netanyahu when he approved the expansion of jewish settlements in the west bank now the consultations are resuming and merkel's visit started with a solemn moment. remembering the victims of the holocaust this is not just a routine duty for the chancellor angela merkel emphasizes germany's friendship with israel despite political differences at the memorial she recalled germany's special responsibility. for fun. eighty years ago during the night of the. jewish people in germany faced hate and violence of unimaginable severity followed was that unprecedented destruction of civilized values of the shoah as a result germany has an eternal responsibility to remind the world of this crime and to counter anti-semitism seen a phobia hate and violence. merkel is in israel for comprehensive talks a special relationship germany maintains with only eleven countries she met with prime minister netanyahu on wednesday and will meet him again today merkel has also promised to openly discuss her differences with israel. tanya kramer is covering chancellor merkel's visit to israel and she joins us from je

ramallah in the west bank where he also pledged forty million dollars in aid for infrastructure projects. there's the winter olympics which is into day two in china and we're joined by i mean the whole taki from the sports desk to take us through all the races action. the first medal of days who was won by the seventeen year old red gerard's how big was this win for him it was big it basically took a teenager to win the united states first gold medal and it was all down to one big but we leave bold moves so people need to understand that read prior to his final run he had to really pull one so he knew that in his final shot he had to come up with something really impressive something really big so he managed to pull off some a really big trick in snowboarding and it's caught the back side triple cork fourteen forty it's a really kept complicated move but to make it to to make this of us understand it you basically have four full rotations in the area so what makes this to me what makes this for the seventeen year old to win this idea and also all the more intriguing is the fact that the

on longside her mother for slapping and kicking two israeli soldiers near her home in the west bank israel says she's being used by her family for political reasons for palestinians she's become a symbol of resistance. of nicaraguans have marched through the capital in support of the roman catholic church and its bishops president ortega has accused the church of aiding an attempted coup against him protesters chanted slogans and supporters of the bishops and called for take its resignation. well there's been a dramatic decline in the number of undocumented migrants reaching europe this year overall fifty five thousand people have arrived which is half the figure for the same period in twenty seventeen but one roof's has seen a surge in illegal crossings with spain overtaking italy as the main landing points over f.a.'s unlike rants have been rescued crossing from morocco since friday. pursued by a police post a pakistani from morocco lands on a spanish beach. a group of migrants jump and disappear into the surrounding do. the scenes were captured on friday off the straits of gibraltar the

pushing ahead with the expansion of jewish settlements in the west bank and doesn't agree with a two state solution doesn't sit well with merkel she sees his stance as an obstacle to lasting peace a few weeks ago donald trump made things even worse he decided to withdraw from the nuclear agreement with iran and move the u.s. embassy in israel to jerusalem. israel a plot of these moves germany didn't. in march during his inaugural visit to israel the new german foreign minister outlined his country's approach. which over the. i believe that we agree on almost all of the goals. there are some differing opinions on how to achieve them. germany's place will always be by israel's side on all of these issues slaves are after the founding of the israeli state seventy years ago the chancellor of west germany konrad adenauer acknowledged his country's responsibility for the holocaust in one thousand nine hundred sixty five germany and israel formally established diplomatic relations then came the munich olympics in one nine hundred seventy two when palestinian terrorists killed eleven israeli

because of her anger over his government's expansion of q.e. settlements on the west bank the two leaders also disagree sharply over the iran's nuclear deal. well for more now we're joined by due to be a political correspondent hans bonn to hans there's been a lot of tension perceiving the chancellor's visit what are the prospects that we're going to see a reset in german israeli relations after this visit. well we have to see that germany still emphasizes various relationships with israel is a very special one because of german history because of the german responsibility for the holocaust and macca continues to emphasize that herself at the same time we have to see that there have been major differences in the policy hasn't as you've just said to this lead to a constellation of these consultations last year so this is an attempt to restart that and at the moment the german side is emphasizing especially the questions of economic cooperation of cooperation in fields such as digital technology and so on so one is trying to say let's try and get back to business rather than talk ab

