this is it every news line from girl in america wakes up to another mass shooting. it's a horrific scene in america there is blood everywhere a former navy veteran opens fire inside a crowded california bar killing at least twelve people many of them college students also coming up. what's next for the rush of probe questions abound after u.s. attorney general jeff sessions is pushed out and president trump gives the job to

a man who is openly hostile to the russia investigation. plus a truce gender woman's fight for acceptance and love but on despite winning a landmark a legal case dados says the only place she feels safe is inside her own four walls in groups. and a man a mean for europe's top job germany's months they've or is a frontrunner in the race to succeed mr europe clued you in as european commission president but not everyone's dancing as his election marks a move to the right for europe's conservatives. hark thank you so much for your company everyone. always start our broadcast with a tragic. akin to fort lee in an all too familiar story another mass shooting in

the u.s. overnight a gunman walked into a california bar and opened fire killing twelve people the club in the los angeles suburb of thousand oaks was holding a night for college students and most of the victims are thought to be young people police have now identified the gunman as david long a twenty eight year old navy veteran. young people helping the injured friends and fleeing for their lives. officers were called to a bar hosting a country music night for around two hundred college students a gunman had opened fire the sound of shots caught on tape outside. i saw a gentleman walk in a black outfit so you could disguise her glasses black shirt and. pulled out

a gun started shooting at the bar you know having fun dancing and always any you're killing the baby making of a gun shot and it just started going crazy over thora teaser investigating the scene to identify the dozens of victims they found the suspect dead they're also searching his home and his social media for clues on a motive. among the dead a sheriff's deputy who tried to intervene. in a sort of best with the hospital. oh about an hour. it's a horrific scene in there there was blood everywhere. in the aftermath of the attack people are grappling with the pain of that community being targeted and want to become an all too familiar story everywhere people. are at let's now speak to jason that camp atone here he is

a reporter covering the story for us in los angeles so good evening jason what more have you learned about what happened in thousand oaks. what we're hearing and sources are telling me that about eleven thirty local time last night with a far fact actual of college students the gunman is twenty eight year old ian long that's what ventura county sheriffs are telling us stormed into the bar after shooting and killing the doorman and was starting to randomly select his targets he apparently was using a glock twenty one forty five caliber handgun with an extended magazine now the gun is legal in california but the extended magazine is not legal and after shooting a couple of people in the shots went out the shots fired went out to local authorities and even turn a county sheriff sergeant bursts in the door to try and stop the gunman the gunman then shot him multiple times and after he was dead the second wave of first

responders showed up and then that's when they found the gunman dead apparently there are some reports that say it was from a self-inflicted gunshot wound but we're not exactly sure at this time we're not sure at this time jason are there any clues as to the motive of the gunman. no but what we do know and this is coming from the ventura county sheriff is that he lived in the area reportedly with his mother some sources say that he used his mother's car to drive to the bar and then on top of that investigators are now on the premise of his home they're searching that house now they're also searching his social media all right chase in the camper tony reporting for us from l.a. thank you thank you. and we stay in the u.s. where i can and shake up is sending shock waves through washington d.c. president trump has fired jeff sessions as attorney general there working

relationship was seriously strained after sessions were curious himself from the rusher probe well now democrats and even some republicans are worried about what is removal could mean for that investigation. jeff sessions now the former u.s. attorney general fired by donald trump applauded by his staff as he leaves the justice department the attorney general oversees the department and it's the department that's in charge of special counsel robert miller's investigation into russia's possible role in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election an election that put trump into office. thank you very much believes u.s. intelligence agencies believe russia try to sway the election in favor of trump and special counsel is investigating but the trump and his aides colluded. sessions replacement is matthew whitaker he's openly critical of the investigation and he may have the power to end it you're going to get it with hiring and firing attorney

