would you put it takes two or three of those to. ask w. your questions about germany but it's k. i had a medicare scare they were trying to plan for him to. write to us on facebook we'll answer your questions. you're watching the w. news live from berlin hurricane maria rips across the caribbean after causing widespread devastation in domenica area is now tracking towards the virgin islands and puerto rico that category five storm lashing the region already battered by

hurricane or also coming up mean mars leader aung san suu kyi breaks her silence on the road hinge a refugee crisis and condemns the violence but human rights groups say she is burying her head in the sand. and will they vote more than a million turks living in germany have the right to take part in sunday's general election but many aren't sure they will well find out why. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us the prime minister of domenico has described hurricane maria as devastating and mind boggling after the hurricane swept over the small caribbean island maria has now intensified again and has regained strength here to become a category five storm hurricane maria is moving roughly along the same string of islands as erma the hurricane that devastated the region earlier this month now it

is expected to move towards a vital virgin islands and to towards puerto rico here tonight and tomorrow maria made landfall on monday with winds of up to two hundred sixty kilometers per hour. here we can maria has been battering the french islands of quite low and much sneak with its final and winds it's a similar story on the island of dominica. its prime minister garrett has recorded his harrowing experience on social media he said he didn't know what was happening outside as the storm surge and didn't even dare look out an hour later his roof was gone many of the islands on high alert for maria a still reeling from hurricane earlier this month and this one of them here people are bracing for another potential disaster. a similar scene in puerto rico shelves in supermarkets emptied as residents stockpile supplies the u.s.

territory could receive a direct hit from the. right now we're not prepared for next hurrican because we're still recovering from the last two weeks ago. puerto rico is not prepared for this. we're going to have a bad time of it. we ask almighty god to get us through this without serious damage . after a brief drop in strength maria has again intensified into a category five hurricane and could cause further damage as it moved towards puerto rico and the virgin islands let's talk to a jeffrey soaker and he's the host of island ninety two radio in st martin in the virgin islands hi jeffrey what is the state of things in st maarten right now how are island residents preparing for maria. you know we are doing all the things that we did just two weeks ago to prepare for months the thing that is just different

this time around is there is debris everywhere so the last twenty four to thirty six hours is all about trying to clean up the debris that could become something that just takes off in that wind of maria that's really been the focus for the last twenty four thirty six hours as we repair from maria it looks like maria is going to stay just enough to our south that we're going to get a fair amount of rain and be subject to some tropical storm force winds which is nothing compared to what we went through with irma and you know my heart goes out to everyone on dominique because i completely understand what what they're going through as they. look outside for the very first time as as light comes up and it is just devastating everywhere when i look around st martin you know there's not

a single building that is not somehow touched by armor that has passed and we're hopeful. and praying that maria stays well enough to our south that it's some wind and some rain but everyone we were all off and for down in prepared it looks like maria will be in her approach to us around ten o'clock this morning should be one of her closest points almost to our due south so we've got our fingers crossed jeffrey you mentioned you know we've seen some of these images of the debris after has there been any relief from that devastation have the rain efforts to clean up and start to rebuild. absolutely within our without a doubt if you look at the way this our live look right now after burma and the way it looks today. the it's astounding just yesterday morning i looked outside my house and

a lot of the government workers were outside cleaning up trying to remove large pieces of the material that they were afraid would be comes flying off to the next storm so they're there are they've taken all of the debris and the earth most of the area and put it in specified areas so it can be shipped all island women try to get away from where it's going to direct really impacts both residential and tourist areas all right jeffrey so can the host of island ninety two radio in st martin in the virgin islands thank you very much for that update. if you would like now to some other stories making news around the world spain has become the latest country to scale back ties with north korea and protest over its with a nuclear test spanish authorities have ordered north korea's ambassador to leave the country by the end of the month the u.n. security council impose new sanctions on jiang yang after its sixth and largest nuclear test this month so side bombings in nigeria have killed at least twelve people and injured more than twenty at least two blasts hit

