when you're. dead don't you know her you know. start september 18th on d w. the only place. last. place. this is d w news live from berlin the russians vote in local and regional elections that sparked the biggest anti-government protests the country has seen in years local media suggest appropriately united russia party may be dealt a heavy blow losing many seats in the moscow su duma but opposition leader alexander vonnie warns the results could be tampered with also coming up. after the

collapse of the afghan peace talks with the taliban to warn that more u.s. lives will be lost on saturday a secret meeting at camp david was called off but despite the rising tensions officials on both sides say there's still a chance for peace talks to resume. and in tennis an f.a.q.'s open final seems rafael nadal being documented yet and 5 more lame sets the spaniards 19th grand slam title is now just a one off the all time record. on the phillies welcome to the program. russians have cast their ballots in local elections marred by weeks of protests according to local media anti-government candidates could be on track to claim a number of seats from the profile united russia party but opposition leader alex

saint of on the is morning officials could trying to meddle with the results before they're officially announced no vonnie had called on russians to vote tactically to block united russia after some opposition candidates including himself were banned from the polls. it's. even the mascots outside the polling stations don't seem very enthusiastic by early evening turnout in moscow had reached only 17 percent the city council elections drew candidates from the governing united russia party and other kremlin friendly parties but no opposition candidates were allowed president vladimir putin cast his vote early and the lack of choice didn't seem to bother him much. in some countries there are 3050 even 100 candidates but that doesn't mean to say they do better work it's quality not quantity that counts i think we have with the candidates to. the exclusion of opposition candidates has inspired weekly protests since mid-summer the police have cracked down hard more than 2000

demonstrators have been arrested. the best known opposition figure alexina valmy took to social media to call for voters to choose candidates who would do the most harm to the governing party. i just don't you publish it every single vote for a party doesn't get is good even if it's not for us but we hope that we can do more to counter them the position in. local and regional votes were held across the country but the real test comes in 2 years with new parliamentary elections. w.'s aaron tilson is in moscow and tells us just how crucial this vote is for the party behind president power base let's have a listen. election to the moscow city duma has given the country's opposition an unlikely chance to challenge the power and control of united russia. and its complete domination of russian political life now you know you're a c.e.o.

is actually face seen historically low poll numbers with their own only 30 percent of russians saying they currently support the party and the brain is also considered toxic in many of the country's major cities and that's part of the reason why many candidates here in moscow troops run as independents out of fear. is that association with the party could hurt their chances in today's polling now this also might be part of the reason that we've seen such heavy handed tactics from russian security forces when it came to some of the opposition back demonstrations we've seen in recent weeks speaking to many political experts here they tell me that that was heavy handed tactics have actually gone a long way to help politicizing a new generation of russians and remains to be seen whether or not the political or the country's opposition will be able to capitalize on that and make actual concrete gains beyond today's polling and moving into a some of the elections coming up in the next several years. aaron tells them there the u.s. and afghanistan's taliban of left the door open to peace talks after donald trump

abruptly canceled a secret summit with the insurgents u.s. secretary of state mike pumpin said he was hopeful negotiations could resume but only if the taliban showed quote significant commitment to the process on saturday called off a meeting with the taliban insurgents responded to the decision by warning that more american lives would be lost in afghanistan. the body of an american soldier returns home sergeant at least body to ortiz was the 16th u.s. service member killed in afghanistan this year one of a dozen people who died when a taliban car bomb exploded on thursday near the u.s. embassy in kabul. died inspired president trump to tweet an unexpected announcement . the major taliban leaders and the president of afghanistan were going to secretly meet with me on sunday on fortunately in order to build false leverage they admitted to an attack in kabul that killed one of our

great soldiers i immediately canceled the meeting and called off peace negotiations . it has been 18 years since the u.s. invaded afghanistan after the september 11th attacks on new york city by its ally al qaida thousands of coalition troops have died as well as tens of thousands of afghan troops and civilians. the afghan government has been critical of the negotiations between the u.s. and the taliban which have largely sidelined afghan officials but a spokesperson welcomes trump's announcement. there was an important day for the taliban to. to brace up political life david to do so and the. continued violence while they were talking to the city he was in touch with the mission and we didn't see any commitment by the time for a peace process except talking and you know. continuing to go on our

partners meanwhile the taliban said the decision will harm the u.s. more than anyone else but seem to leave the door open to more talks. trump has pledged to withdraw the remaining 14000 u.s. troops from afghanistan but faces resistance from the afghan government. u.s. lawmakers who say it's too early to leave the afghans on the road. let's take a look at some of the other story so making news around the world turkish and u.s. troops have conducted their 1st joint ground patrol in northeastern syria ankara has established what it calls a save zone in the area aiming to keep kurdish fighters away from its border with turkey also wants to resettle up to 1000000 syrian refugees in the region. the powerful typhoon fox i has lashed the japanese capital tokyo leaving at least 10