generals is commonplace in american politics but rarely has it been so controversial. well that story isn't the only one getting everybody's attention in washington right now in an unprecedented move president donald trump has decided to revoke the press pass of c.n.n. steve white house correspondent jim acosta restricting the journalists access to the white house all this after the reporter tried to ask donald trump a question during a news conference yesterday. in the terms that it is there we go well if you want as president that this curve in this heated exchange caused a seasoned journalist access to the west wing. that's a white house intern trying to grab the microphone from c.n.n.'s jim acosta he had challenge president trump about his rhetoric towards migrants and then turned his attention to the investigations into russian election meddling. because the trump

lashed out at acosta as president are you worried about indictments coming down to watch c.n.n. should be ashamed of itself having you working for them you are a rude terrible person you shouldn't be working for c.n.n. . the white house then accused the cost of placing his hands on the aide and suspended his press pass. that's a that's one of the other folks that's enough for me but c.n.n. says there reporter is being punished for challenging the president the news network has called the move a threat to democracy coming down and there were other moments of tension between the president and journalists basel i'm not a big fan of yours either so i understand to be out over the course of you just sit down place this standoff marks an escalation of hostilities between the trumpet ministration and the media a lot you are the enemy of the people go ahead mr president over the course over the course of the last several days of the campaign sir it's such

a hostile media it's so said you asked me about no you rudely interrupted him you rudely interrupted him. scott griffin is deputy director of the international press institute indiana and he joins us now to talk more about this controversial incident that took place yesterday a very good evening sir another round between president trump and the press sadly is not something new it's a never ending story what makes this particular incident stand out. well as you said this has been going on president aggression aggressive rhetoric towards the press is nothing new however with sufficient to expel essentially a journalist from the white house by asking aggressive questions essentially is it is quite an escalation and i want to point out something that you know one of the most disturbing aspects of this incident is not the expulsion itself but there will be in which the white house has tried to distort the incident by among other things

with leasing a video that was apparently a doctor by the conspiracy side in four wars and use that basically to attack a jim acosta's credibility but it's using i'm of grabbing inappropriate leave this earth young female intern who is trying to take the microphone so this is really actually one of the most disturbing aspects of the incident. and that's very serious indeed mr governor what is behind president trump's attacks on the media is there a strategy. well on the one hand i mean i think it's clear that president trump doesn't appreciate the hole that the media ought to play head on baucus is so that's one thing on the other hand the question of whether the strategy behind this i do think is the strategy behind it and that is basically to attack the credibility and the integrity of journalists who are covering the white house who are covering important issues and by doing so basically attempt to blunt the impact

of the work that they do if you look around the world you know dictators authoritarian leaders often resort to sort of hard tactics against the press jailing. you know starting a criminal case against the interest chosen a different path which is the sort of take away the media's power and like i said this case attacking journalists credibility and causes people to question what these journalists are doing to cause them not to believe what the press to say and so it's really a concerted. attempt to basically blunt the power of the press. by making people not believe what the press is saying more all right so there is a very deliberate attempt there on the part of the president why aren't the international implications. yeah i think people maybe don't realize that the united states the first amendment this has been a pillar. of the fight for free expression and press freedom around the world for

decades and to have a u.s. president behaving this way towards charge all rests. essentially emboldens far worse far worse than the there is far worse dictators to do the same thing to journalists but with potentially much worse pods acquaintances and it's very disturbing and it takes away basically the sort of. protective role that the us once played when it comes to fundamental rights across the world and the we're just beginning i think to see the potential implications of that for work like ours who work in countries all around the world you know just a few just a week ago or so nigerian army pilot comes rhetoric to defend its use a force against you know the stone throwing protesters so it's really difficult to to overstate the possible they're here to occasions of this. scott griffin deputy

