this is deja vu news live from berlin tonight u.s. president double trumpet lashing out at the media and taking credit for republican wins in yesterday's historic midterm election history really we'll see what a good job we did in the final couple of weeks in terms of getting some tremendous people over the finish line they really are tremendous people but democrats are hailing their own victory they reach took control of the house of representatives tonight trump issuing a warning to democrats not to try to check his power also coming up the woman

hand-picked by germany's chancellor to follow her officially enters the race to replace the chancellor as head of the christian democratic union party will she be able to fend off the two other leading contenders for the top job and in champions league football byron munich are trying to secure their spot in the last sixteen after some poor recent performances they are under fire nick is in need of a win we'll preview the map which. i've heard golf it's good to have you with us u.s. president double trumpet says that republicans defied history in the midterm elections yesterday in his first news conference since the vote from said that his vigorous campaigning allowed republicans to expand their majority in the. senate

but the democrats they have taken control of the house of representatives a divided congress is the result the president warned democrats not to go after him in his administration now that they have the power to subpoena but he also reached out to democrats saying that he believed that they can work together hopefully we can all work together next year to continue delivering for the american people including on economic growth infrastructure trade lowering the cost of prescription drugs these are some of the things that the democrats do want to work on and i really believe will be able to do that i think we're going to have a lot lot of a lot of reason to do. all right let's get reactions so far now to the u.s. president's speech outside the white house in washington is our bureau chief alexander phenomena it evening to you alexander after a long night today a long press conference what was your biggest takeaway from what the u.s.

president had to say today. we said today a defiant donald trump a president who refused to acknowledge that midterm election results are a major a setback for him as president and for his party a president who was bragging about heath's role in the midterm elections indicated that he deserves old the credit for maintaining the republican control of the senate and who was mocking those republican candidates who lost a race is saying that they did lose because they didn't embrace him so it was all about choice however we also have to add as you sat that he tried to reach oh it's to the democrats stressing that he is ready to work together with them on the issues that are important to the country all right so we've got drawn they're trying to be in part conciliatory but he had

a very tense exchange with journalists there during their press conference particularly a c.n.n. reporter let's take a listen there that's on your i very rude person the way you treat sarah huckabee is horrible and the way you treat other people are horrible you shouldn't treat people that way. but when you when you report fake news no when you report fake dues which c.n.n. does a lot you are the enemy of the people go ahead mr president over the course you know we have to preface that by saying that jim acosta the c.n.n. reporter was simply asking the president about how he characterized the caravan of immigrants moving towards the southern border of the united states and alexandra do exchanges like this do they undermine any attempt that the president has made to strike a more measured tone. definitely and

what we saw in this press conference particularly in this q. and a part of the press conference is not only the president arguing with sin and but also with reporters only trying to ask questions at one point he even told a reporter to sit down and not to ask a question he apparently didn't like and the fact that he is blaming the media or what he is calling the whole style media coverage of his come pain for the loss of the house is very telling his fight with the media is ongoing he's blaming the media and for him it is the enemy of the american people exactly and he used those very words in the me of the people we have to talk of course about the performance of women in this election this is being called the year of the women and the bass majority of the house seats that the democrats were able to flip were taken by women take a listen to what nancy pelosi the u.s. democracy house leader what she just said about that yesterday in american selected

an extraordinary class dynamic and diverse democratic candidate women led the way to victory that least thirty new we knew coming to the congress and that not excited and there's still some races that are not finalized yet so there could be more impressive numbers there i mean for the first time in history there will be a hundred women in the u.s. house next year what does this say about shifting dynamics in the country alexander and what about the mood right now. well i think that the this is a culmination of two years of anger frustration and activism driven by women who were at the polls by the president's tromp his rhetoric his rhetoric his poll the seas and these women are now about to change the face of you as

a politics and i think that we can say that this is a very encouraging sign a lot of our washington bureau chief alexander phenomenon the story force outside the white house alexander thank you. so here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world and acclaimed russian film and theater director has appeared in a moscow court on embezzlement charges karylle several bring a call is accused of busy using more than two million euros in state funding for a theater project his supporters say he's the target of a crackdown on artistic independence being conducted by president vladimir putin authorities in peru say that a former head of the national police force is under arrest accused of involvement in a baby trafficking ring the police chief is among fifteen people suspected of selling babies and children taken from poor women a gynecologist and a pediatrician were also detained in the early morning police raids ballots are

being counted in madagascar are after voters went to the polls for presidential elections today the vote has been marred by controversy over campaign spending and allegations of corruption the candidates include the incumbent as well as two former presidents is expected to go to a runoff vote next month. well here in germany one of chancellor angela merkel's closest allies has officially launched her campaign to lead the chancellor's conservative c.d.u. party miracle announced last week that she is stepping down from the job as party leader and whoever succeeds her will be well positioned to become germany's next chancellor and a great crowd of the current power he's also known as a k k is seen as the most centrist of the three main candidates vying for the role . she is on the americans and knowing to success.

