this is news live from berlin tonight the news that german chancellor angela merkel will not run for reelection is sinking in around the world can never return to business as usual a day after announcing her phased withdrawal from politics on the american pows african leaders including egypt's. sisi at a g. twenty africa summit medical unable to avoid questions about her stunning decision also coming up mass extinction caused by human beings a shocking report says that we have killed sixty percent of earth's major animals

just since one thousand nine hundred seventy and faced with the prospect of unemployment spanish coal miners come up with a horrifying response yes. it's good to have you with us tonight leaders from around the world are beginning to realize what her decision means it has been twenty four hours since german chancellor angela merkel and gradual withdrawal from power today she hosted african leaders in a fund raising drive to reduce migration to europe ironically this is the issue that more than any other as he said and the chancellor's political demise. just a day after announcing she's to leave the political stage within three years angle

americal was back showing that for now she's still at the heart of things germany is hosting african leaders as part of a drive to boost investment in the continent we've won your third in mind they want to send a clear signal today namely that a good and profitable neighborly relationship with africa is important to us because. we are neighbors we are partners and we europeans take a great interest in african countries having good economic prospects to go to have this to perth big fusion. under development is a problem in many parts of africa and it's a key cause of the mass migration which has created new pressures in europe. the g twenty compact with africa program launched by germany a year ago aims to create jobs in africa and encourage young people to stay in

their home countries the current chairman of the african union says there are already signs it's working as a result of financial. reform now for the union has achieved the savings of the firth sent in our next budget and the member states paying it but at a share of the b. . germany has also launched an even closer partnership with a group of countries such as senegal morocco and ethiopia berlin is offering extra money but the support is dependent on reforms. that form and we want the african countries to carry out reforms for africans must do more themselves above all on good governance and combating corruption these twelve countries are doing this that's what this proof of that is and often we believe in economic cooperation or sets not of the traffic court but on the compact for africa has generated new

investment though some say progress is too slow and others question who benefits more africans or western firms but the leaders gathered in berlin were clear that this public and private investment is a win win for both europe and its southern neighbors. and we can say without equivocation that africa is indeed open for business. help for africa's economic development could be the right lesson from the migration flows of recent years and become a key part of miracles legacy. of course the question is where is all of this money going to go what to talk about that i'm joined right here at the big table by the reporter christine when she has spent years reporting from africa it's good to have you here on the program christine i know that the leaders they all had that stunning decision of miracle on their mind that that she's going to leave here

politics but they still try to get back to business as usual today of these investment programs are they going to help the people who need it most in africa the poor and the unemployed. they will if would be the short answer you know brains when i engage youngsters on the continent via social media a lot of the time people are asking me how can they get to germany christine i've got a degree in engineering how can i come and get a job in germany because they're on top but unity is on the continent and so wherever we're talking about job creation i think everybody can agree that that is going to be beneficial to young people on the continent i mean the figures are that the population will double in the next that he is and then you've got two point two billion people and you've got in excess of one hundred million people looking for work so anything along the lines of private sector from the developed world coming in and setting up shop on the continent creating jobs will help it almost to create the infrastructure that's needed to accommodate this of those operations which would be beneficial to communities there you know i know we hear about these these conferences and giving aid already to africa people usually think that this is aid

you know via a chip but what about german companies actually going to africa and setting up plants in the offices in factories there or are they keen on doing that you know we have there is a strong presence of jim companies on the continent but i think what you will sense from a lot of investors in the develop well it is reluctance on the part of and they've got vetted reasons infrastructure in certain places is just not adequate enough in many of these countries a lot of the countries that are on this partnership with africa unfortunately don't have reliable electricity for example really you build a factory away in a country where there isn't reliable electricity so those are some of the concerns governance is also an issue corruption is an issue and these are valid concerns of the part of waste and what do you say it's what do you say to the critics who say there have been years of decades of aid that has been given to these groceries for infrastructure for helping good governance and sometimes these countries have