director of the international press institute in vienna we appreciate you joining us and sharing your insights with us. and i am going to hand you over now to helena because a big name a german company puts in an underwhelming performance there we're talking about siemens it's not exactly yes spock when we take a look at those results the industrial powerhouse posting its fourth quarter figures on thursday of course the group makes industrial electronics medical equipment trains power plants you name it and it does business everywhere making it especially vulnerable to geopolitical risks not surprisingly the past quarter has been a mixed bag. siemens is no longer profiting from its power plant division which has now started to lose money thousands of jobs have been slashed as the company's power and guess division is restructured itself an expensive undertaking siemens that now says profits for the last quarter slumped forty six percent our own gas is

sliding into an hour and gas market is very challenging there are structural overcapacity and aggressive competition which creates a lot of pricing pressure especially for the big gas turbines. other divisions performed much better at around eighty three billion euros sales this fiscal year were slightly up on last year net profit also increased despite the crisis in the power and gas unit siemens says it expects the upward trend to continue or. they might honey spoke with a siemens c.e.o. joe kayser about a couple of particular particular geopolitical risks including saudi arabia and where the case is a decision to pull out of the saudi invest a conference over the murder of a journalist cause siemens a twenty billion dollars major power plant deal in the kingdom. the fact is that

we did not sign a significant deal which was worth north of twenty billion that's true but obviously you know. things go as taiko and i've always made it clear we had a very reliable partner competent partner of the kingdom of saudi arabia we have more than thirty million people mostly young people in the kingdom there has been a lot of reforms which have been initiated so i think we need to look at all factors the things which really really well in the kim going to be shunted the thirty is a very very promising. vision and such a concept going forward so there is a lot of cool things for there also have been talk things and i mean let's face it a little way what we have seen and heard about what happened in turkey is just not something which has moved into ordinary course of business with the kind of parents

he has got up the trust is this is what what the kingdom has promised to do and will see how it goes. staying in the in the regions even it was also in the running for thirteen billion dollars infrastructure projects electrify iraq again there are reports you loss that deal all parts of it at least to general electric after don't trump intervened can you confirm that. a lot of stories being written about this topic the fact of the matter is that siemens has had a very very comprehensive compelling concept not just about rebuilding iraq in terms of electrification but also help the country in training in education with the dual apprenticeship program of the german industry we also promised to help the people in the freed up so for basic health care so there was a very comprehensive concept which reached to cover men that the customer liked

a lot they had overstayed as been. unusual special forces have been intervening maybe out of good reasons that's not my judgment to make on the other hand look i mean she even says in the united states there was almost sixty thousand people creating another one hundred fifty thousand indirect jobs so we are a massive economic force in the country we are training people there will be two revenues of more than twenty billion dollars so we are first and foremost also an american company which i believe deserves respect and a level playing field we are actually asking for they're going to talk you know news their kids are talking about the u.s. and you being very strong there how much money will the iran sanctions cost you've already wound down some of your business that you. well.

the after the after the implementation dave years ago we have been starting opus li our contacts and. with our customers in iran now it's a unilateral move from the united states to to bail out of. the agreement we obviously need to see what that is you know respecting the sanctions we are very very very clear on that matter and that's exactly what we do i mean obviously it is unfortunate that there was a unilateral bail out of the agreement but it is what it is we need to deal with it and we are going to deal with it. that's exactly what we do and look at the economic impact is not really relevant to siemens as the money goes a much more concerned about a further let's say escalation on the on the conflict in the middle east which is the last place we sheets yet another conflict even c.e.o.

joe case i thank you very much for joining us. and who's that was my colleague is talking to is eamon see you. well german comic is have agreed to spend up to three thousand euro zone measures of their own choosing to get old diesel calls off the road that is according to german transport minister and that is showing the three thousand year a figure is expected to cover hardware retrofits which folks are going to die unless a they all willing to carry out rival b.m.w. says it will not do retrofits though but will offer up to three thousand euros on trade in incentives the news comes a week comes a v.w. owner has filed a class action lawsuit seeking full value for their diesels. or a speck of an outlay thank you so very much helen i greatly appreciate it now to a german politician who has set his sights on the european union's highest office

