saudi arabia as the annual hajj shelgren engine -- pilgrimage continues. ♪ >> german chancellor angela merkel been reelected as leader of the conservative christian democrats. more than 90% of the delegates at the party conference voted to keep merkel as party leader. amid lagging approval ratings for the coalition government, it gives merkel a decisive boost ahd ofeveral key state eltionin germany next year. in a speech, she saw to give new confidence to fellow conservatives. >> merkel seemed pleased with the results. 90.4% of the delegates voted to retain her as party leader. the number was down slightly over her reelection two years ago, but it is a solid boost for the chancellor amid ongoing divisions in her coalition government. earlier, merkel made a clear commitment to her party's alliance with the pro-business ftp and take aim at the opposition social democrats, including their former party chair. >> they once said the opposition is rubbish. today, they have nothing left to say. the fdp has gone one step further. as the opposition, they are making a mess and doing it enthusiastically.

saudi arabia as the annual hajj shelgren engine -- pilgrimage continues. ♪ >> german chancellor angela merkel been reelected as leader of the conservative christian democrats. more than 90% of the delegates at the party conference voted to keep merkel as party leader. amid lagging approval ratings for the coalition government, it gives merkel a decisive boost ahead of several key state elections in germany next year. in a speech, she saw to give new confidence to fellow conservatives. >> merkel seemed pleased with the results. 90.4% of the delegates voted to retain her as party leader. the number was down slightly over her reelection two years ago, but it is a solid boost for the chancellor amid ongoing divisions in her coalition government. earlier, merkel made a clear commitment to her party's alliance with the pro-business ftp and take aim at the opposition social democrats, including their former party chair. >> they once said the opposition is rubbish. today, they have nothing left to say. the fdp has gone one step further. as the opposition, they are making a mess and doing it enthusias

. >> the euro stabilizes after a strong defense by angela merkel. >> a new study shows one woman out of four in germany falls victim to domestic violence. >> south korea is sending more troops and weapons to front line islands as north korea warned it could follow up the deadly showing with more attacks. the warning comes as an american aircraft carrier heads to the region to deploy with a joint war games with troops in thsouth. the defense minister resigned following criticism that he reacted too slowly and softly to the assault on -- assault by p'yongyang. >> the south korean army allowed foreign media onto the island of yeonpyeong. the north fired artillery shells of the island, setting dozens of homes ablaze. the people here fur -- fear further attacks. >> a shelled to -- a shell hit directly here. my home was destroyed. >> most residents who experienced the attacks are packing belongings or have already left the island. meanwhile, in the capital of seoul, hundreds took to the streets to protest against the north, accusing tehran government of a slow and inadequate response to th

well we've been bringing you live coverage of german chancellor angela merkel there and not a mere putin addressing the media following their meetings today in berlin we'll bring you more reaction and analysis on what they had to say a little later here on. we have. all the stories. of the news stories this hour afghan officials are blaming nato for setting up peace talks with a man posing as a senior taliban commander present hamid karzai even hold negotiations with the impulse to before the roos revealed the scam began almost six months ago when afghan officials were approached by supposed taliban agents offering peace talks which intelligence reportedly arranged the meetings while the cia oversaw the entire thing but the man claiming to be a high ranking medicines is going to be a shop keeper from pakistan you're not going to do the fake it still remains a mystery the scandal is left the u.s. led coalition red faced after large sums of cash were handed over to step on things but if you can treat it says that nato should have done its homework. how come the con artist managed to outfox

be created that's the message from russian prime minister vladimir putin and german chancellor angela merkel who have pledged to strengthen economic ties between their countries even to more now from the german capital judging by what we've heard today in berlin on friday russia and germany are continuing to move closer together any increasing and increasing cooperation which means russia and the european union are moving towards each other as well russia's prime minister vladimir putin and the german chancellor angela merkel have been discussing joint ventures and projects in many spears like energy and car making and other sectors joint projects joint investments both in business and science but even talked about the possibility of a spiritual currency union also of course and that is something which is really far away at the moment hard to imagine right now but both of them knowledge that this is something inevitable which would happen if they continue moving towards other let's listen to what was what a person had to say philip. yes from the currency union we all realize that it's a deri

