this is d.w. news live from berlin the deadliest attack on the jewish community in recent history america mourns the victims of another mass shooting after eleven people are gunned down in a synagogue president trump is calling it an evil and to semitic act. also coming out the german chancellor faces her next big test voters in the state of hesse i go to the polls today we'll tell you why this regional election could spell disaster for uncle americal. and a soccer match ends in tragedy

a helicopter plummets to the ground outside think you can easily leicester city football club if you're dead the clumps a billionaire owner will bring you the latest. thanks for joining us i'm marrying evan's team we begin in the united states where a forty six year old man has been charged with killing eleven people at a synagogue in the city of pittsburgh robert bowers is accused of shouting anti-semitic slurs as he stormed the synagogue and opened fire at worshipers jewish groups are calling it the deadliest attack on the jewish community in u.s. history. hundreds of people crammed onto a street intersection in pittsburgh and so for the evening they sent in hebrew songs of worship to. support and sorrow for the victims and the community.

it was a local man police say who carried out the attack. village shooter robert barlow is believed to have a history of anti semitic tirades online his last social media post was just minutes before the shooting at ridge i'm going in. this is the synagogue where the shooting happened and the squirrel hill neighborhood of the city normally it's a place of worship but on set that i morning i'm noticing. authorities say eleven people were killed and several more injured including four police offices who took on the attack. these incidents usually occur in other cities today the nightmares hit home here in the city of pittsburgh. the synagogue a vulnerable target on a day like today the door was open no religious service you could walk in and out

only on the high holidays is there a police presidents presidents at the entrance the shooting is now being treated as a hate crime by the u.s. federal bureau of investigation the f.b.i. this is the most horrific crime scene i've seen in twenty two years with the federal bureau of investigation members of the tree of life synagogue conducting a peaceful service and their place of worship were brutally murdered by a gunman targeting them simply because of their faith the suspects for motive is unknown but we believe he was acting alone. president donald trump said the attack was an act of evil and called for tougher penalties to have the right to decide today. whether it's. one of the. we have to bear the death penalty or. the u.s. is once again in mourning this time after what's taught to be the deadliest attack on a jewish community in u.s. history. well u.s.

president trump ordered flags at federal buildings across the country to be flown at half staff in a mark of respect for the victims of the synagogue shooting he's also said he plans to travel to fix pittsburgh earlier we asked our correspondent in washington michelle how political leaders are responding to the attack that's been widespread condemnation of this attack president has been has as called several times denounced his attack and said this this was a and anti-semitic crime no vice president pence has come out and called this and attack on freedom of religion in the u.s. and said this is not just a criminal act this is an evil act and israeli prime minister netanyahu also came out and said that this is an anti-semitic act and that the people of israel stand with the people of pittsburgh the jewish community in pittsburgh and americans and after this horrible heinous crime. now german chancellor angela merkel is bracing

for another major blow today this time in regional elections in the state of hassam where polls have just opened the chancellor is conservative c.d.u. party is expected to suffer heavy losses while the smaller green party and far right alternative for germany looks set for a boost in support of it's considered a test of the cd use national popularity and after a string of poor election results no less than merkel's legitimacy. chancellor is at stake. the conservatives chief candidate folk of goofy finish this election campaign on home turf as a state premier wanted to mobilize every voter possible for the tight race the latest poll shows the c.d.u. with twenty eight percent a double digit drop from their last showing goofy a warn against a change in government. to remain strong and

stable and the seanie lose and not much leadership there is a leftist alliance. that. i always say you can get quick satisfaction by venting about the government in berlin but then you get five years of bad government here to politic the social democrats chief candidate thorsten schaffer google is also struggling with the berlin coalition's bad image but in barton he turned on the optimism that he's making his third attempt at becoming has this regional leader. in recent days we've gained a lot of momentum and now we're just waiting to see the results of the election and has a i'm confident that we will have a government led by the social democrats. dot com vote. that could be possible in a coalition with the greens and the left party if say for google's s.p.d. beats the greens and both make gains like the latest polls show both parties at

about twenty percent. politicians and has are worried that weakening support for the government in berlin could influence the outcome of sunday's vote rarely have uncle america and her cabinet been so unwelcome on the campaign trail. it's a different story with direct car was zero on the greens they're riding a wave of fresh support benefiting from america's government woes as they make that clear on their campaign posters. with showing that we're ready. take control which demonstrated our billets each to govern with various partners and we have policies we want to enact and that's what we're aiming to do on sunday promises to be an exciting day in has as capital of these bought in the city will also be the focus for many in berlin. all right for more on all of this i'm joined now in the studio by our political correspondent thomas ferro thomas hello to you so explain to our viewers why these state elections are being so closely watched in

