this is the w. news live from berlin tonight u.s. president trump 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 return control of the house of representatives tonight trump is issuing a warning to democrats not to trying to check his power also coming up we go on the

road with a caravan of migrants from central america heading towards the u.s. and we asked how they're reacting to trump's decision to send troops to the border with mexico and the woman handpicked by germany's chancellor to take her place today the woman known as a k k officially entered the race to become the next head of the c.d.u. party will she be able to fend off the other two contenders for the top junk. i'm brinkerhoff it's good to have you with us we have breaking news this hour word what appears to be the first cabinet reshuffling at the white house following those midterm elections yesterday u.s. attorney general jeff sessions says that he is resigning and this at the request of president trump let's take the story now to the u.s. capitol washington d.c.

our correspondent maya swager she is in washington my had this is coming the day after the midterms what do you make of this. this was something that had been rumored for a while people have been guessing whether or not sessions going to be out after the midterms and if so how long after the midterms and looks like we now have the answer to that question it took barely hours after the inquiries dried on the paper as to what the results would be for him to step down but what this now is is a way for the president to not only play sessions were play sessions with someone who trump might view as someone who is more sympathetic to the way he wants to run the justice department and that particularly pertains to the ongoing investigation into this alleged meddling by russia into the twenty sixteen election led by special counsel robert muller we knew sessions recused himself when this

investigation began a move that donald trump was openly very. how can we best describe it he certainly didn't approve of this recusal is he publicly humiliated sessions because of that so did sessions did he jump or was he pushed out of office. you know publicly humiliated him not just then but many many times that seemingly random intervals over the past year and a half he has been calling him beleaguered a very weak and various tweets and it sort of became a tell tale sign for a lot of journalists and washington watchers as to when whatever trump was tweeting about sessions it meant that maybe something was about to happen but the russian investigators and we have to sort of parse the words that session used in his resignation letter he said at your request i'm submitting my resignation which looks like it might be him going peacefully but not necessarily going willingly.

all right my ass waiter stand by we're going to come back to you in just a moment to talk about those midterm elections u.s. president donald trump says that republicans defied history in those midterm elections yesterday in his first news conference since the vote from said that his vigorous campaigning had allowed republicans to expand their majority in the senate but the democrats they have taken control of the house of representatives the first time in eight years the president more 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 they could 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. that certainly a change in tone there from the u.s. president let me you know let's consider that the conciliatory tone there but the president also had a very tense exchange of verbal altercation today with several reporters during that press conference at the white house take a listen. but that's not there are 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 now when you report fake news which c.n.n. does a lot you are the enemy of the people that are there we hear once again the president calling the media fake news the enemy of the people we have to preface all of this by saying that the reporter there had asked about the way the president had characterized the caravan of migrants who are approaching the united states that

seem to set the president off my ocd do exchanges like this i mean for the whole world to see what do they do in terms of undermining trumps attempts to find a more measured tone. yeah an interesting contrast there him saying not just yesterday but the day before leading up to the midterm saying well i'd like to maybe take a softer tone in the future but maybe i don't have a choice perhaps he is trying to reach out to the democrats saying ok now i have to work with them but we've seen him insult the media before this is not necessarily new for the president but he really seems like he's boiling for a fight here trying to square with the fact that the republicans are no longer really single party rulers in washington d.c. anymore now of course the republicans didn't make gains in the senate which is nothing to sniff at and that does solidify their power there but this is we're watching trump trying to readjust his his priorities here his strategy here and

lashing out at the media in fine form while doing so and we really have to talk about the performance of women in the midterm elections this is being called the year of the women they won the vast majority of the house seats that the democrats were able to flip to take a listen to what nancy pelosi the u.s. democratic house leader what she said just a few moments ago about women in politics yesterday in their elected an extraordinary class a dynamic and diverse democratic ten. women led the way to victory with at least thirty new women coming to the congress if not not exciting and there's still some races that are not finalized yet so there could be more its abilities peaking verso for the first time in history there will be a hundred women in the house of representatives next year what is the same about