angela merkel was in belgium at the time. an association representing more than 200 allies has warned governments against overreacting against last week's bombs on aircraft air freight has been banned from yemen, and germany has banned flights from yemen, and the netherlands has also taken steps. we have this report. >> the country is on high alert. it is all over the city. at this trial today, the in any american is wanted. he was prosecuted in osseshia -- the yemeni american is wanted. he was prosecuted in absentia. >> all of that being stopped, all of that is being pushed away. that is a problem. by force alone, we will never succeed. there will be more sympathizers. we have to move the country forward and increase the country rather than isolate it. >> security measures are taken on all levels. as you can see, fedex and ups, and they will have more searches on cargo and at international airports, but they seem to be frustrated on how yemen has been labeled in the international community. here in the market, people are fru

now you are also now there like my position is to hold talks with angela merkel and some of germany's top business leaders so what other issues will be discussed aside from his proposals for the e.u. obviously. well this is a very important forum because the heads of some of germany's most successful and influential companies are taking port brainstorming looking for ways to move forward in the current economic situation in europe i'm talking about big companies like door should being siemens b.m.w. group walks wagon and more and as the skies over the european economy continue to darken since there's a very difficult situation in greece or oil and portugal we're now getting we've towards belgium and spain maybe next and when it comes to germany it's actually showing some really impressive economic growth at the moment the german government has previously said that the number of unemployed people in the country is now reduced from five to three million and they are seeing that it can actually drop altogether in the future and that is already the picture of the imports of the country so

talking cooperation with chancellor angela merkel. the russian cosmonauts and astronauts have made a successful landing back on earth as. the international space station. responsible for the it's nearly twenty thousand people were killed. with more news more developments in half an hour from now in the meantime we take a look at some of the latest and greatest from the world of high tech in technology update.

in germany then you better learn the language that's the message to immigrants from chancellor angela merkel. the streets of moscow are flooded with vampires devils and pumpkins as it celebrates halloween find out more here are to. brazil chooses dilma rousseff to be the country's first female president she will succeed the highly popular outgoing president lula da silva rousseff from the ruling party has campaigned on the success of silva who's credited with lifting millions of people out of poverty and lisa reports from sao paulo where the gap between rich and poor continues to shrink. in brazil there are those who live tucked away behind barbed wire walls. and those who live behind shanty cinderblock but in this developing nation in one of the fastest growing major economies in the world where they are pioneering deep water oil research and ethanol production for example signs of human development to mark by a before and after before outgoing president lula da silva took office he woke up to the people didn't recognise the poor today the rich are en route because the poor as poor as they

little story to the entire global basically credit crunch and debt collapse the headline remains angela merkel confines ireland portugal and spain to their fate. so the article is talking about germany has had enough they don't want to bail out any more bad debtors in the future so they're changing the lisbon treaty to basically provide for a bailout fund but one which angela merkel says we must keep in mind the feelings of our people who have a justified desire to see that private investors are also on the hook and not just taxpayers yeah she has a feeling she's saying that the the population have has feelings about this not a legitimate right that it shouldn't happen in the first place and then you can see further in this the actual vendor from the banks says regarding this next time there is a problem bondholders should be part of the solution rather than the problem so far the only ones who have paid for the solution are the tax payers again this is like a fake court the reason why the taxpayers are guilty of the bad debts is because the bondholders went to these organizations like the eur

example as a as a naked emperor think skinned and all three terry it or the german chancellor angela merkel was mentioned as angela tafel and merkel because so little seems to stick to her or among other things the u.s. embassy in moscow described president medvedev as playing robin to put bettman as you can see some of the wires may sound amusing but never the last one revealed in public they prove to be a major embarrassment for the state for the u.s. state department. and you know some some experts believe. it just just the state department at. the files revealed are sort of meant to undermine obama there's an opinion like that let's listen as i understand a bummer administration is supposed to pay the bills or of the last administration because of the some documents of eight dated back to the year two thousand and four two thousand and five so i personally have a friend in the know this is on the an attack on president obama which started not today and which aims. to allow him to be reelected this is the theme i think ok you go to over to you now the classified documents also refer to o

