the state of the news life from the race to succeed on going to gathers pace for a big mess that launches his bid to become leader of germany's christian democrats one sidelined by chance of a machall he's now hot tip to take over her job also on the program. pakistan's top court frees a christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy but islamists want asir people returned to jail and the judges who freed her dead. d.w. heads to honduras to find out why so many people fear for their lives that i'm

going out walking to the united states despite president trump tightening america's southern border. i'm still going to welcome to the program one of the german chancellor i'm going to medicals old political rivals has just launched his campaign to succeed as leader of the christian democratic union party frederick metz is one of three high profile candidates vying to lead the center right c.d.u. after the chancellor announced on monday that she would end eighteen year stint as party leader in december the remaining as chancellor sixty two year old metz left politics ten years ago after losing the c.d.u. power struggle with machall today he dismissed concerns about new tensions with the chancellor if his leadership bid was successful launching his campaign today he said the c.d.u. which has suffered badly in recent polls needed an overhaul. it's

what the c.d.u. needs now is a fresh start it needs renewal. the c.d.u. needs to engage in forward looking political debate. and in my view that means that the c.d.u. needs to create clarity about its core values. we need to make clear that this is a big tent party of the center and that it will remain that. a party in which those who aspires traditional economically liberal conservative values have their place alongside those who are more socially engaged. well look at the claim is the w.'s chief political correspondent welcome melinda tell us more about this blast from the past trying to replace i'm going back to list chairman of the party. well for the last nine years he's been a high powered corporate lawyer he's head of the german supervisory board of the

world's largest investment fund so it won't come as much of a surprise that he describes himself as business friendly and market friendly and he certainly has a lot of support among the german businessman and among the business wing of the conservative party but he's also very much a dyed in the wool politician he's been a member of the c.d.u. ever since his youth he was a high powered parliamentary group leader until two thousand and two when the chancellor edged him out of power he did stay a member of parliament until two thousand and nine when he left politics all together so as you say to some degree he is a blast from the past that may also though explain why he has a lot of support not only within the party but also within the population at large polls at the moment show that of the various contenders have thrown their hats into the ring he is the one who would have the most support and where would he take the

party well undoubtedly in a business friendly direction whatever that means he was known in the past for wanting to a great simplification of the tax code also a lowering of tax rates so that might be one thing we could expect from him let's have a listen to something else friedrich mensa's been saying about germany's political landscape you know if you can still i want to be really clear about this it bothers me so that's why i'm saying it's clearly. we cannot except that on the left wing and the right wing fringe of our democracy in regional assemblies all sixteen legion assemblies and i and also in the national parliament the buddhist tighe parties that are dividing our society are stop wishing themselves we must not a law is a situation where voters are at of disappointment or frustration attach themselves to these kinds of populist movements are large themselves to be seduced by them. well into crying out what is frantic minutes as message there. to be honest he's

not saying anything all that different than what we have heard from a number of conservative leaders but the question is what might he do differently well he did tell us today in his announcement that he has conservative social values so we might see him try to take the christian democratic union into a more socially conservative direction as you know chancellor merkel has been seen as a modernizer of the party who essentially brought it more toward the center of the political spectrum and opened it up to support from groups that might not have voted conservative in the past so we might try to see maps take it back to sharpen the contours of the c.d.u. as a conservative party certainly would be likely to see business friendly policies from him he said as much in today's remarks and i think sensually he would be hoping to win back some of the support that has drifted away to the nationalist

right wing party the alternative for germany the a.f.d. whether he would succeed in that endeavor that's open and a quick word on his foreign policy positions briefly. he describes himself today as an absolute transatlantic assist and in fact he has been heading the atlantico the atlantic bridge which is a very important transatlantic organization again especially on the business side and he also described himself as very much a pro european again not all that different from the chancellor she would say the same of herself but the fact is that he did say very clearly and this is one of the few differences to the chancellor he really specified that he would like to see a much stronger response to the proposals for reform that have been made by french president mccaul he said and he's right that germany has left michael hanging and that certainly is something where he clearly would act in a different manner. thank you. now there are some of the other stories making news around the world saudi journalist jamal khashoggi was strangled

