this is d w news live from berlin another head rolls at the trump white house attorney general jeff sessions hands in his resignation after being asked to step down by the u.s. president sessions removal could have far reaching implications for the russia approach the news comes as trump sells the midterm elections as an historic success for his republican party they retain control of the senate even though they lost the house. and dozens of kidnapped school children are freed by their captors in cameroon they were abducted by armed separatists earlier this week.

i'm simply so much going to thank you for joining us u.s. attorney general jeff sessions has been forced out of office by president trump the move comes straight after the midterm elections president trump has long expressed frustration with sessions after he recused himself from the investigation into links between trump's presidential campaign and russia no trouble tweet is that sessions chief of staff matt whitaker will replace him until a permanent successor is chosen the democrats are now concerned that session's removal may be a prelude to limiting or even ending the russian probe something they're warning would trigger a constitutional crisis. let's get the latest with my ash waiter she's standing by for us in washington hi maya was this expected. somewhat sumi there are people who have been watching the administration as it's

gone through its ups and downs for the past two years year and a half and unfortunately somewhat from the beginning of the administration jeff sessions really fell out of favor with president trump because as you said of his recusal from the russian investigators and we should note that this investigation is not something of which president trump is a fan he wants it shut down he wants it somehow gone and sessions has somewhat acted as a human shield standing between the president and the special counsel robert muller who's running that investigation and throughout the past year and a half trump has taken to twitter to criticize sessions calling him beleaguered very weak and generally just bringing him down so everyone knew that after the midterms maybe at some point sessions would be either fired or step down but the fact that it happened really mere hours after the results were certified the

ink was an even really dry on the numbers there and sessions was gone is pretty extraordinary why is there any indication why he was pushed out now at this moment . well there are some hypotheses that perhaps trump just wanted him gone to change the story after the republicans failed to hold on to the house of representatives but it really was sort of a slow on raveling between the two again this was something that people sort of knew was coming but the fact that it did happen so suddenly really is interesting it could be hypothesized that perhaps the president wanted him gone quickly after the midterms so that he would have as much time as possible to make what's called a recess appointment between now and when the new congress comes into office in january so that it doesn't have to be certified by this new democratic controlled house ok my the big question everyone's asking now is what does this mean for the

future of the moeller investigation into the russia scandal you know attorney acting attorney general a whitaker is expected to oversee this probe and he has been an outspoken critic of the investigation. absolutely this is the million dollar question right now whitaker himself as you said isn't a fan of the investigation either and there are there are hypotheses that whether it's whitaker or whoever else comes in to be the next attorney general could possibly be more sympathetic to trump's view over whether or not this investigation should be shut down and even if it's not shut down the train in general can throw up significant roadblocks to prevent moving forward or simply starve the investigation of money even if none of those things happened and then a general could also simply worry the results of the investigation not release them to the congress or to the public so

a lot of open questions here but what everyone is expecting is the next attorney general is going to be someone who is much more in line with the president in their thinking of how to deal with the investigation going to come back to you in a moment to talk about the midterm elections trump has been selling these midterms as a major success for his party the republicans look likely to expand their majority in the senate and also one key governor races the democrats managed to win back the house of representatives but it wasn't quite the big blue wave many of them were hoping to see some thinking on in typically bombastic fool posted of a historic victory in the midterms focusing primarily on the public in gains in the senate he largely shrugged off the democrats regaining the majority in the house of representatives though he did often on a sponsor of sorts now is the time for members of both parties to join to give. put partisanship aside and keep the american economic

miracle going strong but that offer of bipartisanship was quickly undercut the tone turned combative as the president tussle with reporters and he threatened government gridlock if democrats pursue investigations into his administration almost from the time i announced i was going to run they've been giving us this investigation fatigue it's been a long time they've had nothing zero you know why because there is nothing but they can play their game but we can play a better bracing for that contest is the democrats jubilant times leader nancy pelosi she said voters wanted her party to hold the trump of ministration to account and fact to deliver. american people have put want to put an end to unchecked g.o.p. control of washington restoring again the checks and balances and we as democrats are here to strengthen the institution in which we serve and not to have it be

a rubber stamp for the president trump said this but palosi also promised efforts to work with republicans who will strive for bipartisanship we believe that we have a responsibility to seek common ground for the u.s. these midterm elections marketing point but opinions differ on whether road goes from here many voters a boy by the surging representation for women and minorities well it's really exciting to see all the change and it's not just in new york it's all over the country so that's really empowering fighting to see that others less optimistic i definitely think they'll be sure that law get more animosity and sadly you know that's what tara the country's because on capitol hill to thoughts of turning to what lies ahead the twenty twenty presidential race starts now. while these midterms like the presidential vote in two thousand and sixteen really laid bare the deep divisions within the u.s.

