i just changed the whole script around it looks like this now :

<?php
require_once "dbconfig.php";
$recordset = mysql_query('SELECT id, date, title, description FROM news ORDER BY id DESC;');
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($recordset)){ echo('<a href="newsedit.php?id='.$row['id'].'">'.$row['date'].'-'.$row['title'].'</a><br><a href="delete_news.php?id='.$row['id'].'">Delete</a><br><br>');}
?>