♪ ♪ anchor: this is "dw news," live from berlin. was it a bond that brought down the russian passenger jet over egypt. they are saying there is reason to be positioned as -- to be suspicious. >> why the russian jets crashed, but we have been concerned that the plane may have been brought down as a result of an explosive device. anchor: britain has grounded all flights from there, and we will have analysis from right here. also on the show, on the other

side of the road, another aviation scare. planes have been stopped flying into the san diego airport. police say a gunman is on the loose there and could be shooting high, and don't try putting the brakes on volkswagen's dirty diesel scandal. the automaker now recalling thousands of vehicles in the u.s. over, you guessed it, break problems. ♪ brent: i am brent goff. london says it has reason to suspect that a bomb may have caused the crash at a -- of a russian airliner last weekend. all 224 people on board died when the airbus went down about 20 minutes after taking off from

sharm el sheikh. the military has been struggling to control extremist groups in the sparsely populated area. of course, that is the sinai peninsula. the egyptian group linked to the islamic state has claimed responsibility more than once, and this claim has been disputed. well, british aviation experts are on their way to sharm el sheikh to assess airport security there. the u.k. transport secretary has just given a statement, explaining the government's decision. listen in. >> we cannot directly say why the russian jet crash, but we have become concerned that the plane may well have been brought down as a result of an explosive device. safety will always be the priority, and that is whthe prime minister last night called president sisi to express

concern and to ensure that the typist possible security arrangements were put in place at sharm el sheikh. -- that the tightest possible security arrangements were put in place at sharm el sheikh. brent: that's go over to london with birgit. we know that prime minister david cameron says he is concerned that e plane may have been brought down by an explosive device. has he said why? birgit: they are saying there is specific intelligence, but there is nothing official from number 10 downing street or from the foreign office. it is being investigated as a neral security precaution to make sure that those are safe if they want to fly home. brent: and, birgit, we know

there are some experts that were on their way to sharm el sheikh. what are the british doing in egypt right now? they are not going to the crash site first, right? they are going to the airport. birgit: as far as we know, the british experts are on the ground now in egypt, in sharm el sheikh, that they are not investigating the crash site, just investigating security measures at the airport to make sure that they are sufficient. this is, of course, a bit of a snob to the egyptian authorities. one would assume that they are also investigating their own security measures, but britain finds the need to send in their own experts. brent: we also understan the prime minister is chairing a meeting of the british government security crisis committee, and what is going to

come out of that? birgit: well, it is an emergency committee that does meet in the case of a national or international crisis, and in this case, they are not reporting to the public on their negotiations and on their discussion but they would want to determine the security of british citizens abroad in sharm el sheikh. brent: all right, birgit maass reporting for us in london. thanks. we want to bring in an aviation expert, tim, a familiar face here at dw. tim, it is good to have you with us. making this announcement of grounding flights and to make the announcement that they are suspicious, does that not say that they have found something that even goes beyond suspicion? tim: well, given the fact that

the british have a very good intelligence service, i would say yes. there is some reason, because you do not pull the power shoot. i think it is a good sign that now independent investigators are investigating the security measures in sharm el sheikh. there are some known difficulties be people were known to just walk on the airfields. brent: i want to ask you. there are british people at the airport assessing the security level there, so was it known even before last weekend that sharm el sheikh is a place where if a terrorist wanted to get something on board a plane coming he or she would have a decent chance? tim: well, i would say yes, you have a decent chance. whoever is flying out of this airport, and i do many british and german tourists were flying out of sharm el sheikh in the past, also the russians, because it is a favorite place for them. no security.

it is not comparable to the standards that we are familiar with, so, yes, of course. i trust that the egyptians have an eye on that, but terrorists are very inventive in finding their ways. brent: are you starting to have a little bit of déjà vu over what happened over eastern ukraine with airspace over an area, the airspace being open, for planes to fly, and maybe it should not be?tim: i do not think it is a problem with e air space. of course, air france and lufthansa have stopped flying there. there was emirates who also ceased flying over it. i think we can assume -- well, that is a problem with the news that they have been getting, but we can assume it was not a missile bringing down this plane. it could have been an explosive device planted on the plane. either in the cargo hold or in the cabin area, which led to

