for god w.'s overfocus. this is deja news coming to you live from berlin turkey convict a german national on terrorism charges also coming up the u.s. investigators search of course the facility in miami for clues into attempted me bombings meanwhile childers compete over who was to blame the media or president trump himself. as foreign relations between japan and china are leaders of the two

asian superpowers and regional rivals need to improve ties and boost trade despite the underlying tensions. should insulting gaunt still be a crime in ireland. people. called those leaders. strong to smoke more. today the country votes on whether to remove a blasphemy law that even the catholic church say is obsolete. hello and welcome. a turkish court has sentenced a german man to six years in prison on terrorist charges back to cricut rested on the turkish syrian border in march authorities accuse the twenty nine year old of being a. kurdish militia group known as the wife

a group which classifies as terrorist his family denies the allegations and say he was simply hiking in the region. for the very latest destroying our correspondent in istanbul don't first of four would look at it tell us about this case. for years. it was caught trying to take your forty's trying to cross the turkish syrian turkish border into syria he was captured in a military exclusion zone now authorities say that he was seeking to join the y.p. gene militia many foreign nationals from around the world have joined this group in its fight against the islamic state now for turkey they say that this group is a terrorist organization linked to a kurdish insurgency inside turkey and anyone who is seeking to join this group will face punishment prosecution and ultimately be jailed the german citizen who was also earlier this month convicted and sentenced to eighteen months for entering

a forbidden zone this is just the latest in a series of foreign nationals that have been prosecuted and jailed in the message among korea's turkish lore applies to both turkish and foreign nationals equally. joined as we know the interest of german nationals in turkey is a very sensitive issues issue between the two countries and this latest verdict go inside but the visit of the german economics minister to turkey to what extent could this incident being not a setback in relations between the two countries. well i certainly think it will not help and it will be a probably pretty embarrassing for a german minister during this visit him but he did express his commitment to human rights although he did not in any way name turkey for its much criticized record and i think this is a sign that both sides are trying to see dialogue given the fact the relations have was. went to almost breaking point over the fact that the turkish authorities had

jailed a series of german citizens on charges of being considered political in particular the high profile case of a german journalist and if you tell who was subsequently released but we do seem to be now into a new chapter did host the turkish president. full state visit last month and that is seen as an effort to kickstart a new process of dialogue rather than confrontation but given the given the fact that there is still these outstanding concerns over human rights and this latest conviction and jailing will on the lineup where on cory's a very important country to work with in controlling refugees entering into europe and if chancellor is expected to attend a four way. here in istanbul to discuss syria on saturday and not just on the lines importance of long and the need for dialogue rather than confrontation jorian jones detail because correspondent in istanbul thank you very much for that update. to

the u.s. authorities are searching for who was behind a series of pipe bombs sent by mail they were addressed to prominent democrats politicians and critics of president donald trump police have so far seized ten such devices and warned they may be more the searches focusing on a postal scented in miami florida. canine units under bomb squad deployed on thursday to a postal center in florida. officials believe some of the pipe bomb packages were mailed from here to prominent targets of right wing outrage among them x. democratic presidential nominee hillary clinton former president barack obama and x t i a director john brennan the latest was former vice president joe biden and actor robert deniro all of those targeted critics of president donald trump.

as forensic teams race to find who's responsible. could be more devices. the new york police department tweeted instructions for identifying a package bomb should another be found in the mail we have to treat them as. devices this is a protocol that our bomb squad people use and it keeps everybody safe it's unclear if the pipe bombs were wired to explode some have speculated they were just meant to sow fear among trump's critics ahead of midterm elections in less than two weeks time. several of the intended recipients have said they hoped the sky could shift the tone and politics. my hope. my hope is this reasons. who knows exactly what they were but these bombs being. made my way everybody.

