thanks so much for being with us i'm brian thomas the number of people suffering from hunger worldwide is rising according to the world hunger index more than one hundred twenty four million people are experiencing hunger that's forty four million more than two years ago it is the african continent that suffers most the majority of the countries in africa have a serious hunger problem there are just eight african countries where hunger and starvation are not an issue central african states are at the top of the index. while side of africa war torn yemen is one of the worst hit countries of its twenty eight million people war than eight million are on the brink of starvation and there's concern that that figure could double by the end of this yr. these other faces of a famine. the scars of war are visible everywhere in yemen and i say waffen the most vulnerable lot children. in the hospital in aden every very miss filled with tiny patients he came with a seat up with money through asia for me to share a habitation and communicated with a kid what they did a area that's what i do think i

brian thomas for the entire team thanks so much for being with us. when we were wrong when do we want to know any percent of americans in some. experience friendship.

i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us the far right politician jar your ball so naro has won the first round of brazil's presidential election allow face a runoff in three weeks time against his closest rival leftist fernando adot also mauro attracted. by promising to fight corruption and restore what he calls traditional values. i thank ye ableson our supporters believe he's going to turn the country around and sunday's results gave them reason to celebrate their candidate share of the vote has surged past pollsters predictions i see the country is under siege within the government and on the streets we need to end this and he's the most capable of doing so no doubt about it now my son my son. was a big problem in the images russia. was not until he was. also narrow didn't appear in person after the election results were announced the full military officer was staffed at a campaign rally last month and doctors are still wary of his health but he did appear on social media. i'm sure that in the second round we will intensify our efforts and will obtain the victory. the si

i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us voters in germany are rejecting chance for all americans governing coalition in record numbers now that's the takeaway from a new opinion poll only days before a key regional lection in the southern state of bavaria now ahead of this ballot seen as crucial for america's government the latest survey by the pollster in for test the map spells potential disaster for the chancellor at the national level now if elections across germany were to be held today. this is who the surveys participants say they'll be voting for sounds american conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. bloc at twenty six percent that's down three percentage points from just last month september the social democrats the other party in the coalition are likewise down three points there now at just fifteen percent that's an historic low for them the greens in contrast a game three points for seventeen percent no change for the far right if the at sixteen the free market f.t.p. a ten no change for the left party either ten percent there. for more with me here in the studio is our political

a low and welcome to focus on europe i'm brian thomas when a catastrophic earthquake hit italy two years ago politicians were quickly on site promising aid for towns like camerino what the quake and aftershocks did not destroy outright they left unsafe for residents to return to dozens of once thriving communities like this one steeped in history and beloved with tourists are now virtual ghost town it's all for the last two years little has been done to change that despite the one and a half billion euros already paid out by brussels and aid and the hundreds of millions by rome that has yet to appear former camerino residents like l. the addressee army can do little more than look on while what was once home all's ever more deeply into disrepair. going to get you know what we used to crew come arena the candy box we didn't even realize how beautiful the place was now that it's gone. and stands in front of the place she called home for more than fifty years until the earthquake two years ago made her entire city uninhabitable now it's too dangerous to go beyond this point on the doorstep

welcome to this edition of quadriga the international talk show coming to you from berlin i'm brian thomas great to have you with us over the past year there's been a sharp spike in the number of state sponsored killings of journalists and government critics now although the details are not yet in nor are they completely confirmed it appears that the most recent victim is the late washington post columnist jamal khashoggi an influential critic of saudi ruler mohamed bin solomon now there is mounting evidence that after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul turkey he was rendered unconscious and then dismembered by a special team sent from riyadh that included a number of bin solomon's personal bodyguards u.s. president trump says it is too early to draw any conclusions but the white house has requested turkey delivered the audio and video it says it has on the last moments of the show she's life. who should she disappeared death by decree that's our topic today we're focusing on that with rick no act he's a foreign affairs reporter for the washington post for which a crucial she also wo

welcome to this edition of quadriga the international talk show coming to you from berlin i'm brian thomas great to have you with us. over the past year there's been a sharp spike in the number of state sponsored killings of journalists and government critics now although the details are not yet in nor. are they completely confirmed it appears that the most recent victim is the late washington post columnist jamal khashoggi and influential critic of saudi ruler mohammed bin solomon. there is mounting. evidence that after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul. turkey he was rendered unconscious and then dismembered by a special team sent from riyadh that included. a number of didn't solomon's personal us president trump says it is too early. to draw any conclusions bought the white house has requested turkey deliver the audio and video it says it has on the last moments of the show she's life. she disappeared death by decree that's our topic today were focusing on that with rick novak is a foreign affairs reporter for the washington post. for which she also worked as a commentator. recov