also the european parliament's conservative bloc elected month of baber as their lead candidate to run for the job commission president is now the front runner to take over from john clune in many ways he's a surprise shores not only does he have little government experience he's also a staunch conservative. a german heading up the european commission that prospect came a step closer to reality this afternoon manfred faber will be the lead candidate for the european conservatives in next year's euro elections the berrien conservative veteran won a decisive victory over his finnish rival alexander stubb. when you're elected with nearly eighty percent of the vote it puts you in a strong position to take on the responsibility to want to make people an offer that we have a clear idea of where we want to lead europe watching us. favors platform is a conservative one playing up the importance of homeland and his christian roots he

had been criticised for preaching european values while not calling for the stridently anti e.u. hung garion premier victor to be thrown out of the party that no longer seems to be an issue. has made a brilliant speech bridging the need for a sense of national identity and the why do european project i think that has convinced a lot of delegates. but faber hasn't yet convinced everyone he'll need a positive result next year and the support of national governments to make the jump from being nominated to landing the top job but the e.u. in brussels. and your peers in europe's leading conservatives have been meeting in helsinki as you just saw above as all joins me now from the city where she has followed the congress of the european peoples party barbara mr labor presented himself as a decent and religious man promoting debate on identity and dominant culture just

how conservative is he. now the point if you listen to the wording of the speech he held here and what he said earlier on twitter and what even anglo-american the german chancellor quoted it seems that he is moving on to the playground where usually european rightwing populists live because they like to talk about identity and national values and a european the cultural heritage that is something particularly viktor orban the hungary an autocrat mentions in every second sentence and he did that again here at the conference said oh yes indeed it looks very much so as if man trade river wants to take to the right with he that he wants to try to drag the whole european union further to the right further into a conservative mood than we have seen it in the last years why is this appointment

barbara so important. it is so important because the president of the european commission he is like the c.e.o. of europe this is the top executive job he not only sort of leads the day to day business the watching about rules and regulations and that countries for instance stick to the budget rules and so on and so forth but he also is a strong force in law making and he's a strong force in sort of showing and pushing the whole the whole caravan into the european caravan into the political direction that he thinks fit and so it is a very strong job it is in fact really the top job within the european union lots at stake above are ways of reporting from how sinky finland thank you. now what would you do if fascists took power what if your neighbor was being

persecuted would you hide them from the authorities how much would you be willing to risk to help someone else these questions made the difference between life and death for many people during germany's third reich and yesterday the state of israel honored some who risked everything to help others we met a man whose life depended on the courage of another. lot of frankenstein is a fighter the ninety four year old travels to berlin several times a year for his care home in stockholm he never wanted to return to germany it was here that he was enlisted into forced labor because of his jewish heritage and it was here that he and his young family survived the holocaust. this is what i had to wear and this is what i was later given to wear. for my novel but the medal is for my work with young people to do my bit to ensure democracy in

germany is maintained. he's proud of his order of merit medal. that he has long focused on honoring the memory of those who risked their lives to protect him and other jews in nazi berlin. in mind o. them the lives of my entire family. on the shore and if it were not for them we would not have survived your. hands in cash a famous actor was one of those who risked everything to help walter and his cousin onscreen he often played the ladies' man but during the holocaust he took on a different role in the early one nine hundred forty s. he worked with the lawyer hines gets left to hide several jews they risked their lives providing places to stay and fake passports the holocaust remembrance center

yad vashem has now honored them posthumously as righteous among the nations. you don't voter to voter ever since i've known you and it's been a number of years now you've told me turncoat should be honored thank you god and without you we'd probably not be here from. israel's ambassador to germany jeremy is presented the medals and certificates for the relatives of those honored it was almost overwhelming. i'm only here because i happen to be related to hands on but i'm very grateful to have this great person as part of my family history to see only a few of the estimated seven thousand jews who hid in berlin survived the nazi era dr frankenstein to start to be the only one who made it with his whole family. how concerned curry mediately plucked up his courage and helped us from the start.

with clothes food in some way to stay get this fear that there were four pillars on which survival is built. impudence no fear good friends and great luck for when. he says now the fight is to defend democracy against populism he wants to take an active part in german politics by applying for a german passport so he can vote here. one inspiring story you watch me that we use we still have a lot more to tell you about including. life as a transgender woman in lebannon dana has been intimidated by police and faced legal action today she's scared to leave her apartment and she tells news her story.

