not for god w.'s overfocus. this is. in the united states shock and outrage over a series of mail bombs addressed to top level democrats who was the sender and was the message intended to be political and lethal. acts with threats of political violence of any kind have no place in the united states of america. that.

the promise is a full investigation of new york's mayor says that the bomb sent to see it in the offices in new york was an act of terror will get the latest from manhattan and washington d.c. plus with all. his crown prince makes his first public comments on the killing of speaking at a high profile business conference today. that called death a heinous crime he also said that we'll cooperate with turkish investigators. good to have you with us president donald trump has promised to get to the bottom of a string of suspected explosive devices which were sent to top democrats and their offices to. today just days ahead of crucial midterm elections the president says

that the perpetrators will be punished to the full extent of the wall but in an unusual move trump's wife was the first to deliver her condemnation at the white house we cannot tolerate those the attacks and i strongly condemn all hutus violence i'm grateful to the secret service as about as the local and federal law enforcement for all they do on a daily basis to keep us safe and encourage people across the country to to sky over heat i just want to tell you that in these times we have to unify we have to come together and send one very clear strong and mistake of all message that acts were threats of political violence of any kind have no place in the united states of america. one of the explosive devices was addressed to the clinton

residence into park when new york. other suspicious packages were sent to the time warner center where c.n.n. has its new york office the entire building was evacuated donald trump has repeatedly accused c.n.n. of broadcasting fake news it's not clear if there's any link between this incident and the upcoming midterm elections in two weeks but new york's mayor is certain about the nature of this attempted attack what we saw here today was the effort to terrorize this clearly is an act of terror attempting to undermine our free press the leaders of this country through acts of violence i want to make very clear that the people of new york city will not be intimidated. the all clear signal was given to the clintons and the obama's seen here in file pictures according to the secret service the packages were immediately identified as potentially explosive during routine checks and were not delivered we are fine

thanks to the men and women of the secret service but it is a troubling time isn't it. and it's a time of deep. divisions. and we have to do everything we can to bring our country together f.b.i. investigators said the package sent to the former secretary of state appeared to have similarities with the explosive device found in the mailbox of the billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist george soros that was diffused on wednesday the eighty eight year old soros is a longtime supporter of the democrats and progressive causes in florida a suspicious package arrived at the office of a democratic member of congress representative debbie wasserman schultz it was actually addressed to former attorney general eric holder who served under president obama with schultz's details entered as the return address authorities of

mounted a wide search for the culprits. we have team coverage tonight stefan is in washington d.c. and correspondent james wrong was on the story for us in manhattan to both of you welcome stefan let me start with you as we just heard the first lady maloney a trump she was the first to speak publicly from the white house about what happened today that seems very unusual in a situation that is this grave yeah you nailed it i think everybody was a little bit surprised by that that the first lady. took to the microphone first and addressed what was going on here and said what the president should have said and actually then did say afterwards to to the nation to the people in the united states it was in all fairness a pre organized event where the white house mr trump president and his wife

melania trump were supposed to talk about the opiate crisis in the u.s. and what the administration is doing against that however the president took to the microphone and second after his wife that was unusual i can not tell you that i have seen anything like it from any republican or democratic president as long as i'm here and can remember in a situation like this however everybody here to come commentators the pundits and the service in washington are saying that the president and he certainly has done this said the right things saying that. the country has to unify and that these kind of. attacks and acts are absolutely unacceptable. and james in new york you know the officials there they were giving what happened today of a label the mayor of new york bill de blasio called what happened today an act of

terror i mean you've been there all day covering the story how have authorities responded. from him. outside the time when a building that you can see behind me in the last fifteen twenty minutes also the building has been reopened throughout the day the presence has diminished in this street if you saw me here an hour ago you would have seen a blog on the street a police cordon you see no traffic coming through that's changed in the last hour or so and this is an indication with the building having being reopened and most of the police trucks most of the fire trucks and most of the siren stopping is an indication that police are one hundred percent sure that there's no more danger inside the building for any of the many office workers who have started going back up to their respective floors and it's also an indication the all the the evidence

