this is date over the news line from berlin a thai soldier goes on a shooting rampage place a more than a dozen people a dead and several more wounded country opening fire at a shopping center in the city of herat the attacker is reportedly still at large we'll go live to thailand also coming up germany's federal coalition parties are calling for fresh elections in for india after a far right political scandal in the german state the country's ruling angela merkel's conservative tasse held crosses told to their junior coalition partner in

in today that south of the party's regional latest shot at a decade's old to boot by teaming up with right wing extremists to elect state later. and on kong takes pressure action to stem the spread of corona virus as the disease claims more lives the territories later announced as a mandatory quarantine for anyone arriving from mainland china. i'm rebecca it is welcome to the program emergency services in thailand say at least 17 people have been killed and 21 more wounded in a mass shooting police say a soldier opened fire in the city of core at northeast of bangkok it's thought he took a gun from his military base and opened fire video footage shed on social media shows people on the street apparently fleeing to safety as multiple shots. rang out of

identified a suspect who allegedly posted on facebook and says it's removed his account and are also saying to panic in a popular nearby shopping mall where the shooter is thought to be still holed up. and go straight to thailand where foreign mission is standing by for us in bangkok floor and other still people inside the shopping center. yes that is what we're hearing there are reports that there are at least 10 hostage is some local media report that 16 people actually still. in that shopping mall with the shooter the latest we're hearing is that police brought in the mother of the shooter so apparently they are trying to use her to persuade her son to surrender this house just to come in within the last

few minutes so we don't know if that will be successful. what we do know is that perpetrators facebook's old style house been shut down a few hours ago before that he had posted pictures and live updates about his shooting rampage. does whole situation has been going on for several hours it started in the afternoon local time here in thailand and so the police have been trying to. get out to get control of the situation for hours and all but the situation is so long gone. and you mentioned the facebook page there i mean he was i had the page has now been taken down but he was posting on facebook what what what can you tell us about those posts. well there were some incoherent messages that mine alludes to the motifs hoff's.

those shooting rampage he posted some things saying. that he did there's there was some corruption and but it wasn't clear who who might have done that what is clear is that the shooter is shops his commanding officer so apparently that was the 1st victim. people or authorities. saying that it might have been the land dispute but it's this is not confirmed yet as i said those were quite incoherent messages on his facebook profile. and as we've been saying it's an ongoing situation they towns are still quite get back out home and are incident as like things in time on fire. they're definitely not common even though thailand has. one of the countries with the highest rates of gun ownership private gun ownership in the world shooting mass

shootings like this of very very rare there is an insurgency trouble in the south of thailand that has been going on for a few years now so there are occasionally there are reports about shootings there but this is a quiet isolates it's youth and stare confined to the deep south provinces here in thailand so a mass shooting off that scale that apparently we're witnessing right now hasn't happened in a long time and date of your correspondent florian standing by for us in bangkok thanks very much for the update. late is of germany's 3 governing coalition parties that have been meeting in berlin the south and in their job to stop a political scandal in a small eastern german region turning into a full blown crisis for merkel's federal coalition leaders of the conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. and the center left social democrats discuss the fallout from wednesday's events in

3 bomb makers from merkel c.d.u. sided with the far right alternative to germany to elect a new state premiership for the regional government that shattered german post-war political to boo against cooperating with the far right parties the political maneuver has sparked widespread national outrage and hundreds of protesters gathered outside today's meeting. of standing by for us in berlin outside without meetings taking place is date every political correspondent kate brady kate tell us there's been a recent development in this story what's the latest. well there certainly has rebecca the meeting has since come to an end and a statement has now been released give you that now it just says that the election of the state premier in turn with a majority that was only achieved with votes from the f.t. is an unforgiving full event the coalition partners expect the elected state

premier thomas kemalist to draw the only correct conclusion and to step down from office today now it is necessary to ensure stable and transparent political conditions inter in jail as a next step the coalition partners expect the regional parliament to immediately elect a new state premier so it does continue to go on saying that it is necessary to quickly hold fresh elections in to rindge and now let's just break that statement down a little bit we've actually already seen. some action taking place as a result of that statement and thomas kemah british the f.t. politician of the pro-business f.d.p. who was controversially appointed as the tearing state premie earlier this week he has now already stepped down officially now if you've been following this story closely you might think haven't we already heard that news already well a couple of days ago kemah base did indeed say that he would be stepping down from