the shifting power dynamics in the u.s. as well as the mood right now. not just women but a incredibly diverse group of women who are seeing the first two muslim congresswoman one of the first black congressman from massachusetts the first to native american women all of this is something that the women's march women in america especially women who jobs of course support president trump have been waiting for really sense january twenty first twenty seventeen the day after president trump was inaugurated and we saw that huge women's march sweep not only washington d.c. but many places around the world and a lot of this we could say is in direct backlash to a lot of the the rhetoric the policy is the type of administration that president obama has been running a lot of people say it's very anti women very anti diversity anti l.g.b. tea and all of this is from a lot of corners a rebuke to that worldview and those policies will have to see if they are able to

consolidate that power and make something out of it that's right everyone already talking about the election in twenty twentieth's or correspondent yes we are on the story for us tonight in washington michael thank you well the u.s. congress is divided much of the united states and to get a feel for the post-election deval you get away from washington we have this view now from a small town in west virginia it's the morning after trees restaurant in buckhannon west virginia people here expect the democrats to make trump's life difficult especially if they launch official investigations into his behavior. there's not to be an improvement we're not going to be able to the president still not going to be able to move this country the way he wanted to and when i say move it i mean better the democrat side is just going to continue until

they finally break him and it that's and that's saying it. but going on is trump country almost eighty percent of voters have a cost that balance for him two years ago when he promised to revive the coal industry they have no time here for what they see as democrats photos and we're a diverse country but in some of the metropolitan areas where people depend on social services they vote more socialist than they do you know conservatives so that's why some of those areas went blue two years after the presidential election and a day off for the midterms this remains a trump stronghold all right we're joined now by oliver smithies executive director of the german american fulbright commission that commission promotes mutual understanding between germany and the u.s. through academic and bi cultural exchanges it's good to have you know the program

we love full disclosure here i have to say i at one point i was a fulbright scholar way back in the day it's a good program let me ask you what does this election in the results of this election what what do they mean for the work that you do. well i'm happily in a business that is not really geared to election cycles that's the good news so every year we have about seven hundred students scholars teachers journalists that we like to exchange all in all over more than sixty five years up to forty six thousand so this is independent of any administration left or right democrat or republican so this means that i with great interest i'm watching this election but i know that tomorrow will continue the way that we have done it in the last few weeks but you don't you have been worried when drunk came to power there was all the talk about radical cuts in the budget for programs such as the fulbright program are you breathing a sigh of relief after the midterms of me do things look no better that.

well it's a good question but i think i've learned something that's actually by giving information on both sides learn so what i learned is that those cuts that i've been asked about for quite a while that those cuts really pertain to drums idea of really cutting government cutting the state it has nothing to do with full right as such he just was of a smaller government so every year that stuff happens in february he cuts all kinds of programs that he thinks would lead to a smaller government but then we start arguing then we come to the hill we advocate for the program we show up with people like you alumni grantees and we go up on the hill and we explain what we're doing and then in at the end of the year by october we're using restored back to our original program size and i would actually add a second comment that i found very interesting that actually as far as the german american commission is concerned with the biggest program worldwide for fulbright

as i said more than fifty percent of all fullbright has come from the american program now i understand that some in the administration have even known up to our coming to the hill that actually foreign countries like germany is paying quite a bit to fund those programs these are by national programs so this is not just an american problem it's a bi national program in my case. instrument funding in french cases france funding more than one hundred million dollars out of three hundred forty thousand million dollars of being funded by foreign countries. over schmitz executive director of the german american fulbright commission which is really certainly appreciate your time tonight and your comment there too about other countries or just germany also paying in financing this program you know that's a good answer to what we've heard many times from the u.s. president particularly regarding you know pay your own way thank you very much you know what happened. well a caravan of migrants headed towards the u.s. is now resting in the mexican capital immigration it was