we have to. we have to the end to this country back together. trumps critics have claimed his divisive rhetoric for inspiring the attack trump has repeatedly called his political opponents evil and often refers to the media as the enemy of the people he recently praised the republican politician for body slamming a journalist. in response to the criticism trump has pointed the finger of blame back at the media the debate likely won't subside before voters go to the polls on november sixth. joining me now is keith know with former cia opensource center bureau chief currently the senior fellow at the jack g. gordon institute for public policy at florida international university welcome keith a lot of blame shifting going on right now what what's caused this very polarized

athens fair in the country but let's get back to the investigation where is it right now from your perspective well good afternoon it's important to understand right now there were about forty eight to seventy two hours in this investigation was taking place right now as you have a large consortium made up of the f.b.i. scour terrorism you members of the u.s. national security council the cia the postal service and local police and what they're trying to do is narrow down our where's the system really these packages were all were mailed from all the evidence that we see right now indicates that they came from here in south florida so what you have is what a dragnet is including place where law enforcement officials are looking at cameras they're looking at people have occurred socially went inside to a closed off as to get a better understanding of who is not more than one person may have been was sponsible for the same so

a lot of resources being put into this investigation but how quickly can investigators find out as to who was behind these bombs. there is if you don't believe it or not it does not take days or weeks that give the information what they're going to do is they're going to take data in terms of where the packages were mailed from they're going to look at them it's areas that were made up of the bombs there are look for senior prints and so i expect that we will probably gives a profile of the potential senator or so or sometime within the next seventy two hours the five days this is a massive manhunt that has most of all u.s. agencies that are working together the sac that they've been able to target here to south florida indicates that they have more information that they have not shared with the public as to do and keep their lots of conspiracy theories online about who might be responsible what is your assessment. well that is correct and it's no

secret that the u.s. that we're in a hyper partisan cyril some political climate to date all of the rhetoric this cap and that's demagoguing issue is coming from the far right here in america part of the news this is something democrats cooked up as you indicated at the top of the segment there we are two weeks away from an important midterm elections that are going to decide whether or not us president donald trump is going to maintain a republican house in a republican it's senate building forty four is the next three years so there's a lot at stake here politically and unfortunately we have elements of america's far right that are putting information out there is simply not true the other point that i will make so this is the big question that investigators are looking at is why have these bombs not needed and so there is misspellings that we see on the packages and information has been relayed to date and the case that the bombs may

have purposely been put together not of the wall so they're speculating that this was a theory attack that there was not design it needed but soon to potentially see this this mantle the system in advance of the elections so there's still more to come of is that right keith noble for my cia open source center bureau chief or if they're just to have you with us on. there's been having your up to date with some other stories making news around the world turkish president richard do one has urged saudi arabia to reveal who gave the order to kill journalist jamal khashoggi and the location of his body edge one also said the kingdom's public prosecutor will meet at the turkish counterpart in istanbul on sunday saudi arabian officials have admitted that she's moderate was pre-meditated . by land by sea and by air around fifty thousand military personnel from thirty one nato allies are engaging in the latest largest war game exercises in decades

the various maneuvers will take place over the course of nearly three weeks stretching from the baltic sea to iceland critics say the games could increase tensions between russia and its nordic neighbors. and earthquake close to the greek island of zakynthos has rattled western greece and damaged buildings the quake hit overnight and carried a force of six point eight according to the european assassin logical center a few people are being treated for minor injuries. japanese fire musicians is in china for the first official visit and seventy as against a backdrop of create friction with the united states the asian rivals are working to build closer ties are being met with chinese president xi jinping to discuss regional and global issues japan's leader killed the visit as a historic turning point in relations between china and japan the two countries

have been locked in a territorial dispute over islands in the south china sea. and as we mentioned a japanese five the sins of is in china for his first official visit in seven years against the backdrop of create friction with the united states asian rivals what came to build closer ties. joining me now from beijing is the day of the correspondent. welcome what is from your perspective how significant is this meeting and why do you think it comes now. historic is a big word but for himself this is probably is torek he has been unwelcome all socially unwelcome in beijing for most years that's because of his nationalist retore x. and his unwillingness to address japan's war time on the other hand japan also is very unhappy about china's military behavior in the region its assertiveness so

post the ties have been very tight very. restrained during the last five years and so this is really a step forward and both sides have to overcome a bit of their of their restraints so. both countries remain very important economic partners so it's a natural step for them to try to get to back together again and it is as you said i mean they are economic bach doesn't create is a always very big on their agenda when they talk but beyond that given the differences it just talked about reduce the this relationship going politically because there's still regional rivals. well it's a kind of detente it's. trying to get back to normal both countries have a need to get back to a normal due to the new situation that has evolved since da trump has taken office