a settlement in the northeastern state a borno witnesses say the bombers detonated their devices at a gathering of farmers the region is is at the center of the islamist vocal harami insurgency oscar pistorius a six year jail term could be extended south africa state prosecutors are seeking a harsher punishment for the olympic and paralympic star they will present their arguments to the court of appeal on november third pistorius was sentenced last year for the murder of his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. i mean mars defacto leader aung san suu kyi has broken her silence on the refugee crisis an army led crackdown has driven more than four hundred thousand minority muslims into bangladesh triggering a major humanitarian emergency so chief national address was highly anticipated she's been facing intense criticism for remaining silent on what the u.n. is now describing as ethnic cleansing let's listen to summer speech there has been

much concern around the world with regard to the situation in the crime it is not the intention of the government to apportion blame culture of negate responsibility we condemn all human rights violations and unlawful violence we are committed to the restoration of peace stability and rule of law throughout the states so it's a fifth of september there have been no on clashes and that is the norm clearance operations nevertheless we are concerned to hear that numbers of muslims are fleeing across the border to bungler days. we want to find out why this exodus is happening we were let's get some reaction to that speech now with a david griffiths from amnesty international in london he joins us on our program thank you david now amnesty has put out a statement saying that sochi and her government have their heads in the sand on

the crisis what do you mean by that. well let's get a little bit of a sense of proportion about what's happening in record instead. we're seeing ethnic cleansing happening on a horrific scale. almost half of the population has been driven out of rakhine state we've identified eighty plus sites which have been razed to the ground we have plenty of evidence from eyewitnesses backed up by satellite and fire detection data telling us about the kinds of abuses that are happening security forces surrounding villages firing at people as they flee in panic and then setting their homes on fire this is a horrific campaign of ethnic cleansing and saying and since she's words were frankly a bit of a whitewash but david what do you expect from her she's in a difficult position isn't she the military leaders are watching her every word and can she really speak out against what is happening. she is in

a difficult position and the military authorities are any ones who can stop this pull of use violence and they need to do just that but i'm sensitive as a truck. she can choose to call for an end to the appalling violence or she can just sit quiet and she can make excuses and frankly what we have seen is too much of the latter claims that the. the the violence stopped on the fifth of september ring hollow we have plenty of evidence of ongoing violence driving revenge of people away from their villages happening since that time the violence is still ongoing every day that we continue to provoke eight hundreds more men and boys are being destroyed here and women and elderly are being forced to flee and house isn't being incinerated uncensored she needs to stop being

an apologist and to speak out much more likely to condemn this and to call for an end to it they've also made the point in her speech today that mia maher is a young democracy that still has many challenges to overcome of the world hasn't acknowledged the progress that's been made the positive things that have happened in myanmar is that a fair point. yeah i mean there is there is truth to the fact that me and mary is a young democracy but what we need to see happening as part of the transition and she's promising us a focus on. security and peace and stability. that distinguish between you know what makes for peace and stability and this kind of continued violence alliance and let's also remember that the range of people have suffered decades of discrimination and segregation denied citizenship in their homeland and this is the kind of context against which these abuses are taking place now that needs to be

dealt with and i'm sensitive she needs to take responsibility for that. right david griffiths from amnesty international london thank you very much for your insight thank you. now the more than a four hundred thousand range of muslims who have now fled across the border into bangladesh are languishing in desperately overcrowded conditions and one of the world's largest refugee camps. sent us this report from bangladesh. they keep on coming. more than four hundred ten thousand refugees from myanmar have already crossed the border into bangladesh and no one knows how many will still arrive. in the camps the situation is already at a breaking point. food water shelter everything is scarce here. many of the aid deliveries are organized by private bangladeshi citizens.

but. if we do not help the government of bangladesh this problem will be difficult to solve and how do we don knotts not see the refugees are getting increasingly desperate and distributing the aid to those who really need it can't be done from the back of a truck. the problem with the way this aid is being delivered is that it doesn't reach everyone and that it's a matter of luck and sometimes even the physical strength if you get some or not but there are hundreds of thousands of people here who are all desperately in need of food of water and of medicine and what they really need is a large scale coordinated relief effort some forty kilometers north lies the hospital of cox's bazar the district capital. here doctors are treating around thirty rohingya refugees with severe injuries. they have sustained

burns broken limbs. and gun shop. the hospital only has two hundred fifty beds and was already overstretched before the refugees arrived. and this influx due to the. has been a good bargain to us because these patients are huge in number diversity in juice and difficult to manage. infected cases or. so with the existing resources existing medicine existing meant to be difficult for us to deal with this influx outside the hospital locals voiced their resentment towards the rohingya refugees. that lying about me that only because of the road our country is suffering greatly many of them break the law they steal they drop us and the women work as prostitutes.