a key issue of donald trump's campaigning for the midterm elections with the president linking migrants to crime he also ordered thousands of u.s. troops to the border with mexico or some of the migrants are now considering whether to complete their journey or to seek asylum where they are in mexico our reporter i tore science has been accompanying them and since this report. gonzalo is from honduras there his life was dominated by violence and poverty he's gay and he's a strange from his family who refused to accept him. i suffered a lot of discrimination in my home country from within my family too because of who i am because i'm gay i was even physically attacked. gonzalo saw no alternative but to flee he's decided to stay here in mexico where he's applied for asylum. there are

a lot of people like me there are people who don't want to go to the states of and prefer to stay in mexico. n.g.o.s have set up an information center for migrants here housed in a tent u.n.h.c.r. says that the help provided here in mexico city for migrants making the trek to the u.s. border has led many to change their plans even though i know that people are applying for asylum here in mexico city but to give you an idea of this chiapas has received around thirty two hundred applications in the past fifteen days that. some aid organizations expect around twenty percent of those making the trek to the border to choose to stay in mexico on a from el salvador is one of those she's traveling with her eight year old son and knows what problems she could face this is the fourth time she's tried to make it to the u.s. . was. changed when we reached mexico because

we received help from the government here. they help people make a future for themselves and that's why i'm staying here in mexico city was. eight hundred kilometers to the north this is the most dangerous part of the journey volunteer helpers say there is little to no transport here and organized crime is rife. and mexico city there are villages everywhere but in the north the distance between the settlements is bigger and it's colder the climate is different there it's good that they have different options and the change of government in mexico means they are more open to their fellow central americans as an innocent americans president andres manuel lopez obrador has promised jobs for the migrants but many of them are suspicious of the pledge believing it to be an attempt to break up the caravan.

they want to break us apart they offer us jobs and asylum are you but they've been making those promises for years and have never kept them and. that's why so many migrants are determined to press on to the u.s. border they're regrouping in mexico city and gathering their strength for the reception president trump has warned they will receive there he's sending troops to stop them entering the u.s. . oh we are pressing your hand where we are stronger together and we will do everything we can to get to the united states. but you're good i want to go on but it's too risky to stay here. much or yes. i'm going to cross the border and if i have to break the law to do that but then i'm sorry but i have no other future you see. a future that most of the migrants in the caravan say they cannot

see in mexico. after the midterm elections in the united states investors are bracing for a period of gridlock with need of party likely to enact sweeping legislation economists believe president donald trump may not be able to cut taxes further it also means that his current tax cuts can't be rolled back they believe the gridlock in washington will keep a check on some of trump's more disruptive market measures like the trade war with china some point out that the u.s. economy often forms well when control of congress is split between republicans and democrats. and earlier i spoke to michael but a professor of economics at the humboldt university of berlin for his take. well since he seems to have lost the house he's looking for cooperation now a confrontational trump will no longer work and i think if he wants to pass any

legislation with the house of representatives he's going to have to reach the hand across the aisle and try to. pick up some of the initiatives that the house is interested in if he then doesn't get the approval of the house of representatives and there's a gridlock in legislation what could that essentially mean for the health for the fed the development of the u.s. economy will go the u.s. economy is doing very well right now it's growing very fast and i think if anything the economy does not need another tax cut and trim has already intimated that maybe that was on the table maybe a middle class tax cut to make the middle class happier because most of the tax cuts fell on wealthier people i think that's off the table now i think that's probably a good thing for the u.s. economy probably cooled it cooled off a little bit there are other initiatives that the congress might be interested in the house democrats are interested in infrastructure spending and maybe president trying to be interested in some sort of compromise in this direction so that's one domestic flashpoint issue of course internationally speaking with also been talking

a lot about trump's trade policies what can we now expect in the can we expect a fed expansion all of that trade war and what will the result of this mid-term election essentially mean for countries like germany well to the extent that trump wants to have a congressional action on any of this on these policies for example the new nafta treaty the u.s. m.c.a. treaty or some new china initiative we'll have to have the cooperation of congress i think congress might be more likely to move along with a lot of what he's been promoting but one has to be worried being outside of nafta side of the u.s. canada mexico training area because that will affect the german market and the action towards china will also affect the german market because the chinese producers will try to sell them to europe and that's going to affect germany which is an exporter country professor betty thank you very much thank you. well off to

