A political fights within the u. S. Justice department plus. Do you know what a google is and if you know that qatar has the biggest population in the world one step back of qatars northwestern both the love story coming up. And our beautiful little discord Roger Federer announces he will not play at the french open but talk of the 20 time grand slam champion reveals years undergone a nice new jury. Its 1500. 00 g. M. T. We start this news hour in germany were police say theyre treating a mass shooting in the western city of hanno as an act of terrorism 9 people were killed when a gunman went on a shooting rampage on wednesday nights chancellor Angela Merkel has condemned the attack and says there are many signs the perpetrator acted out of racism dominic cain has the latest from berlin. This is where the shooting started one of 2 she shouldve asked to be targeted which were known to be frequented by members of the Kurdish Community the 43 year old perpetrator made his way into each pl
And former editor of the jewish chronicle. Agnes poirier of marianne, the french magazine. Nesrine malik, who analyses arab affairs. And michael goldfarb, the american journalist and podcaster. Welcome to you all. In the year since he was elected us president , Donald Trumps supporters have explained his sometimes contradictory positions by advising, watch what he does, not what he says. Well, this week words and actions were as one. During the election campaign, mr trump said he would recognise jerusalem as israels capital, and on wednesday he did just that. On friday, palestinian protestors responded with what they called a day of rage an appropriate description that captures both their anger and their impotence. Ned, he has broken out of this position that has been established policy, whether democrats or republicans have been in the white house, for decades now. Could he encourage others to do the same . No, in a word. I would be astonished. Words and actions where the same, but it
Rebels gaza facing some of the most intention shelling since the beginning of the air strakes began two weeks ago. Israel has intensified its ground offensei in the last few days. The israeli army confirming 13 of its soldiers were killed overnight. One neighborhood in eastern gaza was heavily bombarded with missile fire. Over sixty civilians there including children were killed. This appears to be the highest loss of civilian life in one district in gaza so far. We are joined by Nick Schifrin who is live for us in gaza at the moment. Nick, good afternoon to you. I understand that you went down to the neighborhood where those bombings happened. What did you see . Morningan this is the shujayea neighborhood which is about two miles, no more, to my left. I can still see and hear lots of fires there. No neighborhood, we drove around. As we got deeper into the neighborhood, the emptier the streets. You look around and there is very, very few people left. There were a couple of people who c
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