authorities the report released today accuses the fatah dominated bondeson in authority in the west bank and hamas which operates in gaza of using repressive techniques against critics both parties categorically did. the reports it's not the first time allegations like these have been made this time human rights watch have spoken to more than one hundred people to hear their stories based on eighty six cases in both the west bank and in gaza the report alleges the torture as practiced by both the that's the palestinian authority and hamas amount to a crime against humanity given its systematic practice over many years. now for there's detainees have given detailed accounts of the experiences have a listen to some. might make you sit in a chair like this tie your hands. tire legs do you know. they also bring a rope and tired from your long arms to your leg and you stay like this for a day or two. i was arrested by security forces in the gaza strip writing a facebook post on. facebook. posts in short compared the conditions of ordinary people to those of officials and leaders in town. who said

syria lebanon the occupied west bank and the gaza strip donations from u.n. member states make up nearly all of the agency's budget of over one billion dollars the united states gave three hundred sixty four million u.s. dollars in two thousand and seventeen four hundred forty one million dollars came from the e.u. and its member states earlier this month the u.s. froze some sixty five million dollars of its aid for the un refugee agency during the world economic forum in davos president trump threatened to cut off u.s. aid to the palestinians altogether unless they resume peace talks with israel the cut in funds could hit the most vulnerable palestinians across the region the un r w a provides them with basic care education health social services and food distribution emergency aid also supports palestinian refugees in war torn syria and in gaza the cut comes at a critical time for the organization and it's now urgently looking for a way to make up the shortfall. in brussels are covering the e.u. foreign ministers talks for us today hi gary they are meeting also to talk about thi

jewish settlers from fifteen homes built illegally in the west bank two protesters were arrested after scuffles broke out during the operation israel's supreme court order to make shoes because the homes were built on private palestinian land. like. french president emanuel michel has denounced to italy's refusal to take in more than six hundred migrants stranded aboard a rescue ship in the mediterranean president's macor accuse the italian government of cynicism and said it had an obligation under international law at least sending ships to help transport the migrants to spain. after more than two days of talk at sea the six hundred twenty nine migrants on board of the rescue ship. are been accompanied minors and pregnant women. the ship was headed toward sicily but italian authorities refused entry as did malta stuck on the high seas the migrants created a diplomatic storm until spain offered to take in the ship. the standoff is a result of a tougher stance on immigration under italy's new government something the european union will likely have to deal with increasingly in the

palestinian man who attacked a soldier with a knife in the israeli occupied west bank the soldier survived the attack it is the latest in a series of deadly incidents that have increased tensions in the west bank this month. you're watching d.w. new still to come lewis hamilton's bid to win a fifth formula one world championship has to wait another week as i can be writing and storms to victory in the u.s. grand prix we'll take a look at the best of the action from texas. and italy's brands are in trouble again while rome and the e.u. are at loggerheads over government spending now moody's has downgraded the country's credit rating to one notch above junk status. but first eleven on which hosts more than a million syrian refugees many live in extreme poverty and often parents see no alternative to marrying off their children to save money aid groups have warned that the number of child brides is growing in lebanon where there's no minimum age of marriage. where he traveled to a refugee camp in the bekaa valley in an exclusive report she met a fourteen year old girl who was about t

fifteen homes built illegally in the west bank two protesters were arrested after scuffles broke out during the operation israel supreme court ordered the evictions because the homes were built on private palestinian land. what is in a name a lot if you ask greece and macedonia these two countries have now resolved a dispute that has been blocking the former yugoslav republic from joining nato and applying for a u. membership this evening the macedonian prime minister announced that from now on his country would be known as the republic of north macedonia his counterpart in athens alexis tsipras presented the deal to greece's president athens have long objected to the name macedonia because it is also the name of a greek province greece is now expected to drop its opposition to north macedonia becoming a nato member and beginning the process of joining the e.u. . the french president emmanuel mccrone has denounced italy's refusal to take in more than six hundred migrants stranded aboard a rescue ship in the mediterranean president mccrone accuse the italian government of quote cynici

