this is deja vu news live from berlin tonight tentative hopes for a cease fire after the worst upsurge in israeli palestinian violence in four years hamas supporters are celebrating after militant groups in the gaza strip agreed to stop attacks if israel does the same we'll go live to tell it before the latest also coming up german chancellor angela merkel presents her vision of europe's future and she calls for a european army it would not be an army against nato i mean really

rather it could serve as a useful complementary force tonight no one intends to question the traffic alliances. and in the united states more than forty people are dead hundreds still missing in northern california reeling from the deadliest wildfire in its history and authorities are preparing to search for the victims. i'm brinkerhoff it's good to have you with us we start tonight in the middle east where militant palestinian groups in the gaza strip say they will stop crossword or attacks if israel does the same hamas supporters took to the streets after militant factions agreed conditionally to an egypt brokered cease fire this comes after the

most serious upsurge in violence between israel and the palestinians since two thousand and fourteen. people in gaza worked to a scene of destruction. this was all that was left of the t.v. station run by hamas. the israeli military said it was a strategic target. it gave a warning that the strike was about to happen. but the attack still caused panic among local residents. as soon as we saw the rockets we ran away from the house we are civilians we don't have weapons and rockets so soon as we heard the shelling with skate. here also on the israeli side of the border. most of hamas rockets were intercepted by israel's defense system but some missiles have hit residential buildings including this one in the southern israeli town of ashkelon one man

a palestinian laborer was killed here people in the city are afraid. and we have been living here in adversity in a southern neighborhood for many years to at least four rounds of warfare the buildings are very old the building where i live has no protection no protected area no shelter no protected stack case match up you know last night's flare up of violence between the two sides is the worst in more than four years. and threatens to derail recent peace moves. to united nations and other countries in the region are urging both israel and hamas to refrain from repeated exchanges of fire. and israeli tanks and troops gathered close to the gaza border there are signs the two sides are willing to pull back from the brink of all out war but for now there's a tense standoff. well i'm joined now by oren hines she's

a military and defense correspondent for the jerusalem post she joins us tonight from tel aviv so you were at the gazan border today i understand on and tell us what's been happening what you can see is a along the border all day today and also last night when the rockets started going off and they started going off around four thirty in the afternoon i went all around till four o'clock this afternoon and in that time there was about four hundred sixty rockets and mortars that were fired from the gaza strip into southern israel and actually hitting with the area. killing one man and wounding at least ninety three other people you know that the feeling on the border today and last night was very tense there with the roads were blocked across the strip. small roads i knew those were also blocked and that was actually following

a an attack on a bus full of soldiers yesterday afternoon in the northern gaza strip area apparently under the investigation now this incident showing that the driver of the bus bypassed the roadblocks that i was able to get and this attack on the bus was followed by the four men and six rockets and what about this truce that we've been reporting about we've heard that egyptian mediators were able to get home loss to agree to a cease fire but what about the position of israel well the israelis have this said that yes there is a cease fire nothing no one is going on the record to say that but you have the israeli media quoting got diplomatic and military sources saying that if you fire was reached with hamas the egypt the un norway and switzerland i believe to go back to two thousand and thirteen cease fire. and the question tonight then was what

would be needed for a significant step forward at this point well i mean we were very close to saying if you come out playing a long term he's reported for up to sort of thing that you have to go back to the drawing board both sides need to go back to the drawing we're seeing where they can go next to the agreement that was almost great to be frank is still relevant today after what we saw but i do think that if you act from us both realize that there is no no sign of part right now all right on our time military defense correspondent with the jerusalem post. reporting tonight from tel aviv thank you. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world c.n.n. is suing the trumpet ministration over the revoked press credentials of one of its reporters the white house barred jim acosta from press briefings after

a heated exchange with president trump last week c.n.n. says the move violates the freedom of the press which is in trying to the us constitution fans in hollywood and around the world have been paying tribute to their heroes stand lead the man who created iconic comic book characters that has the a been jurors x. men and spider man lee died on monday at the age of ninety five he was widely considered the mastermind of the contemporary comic book. russian opposition leader alexina vonnie says he's been banned from leaving the country in a message recorded at a moscow airport the kremlin critic claimed that he's been prevented from traveling to the european court of human rights which is due to issue a ruling over his detention mr an avanti served twenty days in prison last month for organizing anti criminal and protests with. the european union and britain have struck a draft deal on the terms of

