weapons china is not a signatory of the pact and has been investing heavily in land based missiles now some observers fear it could be joined by russia and the u.s. in a new arms race. let's go right to moscow where our correspondent
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emily for when is standing by for us hi amalie where president trump accused russia of repeatedly violating the supreme it is the right. well the u.s. is accusing russia of testing and deploying an intermediate range missile which they say is prohibited under the i n f agreement russia says that actually that missile doesn't fly far enough to actually fall under the agreement so that's the disagreement there these aren't new accusations the u.s. has been leveling these accusations at russia since around two thousand and fourteen so this happened under the obama administration as well and russia has always denied the accusations nato has also recently been expressing concern about russia not keeping to this agreement but previous u.s. administrations didn't decide to pull out and that's because this is a very very important agreement which in many ways lays the foundations for postwar security in europe and has kept europe safe from from nuclear threats for nearly
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two nearly three decades and there was seems to have been a sort of tacit agreement between the u.s. and russia that no matter how bad relations get and they have gotten rather bad as you may recall that both sides were kind of keeping the agreement and experts say there could have been other ways to get russia in line so really what kind of reactions have you seen there last hour to this announcement over the weekend. well russia has taken this news very seriously first of all they have denied the accusations they've said that there is no proof for these new accusations and they also have warned that decision is dangerous and that it could actually have catastrophic consequences we also saw yesterday the architect of the agreement gorbachev reacting he said that it would be a huge mistake if the u.s. left the agreement but also several politicians have kind of said that this could be a strategy on trump's side that perhaps he's just trying to blackmail russia ahead
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of the visit of u.s. national security advisor john bolton he's in moscow at the moment and also there has been an appeal for calm from the foreign ministry they've called on the u.s. to be sober and balanced essentially accusing the u.s. of being kind of a bull in the international china china shop kind of breaking international agreements left and right obviously also referring back to the iran nuclear deal which the u.s. left earlier this year to the shock of many in the international community for i didn't really sure when reporting for us from moscow thank you emily. german chancellor angela merkel has backed a ban on arms exports to saudi arabia following the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi in the saudi consulate in istanbul the international community has raised doubts over official account of kushal choose death as well as
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a claim that the country's crown prince had no part in it. has promised to reveal the results of turkey's own investigation. this is previously unseen c.c.t.v. footage of jamal khashoggi seen goodbye to his fiancee 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. this took place outside the scope of their authority there obviously was a tremendous mistake made and what compounded the mistake was to come to try to cover up we are determined to uncover every stone we are determined to find out all the facts while riyadh denies the involvement of crown prince ben some on the international community remain skeptical observers questioned whether casualties death was indeed caused by a fistfight the possible premeditated nature of his killing seems to be underlined
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by the arrival and same day departure of fifteen saudi men reported to be inside the consulate on the day he died on sunday evening turkish president received. and us president donald trump agreed in a phone call on the need to clarify the chess shakti case or the one said his country would disclose the result of its investigation in the coming days. what. we are looking for justice here and this will be revealed in all its naked truth that through some ordinary steps all its naked bars out of. britain france and germany also reacted in a statement condemning the killing and demanding clarification. for alternative is a topic that we condemn this act in the strongest terms there is an urgent need to clarify what happened this issue is far from having been cleared up those
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responsible a still not held accountable they can shop it's all look i agree with all those who say that the already limited exports can't continue and the situation with currently in the shut in in the sudan than in them on leaks 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. more on the story with our political correspondent. we just heard there saudi arabia is the second largest buyer of german arms jet the conflict in yemen hasn't stopped the germans from selling weapons to the country so do you think that jamal khashoggi death might be the final straw. well you have to say first of all that in fact the conflict in german has had some effect on german all of the exports in the agreement of the coalition parties that are governing at the moment in other words i'm going back with conservatives and the social democrats and there is
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a clause that says all this will be sold no german all this will be solved to countries that are involved in that conflict and that obviously includes saudi arabia so it's clear that no new exports to saudi arabia are going to be approved under these circumstances as long as there's a the war in yemen going on the question is now what's happening with the contracts arms exports that have been approved beforehand and those have until recently been approved routinely as it were in fact to the value of four hundred seventy million euros this year alone and the question is what is going to happen to those exports at the moment and that's that remains unclear just minutes ago the german government spokesman was asked again and again and it seems unclear that the government it seems that the government itself is not quite clear what it's going to do about existing contracts whether or not exports that have been approved