classrooms because we did a class formation exercise as we speak the only hospital in the west bank qalqilya hospital under is pulling away from its support for that we've moved from food handouts in most of our fields to cash that is a much more efficient way of doing food aid the list goes on if there were time i could talk more we are committed absolutely to reforms we've been doing reforms for many years now and as i say the reform agenda is very much part of henri's agenda because afghanistan the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees thanks very much for being with us this morning on a day if oren ministers meet in brussels to talk specifically about this thank you very much chris for my pleasure. well participants in the latest round of syrian peace talks have ended their conference with a plan to draft a new syrian constitution the aim is to help bring an end to the country's nearly seven year long civil war but syria's main opposition bloc is boycotted the talks taking place in the russian city of sochi and they have rejected the outline constitution as insufficient well meanwhile the

expansion of jewish settlements on the west bank the two leaders also disagree sharply over the iran nuclear deal. tanya kramer is covering merkel's visit for us from jerusalem it is a short visit chancellor merkel her cabinet and a business delegation in less than twenty four hours she received her third on the re doctorate from an israeli university meet with president rivlin and head together with prime minister netanyahu this us government consultations america often described israeli turman relations as unique given the shared history of both countries this year's consultations are to focus on the economy technology and innovation however it is expected that america the netanyahu also discussing topics they disagree about the iran nuclear deal the israeli palestinian conflict in particular the us cuts in funding for the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees. the visit might also be overshadowed by the new ming demolition of the bedouin villages honey. in the occupied west bank the plans have been criticized by germany and other countries and palestinians would expect the terman chancello

settlements on the west bank to leaders also disagree sharply over the iran nuclear deal. america's trip to israel meant she had to cut short her participation in germany's national day of unity during ceremonies here in berlin politicians praised the progress made in the twenty eight years since the country's east and west were formally reunited but they also raised concerns about the divisions that remain and called on germans to defend democracy against the rise of white right wing populist. music by beethoven often seen as the quintessentially german composer. the i have a chill to his oprah leonora by tens quiet and thoughtful ten thousand passionate. almost like a wake up call for germany twenty eight years since reunification. both can show you that now president of the parliament was one of the politicians who negotiated the treaty that opened the door to german reunification that will be his political legacy but he reminded germans that unification is always an ongoing process. unity of a state was achieved on that oktober the one nine hundred ninety you know limits he over what it

for israeli settlements in the palestinian west bank. the online platform said it would cease its operations in the occupied territories at the core of disputes between israelis and palestinians israel's government condemned the move as discrimination. now there's been renewed fighting in yemen's port city of odessa that despite efforts to arrange a ceasefire rebel supported by iran clashed with pro-government forces which have the backing of saudi arabia the two sides were edging towards talks before the latest fighting broke out on monday britain led a push at the un security council for an immediate truce un envoy martin griffiths is due to visit this region later this week. there for more on the situation we're joined by tom erik are all those from the charity save the children in sana game and thanks so much for being with us tom there has been renewed fighting at the key port of who died what does that mean for the millions of yemenis totally reliant on on food aid that comes through that port city well as you said this could result in millions more people becoming crude and

palestinians in the west bank and gaza strip due to a lack of funding some two hundred thousand people will be affected by the cuts one of the program's major donors was united states but it announced funding cuts to projects for palestinians earlier this year. with just one hundred days to go before britain is set to leave the european union and the european commission has revealed its plans to deal with a new deal breakers that the e.u. outlined measures aimed to avoid disruption in key sectors like air traffic and financial trading british citizens residency rights would also be protected but new restrictions on trade and travel would come into force among them british trucks would lose rights to carry goods into the new european union and british people traveling with pets would face border checks now with time running out on a settled exit of britain out of the e.u. the rift between brussels and london appears to be deepening let's get more details now from our brussels correspondent garrick. georg the e.u. commission has come out with its no deal doomsday plan and it doesn't make

