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this is d.w. news live from berlin and a criminal record and of passion for u.s. president donald trump details emerge about the man suspected of sending a series of mail bombs to prominent democrats fingerprint evidence help track down the florida man in question as investigators scrutinized more suspicious packages believed to be linked to his blog. also coming up as brazil gears up for its most controversial election in decades we asked block and female voters why they supported candidate excuse of racism and they saw me. and then going to sleep.
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and are back in action today and looking to extend their unbeaten streak this time they're up against parents now berlin who are riding their own wave of success. thanks for joining us i'm marian evans dean. u.s. authorities say the man arrested over a series of mail bombs sent to prominent democrats has a criminal history and is a fervent supporter of president donald trump officials are yet to disclose a motive fifty six year old florida resident says our site york was tracked down with the help of fingerprint evidence investigators say they're looking into new suspicious packages thought to be connected to the case. u.s.
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or thirty's believe they've got their man investigators allege fifty six year old sees as sayaka is responsible for the pipe bomb packages which have been sent to high profile democrats police also seized what they believe to be the suspect's van emblazoned with far right paraphernalia and posters supporting u.s. president donald trump they hope the vehicle might contain crucial clues as to whether he was operating alone the director of the f.b.i. praised those working on the case i want to focus for a moment on the amazing work of our folks at the air. based on their initial analysis they uncovered a latent fingerprint from one of the involved containing an i.e.d. that had been sent to congresswoman maxine waters but as the suspect was being taken into custody there were more surprises in california a suspicious package was found addressed to here as senator and democrats kemal
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a harris meanwhile california and billionaire and democrat donor tom style was also targeted more than a dozen bombs have now been identified some of the latest targets were u.s. senator cory booker and former director of national intelligence james clapper the rest prominent democratic leaders all supporters the clintons former president barack obama his vice president joe biden actor robert de niro to all of those targeted are outspoken critics of president donald trump trump address the issue at the white house calling the acts despicable and saying they had quote no place in our country later he said they defect to the republican campaign for the midterm elections republicans had the magic moment the moment of course it happened where all the people talked about was that and rightfully so it was a big thing rightly so but now we have got the momentum we get trump who so said his political opponents and the media were trying to score political points with
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a mail bomb scare. k.w. waiter has been following events in washington and she sent us this assessment. case cracked maybe police apprehended a fifty six year old florida man in connection with a string of pipe bombs that have been sent to prominent democratic political operatives across the country we know that he is definitely a supporter of president trump based on his social media post and on his van that was plastered approach from stickers and apprehended at the scene as well we also know that he has a criminal history stretching back about thirty years including one arrest that police made in two thousand and two after he made a bomb threat but there's still a lot that we don't know we don't have the official motive of these attacks from the f.b.i. yet we don't know whether he worked alone or with someone or someones else and we still don't know how many pipe bombs might still be out there one thing is for sure this has thrown a monkey wrench into the midterm campaigning with the president himself lamenting
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that this has slowed the g.o.p. momentum with just a few days left until the elections. syria's rebel held it live province has seen the deadliest day of shelling russian airstrikes ended two months ago monitors say at least seven civilians were killed the latest violence comes ahead of a four nation summit in turkey those nations says it wants the leaders of france germany russia and turkey to agree on concrete steps to end the seven year war anchor also hopes to preserve the demilitarized zone around the rebel held italy province and agreement that was reached between russia and syria last month. seven years of war in syria at least three hundred fifty thousand killed and a country in ruins now the rebel stronghold faces a siege the next humanitarian crisis is imminent. it is the last part of syria under the control of president bashar al assad many of his opponents have fled here
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but it is only a question of time until his troops from his lies reached. the region in northern syria. turkey and europe fear that a majority of the three million people living here will try to flee initiating another refugee crisis preventing this will be the main goal of the political summit in istanbul. the syrian conflict is dominated by foreign powers mainly russia iran and turkey they have different interests at stake and support different sides in the conflict with weapons logistics and personnel russian president vladimir putin is president assad's closest ally russia has been taking an active part in the war since two thousand and fifteen putin wants to strengthen russia's military presence in the region syria is its sole access point to the mediterranean sea. president hassan rouhani of iran is the other major assad supporter from day one to iran has supported damascus with advisors weapons and troops syria in return
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provides iran with a crucial route to the hezbollah militia in lebanon. oh year. turkish president richard type one would like to topple assad and supported various radical rebel groups from the start and since january turkey has had troops of its own in syria one of ed of un's goals is to limit kurdish influence in the region. during at events recent visit to berkeley and german chancellor angela merkel agreed to this weekend's summits russia iran and turkey have used the syrian conflict to reestablish their positions as regional powers in the middle east. but reconstruction will require western money perhaps giving leaders like merkel additional clouts. and let's turn now to some of the other stories making news around the world. turkey has called on saudi arabia to extradite the eighteen suspects in the murder of journalist gemma shakti the saudi government has said it