that they need to gather related to this pipe bomb the explosive device and this white powder on the envelopes that was found in the c.n.n. mail room about ten am this morning they've go we haven't they need and now the story and i guess the investigation moves to looking at the evidence they've got looking at this device and seeing if they can trace where it came from whether it's connected to these other devices that have been discovered across the country and ultimately who or which organization is behind it was the point isn't it james that we still don't know who was responsible for this and what are you hearing from people there in manhattan or are they concerned for their safety or are they concerned that this is going to happen again tomorrow for example. well i mean a police presence has been quite substantial and you york across the city extra officers were deployed and they say they're operating out of an abundance of caution we have here we've heard statements from hillary clinton the president donald trump and i add a senior officials including those in the thing as they saying you know all the.

security services are trying to work out what has happened who was behind it you'll because of course i believe these days there is a degree of flap ability to new york. it's adly they're a little bit too familiar with these kind of incidents because they there was a nine eleven attacks back in two thousand and one but that hasn't been the only thing that's happened in new york over the years last year december and there were two attacks there with a pipe bomb attack and there was a truck attacked in downtown manhattan right at the back there been other incidents including the flies which is at times square bombing back in two thousand and ten ok in step on what we do know is that everyone targeted by these mail bombs they were democrats and we do know that we're less than two weeks away from midterm elections in the united states i mean all of this coming together and we've got the president saying the country has to unify now and based on what you've seen is that

going to happen. you know i don't think so and i don't think that anybody else sees any indications that this event here or any other event and god forbid there is any worse event than this here today would serve this purpose to unify this country within two weeks before those critical and crucial midterm elections when and just quickly one thing to the investigation doesn't mr gaiters the f.b.i. and secret service and. we're all under the umbrella of the joint terrorism task force they go no into those forensics as james indicated this they're looking at those envelopes and four for looking for d.n.a. residue is that residual interest in enough the. pipe bomb which was sent to c.n.n. was actually delivered by a messenger service not by the united states postal service and the spelling of the

name john brennan was actually wrong however to your questions and just quickly there is no way that anybody and anything can unify this country and its political divide in divisiveness as we experience experience in just two weeks before this crib there's a critical midterm elections all right we're. in washington and james ryan will the story for us in new york to both of you gentlemen thank you. prince mohammed bin selman has described the killing of dissident journalist jamal khashoggi as quote a heinous crime and after coming under intense international pressure riyadh has acknowledged that show you was killed inside the country's is stamboul consulate two weeks ago but the royal family denies that the crown prince was involved in any way. it was supposed to attract investors to the kingdom instead the crown prince was forced to say he denounced the murder of writer and journalist. the crime was

really painful to all saudis. and i believe it is painful to every human in the world it is a heinous crime the cannot be justified today saudi arabia is carrying out all legal. things to finalize the investigations to work with the cooperate with the turkish government and to present the perpetrators to the court and take their. judgement. he also said there will be no break in relations with the stand. it is mohammed bin sound man's first public address since he disappeared after entering the saudi consulate in the turkish capital earlier this month his words seemed to come on cue washington says that the crown prince bans ultimate responsibility. he also spoke with turkish president richard tire on the

phone wednesday the two said they would bring light to all aspects of the case. as a nation we are determined not to allow the murderer to be covered up and all of those responsible not to a very justice from those who gave the order to those who executed it. this is not only for the deceased jamal khashoggi who is the victim of a brutal murder within our country's borders at the same time it's the responsibility of the international public law and justice. this sequence of events is stranger than fiction the butchering of the critic with the saudi hierarchy accused of having blood on their hands. attended a reception for a handshake with the crown prince. but here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world pakistan has secured