his post but then saying that he would only do so when a replacement had been found but during these meetings today it seems at least from some media reports of the s.p.d. the social democrats put huge pressure on the conservative c.d.u. saying unless we see a signal sent from berlin to the f.p.g.a. to make him of then stand down immediately then we will be leaving the german government coalition so huge pressure it seems was flaunted today from the social democrats which of course is a huge blow to the conservatives and. very much a victory for the s.p.d. in these crisis talks today yeah and some pretty strong words there on the forgivable sort of words of echoing the words of chancellor angela merkel who called her entering a grave mistake kate how is this likely how is this incident likely to affect michael c.d.u. party on

a national level. well i think it's specially a.k.k. and create karrenbauer is going to be affected she is the current party leader of the conservatives and for a long time has been seen as a frosty jay the heir apparent to anglo-american but it seems that this will be yet another blow to her and her conservatives especially in the run up to those elections ahead of the 2021 elections which are due to take place here in germany next also but of course because of this crisis a clear case of foresty over her party is being brought into question once again with all the parties including the social democrats especially the greens and asking whether she is really fit to whip her party because at the end of the day the c.d.u. ensuring by cooperating with the far right a.f.g. this week in effect stepped over the party line and that is the big issue here and

the party line for all of the parties actually in germany is we do not work with the a.f.p. in directly or directly and see very clearly the c.d.u. overstepped the party line this week and so this will certainly be a blow to a.k.k. and also to the conservatives on president incident in post-war germany kate brady standing by for us outside that meeting just taken place in berlin thanks very much for the update. telling now to some of the other stories making news around the world with origins in kazakstan say at least 8 people have been killed in rioting in villages in general province near the border of kurdistan the area's home to a muslim minority of chinese origin the president has ordered an investigation to determine what course the violence. the trumpet ministration has 5 top white house ukraine specialist lieutenant colonel alexander of inman then man had provided

damaging testimony about president trump during the race and impeachment process media reports say trump is also recalling the u.s. ambassador to the e.u. gordon sunderland who also testified against the president's plane. irish voters are going to the polls today to choose a new government opinion surveys indicate they lie thing to dump prime minister lee overread to his finagled party has been in office for 9 years the left wing nationalist shin fame led by mary lou mcdonald is expected to perform strongly. u.s. media say an american man has died of the new coronavirus the us citizen died in a hospital in the chinese city of will hand where the outbreak began it's the 1st known khurana related death of a non chinese person in china and here in europe in a french mountain town french authorities say 5 pritish tourists have been diagnosed with the virus the group includes a 9 year old child local authorities shut down 2 schools close to the ski resort

meanwhile france's foreign office now recommends that its citizens do not travel to china. and in hong kong authorities are making a fresh effort to prevent the corona virus from spreading they've imposed a mandatory to quarantine for anyone arriving from mainland china. an unusual plea from hong kong's late 004 you said i would go i would like to make an appeal to the public i know there are people in a position to buy a small number of mosques maybe. 20000 mosques if anyone has sources to buy them i appeal to them to donate them to those who are in need. hong kong is desperate to contain coronavirus this is aerial footage of thousands lining up to face miles with some camping out overnight. people are stocking up even hoarding food and medical supplies some countries have stopped exporting their stock of protective equipment all together with factories struggling to meet demand. when some plays

short and the mondays high. that could be but practice is like cold being in order to sell them on prices. and that's why we are sports. and for people to really understand what fighting an outbreak like this is hong kong has implemented mandatory quarantine measures for new arrivals anyone from mainland china must self quarantine either in her tells or their harms the subject to daily phone calls spot checks and even wearing tracking devices those who breach the new rules could face a hefty fine or even prison many rushed to meet the midnight deadline where the new measures came into effect. the medical staff in hong kong are overwhelmed they've been striking for days because they want the border with china

shut completely escalating already high tension between the 2 countries. the president of france as isis fought federation didier guy again has stepped down amid an ongoing sexual abuse scandal in figure skating the sport has experienced an unprecedented crisis that was triggered when sara abbott fall a former world championship bronze medalist published what a biography earlier this week in it she accused her former coach of raping her several times from 90929092 the outgoing president announced his decision to resign after a meeting of the federations federal council on in paris on saturday morning. and as a reminder of the top story we're following for you. we're just hearing that security forces in thailand have stormed the shopping center where a suspected gunman is holed up after a mass shooting as many as 17 people have been killed and several more were wounded

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