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defendants are managers social workers and private security guards who worked at the center. the suspects are facing fifty four charges of having abused and humiliated asylum seekers in the city of perth. in late twenty thirteen a former military barracks was being used as emergency accommodation for asylum seekers later it was officially turned into a reception center and accommodation facility for migrants. the common thread throughout the indictments is the accusation that residents were locked in against their will i would call this unlawful detention this happened in many of the cases and then we have individual cases that also include aggravated assault and abusive coersion. these pictures of apparent abuse in burbank are presented as proof that male asylum seekers were tied up locked away and forced to sleep in their own vomit apparently in an attempt to discipline them

without involving the police lawyers for the victims accuse the suspects of acting above and beyond the law. the accused actually purely according to their whims seems to have taken place in a parallel world where acts were arbitrary since punishments were carried out which normally require a formal procedure in a criminal court says. two of the defendants have admitted the accusations the trial is scheduled to last until next may. and i wrote on a related note the united nations is on the verge of ratifying a historic pact aimed at easing the plight of migrants around the world it's been two years in the making and could become the first international protocol for managing mass migration but the united states australia and several you nations have already said they won't sign it the move to draft such an ambitious plan came

back in twenty fifteen as you remember migrants began arriving in europe at a rates not seen since world war two the pact now on the table says out guidelines for protecting migrants integrating them into society or returning them to their homelands it also addresses the causes of migration and seeks to reduce such displacement. the nightmare of their escape across the sea still haunts the survivors. in front of an audience refugees assembled wooden pallets the same as those found in many ships together with. thomas from iraq and habit from syria try to process their experiences of escape the name of the installation human see fright the journey was harrowing for days habit feed for the lives of his wife and two daughters thomas father died during

the crossing here he remembers him. i'm very very sad. and i can't forget for example when i see images of the sea on television it all comes back home it was very hard i can't explain any further. it. for the past year have at and time have been taking german lessons there is a good to integrate into german society the humanitarian relief agency mounties are is using the art project to recruit integration pilots people who help refugees navigate every day challenges the principle is clear. one hand can't clap alone they have to work together and as a group the multis a workers of refugees put together their art project the life jackets a symbol for emergency aid and survival crosses and gravestones meanwhile symbolize

the many who have lost their lives fleeing war and oppression curator innes on down says the work has struck a nerve with many visitors especially those with foreign roots. the reactions have gone from being impressed to deeply touched visitors walk around and say yes this is another object that helps me understand it's something three dimensional it's different than the images we see on television those that are much easier to distance yourself from dying on. the refugees are encouraged to take part in german traditions for example festive season activities integration through inclusion habit has enjoyed such events so much he's since joined the maltese organization. if you learn german you can easily find a job. and money and for a job when then xenophobic forces are often heard to disagree with such statements but the aid agency holds its ground you long to think it's what we believe that

with projects like these we can reach people who want to get involved in helping refugees these projects have a special quality that can really speak to people who otherwise made up the courage or a certain inhibitions and it's through practical work such as this that we can win people over. come on mention given and have its wife and his children survive their flight across the mediterranean they now all looking forward to experiencing christmas in germany and i'm going to hand you over back to helen i would more a bit is as a for a cross for less talk more deals winning strategy i like that sentiment at a conference in fact is the unofficial tagline of the africa investment for me it's currently underway in south africa and it's a ming to be a market place for deals channeling international investment into african projects to the tune of some two hundred eight billion dollars across the continent in south