around the bond is really efficiency of honesty in a shot and killed two israelis in the occupied west bank now the two are said to be who did the shooting happened near the jewish settlement of where a palestinian gunman wounded seven people in a separate attack on sunday. u.s. prison donald trump's former lawyer has been sentenced to three years in prison michael cohen was sentenced by a federal court in new york over his role in the payment of hush money to women who claim to have had affairs with trump before he was elected. in hungary demonstrators gathered in front of parliament in budapest purchased against new labor legislation dumped the slave nor by critics the reform loosens the labor code code and business and in overtime hours opponents are calling for the rights of the country which has some of the newest bridges in the. prosecutors in brazil and the rest of the country's most famous faces following allegations of sexual misconduct more than two hundred billion have accused the man known as john of gaunt of sexually abusing them wanted to seek the spiritual guidance and t

food program says it is cutting services to palestinians in the west bank and gaza strip due to a lack of funding some two hundred thousand people will be affected by the cuts one of the programs major donors was the united states but it is funding cuts to projects for palestinians earlier this year. several promises in southern thailand are struggling with severe flooding following torrential rain authorities are warning people living in low lying areas to prepare for evacuation some twenty five thousand homes are already affected. luxury brand prada has would draw a line of accessories over complaints of racist black face imagery a facebook post showing the figures in a new yorker shop went viral last week in a statement prada said we a poor all forms of racism. now with just one hundred days to go before britain is set to leave the european union european commission has revealed its plans to deal with a no deal brags that the e.u. outlined measures aimed to avoid disruptions and key sectors like air traffic and financial trading british citizens residency rights would also be protec

soldier with a knife in the israeli occupied west bank the soldier survived the attack it is the latest in a series of deadly incidents that have increased tensions in the west bank this month. a top official from turkey's governing a k party says the killing of exiled to saudi journalist. at his country's istanbul consulate was planned quote in a savage manner media reports say a video has emerged which appears to show a man wearing kushal cheese clothes leaving the complex later in the day turkey's president is expected to reveal the results of turkey's own investigation on tuesday. this is previously unseen c.c.t.v. footage of jamal khashoggi same goodbye to his fiance it was the last time she saw him she waited for hours in front of the saudi consulate while her husband to be was killed inside the saudi foreign minister described it as a tremendous mistake. who did this to the scope of their authority there obviously was a tremendous mistake made and the component of the mistake was the time to try to cover up we are determined to uncover every stone we are determined to find out al

overshadowed by the new ming demolition of the bedded in villages hunted. to swim in the occupied west bank the plans have been criticized by germany and other countries and palestinians would expect determined chancellor to israel to stop the demolition. criminal reporting from jerusalem now to some of the other stories making news around the world british prime minister theresa may house call for unity within her conservative party which is divided over how to approach to breakfast negotiations with the european union addressing the conservative party conference mrs may repeated her position that britain was willing to leave the block without a deal rather than face what she called a bad deal. when is the best year's nobel prize for chemistry have been announced they are frances on all times george smith of the united states and britain's gregory went a bit of a committee said they've been chosen for their work in developing proteins that sold human kinds of chemical problems. for us first lady milan your trump has laid a wreath at a castle in ghana where african slaves. held before being shi

cutting services to palestinians in the west bank and gaza strip due to a lack of funding two hundred thousand people will be affected by the cuts one of the program's major donors was the united states but it announced funding cuts to projects for palestinians earlier this year. well here in berlin the country is marking the second anniversary of the terror attack that left twelve people dead and dozens wounded family and friends of the victims joined bruins mayor and other officials at a ceremony at the science of the attack exactly two years ago a rejected asylum seeker from tunisia named. hijacked a truck killed its driver and plowed into a crowded christmas market. but was shot dead by police in italy a few days later we met with a survivor of that attack whose wife has not been the same since. i think. as i turned around i saw the truck just in the nick of time it was already in the square coming towards me it passed by me within half a meter of call and it was a horrific sight. straight after the attack there was a deathly silence you could have heard a pin drop out of it was a

