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tv   Heute Xpress  Deutsche Welle  November 1, 2020 6:00pm-6:04pm CET

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as it happens until the last of this count to join us for special live coverage from berlin the u.s. election november 4th on egypt. this is datable the news live from berlin france is on its highest security alert as the country mourns special services of being held to commemorate the 3 people killed in thursday's suspected terror attack in the also have the latest on a shooting at a church in leone. 2 days before the u.s. election donald trump and joe biden hit the campaign trail in king battlegrounds
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all same way they focusing their risk. american held welcome french police say they have arrested a suspect over the shooting of a greek orthodox priest in the southern city of leone the priest was gunned down outside his church and is in a critical condition the city's mayor says the motive is not yet known but it comes after several terror attacks in the country just 2 days earlier a suspected islamised militant killed 3 people in a catholic church in the city of needs. the priest miss just closing got this greek orthodox church late saturday afternoon when he was shot twice. police kept the area fenced off warning the public to stay away prosecutors have opened an investigation into attempted murder. at this
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stage we don't know what the motive is behind the attack no line of inquiry is preferred all rolled out so i wouldn't comment on the target of what sort of attack this is. we don't know yet. residents express their shock i'm appalled because it's very quiet neighborhood a good place to live. she have markets the synagogue a little further away the orthodox church everyone knows each other it's a small village it's traumatic. recently francis seen a string of what the authorities describe as terror related incidents believed to have been sparked by cartoons depicting the prophet mohammed it's all a french president and while mcconnell made his position clear if they don't understand and respect the fact that one might be shocked by these cartoons i will never accept that one might justify physical violence over these cartoons and in my
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country i will always defend the freedom to speak to right to think and to draw fronts is currently on its highest security. we're joined now by day doubly correspondent are in a strauss who is in the southern france city of nice minded to more people have been arrested where you are today in nascent relation to the attack there 3 days ago what more do we know are. that's correct 2 more man have been arrested reportedly 25 years and 63 years old so in total 6 men have been arrested that are believed to be in some relation with the incident that the attack that happened here in nice on thursday morning the attack was actually done by a tunisian national that's what the police said to 20 year old who reportedly only arrived in europe a couple of weeks or days to go and the french interior minister told
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a french newspaper this sunday that he believes.

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