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beforehand on the are going to be stopped are going to be frozen and hans what about the reactions to the kushal she chased case you know riyadh saying that he died during a fight in the saudi consulate in istanbul and the crown prince didn't know anything about it it seems that germany and other western powers are willing to buy that version of events. yes indeed they are really emphasizing that again and again that they feel that the information that has been given by the saudi side so far is insufficient that there are more questions than answers and information that has come out of riyadh and that there is strong pressure from the international community not only from germany but from the european union as a whole and especially from the largest countries in the european union great britain france and germany who. jointly demanded clearing up exactly what happened in the consulate in istanbul and depending on what facts actually get revealed then there may be further steps taken against saudi arabia depending on
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that all of this obviously hinges on the question of how much influence these countries can possibly have and saudi arabia germany has been struggling in the last year or so to keep a dialogue open with saudi arabia the german foreign minister at the time about a year ago q saudi arabia of engaging in adventurous behavior in the region and as a result saudi arabia cut off diplomatic relations with germany those were just restored last month so it's very very difficult actually to maintain some dialogue with saudi arabia at the moment. for us to talk to you. here watching still the thousands of central american migrants tracked towards the united states border washington says it could deploy the army to stop them from entering the country but first let's get a roundup of some of the stories making headlines around the world australian prime
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minister scott morrison has officially recognized polish eyes rather to thousands of victims of child sexual abuse he admitted the state has failed to protect children in institutions like churches and often it is the apology comes a year after an official inquiry revealed widespread child abuse over many decades . eighteen people have been killed and more than one hundred seventy injured after a passenger train derailed in northeastern taiwan investigators are still examining the cause of the accident the island's worst rail disaster in more than three decades. and rebels have killed at least fifteen civilians and abducted at least a dozen others in the eastern city have been in the democratic republic of congo militia violence in the area has hampered efforts to contain an ebola outbreak which has killed more than one hundred fifty people. thousands of mostly honduran migrants are advancing through mexico towards the united states the so-called migrant caravan began more than
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a week ago in honduras by sunday they had passed what amala and advanced forty kilometers into mexican territory to the city of tapachula most migrants entered mexico illegally by crossing a river between the two central american countries their journey is now set to continue north experts estimate they could reach the u.s. border within a month. the migrants say they are fleeing violence and poverty and are hoping for a better life in the u.s. but president donald trump is threatening to call in the military to stop them from crossing the border. they feel safer traveling in a large group they say they're in their thousands men women children many are suffering from dehydration stomach infections and foot injuries from their long journey. but most have one goal in mind to reach the united states for a chance at a brighter future. i mean you deliberately mexico should lead is through and support us and we're not coming here we want to go here. we need transportation
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if we go without food for three days it's not a problem the united states should open its doors to let us work even if it's just for six years and that's it. in the southern mexican town of target sure learned sunday sympathetic villagers offered exhausted migrants food water and clothing. the migrants had walked thirty kilometers in the blazing sun from the guatemalan border many of them without any provisions hundreds of locals driving vans and trucks stopped to let them climb aboard. the mexican authorities have been urging the migrants to apply for asylum in mexico and offered to bus them to a shelter set up by immigration officials but most refused fearing they would be deported. since the convoy formed last week u.s. president donald trump has been threatening to call in the military up to close the
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border with mexico and we're going to have the military stationed there not coming into this country in a tweet trump said the migrants should apply for asylum in mexico first otherwise the u.s. would turn them away he also threatened to cut off aid to one duras guatemala and el salvador but the migrants are undeterred whatever hardships they may face along their journey many say that the life back home is much worse with rampant violence poverty and hopelessness. so counting is now underway after afghanistan's chaotic and deadly parliamentary elections authorities had to extend voting hours after hundreds of attacks killed more than fifty people over the weekend despite the bloodshed about half of afghanistan's registered voters braved the polls and 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
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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 lections 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 our mayor did 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
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vote again today but everything is very slow i got to tell him. 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. we have. from our afghan desk with us to talk more about these elections this was a chaotic thought there was violence at the polls as we said one province isn't actually voting till next week because of previous violence there as well is it legitimate to say that this was a successful election for afghanistan i think it is definitely legitimate to say that this was a successful election for the population of afghanistan because they have proved that they want democracy and they're even willing to pay with their lives with their own lives to to yet express their right to vote but when it comes to the
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state they have actually failed their voters they have failed the population and they have failed to prove that they're willing and they're able to to show that there are. there by the same function exactly yes what about the results that we're not we're not going see final results until a few weeks from now but what type of changes do you think we're going to see in afghanistan's parliament i think one big change is that we had a lot of young voters and we had a lot of young candidates over sixty percent of the candidates have been below the age of forty which is amazing it's a record number and many are hoping that these young candidates will. bring a new change to the parliament and won't have the old political elite which exists which is which basically are warlords and people who are in power since the war times ok so there's a new energy that's been brought in through these elections what about for the
