your expert on germany's been destroyed election two thousand seventy. two sides german bundestag election two thousand and seventeen on d w. the russian did of the news coming to live from berlin germany's foreign minister offers a review to donald trump's america first policy speaking at the united nations in new york sick margot world tells delegates that a stronger u.n. and more international cooperation is needed to confront challenges like the north korea nuclear crisis we'll have some analysis coming up in minute also

a race against time in mexico as efforts to rescue survivors trapped in the rubble of truce days earthquake continue. and thousands of supporters have come on independence rally in barcelona to protest against a crackdown by spanish police as the national government tries to prevent catalonia holding an on off the rise independence vote. i'm sara harmon welcome to the program it's good to have you with us germany's vice chancellor has addressed the un general assembly in new york a speech offered something of a rebuke to u.s. president on a trump. that the world needed to work together more rather than less stress the importance of countries making compromises and working out lasting solutions

together he added that in the long term no country would win by going it alone something he said germany had learned directly from its nazi past. yeah the from our own experience we know that germany first did not make our country strong and prosperous. it was only european and international responsibility that gave germany peace and prosperity. no one loses in international cooperation. instead we all gain a new kind of sovereignty that we wouldn't have had as a nation states on our own in today's world. what was germany's vice chancellors like mark gabrial delivering an address to the united nations general assembly in new york he made the trip in place of chancellor merkel who stayed here in germany to focus on the election now gabrial speech deserves some analysis and we actually have two analysts here for you we've got our chief political correspondent melinda crane and i'm also joined now from new york up by

alexander fun naaman alexander let's start with you how did gabrielle speech go down there in the assembly what was the reception. well i would say from what are still pretty well as you know germany is seen here as a very trusted were see and reliable partner a partner that is perspectives by many members of the u.n. general assembly and many of them were quite astonished and happy to see the german foreign minister here only a few days before the german election so the speech went down pretty well and the reason for that might be what you just said that in the he's an address the german foreign minister tried to set a sort of counterpoint to mr trump's message to the you and general assembly saying that putting your country first cannot solve any problems it can only lead to more conflicts and less prosperity and stressing that germany has experienced that that

germany has learned from its history that its international and european responsibility first that. helped germany become a world see and respected nations all right so gabrielle in addition to those comments also tried to save the nuclear deal with iran we want to let's take a listen to what exactly he had is that this is this year it is more important than that the architecture for arms control does not. exist existing treaties must not be called into question. just goes especially for the nuclear agreement with iran. i wonder what do you think dick gabriele managed to position himself as a strong leader for europe and the world well i think certainly he has a very strong case there and in fact there's pretty much nobody who doesn't see it

that way the context to this the reason he says this is so important right now is that that agreement with iran can serve as some kind of model for a possible agreement with north korea and to throw that agreement that iran treaty overboard right now and actually even if the u.s. were to say it is if donald trump were to say in three weeks he's not going to certify compliance that is an action that he takes visa via the u.s. congress he alone cannot simply abrogate this treaty on behalf of all the partners of iran but nonetheless clearly the treaty would be undermined if the u.s. decided for instance to reimpose sanctions at some point gabrielle is saying look why would we do that when this is our only chance to resolve the conflict or the tensions with north korea is to get them to the negotiating table why would we send a signal that an agreement like the iran treaty is not worth the paper it's written on and i think pretty much everybody except for maybe japanese leadership is on the

same page certainly the european leaders are the other european parties to the treaty with iran and essentially i think there's no country that believes there's a good military solution to these of the either north korea or iran and yet in so many ways we have seen position himself against trump alexander i'd love to get your view there from new york what does it mean for german u.s. relations to have taking on such a strong anti trump position there in new york. well himself told us today to those relationships those relationships is this relationship is quite restrained that. it is difficult to cooperate with the united states with the u.s. president donald trump who considers international stage a battle that's what real told us but of course we have to add that those

countries are pretty much connected in very many different areas so we can assume that they will find a way to cooperate in the future anyway one of the ways that many countries cooperate is of course through the united nations and gabble did underline the special role that the united nations play is and he mentioned the importance of germany's peacemaking efforts in particular a second listen to what he had to say. germany is committed to providing political humanitarian and peace building support in many crisis regions around the world. sometimes military engagement under the auspices of the united nations is also necessary. when it comes to peace building we have to make sure that we do not create an imbalance here. and i'm going to have a unique view on this year an american but you're living in germany for a long time do you think the world sees germany as

