this is the governor's life for business as usual for germany's outgoing chancellor a day after announcing her phased withdrawal from politics i'm going to machall host the g twenty compact with africa summit and she meets the heads of eleven african nations including egypt's abdel fattah el-sisi as she tries to drum up investment for the culture and also the program germany's first post more serial killer admits killing one hundred people prosecutors claim the former nurse murdered patients forty one fantasy. deadly storms strike

a fierce winds and rain killed at least ten tennessee swamped with record high water levels. i'm so go welcome to the program german chancellor angela merkel is hosting the compact with africa summit here in berlin and it raising private investment on the continent she's meeting with twelve heads of states including the egyptian president abdullah fattah el-sisi germany and egypt have been discussing how to tackle terrorism and illegal migration the president sisi has praised chancellor merkel's refugee from his. chance for mac address the press following her meeting with the president the first time since she announced a phased withdrawal from frontline politics in the meantime she said the business of government would continue as usual. i think

the negotiating position in international negotiations will not be changed or affected in any way you can only say that i will now fully focus on my job to stay ahead of government and as far as the list of possible candidates for the chairmanship of the c.d.u. party is going to and as i said yesterday it is an open process and as the previous chairwoman in my political life learned that question of succession are questions that you shouldn't intervene in because it's never worked and that is something i would definitely a stick by so it's an open process people of throwing their hats in the ring we'll watch it and we'll see what happens at the party conference in hamburg thank you. nothing to do with me nothing to see here let's get more on this come good i go america will be hands off in this process of didone political comment correspondent nina hauser can tell us why and nina what effect is the chancellor's announcement

yesterday likely to have on her position internationally like with today's compact with african summit well i made two announcements she said that she is going to step down as the party chair and that she will not stand for reelection there's the party conference you mentioned mentioned in the sound bite that's happening in early december and basically then the conservatives will have to decide who the successor is going to be which direction the party should take in the future should they go for somebody who sort of symbolizes more of machall policies more of medicals demeanor all should they move the party back to the right and stress their core conservative values a bit more so this is something where she said she's going to step down and let the party decide she has also made the announcement that she is not going to run as chancellor for a fifth time in twenty twenty one she wants to finish the term though she wants to remain chancellor and she made it very clear today by hosting this compact with

africa summit that this is where she does intend to stay this is the key position that she wants to hold and she wants to maintain and that she sees the international topics that are on the agenda is something that she wants to get the focus back on to because for the last year and a half we've been especially the conservative party and the social democrats they have been meddling with their own in the party debates they have done a lot of navel gazing and uncle macko got the feeling that voters punished both parties essentially in the coalition government they said enough is enough ungrammatical said i have to show personal consequences and i have to tell the voters i've heard your message and so i'm going to draw consequences. and we'll only see where the party will go well i was going to say because she can say what she likes but really twenty twenty one three years off can she really limp along as chance about low that will depend on who the pontiff decides. in terms of success

because of course if she gets somebody who's a fierce rival like metz who's already put his hat in the ring let's not forget he was the parliamentary group leader till two thousand and two until uncle michael ousted him he then left politics he's now reappeared like a blast from the past and announced his candidacy if he is the party chair of course he's not going to make life easier is a chance of ok who else is likely to do the other runners and vibes that there's a young chap the health minister he's a bit ambitious in spawn you're talking about inspiring who's the health minister you're right he's a young guy very ambitious is one of the most vocal critics of anglo-american if you will especially when it comes to the refugee policy he's also announced his candidacy but then he represents that conservative wing but then also come combo of the secretary general will probably refer to as a k.-k. because the names too complicated if she becomes party chair but she would

essentially represent a continuation of. in those policies there is of the three names that are currently floating and there will probably more. more people will probably announce their candidacy between now and december ok and how was the announcement yesterday greeted by the german public and the press to do that do they see this is decisive this from the chancellor of drawing a line under this or other other place to see it go what's going on there was a lot of respect even from critics there was a lot of respect from left wing parties from the left wing papers like the top said we will one day want her back we will miss essentially saying this is something she . the party the conservatives lost tremendously in the state elections in recent weeks both in bavaria and in their last ten percentage points so it was clear the pressure was that something needed to change and i'm gone michael said right i've

understood and i'm no longer good for the party so you decide where you want to go but i want to stay here and finish my job as chancellor and if the social democrats decide to stay in the coalition and she can probably finish her if they don't then we may see fresh elections examiner very clear thank you. in germany's biggest post-war serial murder case a former nurse has admitted killing one hundred patients forty one year old the neils her goal may be admission during his trial for mass murder in the northern city of bremen ogles already serving a life for previous killings at two different hospitals the scale of his alleged crimes has shocked the country the defendant is accused of committing mass murder his motivation according to the prosecution boredom and vanity and unusually large crowd turned up to witness the proceedings the trial is taking place in