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a low and welcome to focus on europe i'm brian thomas when a catastrophic earthquake hit italy two years ago politicians were quickly on site promising aid for towns like camerino.

welcome to this edition of quadriga the international talk show coming to you from berlin i'm brian thomas great to have you with us over the past year there's been a sharp spike in the number of state sponsored killings of journalists and government critics now although the details are not yet in nor are they.

a low and welcome to focus on europe i'm brian thomas when a catastrophic earthquake hit italy two years ago politicians were quickly on site promising aid for towns like camerino.

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i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us just how stable is chancellor merkel's government after her political allies in bavaria suffered massive losses in a regional election yesterday her conservative sister party the c.s.u. lost their absolute majority in that state after six decades of dominance the c.s.u. took less than forty percent of the vote that's a drop of more than ten percent the greens are celebrating strong gains now becoming the number two. party in bavaria a regional party of the free voters getting eleven percent the far right alternative for germany set to enter by various parliament for the very first time just over ten percent of support there and support for the center left social democrats crashing by half two hundred ten percent mark you have to be the free democrats just passed the five percent hurdle the left party will not be in the next parliament here's some reaction now from key political players i see in dismay as a watershed moment the c.s.u. loses its absolute majority but there aeons long standing loyalty is fading the party may afford opposition

welcome to this edition of quadriga the international talk show coming to you from berlin i'm brian thomas great to have you with us over the past year there's been a sharp spike in the number of state sponsored killings of journalists and government critics now although the details are not yet in nor are they completely confirmed it appears that the most recent victim is the late washington post columnist. and influential critical.

thomas payne. his leg might be in england. brian: then there is the new york him of thomas payne. ve probably been there. joanne: i have not, i know it is there but i have not made a pilgrimage. brian: there are no bones buried there, they are all of the world? joanne: i have not redone my search, but every time i go online for a teach that course, i do not find a solution to where thomas payne's body went. brian: who can watch open yale courses? joanne: everybody. thing, they put cameras in the back of lecture rooms for popular lecture courses and just filmed the lectures and put them online for free. andi know it is on itunes, i believe youtube as well, but you can go to open yale courses, i think it's history 116, the american revolution. it's the entire course. 26 lectures, about 45 minutes. me in the classroom with my students. and it is the american revolution beginning to end. brian: one more thing you are involved in, something called back story. audio, an excerpt, is radio back story. let's listen. >> we know that fake news or fantasy news perceives the republic. but other

thomas payne. his skull might be in australia, his leg might be in england. brianthen there is the new rochelle home of thomas payne. joanne: i know it is there but i have not made a pi total image. brian: there are no bones there, but they are all over the world? joanne: i have not in the last few years redone my search, but every time i go online for a teach that course, i do not find a solution to where thomas payne's body went. brian: who can watch open yale courses? joanne: everybody. yale did a great thing, they put cameras in the back of lecture rooms for popular lecture courses and just filmed the lectures and put them online for free. and i know it is on itunes, and i believe youtube as well, but you can go to open yale courses, i think it's history 116, the american revolution. it's the entire course. all about lectures, 35 minutes. essentially it is like you are sitting in the classroom with my students. and it is the american revolution beginning to end. brian: one more thing you are involved in, something called back story. joanne: yes. brian: here is

give more on these and other stories at our website interview dot com for now though for me brian thomas the entire team here thanks for being with us. on. any coke is in germany to learn german. alleged illegal why not learn with him online on the immobile and free newscast from the w z learning course nico streak. touched. me. and. said. yeah. any yet. i think super through . one fish meat and fish. for. the five so. you know. thank . the locality where i am physically really doesn't make so much difference because i'm carrying. the music and i'm like the instrument that. that's occurring all this things in inside me doesn't matter which piano which called for what people i mean people in the end they or they are in the concert hall wanting to hear the music wanting to be transported to somewhere else when i can deliver i mean what i'm trying to deliver is first or transport them to somewhere they probably wouldn't be and that moments from their everyday life hopefully can transform but i don't i don't promise that every night. everything i played now is probably what i learned when i