ninety percent. we don't do. other other we don't get them no good people don't get the service in our country back in the camps bangladeshi authorities are trying to battle the chaos. the government has designated an area to house four hundred thousand refugees where aid can be properly distributed but with hunger and illness spreading it's a race against time. now u.s. president donald trump will take center stage with a speech at the united nations general assembly today trump made his debut at the world body yesterday calling for more efficiency at a meeting about u.n. reform today leaders are waiting to hear what his america first vision means for world politics is set to start in a few hours time we'll have live coverage of that and analysis right here and you

debbie. you're watching did have you knew still to come on this program more than a million turks living in germany have the right to vote in sunday's general election but many aren't sure if they will we find out why and maybe for land based activists trying to persuade them that they should. have a classic showdown between two old rivals shock and barring manic we'll have a preview of the midweek bonus league action for you. parents in the u.s. and canada if they're looking for some new toys for their kids that are in they're in for a shock monica they need to be very creative and come up with something new because it looks like toys r us has just become toys are bust the largest u.s. toy store chain filed for bankruptcy protection on monday toys r us has taken a beating from competition with online shopping and discount chains the filing is among the largest ever by a speciality retailer and casts doubt over the future of the company's nearly one

thousand six hundred stores and sixty four thousand employees it comes just as toys r us is preparing for the holiday shopping season which accounts for the bulk of its sales. now the knicks trading across europe today in the wake of another strong rally on wall street the world's equity markets are waiting for wednesday's rate decision from the u.s. federal reserve and expecting good news both the dow jones industrial average and the s. and p. five hundred ended in record territory in japan the nikkei also ended tuesday on a record two year high a week again and a stronger or strong american market considers positive sides of the japanese exports. and keeps an eye for us on market activity in frankfurt and from what i've heard so far mean we don't exactly see fireworks here what's holding everyone back in joining that rally. no fireworks the

notion pain that most here here at the frankfurt stock exchange monica little bit different picture as we have seen today for example in japan or yesterday in the united stands for a couple of reasons the euro for example is a very strong at the moment it's being traded with about one twenty very strong euro is always harming the export business because most of the companies in the blue chip in neck stocks are making lots of money with the export then we also have the german elections coming up on sunday and as we know the latest polls indicate that the d. the. party could be number three in parliament and i just talked to an investor a little bit earlier he was telling me that this is creating fear among and best because the good image offered germany outside you know off the country could be harmed with this now having said that how does this fit to is a new survey that actually suggests that investor confidence in germany is on the

up. yeah that's good news that came out from. this morning from the center for european economic research they are always giving an outlook of the next six months and they're saying that the environment here in germany to do business is actually very strong. right now on a scale with seventeen points and when you talk to experts they actually thought it would be just up was twelve points of course there's this question if this image if this positive outlook could change you know we're becoming third strongest party here and the parliament will certainly know more about that after the election. in front thank you so much for this well with breaks it talks not to making any real progress many parts of business are left wondering what's in store for them and that includes fishermen those in the e.u. want to access to english waters where they make about half their income britain

would prefer to limit the competition there so often things on the to that simple. at the center of the debate is the english channel a rich fishing ground for british and european boats alike french crews like this one say loss of access would be devastated by the records they go through. the consequences over one year these waters represent sixty to seventy percent of our fishing sites so the boat and the crew would see a loss of income ok i got you what about the report is that. they wouldn't be alone limited access would affect belgian spanish and dutch crews. fishermen in the u.k. are more open to the idea many feel that the u.s. never given them a proper quota under its common fisheries policy brags that they hope might change that. we all think that official history it's all about access so we hope for better access to water so that means restricting access of you vessels into the

u.k. or in having some access ourselves to you waters there's a snag though british fishermen so much of their catch to europe u.k. fishing exports to france totaled five hundred seven million euros in two thousand and fifteen french exports to the u.k. came to less than a quarter of that amount. that means leverage for even a go she enters hoping to keep access open european fisherman are hopeful negotiations are expected to begin soon joyeux chocolates but that could soon come to an end because numerous european countries are complaining that china is further shielding its market from foreign companies there warning that tightening of regulations could shut out foreign companies including food producers that is according to the european chamber of commerce in beijing the companies are citing a contradiction while state and party chief sieging ping is presented as the poster child for international free trade his government is doing everything it can to