people injured the storm has cost major disruption to transport bringing train services to a standstill and grounding flights about 400000 people have been advised to evacuate their homes. the hurricane that ripped through the bahamas made landfall on the east coast of canada on sunday for downgraded to a tropical storm dorian still cause damage whipping up waves and flooding waterfront areas the storm lashed the canadian coast with strong winds and heavy rain knocking out power in hundreds of thousands of homes officials asked people to stay off the roads but the damage there has been nothing like the devastation dorrian wreaked on the bahamas. a 13 hour ferry ride to bringing the homeless to a safe haven. hundreds of survivors from the worst hit areas of the abaco and grand bahama islands a streaming south to nassau the capital of the bahamas was largely spared dorian's

destructive force it's a time for reunions and rejoicing at being a life. oh yes. with 3 kids. actually 5 kids but 3 young ones to me nearly the day before our eyes and i'm very grateful all of . our garden i could give thanks to god for a lot not this is not a very good without a doubt that when i go for my home collapse and i fairly like i don't was that i you know because a lot of people died and i thought i was going to be one of them and i just we just started praying and there we thing and then we survived. dream homes on the up because reduced to match would by the nightmare hurricane. locals talk of the bodies still buried in the rubble the smell that pervades everything the lack of food and safe drinking water. for those unwilling or unable to leave

the battle for survival is not yet over. protesters in hong kong have again called on the international community for help in their campaign for democracy on sunday thousands of people marched to the u.s. consulate to urge washington for help in pushing through their demands high profile activist josh along with schedule to travel to germany i was detained at the airport yesterday has been released and is demanding an international response to what he believes is political prosecution as the 14th week of protests and a special administrative region and there is no end in sight. the to u.s. national anthem sung on the streets of hong kong what it is a direct appeal to the west for help after months of protests for self determination i was of the you did right you're right the op me but

paging is not about to give in the police have crack down hard on the movement setting off a cycle of clashes with protesters and sunday the tensions as dredged into violence once again protests says smushed up in underground train station in the central district and let fire as outside of police station as night fell are running battle between police and protesters erupted china insists that the protest up buck by western governments the to us oh ever as shown little interest and getting involved in the struggle for hong kong's future it's and tennis refound the doll being daniel medved if and 5 exhausting set still when his 4 if u.s. open title in new york was pushed to the brink in the 1st sentence scraping by 7 fine but then you lost the next 63 but then mounted an improbable comeback when in

the 3rd and 4th set to force a decisive 5th the spaniard came out on top winning 6 for the dow now has 19 grand slam titles to his name only one fewer than all time leader roger federer. joining me now in the studio to talk us through rafael nadal's 4th u.s. open title is dave braddock from didn't always sports so rough around a dollar is the 2019 champion but was he also the people's favorite in new york i mean i think 1st of all fans were just ecstatic to have nearly 5 hours of tremendous tennis it was an amazing night and it all is always a favorite and he's beloved by the crowd in new york but i think his opponent negative had really an interesting progression from earlier in the tournament where he was seen as a bit of a bad boy often taking a combative stance against crowds but this match his mere comeback the way he pushed not all so hard the fans also showed him a bit of love too so it all came down on top of the fans seem to like both

opponents so this new title leaves him just one short of roger federer's all time record do you think you'll catch him i mean at this point all is really just breathing down all of roger's neck is really close and you think it's just a matter of time but it's so it's important to remember that they're both still active as a joke of it the other member of the so-called big 3 or so they're still playing and you think can really happen but i think it's this when the u.s. opens really big for a new doll he's had a kind of reputation of being a one trick pony where 12 of his grand slam titles have come from the clay court french open so they do it in different condition. shows you how the versatility that it takes to really be up there and push better let's talk about daniel medved if a bit here really gave nadal a run for his money today do you think you'll be a serious threat to those big 3 you were just talking about next year i mean again you cannot overstate just how dominant the big 3 have been and continue to be to

this day but they're not going to be around forever and i think the way he played the way he pushed the dollar the way he's shown in this tournament he's definitely going to be in the conversation if he can keep this up he also brings a lot of flair and personality to the game which i think is on top of his technique really something that tennis could use these livening things up thank you very much dave reneke tennis news coming in from new york. and formula one ferrari starlet clara led from start to finish to win the italian ground free and what can only be described as a fantastic display by the 21 year old from want to go but claire stood his ground and rode out multiple attacks from championship leader lewis hamilton to clinch his 2nd consecutive career victory it wasn't just a big day for him though it was also the 1st win by a ferrari at their home grand prix since 2010.

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