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this is the w.'s line from the u.s. president donald trump delivers his sharpest when he gets to north korea the united states has great strength and patience but if it is forced to defend itself or it's our life we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea speaking at the u.n.

mr trump describes kim jong un's nuclear program as a suicide mission we'll bring you full coverage also on the program. erica and maria rips across the caribbean after causing widespread devastation in dominica the category five storms now bearing down on the virgin islands and puerto rico. in last night i was sanctioned she breaks a silence on the right hinge a refugee crisis and condemns the violence but human rights groups accuse her of burying the head in the sand. the glory days off a famous digital currency bitcoin soon be over recent volatility in trading has spurred fears that the long targeted but in the bubble could be about to bust. the world's first street out museum opens in providing a safe haven for works that would otherwise be the mercy of the elements t w robin merrill we have to tell us more.

i'm still gonna welcome to the program. u.s. president donald trump has used his first address to the united nations general assembly to issue a stern warning to north korea was to trump stew and member states to work together to isolate the north korean regime until it ceases what he called its hostile behavior it also made it clear that the united states would not shrink from radical military action if it deemed it necessary. it's respect for. new generation the united states has great strength and patients but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime the united states is ready

willing and able but hopefully this will not be necessary that's what the united nations is all about let's get more on this from the university of voting professor rosa friedman who specializes in the u.n. and the two of these alexander phenomenon joins us from new york welcome both will start with you alexandra in new york we've already heard lots of angry rhetoric between washington and pyongyang was today's warning from mr trump just more of the same. well that's exactly question everyone here is asking himself and asked secretary general of nato exactly the same question and he told me that yes it's true that the president uses strong language today but we've seen him using strong language before talking

about north korea and i talk to you and experts here and one of them told me that he things things that presidents don't know a wanted to have very short very tough remarks quotes because they were designed for the u.s. television and social media were his supporters can see them and experts here point out the fact that between the lines president still left room for diplomacy and he praised russia and china for trying to help he did not criticize russia for its role in ukraine he did not talk about his administration's issues trade issues with china and this is seen as as a fact or as an indication that he is trying to now it's too early in aid to the world powers russia and china he also had

a message for iran we'll play some of what he said and then come back to you on on his. the reigning government masks a corrupt dictatorship behind the false guise of a democracy it has turned a wealthy country with a rich history and culture into an economically depleted rogue state whose chief exports are violence bloodshed and chaos the iran deal was one of the worst and most one sided transactions the united states has ever entered into i was not involved aman in washington the stage was international but one can see impression that part of his audience he was i mean there was domestic definitely yes he was addressing his political base as well the political base that

has been quite critical of him in the recent weeks but he was also of course addressing the leaders gathered here at the u.n. general assembly and he seemed to be more passionate and focused on iran than he actually was on north korea and this can be seen as an indication that he might indeed be thinking about ripping out the nuclear deal with iran and i talk with the state department official involved that and he didn't want to answer my question about that he just said that the nuclear deal is one thing and the other thing is iran's destabilizing the here via and its support for terrorist groups and that that has to stop iran's a frame and those two red lines there are north korea and iran france's president of micron has already replied by saying that pulling out of the iran nuclear deal would be a grave error what else will have jumped out at european news. well i think it is

quite clear that president trump his appealing to a domestic audience the rhetoric that he's provided at the united nations general assembly today which mirrors the rhetoric it's provided throughout this election campaign and since the incident it's pretty clear that despite the rhetoric about building a wall with mexico about iran and the nuclear deal about north korea that he's not willing to act upon the words that he said and that is really to the benefit of the entire community that cares about international relations i think the problem that we will face is that president trump is likely to remove the financial contributions that the united states ought to pay as a member of the the the u.n. and the problems that one of the rights particularly the e.u. when i'm working in that financial gap in order to continue the united nations work which is absolutely crucial to be for the entire global community a spliff pick up

a point on the the budget. mr trump's worry is that the united states is paying too much oh he's one country is paying something like a twenty five or twenty eight percent of the budget is that actually up for renegotiation. it's very clear from the from the days that the united nations was created in ever since that country's pay according to ascension. the united states obviously has a greater g.d.p. than most countries in the world but we all contribute what we can according to our domestic domestic finances the p five the five main countries in the security council hold a veto power contribute more to peacekeeping than any other country because they have the right to veto any peacekeeping operation this is a logic problem and rational that happened times that countries have removed their contributions and they've said that these contributions of the tree other countries

have plant the gaps until a change in regime but if president trump things that he can simply remove this money unilaterally and that this money won't be found elsewhere and that there will not be repercussions or begin like to state on the diplomatic stage then he's absolutely wrong and i think we can see the overtures he's making towards china russia has been very strong symbols to war. and you ok the european union and latin america has allied himself with the rogue states rather than with the states that want to keep the united nations together. alexander phenomena in new york how do you see this speech influencing mr trump's work with that that the u.s. and indeed with his international partners. well we have to say that many here were quiet cautiously optimistic i had of this