to death immediately after entering riyadh said consulate in istanbul was according to the city's chief prosecutor who says that. a body was cut up and disposed of saudi arabia's attorney general has now left to after talks about the case. rebel leader react mashallah has returned to sudan to celebrate a peace deal with long time rival president salva kiir the world's youngest nation was plunged into civil war in twenty thirteen when president kiir sacked michel as vice president the country has seen a string of failed ceasefires and peace deals ever since. officials in indonesia say they have detected pings believed to be from the black box of the ill fated live passenger jet divers are searching the java sea for the device which contains the cockpit voice and flight data recorders the aircraft crashed on monday minutes after takeoff all one hundred eighty nine people on board are presumed dead. and of

course in pakistan has freed a christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy well that of to us you have been condemned to hang in twenty ten for insulting islam as prophet muhammad since today's ruling thousands of islamist activists of blocks roads and run such government property in protest with one group even calling for the death of the judges who overturned the sentence. she has spent most of the past eight years in a prison cell in solitary confinement. bibi has always maintained her innocence the christian farm worker and mother of two was convicted in two thousand and ten of blasphemy she was accused of insulting the prophet mohammed after muslim women from her village objected to her drinking water from their shared class because she was christian bibi then became the first woman to be sentenced to death by hanging under pakistan's controversial blasphemy laws but now pakistan's highest court has

decided to overturn the verdict and. the ruling was immediately met with angry protests by hard line islamists. the only punishment for a blasphemer is beheading they sound and we won't obey this oppression. the leaders of one islamist party have even called for the death of the judges who ruled in favor of us and bebe's release. her story began in a rural pakistani village but what started here has stirred intense emotions around the world. in the past islamists have murdered some of those who spoke out in her favor. today's reactions show that their anger has diminished a little since her breast nearly ten years ago. yeah baby maddy that i'm going to

be on this from the heart of the human rights activist in pakistan who joins us from the capital islamabad welcome to team w i know that activists like yourself have been fighting for this result since oscar was sentenced in twenty ten today's news must have been very welcome. thank you very much yes it is a welcome news but the decision itself is explains and confirms some o'clock and sons which are about being to partition of the law to be using the law . and settling bustin in private school was and i think it's a very important decision that the supreme court ruling that they have given the sites there is an additional north by one of the judges on the on the panel and that tradition of north actually. pinpoints the issues with the existing law and the criminal procedure ordered by

a stone ok so the deal was and given that this was such a technically detailed ruling do you expect these blasphemy laws to change. that's an important question i believe and not in the short run i would say unfortunately but the thing is that these laws have been misused which takes it beyond that you know the law has problems but the law is misused which complicates and makes the issue more complex i do not particularly personally consider people who have taken to the street to be the real cause i mean of course is you don't deign to duction of such such a amendments in the constitution in the constitution provisions that the at and also the criminal procedure of court as i say by general allen that's marching through and the parliaments which said the subsequent fall of moon's. different parties were biased on since then and none of them actually took the issue

seriously so it is basically the lawmakers in biased on end a powerful moment in student of the state which who are responsible for the society and creating an issue of this magnitude all right so it is about as the way you say it it was a bad law applied badly let's talk about a sea of baby she's not technically a free woman but can she really sickly stay in pakistan. i'm not sure really because you know we haven't seen any of the blasphemy accused staying back in pakistan since even if they have not been. charged or even sentenced i mean or even try to i mean there were cases where people who had to go into exile and join the families in exile you know the whole family had to move into exile and unfortunately that is going to be the solution for

a. family with a taught him how to set kelly can islam about i.q. . well the united states is to send up to seven thousand troops to its border with mexico as a convoy of central american migrants travels north thousands of people have been walking for more than two weeks in search of a better life in the united states they're leaving honduras a country plagued by poverty sexual violence and gang brutality the w.'s are i to say as has been to the capital to goose the gulf to find out more about the life they're leaving behind. every friday armed gangs forced these young barbers to cut their hair on one occasion they were caught up in a shootout with police the barbers closed their cell phone to escape but lived in constant fear for their lives that's why they decided to abandon their homes and set off for the united states. gfi on the.