africa certainly has its own interests in the conference for years state owned companies that were plundered under the government of former president jacob zuma leaving a lot of critical infrastructure in a bad way. a power cut in johannesburg it's a symptom of one of south africa's greatest problems the country's aging power stations urgently need upgrading decades of corruption and a lack of technical competence haven't helped the situation. south africa's new president cyril ramaphosa wants to rebuild the country's infrastructure that's why he wants to attract one hundred billion dollars in foreign investment over the next five years and he was campaigning at the africa summit in berlin earlier this week we have always said that one two i phones the interests of. country. you want companies to invest to create jobs. but

this is on this in terms of companies to be terrified. of which is to take those investment opportunities up it's not just the energy sector that needs massive investment the south african government says it sees infrastructure development as key to overcoming poverty and inequality. and covering the africa investment forum for a ses my colleague and his fan how the in agendas back at us we quite often talk about appeals for investment not aid on the continent and yet clearly there's still the need for forums like this one to reinforce that message is that the sense that race or the perception of risk is a hurdle to attracting foreign direct investment in africa. oh yeah no definitely definitely an african states actually acknowledge that themselves as well as civil come of course us africa's president of the opening speech here at the forum and he said as well that's for africa to become the destination of choice to remain in

those foreign investors that they have to make changes that there are problems with financial mismanagement and there are problems with production that there are problems with red tape and it was stressing actually that in a lot of african countries you see a deepening of democracy that you seem prove ment's in governance and he was also talking about his own country because as you saw as ronald reports and his previous s r jacob zuma president jacob zuma he got known for corruption and plundering state coffers and bad management of state owned enterprises and now in the process is kind of on track he is getting there slowly but a lot of work has to be done to do kind of change that perception so definitely goes for his country but also many other countries in africa for example nigeria also a powerhouse also has a bad image so which infrastructure projects that at the forum scene is most vital . well it's actually hard to say there are so many look who are talking about

ports or talking about roads or old talking about railways and the african development bank who is organizing this farm is set at about one hundred and thirty billion two hundred seventy billion u.s. dollars is needed on the continent and to invest in infrastructure to be more concrete they mentioned a couple of projects they they spoke about for example hydroelectric dam in the congo river you spoke about tech start ups in in kenya in nairobi you spoke about investing in a lot of industry in the inside africa as so there's a very much diverse investments that can be done in africa and that's also something that this forum wants to kind of put forward that are so much work to be done and so much opportunity is one that sense absolutely you know a big area of opportunity but at the same time the well this is a very on sesame place right now is that being reflected in people's willingness to invest briefly if you wouldn't mind. well we actually have seen that since so far

most of the boardrooms have been fooled as a lot of investors here at the forum and most of the meetings are oversubscribed and more to the bigger picture of course there are countries that don't shy away from investing in africa that do see that as many opportunities look at china they were in africa in september at the plex now they're sixteen sixteen billion investment in africa or still so once the natural resources in africa so there are countries that see opportunities here and the hope is that that'll multiply for a for the consonants as about how the fair to say john is back thank you very much indeed. i don't make a from kenya's ruling party has proposed limiting foreign involvement in a public contracts off to what he said was an outcry about an influx of chinese business is driving out local companies infrastructure projects such as the rail link from the coast to the capital have helped make china kenya's biggest trading

partner at seventeen percent of the east african countries annual trade that is more than four billion dollars heavily tilted in china's favor on top of that kenya's debts to china are now estimated to be worth about a fifth of kenya's total public debt. chinese imports and exports all roaring ahead despite adjoin out trade conflict with the united states official figures suggest exports last month were up nearly sixty percent over last year and him imports jumped even higher the u.s. has imposed tariffs on health of all chinese goods but this is been offset by a decline in the yuan which offset the terrorists now demand the chinese products remains high and it's traits that this continues to grow. right now it's back over to thank you so much helena now to some of the other stories making news around the world. a christian woman acquitted of blasphemy