of palestinians protested in the west bank against an earlier u.s. decision to withdraw funding to hospitals in jerusalem that serve their communities . at least six people have been killed in a suicide bombing in the somali capital mogadishu authorities say a car laden with explosives brandur security checkpoints at a local government office it was claimed by the al shabaab islamist group. hundreds of naval and coast guard personnel have been deployed to clean up an oil spill in sri lanka around twenty five tons of furnace or leaked from a pipeline north of the capital colombo on sunday authorities say the leak has stopped but it will take days to clean up. eastern germany has been on edge after a violent anti migrant protest group the city of cabinets two weeks ago but fears that more unrest would break out on sunday proved to be unfounded this is when a man died after a confrontation with two afghan migrants in the town of curtain about one hundred fifty kilometers southwest of berlet two and a half thousand protesters answered the call of a far far right groups to gather there

the turkish economy's woes on the west but the turkish currency has been taking for months we have to mention i mean investors really concerned because inflation is at nearly sixteen percent but the central bank is reluctant to raise rates in response which is something that you would normally see a central bank do what is anyone's way forward here. well you're right i mean basically this is what vessels have been saying it's a slow motion train crash has been waiting to happen for a long time the trigger is tensions with the us but underlying it are these financial imbalances inflation is double digit it is expected to get a lot higher because of these massive growth spending the target of one is currently engaged in a policy that he reiterated he will continue to do and there and vesta say until interest rates go up this currency crisis will continue but one of make if he doesn't believe interest rate increasing interest rates works in dealing with inflation this impasse means the currency route is set to continue ok and dramatic movements today we have to mention dorian johns with

began evacuating jewish settlers from fifteen homes built illegally in the west bank two protesters were arrested after scuffles broke out during the operation israel supreme court ordered the victuals because the homes were built on private palestinian land. and now to a press conference with the difference german astronaut alexander guest took time off from his duties on the international space station to talk to reporters here on earth today a guest talked about life on the space station and the experiments he would be conducting during his day until december he only arrived last wednesday on what is his second mission to space guest will become commander of the i s s in october and. the car body was at the press conference and asked gary stern whether he had any muscle memory from his last time in space. oh alex itself a caravan here from t.w. don't you bella first of all congratulations on the safe arrival of the i assess and thanks for taking the time to speak to us today we often speak about muscle memory the idea that our bodies respond automatically to some things we've don

aircraft land here to see west berlin. well i think of the past in connection with. i feel totally different back in time in my heart and mind relive those hardships. planes no longer flying to and from. the bank then the airport was the heart of one of the most extraordinary rescue missions of all time the soviets blockaded west berlin in one thousand nine hundred eight the people of the war torn city were on the verge of starvation there was no food or gasoline west berliners were afraid of succumbing to the soviets. got there they would. be there if not only came in the last year either should not own either why they should die they added. the western powers response was unique and airlift every few minutes planes dropped essential supplies in west berlin up to thirteen thousand tons each day the response was just nine years old but he still remembers the airlift well. the planes can't be bombers because the pilots dropped sweets from the sky instead of bombs. they dropped little parachutes for us kids the whole street was full of children running towards the falling parachutes.

occupied west bank that's according to an antique settlement group israeli house construction in occupied palestinian territory is a major roadblock in trouble peace talks which have been frozen since two thousand and fourteen. i think people will british prime minister teresa mayes office says the country will not hold a second referendum on breaks it all this after prominent brags that supporter nigel frosh said a second referendum might be a good idea while many politicians have called for a second vote saying the consequences of the decision were not clear at the time for rush says a second poll would end the debate for once and for all all the way through this process. but if the leaders here in germany are bracing for a long and difficult night of negotiations as exploratory talks enter their final day on the americans conservatives and the center left s.p.d. are trying to see if they have enough common ground to enter formal coalition talks chancellor merkel says many hurdles remain. lobbying groups have been protesting outside the talks every day now among them trade unio

