i'm brent goff. it is good to have you with us. a high ranking number of the cdu party has said tonight that chancellor angela merkel will run again. in an interview with cnn, a member said she will run for chancellor and she is absolutely determined and ready to contribute to strengthen the international liberal order. she will run and she will act as a responsible leader. let's pull in the political correspondent. good evening to you rupert. what more do we know about this? this isn't a formal declaration is it. we have been trying to confirm this news. what i heard from there is that they think he wasn't talking on behalf of angela merkel. it is more estimation that fact. they are claiming he wanted to give his impression but he is not talking on behalf. if she is going to run for a fourth term or not, they said the party chairman will announce her decision on whether she is going to run or not in due time. when this do time is. one good date is next sunday and then the board meeting is up. they told me to wait until sunday and

i'm brent goff, it is good to have you with us. tonight ankara is continuing its crackdown. turkish police have detained the editor of one of the opposition newspapers. they accused the journalists of having certain links. >> one of turkey's leading newspapers saw its editor in chief and several senior members arrested in a string of early-morning raids. members of turkey's main opposition parties stood alongside and they are calling this a coup against democracy. >> we will hold our heads high and continue our publication without fear of this morning we know that the -- there have been detentions for 16 of our friends. >> turkey's government said they arrested journalists are suspected of crimes. the left-leaning secular nurse -- newspaper has been under pressure four months. the previews editor survived a gun attack in may. he was then sentenced to five years in jail for publishing a story on arm shipments. he now lives in germany. the rest of murat sabuncu -- "cumhuriyet" is the latest on a series of crackdown following the coup in july. since then dozens of media organiz

i'm brent goff, good to have you with us. the liberation of muscle has become -- begun. the words as troops broke through the defenses of the so-called islamic state and began advancing towards the center of the city. their meeting fierce resistance. they are using civilians as human shields. >> a day of symbolic progress for iraqi forces. they are back in the city for the first time since islamic state fighters ousted them and say they have captured an important building. >> our troops enter the tv station which is very significant. peration has begun. as i i i i i i i i i i i i i i y are meeting evever greater resistance. bondsnd boooo will fight to the death if necessary. they have forced tens of thousands of civilians toward most old. >> people are very close to their offices and military installations. that is used to support the assertion that they plan to use these people as human shields. >> there were believed to be about 5000 militants remaining in muscle -- mosul. is the last major stronghold in iraq and where they programmed -- proclaim to the caliphate. it's

. ♪ brent: i'm brent goff, it is good to have you with us.ight, a presidential campaign that is not turned the country apartment chancellor angela christian democrats have agreed to back the social democrat frank-walter steinmeier as the country's next president. angela merkel says steinmeier, who currently the country's foreign minister, is an excellent choice to be the country's new head of state we will have more on the thinking behind his decision in just a moment. we begin with this report. reporter: just what many had given up hope that angela merkel's grand coalition government could agree on anything at all, and managed to find a joint candidate for president. frank-walter steinmeier is known to most as germany's chief diplomat. in the middle east, ukraine and iran's nuclear program, he has worked on defusing many crises. german chancellor angela merkel has never left any doubt that she trusts and listens to her foreign minister. that is also likely to have tipped the balance when she decided to back the social democrat, handing the c

. ♪ >> i am brent goff, it is good to have you with us.e begin with their public display of affection. barack obama and angela merkel have thanked each other for years of close corporation. of their final joint press conference in berlin, before he leaves the white house, they paid tribute to the strong ties between germany and the united states. reporter: the gloomy weather did nothing to dampen their spirits. at their meeting, obama and merkel celebrated eight years of collaboration. obama praised the german chancellor as an outstanding politician. if she were to stand for chancellor once more, he would be behind her. president obama: if i were german, i had a vote, i would support her. but, i don't know whether that hurts or helps. reporter: he also spoke of international crises like the war in syria and russia. and he also directed comments at trump. president obama: my hope is that the president-elect coming here takes a similarly constructive approach, finding areas where we can cooperate with russia, where our values and interests a

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goff hasn't played since preseason, roughed up then, getting more reps and they average 15 points per game. ice, sharks, their seasonal road game high, dry, continuing in carolina. brenthrough traffic. so nice work but middle of the third, dell makes the safe. there is chaos in sharks lose and just in case you're wondering the line is stanford favored by 10 and a half. >> thank you, larry. >> join us tonight at promising treatment for controlling your bad cholesterol. >> what if a pill can make you smarter? how they work and risks. >> at 8:00 it's the middle and 9:00, fresh off the boat and real yoen yeel. >> thanks for joining us. >> from all of us here, we appreciate your time. from washington, d.c., this is the "jeopardy! teen tournament. please welcome today's contestants -- an eighth-grader from cuyahoga falls, ohio... a sophomore from madison, alabama... and a junior from darien, connecticut... and now from dar constitution hall, here is the host of "jeopardy!" -- alex trebek! [ cheers and applause ] thank you, johnny, and thank you, ladies and gentlemen. well, the enthusiasm and your applause indicates that you all know how important this game is. it's the last