on the on the i had to go to the gang members to cut their hair. and let the gun but i couldn't keep doing it out of fear. but as i said if i spoke about it with my cousin and we decided to flee. i was more afraid and just want to work in peace. as well as violence economic problems are pushing people to migrate almost three quarters of all hundred and live in poverty according to some estimates and more than half of the self employed there live in extreme poverty. who can do and i'm your partner we are searching for a better homeland and opportunities to work where is not going to want to move our families forward people cannot bear the situation any longer the crisis has been getting worse for years and it's happening because of the political situation that's why people are fleeing now they have nothing to eat. but by i'm supporting

these migrants they're fleeing because there's no work here how can donald trump treat them as murderous. they know poverty in one judas is on the right even though the government has invested more in social programs. this woman has tried seven times to reach the united states only once did she make it across the border only to be deported but her situation is so desperate that she plans to try again. your book i just can't go on like this even if i could find a job i wouldn't earn enough to support. the babies just to learn. i have three children who need to be fed. on her last journey she was fleeing an abusive husband she took her three children on the arduous trip they suffered hunger and illness

eventually they were arrested by mexican authorities and deported. this is the by two and i reported it to the police and sought protection in mexico as i fled with my three children he notified the migration authorities and we spent eight months in detention. women suffer other types of violence they are victims of domestic and sexual abuse and are threatened by gangs who try to recruit their children. that's why twenty percent more women than men are fleeing honduras according to a migration expert. so live. they are pressured into prostitution or are forced to live with people who are involved in organized crime i mean. it's a symptom of the vulnerability of women. migrants or refugees

it's hard to draw a line in a country where desperation and danger go together for them escape seems the only option. now nato is holding its biggest military maneuver since the end of the cold war the aim is to simulate an attack on a member state by an aggressor the complex war game began last week and is called trident juncture and involves all twenty nine nato countries plus finland and sweden it's being held in norway the north atlantic and the baltic sea locations which are being interpreted as a signal to russia with relations still tense over moscow's annexation of crimea in twenty forty it's taken months to get everything in position fifty thousand combat troops and support personnel two hundred and fifty aircraft sixty five ships and ten thousand military vehicles moscow says it's an anti russian exercise doubly reporter lars shelton is with the troops and the tax. why.

i know. blowing up obstacles. and building bridges in just a few minutes to capabilities that the german army is bringing to try to juncture. but i these old school skills still needed in times of hybrid warfare and cyber attacks as a result after the ukraine crisis we saw that it is more important to change back from stability operations to hire tens of awful provisions of what we see and as an interest to move larger formations and heavy equipment and that's had not been trained and done with within the last ten years far from the russian border germany has set up its operational headquarters in the region hinterlands together with troops from france the netherlands belgium and. germany alone has brought ten thousand soldiers up here to norway and tanks weapons and other supplies it's

a massive logistical challenge designed to improve the speech with which nato members could in a worst case scenario come to each other's rescue. the huge influx of people and equipment more than fifty thousand soldiers from thirty one countries is a true test for the host nation norway. but the attitude among the public is there are only positive support for nato here is among the highest of all member states and not just because no way shares a border with russia they're not so afraid that they will be awarded nothing but that's a lot of things happening in the world so you never know how so nato is important for us of course well i believe russia has become a big threat in the last two years and i wouldn't i need we need to show where our power you know best war in the world and i know i could be part of it but it's not like it's something i think about but some of nato has tested. capacities are

hidden from the population. remote controlled weapon systems. self driving vehicles. military drones. so is this the future of the workfare all those capabilities have to be reversible it means that. the forces can rely on this capability and have to have to know how to do without those capabilities because. all the system can be jammed or destroy or taken by. someone else so the military have to remain reversible. and that's why the airlines are still banking on tanks and boots on the ground battling daunting logistics and the elements here in the frigid no wages climate. this is usually not

a big investment in the digital future for berlin as far as siemens is investing six hundred million euros in an innovation center in berlin with a goal of creating a german silicon valley siemens invited startups and scientists to help come up with a concept for the campus project is said to be the the largest single investment by an industrial company in berlin since the end of the second world war google just withdrew a similar proposal four billion last week due to massive protests in the local neighborhood and lack of political support. berlin pulled out all stops to get the signatures that would make this possible and bring siemens back to its birthplace in the german capital's northwest revitalizing a part of town that already bears the seaman's name. around six hundred million euros will be invested in berlin in the coming years that alone is a killer it will lead to a lot of infrastructure innovation job creation and all that will be an entirely