nothing to show for this is true but i think we're also starting to see that you know there is a leaf being turned and i think you heard it from some of the the leaders that are represented here today saying look we've got a bad track record. but we're also making progress there is improvement if you look at all governance even if you look at reports that are coming in from international finance issues like the old bank and i am if they do say you know things like ease of doing business in is improving some of these countries are climbing up in terms of core option rankings you are seeing infrastructure projects some of them being funded by china coming up on the qantas so there is progress being made and i think that the message from the african leaders is to say look you've got to take it as a little bit more closely than you normally would asia comes to mind often and this is where the money goes and we heard michael say this but give us a good look we are making progress and a platform that this really allows these leaders to showcase some of those programs and remember this money comes with with reforms that are attached to it that you know the onus syria forms before a country can qualify for such investments ok christine when we. were best

reporters from africa thank you very much for stiffing here and good to be. well on the sidelines of that summit chancellor merkel told the press that her phased withdrawal from politics will not affect german foreign paul's. no doubt and 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 as the head of the government understands the list of possible candidates for the chairmanship of the c.d.u. party is concerned as i said yesterday it is an open since. the previous chairwoman in my political i've learned that the question of succession questions that you shouldn't intervene in because it's never worked and that is something i will definitely a stick by so this is an open process some people are offering the house in the

ring we will watch it and we'll see what happens at the party conference in hamburg . thank you. there was a german chancellor angela merkel there let's fill in our chief political correspondent melinda crane she's on the story for us tonight well and you know i know that the german chancellor i can imagine that she wishes that the world would operate in think as as she daws in and of in a very slow or maybe thought out manner but that's not the way politics is can we say that she's now a lame duck chancellor we know in three years she won't be there anymore. certainly her influence and power are diminished in comparison to the height of her power when she was mediating and shaping europe's response to the sovereign debt crisis the greek economic crisis or russia's incursions into crimea but if you look at where we've been for the last six months one would have to say frankly it can't get a lot worse germany absolutely has not been at the table it has been the government

has been at least perceived as being extremely self-absorbed riven with divisions just last week i had both a french and polish diplomat tell me that as far as they're concerned they're essentially not getting any response out of berlin on key concerns and issues so clearly this was a bet on the part of the chancellor she said as much yesterday that by doing this she can free up the government to continue to start concentrating once again on the actual business of governing and i have to say tributes support in over the last twenty four hours from european it international leaders who clearly assume that they are still going to be interacting with uncle americal for some time to come so she's very experienced she has a lot of influence and a lot of good connections on the world stage and i don't think we can write her off as a lame duck yet it write her off as

a lame duck yet but she wants to stay in office another three years and that's a true the in politics would you be able to do their. absolutely depends on who her successor is as head of the conservative party if it is the woman she has been grooming as a successor on a great crime conroe who is the secretary general of the conservative party then possibly she may see out her term until two thousand and twenty one if it's one of the two gentlemen who have thrown their hats into the ring they are both rivals in one case an erstwhile rival of the chancellor who she actually d. a d. moated as head of the parliamentary group of the conservatives some years ago and also the health minister who has been a critic and a rival in the past as well if it's one of them we could well see a shake up in the party that eventually leads to her leaving office earlier but

it's absolutely too soon to say that party conference isn't until early december and who knows what will happen in the interim chief political correspondent with a gruesome story we're still believe the value. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world nigerian authorities have launched a series of deadly crackdowns on shiite muslim protesters demanding the release of their imprisoned leader. zaki the military say at least six people died when soldiers fired into the corral demonstrators say that dozens more have been killed since saturday britain's prime minister has once again ruled out a second referendum over the country's membership in the european union speaking in norway to recent may also denied there were plans for a general election to break the brig's that deadlock was she's in oslo to discuss the u.k.'s departure from the e.u. with nordic in baltic leaders as thousands of central american migrants continue to

travel towards the united states the pentagon is deploying more than five thousand troops to the border with mexico another two to three thousand soldiers are reportedly being put on standby a typhoon across the northern philippines has left at least six people dead typhoon you two brought down power lines and trees ripping roofs from homes and stores the wind and rain also triggered deadly landslides last month typhoon monk who it left more than one hundred people dead or missing. well in the united states the city of pittsburgh has begun burying its dead with the first of the funerals for the eleven victims killed in last weekend's synagogue shooting us president donald trump has also just arrived in the city to offer his condolences despite being told to stay away by local jewish leaders in an open letter they called on him to cease his