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would itself punish those involved in what it described as a rogue operation a show jay was killed after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul on october second. many of the central american migrants traveling through southern mexico have rejected a proposal from that country's president that they apply for refugee status and obtain benefits they're the group of several thousand central americans valid to continue heading north to the u.s. border. thousands of people have taken to the streets of the democratic republic of congo's capital kinshasa they're protesting against the plan to use of voting machines in contentious and long delayed elections coming up in december opposition supporters here the machines will be misused to rig the results. resilience head to the polls on sunday in the country's most divisive presidential election in decades far right candidate. beat
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a leftist hopeful for binondo donji in the first. around and he's still the favorite to win also nora's opponents say he poses a threat to democracy he's made offensive remarks about gay people women and black resilience but even among those groups he has supporters. we're in the suburbs of rio de janeiro most of the city's black population lives here not in the famous more upmarket neighborhood of copacabana in classroom b. security is an important issue people here are afraid of being assaulted on the street the black brazilians we talk to do the right wing populist j. you're both so narrow as the best option for their country. i will vote for both because we need change. we want to see our country again as it once was. committed to conservative practices. with.
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many from this community belong to the evangelical church which has great influence and has been supporting radical candidates across latin america. but also not as derogatory statements about black people and women aren't taken too seriously here . no never they didn't offend you know and he didn't make sexist or racist comments using the media misunderstand him and wants to denigrate his image through means he's a very kind of nice guy who wants to change things for people. whether black gay or a woman everyone at the. club rescore goal is a social sciences professor at the federal university of the state of rio de janeiro she's been studying the political behavior of minorities during this election. you know it here it seems
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strange that here in brazil the minorities in the poor sector of society that is black gay and female minorities support a candidate who actually goes against their interests. because they're deeply disappointed their disappointment fits both scenarios discourse this is she defends individual struggle and transforms the former discourse of collective power into one about individual struggle and the struggle for money it's important there are so. many well still of ourselves drinks in front of the social security center he's unemployed he was a strong supporter of former president lula da silva and his workers' party but now he's disappointed. with all the problems that have arisen i don't know if i would fulfill. all of them seem to be wearing
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a mask. but it's a fact that brazil was doing well back in june. for myself. and on many issues i think he would be the best candidate. but at the moment i wouldn't vote for him. even if he is tempted to vote for your boss or not oh he says this time around he will probably submit a blank ballot. well after their midweek win against a bunch of hundred of barroso dortmund are back in dometic action today this time they're up against one of the surprise teams of the season hair to berlin by the black and yellows aren't worried after a run of performances at a seen them strengthen their place at the top of the bundesliga table.
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it's happy days in dortmund and for good reason they've had a blinding start to the season so far they lost two matches for neil wins against stuttgart in the bundesliga and it led to her madrid in the champions league. is good for them through all kinds. there is no reason for us to let all of praise for getting get to our heads. but on what we've achieved so far is from nothing other than hard work hard but it looks like luciana farfel is going to have to do without super sub par calcutta but doormen will have to worry about where the goals come from fourteen players have scored the black and twenty seven goals so far this season is just their defense that's a little in securitize the last time they played at home in the league they conceded three goals defensive frailties like that can't happen again against berlin. to munch up his intent or
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a very very good team this season it's a completely different game. hatsell riding a wave of euphoria of the road they've beaten by him and second place this season but that was a home now they want to get the result table toppers dortmund. under an outstanding form they've brimming with confidence and averaging four goals a game. it's a different game this weekend we always perform well and don't and they will do it again this week. don't mind however have other ideas they want to extend their own pieces start of the season to nine games. all the going to think a weekend kicked off friday with freiburg hosting high flying barossa mention gladbach a converted penalty each in the first twenty minutes saw them go into the second half all square but freiburg came out stronger and took the lead again in the fifty seventh minute through look up by schmidt i think it was his second goal of the
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season in the dying seconds of the match nuke us heard our capitalizing on the stage keeper to score the host third and feel a surprising three one when. you're up to date now on your new do join us again at the top of the hour. it was a human cataclysm. the first disaster of the twentieth century. one . forced the hundredth anniversary of its.

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