. >> the euro stabilizes after a strong defense by angela merkel. >> a new study shows one woman out of four in germany falls victim to domestic violence. >> south korea is sending more troops and weapons to front line islands as north korea warned it could follow up the deadly showing with more attacks. the warning comes as an american aircraft carrier heads to the region to deploy with a joint war games with troops in the south. the defense minister resigned following criticism that he reacted too slowly and softly to the assault on -- assault by p'yongyang. >> the south korean army allowed foreign media onto the island of yeonpyeong. the north fired artillery shells of the island, setting dozens of homes ablaze. the people here fur -- fear further attacks. >> a shelled to -- a shell hit directly here. my home was destroyed. >> most residents who experienced the attacks are packing belongings or have already left the island. meanwhile, in the capital of seoul, hundreds took to the streets to protest against the north, accusing tehran government of a slow and inadequate response to

germany's chancellor angela merkel has been reelected as the leader of her party. she won 90% of the votes she is slightly down on her previous results. there are reports of discontent within the party. the british government's is about to return home after an agonizing 380 days held captive by somali pirates. they had to be paid twice, in fact. but the british government is insisting they paid no money for their return. >> the last 48 hours have been a whirlwind for rich and paul chandler. there were flown to safety. here, they are at the british high commissioner's house. he has learned his father died in july wells he was held captive. the need times you adjust to the situation. -- they need time to adjust to the situation. it was nearly very different. in october last year, they tried to stop the pirates transferring the jammers from their yacht to a larger container ship. war-torn somalia has become a haven for pirates. they ganged up all the time 400 sailors are currently being held. the british government insists it has never been paid. the chandler family h

bush, german chancellor angela merkel. >> we have 34 degrees. >> coming up, first celebrities hit washington and then photographers. >> but first another check on traffic and weather. >> happy thursday morning. 4:5 3:00 a.m. adam caskey. temperatures, you could call them seasonable. let's take a look at the numbers outside. right now start our day. 47 in martinsburg. 34 in warrenton. clarksburg, you're at 35. you can see upwards of about 25 meteors per hour. that peaks today. 56 with limited sunshine today. that means increasing cloud cover later this morning. tomorrow will be a beautiful friday. perfect. a lot of sunshine and cooler. 52 for the high temperature tomorrow. 52 the high noticeably cooler tomorrow. let's go to lisa for traffic. >> we wanted you to be the first to know that the metro rail farragut north metro station will be open. all station will be open and they are planning to run on normal service systemwide. good news for virginia as well. everything is gone as far as road work. 110, the beltway and 95. everything good in virginia. as far as maryland traffic, they still have

meanwhile, german chancellor angela merkel has repeated her call for a permanent mechanism to resolve the eurozone debt crisis. she faced some strong criticism. social democrats and greens have called her planned cuts to services antisocial. >> germany appears to have the -- emerged smoothly from the crisis, and although the economy appears to have bounced back, merkel is keeping the economy titan, speaking to a strict diet of budget cuts and targetedt investments. >> we are not saving at the expense of the future. instead, this budget shows we are saving for our future. our budget is for more child care places for education and research, and for more investment. that is what our budget is about. alabama but the opposition are critical of the chancellor's government. they accused the conservative liberal coalition of facing in the wrong places, but fitting industry and the well-off instead of protecting the socially vulnerable. >> these policies are not made in the public interest but are instead policies, proposals, and ultimately laws that will deepen the divisions in this society.