assault on immigrants and refugees or trump stirred further controversy today by repeating his intention to scrap the right to citizenship for u.s. born children of non-citizens and a legal immigrant it's all right let's go now to washington where our correspondent alexander phenomena is standing by she's on the story for us good evening to you alexandra so we know that local and religious leaders are divided on whether president trump should even visit pittsburgh he could face a hostile reception there why. two reasons first local leaders asked the president not to come out saying that they would like to focus on the victims on the families and they need all the resources for that secondly there is a broader criticism the president is facing members of the community progressive

jewish religious leaders say that he's the president and his administration continue to fuel and semitism that is fire at this attack and tree of life sin ago and they point to the fact that trump has repeatedly used the word globalist or criticized his opponents globalist although jewish organizations warned him that this word is used as code for jews in anti semitic circles and they also say or criticize that president strom has repeatedly referred to migrants as dangerous invaders and we know that this. man who allegedly carried out this attack rented online saying that the jews were bringing invaders in to kill his people and

he was referring to a jewish organization who helps refugees so knowing all that they're not rolling out the welcome for the president while you see still go on. well we're hearing that he didn't really insist on going but he was convinced to go by his daughter who is jewish and by his advisors who told him that it's the right decision to go that now he has to be there console or in chief as many presidents before him and he's also very defiant and say he doesn't acknowledge that his critics may have a point here or writes or washington bureau chief alexander phenomenon the story for us tonight it's really sad to think you. all right time you know for business christoph is here to talk about a robust german jobs market that's what we're talking about brant the jobless

figures they keep dropping germany as unemployment rate fell below five percent in october the lowest level of unemployment every corded since german reunification only two point two million people are without a job in germany now the figures continue to show a downward trend despite headwinds the global economy. a robust economy has helped push germany's joblessness rate down for the first time since one nine hundred ninety unemployment has fallen below five percent. the unemployment rate has fallen from five point eight percent in january to four point nine percent in october that is the lowest rate recorded since germany reunified in one thousand nine hundred ninety but the recent turbulence in the market has strengthened the dollar over the euro that means that german products have become cheaper abroad also record unemployment has helped boost consumer confidence and

household spending in europe's biggest economy but despite that the rate of people at risk of poverty is rising in germany according to experts that figure has more than doubled since two thousand and five more germans now have fixed term contracts or work part time while there is more work job security is diminishing. that's got a record check on markets one of our very own standing by on wall street yes shares of ailing industrial and general electric were getting hammered today there is a quarterly loss of almost twenty three billion dollars what other problems do you see there. well almost everything is going wrong for g.e. at this point are ones the biggest culprit a company here in the united states so well they took the huge charge in the past quarter in the amount of about twenty two billion dollar and now the justice department is investigating those charges the securities and exchange commission as

well they pretty much slaughtered the dividend from trail cents to one penny they saw heavy declines in their important power business and the stock dropped by almost nine per cent two years ago g.e. stood at around thirty dollars per share now it's down to about ten but at least the overall market out there we briefly dipped into negative territory saw quite a comeback in the afternoon up for the day by a good four hundred thirty points for the dow jones against court in new york thank you. the labor market in spain has been looking grim for some time now in addition the spanish government's energy policy now is refocused on renewable power sources meaning more than a thousand coal miners will lose their jobs by the end of this year alone the government has promised to invest heavily in alternative employment and one

traditional coal mining region in southern spain isn't scared of taking a novel approach to draw creation by releasing chainsaw wielding killers zombies and evil clowns. there's definitely money to be made in making people scream. the fully fledged scream park concept has been a money spinner in the u.s. for decades but has been slow to take off in europe. hora land is based in an abandoned coal mine and power station north of barcelona the spanish government has vowed to close down most of its coal mines by the end of the year and mining areas are looking to tourism and other industries more than one hundred people now work at hora land including more than ninety actors in elaborate costumes and makeup interacting with state of the art animatronic robots. that.