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international community how should they react to these elections in afghanistan is still politically not stable i think what they should do is really promote democracy even more because as you can see the voters have proved that they want democracy they have of course support the government to provide everything and to be we have the presidential election. coming up next year which are really important and yet provide peace through peace talks with the taliban as you said you know and half of the registered voters did go to the polls what do you think these elections tell us about the future of afghanistan the hope for peace that you just mentioned well i think it tells us that the afghan population wants peace they want democracy they don't want the taliban in power but what we're seeing right now is the u.s. are having talks with the taliban even without without telling the afghan
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government without including the afghan government so it's really interesting to see what will happen in the next month and maybe who knows maybe next year during the presidential elections we will have a taliban candidate all right. thank you very much. to sports now and sunday's formula one action british driver lewis hamilton fail in his bid to secure a fifth world championship with three races remaining as ferrari's kimmie reichen and stormed to victory in the us grand prix germany sebastian vettel meanwhile fought back after a difficult start to finish fourth and remain within touching distance of the mercedes driver in the overall standings. papers issued in a potentially titled winning us scream three the dream scenario for lewis hamilton . and things are about to get even better as rivals sebastian vettel spun out following a collision on the opening lap. but phenols ferrari team mate kimi reichen wasn't about to make life easy for hamilton repeatedly forcing the british drivers
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attempts to regain the lead. the surprise emergence of red balls next to stepan who had started an eighteenth position gave havel to new headache and contributed to a nail biting final few laps. vessel's recovery in the fourth meanwhile meant hamilton would have to finish second to wrap up the title. but right in and fished up and held firm to hate the hamilton victory parade. the president got a chance to take a media great job today no mistakes get a great start and manager always so i think when i have also. said this when did a great job as well i mean he was it was an aside but a tie the knot at the end so naturally a bit of a struggle. i thought we would have been out to do better but this is the best we were able to do the end of first grown three victory for reichen since twenty scene as hamilton is forced to wait another week in his bid to seal the world title.
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ok gerrard is here with business now and he had italy's been downgraded by one of the world's leading rating agencies as well as sunni rating agency moody's has cost italy's credit rating by one notch over concerns about rome's plans for larger deficits and the already high public debt load and the less costs of borrowing are dropping for italy this morning as moody's said it did not expect any further downgrade and left the outlook at stable has also signaled it's ready to discuss its budget with the european commission after clashing with the bloc last week over its plans to increase borrowing so far so promising but italy's shaky banking sector remains an underlying concern it has only just recovered from the financial crisis now italian banks are being pressured by the new populist government into financing their 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
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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 are risky situation room is also ignoring e.u. budget guidance causing alarm in brussels and among investors in banks. ryanair logged a seven percent for profit in the in the april to september period summer is
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a key season for europe's largest budget carrier but it took a hit from rising fuel costs and lackluster bookings caused by stripes ryanair also warns of will have to keep short ticket prices low this winter that after a video showing a racist incident on a flight was posted online ryan is being criticized remove an irate passenger who held insult. other passengers from the situation so unpleasant that they felt they had to intervene. let's bring in our financial correspondent. has come under some fire social media where else for not responding to that incident what's the latest. yeah ryanair its response has been pretty weak and this incident it basically said reported to the police but it wouldn't comment further. other passengers taking action they are not strong response here are very poor
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brand management actually and it's the same poor brand management that we're seeing across the airline currently specially with regard to the industrial action that hit the company for quite some time now that the brand is becoming synonymous with exploitation and maybe even the worst becoming unreliable you'd be hard pressed to find people saying oh yeah i'm booking ryanair because i know they're going to fly because this industrial action has sort of caused this shakiness. the company is trying to battle this it's already said it is hoping in europe to. strike action by christmas christmas of course is a very important time for flyers it's also trumpeted agreement on friday with pilots in italy portugal and u.k. however only due to be corrected by the u.k. labor union involved then said well we have an agreement proposal but we're still
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putting this up to a vote so nothing is quite certain yet here because it's in front of thank you very much. and that's all your business here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you here do w. u.s. national security advisor john bolton is heading for most powerful talks on nuclear arms control south of washington announced it would pull out of a cold war true xian intermediate range missiles and a new arms race with russia. german chancellor angela merkel has called for a freeze on arms explodes to saudi arabia in the wake of the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi international leaders. have questioned saudi claims that killing the killing is consulate in istanbul was accidental that said thanks for watching a box.
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