in the u.s. so china donald trump is a threat economically they are looking to do to strengthen their ties with other economic partners and japan might not be able to rely on america's backing as it has before so both sides need to cause reconsider their options right lettice villain here in beijing thank you very much for that assessment thank you. turning out to blasphemy is still a serious crime that carries heavy penalties but like many of the country's other religious traditions that may change soon irish voters are heading to the polls today to elect a new president and they're also being asked to decide whether blasphemy laws should be removed from the constitution the issue is uniting both catholics and atheists one man has been fighting the law for years here's a story. the christian god is an evil maniac for giving babies bone cancer jews are of there for the devil all i said was the peace of halliburton was

good enough for jehovah blasphemous statements like peace could come at a high cost literally up to twenty five thousand euros to be precise micronutrient head of atheist alent is complaining and babbling shopping zone he's informing irish voters about a long standing law that could soon be history if you say anything that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by only religion and cause over age by doing so that's a criminal offense the native dubliner has been fighting the paragraph and islands constitution for years. he thinks it should have been removed a long time ago. it's a mediæval crime it's been added into our constitution in nineteen thirty seven when i was a very catholic country. and it was programmed into our laws just ten years ago so it's a mess for any number of reasons and the sooner that we get rid of it the better.

but since the law was implemented no one has ever been convicted of blasphemy even the catholic church called the law or data. an audience church in dublin sees one simple reason for that. there's no need for such a law. called doesn't need to. god is not mocked. not everyone agrees. the islamic cultural center things throwing out the blasphemy cloth will threaten the freedom of all irish people. we have a wide diversity of various communities residing in this kind all. references in our legislation is not to defend religion but it is to defend respect among people of all face and people off no face still it looks likely that my conclusion and his group will finally get their

way recent polls show that just twenty percent of likely voters i'm favor of keeping items blasphemy law. and the japanese religious affairs analyst joins me on this to talk more about this issue welcome i don't really talk about anti blasphemy laws in the context of europe do they only exist in ireland all. they're very widespread i think that most people are not aware of this bed italy germany denmark spain i mean these are countries which actually have all and certainly have blasphemy laws or blasphemy provisions or criminalization of class means some form or other in germany sexually. article hundred sixty six in particular and there was actually a very well known and started publicized case in austria very recently of a woman who had insulted prophet muhammad she was fine and then this was actually decided yesterday in the european court of human rights to give us full context of this case in austria well this is a political scientist and an activist of the far right who has been former diplomat

as well who has been giving lectures criticizing islam in this particular lecture she mentioned the fact that according to qur'anic the gurney text the prophet marries the age of six and consummates the wedding consummates a marriage at the age of nine and she asks the question rhetorical what is this if not that ophelia this was seen as an attack on prophet muhammad she was fine. and this went all the way throughout the boards until it reached the european court of human rights they argued that this was actually a violation to find it's a violation of her freedom of expression the european court of human rights disagreed ok so let's actually take a look at the exact same words and the doing possible the european court of human rights the court said the court affirmed that the domestic court carefully balanced her right to freedom of expression with the right of others to have their religious feelings protected and the legitimate aim of preserving religious peace in austria

. this was the verdict of the european court of human rights the this seems to be a value of these the points of view to take that you have freedom of speech but that feed must be. responsibility if one were to accept that what does what defines blasphemy is about it not really sure that we can simply accept that essentially because much so god and the devil are in the details so to say i mean the question here is what does it mean to offend somebody religiously and you have to keep in mind that until very recently we were burning each other and killing each other for things like doubting about you know jesus research people are mortally offended for the right of women to sort of you know attain like education or things of the kind so the question is to what religious offense means it's actually a very delicate one the thing that is very curious about the ruling is that it mentions actually. some religious respect for the sake of political stability and

this actually is a much farther bridge it's one that actually has doesn't have to do specifically would religion respect it has to do as to whether you can have political instability when a certain part of the population feels religiously offended it's a very complicated question but he's won that europe has actually in some sense settled a long time ago we have decided that we're adults and we will hear things in the public sphere that we don't like but we will not resign. political violence so i think that what we have is a very interesting situation earl and it's moving steadily away from blasphemy laws were snow the european court of human rights is actually precisely in that direction very interesting thank you very much for sharing your insights mounting up under this what you describe is of a complicated issue thank you. and some workers in london were in for a bit of a surprise on thursday when they gives to man skating the woods outside their offices one of the two want to buildings in london and rebecca climbed to the top