new image for the zener study campus bringing the area into a new age. it only took eight weeks to go from the idea to the signing the innovation center will house offices research labs and high tech production facilities for startups. and in a city currently locked in an accommodation crisis there are to be some fifty thousand square meters set aside for affordable housing. and you believe that means we're looking at how we can build a campus that isn't elitist but inclusive and that's something we've worked on and considered we looked at the most varied of locations around the world and say where can we really define the future of work and then we came back to have a place of origin. zeman stop in berlin is already home to the industrial giants largest production site with some ten thousand employees in new innovation center

is expected to be completed by twenty thirty. that's brand in frankfurt danielle google just abandon plans to build that huge startup campus in berlin why siemens now trying it and can they miss excess for. yeah google had a similar idea you're right but was very disappointed about extremely resistant berliners who were not in favor of this project well we also heard to see all of the kids are saying today that he is very frustrated that many people fly over to silicon valley to talk to start to talk to start up companies there when we have very good and smart people here in our country as well siemens is known for high tech and worldwide lead in technology but seems to be very keen to become even more innovative and digitalisation and connecting with a start up seems to be one of their new strategies maybe they are inspired by

companies like wire cards who have shown an impressive success story even kicking out call mastering out of the blue chip index dexia and frank for its also the c.e.o. pointed out today that they want to do a different compared to silicon valley that's why they also built apartments in this complex in berlin investors like the news the share price of the men's has been up here all day with the class of more than one and a half percent and they're thinking this is a good idea also to be. fit and ready for the future don't have been fine thank you. because you've missed it it's halloween today the holiday has its roots in an action pagan ritual that is now celebrated around the world science to us commercialization these days halloween is a multi-billion dollar industry not just for candy sales but movies pumpkins cost.

nine billion dollars. that's the revenue the national retail federation expects for halloween a record high. the line share goes to surprise costumes of literally any kind. like pop stars which is superheroes and monsters my by about three i go to multiple parties i have a thirty two costumes in my house and i always buy new outfits every day because i don't like the way. no one is safe during halloween not even doggies so funny when they do it because i like the little hands on them to. say look you know. historically how we know has been a big hit for companies the reason affordability compared to the winter holidays where the average american spends around a thousand dollars. is

a real bargain. and that's all your business is back to fill thank you will do a bit of sports and the second round on tuesday. and music faced seventy professionals regarding house and the eighteen time champions were expected to stroll to victory the way after a bit of a struggle byron munich needed to avoid a cup stumble against her fourth tier side and they could breathe easy in the eight minutes some nice work from and renata sanchez and wagner tapped into make it one nil. and just minutes later sanchez had the shirt and the ref pointed to the spot so much more of a converting to make it to nil. ten minutes later another penalty. this time sanchez stepped up but he hit the woodwork. gooding housing came out swinging after the break and they hit the net. kelvin longo with the cross the most

mire with the finish after that both teams were playing it safe on clay barely missing the chance to seal the victory in the seventy fifth minute a lackluster two one win puts byron through to the next round and it leaves tiago injured. and finally this being halloween we leave you with that spoke he creature from the deep deep seas this is a dumbo fish underwater research may be surprised to see the coast of california. octopuses got things at the front that resemble elephants. so the deep sea creature is named after the famous. scientists were treated to an impromptu live show want to see exploration vehicle and concepts this rally cited creature. go up to date.

what's the value of a human being. about ten euro seen purely chemical terms. in this brave new world we're constantly being analyzed and revalue. people nothing but commodities. what shall you do individual has. made in germany next. center of the conflict zone confronting the

powerful. after thirteen years in power and some damaging state election results are going to close all fourteen is visibly waning how no kind of boom to angola must cling on to calm my guess is most gun shy today one of the most famous and infamous politicians in germany conflict zone. in sixty minutes on g.w. . make your smart t.v. smarter with the d w force more to. find out more. dot com smart t.v. . in january twenty eighth. we met a chinese mother looking for her son after she was sold by human smugglers.

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