the midterm elections that's when u.s. politicians said they consider the bill from the hell alone proposal that would carry plenty of new economic sanctions against russia and of course off to the midterm elections well now and with the democrats strengthened many believe russia could be hit even harder so is moscow consent well we went to russian and german resources conference in pasta here in germany to find out. it's a long day of speeches and pennell talks networking and some more networking business as usual it seems but what's about to looming threat of a new set of u.s. sanctions on moscow. we have to wait and see what sanctions are coming or if they're coming at all and if they do come we'll find a convincing solution unfold. but the mood among russian businesses is less relaxed roughly nine out of ten fear us sanctions

a study found and what's more they could threaten international projects like not stream to the nine point five billion euro gas pipeline under construction between russia and germany european investors might pull out to avoid getting penalized by the u.s. . says it is that the project could be delayed and take longer than planned. but it's a completely commercial project which is profitable for everyone involved so i'm convinced it will be completed successfully you know because. it is all in. the german economy minister. stressed that germany is standing with russia at least on this project. well back of egypt right now for an update on the case of us even this right there is some new developments reports from pakistan suggest that the christian woman recently released from death row is now alba jail and on the move

but right now her status remains unclear some officials say that ozzy of b.b. has just been transferred to a facility in islamic bond for security reasons but local media say that authorities are preparing to fly her out of the country the last week pakistan's supreme court acquitted her of blasphemy charges that triggered violent protests by islamist groups who want to see her publicly executed. in cameroon seventy nine boarding school students who were kidnapped by separatists have been released reports say that the kidnappers are still holding three adult hostages from the school now the children aged between eleven and seventeen were seized early monday morning in mendo that's the capital of the north west region of the country no single group says that it carried out the kidnapping but separatist militias have been calling for a school boycott but one of german chancellor angela merkel's closest

allies has officially launched her campaign to lead the chancellor's conservative c.d.u. party america 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 crump current power who's also known as a k k is seen as the most centrist of the three main candidates who are vying for the job. she is uncle americans and knowing to success that. and it was the chancellor's legacy that and the great cram carabao up on that first 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 angela merkel. but this is also the end of an era that has changed and shaped the c.d.u. in

a very special and lasting way the big. comeback or about was state premier of zala and before i'm going to marco brought her to belin a secretary general of the c.d.u. in that position crown carabao has effectively been merkel's right hand woman but with many in the party disillusioned with merkel and her governing coalition had challenge will be to step out of merkel's 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 and you know. when somebody knocks on our door and we take their 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 answers to but they don't xpect as

to discuss three years later whether what happened in two thousand and fifteen was right or wrong. america is refugee policy has come under heavy criticism not least from one of crime current powers contenders for the party leadership and spawn who currently serves as health minister and her cabinet met with c.d.u. members in north rhine-westphalia on tuesday along with mats who is also standing. both are seen as more conservative than the chancellor and have vowed to move the c.d.u. further to the right the new leader will be elected at a party conference on the seventh of december. and here's a reminder of the top stories that we're following for you u.s. attorney general jeff sessions has been forced out of his job sessions says that he is stepping down at president trump's request he has been the target of trump's attacks since recusing himself from the investigation into links between trump's

presidential campaign and russia. the u.s. president almost wrong has attributed republican gains in the midterm elections to his campaigning republicans wall street troll of the house but increased their majority in the u.s. senate. you're watching news why vote from berlin after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around for that.

after a year in the hof in power in the french president emanuel is getting more and more unpopular nothing he does seems to stop the slide my guest here in london is the french m.p. alexander holroyd a member of the president's all mushed party. he has a seat on the parliament's finance committee how can the president boost to see him reach the head of crucial elections to the european parliament next year.

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the teenage not forgotten the w.'s november focus. after the u.s. midterm election democrats are now in a position to check the power of the u.s. president his response today don't even think about it as for donald trump's attacks on the media well the election apparently changed nothing tonight what does all of this mean for europe how to deal with your closest ally that has a president that you'd prefer to keep at a safe distance i'm bored golf in berlin this is.