a break sit withdraw all british prime minister to resign may summon to cabinet ministers ministers for one to one talks to brief them on the terms of this deal she's scheduled to crunch cabinet meeting for wednesday but she faces stiff opposition from some of her colleagues just about this but as you could possibly all right for more on this now i'm joined by barbara vai's olds she is in strasbourg france tonight and in london. must both of you good evening barbara let me start with you what's what what's what's been agreed to and i mean who's doing the agreeing here. that's a good question brant because nothing really has been a great what's on the table is the latest version off a draft agreement that could be struck now if the british side finally stops negotiating with itself and sort of saying either yes or no to what we've seen the

two negotiators here in brussels from that you saw it and the lead negotiators and the british side bent over this forty page tax of very dense legal language for several days and nights now and they have come to a point where they say ok this is it we can go and you for the london will finally have to agree or say no to it and what this is about is only the divorce agreement the terms and conditions on which britain is going to leave the e.u. in march of next year and this of course bring concerns everything from the rights of citizens living on one or the other side to the money that britain needs to pay to finally the did the crucial and the devolution question of how are they going to solve the ireland problem and that is really what london now has to deal with and bigger that is the question right i mean is there going to be anough in this agreement to persuade the british government and do we know is is there

a solution in this agreement concerning the irish border. we don't know the details of the agreement in seattle hasn't been published we know that they have ministers are poor ing over it right now and we have a lot of pressure on them we have pressure mostly from those people who want to have a clean cut with europe who want to stay far away from here of such a such as boris johnson the former foreign secretary who wants to be not close like in the customs union which is the speculation that this could be the end game that britain has a has a rather well close continuing close relationship to the e.u. this is something that a lot of people in the british government and the conservative party really want to avoid they want to be this global britain they want to be an independent lay out they want to be able to make their own trade agreements and they don't want to compromise over something like aa and because that would be one reason why the

britain would stay close to you in order to avoid a border on the isle of the father and barbara in terms of how the europeans look at this are we got a point now where it's take it or leave it. as far as brussels is concerned. more or less because russell it's has really made become sessions to the to the british side i mean that's the way you seize it because they are often offering britain to stay in the customs union for the indefinite time period after the transition period that is after two thousand and twenty in order to solve the exit irish water problem and that of course is just it's the core point because of course britain will then be tied to e.u. rules and regulations largely and that is what the bethlehem written is about but the e.u. said ok you want to this you've drawn your red lines and this is what we can offer within those lines i mean this is off to months and months of talks and many long

nights so yeah modeless we is the e.u. has reached a point where they say ok this is it take it or leave it indeed. our very own barbara vigil in strasbourg tonight and the biggest mosque in london to both of you thank you. ole common defense force for a unified europe that is the vision that german chancellor angela merkel trying to drive home today when she addressed the european parliament in straw spur now echoing her french counterpart president in my remarks wrong merkel urged fellow e.u. leaders to reject what she called national you're with them she repeated her calls for a broad based european approach to migration. it president thank chancellor merkel was greeted by applause thank you but during her speech the atmosphere was emotionally charged was i.

i'm actually enjoying this doesn't bother me i also come from a parliament that have been in a major point of contention with some palminteri and merkel strong call for a true european army. you know. a common european army would show the world that there will never be war again among the european nations and that's nothing against nato you know me a gig come on ladies and gentlemen it's an addition to nato route. nobody wants to cut established time soon started. that raise doubts even among supporters of the plan which has not yet produced any concrete steps was action called small than words we have to decide to work together and then we will gradually get there but you know grab visions without putting your money where your mouth this is pointless so often also high on medicals agenda another difficult