of the two hundred thirty need to high skyscraper using just short and muscle power after he reached the top the climber known as the french spiderman was promptly arrested by police for creating what they said was a public nuisance. i would have given him a medal but then i'm not the police i'm actually quite a farmer you know a good pommes when i see this that's what he uses the chalk ok it's reporting season now and some interesting numbers coming up in the tech sector that's why the cooling growth actually knocks off up to one hundred billion dollars. google's market capitalization after hours trading on thursday as investors fear their strong runs could on revenue could be coming to an end and that's despite amazon posting its best ever quarterly profits net income of two point nine billion dollars represents a ten fold increase over the same period last year figures were bolstered by the un

as a web services subsidiary at the same time as an outlook for the crucial fourth quarter which includes christmas fell short of expectations. will be going to another internet giant alphabet the parent company of google it says for as much as five percent of its disappointing third quarter earnings the company's twenty seven point two billion dollars revenue failed to meet market expectations google's advertising business grew slower than expected from july to september while its costs were on the rise the internet giant is paying more to the distribution distribution partners of its search engine smartphone makers apple that means it now has to generate even more revenue from its business. let's bring in paul because brit's has done a fine but still concerns for us paul both companies have posted better year on year profits while investors still ditching them. because gary hart quite frankly

investors are spoiled and they have been spoiled especially by fang shares of the shares of facebook amazon netflix and google these huge tech companies that have really only seen one way and that was up up up up sort of following investors into this kind of sleepy mode autopilot mode maybe because they were driving for the last for the last two years this bull market you know they're pushing pushing up and pushing up and so expectations were really high or are really high and also they've been very reliable with their results so now that results aren't what people expected it will suddenly woke up and got scared of course and now they're starting to hear these voices in the back of there hasn't been there before that say well maybe the companies have been overvalued we read there's even a bubble comparable to the dot com bubble because it's all. lots of background noise so far but it is driving investors out. paul briefly if you can see lots of

stocks crash off the earnings reports not just the big tech but is that with pot that. there is and it is not the look at right now it is that we look at the future companies are doing pretty ok in the third quarter but their guidance doesn't look so great and it's got several reasons one is that the u.s. taxpayer aids tax breaks are starting to wane off and the second is that the clash with china just suddenly starts to or seems to impact companies a lot of them have quoted this as one of the reasons why they're not so keen on looking into the future focus in britain from that thank you. now you'll be relieved to hear that the world's billionaires are now twenty percent richer than they were last year that's according to a report by swiss bank u.b.s. the number of billionaires is rising two to two thousand one hundred fifty eight

people around the world have accumulated more than one billion dollars of personal wealth congratulations. for some billionaires the only way is truly up. japanese tycoon usaca mizar will become the first private passenger on a trip around the moon. set to take off in twenty twenty three on board a space x. a rocket developed by iran musk while the price of the ticket has yet to be revealed it is assumed to be astronomical. meanwhile the number of billionaires with the spare cash to follow minds are way into space continues to grow according to u.b.s. his annual report on the super rich they hold an average of four point one billion dollars in wealth north america remains the global leader in the number of billionaires six hundred thirty one but western europe slipped to third place second spot now belongs to the greater china region which includes hong kong and

taiwan china proper is home to more than three hundred billionaires most of them self-made. at the turn of the millennium china had only one billionaire but u.b.s. now expects the country to overtake the u.s. in the near future the country's billionaire boom has been fueled in particular by its mushrooming tech sector. jack ma was still working as a teacher when he founded allie barber in one thousand nine nine hundred. in twenty fourteen the online retail company claimed the title of the world's biggest ever i.p.o. . who set up the business in his living room is now worth an estimated thirty billion dollars. quite a lot of money that's it up to date you want to do that you news live from more news coming at the top of the hour and if you can't wait that long all the latest news and information from the clock on our website that's post. dot com thanks very

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