on to w. . this is d. w. news live from berlin germany's chancellor faces her critics in ten minutes merkel answers tough questions from residents at a public meeting three months after an explosion of racist violence shook the city . also coming up according cambodia delivers a historic ruling to kemah rouge leaders are found guilty of genocide forty years after they oversaw the slaughter of almost two million people and as firefighters bring northern california's wildfires under control residents return to their homes

we need a man who lost everything in the blaze that destroyed paradise more than six hundred people are still missing. i'm sara kelly welcome to the program we begin in germany where chancellor angela merkel has faced some tough questions on a visit to come that's the city shaken by an explosion of racist violence back in august it was sparked by a man being stabbed to death allegedly by a migrant from syria merkel was hoping that a meeting with chemist's residents would diffuse some of the tension but when members of the audience had their chance to speak the mood was not always cordial. but the first questioner played on merkel's famous saying we'll get through this in response to the massive influx of migrants in twenty fifteen arkansas and the point

was to find an answer to the chaos kids want us in germany when you said you will get through this and after two years you still said you didn't know what i haven't done wrong he did me a break. as a hollow macko did her best to calm angry questioners. back then i said we've gotten through so much in germany we'll get through this to the. what kind of a chancellor what i have been when faced with a challenge i didn't say that pissed off and that merkel's day began in far more relaxed fashion when she visited a successful local basketball team the intended message was that kennett says a lot going for it but people out in the street questioned why it had taken machall months after the killing of daniel h. to visit the city. i don't know what you want for the christmas market it's too

early and probably happened it's too late. since the tragic incident far right groups have held regular demonstrations on the streets of kemet creating an atmosphere of intimidation and threats against foreigners. inside the q. and a session audience members were putting the chancellor to the test. when are you going to resign but work in your exact. i told you and all of germany said. that i have been elected for this legacy of her period well does he but i had been busy by the way we're both wearing national colors. burton. and i'm prepared to serve as a chancellor to a paper until the end of this legislative period of it's been as councilman also. far right groups called for protests outside the auditorium where the town meeting was held but crowds were small. and d.-w.

chief political editor make a local for her is travelling with the chancellor in cannes let's make ala why did marco come and why it's so late to candidates. well that actually was the very first question why did she come and she basically said she wanted to come here she wanted to listen she was also very well aware of the criticism that came from none other than the mayor here that she came too late and she said she didn't want to come as everybody was all the emotions were running high here of course many argue that's exactly when she should have come. either way she was here today and she did face as we saw some very tough questions indeed what do you make of the way that she responded to those tough questions. well she clearly was intent on listening and on staying very calm as we saw she wouldn't be provoked but it was quite clear that she had to explain time and time again those famous partly

infamous quotes like we will make it but also i wouldn't have done anything different that's what she said after her conservative c.d.u. party lost almost nine percent in those last elections that was basically thrown at her and she was really struggling to explain it because she was clearly a bit surprised that she was so misunderstood when she was asked about this from this we can make as she started explaining her very broad strategy on how to avoid the causes of migration reaching into her african strategy as well so she was very academic in answering slightly above the head actually of many people who really wanted an answer of how can you promise something that we have to fulfill in the end so she was talking about pasties audience there as well but clearly she also herself came to the conclusion that maybe she should have listened more before that there should have been more such dialogues before meaning of course just after

twenty fifteen and the people of canada they're sending her a signal because we understand that there have been more right wing demonstrations today what have you been observing them hammer. yes those right wing demonstrations were very loud so they were chanting the usual merkel will stick nothing has to go we are the majority is something they shouted which i thought was rather interesting given the fact that there were about three hundred so you know more than four hundred demonstrators out on the street but making a lot of noise and i think that is rather symbolic also of talking about citizens who don't come out in force to really demonstrate that they are against this right tree extremism and particularly being instrumental ised by them and that's something the german chancellor to encourage the people here in kenya it's not to get depressed about the whole situation but be proud and really show who they are

and the positive aspects of chemist's but make no mistake this is a city that has seen repeated right wing demonstrations and feels terrorized also by the label of being potentially far to the right. now our chief political editor traveling with the chancellor angela merkel in cabinets thank you so much for your reporting. well now let's get a quick check of some other stories making news around the world c.n.n. reporter jim acosta has had his press credentials restored after a federal judge ordered the trump administration to reinstate him acosta was banned last week after clashing with the president during a press conference c.n.n. sued the government claiming that press freedom had been violated. the u.k. has a new brags that secretary steven barclay was appointed to take over the post after dominic robb quit in protest on thursday british prime minister theresa may faces criticism and calls for her brezec nation after a very drastic you'll take these c.e.o.'s fail to satisfy the rights of hardliners