german chancellor angela merkel left for the meeting supported by economic news at home. she also indirectly criticized u.s. federal reserve policy of quantitative easing. germany says it could cause instability. >> this time, everybody must ensure that global economic growth is more sustainable and long-lasting than what we thought a few years ago. >> the u.n. secretary-general is urging greater focus on the world's or and disadvantaged. >> i will do my best to ensure that the world's biggest and strongest economies create solutions for the poorest and most vulnerable people are around the world. >> demonstrators in seoul may welcome the words, but it will be expecting concrete action. >>> can there be good news in germany? >> the council of economic advisers, the five wise men, are predicting smooth sailing ahead for the german economy. they predict strong economic growth this year, with a slight drop off in 2011. the forecast is for growth of 3.7% in 2010, making it the strongest in a long time, on the back of an economic boom, with unemployment continuing to fall furt

world nations german chancellor angela merkel recently something to think protectionism as being among one of the biggest challenges to face the global economy. what do you make of that and what would you someone just being among the biggest and it's always i mean crisis always leads to more protection means that the number one i would say so from this point view there's nothing unusual that the recent rise of the lead to the same situation either in the currency field or in the trade field. yes i think the answer is to liberalize the economy to liberalize the world trade to liberalize the world economy i think that's the correct way to proceed now what do you make of the us this recent announcement over the weekend six hundred billion don't know rounds of wants to be thing. and how will it continue to affect even think about it in the common i agree that it's probably have to stop. the government supporting measures will they call them in is it's too early and i think the russian government would you substantially support but also continue this program and i think i think we will see

parcel bombs were sent to a number of embassies and european leaders, including german chancellor angela merkel. two alleged members of a great anarchist group have been arrested in connection with the bombs -- two alleged members of areek anarchist group. >>> riot police used stun grenades and tear gas against protesters as scuffles broke out when the police tried to push the firefighters back. greece has implemented a severe austerity measures to deal with the massive debt, including job and wage cuts. >>> the german defense minister guttenberg has made an unannounced trip to a combat zone and afghanistan. he visited german troops at the german base, where he wanted to get a firsthand view of the situation. german, american, belgian, and afghan forces have been engaged in heavy fighting with taliban militants in that region for several days, aiming to secure a new outpost close to an area controlled by taliban fighters. >>> steve has news about the ecb. >> the ecb is holding the rates steady. today at the u.s. fed announced pls to buynother six uer llion dolls ofonds with newly created money

protests have gained momentum following chancellor angela merkel's plan to keep nuclear energy which critics fear is unsafe. >>> in spain, 200 people protested pope benedict's visit to barcelona by staging a gay kiss-in as the pope arrive in the pope mobile during a visit benedict criticized spanish laws that allow gay marriage, fasttrack divorce and easier access to aborpgss. >>> more ancient buildings in pom pay could collapse like the 2,000-year-old house that disintegrated over the weekend. an expert says it's virtually inevitable given the state of some of the buildings. >>> the dow opens at 11,444 after adding nine points on friday. the s&p rose four points and the nasdaq edged up one. taking a look at overseas trading. this morning in tokyo, the nikkei climbed 106 points, while in hong kong, the hang seng gained 87. >>> after the hype of last week's election, the fed decision on stimulus and friday's job reports, investors who thrive on a steady stream of dramatic data could go into withdraw this week. consumer sentiment, weekly jobless claims and mort again apps are a few of

and in germany, police disarmed a bomb sent from greece to chancellor angela merkel's office.nd to hari sreenivasan in our newsroom for what you can see on air and online later this evening. hari? >> sreenivasan: the entire pbs newshour team will be back for an election special at 11:00 p.m. eastern time as well as a webcast on u.s.tream at 10:00 p.m. we'll have the latest projections plus more analysis from mark shields and david brooks and david chalian and stu roetenberg. we'll bring you live updates from republican headquarters here in washington d.c. from senate majority reed's headquarters in las vegas nevada and from our republican media colleagues in key states around the country. online we'll have the resulted latest results from the associated press and a graphic tracking the balance of power in the house and the senate. we'll have a live blog where you can follow the night's big developments, watch video and connect with us by a twitter or facebook. all that and more on air and on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. >> ifill: and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm gwe