you and general assembly seeing that the president is coming that he's going to hold a speech that he is sort of supporting at the u.n. reform so that was seen as an optimistic sign but now after his address to the u.n. and general assembly many here are asking themselves are we on the brink of war with north korea what is going to happen with the nuclear deal with iran so i think that we have to say that the world is still still trying to take the measure of president even after this speech was a freeman you seem to already got the measure of mr trump you're saying think that he's all talk no action i think he's all talking there are actually on many levels . person trying seems to want to go back to the one thousand nine hundred just sort of to nationalism sure traction is and we simply don't live in that environment

anymore. and yet he would like the united states not just to be exception is to unilaterally but to be sort of as well ok well maybe that alexander from naaman in new york and professor rosa freeman from the university of vetting thank you both. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world suicide bombings in nigeria have killed at least fifteen people and injured more than forty at least two blasts has a settlement in the northeastern state of color witnesses say the bombers detonated their devices together in the pharmacy the region is at the center of the is the most vocal harami insurgency. forces of kenya's presenter her kenyatta have protested outside the country's supreme court in nairobi demanding the removal of judges seen throughout the results of his election victory last month the court nullified the result after the opposition leader rather claimed that computers had

been hacked and the president a victory. state prosecutors in south africa seeking a harsher punishment for oscar pistorius the olympic and paralympic star was sentenced to six years in jail last year for the murder of his girlfriend reeva steenkamp prosecutors will present their arguments to the court of appeal on the third of november not that are going to. stricken world war one submarine has been found off the west coast of belgium local authorities say the well preserved german u. boat still contains the bodies of its twenty three crewmen it's the eleventh such vessel to be found in belgian waters you boats were a key part of german military strategy in the first world war. hurricane maria has begun to batter the caribbean the prime minister of dominica as described maria as devastating and mind boggling it has now intensified again and become a category five storm maria is moving roughly along the same string of violence as

erma hurricane that devastated the region earlier this month it's expected to move toward puerto rico and the virgin islands tonight and tomorrow really made landfall on monday with winds of up to two hundred sixty kilometers an hour. murray are ravaging the french island of guadalupe heavy rain and fierce winds have left many areas here without power authorities say they've already received reports of flooding. but that i can we have limited contact at the moment it's really very patchy we're in touch with our forces and the police who are giving us some information but we have very little details at this stage because. another french territory martinique has escaped the storm without huge damage. but neighboring domany car came off much worse. its prime minister roosevelt's carrot wrote on facebook that they have lost all

what money can buy and replace earlier he posted that his roof had been blown off. many of the islands on high alert from area are still reeling from hurricane alley or this month and she is 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 maria. right now we're not prepared for the 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 briefly weakening maria has again

intensified into a category five hurricane and could cause further damage as it moves towards puerto rico and the virgin islands. jefferson is a host on island ninety two radio in st marks and he joins us on the line from the leeward islands directly in areas welcome to day w. how are islanders preparing for this. well you know i think everyone is rushing all of their preparations to completion for those islands that have been impacted by you know by erma just in the past couple weeks one of the big challenges is there's debris that's loose everywhere so just yesterday here on tim martin our local ministry of infrastructure was out gathering debris so that it wouldn't become projectile and and cause further damage so far as we kind of weather our way through maria here and to martin the storm is approximately you know due south of

us right about eleven a.m. this morning and we've been quite lucky it is pulled further south than i think originally anticipated and the conditions are are much kaymer thankfully than we had all expected but you know one of the things that you we watched everyone in the neighborhoods do was simply trying to patch up roots that were lost with those that were lost to weather whatever maria brings in. and i'm actually looking right now i've just raised one of our storm shutters we're in a little bit of a low and i'm looking out almost south. almost due south at the surface and the surface self is big but we don't have a particularly big tidal surge because the winds are blowing off offshore and it is you know it's almost see some sun trying to poke through the clouds believe it or

not we've got light showers in the area the winds are probably. you know probably thirty forty mile an hour right now which is. quite frankly a real positive thing for those of us on st martin we do worry about our brethren around the the caribbean as maria moves towards puerto rico we went through a category five just about two weeks ago. so we know what they're informed we know what what it's like and we encourage everybody who is in earshot of this if you have the opportunity to trace your preparation and make sure that you've identified a safe place. in where we're going to be riding the storm and it's very important to do that to make sure that you have all the proper supplies in place ok jeffrey saw her in there and said mass and thank you so much trance they say thank you which in d.w. news live from berlin still to come as part of our view of germany series we take you to the greek island of gina de greek still harbor resentment towards germany in

