bridge to the trash exclusive report starts november seventeenth on d w. this is d w news from berlin tonight the people of yemen bracing for more war thousands of civilians in the key port of. worry as pro-government forces backed by salty warplanes advance on the rebel held city it threatens to make any terrible situation even worse but that you will more need of millions are at risk of

starvation also coming out another day another mass shooting in america twelve people were killed when a gunman opened fire in a crowded california bar among the dead a deputy sheriff who with inside it to save lives and the man aiming for europe's top job germany's munfordville uber is the front runner in the race to succeed mr europe. or as european commission president so who wizzy and what can change if he becomes president. also coming up on the ring those who risked everything to help others nearly eighty years after an infamous non-si pogrom against jews a holocaust survivor returns to berlin to pay tribute to the people who saved his life.

it's good to have you with us we begin tonight in yemen where pro-government forces backed by saudi warplanes are closing in on the port city of who died a military officials say that the u.s. backed saudi led coalition has launched airstrikes and a ground assault on rebel held positions in the city the u.n. says the port city is vital to keep aid flowing into the country today the world food program said it plans to double its food assistance to avert what it fears could be mass starvation but the fighting it shows no sign of abating. on the outskirts of head yemeni fights is fire to the rebel positions. they make up some of the focus is loyal to the exiled government disappointed by the u.s. backed saudi led coalition is known. to recapture this key port

city which has been in rebel hands for a full year is. who she fights is who are backed by iran have not been making it easy for them. banning time. even explosives have been left behind. but it's hardly been a match for the coalitions and strikes and ground assault. over the last few days dozens of rebels and several pro-government soldiers have been killed in fighting around today according to local doctor is the saudi backed forces that are already claiming victory. that the buildings have been cleared and the enemy flight that. we advancing into the tops of her data they will give us the city peacefully

or we will take it by force we will tell you. but this still facing resistance from locals nothing else down to. what we should trust and we will not move that phone out of the out with the enemy strikes because the striking is on the outskirts of the city we're staying in this city god is with us and with every muslim all of the humans didn't. life around the market in had a death appears to continue as normal. but was fighting is expected and that means the lives of the six hundred thousand people who live here i mean ever present danger. ever more the situation i'm joined by. carly she is a spokesperson for the international committee of the red cross in beirut it's always good to have you on the program today the red cross said we are running out

of words to describe how wretched this situation is how dangerous is it tonight for civilians in the data. thank you for having me on the factors in one day that the moments are becoming even more and more fierce as we speak the clashes are still ongoing and people on the ground i still hearing the sounds of explosions gunshots strikes and of course the fear is rising from the hundreds of thousands of people that are not and trapped in the city not knowing what to do there is giving of running away because of because of the intense fire like many of them have left their homes and they're taking shelters in public places such as walls and mosque and so on in addition just in the past few days and today specially there are important civilian infrastructure that have been picked

or this u.s. . military for it really to be purposive and that also in danger is the civilians even more medical facilities have stopped working some of them i should be working on the spill for example the biggest one in. which we have as i.c.r.c. support is now considered on their frontline not only meters from the fighting and there's an influx of their admissions of inside the hospital itself is well meant so the situation as it is is really difficult and it is intensifying and so very hard. yet if you know if i could just ask you what is the red cross what are you able to do on the ground right now in the data for civilians. in fact when they go we continue to support the federal hospital of the hospital near the frontline and i would also one supporting that was there to start teeth to keep the service

is running we're supporting the people who have fled from the city through the outskirts who managed at the time of this collation there to have work eight thousand people who would put that number sometimes so we're doing our best in center city and also in the in the surrounding areas to support the medical facilities that are also receiving not the outline there they've got more there and we know this is a humanitarian disaster it's a crisis what is the biggest hurdle right now i mean can we talk about saudi arabia can we talk about authorities in yemen who is standing in the way the most right now for for your attempts to get aid to people there is sponsibility follows on all people who are in the warning to end this war and the current think that people in yemen have rec'd really the years has reached the limit so we call on all