. now to a story of justice finally delivered almost forty years late for the first time a un backed court in the capital of cambodia phnom penh has found two leaders of the camera rouge guilty of the one nine hundred seventy s. genocide that defendants presided over the murder of around two million people a quarter of cambodia's population they were already serving life sentences for crimes against humanity. for the victims it's a long awaited moment to form a committee rouge leaders launch and cuba some fun a sentenced to life in prison for genocide by a un back court. but all the chamber has considered the gravity of the crimes including their scale of brutality the number and the vulnerability of the victims for which the accused have been convicted yet. these two old men are the last surviving leaders of the criminal rouge they are already serving life

sentences for crimes against humanity but this new verdict was a landmark ruling for the first time it says that the crimes against bit amazed and minorities amounted to genocide. the commercial rouge talk of them for eradication nearly all the vietnamese combatants rather expelled or murdered. the judgment goes beyond. international remove the responsibility for the crimes committed. so there is judgment and also justice for all that. it was not just the minorities who suffered the commemoration that leader pol pot for to create a communist utopia but forcibly moving people from the cities to the countryside nearly two million cambodians died from overwork starvation and mass execution during its reign of terror from one hundred seventy five to nine hundred seventy nine. pens museums and memorials detailed the sheer horror of the past a past that lingers. they deserve to get the sentence because they committed such

be crimes the rest of my family members were killed and the only child who survived that regime. with the perpetrators convicted of genocide. just above us can finally hope to find closure. award winning journalist elizabeth becker testified at the trial she told us her experiences of cambodia under pol pot for. i saw a country that was emptied of society i lived there during the war and was shocked that the streets were empty the people were gone there were no markets there was no life there was no. were empty shops were closed schools were closed there is no music there is nothing and then you go into the country to the labor camps and i was under serious government guard so they didn't let me poke around any more than allowed but it was what was missing that was so horrible the people were living in

work camps they did not look good and i was shown what was supposed to be a model camps still once they were all the commercial overthrown i was shocked and horrified by all that was hidden from me the torture centers killing fields. now the record is straight there was witnesses corroborating every aspect of the starvation there in forced labor the rapes the forced marriages the the the murder it's all on the record now and that's a that's an incredible record for journalist elizabeth becker there the number of people missing in northern california's wildfire has risen to more than six hundred and at least sixty are dead firefighters have managed to contain most of the blaze and thousands of people are beginning to return to their communities often defined all their possessions reduced to ash. this is

what it looks like to lose everything. ok i hope you and quick that's all i can say. hold my yosh words can't describe it. words can't describe it. and how can they when all you are left with is the clothes on your back everywhere signs of a life well lived now all gone. but this home one of more than six thousand destroyed in the town named paradise. the epicenter of california's daily a stove a wildfire for jonathan clark there's another reason to come back here his brother is missing. we're still trying and or do whatever it takes

until he's found. dead or alive that's just what clark's do we look out for each other so. so many people here were caught by surprise when high winds found the deadly flames through their town now authorities simply can't be sure how many human remains alive beneath the ash. the sheer chaos of what's happened in neighborhoods right these distorting the numbers. to watch it is then that there are a lot of people displaced and we're finding that a lot of people don't know that we're looking for them and that is why we're publishing this worst. firefighters are still trying to contain the camp fire one of three wildfires raging in california this one is said to be forty percent under control but it will take two more weeks to perch how it's completely. all in

tennis germany's number one alexander swear eth has advanced to the final four of the a.t.p. finals the twenty one year old defeated john eisner to set up a semi final showdown with roger federer in the prestigious and of the season tournament. it was a taut opening set between alexander the servant johnny with mia centimeters determining h. game. of the bots vera prevailed in a tie break to take the first set seven six i'm fine the german then broke his nose serve in the second set to pave the way to victory. i'm fine and an unforced error a sense vera through to the semifinals where he'll now face jon i'm played so many

times against other actually in my short career he's leading with one win over me and i hope i can try to change that or mostly it's going to be a very tough match but i hope i'll be ready for. two wins from five showdowns with federer bodes well for a third of who is aiming to become the first german to win the tournament since par spec up. here up to date on t.w. news thank you so much for watching. i'm scared that if i walk that time and in the end this i mean you're not allowed to stay here anymore we will send you back. are you familiar with this. with the smugglers what alliances. what's.