berlin. hillary clinton on capitol hill and pressured to deliver an impressive performance. many are questioning if she has responsibility for the deaths of u.s. embassy staff in benghazi in 2012. also, coming up, the sword-wielding attacker may have been a far right sympathizer. we won't be able to ask him, the 21-year-old was shot dead by police.

and 12,000 migrants arrive in slovenia in 24 hours. the country is begging europe for help. tempers are flaring in the balkan neighbors. ♪ brent: i'm brent: --i'm brent goff, it is good to have you with us. hillary clinton says she does not have responsibility for a coverup but those in the congressional hearing believe she is responsible. at the start of the day part hearing, the committee chairman said that this has nothing to do with her position as a presidential candidate, but instead it is because she

"failed at her job." >> in this eighth hearing, the questions keep on coming. hillary clinton is being grilled about the events in 2012 when four americans were killed in the u.s. consulate in benghazi. the ambassador, christopher stevens, and three other diplomats were fatally injured. the u.s. government classified it as a terrorist attack days later. clinton was secretary of state at the time. now she has to explain herself in the midst of the fact that the country of libya is now in a civil war. hillary clinton: there was never coverup from any of us or from those in the state department or did we have information about

shutting down the mission it -- in benghazi. >> a year before the u.s. presidential elections, hillary clinton's motivations are being scrutinized. chairman: there are people in both parties who have suggested that this investigation is about you. let me assure you it is not and let me assure you why it is not. this investigation is about four people who were killed representing our country on foreign soil. it is about what happened before, during, and after the attacks that killed them. >> few new insights are expected, but that just means that's the attention for how hillary clinton fares in front of the oversight will be judged all the greater. brent: and i think we were

counting this, this is the eighth congressional hearing investigation into these attacks. can anything new possibly come out of it? >> not really, i have to confess that i have heard from the very beginning of the hearing until now and it will start over again in a couple of minutes and i haven't heard anything new. there are a couple of details, but it doesn't really change the big picture. i don't think so. it is not really about the truth. it is highly partisan. old parties, democrats and republicans, have their own agendas -- both parties, democrats and republicans, have their own agendas. hillary clinton is the front runner of the democratic party for presidential candidate, so the republicans would like to make her look bad. they would like to say, this

secretary of not be able to protect her diplomatic responsibilities, so how could she protect the american people? brent: this could be a hearing about benghazi but the entire world may be tuning in today because this is hillary clinton, the presidential candidate, who is testifying. how damaging do you think this will be in her bid for president? >> she is doing very well. she is not repeating mistakes that she made last time, last year. she is not upset, she keeps calm , she answers all of the questions. so i think she is doing a very, very good job. not only are republicans asking her questions but also democrats are asking her questions, although they are very friendly, very nice questions. republicans don't like her and they may hate her now a little bit more and they may not vote for her anyway, but the democrats, i think, they will be pretty proud of her.

brent: thank you so much. tonight, sweden is reeling after a deadly sword attack in a school in the southwest of the country. a man wearing a mask and dressed in black killed a teacher and a student before being shot dead by police. the chilling details of what happened inside that school are just coming in. we understand the attacker posed with students of four pictures before he went on his killing rampage. >> more details of the school attack are now coming to light. the 24-year-old surveillance had far right sympathies. he had posted materials on social media glorifying it not to germany and deploring islam. he went into the school and attacked the teacher and a student. >> halloween is coming up soon

and one of my friends went to take a picture with him. then we saw a teacher getting stabbed, so we ran. >> the teacher was dead at the scene when police arrived. officers shot the assailant. he died in hospital, as did one of the students. two of the victims, a teacher and a student, remain in critical condition. investigators say the perpetrator was not known to police. >> the assailant to move around to different parts of the school and attacked people. they locked themselves inside classrooms, in a cleaning, so it has taken a while for us to go around and make sure we don't have an additional or traitor or injured people. >> the school has about 400 students between the ages of 6-15.

the small city is in shock. attacks like these in sweden are extremely rare. brent: here in europe, the influx of refugees is not letting up. it is not slowing down. slovenia of -- reported 12,000 refugees entered their country on wednesday alone. sylvania has asked the european union for help. conditions for the refugees become more dire by the day. >> scenes of desperation at this camp. a little food is passed through the fence but the migrants inside receive a little information about a transport that will take them onwards. authorities are struggling to move people onward fast enough. this slovenian camp was only intended for a few hundred people. during the night, temperatures dip close to freezing.