around issues like immigration health care and trump suitability to be president to get a feel for the post-election split well away from washington let's hear from some voters in a small town in west virginia it's the morning after at all trees restaurant in buckhannon west virginia people here expect the democrats to make 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 that's really that's sad. but going on is trump country almost eighty percent of voters here cast their ballots for him two years ago when he promised to revive the coal industry they have no time here for what they see as urban democrat voters

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 the day after the midterms this remains a trump stronghold. on the other side of the aisle one of the key success stories of these midterm elections was a record number of women elected to the house of representatives especially democrats alexandria ocasio cortez's a young us woman ever elected to congress and she won her new york district with nearly eighty percent of the vote. these young voters are waiting in line outside a new york club not to dance the night away but to celebrate a new political phenomenon. she's a candidate for the people and that's what's really important to somebody who's out here fighting for us who's like us alexandria council cortez

a democrat is the youngest woman ever elected to congress for many of the twenty nine year old politician is the polar opposite of donald trump she supports universal health care immigrants rights free education and affordable housing and those were the key issues for the seventy eight percent of voters in her district who backed her deepest challenges are not left and right they are not red in blue they are top and bottom they are right and bra alexandria ocasio cortez is part of what's being called a rainbow waving congress with most seats going to women people of color and other minorities than ever before. and i think it's a profound message that in order for us to make sure that in order for us to make sure that our interests are being championed we need to have a seat at the table and that new voice might just shake up the democratic party's old guard to. right back to my irish waiter in washington

now my out looking at that you know one hundred women set to enter the house that's a remarkable number what does this tell us about the shifting dynamics of america right now. it definitely says a lot about really where these votes are coming from from the democratic party i mean it's not just that it's women who are coming in to the house of representatives it's one of the most diverse classes to ever take office there are native to the first two ever native american women. cortez as we've seen is the youngest woman ever elected to congress massachusetts is sending its first ever black woman to congress and that's really a much different picture than what you see of the republican side where everyone who won a republican seat yesterday was white and my you know taking a look at these midterms generally what do we take away in terms of how this leaves the president does he end up here stronger or weaker with these results

well we can certainly divine a lot from the press conference that he gave just a few hours ago where in he was rather come back out of with the press singing his usual tune about the media stoking divisions in the country this is something that we've seen before from the from the president attacking the media but he really seemed like he was boiling for a fight and it again we should say him firing jeff sessions today really did effectively help change the narrative moving away from talking about the democratic victory it's going to be a different president now whether or he's going to get more temperamental or less temperamental it will have to see how that plays out in the next days and weeks are you. following all the latest for us there in washington thank you well there was huge interest outside the u.s. in these midterm elections but now the results are in a few are expecting any major shift in trump's foreign policy and the kremlin said

it saw no immediate prospects for better ties between russia and the u.s. china refused to comment directly on the result muted reactions from brussels and berlin as well. decades of strong ties between germany and the u.s. have been strained since u.s. president donald trump was elected germany's foreign minister has often said poland should be the voice of moderation when trump oversteps the mark he reiterated this in his reaction to the u.s. midterms. in the past two years that it could librium in our partnership with the us has shifted for the forseeable future that will not change following these elections germany's far right rejects this little old germany now draws the red lines for us economic finance and trade policy they'll be laughing at that all the way from the potomac to tampa florida it's an absurd stance to take what he is going to put it in the german government is a dog's with trump on many issues these include the thousands of central american

migrants trekking towards the us border the un's refugee policy and the global compact for migration which germany supports now that the democrats control the house of representatives they can block or delay domestic policies they disagree with but that's not necessarily good for germany is. it could even make things more difficult in all the transatlantic issues we have a trade division of international responsibilities security issues and much more because the republicans have actually increased their power in the senate where much of the country's foreign policy is decided to have to give not one trump card on we have to expect that trump will continue the divisive hate based politics of his term until now withdrawing from international treaties as he has from the iranian nuclear deal and the paris climate agreement calm the united states elected a new congress but german u.s. relations are unlikely to get any less complicated all right helen has got a look now at the business world's reaction to the midterm.