the wake of the debt crisis or is that water under the bridge. it's nice that doesn't it business news now would have again this and donald trump at the u.n. general assembly also had trade deals and he cites that's right at least that was in line with expectations fill in his remarks the u.s. president reiterated his criticism of sweeping free trade deals and also said that they have misled people to think of them as quote the best way to success the white house is unlikely to be pleased that trade figures that have just come in the commerce department said the trade deficit increased eight and a half percent to more than one hundred twenty three billion dollars the biggest deficit since two thousand and eight. now at the beginning the crypto currency bitcoin used to trade for pennies then for a few dollars then for hundreds of dollars and then it took off so far this year

bitcoin has rocketed to almost five thousand dollars to some it was the hottest game in town for others an enormous risk and they could be right over the past few days the price of bitcoin has been extremely volatile and experts are warning of a bubble. it could be the beginning of the end banking regulators in beijing in shanghai have ordered local crypto currency exchanges to shut down virtually overnight china where bitcoin was more heavily used than in any other country has become a no go area for crypto investors the closing of the exchanges didn't come as a surprise official announcements had already sent the value of bitcoin into a tailspin something investors weren't used to it has partially recovered since the crypto currency which is not backed by any country or central bank had traded flat for years after its inception in twenty eleven. it wasn't until this year that

bitcoins rally started with the currency breaking through the one thousand two thousand three thousand dollar levels topping out at almost five thousand dollars then it started coming apart after j.p. morgan c.e.o. jamie dimon in an interview on u.s. financial network c m b c called bitcoin a fraud and a bubble that quote won't end well diamond also took issue with bitcoin being the currency of choice for illegal transactions on the dark net where criminal activities including drug and weapons deals as well as human trafficking often backed by the crypto money. yeah actions taken by china however are an even bigger blow to bitcoin after bitcoin backed i.p.o.'s were banned it is now virtually impossible to trade the currency in its biggest market. to new zealand now where a broken fuel pipeline is becoming a political problem it supplies the country's biggest city auckland with which is

paralyzed without the pipeline the government did nothing when warned about the threat to its energy security five years ago too bad an election is now just around the corner. the fear of empty petrol stations is increasing ten stations in new zealand's largest city no longer have any super gasoline it's just days before the election and the government is trying everything to minimise the damage tanker trucks are being filled to the brim with fuel and sent to auckland. where making sure the tankers can go out turn probably an extra fifteen percent on white what they can now we've taken a lot of these ideas from under stream of states that anything you need. and we will do our best to supply the airport remains affected by the shortage over forty international and domestic flights had to be cancelled aircraft are diverting to other airports just to fuel up even ships are standing ready to help but they are

having problems. has not being seen so take fuel through because storm mains which is why we're trying to say whether or not it can happen very quickly. crews are working on the damaged pipeline twenty four hours a day supposedly the pipe was damaged when it was hit by a construction site digger the repairs will take at least another week. still a small problem compared to those of greece after years of struggling with a deep financial crisis the tourism industry has come to the rescue of the greek economy if you will visitor numbers are climbing and that means more money that the greeks however are unwilling to share with the government tax evasion is a well known problem in greece and the government is now hunting down the cheaters . on the greek island of santa rini a perfect summer is coming to a close perfect for a hotel is restaurants and store owners because tourist numbers have broken all

records. over thirty million visitors in all of greece have boosted the economy which is experienced two quarters in a row of economic growth. the greeks are profiting from vacationers fears of the political situation in turkey. but while the greek tourist industry is booming and the cash registers are ringing very little of it reaches tax coffers so to help the businesses remember to pay their taxes the national revenue agency has begun to read those businesses. tax audits are happening everywhere this year tax investigators check the books and sometimes they shut the business down immediately if they decide to close you down during the busy season you are in a lot of trouble. this is what it looks like after investigators have been there it says suspended due to tax violations on the barrier tape not the best advertising

for shop. but tax officials have good reason for not wanting to show their faces on t.v. they're not loved on the little island where everyone knows everyone else. it's not a problem for me the tax investigators are doing their job and i'm doing mine and if they audit you and you've broken the law then you have to pay the consequences on a couple of. not all tax evaders see it that way and that's why the tax officials would rather conduct business in safety protected by steel bars when working on the streets people sometimes get violent or threaten them with bodily harm. violent taxpayers face. more severe measures actually they're not they're not evading that they're not they're not weaning something new gaining something out of it. but most of the sins are just misdemeanors food or drinks without the required receipt or pocketing the value added tax grease is the country

of the fucking lucky or the envelope full of cash greeks don't find tax evasion to be that serious after all they have centuries of tradition hiding their drachmas from the tax man while their country was part of the detested ottoman empire. for business later on now it's back to fill for the greek few german elections thanks for yes we have an election here and a german a sunday ahead of vote we've been talking to people all over the world that's part of. germany finding out how this election is being seen abroad today we had to the small greek island of jena south of the capital athens to speak to demetrius shino runs a small hotel that i things and rocky relations because of the deep to the greek debt crisis that hasn't colored his feelings about the many german tourists that he encounters.