people are getting more frustrated and angry. people say the situation at the camp is deteriorating. >> we handed out some food 10 minutes ago and the situation is really bad because yesterday evening, i think around 9:00 or 10:00, they had to walk around 10 kilometers. there was no food, no water, no place to sleep. it was cold. he had no blankets. >> authorities say a record number of people entered the country on wednesday. 12,000 people entered, and that is far more than the country can handle. af hungary, a closed its border,. -- can handle and this is in the face of other countries suffering after hungary closed

its border last week. brent: let's talk to our correspondent now. catherine is at that camp in slovenia which is now the focus of this unprecedented mass migration. good evening to you, catherine. we understand it you have seen some very disturbing sites inside the camp. tell us just how bad things are there? catherine: so it is actually looking like a detention center. so when you go in, you just see people lying on the ground. the majority of them try to have some protection but it is very difficult because they are actually sleeping on the ground, on the earth. there is nothing between them and the wet ground. all the day, they tried to make little fires all over the camp to have a little bit, enough to warm them up, and there is no

tent for them, really, they can't get protection with a roof over their heads, so they did really little off fires, but it is not good, it is really dirty. they have definitely not enough food and there is no water access. brent: you mentioned earlier today that aid organizations and even police were not going into the camp. do we know if that is going to change? what does that mean for the refugees who are inside? catherine: so the impact for the refugees is quite serious. why? let me explain. when they get access to food, volunteers adjust in the front of the fence and throw just randomly food in the middle of the camp, so what is actually happening is that the strongest and tallest guys there adjust

themselves in the front and they grabbed everything and children are weak and they don't have any chance to get something. brent: catherine, let me just -- can you clarify that? catherine, can you clarify something? so you tell us is that people are throwing food into the camp and for people to just catch it if they can? is that what is happening inside their? -- there? catherine: i want to get your question right because i have a bad connection. what i am meaning is that they get food but it is not really organized. the red cross is not going in, having assumed distribution or something like that, no, they just wrote slices of bread like this and threw it over the fence and someone -- broke slices of

bread like this and threw it over the fence. brent: definitely not a good situation at all there. catherine, thank you very much. next to the diplomacy under way right here in berlin which is aimed at ending two weeks of violence between palestinians and israelis. u.s. secretary of state john kerry met with israel prime -- with israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu. they say it is critical for all sides to stop inciting unrest and violence. >> prime minister benjamin netanyahu is standing his ground. israel's prime minister shows little interest in conversations. seven conversations were scheduled within 72 hours. afterwards, the u.s. secretary of state conveyed the impression

that netanyahu was more willing to talk about situations behind closed doors. secretary kerry: i would describe the situation is one that gave me a cautious measure of optimism that there may be some things that could be in the next couple of days put on the table which would have an impact. >> this quartet is scheduled to meet in the anna on friday. the group consisting of the u.n., the eu, the u.k., and russia discusses the conflict between israel and the palestinians. not everyone expresses secretary kerry's hope. >> i hope that things would go well, but i think in this case, optimism is too much. >> no stone is to be left unturned. brent: all right, we are going

to take a short break. when we come back, we will have more news including business news. stay with us.

brent: it is good to have you with us. you are with "dw news." let's take a look at our top stories right now. hillary clinton is taking a heavy questions from a congressional committee. she is taking fire regarding a u.s. embassy attack in benghazi in 2012. swedish police say a man who attacked a school there may have had far right sympathies. he killed one teacher and a student and injured two others before being shot dead by police. german police have uncovered a cache of weapons that they say were intended for refugees.

in a series of raids in the south of the country, they also arrested members of a far right group. there has been a steady rise in violence targeting welcome centers in germany and now police are warning that the situation could get worse still. >> police found weapons, ammunition, and band fireworks yesterday. a total of 12 apartments were searched and 11 were in nuremberg. some found these firecrackers and these were going to be used in bamburg. >> the group was using these hypertechnical explosives to attack two look up centers. >> police arrested 11 men and two women this week aged between 21 and 36 years old.