a peacemaker now i think absolutely the world sees germany as a very important player on the international stage you probably remember some of the headlines after donald trump was elected saying america is now the leader of the free world so i think that germany has shown its willing to take more responsibility and certainly that was reiterated here by six and i think a lot of countries are looking for it to do so all right that is melinda crane chief political correspondent and alexander phenomena reporter on the scene in new york thanks to both of you for your thoughts. well also at the u.n. general assembly u.s. president says he signed an executive order that will allow tough new economic sanctions on north korea he made the announcement ahead of the meeting with the leaders of japan and south korea to discuss the nuclear threat posed by pyongyang a new executive order will cut off sources of revenue that fund north korea's

efforts to develop the deadliest weapons known to human kind the order in hand says the treasury department's authorities to target any individual or entity that conduct significant trade in goods services or technology with north korea. or will be getting the view from wall street a bit later to see how u.s. businesses are going to be affected by those sanctions stay tuned for that it's coming up shortly in our business news. turning now to some other news around the world more than two hundred thirty people are confirmed dead following tuesday's earthquake in mexico rescue workers are still searching for survivors amongst the rubble of collapsed buildings one of the most desperate efforts centers on a primary school in mexico city. as a country holds its breath these rescuers are working round the clock scouring for any sign of life the mix of colors shows the sheer scale of it soldiers police

firefighters civilian volunteers they're all here the scene at what's left of this primary school is being played out nonstop on t.v. parents agony and relief shared with the nation. states that you know my children went to school here for six years from preschool to fourth grade thank god i took them out of the school and they were saved. and that the ills. the constant flow of work is arduous and incredibly delicate finding survivors is one thing getting them out safely quite another to see a. partial collapse is like this one captured life by the cameras pose a constant risk. that we can structures have complicated efforts to tunnel through to survivors with steel tubes specialist rescuers called moles have also been brought in to help by squeezing into narry spaces. you know you give me is that if

. you're a very small holes and they are asked if i could get inside as far as i could to save i could hear something. obviously. everyone here is well aware that the longer this operation goes on the more it becomes one of recovery rather than rescue. but still there are glimmers of hope. all thirty say they pulled more than fifty people alive from thirty nine collapsed buildings across the city but while people have rallied together in adversity tuesday's earthquake has raised an uncomfortable question. how could these buildings suffer so much damage standards were supposed to have improved after the devastating one nine hundred eighty five quake that killed ten thousand people. many now are too scared to return to their homes fearing for the collapses thousands are camping out in shelters but unlike some in the city they can be

thankful they're safe and well. charles cross not in mexico city where due to be correspondent hurley mission lloyd is on the story for us she joins us now on the line carolyn how are the rescue efforts they're progressing well i'm not fear if you're very tense time are everyone is under pressure there are keep being said by people i know the winds are able to survive i ask you haven't you hours after the earthquake that would be we say and the earthquake took place well and that goes so it is one of the above i can find and i would like to underline the police are you guys that i can you hear people are helping and are coming from everywhere from from there how does it take them cameras and also restaurants offering for everyone. is happy you want people don't always know everyone here and it's a really

a very very interesting to see that that's how you are calling him a job to help her and i'm pentathlon you here in mexico city. carolyn mission more reporting for us on the earthquake and the recovery efforts in mexico city thanks very much. well the only natural disaster we're following for you right now working a rio is back over open sea and regaining strength a day after a devastating puerto rico the u.s. national hurricane center has issued a warning for the turks and caicos islands and the eastern hama's now maria hit puerto rico as a category four storm and people there are only just beginning to assess the full extent of the damage. picking up the pieces after puerto rico's storm of the century here in san juan and across the island people are just beginning to come to grips with the aftermath of maria downed power lines uprooted trees and

shredded roofs litter the streets it's just some of the damage from a storm that officials say battered everything in its path. meanwhile tens of thousands remain in shelters they're still uncertain when they'll be able to return home and what awaits them when they do. the storm roared ashore on wednesday morning on puerto rico's southeastern coast torrential rains and winds of two hundred fifty kilometers per hour destroyed homes flooded streets and knocked out power to nearly the entire island residents described the scene as the strongest storm in over eighty years neared its peak. but i feel like i'm in the middle of more story. where. you can hear the crowd you know the wind the doors are sherry and it feels great pellets are being thrown at my windows. mousy being the worst of this storm and i'm hoping that my.

