this is d.w. news live from berlin tonight the people of yemen bracing for more room for thousands of civilians in the key port of. worry as pro-government forces backed by solti warplanes advance on the rebel held city it threatens to make a terrible situation even worse with the new wind warning that millions are already at risk of starvation also coming up 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 went inside to save lungs and the man aiming for europe's top job germany's munford vapor is the front runner in the race to secede mystery in europe. as european commission president but not everyone's dancing as his election marks a move to the right for europe's conservatives. i'm good to have you with us we begin in yemen where pro-government forces backed by solti warplanes are closing in on the port city of how data military officials say that the u.s. backed soldi led coalition has launched air strikes and a ground assault on rebel held positions in the city the u.n. says the city is vital to keep aid flowing into the country today the word world

food program said that it plans to double its food assistance to avert what it will be mass starvation but the fighting it shows no sign of abating. on the outskirts of her day yemeni fighters fired towards who's the rebel positions . they make up some of the forces loyal to the exiled government there supported by the u.s. backed saudi led coalition have launched a fierce assault to recapture this key port city which has been in rebel hands for four years. to see fighters who were backed by iran have not been making it easy for them. burning tires. 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 doctors the saudi backed forces are already claiming victory. that the buildings have been cleared and the enemy flight that the one 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 take her data. but this still facing resistance from locals now found little. which stretched trust and we will not move that phone out of the out with the enemy strikes because this striking us on the outskirts of the city we're staying in this city god is with us and with every muslim of all humans in. 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. carley 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 the situation is how dangerous is it tonight for civilians in the data. thank you for having me the factors in her data at the moment 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 get of running away because of because of the intense quietly 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 miss us. military for rent realty purposes and that also endangers the civilians even more medical facilities that's not working some of them are i should be working though most of the 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 is 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 this program hospital of the hospital near the front rank and i would also well i'm supporting that was their historic team to keep the service there is running we're supporting the people who have fled from the city through the outskirts who managed at the time of this collision there are two hundred forty eight thousand people with with that number sometimes so we're doing our best incentive to secure also in the in the surrounding areas to support their medical you know they're also receiving i'm not outlined there they've got more there and

we know this is a humanitarian disaster it's a crisis what is the biggest total 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 their response ability falls on all the people who are in the warring in this war and the current think that people in yemen have rec'd years has reached the limit so we call on all parties really respect that they have inspected billions to protect them civilian infrastructure as much as possible right now on the back of their fears there are many things that are happening ponies are following made it clear that the medics should be able to do their job and people should be able to go to the safe he must meet it. as a car with the red cross joining us tonight from beirut giving us an update on that situation in yemen so i thank you. well to the united

states now and another mass shooting this time of the pact 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 line dancers at least twelve people including a sheriff's deputy died the gunman was also killed police have now identified him as even david lone. young people helping the injured friends and fleeing for their 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. that's a gentleman walked in like

a black outfit so you could disguise eyeglasses black and. pulled out a done started shooting at the bar you know how to find dancy and then almost any year feeling that they may have 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. sergeant best with the hospital. oh about an hour. it's a horrific scene in there there's blood everywhere. in the aftermath of the attack people are grappling with the pain of their community being targeted and want to become an all too familiar story every week. well those are the

only story that is getting everyone's attention in washington right now in an unprecedented move president today revoked the press pass of see it in chief white house correspondent jim acosta restricting his access to the white house all this after the reporter tried to ask 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 cost a seasoned journalist access to the west wing. that's a white house intern trying to grab the microphone from cnn's jim acosta he had challenge president trump about his rhetoric towards migrants and then turned his attention to the investigation into russian election meddling. in because the trump lashed out at acosta 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 sort of asked one of the other folks that's a tough 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 so there were other moments of tension between the president and journalists. a bit of yours either so i understand to be out over the course of the just sit down place this standoff marks an escalation of hostilities between the trump administration and the media and 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. well now to a german politician who has set his sights on the european union's highest office today the european parliament's conservative block elected munford weber's as their lead candidate to run for the job of commission president he's now the front runner to take over from john claude younger in many ways he is a surprise choice not only does he have little government experience he is also a staunch conservative. a german heading up the european commission that prospect came a step closer to reality this afternoon manfred weber's 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 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. one carrion premier victim 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. or earlier we spoke to our correspondent barbara visa when we asked her how conservative munfordville. has presented himself as

a decent religious man promoting a debate on identity dominant culture. if you listen to the wording of the speech he held here and what he said early on twitter and what even i'm going to merkel the german chancellor quoted it seems that he is moving onto the playground to be a usually european rightwing populists live because they like to talk about identity and national values and a european the cultural health status something particularly big to argue on the hunt gary an autocrat mentions in every second sentence and he did that again here at the conference so yes indeed it looks very much so as if montrevel wants to tech to the right with the heat that he wants to try to drag the whole european union further to the right further into the conservative mood than he has seen it in the last years and that was our barbara v's old reporting. you're watching t

w news live from berlin for all of us here in berlin thanks for the company will be back at the top of the younger with more world news see you there. mr bush you know the story of the first movie or told different perspectives by peter creighton from d.c. .