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a very warm welcome to the show i'm brian thomas has confirmed a man has been arrested in germany in connection with the killing of ball garrion television journalist victoria marin over. no it was found dead in a park in the northern city of russia on saturday she's also been brutally raped and beaten her law last television show at featured an investigation into alleged fraud linked to european union funding the suspect a twenty one year old bo garrion citizen or various interior minister said police had found d.n.a. evidence connecting him to the crime scene. let's get the very latest from bulgaria with correspondent teodora bars a cold in russia where the murder took place and from our political correspondent oliver solich here in berlin to dora what do we know about the suspect now in custody. we know that he's cold civet in the casino he was born in we'll say in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven he's twenty one years old and we know what he played he was living isn't too far from where the murder took place and we know that they found conclusive d.n.a. evidence on the vict

i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us reports from the united states say that saudi arabia is about to acknowledge that the missing dissidents saudi journalist she was killed in its consulate in turkey these unconfirmed reports in u.s. media indicate saudi officials killed khashoggi during an investigation that apparently went wrong u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o has landed in riyadh to discuss the case with the saudi leadership earlier turkish officials searched the consulate. after a long night of searching for clues on how jamal khashoggi vanished turkish police left the saudi consulate in istanbul they took evidence with them including soil having been given access to the building for the first time. because shock she was last seen walking into that same door nearly two weeks earlier turkish officials believe he was murdered and dismembered by a hit team. living in self-imposed exile in the u.s. she was a vocal critic of the saudi regime. riyadh denies any involvement in the journalist's disappearance. but u.s. broadcasts to c.n.n. is reporting that the saudis ar

welcome to this edition of quadriga the international talk show coming to you from berlin i'm brian thomas great to have you with us over the past year there's been a sharp spike in the number of state sponsored killings of journalists and government critics now although the details are not yet in nor are they completely confirmed it appears that the most recent victim is the late washington post columnist jamal khashoggi an influential critic of sal.

welcome to this edition of quadriga the international talk show coming to you from berlin i'm brian thomas great to have you with us over the past year there's been a sharp spike in the number of state sponsored killings of journalists and government critics now although the details are not yet in nor are they completely confirmed it appears that the most recent victim is the late washington post columnist jamal khashoggi an influential critic of saudi.

welcome to this edition of quadriga the international talk show coming to you from berlin i'm brian thomas great to have you with us over the past year there's been a sharp spike in the number of state sponsored killings of journalists and government critics now although the details are not yet in nor are they.

i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show there's been a new development in the case of murdered television journalist victoria mara nova a male suspect has been arrested here in germany now that's according to media in bulgaria nova has been found dead in a park in the northern bulgarian city of rousseau that was on saturday she'd also been brutally raped and beaten her last television program had featured an investigation into alleged fraud. linked to e.u. funds it's not yet known if mario was going had anything to do however with that work the latest arrest comes after police questioned and then released or ommaney a man in bulgaria yesterday. ok let's get the very latest now from bulgaria with a correspondent here dora barsa robot in russo that's where the murder took place and with all of her salad here in berlin to dora if we can begin with you there's been arrests a press conference about this arrest rather what details can you give us. so the book carry an interior minister. prosecutor general and the prime minister gave a press conference just less than are half an hour

i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us one of the most powerful storms to ever hit the u.s. mainland has been battering southern coastal states hurricane michael made landfall in florida yesterday leaving widespread damage and flooding in its wake pictures taken by the international space station captured the storm shortly before it hit the southern tip of the state known as the florida panhandle it was the state's fiercest weather in more than eighty years now the storm's intensity has waned as it moves inland as usually happens but neighboring states including georgia and the carolinas are bracing for more destructive winds. supercharged by the woman waters of the gulf of mexico hurrican michael blasted ashore battering southern florida with winds of up to two hundred fifty kilometers an hour residents in coastal areas who hadn't already heeded warnings to leave were told to stay put travel now just too dangerous. they say god bless you all this by message because that's what it is the storm is there i mean the storm is there it's sort of too late to do anything about it

i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show there's been a new development in the case of murdered bulgarian television journalist victoria manova a male suspect has been arrested here in germany now that's according to media in bulgaria. was found dead in a park in the northern bulgarian city of jerusalem on saturday she had also been brutally raped and beaten her last television program had featured an investigation . into alleged fraud linked to e.u. funding it's not yet known if marin over his killing had anything to do with her work however the latest arrest comes after police question and then released a rumanian man in bulgaria yesterday. our political correspondent albert solid is following this for us this morning oliver what more can you tell us about the arrest here in germany where we're looking at only one source right now and that is of bulgaria in a newspaper and they are saying that the suspect was arrested in germany following the murder the put to the derm and police was not able to confirm this however at this point so we're really looking at only one source but