germany right now essentially because that not only state elections whatever happens in this state elections as we've seen in previous occasions as well is interpreted unexplained at a much broader level at the federal level in other words if the conservatives for example have a very bad result in tests that will also be interpreted as big problems for the conservatives at a federal level big problem for merkel at the federal level it's also important because it is helping to reveal the trend not only in germany but also another european countries namely that the big traditional party the conservatives the social democrats are losing ground undock ground is precisely going to smaller parties dyke the greens not the far right that there would be for germany fragmenting the political spectrum in germany and in other parts of europe as well all right so you mentioned there's this trend and indeed it seems like over the last several weeks all the opinion polls coming through show that miracles conservatives in has that are set to lose quite a significant amount of support now how bad

a blow is this going to be then for america's future if her city who is defeated so badly that is the essential question how bad it will be for the conservatives how bad it could be for other parties as well i think michael's conservatives could be in a way pleased if they managed to get the best result out of all other parties that would give them the mandate to form a regional government and they could then present that in a way as a victory although it is absolutely evident of courting to most if not all polls that they will have a worse results compared to previous results both it has said but also if you again if we compare it at the federal level if we interpret it at a federal level again another thing that could be important is how easy it could be for the conservatives to form a coalition government if they do in fact get that mandates or if it's easier for them to do so than again they can interpret it in a positive light. but what is for sure is that it will be as a worse if you compared to previous elections it has aright and now as we've been saying as the major parties loose support one of the parties gaining support is the

far right if de thomas briefly are we looking at the unstoppable rise of this populist party in germany i wouldn't use the word unstoppable myself but what does seem evident is that they are gaining ground at the regional level as well as the federal level these were mock the sixty's that states in which the i would have the presentation of the words in all states in germany they would know how that was in danger if indeed they do manage to get above the five percent threshold in today's election which according to all polls seems to be the case all right our political correspondent thomas ferro many thanks indeed for breaking it all down for us. well let's turn now to some of the other stories making news around the world and brazilians will be voting today to elect a new president polls suggest a far right candidate airballs on r.-o. will win the runoff vote the sixty three year old has been criticized for making a string of sexism homophobic and racist remarks the former army captain has also

repeatedly praised the military dictatorship which ruled the country from nine hundred sixty four to nine hundred eighty five. german chancellor angela merkel has joined the leaders of turkey russia and france in calling for a lasting political solution to the war in syria at a summit in istanbul the leaders pledged to work together to create conditions suitable for peace and stability in the country syria's been ravaged by seven years of civil war there was a war maori welcome for britain's prince harry and his wife megan in new zealand they were all come over greeted with the traditional down after touching down on the final leg of their pacific tour. now a helicopter believed to be carrying the show. the owner of leicester city football club crashed outside the club stadium on saturday night the accident occurred an

hour after leicester's game against west ham united had ended there's still been no confirmation the vision i was on heard from the club or from king power which is the duty free shopping company he owns the identity of the pilot and other passengers is likewise still unknown. well a limo talking from d.w. sports has been following this developing story for us and she joins me now so what more can you tell us about what happened last night and pretty much what we know as of right now is that the helicopter as the report just mentioned did belong to the thai owner of les the city of. about on a pot and that it crashed just outside of the stadium around eight thirty pm that's the time about two hundred yards from the stadium and this minutes after taking off and witness accounts say that they appeared to be a technical problem with the engine and that immediately after the helicopter

crashed and it was engulfed in flames and at this moment there's no confirmation as to who exactly was on board the cup and come out of anything we haven't heard anything from his from the family of his company and to also put this a bit into context that the use of a helicopter at lest a city a home games that so rituals or the owner the tie owner and sometimes a few of his guests will accompany him they will use the helicopter to exit the stadium sometimes to avoid traffic but again once again we have no confirmation as to who exactly was inside of that helicopter well joe was hugely influential at the club you mention he's thai but who was he actually outside the soccer world outside he was he was always a he. he's a very talented businessman he started off by selling electronics but he really gamed it basically what turned him what made him become a millionaire is that he gained a monopoly over the duty free shops in all of thailand airports and because

thailand is a huge travel destination. you know it was just like the success came after but he put it to some extent you cannot separate the football from him because he is a huge football enthusiastic and what he did with leicester city is just incredible it's a modern day day sports fairy tale knowing that even though we don't have a confirmation on exactly who was in that plane what have been the reaction so far to this crash the football world is in a state of shock what people need to understand is that unlike other foreign owners of initial premier league clubs the thai owner he was very much adored and respect that and love by by the players and by the fairness and he had a very close relationship with the players it's reported that one of the players goalkeeper kasper schmeichel that he ran out to the scene of the accident yesterday that he was in tears saw

a very they're very fond of him. talking following this developing story for us many thanks indeed. and you're up to date now on d w news do join us again at the top of the hour from all of us here in berlin and thanks for watching . me what about. it was a human rate cut or close on. the first global disaster of the twentieth century. one. more slow hundredth anniversary of its.