a bailout package worth more than five billion euros from saudi arabia it will help cover the country's massive debt prime minister in one con signed the deal at the salty international investment summit that was one of the few world leaders to attend following outrage over the killing of journalist is a mole to show a japanese journalist held hostage in syria for more than three years confirmed on wednesday that he's alive and in neighboring turkey japanese embassy officials have also reportedly visited yes sudha at an immigration center in southern turkey where thousands of central american migrants making their way to the united states have resumed their trek after stopping to rest for a day the caravan has now reached the town of weeks that's in southern mexico that's more than a thousand kilometers from the southern u.s. border the u.n. estimates that around seven thousand people make up the caravan

a second smaller group is now on the move through guatemala and making their way towards mexico this issue has become fiercely politicized in the united states with president truck valuing to keep the migrants out but just why are they fleeing their homes to begin with here's more. the road to a new life has few comforts and for this group of central american migrants a small ledge on a moving car brings much needed relief. the trip has also been long and hot for this second group of migrants that's been walking since saturday their plan is to get to mexico across the border more than seven thousand people according to u.n. estimates are slowly advancing toward the united states a journey most wish they didn't have to make. you see this comes from hunger from the drug. but for the sheraton for a better life there's not

a political better than what political leverage because. we are suffering for our families. for our children. they force our children to work in gas fields and they kill our kid if we don't obey them most it's a bloody and brutal life they've left behind. in honduras gang violence is commonplace with kidnappings and extortions reported regularly. in el salvador the security situation is just people leaving the country in droves the un refugee agency is calling on the global community to pull its weight to address the issue responsibilities for all countries have along this route. is really the same individuals fleeing persecution and violence need to be given access to territory

and to refugee status determination procedures but the reaction from the us has been less than welcoming. i'm not letting them in and i continue they're not going to do whatever we have to they're not coming and. the threats have done little to dissuade these migrants intent on getting to the u.s. but. for many of them there is no choice. we're going to do what we have to do because we have to cross. it's better to die here than to go back there. are time now for business stephen is here and if you own stocks today was not a good day to look at your portfolio i would say that's right brant was a rocky day on wall street's shares got slammed in the last minutes of trading the dow jones losing more than six hundred points and stock markets are racing gains for all of twenty eighteen investors responded to disappointing earnings reports

and dealt with another fed controversy the federal reserve has raised rates as of late and is expected to push interest rates once more this year and that has president trump riled up he's called the fed the single biggest threat to the american economy now it's not the first time the president has attacked the fed and its chairman powell for sticking to its own monetary policy rather than taking advice from the white house they're here to shed more light on this is us court our financial correspondent new york yes the president has of course targeted fed chairman powell in the past about rate hikes and he was being criticized for it so why does he keep doing it. yes actually the president increased the pressure here on wednesday when he is saying that he has the feeling that your own policy of the fed chair seems to be happy each time that he increases interest rates well donald trump often in the past has fame to himself for being

responsible not just for the good economy but also that stock markets are going from one record to another and now that stock markets are under heavy fire here on wednesday for instance blue chips lost by more than six hundred points and then as the composite lost by more than four percent or so donald trump claims that the federal reserve was those interest rate increases is the guilty party here for the heavy selling pressure on wall street so yes does the president maybe have a point there that. that is the fed well. when well certainly i mean when interest rates are increasing then it can be a damper on the economy and actually that is also one reason why the fed increases interest rates to prevent an overheating of the economy or to prevent inflation getting out of target so the so in that respect the president is not entirely false

but the big question is not that the federal reserve is increasing interest rates what why and one big reason are the huge tax cuts from u.s. president donald trump that just would lead to inflation tendencies i'm here in the united states so he's not entirely wrong but actually he's the one who sort of put the federal reserve under pressure to keep interest rates rising so fears of an overheated economy there are there for us in new york thank you yes. cuba was once a world leader in sugar production at one time the sweetener accounted for seventy five percent of cuban exports but now for the first time the communist nation is turning to imports from as far away as france hurricane ravaged island and its harvest and that was followed by an unusually long rainy season