parties really respect them that they have inspected billions to protect them civilian infrastructure of much as possible right now on the back of their fears there are many things that are happening probabilities are falling around that it could have the medics should be able to do their job and people should be able to go to safe months needed. zora zacari with the red cross joining us tonight from beirut giving us an update on that situation in yemen sorry thank you . to the united states now and another mass shooting this time at a packed country music bar in california police say a twenty eight year old former marine armed with a gun shot dead a security guard at the entrance before unloading his weapon into the crowd of wind their answers at least eleven people including a sheriff's deputy die the gunman was also killed police have now identified him as in david long. young people helping the injured

friends and fleeing for the lives. offices 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. saw gentleman walk in a black out the so you could disguise eyeglasses black shirt and. pulled out a gun started shooting at the bar you know having fun dancing and then all this any you're killing that they may have a gun shot and it just started going crazy 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 surge 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 you go right we want to go now to journalist jason campbell don't you have he is covering the story for us he joins us now from los angeles good evening to you jason so what more have you learned about what happened in thousand oaks. not much more details are being released about exactly what happened inside that bar we do know like you had mentioned before that the gunman pulled up to the bar he was actually driving his mother's car to the far shot and killed the doorman before entering and then

randomly selecting as targets apparently he used a forty five caliber pistol a glock twenty one the gun is legal here in california but he had an extended magazine so he can carry more ammunition those are not legal here in california and right now we have just finished up a motorcade for the officer that was killed in the line of duty when he tried to stop the gunman from killing more people and he's been transferred to the coroner's office and now we have family members about fifty to sixty family members and a wee unification center waiting to hear if their loved one are still in the bar because nobody's have been released or if they were part of the two dozen that were wounded and. there's been conflicting reports that the gunman was a former navy veteran he was a former marine can you confirm what he was. he was

a marine and he was a machine gunner in the marine reports are to me that he went overseas at least once to afghanistan and are there any indications any clues as to what you know could have been his motive. not at the moment right now the f.b.i. is on scene they are trying to figure it out just like everyone else ventura county where the shooting took place is now leading the investigation because the f.b.i. has not found any terror threat as of yet they are tracking down his social media they're looking through any technology they can we actually watch them bring in these giant kits into where he live and inside these kits there's computers and and you know anything that they can use technology to track down they're looking for digital footprints at the moment yeah all right and tragic story that we report much much too often reporter jason campbell tony on the story for us tonight

reporting from los angeles jason thank you thank you we reported last night on u.s. president drums latest tirade against the media today in an unprecedented move trump revoked the press passes of cnn's chief white house correspondent jim acosta now all this after the reporter tried to ask trump a question during a news conference. in the terms there we go well if you don't want us president that this care of in so heated exchange cost 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 know he had challenge president trump about his rhetoric towards migrants and then turned his attention to the investigation into russian election meddling right here because the trump lashed out at a cost to its 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. i think that's an ask one of the other folks that set out 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 so there were other moments of tension between the president and journalists. i'm not a big fan of yours either so i understand to be out over the course you can 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 but no you rudely interrupted him you

rudely interrupted him we're earlier we spoke to scott griffin deputy director of the international press institute in vienna and we asked him what makes this incident stand out in president trump's ongoing battle with the press as the aggression aggressive rhetoric towards the press is nothing new how it was to expel essentially a journalist from the white house for 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 the way in which the white house has tried to distort the incident by among other things with leasing a video that was apparently doctored by the conspiracy side in full force and use that basically to attack jim acosta's credibility but it's using him of gravity inappropriate he was

a young female intern who was trying to take the microphone so this is really actually one of the most disturbing aspects of the incident i would say. that was going griffin the deputy director of the international press institute in vienna speaking with this earlier argos switch gears no helmet is here with business news no surprises coming from the fed no surprise is the key lending rate in fact has been kept right way it is and hopefully speaking about that shortly for we can just or not will be talking about that a little later in fact brant sorry about that it's close to friday instead we're going to be talking about zealand's because the german industrial powerhouse of a company has told e.w. the c.e.o. in fact that the german industrial companies one of the companies actually pulled out of a saudi investor conference following the murder all of a distant journalist. joe kaiser said that business as usual was no longer possible