will look for two different kind of people on the one hand we were looking for actors and specially we wanted them to have experience in the field of acting and also to have an academic background and on the other side we looked for us is that there is we like people that he's able to to make an impact to scare people. in the screen park grounds visitors can pose for selfies with characters from their favorite splatter films and there's a frightening variety of horrific attractions to choose from including some based on popular horror movies i. present it's very exciting i'd say i'm very surprised it makes you shiver a little but above all it's surprising it's very exciting it would exceed that. but the new jobs are not permanent. the attraction is only open at certain times

of year starting with halloween season when it's open for two weeks in october and november so far it's proving a success all twenty two thousand five hundred online halloween tickets are already gone. and from spain to try another country is rolling back a twenty five year old ban on the use of rhino horns and tiger bones and medicine china's cabinet said it will allow certified doctors and hospitals to use parts from animals raised in captivity excluding zoo animals in the trade will still be punished the chinese say conservation groups over described the move as a significant setback for efforts to protect the animals from extinction if here the decision will lead to increased poaching of the fewer than thirty thousand rhinos and four thousand tigers still left in the chinese folk medicine of parts are believed to cure a range of and it's. expected right now and more worries for mother nature of the terrible things that we're doing it to animals kristoff humans have

killed off sixty percent of all vertebrate animals on the planet just since the year one thousand nine hundred seventy the world wildlife federation has reached this conclusion in its latest report and it describes it as a mass extinction accelerated by global consumption its victims include some of the earth's most impressive wildlife. he was the last male of his species this northern watch rhinoceros died in kenya in the spring now only two females remain it's one of the best known examples of recent species extinction the world wildlife federation is report paints a bleak picture since nine hundred seventy there's been a sixty percent decline in the population of over sixteen thousand study vertebrates that's mammals fish. but also. threats from most animal groups include the loss of habitat such as the clearance of forests for the cultivation of palm

oil or soya over use that means hunting fishing and those things and the contamination of habitat added to that climate change is now a big factor. conservationists in germany are reporting at the klein in wild bees and butterflies the w w s says the use of pesticides in agriculture is to blame but it's not just politicians who have a duty of care. of the. need to watch transformation we also need businesses and consumers it's always possible to choose products that you knew are ecologically better than in the case of a northern watch rhino some hope remains alive researchers have produced an embryo using artificial insemination but the breakthrough doesn't come about the cole is of species extinction. wrestling was almost exclusively a men's a sport in iraq until two years ago that is when the country's first women's team

was founded in day one the witches in iraq's tribal south now would face resistance from conservatives at first but it's slowly one acceptance and now other women's wrestling teams have sprung up in the country and the team members well they're passionate about their new failed sport. in the iraqi city of d.i.y. need young wrestlers tumble under the watchful eye of their coach now how you have dark hair taking on a sports largely reserved for men was quite a challenge in this conservative part of iraq but fifty two year old daughter here had no problems finding recruits gaining acceptance from iraqi society was the tough part. t.v. i did women's wrestling is a new sport in iraq and our society doesn't accept it when our am two and tribal society but i personally encourage all types of sports jacket and how to help it

all started when the iraqi wrestling federation approached the school sports teacher with the opportunity to lead the team today about twenty members training three times a week after school in the state fling heat in september ali hussein won a silver medal at the women classic international tournament in beirut lebanon on. the outside women tend to face problems in sports and iraqi society because we have certain habits and traditions but we've managed to get past the metal by a little bit and people have slowly started to accept us a bit on us will usually hear has received threats for her work with the team but acceptance has been growing the key is building trust with the women's families she and her staff pick up the wrestlers from school and drive them home afterwards now people then do i need to come out to support the team at competitions. i know how to me my ambition is for the team to be on the international stage i'm

working hard and putting in all my efforts to make a name for iraqi women in the field of sports i did not add up if only. when training in the wrestlers file out of the building in their usual street clothes they'll go back to their daily life and do one year. but they'll also be dreaming of glory on the wrestling mat. the day starts right now.

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