after the mid-term elections in the united states investors are bracing for a period of gridlock with neither party likely to enact sweeping legislation economists believe president donald trump may not be able to cut taxes further but 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 byrd 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 of 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 trouble 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 will to the extent that trump wants to have 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 protests about it 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 is well now and with the democrats strengthened many believe russia could be hit even harder so is moscow concerned well we went to a russian and german resources conference in pots 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 about the 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 them 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 u.s. sanctions a study found and what's more they could threaten international projects like north

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. . this is a desert 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 years. but i believe it is or. the german economy minister peter i mean was stressed that germany is standing with russia at least on this project. or here in germany one of america's closest allies has launched her campaign to leave the chancellor's conservative c.d.u. party her name is a nick that come our also known as a k k the position of city leader is all important in germany the party leader is

almost guaranteed a chance to become the next chancellor. she is. anointed successor. and it was the chancellor's legacy that undergrad 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 machall. 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. come with state premier of zoloft and before i'm going to medical brought her to belin as secretary general of the c.d.u. in that position crime care about what has effectively been merkel's right hand woman but with many in the party disillusioned with merkel and her governing

coalition a 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. 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 text back to us to discuss three years later whether what happened in two thousand and fifteen was right or wrong. america's refugee policy has come under heavy criticism not least from one of crum current beaus 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 on tuesday along with three melts who is also standing both the 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 to the party conference on the seventh of december. let's catch up on some other stories making headlines around the world reports from pakistan suggest a christian woman recently freed from death row is out of jail local media say authorities are preparing to fly as the out of the country 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 rwanda is leading political dissidents has gone on trial today and were ghara is a vocal critic of president paul kagame a criticizing his a human rights record last year she was barred from running against him in

elections which he won with more than ninety eight percent of the vote prosecutors are seeking a twenty two year jail sentence for garra has dismissed the accusations. to cameroon now where ninety boarding school students have been released by their captors it's a merge the two groups were abducted from the school instead of one as it was originally reported one was taken on monday the other last week where port say the kidnappers are still holding two adult hostages it's the latest escalation by angle fold separatists in cameroon. parents of the children kidnapped on monday celebrate news of their release their relief obvious after an anguished wait. for me that what to do frankly if i did i went when i left or have been kidnapped you can imagine the stress that we are going through for displaced from. their children were taken from this school and become

a ring in their speaking region. video of the children in captivity was released by the men who held them. now free the peoples a still traumatized. in return for their release kidnappers have demanded the school to be shut down they say the separatists fighting for independence for their english speaking region from the majority french speaking country most of the schools in the region after been closed for two years because of the pressure of separatist group they have two reasons one they want to present the governments to get on the negotiation table and the second reason they say is that they don't want the kids to grow up under the french language system under the french school system. the children was still being held on tuesday when cameron is better and president was sworn in he didn't mention the

students but vowed to confront english speaking the fight says the president seventh term looks set to be marred by growing separatist on rest. just sports now and in football byron munich have edged closer to the champions league knockout stages with a two no win over eighty k. afghans robert love and dusky scored both goals to ease the pressure on the coach. elsewhere manchester city made easy work of shock are going nuts but they will have to wait to confirm their place in the last sixteen after hoffenheim the last gasp equaliser in a two all draw with leon real madrid also enjoyed a big win meanwhile magister united stand you ventus with two late goals cancelling out a strike from christiane over naldo. boxing superstar floyd mayweather has canceled a planned fight with japanese kickboxer tension not to kahwa saying he never agreed

to an official bout on monday mayweather appeared at a press conference in tokyo to announce the fight scheduled for new year's eve but the undefeated boxing world champion wrote on instagram that he was quote blindsided by the arrangement of thinking it was only for a small group of wealthy spectators mayweather added he'd never heard of until this week. formula one has announced that a new grand prix will be held in the vietnamese capital of hunter why starting in two thousand and twenty it will join already well established asian races in singapore china and japan the street race to the heart of hanoi is the first new grand prix to be confirmed since us owners at liberty media took over the sport last year. and to volley celebrations are now in full swing in india it's a religious festival celebrating the victory of light over darkness and the northern city of new york has put on a record breaking to volley this year more than three hundred thousand lamps were

lit sammul tenuously in a display that a set a new world record deval is observed by hindus sikhs and jains at this year's festival will continue until friday. our modern of our top stories here in d w u.s. attorney general jeff sessions has been forced out of his strong session says he is stepping down as president donald trump's request and meanwhile person trump has attributed republican successes in the midterms to his campaigning trumps republicans lost control of the house but they did hold their majority in the senate. thanks for watching t.v. we'll be back in thirty minutes.

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