with the kingdom in the wake of the killing. the fact is that we did not sign a significant deal which was worth north of ten dippy and that's true but obviously you know things go as they go and i've always made it clear we had a very reliable partner competent partner of the kingdom of saudi arabia who 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 are bent well in the kingdom the recent thread the thirty is a very very promising. mission and such a concept going forward so there is a lot of cool things but there also have been dark things and i mean let's face it with the way what we have seen and heard about what happened in turkey is just not

something we move on to ordinary course of business there's got to be transparency there's got to be trust is this is what the what the kingdom has promised to do and well we'll see how it goes and showcases that the c.e.o. of easy means quick clearly evoking some geopolitical risks as well and we know that they can hurt bottom lines siemens also finding that out posting its fourth quarter earnings on thursday not surprisingly to pass caution has proved a mixed back. 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 announces profits for the last quarter slumped forty six percent our own casts its vital in the in our in 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. and we can now bring you the latest from the u.s. federal reserve which is kept the benchmark lending rate unchanged on thursday the move highlighting the continued strong performance of the u.s. economy but also pointing to a slowdown in business investment that's according to the latest statement out from the fed it also noted that solid job gains for unemployment and growing household spending but they also signaled that there may be a further rate rise before the end of the year. german call makers have agreed to

spend up to three thousand euros on measures of their own choosing to get old a dirty diesel cars off the road that is according to german transport minister and that is scheuer the three thousand figure is expected to cover hardware retrofits which folks fog and and dime say they are willing to carry out rival b.m.w. though says it will not do retrofits it will offer instead up to three thousand euros on trade in incentives with the news comes a week off to v.w. owners filed a class action lawsuit seeking full value for that diesels. kind of a stocks in the u.s. surged on the news that attorney general jeff sessions had stepped down he was a major photo of marijuana legalization and had a mind to roll back legalization allowing states to determine cannabis policy cannabis companies got an extra boost since the state of michigan voted to legalize the recreational use of cannabis which was on the state's midterm ballots. here in

michigan it's been illegal to buy marijuana for medical purposes since two thousand and eight as a painkiller for example but only for seriously and terminally ill patients so it's not a big market but that's about to change on tuesday people voted to every out of twenty one can buy and use marijuana for recreational use the store in detroit was well prepared for the day with plenty of guns on offer. michigan is the first state in the midwest to legalize recreational marijuana including michigan people can buy the drug in ten states and in the district of columbia marijuana was banned eighty years ago by the federal government overturning prohibition is a hot button topic across the entire country. i'm excited that people will have the opportunity to see a regulated market and all the opportunities that come with that and history because it's now it's

a legitimate industry. an industry able to serve millions of potential new customers in michigan coming to stocks rallied off to the vote on the news that attorney general jeff sessions resigned kind of this produced a till race stocks going to thirty five percent on wednesday shares of comedy growth and the rover economists were up ten percent. it was talking politics no one that we want to talk about a german politician who has set his sights on the european union's highest office today munford weber's the man you see behind me there launched his run for the job of european commission president he is now the front runner to take over from john claud younger. a german heading up the european commission that prospect came a step closer to reality this afternoon manfred favre 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. in the middle of the 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 in office that we have a clear idea of where we want to lead europe watching us this 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. hun carrion 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. well what would you do if fascists took power how much would you risk to help someone else or these questions made the difference between life and death for many people during germany's third reich we met a man today whose wife depended on the courage of another. valter frankenstein is a fighter the ninety four year old travels to berlin several times a year from his care home in stockholm he never wanted to return to germany it was here that he was enlisted into force labor because of his jewish heritage and it was here that he and his young family survived the holocaust. and. this is what i had to wear and this is what i was led to given to wear. 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. but he has long focused on honoring the memory of those who risked their lives to protect him and other jews in nazi berlin. mind-o. them the law of sort of my entire family. 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 but i without you would probably not be hear 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 kurt immediately 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 of this impudence no fear good friends and great luck for winfield good luck 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. after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around for the.

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it's real peace and in possibility. nineteen eighty nine forgot the w.'s november focus. last month it was inside a pittsburgh synagogue and a man with a gun opened fire on people worshipping eleven people die last night it was inside a california country music bar a man with a gun opened fire while people were line dancing at least twelve people have died tonight america's latest mass shooting a troubled so with

a legally purchased gun the rest of the story we all know all too well i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day.