after eight years on death row has been freed from prison in pakistan authorities say the baby is now at a secure location in the country the government has imposed a travel ban on beauty as part of a deal struck would radical islamists protesting her acquittal. at least forty seven people have died and more than sixty are injured following a bus crash in zimbabwe police say two buses traveling in opposite directions collided here that you sent town of busan pay on wednesday evening residents emerson gaga has promised an investigation into the cause of the crash. footage has emerged of more than four hundred buffaloes drowned in botswana earlier this week authorities say the herd stampeded into the chhobi river on the border

with namibia after possibly running away from lions. to lebanon now and the ongoing struggle there for l.g.b. to you rights being transgender isn't illegal in lebanon but members of that community face widespread discrimination you know you news met a transgender woman in beirut who's fighting for equality. this tiny apartment has become done as only safe space in her hometown of beirut. even going outside to meet up with close family members can be very difficult and i was a. few dollars imagine if my brother got married tomorrow it was i couldn't go to his wedding i thought it hurts if my sister gets married and can't go to a wedding if there's school parties i can't go because people will criticize me they will say to my siblings why does your brother look like that. donna is

a transgender woman and she's very open about it it is not just social stigma that she has to deal with me in lebanon it can also mean trouble with the law. two years ago don i was in a cafe with a group of other transfer and when they were suddenly approached by undercover police. that i came up to me and asked how much do you charge i said what are you talking about and my friend told him what are you doing don't talk to her like that then suddenly there were cars and they handcuffed all of us and took us away that was not a hug or not although being transgender isn't illegal in lebanon they're often prosecuted under an obscure section of the penal code. article five three four states that acts that contradict the laws of nature are punishable by up to a year in prison dano was charged under this article. is a lawyer with

a n.-g. o. legal agenda and done as attorney. the problem in article five to four is that the period in which there is the preliminary investigation this in this period when the person is one of the person is investigated with anything that is related to the person and to the individual's private life is not respected so people will have their phones their photos. taken out of their phone in order to constitute a file against them in order to be able to prosecute them down i was charged because she stated in interrogations that she has relationships with men but her identification documents still stated her gender as male article five for act two doesn't define what natural into a course is or what an intercourse that is against nature is so if we do all is up to the judge to interpret this article done i was acquitted by a local court and the ruling was upheld by a higher court of appeals it was

a landmark case for lebanon's bt community dennis ruling however does not mean that homosexuality has been completely decriminalized in lebanon judges in other districts are still able to interpret the law as they please and even for donna the court ruling does not mean complete protection there's abbate them yesterday i was stopped at a checkpoint and. i showed to god and he was like you're a boy i told him it was none of his business but standing in front of them is terrifying. and dan is not the only one in lebanon's bt community who feels unsafe many believe the despite the landmark ruling the fight for social acceptance still has a long way to go. the world chess championship begins in london on friday and it will have

a very ill youthful feel this time round defending champion magnus carlsen and challenger fabiano caruana are both in their early twenty's or has their rarely seen anything like it here's a look at two very young grandmasters. magnus carlsen and fabiano carroll one already know each other well they have faced off thirty three times the worst champion from norway won ten of those his challenger five the rest of the eighteen contests ended in draws but when they meet in london the world title will be on the line. constance defending his crown for the third time since he became world champion in twenty thirteen when he was just twenty two and he has no shortage of self-confidence. if you are the number one ranked player in the world for seven years and you won three world championships in a row and you consider yourself an underdog then there's something seriously wrong

with your psyche i think. his pop star has played against bill gates and traced multiple opponents while blindfolded. he's been a special guest at other sporting events and throughout it all he just keeps having fun. his rival fabiano carolina is a lot more reserved the italian american seized his place in the london showdown by winning a qualification event in berlin in march he went on to win two tournaments mocassin was also playing he knows the champ is only human. well i don't think that man is has any clear weaknesses usually the mistakes he makes or are very individual and they don't have a clear pattern to them but. he still makes mistakes and we all do and the only challenges to to be ready to take them when they come. this match is the best stuff