disparaging comments about british prime minister david cameron, german chancellor angela merkel, and reports of russia's vladamir putin lavishing italy's prime minister with expensive gifts. >> in my conversations, at least one of my counterparts said to me, well, don't worry about it, you should see what we say about you. >> reporter: tonight, more cables released by wikileaks reveal that this year, south korean officials told the u.s. ambassador there that a new generation of chinese leaders would be comfortable with a reunified korea. but other cables reveal the chinese were as surprised as the u.s. was by north korea's recent nuclear advances and by their military steps. brian? >> as we stay, there's still more to come. andrea mitchell starting us off from washington tonight. andrea, thanks. >>> the release of these new secrets just this first new batch has badly damaged already the u.s. around the world. those who once confided in american diplomats can now read those secrets in the paper, as we just heard. while it strikes most people as wrong, the more interesting question is,

embassies in athens, international organizations and foreign leaders, including german chancellor angela merkelh president nicolas sarkozy. >>> insurgents carried out bomb attacks across the capital tuesday killing 76 people and wounding scores more. the blast occurred in at least 13 neighborhoods targeting mostly shiites. >>> in a new memoir, former president george w. bush reveals he once considered dropping dick cheney from his 2004 re-election ticket to put an end to the assertion that the former vice president was the real decision-maker. he admits that one of the worst times in his presidency was when kanye west accused him of not caring about black people in the wake of hurricane katrina. >>> what could be a major medical breakthrough -- scientists have discovered a new immune defense which they say could cure the common cold. researchers at cambridge university say they found a way to attack virus cells from the inside using, quote, powerful virus crushing machinery. >>> an early look at one of your top health headlines on msnbc.com -- according to a new study, compounds found in black

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. >> here in germany, chancellor angela merkel called for air freight security to be tightened. there was a parcel that did not detonate that was sento profits, but it did have the capacity to cause charm. it was allegedly from a left- wing guerrilla group in greece. >> chancellor merkel once air freight security to be tightened as soon as possible, and worldwide. just before the cabinet meeting, she thanked the staff at the chancellor's all ram, who yesterday identified a parcel that was dangerous to her. police are comparing the construction of that parcel bomb with others built by leftist extremists in greece. >> we have sent investigators to athens to establish what the initial questioning of the suspects there may reveal about what happened here in germany. >> the bomb disposal experts disabled the device in a mailroom, but he recently discovered mail bombs from yemen found in england a to y had been sent by air freight. eu countries want improved free to screening in place by december. -- free screening -- free at -- freight screening in place by december. >> that represen

. >> the both business leaders and chancellor angela merkel are worried about the shaky state of thezone countries. as an export-driven economy, germany needs a stable currency and structures to keep it that way. >> we will make sure that the current crisis response mechanism, which we support in its present form, is replaced by a permanent system. we want more responsibility from those who earn a lot on certain government bonds. i will continue to insist on that. >> the head of the german employers' association called for harsh sanctions on eu countries to break the rules on financial stability, saying the situation in some states was jeopardizing germany's economy. >> the european union and international monetary fund inspectors say greece has made enough of an effort to meet its 2010 deficit target to qualify for the next 9 billion euros installment of its emergency loan. greece will narrowly missed the target but pledged new fiscal measures to comply with its 110 billion euros bailout. meanwhile, a greek citizens continue to express their dismay at the austerity measures. >> stri

message from russian prime minister vladimir putin has been talking cooperation with chancellor angela merkel. the russian cosmonauts and astronauts have made a successful landing. and spent five months on the international space station. responsible for the cutting massacre in which nearly twenty people were killed in the tragedy relations between. for decades. when all those stories to come at the top of the hour but first let's cross to kate on the spot. for a few russian football fans crossing their fingers ahead of sunday's games one of the yes that's right this sunday will see the last at a fixed his in the russian premier league a european place and a four way battle to avoid relegation all to play for on that coming up. hello welcome to the sports. joining me onto the headlines. seventy final battle world number one rafael nadal is set to take on andy murray in the last four of the world tour finals in the. mile the same school the cowboys thanksgiving day in the n.f.l. by holding on to a the thirteen twenty seven in dallas. and the long and winding road to the roots of the next dakar