and it was the chancellor's legacy that the great crime carabao up on that focused in his speech is just as in the. this is the end of an era in which there are many personal relationships as many personal experiences that i connect with macros . but this is also the end of an era that has changed and shaped the seaview year in a very special and lasting way in the. come about was state premier of zante before i'm going to macro bruta beilin as secretary general of the c.d.u. in that position come come about has effectively been macos right hand woman but with many in the party disillusioned with medical and have governing coalition had challenge will be to step out of medical shadow and shop and her own profile. today she said it was time to open

a new chapter. yet she refused to criticize the chancellor's controversial immigration policy saying the challenge now is to find solutions. when somebody knocks on our door and we take the men and give them protection if they then abuse that protection to commit crimes here how should we deal with that and those are the questions that people expect honesty but they don't text back to us to discuss three is lazy whether what happened in two thousand and fifteen was right or wrong without. macas refugee policy has come under heavy criticism not least from one of come come about as contenders for the party leadership. on who currently serves as health minister and her cabinet met with c.d.u. members in north rhine-westphalia and she's day along with metz who is also standing both the seen as more conservative than the chancellor and have vowed to

move the c.d.u. to the right the new leader will be a that today the party conference on this seventh of december. with the pakistani christian woman at the center of a religious and legal store remains behind bars it has been one week since the country's highest court ordered that ozzy of b.b. be released from death row the blasphemy case highlights the dangers faced by christians and their supporters in pakistan and her lawyer he's fled the country to europe saying that he feared for his life and bibi's husband has appealed for the family to be granted asylum abroad hard line islamists have been out on the streets calling for his wife's execution since the verdict was a nail. days of anger as islamist protesters demand the death penalty for this woman. bibi

a member of pakistan's christian minority spent eight years on death row for allegedly insulting the prophet mohammad during an argument with her coworkers. she was eventually acquitted but remains in custody under police protection. bibi's is not the first case of persecution against pakistan's christians less than two percent of the population christians have faced repeated attacks by islamist extremists in recent years. in april a gunman shot four people dead in this church in quetta. i am. the worst attack in recent history occurred in the spring of two thousand and sixteen at an easter celebration on a playground in the hoar a suicide bomber claimed the lives of seventy people and wounded over three hundred more. christians are legally permitted to practice their religion in pakistan

but many feel they are at the mercy of the country's controversial blasphemy laws the punishment for insulting the prophet muhammad or mishandling the koran is dead so far no one has been executed under these laws yet bibi's acquittal does not mean she is safe to end the protests surrounding her case the government struck a deal with islamist groups bibi could now be barred from leaving the country where hardliners have vowed to take her life her family says they will never feel safe and pakistan. are some soccer news nailbiter munich can secure their place in the last sixteen of the champions league when they host greek side kate athens tonight but the german champions are in a bit of a slump and need a win in europe ahead of a big weekend showdown with dork. he's accused of not having a plan b. when the going gets tough nico kovacs knows his job is on the line. the problems aren't as pronounced in the champions league at least not yet by and have

yet to lose a game but they also have yet to convince for those of us in the studio. the physical work we put in is not always rewarded in the way we'd like but as a coach or is a player you have to try to stay positive of course i can say this was in good or that wasn't good but believe me that won't increase my players' confidence. neither will conceding a late goal in the eighty ninth minute to be exact against frye work in the been listening on saturday that's more points dropped. there's even talk of a rebellion inside the buy and camp some of the senior players unhappy with their reduced playing time others are cutting the coach some slack. if we're the ones on the pitch we're responsible when i see a match like against freiburg where we were ahead in the seventy fifth minute at home you shouldn't give that results away and that's nothing to do with the coach

exhaust players who are on the pitch. even if the players i thought it's the coach that always pays the price in football. i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news followed by the day but to see that. we make up oh but we quantize of out of that and out but to we all this episode officer. bean one to she the continents future to be part of it and join us youngsters as they share their stories their dreams and their challenges the seventy seven percent platform for africa shark.