twelve games twenty seven year old consonant against twenty six year old carolina chess has to chance to appeal to a new generation. that's a clip from a rand new series called dust boortz which is a sequel to the iconic movie wall of gun pitocin made back in one thousand nine hundred eighty one on the series just had its premiere in munich and rob and meryl from our culture desk is here to talk about this new way television show this show has all lot to live up to you know stuff being the vote of confidence in movies i would say is most probably the most famous german movie possibly have a major certainly post war i mean it's

a wonderful movie it was nominated for six oscars one of those oscars by the way was for the music which we're hearing in the background now amazing music by kept close to guy who's a famous jazz musician and it's so recognized will it be modernized to be the new series but it still has that sort of hole or steer it that sort of spooky atmosphere and then you have the sun all this so the music winds were making a sudden a lot as you feel as though you sort of two hundred meters under the ocean's yourself anyway what is going to be very different i think to the film is this is a swan i exercise so they call. there were a time in the submarine people get a fright but that is so there are more possible stories emerging between the crew and their loved ones or whatever i'm actually takes up there it really is a secrecy takes up where the original film ended in nine hundred forty two.

i'm curious paul hoskins series has different characters from the original film for example seem. a translator for the gestapo played by actress vicky creeps her brother is a radio operator on board the german submarine. director paul saskia is especially interested in shedding light on his protagonist psyches for instance is a woman caught between two fronts faced with a difficult moral dilemma she falls in love with a female french resistance fighter. v. qantas and that's who. why did some people not resist the system in the third reich . i just i can't say how i would have reacted whether i'd have been on the right side of that. all but i do know that you can always make a decision you can always say you're getting out.

there the director also delves into the mind of a torpedo operator aboard the submarine. and would come up with you both you can show really well how bad things were for those young people and what war can do to them and if you mention mom come these are in the claustrophobia in the sense of not knowing what they're doing there. i play ules of who fires the torpedoes he only has to flip a switch to sink an entire ship and he's still happy when he sinks one of because he doesn't go up doesn't see that up above one hundred people are jumping ship and then are still burning in the water when the ship goes under involves on a full boat and if you. like it cinema predecessor this new series is action packed and although it differs greatly in other ways critics will surely be comparing it to flesh gun pay dozens nine hundred eighty one film.

xperia very promising a robin that were mind our international viewers what made peterson's nine hundred eighty one original so extraordinary i mean first of all i think both computers and he's a great film academy and he did then jump ship and go to hollywood but off the success of this boat he made in the line of clint eastwood's and false wong was his troy was is you know and but it's also how the production was don originally they actually did the production of the film in sequence so the the actors in the film as the big beards really grew they did on screen and they got more padded and palate during the movie because they're working in a u. boat a very a film in munich where it was night and this tube was five meters above the ground

so that when the bomb dropped was something they could shake it with in the side i mean i think it was quite a hefty job for the actors that time and finally finally i would say this is a film about the second world war a german film about german soldiers there's no nazis ready and it's all about the vickery real horror of wool from which. have assigned it's taken and incidentally in america the german version of the film the version was more popular than that which was dumped and i think people wanted the authenticity and once they hear the german voices they had some time understand it but i mean it's an interesting fact very interesting fact indeed where and when can we see this show the monies come from sky as well as bavaria and so it's going to be on sky first if you go to scarborough she's going to be lucky end of november but i hope we'll be getting to

see the connection before has a great teaser thank you so much robin greatly appreciate it all right and that does it for me i only allow rock alongside robin merrill thank you so much for spending this part of hitting us.

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this is d w news live from berlin another mass shooting in america this time at a crowded country music bar in california. or if it seems there there was blood everywhere. a former u.s. soldier opened fire inside a crowded california bar twelve people are dead including a deputy sheriff many more injured also coming up the man aiming for europe's top job germany's munford vapor of is it the front runner in the race to succeed miss.