i'm brian thomas for a warm welcome to the show voter rejection of the governing coalition here in germany is the highest it has ever been that's only days before a key regional elections in the southern state of bavaria ahead of this ballot seen as crucial for chancellor merkel's government we have the latest survey by the polling institute in for tests and for americans coalition it is looking like a disaster if elections across germany were to be held today this is who the surveys participants say they've. for johnson ackles conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. bloc is at twenty six percent that's down three percentage points from just last month september the social democrats the other party in the governing coalition there likewise down three points now with just fifteen percent that is an historic low the greens in contrast gaining three points for seventeen percent ahead of the if the no change for them there sixteen the free market f.t.p.'s stay at ten percent no change for the left party either ten percent. ok let's break this down now with our political correspondent oliver salad here in t

i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us the far right can the fireballs in our zero has won the first round of brazil's presidential election he secured about forty seven percent of the vote in sunday's ballot sending him to a second run off later this month now dubbed the tropical trump because of his nationalist brazil first agenda balsam are all ran on the promise of jailing crooked paul. all tissues and giving police free reign to shoot drug traffickers. to face the leftist candidate hernando hood dodd who took about twenty nine percent of the ballot daughters warns his opponents far right policies could pose a risk to democracy. more on this let's bring in our correspondent ophelia harms a really she joins us from rio de janeiro ophelia could you tell us more about the winner mr paulson are. well mr bolton ariza for me army captain and therefore he has shown a lot of sympathy with the military even suggesting that the best way to fight crime and corruption in the country would be by sending the military to the streets and killing more criminals he does remind many peopl

i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us. is facing intense international scrutiny after the rape and murder of investigative journalist victoria marin over amidst european union calls for an investigation police say they are considering all possible scenarios now so far we have to say there is no proof of links between her reporting and her murder she is though the third investigative journalist killed in the europe. in union in less than a year. the moonless only ring murdered journalist victoria marie nova outside a church and a capital sofia. and the journalists home town who say hundreds turned out playing flowers and lighting candles in her memory. mary novus body was left in a park near the river danube after she had been brutally beaten raped and strangled . knife your brain remember. so many emotions i can explain. it's so confusing how someone could go out for drug and never come back course is very young on one. hand he's. with children. it was this was the last time the thirty year old appeared on t.v. before her

i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us just how stable is chancellor merkel's governing coalition after her political allies in bavaria suffered deep losses in a regional election or conservative sister party the c.s.u. losing their absolute majority in that state after six decades of dominance the c.s.u. taking less than forty percent of the vote that's a drop of more than ten percent the greens are celebrating some strong. games now becoming the number two party in bavaria a regional party of the three voters getting eleven percent the far right a.f. d. the alternative for germany is set to enter by various parliament for the very first time ten percent of support their support for the center left social democrats crushing by half to under a ten percent mark the f.t.p. the free democrats just passed the five percent hurdle the left party will not be in the next parliament and a moment will be going to munich and berlin first here's some reaction from key players. dismay at a watershed moment the c.s.u. loses its absolute majority but there aeons long standing loyalty is fading t

i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us bold areas facing intense international scrutiny after the rape and murder of t.v. presenter victoria mera nova a miss you calls for an investigation police say they are considering all possible scenarios now so far there's no proof of links between her work on a report into alleged e.u. corruption and her murder she is the third journalist killed in the european union in less. than a year. the moon is on the ring murdered journalist victoria marie nova outside a church and a capital sofia. and the journalist's hometown who say hundreds turned out playing flowers and lighting candles and her memory. mary novus body was left in a park near the river danube after she had been brutally beaten raped and strangled . her if you're playing in mangalore and so many more from the i can explain. it's so confusing with children. it was this was the last time the thirty year old appeared on t.v. before her disappearance she had been working on an investigative report into alleged corruption in infrastructure projects involving european union funds au

i'm brian thomas thanks for being with us voter rejection of the governing coalition here in germany is the highest it has ever been and that's only days before a key regional election in the southern state of the varia ahead of this ballot is seen as crucial for chancellor merkel's government we have the latest survey by the polling institute in for test the map and for merkel's coalition it is looking like a disaster. if elections across germany were to be held today this is who the surveys participants said they vote for. ackles conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. bloc is at twenty six percent that's down three percentage points from just last month from september the social democrats the other party in the governing coalition they are likewise down three points at just fifteen percent and sturrock low the greens in contrast they gain three points or seventeen percent no change so far for the far right if he had sixteen the free market f t p a ten no change as well for the left party at ten percent. for more with me here in the studio is our political correspondent oliver sallust morning o