feliciano viro quickly noticed a curious turn of events when produced from cane as in cuba sugar tends to be brownish but the french version comes from beets and is white. and is on the sugar that has now been arriving is good it's very sweet not very different from cuban sugar that the main difference is the colors of. cuba's sugar industry was once the flagship of the ons i should cultural exports fidel castro cutting sugar canes after the revolution illustrated the france importance to the nation the soviet union used to buy most of cuba sugar after the fall of communism in europe trade figures dwindled as did investments in seeds and fertilisers more recently last year's hurrican ima devastated large parts of the country the subsequent harvest was one eighth of the size of nine hundred ninety. yet. there's

a lack of resources and a lack of money but i believe that there are also structural and organizational factors so the thought of what it was you. and most of what does get harvested has to be shipped abroad mostly to china due to long standing contracts to meet domestic demand forty thousand tons of french sugar were imported in the second quarter alone symbolizing a broader change sugar is no longer cuba's lifeline. tourism and remittances from emigrants are now the major driving forces of the island's economy. and back to brant with the news thank you very much stephen in the four years since the conflict in eastern ukraine began land mines have claimed nearly two thousand lives today the country sees more casualties from mines than almost anywhere else on earth one reason is that no one knows how many mines were laid in the chaos when

the fighting started there is a problem that is expected to get worse as displaced people slowly return to their homes our correspondent nick connolly has been to meet the people behind the efforts to clear those land. it may look calm now but just a few years ago these fields so intense fighting between ukrainian government troops and russian backed separatists. over and over again the front lines shifted each time the retreating troops left mines and booby traps behind them. it's now up to civilians to pick up the pieces halo trust is an international ngo and the world's largest humanitarian mine clearance organization the challenge it faces in ukraine are unlike any other conflict zone so. what makes you crane different is that we have a real problem with trip wire traps our organisation hasn't come across anything

like in another country so our experts have had to come up with new ways of dealing with them. it's back breaking work. a grenade and a trip wire that's all it takes a few summers after the traps were laid the weeds have grown tall making them almost impossible to spot clearing these traps is as much about touch as it is about sight. there's no way of predicting how far you'll get in the day it all depends on the vegetation. sometimes you'll manage twenty meters in a day sometimes it'll be just ten fifty years our priority and all of this in the distance the shooting continues the current frontline is just a few kilometers away. these people are searching for anti-tank mines the anti-personnel mine so characteristic of conflicts from yemen to mozambique a less widespread in ukraine. it takes one hundred fifty kilograms to set off this

kind of anti tank mine so a person on foot wouldn't be enough. but a tractor very definitely would this maybe a war zone but the rhythms of the farming year continue this is all that's left of the tractor the bustle of was using to plough back in twenty fifteen soldiers had told him that the field was safe. i lost consciousness when i came round i saw that i was on fire i tried to get out of the tractor but i couldn't they pulled me out through the back window and then put the fire out. of i don't want it when i woke up in hospital they told me that only one mine had gone off that one more of them underneath me and when they came to get me out of the tractor they had to drive over the mines to. buy seal sustained eighty percent burns

on his legs three years and several operations later he's still in chronic pain it's not clear whether or not he'll ever be able to work again. back at the site they found a grenade that's failed to go off. n.g.o.s like halo trust on too loud to dispose of ordinance themselves instead they must wait for the military to collect them and that can take weeks. ten twenty or sometimes just five metres a day the progress here is painstaking and no one can say with any certainty how long it will take to find all the mines that were laid in the chaos of the early stages of the war but left untouched these mines have the potential to maim and kill the people of this region for decades to come. turning to science and nature nasa cameras flying over and arctic have discovered an unusual saw i take a look at this a perfectly rectangular floating off the larson sea ice shelf scientists say the

icebergs rare shape in sharp angle showed that it why it's likely to have broken off just recently the larsen sea ice shelf is one of several that stretch along the coast of antarctica both the shelves eight n.b. have disintegrated in recent decades likely due to rising global temperatures. you're watching the w. news live from berlin after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around for that.

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