Just before. Dont tell. The program my names you know 30 minutes of news. Russias foreign minister said. To open a criminal probe into the. Complete lack of data from germany. Responded to the threats of sanctions against russia over the alleged poisoning of the opposition figure. Youre billable no one if there was no nevada on the they would have come up with another reason to impose additional sanctions our western partners have gone beyond all limits of decency in reasoning in fact they are now demanding that we confess its such a mysterious story given that on the 27th of august we sent a request for Legal Assistance from the russian general Prosecutors Office and still there is no wants or we dont have legal grounds for launching a criminal case yet and that is why we are asked for Legal Assistance from the german side and the diplomatic standoff between moscow and berlin is intensifying russian prosecutors have said theyve sent a 2nd request for Legal Assistance to berlin theyre
Musicians before. The program its billed as the worlds biggest festival and every year it attracts some 6000000. 00 visitors from around the globe but this year. The 1st. Event is the latest to be canceled because of the corner of. The state. Given the enormous crowds. Its the 1st time the festival has been. Political correspondent nina hauser joins us with more. Emotionally difficult moment. I think for a very in politics in this is probably one of the west nightmares come true and the october fest means everything to the varians it stands for everything they think the various should stand for its a gigantic party its a piece of important its an important piece of Cultural Heritage and then last but not least its also a very important business event last year alone the oktoberfest generated some 1230000000 euros let me just say yes 1000000000 euros and actually hotels taxi drivers restaurants they all benefit from it so its an extremely important period and this is why it was so diffi
Welcome we begin with breaking news u. S. Senator Bernie Sanders has ended his bid for the democratic partys nomination in the president ial election his announcement clears the way for his rival joe biden to challenge President Donald Trump 78 years old. In the early primaries but later fell behind biden who has been a substantial lead in the race for delegates. I wish i could give you better news but i think you know the truth and that is that we are now as the 300 delegates behind Vice President biden and the pain of Court Victory is virtually impossible so while we are winning the ideological battle and while we are winning this award so many young people and working people throughout the country i have concluded this for the democratic nomination will not be successful and so today i am announcing with the spread of my campaign lets bring in our correspondent in washington stefan Simone Stefan how surprising is sundays decision. Not really surprising actually everybody had the bet
Hit in the rocky base housing u. S. And Coalition Troops killing 3 and ensuring many more. Has announced travel from europe to the u. S. Will be suspended starting on friday for 30 days and order to fight the corona Virus Outbreak the unprecedented restrictions do not apply to the United Kingdom though the president made the announcement in a National Address during which he accused the e. U. Of not responding quickly enough to the virus taking early intense action we have seen dramatically fewer cases of the virus in the United States than are now present in europe. The European Union failed to take the same precautions and restrict travel from china and other hot spots as a result a large number of new clusters in the United States were seeded by travelers from europe hours earlier the head of the World Health Organization described the outbreak as a pandemic for the 1st time expressing alarm at the spread in the severity of this disease Johns Hopkins university in the us says infect
Im sorry so much going to thank you for joining us a long list of conflicts and uncertainty over the wests role in the world those are the top issues at the Munich Security Conference that is kicking off this hour a World Leaders top Security Experts diplomats are all now gathering for the central meeting in southern germany on everyones mind the big global issues the war in syria where a government offensive and it live has triggered a full blown humanitarian crisis another issue concerns over the shrinking influence of the west in shaping Global Security it is even spawned a new term west lists next. And we have our chief Political Editor michelle you look at the Munich Security Conference for us where she is watching in on everything thats happening there for us jaime said and i want to ask you about that term west listener what are people there saying about this. Well many feel that it is kind of appropriate and thats exactly what the security conference always aims to do is kind o