make the hurdles for foreign companies higher than ever. well five more days and the germans elect a new government if they go to the polls that's right monaco will germany's general election is on sunday and today we're looking at the turks living here who have the right to vote and many are unsure whether they will actually cast their ballots that's because turkish president. has called for a boycott of germany's established parties d.w. met a turkish activists here in berlin who is trying to persuade voters to exercise their democratic rights. on leopold square in berlin i should the mirror is handing out flyers in turkish and german her organization the turkish union of berlin is encouraging german turks to vote in the upcoming federal election the mayor's message is clear vote or allow other germans to vote for you and this year the stakes are high the anti immigrant party a.f.d.

the alternative for germany is likely to enter parliament for the first time in the desert campania monday in this campaign is meant to increase fights participation this is the only way we'll be able to stop the a.f.d. from getting stronger often the stuff from the turks are the largest ethnic minority in germany and over a million have the right to vote but this year more than half are uncertain whether they will go to the polls in fact many will be staying home and protest claiming into turkey a sentiment in the german government turkish president. has called a boycott on germany's established parties this could be bad news for the green left parties which depend on votes from german turks still the mir is hopeful that she can persuade voters their interests are at stake in addition to handing out flyers her organization has hosted pennell discussions where candidates can make their appeal to the turkish community. to his distinguished it's important that we don't leave these people to be totally influenced by catalog and see here by out of

the unless we need to try to win them back and sort of to give in and many attendees said the boycott will not keep them from voting for the party of their choice that you cannot influence by turkish affairs and give this some time some of the other one supposes him might be influenced but not in general sometime next on sunday to me or we'll find out if her efforts paid off. and you can join the discussion on the election by following the campaign germany decide there's full coverage on t.v. dot com and you can get updates on our to give you news of facebook. pages or you can follow us on twitter and use the gemini decide hash tag our social media team is waiting to hear from you.

in bundesliga midweek action tonight hosts shellcode will lock horns with byron munich in a marquee match up with the winner heading to the top of the standings now the bad news for biron is that star goalkeeper manuel neuer will be out for the rest of the year after fracturing his left foot for the second time and undergo surgery you missed the start of the season with the same injury now years absence for biron is a boost for shaka they have been on a roll so far this season and they are expected to give the reigning champs a run for their money sheldon's impressive start to the bundesliga season has the team full of confidence under first season coach domenico to disco the side from goals and kishan have experienced many changes in style and tactics and it appears to be working the royal blues of one three of their four bundesliga matches this season sometimes with the help of the video assistant referee but now their attention is focused on their greatest test so far this campaign about against.

you want to may want to hold against i have to be i think that's the only way you'll have a real chance against us i am you know. you need to have a heck of a day and a lot of talk. buy ins dominance against child in recent years is unquestionable the last time unit lost to the royal blues in a competitive match was back in two thousand and eleven. but this time around byron go into the clash swimming in a sea of criticism their decent start of the season has been overshadowed by their recent defeat to hoffenheim rumors of tension within the dressing room and criticism towards carter launch a lot he forced him to answer his detractors you know that then that. is like we've shown. that i've known you but who do you. want to celebrate it with. your criticize this is football a mouth watering bottle is expected between these two old rivals. the canadian

prime minister justin trudeau and his british counterpart theresa may have watched a wheelchair basketball demonstration ahead of the invictus games which start on saturday in toronto britain's prince harry set up these games for wounded military personnel the aim is to help soldiers overcome trauma suffered in combat this year some five hundred fifty injured servicemen and women from seventeen nations will compete for medals and twelve sports including basketball. our mind and our top stories at this hour hurricane maria has devastated the small caribbean island of domenica and is now sweeping towards puerto rico and the virgin islands already devastated by hurricane wilma. and in mars' leader she has broken her silence on the flight of the hinge of muslims to neighboring bangladesh she invited outside observers to visit areas hit by violence but u.n. human rights investigators say mean mars government has denied them permission to

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