this catastrophe. precautions have to be taken. brent: with the breach of security, should any flights and have been taking off from sharm el sheikh?tim: well, i think it is good that the british, even if they err, they err on the side of caution. they have ceased operations there. i think that now there is an audit -- let's call it an audit, not an investigation. it is a good step. to exclude that there is a risk, and the rest will hopefully tell the investigation. brent: and that is the flight data recorder also. tim van beveren, we appreciate it. we want to go to another investigation in san diego, where a shooter has an area on law down. police of auors have surrounded a complex close to the san diego international airport. authorities say they have responded to a domestic violence

call, where a man with a high-powered rifle fired at them. we want to cross over now to our correspondent in washington, richard walker. he is following this story for us. good afternoon to you, richard. what more can you tell us? richard: hello, brent. details are still coming in. you described it your self. there is a standoff between police and this apparent active shooter. we hear he is inside an apartment in an upper floor of a residential building very close to san diego airport, with then saying they believe the man has a high-powered rifle, and shots have been fired, including at their personnel, but the police say they have the situation contained. it is important to say that the man is in the apartment. this is not someone roaming around on a shooting rampage,

and this limits the amount of harm that can be done to locals there, but the police have told locals to stay inside. a couple of local schools have been shut down, and crucially, san diego airport, which is close by, has stopped any landings, though anybody going to san diego in the next couple of hours, they definitely need to be asking about that. brent: right in the center of the city. that is not the place to have a lone gunman, i am sure. richard walker, thank you very much. well, if you think it is a dangerous time to fly, well, i don't know if getting in a car is going to make you feel any better after ben tells us the latest news from volkswagen. ben: it is one scandal after another, brent, with another recall with a mechanical problem

that knocks out the brakes. until now, the scandal only surrounded diesel models, and in other news, they have frozen sales of diesels at vw, and the porsche unit has done the same, and moody's has cut them. report: it cut from vw itself. and said that co2 emissions could have been understated in europe. in a sign of just a much the scandal could damage their image, they were praised for being up front this time. itself investigated this and made it public -- >> the fact that volkswagen itself investor get this and made it public, it

is proved that they are taking it seriously. reporter: but vw is not getting such an easy ride from all quarters. the european commission says they want to know more about the co2 emissions. if they exceed the eu limits also, it could face further penalties. as new twists emerge on an daily basis, it is becoming clear that the made-in-germany bran is tied up with volkswagen. that makes the stakes of this scandal all the greater. ben: laz is in new york for us. tell us about reporting on vw. what is shocking is that that dirt flicking up in the face of vw.

reporter: this is getting worse on a daily basis, and especially with the american market. this is an entirely new dimension. first of all, switching from diesel to gasoline, a much bigger marker segment, now switching to bigger cars, which in america specifically is a much bigger market segment. if you look at the cars that we are talking about right now, the cayenne and others, and they have a higher profit margin, so this will cost them even more profit. a lot of these cars have been pulled from the dealership, and the sales numbers here are plummeting to zero, and, yes, we have the problem with the brakes , too, so this is eroding trust in volkswagen and in all of the other brands, and in german

brands in general. ben: all right, they say germany's largest bank, deutsche bank, has agreed to pay 258 million dollars with sentient companies like iran and syria -- has agreed to pay $250 million for doing business with places like iran and syria. reporter: their business was good and strong in the united states, and their name as a brand was really good here also. volkswagen being one of the biggest, and deutsche bank, to be honest, they never really had a great name, because over the last couple of years, they were involved in way too many scandals, and there are the situations now with breaking the sanctions against iran and syria, and then there was interest rate manipulation,

obviously, like with volkswagen, there is no end in site. it is just going further and further. they pay high fees, but still, trust is eroding here. ben: all right, we have to leave it there. too many scandals on their hands please stay with us here on "dw news." we have more news after the break. ♪ announcer: just listen. this is the signed -- sound of

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under the current constitution, the office of president is largely ceremonial. erdogan wants to change that to be more similar to the president of the united states, but many worry this has nothing to do with a balance of powers. reporter: applause for a president who is wasting no time. three days after the election, president erdogan is pressing to extend presidential powers with a resolution. his conservative party once to change the system of government, but they lack what is needed in parliament. >> i believe that political parties seeking to port this process should change their stance. anyone who resists our people's wish for a new constitution, who tries to prevent it, will be held accountable in the next

elections and four years. the opposition fears that erdogan could become an autocratic president. pressing ahead with the kurdish pkk rebels. and the government is cracking down on dissenting media. on tuesday, two editors of a magazine were arrested for allegedly plotting a coup. they had called the akp victory on their cover page the beginning of a civil war in turkey. that edition of the magazine was withdrawn from shelves. >> this magazine has been shut down in the past. turkey has become a country that cannot even tolerate an opposition magazine. we are talking about a transition towards tyranny. after regaining their absolute majority, erdogan at the potty feel stronger than ever. brent: picking up on that

