and for the descendents. to guard the brush starts february turn on d w. this is e w news live from valid security forces in thailand installment shopping mall where a gunman was holed up the man a thai soldier went into hiding in the market off to a shooting rampage police say that more than a dozen people all dead and several more wounded after he opened our shopping center in the city of quote is going live to thailand also coming up germany's

federal coalition policies call for pressure that actions in ferengi out off a far right political scandal in the eastern and german state or countries where the conservatives health crisis talks with their junior coalition politics in berlin today that's up to the party's regional leaders schottische to a decade's old to do by teaming up with a vibrant extremist to elect a state leader. on having a home for a glad you could join me security forces in thailand have stormed a shopping mall where a gunman is thought to be still holed up off to killing at least 20 people now many more were wounded in the rampage in the city of course at that is northeast of bangkok it appears that a soldier took a gun from his military base and. can fly at several locations. or

dozens later fled to safety as troops and police moved in facebook says that it's removed the account of a suspect who had posted on the net already say that the gunman is still inside the shopping center. to let us go to correspondent phil inertia is standing by for us in bangkok floor and we understand that the situation is still developing but what more can you tell us at this stage. indeed the situation is very fluid right now we have shirts just a short while ago that special forces house and the mall on the ground floor level there are no glowing screen that the defense floor is trying to secure everything just before we have seen dozens of people civilians coming out of the mall trying to find shelter somewhere. he just believes dad's this shooter is still holed up

in that basement off the shelf big ball so the situation is still going on florian have authorities said anything about the attack it. yes we basically you know he is 32 year old soldier in the thai army. he has been posting as you said he has been posting. everything on facebook on his facebook profile until that was shut down so it is quite clear who the man is we do not know what his motives are. he has posted some dubious for marks on his facebook page that. now authorities are led to believe that maybe there has been some land dispute issues what seems to be confirmed is that this man shot his commanding officer and the mother in law of that commanding officer before he went on his shooting spree outwards. so the identity of the man is lone yes peripheral

theory and how common are cases like this in thailand. it is very uncommon mass shootings of this scale have and haven't happened in the long long time not that i can remember. there is an insurgent troubling in the deep south. and the 3 most of them provinces where the majority of the population is muslim we have heard of shootings there but they're usually very isolated very confined to this area a mass shooting up this jail in the rest of thailand it's very rare why do you have any correspondent kelly international courting tourists in bangkok thanks tony. now leaders of germany's 3 governing coalition parties are calling for fresh elections in the eastern state off their injury this off the talks in berlin aimed at preventing a regional scandal from turning into

a full blown crisis for chancellor angela merkel's federal coalition will lead it some of the conservative c.d.u. and c.s.u. the center left social democrats met to discuss fallout for wednesday's events in the 3 and you don't make a strong merkel cd used sided with the far right alternative for germany to elect a new state premier for the regional government shuttering a german post will political to be against co-operating with far right parties will be political maneuver sparked widespread national outrage and hundreds of protesters gathered outside today's meeting. now for more on this i'm joined here in the studio by political correspondent kate brady kate we've seen that call for fresh elections come out today what else did the coalition a great leaders agree on well you know the main demand was all about this from thomas kenniff ish he was of course the f.t.p. per business f.t.p.

politician who was controversially appointed as state premier in earlier this week with of course the support of the far right a f t and one of the main demands from the social democrats today towards a coalition partner conservatives was to get this man to resign now of course if you've been following this story closely you might have thought he actually resigned a couple of days ago right but he said that he was going to resign but then backtracked a little sayin that he'd stay in office until a replacement was found but he has now indeed stood down and we can have a listen now as well to have a look now at what else they had to say in their statement today. the election of the state premier in thuringia with a majority that was only achieved with the fights from the a.f.d. is an unforgivable event the coalition partners expect the elected state premier to a must chemical to draw the only correct conclusion and step down from office today

now it is necessary to ensure stable and transparent political conditions in thuringia as a next step the coalition partners expect the regional parliament to immediately elect a new state premier but for reasons of political legitimacy the coalition partners are convinced that independent of the election of a new state premier it is necessary to quickly hold fresh elections in the region. and it's interesting to take a look at that language that kate and see that mimics that used by chancellor merkel you know decrying this as an on forgivable era but you know at the same time it does seem that it's the social democrats who are now pushing hardest for this error to be corrected it certainly was and of course the s.p.d. were keen to form a coalition as well in ferengi with the greens and also the anger of the left party but they really have taken