bank accounts and two counts of bank for crimes came to light as part of an investigation into possible russian influence on the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election the president commented on the verdict after landing in charleston west virginia where he attended a rally let's take a listen. to parts of it was. there were a lot of different people are. very serious. as it is from me but i still feel you know they have. nothing to do with iraq or started feeling. so we're going to break. and to tyson bako from the aspen institute doesn't we can't defend a man for it but he didn't say anything about michael cohen what do you think that was the case qualitatively different cases the white house the president or feeling the white hot heat from the cohen plead guilty plea and he doesn't want to implicate himself he's already gone on record saying that he didn't know about the payments that is now proven to be false that's what cohen said under oath with paul metaphor he has a lot more play room he can say because a lot of these associations with the ukrainian government happened

war while they were a situation they have to stay at home it's in the bank when i think it will end war colline and make money that of course of course here in europe and in the west it's pretty standard for women to go out of the house to work for mother does make the point the earning money within the home already is a step towards independence that gives these women more respect even within their own families and by the way her digital citizen fund is expanding beyond afghanistan they're already working with women and mexico and they're hoping to move into other countries coming so. remember that name she's going to make a difference thank you so very much david and another moving a story about two women and technology now for you people all around the world are out dancing and they're posting videos of themselves online take a look like these ones using the hash tag dancing isn't a crime that's because in iran dancing in public is in fact a crime it's been illegal since the islamic revolution a back in nineteen seventy nine that law has sparked a new controversy after the rest o

connection with millions of dollars on lobbying for ukraine failing to disclose all sure bank accounts and two counts of bank thawed and analysts prime's came to light as part of the investigation into possible washington influence on the u.s. election president trump commented on the verdict after landing in west virginia where he attended a rally of supporters. but of course many would think if he were a lot of different people here. feel very sad about. this it is me but i still feel you know they have. nothing to do with russian loot started rushing to loot you this is nothing to do so with that it is great. and give the president characterizing this all as a witch hunt tyson why has president trump defended matter for lengthily and not made any comments on my call i think the reason is because the the heat is a lot hotter with michael cohen and this is really lapping right up against the white house and could be grounds for impeachment there's been a lot of talk about impeachment including within the white house now with paul metaphor again it's this association issue the

traveling to the west and their assets abroad were frozen both europe and the us imposed heavy sanctions on oil exports banking and armaments. stupid. enough to put in front. of. the pages. of this. school to finish the book. in feb twenty fifth scene put in finally agreed a ceasefire negotiated with the western powers in minsk he had the upper hand in a conflict that he could ratchet up at will he had ensured that ukraine wouldn't join nato or the european union in the near future but at what cost. may twenty fifteen saw great celebrations to mark the seventieth anniversary of the soviet union's victory over national socialism. but the pomp was deceptive. western sanctions had had an impact on the economy the ruble had collapsed and even the military budget had had to be cut back. and had promised the russians glory but they had paid dearly for that vision. prices were rising poverty was increasing but he remained deaf to the worries of russian business leaders. what mainly preoccupied him was the fact that he had become a pariah at the head of an ostracized state. the refusal

bursting out of their banks leaving roads and ground floors flooded and in some parts of the rainy west along the moselle and rhine rivers shipping traffic ground to a halt. it watching the w.'s we still have a lot more ahead here's what's coming up we gaze into our crystal ball to see what this year has a story for the european union who will be able to refocus and reshape itself after the shock that is the bread. and the german journalist jailed in turkey accuses own career of holding him hostage what will his message mean for turkey's attempts to improve its a rocky bilateral relations with germany and italians consider him a renaissance man singer comedian actor and t.v. host of the i know someone is without doubt one of italy's biggest stars now he's turned eighty i'll talk about the man and with our culture editor adrian kennedy. you're not going to want to miss that will be right back. on course back comes all out. oh no i'm not afraid. i do this every day. which is also a lesson years old and works as a trucker. it's a tough profession because he has to win money for his family.