strength, dorian jones is our correspondent there. what is erdogan's game plan right now? do you think you will be successful, and do you think that the people of turkey are going to say yes to what he wants? dorian: he is talking about a american-style residency, and he says the president will need to make quick decisions. but opponents are saying that this is equivalent to an elected dictatorship, a can to -- akin to putin's russia. if he does pursue this without making any concessions, then turkey will head to a very divisive vote, and that will only add to the deep divisions within turkish society. brent: you say the deep divisions in turkish society,

dorian, but, obviously, erdogan must feel he has support to get this passed. how do you explain his popularity? dorian: he has been dominating politics for the past 15 years. he is a political giant, and he has been successful at preventing any rival party, particularly in the center right, from rising, and it times of conflict, then people particularly on the right lyrical spectrumco which dominates turkish politics, do gravitate towards them, even if they do have qualms about his style and methods. brent: dorian jones, on the site in istanbul, thank you very much. all right, let's go back over to ben. more business news that is bad? ben: possibly good news depending on how you see this. the federal reserve's says the

economy is doing well enough to possibly raise interest rates in december. they have been on edge for months, waiting for a definitive statement from the fed. the fed chair janet yellen's remarks on wednesday may come close. reporter: although markets have been given a very hefty hints, the federal reserve says a funds rate hike is in the cards. giving testimony to a congressional committee, then chair janet yellen has given a signal to the fate of the rate. ms. yellen: what they have been expecting is that the economy will continue to grow at a pace that is sufficient to generate further it movements in the labor market and to return inflation to our 2% target over the medium-term, and if the incoming information supports that expectation, then our statement indicates that

december would be a possibility, but importantly, that we have made no decision about it. reporter: although the hike is expected to be no more than a cautious hike, it would be the first of a series of raises, affecting markets the world over. the fed says it will continue analyzing data until its next policy meeting, from december 15 to december 16, which could end with a historic announcement. ben: and here is something that will not melt in your mouth but could melt your bank account, a diamond just auctioned off for 17 million euros. an american paid the exorbitant sum in geneva, and for that price, winston wants its own name to last that long. they have renamed the diamond the winston blue.

brent: thank you, ben. i could not have said it better myself. another corruption scandal burning in the world of sports, this time, it involves the iaaf. the former president, lamine diack, is being investigated on charges of corruption and money laundering. reporter: lamine diack is accused of accepting money to cover up doping. french authorities raided the iaaf before charging him and two former advisers. diack had stepped down after 16 years as the head of the iaaf. he is accused of overlooking suspicious test for over a decade, including those for athletes who got rolled metals.

the recently elected president volunteered to be questioned by police and is fully cooperating with the investigation. anchor: an alleged attempt to blackmail a fellow french international over a sac state. they say the tape was mentioned during international duty last month, and the relatives were allegedly contacted by the black mayors -- by the blackmailers. the alleged extortionists were investigated in october. dirty and even dirtier. so more detail. what more can you give us? reporter: ok, so the

investigation started back in july, and that is when valbuena brought it to their attention, and the business associates. b blackmailers on the telephone, and they did two things, mentioning names and family member names, and the championship takes place in france, but the investigators have been busy. they did charge. they have three known football groupies or football players. they also called in a former french striker. they questioned him about it because he had nothing to do with it, but the other came under fire when he mentioned it to valbuen a practice, and is he poking fun, or is he actually involved in this tuition? and bad news for benzema.

we did hear from his lawyer. this is what his lawyer had to say after benzema's arrest. >> what i can say is that karim benzema is happy and satisfied to put an end to this hurtful controversy. he has nothing to do with it. and as soon as his name came out in this controversy, he asked me to tell the judge that he was available to talk with the investigators. should they want to ask him any questions. he is there now to answer their questions. brent: obviously, chris, if you are a high profile athlete, are you at risk to get pulled into a scandal like this? risk: these players make large amounts of money and have targets on their back, and one of the people in custody is a close associate of valbuena, and

that is where the tape came from. nobody is shouting or proclaiming his innocence. he was cleared but had a checkered past. he was cleared with having sex with an underage prostitute, but we will have to see what happens. brent: thank you for bringing that out for us. all right, that is going to bring us to the end of our edition of world news from dw. i will see you 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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