issue of the reform of the european asylum process of the missiles from the real ones that we have to make the effort and find common ground for sensitive issues like asylum law and humanitarian responsibility otherwise will never solve the migration and refugee issue cuts what was really tangible in the room was the deep appreciation for her leadership a very long standing ovation which also kind of felt like a bit of a goodbye salute america also had words for those who did not applaud there are things i can see i hit the nail on the head because if you protest that's all right through even for a confident finish to a confident performance with the clock ticking down on her final term has stressed that she wants leadership in europe to be part of her legacy. yes some people say it was legacy building that we saw all today to talk about that

here at the big table and joined by cornelius on the bar he is with the german council on foreign relations for me it's good to see you again let me let me ask you what was the michael doing today was she doing was it a first attempt at legacy building with this speech. of course she was invited to speak at the european parliament like other leaders have been invited before her there is a series of speeches now being given by current heads of state and government but obviously around the circumstances that for her here in germany part of was the expectation was that she would deliver a speech outlining her vision of europe she's never been so good at visions outlining visions but what she delivered here especially this point around the european army was unheard of before so maybe this is something that people took note of were you surprised that she came out so strongly and said i want a european army well that's definitely something she hasn't said before i would say we are in these times where president mccraw francey raised this issue last week

just before the commemoration of the one hundred years and of the first world war i think this is also the senate races have probably left a mark on her she raised the army issue and said that this would be a sign that the europeans would never fight against one another so building an army means that you overcome even the possibility of going to war again so i think this is part of the strong symbolism that she has aligned with as it is that risk today of european countries going to war is it stronger today than it was twenty years ago i think twenty years ago it was thought to be near impossible these days some people with you know the european union becoming a little bit smaller the u.k. on its way out people hadn't thought about the idea that this that the trend of european integration could be reversed actually so maybe these days people are having a little more doubt i'm not saying that there is any reason for doubt but the world

is. is a little bit uncertain around europe old alliances the transatlantic alliance isn't so reliable anymore and so people asking questions these days and you say that she was lending her support to emanuel necron by saying she wants this european. army could another motivating factor have been double trouble he has been tweeting the last several days attacking micron's accusing france of trying to build an army that could fight against the united states which we know that's not what micron has said i was going to say that's bonkers and maybe she was. she's picked a fight with don from before it's nearly one and a half years since she said that in her own special way we conned always rely on our partners anymore and in that sense she hasn't given mccrone much when it comes to even reforms she was supporting him on this particular project and they've spent the weekend in these combinations services so i would bill it as something where

she she lends support on a case where she feels she can support them rather than the difficult issues of eurozone reform which accounted for yet maybe he was expecting a little bit more today but i guess maybe in paris tonight they're thinking something is better than nothing twenty years out of our from the german council of foreign relations when it's good to see you again thank you thank you for a pleasure. we're watching the news wire from berlin still to come apocalyptic scenes in northern california as the state faces the deadliest wildfire in its history the death toll is set to rock and too afraid to protest a former nazi concentration guard pleads not guilty to hundreds of charges of accessory to murder he says he was forced to serve. at the camp. are it's time now for business news and helena is standing right over there she's got a stern warning for italy i understand well i know issuing it myself i have to say brenda did actually come from the international monetary fund warning

a straw for budget to twenty nineteen saying its heavy spending carried substantial risks and could create market turmoil while the comments came out was for an imposed deadline for its me to submit a new drama budget brussels rejecting rings and initial plan which saw deficit spending two point four percent of the country's g.d.p. in a series so fall said it will not change its plans arguing it must spend to boost its economy and investor concerns over the showdown have led to a rise in borrowing costs. the trade conflicts way that the united states is increasingly proving a program for china all the more important then for the country is the idea of a new free trade zone always saying that encompasses most of southeast asia and go see a sions have been going on for years and the issue is now high on the agenda at the current ozzie and meeting taking place in singapore. although china's economy is

strictly controlled by the ruling communist party it's increasingly appearing on the world stage as a defender of free trade at the conference in singapore chinese premier beattie kyung trying to provide fresh impetus to the idea of a free trade zone for the region the wheat. but it will be this will not only benefit the people of this region for free but also send a strong signal to the world the way i hope that we will stand up for free trade and push for free trade charlie was known as the regional comprehensive economic partnership or our sept the zone would include the ten asean nations as well as china japan india australia and new zealand it would encompass half the world's population and represent a third of global trade the sixteen countries involved agree that the partnership is a good thing in principle it wouldn't only spur trade within the bloc but also draw