puerto rico literally can't afford this disaster the united states territory declared bankruptcy earlier this year and maria will likely plunge the island deeper into financial crisis u.s. officials have promised aid. but first of all i'd like to see the same thing which is to our fellow citizens in puerto rico they are right now front and center in our thoughts in our prayers we want them to know that the federal response will be there we want them to know that we are thinking of them first and foremost right now as they combat this very very dangerous hurricane and. meanwhile others in the storm's path are bracing themselves people here are taking no chances preparing for it but hoping to escape the worst of the storm. from the saga of the bankrupt german airline air whirlwind continues javier has that story from the business angle this touches you on a very personal level doesn't it sorry you got

a stray left stranded on some bad experiences of air that's probably soon go to be going to be over sara because germany's flag carrier lifton's as reportedly in talks to buy a large chunk of air berlin it's considering a takeover of the insolvent airline subsidiary nikky as part of a bid to split up the bankrupt company air berlin's remaining assets could go to easyjet and condor another german airline the company's board of directors is due to discuss the offers and make an announcement of money. and staying in the airline business ryanair has angered customers with flight cancellations that came out of nowhere now the company's chief executive said it was due to an error in planning the pilots' vacations but now we know there are far deeper problems with the airline ryanair is europe's largest carrier by passenger numbers but those might go down if the low cost airline doesn't deliver answers. the bad news first ryan air may be canceling even more flights at the start of the week the budget

airline announced it will cancel forty to fifty flights a day for the next six weeks ryan air boss michael o'leary said this was due to errors made in the planning of pilot holidays. but at a shareholder meeting and dublin today a leary said he couldn't guarantee there would be no more cancellations hundreds of thousands of travelers are already affected the irlen is preparing for up to twenty million euros in compensation claims several shareholders gave vent to their criticisms. of the bad relationship in him and pilots in general and that's where the pilots are coming back to him now and not meeting him halfway cancellations are very unfortunate disappointing i have flights booked with minor i now know that they're coming. on monday the c.e.o. denied that ryan air had an overall shortage of pilots. that doesn't mean that from time to time we don't make mess ups and we do with this is clearly

a mess so i take responsibility for the mess that it is my mess up and therefore i have to clean it up. today o'leary said that he can force pilots to delay a week of leave in exchange for financial compensation. but it now appears the dispute involves more than the question of holidays many ryan air pilots have rejected although there is offer of a loyalty bonus to keep flying during their scheduled leave. instead many signed their names to a letter demanding better pay and full employment contracts. to the other story making headlines today as donald trump talks tough on north korea reports are coming in that the european union has also agreed on a new set of sanctions against the country the measures reportedly include an embargo on e.u. exports of oil and a reduction to the amount of money in north korean workers in europe can send back home the block also wants to blacklist more north korean individuals a move which would freeze their assets and ban them from entering e.u.

territory. the national markets are watching those measures closely especially those of donald trump of course let's now talk about this with our new york financial correspondent so fishermans q hi sophie good to see you now these measures so like they will somehow target u.s. companies doing business with north korea in any way but how exposed is the u.s. economy to north korea anyway well first of all i think it's really interesting that trump is still pressuring north korea by economic sanctions this. two totally destroying of korea if the united states were forced to defend it or its allies as he was having lunch with both the president of south korea. executive order would a friend to an individual companies and financial institutions that facilitate trade with. both the largest economy of the united states has significant clout in

the global supply chain that will hit many american and also far and also foreign companies with this thing and so yes of course it is will impact global supply chain from the seller to the enduser. now so if you china from what we're seeing is backing these measures so is it now clearly siding with the u.s. on this. i wouldn't say so china did not show up in new york this week at this year's united nations session is in has being really reacting negatively to announcement. but on the other hand china had ordered banks to stop walking with north korea we apologize for the audio issues we had with line to new york that was sufficient answer your financial correspondent analyzing the sanctions for us. now leon but uncool at the time of her death was the richest woman in the world she has now