a conference center to accommodate the crowd many relatives of the victims of. the trial is unusual because there are so many people involved. and one hundred twenty six hope plaintiffs in having represented by seventeen lawyers from that means the trial is huge just because of the number of people involved the defendant is alleged to have injected his victims with drugs to bring about a cardiac arrest he then tried to resuscitate them as a way of impressing his colleagues he allegedly killed more than one hundred people like this some of his colleagues are accused of turning a blind eye. it's up to about two or three i'm expecting us to get justice for all the victims and that the defendant will have his sentence extended i also hope that in the course of the trial we will find out more details about the role of the hospital's involved before you go to. the clinic and do more work. a verdict is expected in may next year. and have

a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world more than sixty thousand people have signed an open letter from jewish leaders in pittsburgh to donald trump saying that the u.s. president is not welcome in the city until he fully denounces white nationalism the president and first lady are two tribes pittsburgh later following last week's synagogue massacre in which eleven people were killed as thousands of central american migrants continue to travel through mexico towards the united states eight hundred u.s. troops are reported to have been sent to america's southern border military sources say there are plans to send more than five thousand soldiers there this week. brazil's president elect a giant boston r.-o. has threatened to withdraw government advertising from media organizations he deems to be lying both in our one sunday's presidential election by a comfortable majority despite his support for torture

a self professed homophobia and plans to open up the amazon rain forest to big business. now heavy downpours and fierce winds in italy have killed at least ten people extreme weather has battered the country since sunday meeting many regions facing record flooding officials also reported severe transport disruption and power outages. red alert unwanted also omari. traffic partially paralyzed in league in italy's northwest. bad weather also inching a popular hold a destination. further east st mark's square was submerged up to a meter high. schools and universities have been shut flooding is not unusual in venice when the water hasn't reached this level in ten years. many italian regions are on highest alert with schools closed in rome the scene here measured elsewhere in italy firefighters and civil defense working around the clock. a

falling tree near killed two people and injured fifteen. shipping lanes were shut down around the island as a skier of naples and off calabria at the tip of italy's boot. there was chaos at the brenner pass the main route through the alps between italy and austria among six cars one person was lightly injured. there was also red alert in the northern italian region of south to rule meaning there is still the possibility major marriage and sea. cup is known for matching powerhouse clubs from the. division teams who dream of making it big such match happens tonight. fourth division.

the obvious the club's already been a second division team to get to get to this stage and they're eager to put up a fight again. moving hausen is cup dream continues they've already knocked out one huge opponent to normal to grazed in the first round and now they find themselves the center of attention once again this time ever competitive captain daniel flood not is determined to enjoy the occasion in the. special games like against dresden when you see the pictures it's a fantastic feeling during the game i find a bit tougher to enjoy but this time i'd like to actually try and soak up the atmosphere visit us authors are going to be nice and. certainly doesn't mean however that they're just out for a casual pick about is that you know she's wonderful on going all out really we all want to push ourselves the limits and see what we're capable of why shouldn't we

try and win. so why not indeed the stars might just a line coach and rico marson certainly isn't ruling out the possibility. we need to play the game of our lives and we need buy in to have an absolute disaster then we might just have the slimmest of chances. one problem for rooting hausen is the ground their home the heck a v and start your own is deemed too small to host a clash so it will be played in neutral neighboring brook the home side of the us without their home advantage still these players have a chance to continue writing history in the name of their modest community club they'll do all they can to take you. to the korean peninsula next rest for it's playing a role in the thawing relations between north and south on monday youth team players from both sides faced off in the opening match of

a big regional tournament or the match was competitive the atmosphere was friendly . the gesture of fair play at the start of the match both teams were highly motivated for the game that kicked off an under fifteen zinta national youth tournament in june shown capital city of the gang one province in south korea the visiting team playing in blue got off to a flying start scoring twice before the break during the match fans mostly way flags displaying a unified korea though the supporters may not have been completely impartial north korea went on to win the match three one since the winter olympics sports diplomacy has played a significant role in building trust amid bilateral talks and after a lap of the young players did their bit too i hope we can go back and forth play more games and have a friendly relationship with each other. i want to see a night soon so we can play football together again the fans too seem to enjoy the friendly competition between two nations that had until recently rarely contested

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