investors from outside it but for that to happen the conditions have to be right. he's stuck with me and. so in order to further encourage the participation of companies or investors we need to set up rules such as intellectual property protection ensuring free data transmission across borders and prohibiting host countries demands to transfer technology. from. a demand clearly aimed at china and other thorny issues include the questions of how far tariffs should fall and what markets should be thrown open india in particular has little desire to open the floodgates to even more chinese products so there's a lot left to negotiate but if all goes according to plan the are set free trade agreement could be signed as early as the end of twenty nineteen. my favorite story of the day

a seventy year old grandfather and pokemon go found has gone viral after he had touched fifteen phones to his bicycle to cash in will china sign yuan first learned about the game from his grandson and has been playing it since twenty sixteen now this massive set up is one that he built to catch the rarest of the virtual creatures on the streets of taiwan it set him back maybe five thousand dollars. is the world's biggest joke minted reality gaming hit and it animated creatures that pay on device screens in real like asians. was back over to bryant now some terrible scenes in california these wildfires the situation there not getting any better the state evolved fires are raging in northern and southern california the northern town of paradise has been particularly hard hit with more than forty people confirmed dead hundreds missing.

the eerie aftermath of california's deadliest fires. coroners have been searching for bodies in the destroyed town of paradise the death toll is expected to rise. wildlife tentatively returns but the fires are far from over. fresh blazes continue to appear as firefighters attempt to bring the blazes under control. wildfires in california are getting worse year on year i've been doing this job for thirty one years and probably in the last by maybe seven years we every year seems to get worse a lot of that has to do with the recent drought and the drought that we're still going through and with that drought killed a lot of vegetation and so that dead vegetation is prone to burning obviously climate change has made california extremely dry there are high winds every year

and shorter bursts of heavier rain during the winter mean vegetation grows quickly but then dries out becoming perfect in different temperatures soar and the winds return but weather isn't the only factor over eighty percent of forest fires start due to human activity as opposed to say lightning strikes and faulty power lines are a big culprit california's main electricity company p.g. and e. is under scrutiny. the community of malibu where over four hundred structures were destroyed is barely visible from the air an additional factor is population pressure that leads to construction of homes in high fire risk areas what california needs most right now is rain but there's none for cost. i know a lot of people are interested in when the next rain event will be. we are not seeing any indication of precipitation in the next week and possibly through

thanksgiving find prime conditions a hit to stay californians for now can only try to adapt to what that govern is cooling the new abnormal. a ninety four year old former nazi concentration guard has pleaded not guilty to charges of being accessory to seven hundred cases of murder during the third reich the man admits to being a guard at these stood holding concentration camp from one nine hundred forty two to one nine hundred forty four but he claims that he was forced to serve there as more and more years passed since the nazi genocide this could be one of the last cases of its kind in germany. johannes or whose face must be pixilated under german law says he was quote unquote ashamed at the mistreatment of prisoners but claims he was too scared to defy orders he was only eighteen years old at the time the prosecution doesn't buy that argument. this is

finished it's hardly credible all the records and documents we have point to the fact that he volunteered for the nazi concentration camp system was based on employing highly ideological men who worked in service of their beliefs. they didn't want people who had been forced into it they needed people who wanted to be there. near the polish city of get done was one of the first nazi concentration camps built outside germany sixty thousand people were killed there some in gas chambers among the victims were poles jews and soviet prisoners of war prosecutors want your highness or to provide information about the workings of the camp. so he's remained very tight lipped when asked about things like systematic acts of homicide and the many different ways of murdering people used to talk he hasn't said much on this

score and that in our view is not at all satisfactory. because of his advanced age yohannes or won't serve any jail time and even if he's convicted a main goal of the trial is to find out more about the mechanisms of nazi genocide . you're watching the news live from berlin after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around for that.

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