passed away at the age of ninety four according to a statement from her family she was the principal shareholder of cosmetics giant with an estimated net worth of thirty three billion euros she was also the fourteenth richest person in the world sure attracted from the public eye in two thousand and twelve after she left the board of really either but her name remained in the news for years until her death as people close to her became embroiled in scandal for exploiting her as she suffered from dementia. now the german election campaign race is entering the final stretch and we have more of that here we do that's coming right up but first we're going to go to spain where supporters of catalonia independence are continuing their protests that after the arrest of cattle on officials and raids on their offices this ahead of calumnious plans to hold an unauthorized independence vote on october first now during spain's four decades of dictatorship the cattle language was suppressed but since the return to

democracy it's been officially recognized as a language cut along is home to more than seven million people and they count for a fifth of spain's economy anger is growing in the catalonian capital barcelona and across the autonomous region of the spanish government's effort to prevent next month's vote. for a second day pro independence supporters gather in front of his highest court they want the spanish government to release catalan officials detained in connection with the referendum. if they send explained we won't be able to vote. but the images will be all over europe and everyone will know what's happening here. very dear of you says and the rest of our elected representatives we can't allow that to happen but maybe. there will be having us if spain is a dictatorship they're violating our fundamental rights. this

situation escalated on wednesday evening the national police shooting rubber bullets and clashing with protesters. spanish authorities have confiscated some ten million ballot papers and arrested more than a dozen cattle and politicians and officials the spanish government says it had a right to do this because the constitutional court ten declared the referendum illegal. because we have the necessary instruments to stop the referendum. those who don't want to play by. democratic rules get away with it with. for now the two sides look like being on a collision course with nine willing to back down. there's a look now smaller stories that are making news around the world kenya's president has accused the country's supreme court of stating that you know kenyatta told supporters of the court's decision to a no last month's presidential election could have told the country into judicial chaos earlier there were protests after the court explained its ruling blaming the

election board a new vote is now set for october twenty sixth. iraq because launched a major offensive to retake hawaii joe one of the last strongholds of the so-called islamic state because his prime minister has predicted another victory in the town which is about two hundred forty kilometers north of the capital baghdad the extremist territory has been shrinking fast over the last few months. greenpeace activists boarded a ship carrying new v.w. diesel cars headed for the u.k. the activists are refusing to leave the ship until it takes a chorus back to germany it's one of a number of green peace initiatives in the u.k. it's aimed at protesting the sale of vehicles that emit toxic fumes. well just three days before germany's elections tabloids in the country are abuzz

with news that former chancellor care hard schroeder who's seventy three years old stepping out was a woman twenty five years his junior now rumors of shuras relationship with a forty eight year old south korean woman have been making the rounds ever since they appeared together earlier this month a colorful figure in germany the former chancellor has been married four times though he separated from his current wife last year today his fourth wife had had enough confirming his new relationship on facebook and her post doris short are called so the shorters relationship was so your own kim was the final straw but not the only reason that they separated for good well turning now to a bit of sports news the tennis calendar is one of the busiest in sports and now there's another tournament that's been added to the circuit the labor cup it's similar to gulfs ryder cup although in this case it pits a european team against a world side inaugural event starts this friday in prague and it features

a star studded lineup take a look. rafael nadal and roger federer are used to be single for the game's biggest prizes in prague world number one would be on the same site that was part of team europe. captain bjorn borg believes the competition is going to take off. believe it's going to be one of the great future. to be the captain. of the competition sees balder new and old rivalry with john mcenroe the fiery american is the captain of a team world featuring four of his countrymen as well as a canadian and an australian curiosus teaching to do well in a tournament named after his compatriot the legendary rod laver. i was he wanted to be part of it because you know you look at all the great champions that are here. obviously rather we share the same you know we live in the same place so it's

pretty special for him as for the darling federer it will be a short lived union between two of the best players in the world could well end after sunday's final matches. you're watching t.v. news here's a quick reminder of our headline this hour germany's vice chancellors ignore gabriela spoken out against nationalism in his address to the u.n. general assembly providing a counterpoint to the u.s. policy of america first gabrial said a stronger u.n. and more multilateralism is needed to confront challenges like the north korea crisis. and that state of you news you're up to date this hour don't forget you can always find the latest on our website d.w. dot com i'm sarah harman in berlin thanks for watching us the ascent.

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