when i worked in hotels in their money i learned about how to be more effective more responsible. and to give high standards to everything i do i learned how to work with really work family men. like i love and now i get on my own hook on egg in the up and. we save a lot of that among guests that there might they like to talk about the every day life advice for you thinks that like us so because we've talked a lot about the crises and how we can go on. this conflict between the north and south we're all made the warrior look.

good that one fine until a minister mr schauble a very famous indeed because he's pushing us to the limits. is not a good sign for greece. to the limit our government. spending every day new taxes we are really living to the limit we come into play more than we can. in their money people pass. their state. because they follow the rule in gaze the greeks they have no more pass through the bullet case now so they don't pay their taxes and don't support it. my opinion is that their money rules euro. i get no medical leave. i feigned like sees my professor i think is doing to me you know you do but this isn't their money by

the end if we all had the professor. giving us it either way it's a good the way. let's all go that this is day doubly new still to come in miles on time soon she brags aside in summer hinge a refugee crisis but one small condemnation from her critics. will have bought more of the day's news and business in just of. the main line was the first train line in sri lanka. the british colonisers built to transport t.v. . now it links some of the country's most stunning sites making it one of the most picturesque rail lines in asia. by train across sri lanka.

w. w's program guide on the internet the highlights. the whole. d.w. dot com highlights. seventeen but he told incest bawn from september and he told her first. how to cover more than just one reality. where i come from we have a transatlantic way of looking at things that's because my father is from germany

and my mother is from the united states of america and so i realized fairly early that it makes sense to explain different realities. and now here at the heart of the european union in brussels we have twenty eight different realities and so i think people are really looking for any journalist they can trust for them to make sense of this. biden is not tough enough and i work a double. this is day that leaders life of the other hand i'd still get a lot of top stories that this out of u.s. president donald trump has issued his shelf just wanting to get to north korea during the rest of the united nations general assembly the president said that if ken jeong and did not abandon his pursuit of nuclear weapons and the us was ready willing and able to totally destroy it with courage. and her to marry has

devastated the small kind of an island of dominica it's not sweeping towards parts of rico in the virgin islands over ready devastated by hurricane. amid most if not too late i was on sochi has broken his silence on the range of refugees . crisis an army led crackdown has driven more than four hundred thousand of the muslim minority into bandra desh triggering a major humanitarian emergency so she has been facing intense criticism for remaining silent about what the u.n. says is man must ethnic cleansing of the wreckage there has been much concern around the world with regard to the situation in the car and it is not the intention of the government to apportion blame or to epona gauge 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. since

a fifth of september there have been no armed clashes and that afternoon clearance operation nevertheless we are concerned to hear that numbers of muslims are fleeing across the border two hundred days. we want to find out why this exodus is happening we would as if david griffis from amnesty international in london welcome to you so your organization has accused down some suchi on how governments of having their heads in the sand over this crisis what do you mean by that. well i mean what we heard from anson city this morning was a whitewash frankly the speech had no sense of urgency about what is an appalling situation of ethnic cleansing of the range of the population across runtime state

and you know there was no that no script no sense of scale no sense of urgency that came across from where let's give a little bit of a sense of proportion of what we're talking about here for the past three weeks to me in the military has carried out a scorched earth campaign targeting the revenger population across the state. soldiers in armed groups are surrounding villages firing indiscriminately as civilians flee for their lives and four hundred thousand ranger have crossed the border into bangladesh that's more in the past two weeks than the entire number of people who tried to cross the mediterranean in two thousand and sixteen it's the world's fastest growing refugee crisis and city invited us this morning to look at the health of the nation as a whole rather than for this thing on one particular problem when there is an ethnic cleansing going on in the nation that very clearly affects the health of the

nation as a whole and do you believe i'm saddened searching to be complicit in this so-called ethnic cleansing. well let's be clear that the military is that the power in myanmar and it is the military who are carrying out these appalling abuses in rakhine state and only the military can bring them to an end but uncensored she has a choice that choice is to speak out clearly and condemn this and call for an end to that by a corporate entity the appalling injustices being meted out in the horrors experienced by the revenger population or she can white war and exonerate the military for their role in it and frankly what we have heard from her is uncomfortably close to the latter and we need to see and sense if she's speaking out much more strongly against these appalling abuses well let's pick up on that point where we heard from the u.n.

secretary general antonio proterozoic addressing this crisis in may and i will play a little.