one of them was a chairman of a political party from the right. they are planning against germany's refugee policies. >> there was a suspicion and now it must be investigated that there may have been intention to use violence at a demonstration. >> police say they have been monitoring the right wing groups since the beginning of last year. the group has become increasingly well-connected to other groups within germany and also these groups intended to use violence. >> this overall result we see here could lead to show that these groups are planning an attack against asylum-seekers in germany. >> authorities are trying to find out just how big this right wing network in germany really is. brent: blitz join -- let's join

our correspondent hans bronze -- hans. how much does a danger does the far right pose? hans: there has been a recent investigation by the federal criminal police which was meant actually to have been confidential but was leaked to the press and it found that there had been 300, just under 300, such attacks in the last three months. just in the last three months. to put that in perspective, in the whole of last year, there was under 200 attacks. the danger seems to be increasing. in fact, as was mentioned in the clip as well, the police are concerned that it is not just the refugees who were targeted, what politicians and officials who may have something to do with these refugees.

one such attack happened a few days ago on a candidate for mayor in the city of cologne. she was attacked i a person with a knife who was associated with a right-wing group. brent: when you talk about numbers, 300 attacks in three months, that is astounding. obviously, no one can dispute that there is an attention between extremism and the migration crisis. is anyone in the government willing to talk about the direct cause here? how much of this migrant crisis is fall -- is causing this extremism? hans: the number of refugees arriving in germany is a root cause of this, but on the other hand, is group that has just been arrested has been under investigation for much more than a year and they have right-wing tendencies. so it is an aspect of german society that this is coming up again and now it is against the

background of the refugee crisis, but it has been around for quite a while. brent: hans, as always, thank you very much. all right, it is time to switch years now. time to talk business. ben is here now. a little talk of where's the beef and some talk of mario draghi? ben: ecb chief mario draghi signaled a policy review in december and that the bank stimulus program could the extended beyond september of next year. the reason is europe's tentative recovery. there are emerging market concerns affecting commodity prices. it's get the view from new york. traders there are also getting excited about this. i can understand on this side of

the atlantic they would be but on that site? -- side? >> yeah, you've got a good point there, because what we did see from this announcement by the ecb is that the u.s. dollar jumped a bit and that is not a good development for u.s. exporting cooperate -- corporations. we have seen exports reached the highest level in a good two months and sometimes you really get the feeling that investors are a bit simpleminded or just you get the perspective that more and cheap money does get the stock market going. so much of this can be debated and in a way, it might increase the health of the global economy because stock markets, for example, it is people who have

stocks, not the majority, but nobody come up with those questions today. ben: they were also pretty happy about a corporate turnaround for a fast food giant? >> we saw a massive move with mcdonald's, the biggest restaurant chain on this planet, and for the first time in about two years, restaurant sales increased in the united states. some of the changes that the new management is undertaking is to work this stock icreased by a good 8%, otherwise we saw a big increase in the history of the share of mcdonald's. but it actually also seemed a bit extreme. ben: ok, a slow turnaround for the fast food giant. thank you so much for the analysis.

executives of the luxury german sports car maker porsche are under investigation. investigators say that porsche lied about secretly buying up. in -- up volkswagen stock. >> shortly before the trial in the district court, former porsche chief again denied the charges, saying he was not guilty of market manipulation and connected -- in connection with his failed bid to take over the volkswagen group in 2008. he has been accused of having failed to inform investors about their plans. >> we alleged that the accused

provided false information that was trusted and acted upon by the stock market and by the public. we are attempting to trust the public and reduce the damage that has occurred. >> the trial is one of those to be the most closely watched. the accused could face a hefty fine or even jail sentences of up to five years. ben: fast food, fast cars, i am out of here. brent: the president of the german football federation talked to the media on thursday regarding damage control. this is in regards for the right to host the 2016 world cup. he says that germany won the bid fair and square. but there were other things that he could not explain. >> he had a difficult time

explaining to journalists that germany won the 2016 world cup bid fair and square. >> that some of what we have is a fairytale and it continues to remain one. germany did not use unfair methods to obtain the bid. >> it is accused that germany used 7 million euros to buy votes. then there was an accusation of a much larger amount of 170 million euros. so far, the head of adidas has not confirmed the amount. >> i was only slightly involved in this. that is why i can't provide you with any more details about that today. >> but maybe others can.

later on in the day, fifa contradicted him, saying that they do not agree with his claims. they say that would go against their guidelines. they let it be known that he did not recall a meeting with franz beckenbauer. brent: thanks so much for joining us today. i am brent goff. we will join you again at the top of the hour. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

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