a strong stance in this debacle that's been playing out all week in germany and it was the s.p.d. that called on the chancellor angela merkel to hold that meeting today which of course is quite embarrassing for the leader of the c.d.u. conservative c.d.u. and a click from carabao as well and the fact that angler machall took action and was very outspoken actually on this issue as we've seen in recent months since she stood down as c.d.u. party leader and america has been taking a back seat when it comes to party politics and has been very much concentrating on international affairs so that will have been quite a blow to a.k.k. as well as she's known here absolutely she's already political correspondent kate brady analyzing it for us thank you so much kate. it's. well u.s. media say that an american man has died of the coronavirus the u.s.s. then died in a hospital in the chinese city of rouhani where the outbreak began is the 1st known coronavirus related death of a non chinese person in china and here in europe and

a french mountain town french authorities say that 5 british tourists have been diagnosed with the virus the group includes a 9 year old child local authorities shut down 2 schools close the ski resort meanwhile france's foreign office now recommends that its systems do not travel to china. and in hong kong authorities are making a fresh effort to prevent the corona virus from spreading they have imposed a mandatory 2 week koren time corn team for anyone arriving from mainland china. an unusual plea from hong kong's leader or who you say would go out 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 10020000 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 stocked exporting their stock of protective equipment all together we factory struggling to meet demand. when something is short and the monday is high. then that could be but practice is like cold being in order to sell them at higher prices. and that's why we asked for solidarity and for people to really understand what fighting an outbreak like coronavirus is hong kong has implemented mandatory quarantine measures for new arrivals anyone from mainland china must self quarantine either in her tells or their homes the subject to daily fun calls spot checks and even wearing tracking devices there is your 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. medical staff in hong kong are overwhelmed they've been striking for days because they want the border with china shot completely escalating already high tension between the 2 countries. well irish voters are going to the polls today to choose a new government with opinion polls indicating that they likely to don't prime minister whose finagle party has been in office for 9 years now frustration with years of budget will stare a tea and a housing shortage of help to the left wing national action fein led by mary mcdonald late in free election surveys and is expected to perform strongly. i'm joined now in this year to talk more about this by all reporter always attend that's good it always good to see you now we've seen shane fein polling strongly

despite historical links of course to the ira and a violent struggle for a united ireland i mean did that play a role in the campaign you know well in the minds of voters the party has been able to distance itself from its past so there's a few reasons for that itself that doesn't exist anymore as the politics paramilitary organization and since the good friday agreement was signed most people in the republic of ireland under the age of 35 they've no memory of the terrorist attacks carried out by the group it was also the financial crisis back in 2008 and that's allowed the party to successfully sell so it's now become. the party instead of the political wing of the ira and then there's also the role that very much lou mcdonald has been playing she took over as party leader 2 years ago from gerry adams and he of course had very clear links to the ira but she

doesn't carry the political baggage of her predecessor of her predecessor and so the party has become much more acceptable to vote. in recent years we're talking about more current issues then i mean brags it being one of them and it strikes me that prime minister of iraq and he did successfully defend our interests when it comes to that so you know why isn't he being rewarded for that well they definitely went into this election come pain expecting of bragg's of violence and expecting to profit on the strong economy but it appears they misread the mood of the voters because for many the strength of the irish economy has no trunk transferred into their day to day lives rents have soared homelessness and the wards and it appears though there is think think that finagle who have been in power now for 9 years they should show that the burden for the the powerful talking about those established parties in that way i mean what would the success of shin fein for example mean for the country so i have to dump in any expectations that shin fein

will win this election because they're fielding so few candidates so if they end up with the most most seats that would be a major shock but a strong performance for doesn't shake up the political establishment in the way. it was leave the parliament with a very strong opposition with the left wing agenda of the something aren't wasn't hard in the past already w. reporter although when. thanks so much for your insights. all through saturday's been does a good games now unvetted put a minute sank deeper into the relegation mile off they lost at home to bed while marius bootless schooled twice as the ballon is one in him but a man of awesome side part of born drew with shall fellow strugglers just a little shed the points were vosburgh might speak howto and fried down hoffenheim no friday frankfurt thrashed out later on saturday title hopefuls dortmund travel to later coups and then in sunday's matches cologne visit glad while champions by

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