services. biala guest at frankfurt airport city managed by fresh bought. this is d w news coming to you live from berlin north korea's leader hits back at trial as the country threatens to test a hydrogen bomb over the pacific in a rare statement kim jong un calls the us president to ranged and says he'll pay dearly for threatening to destroy the north korea. also in this program germany's

main parties in their final t.v. clash ahead of sunday's federal election will get blow by blow analysis. and rescuers scramble to save lives in mexico as hopes of finding survivors in the rubble of tuesday's massive earthquake fade. people on the pleasure and they still hope they can find victims a life under the royals it is a race against time. i want to welcome i'm terry martin thanks for joining us. north korean leader kim jong un has insulted u.s. president donald trump describing him as deranged and he's vowed to make trouble pay dearly for threatening to destroy north korea state media released this photo of kim reading the statement kim was responding to trump speech before the u.n. general assembly earlier this week which kim called quote unprecedented rude

nonsense in new york north korea's foreign minister really young ho made this threat. i think the strongest region bomb test might be conducted in the pacific ocean. how much time. on was with a young kid in the. well correspondent jason strother joins us now from seoul south korea jason what are we to make of north korea's threat to test a hydrogen bomb over the pacific. well right now there's no indication that such a test is being prepared i haven't seen anything from the south korean intelligence indicating that preparations are underway i mean quite frankly depending on how the test was conducted let's say taking a

a barge out into the middle of the pacific or even dropping it via an airplane i mean that would open up north korea to potential attack or retaliation from japan or the united states now of course if north korea were to shoot a missile carrying a nuclear warhead in the pacific it would certainly demonstrate that it has mastered the technology to mount a warhead onto a rocket when trump announced new sanctions yesterday on korea he made an interesting intriguing remark chasten let's listen in china. their central bank has told their other banks it's a massive banking system to immediately stop doing business with north korea has just happened it's reported so president trump there saying the that he's got cooperation in pressing north korea adjacent if these sanctions are actually

implemented how much would it hurt north korea ray well beijing has not said publicly yet that it has asked the central bank to pass these measures of course china likes to kind of stay behind the curtain when it comes to dealing with north korea i'd rather not discuss these things openly certainly if chinese banks were to stop doing business with north korean entities that would put a hurt on the regime but it all but that would not stop much of the cross border trade that's going on between china and north korea. it also isn't clear there's also no reason really to expect that china would would tighten the stranglehold around kim jong un's regime so tightly that it would cause a collapse because at the end of the day china does not want to see a north korea taken over by south korea backed up by the u.s.

military jason to what degree do you think this crisis is becoming a personal duel between trump and kim. certainly judging by kim jong un's statement today he did not take very kindly to being referred to as rocket man and by president trump you know this is a thing. that is a relatively new phenomenon in the u.s. north korean relationship very used to pyongyang sending unleashing very bellicose rhetoric calling names but we've never had the u.s. president before in gage in name calling whether or not this really gets at the tos egos will be remain will be remain to be seen chasten thank you so much journalist ration struthers there talking to us from seoul south korea. and of course some of that name calling that jason was referring to has been taking place

at the united nations general assembly this week well yesterday it was germany's turn to take the stage their foreign minister gave a forceful rebuke to donald trump for his handling of the north korea crisis and the iran nuclear deal this was sigma gabriele's first speech at the united nations but it wasn't the first time he'd spoken on the dangers of rising nationalism. the german foreign minister said his country understood its past mistakes and the germans knew only international cooperation could lead to lasting peace yes. it was only after two terrible world wars we learned to see our former enemies as neighbors partners with whom we want to shoulder responsibility for a peaceful coexistence only since then to our own citizens in germany have a better life. going in bergen on. why god

didn't refer to the us president by name he was clearly calling on the international community to reject donald trump america first. yeah i'm going to germany for we've learned that it was not germany first that made our country strong and prosperous what gave us germans peace and prosperity was european and international responsibility first when foreshock first of. all his defended international institutions and agreements as a way of preventing and managing international conflicts he said they fostered trust something he stressed was currently lacking between many nations capitol hill added that the u.s. should honor its nuclear accord with iran he said the only then other countries such as north korea could be convinced to adopt limits on their own nuclear programs is this year. is more important than ever that the international

architecture for arms control and disarmament does not crumble existing treaties and agreements must not be called into question that applies in particular to the agreement on iran's nuclear program. gabble who believes the path to nucular nonproliferation lies in diplomacy in dialogue but the other world powers gathered at the un general assembly may not be so convinced say look now at some of the other stories making headlines today iran's president hassan rouhani has vowed to strengthen his country's arsenal of missiles he says iran needs them as a deterrent to any aggressors move comes despite criticism from the u.s. and press. what a reconned been surveying the damage to their islands now that hurricane maria has moved offshore the u.s. caribbean territory remains without power after being hit by the storm on wednesday

authorities say restoring electricity could take months and it was the strongest hurricane to hit quite a rico in eighty years. and in manila thousands of people have demonstrated against philippine president due tara to they demanded an end to extra judicial killings as part of his drug war and protested against a terrorist threat to introduce martial law organizers say around twenty thousand people took part. well here in germany federal elections are coming up on sunday and parties have been making their final push ahead of the vote last night candidates from seven parties clashed in a live t.v. debate with the evening producing some real skirmishes charlotte pots has more. final touches before the final debate two days to the german elections every argument counts as the leading candidates and representatives of the seven biggest parties took the stage in berlin to make a final plea on national television. and gave germany doing well but that doesn't

mean that all of its people are doing well germany's a wealthy country but we have to make sure to invest in the future the debate exposed broad agreement on a number of issues investing more in digital infrastructure and the need for thousand small police officers in fact under mystic security the parties try to outperform each other less total comes for police officers must become a matter of course and i think the police force has to be equipped with intelligent technology intelligent video surveillance phone surveillance the possibility to trace gangs and messenger. but where one might wonder where martin schultz and i'm the two top candidates get the event sending their deputy sense that perhaps because of that the us got to see a real confrontation something critics said have been lacking so far in this election campaign one big question that could soon pose itself and problem and how to deal with the far right if to ignore our conference you're in typical form

tonight's starting with the provocation would. have been provoked anyone yet we haven't talked here you have for days now and here you are now sitting comfortably and pretending that everything's all right with you and your party for me it's not ok i want to make that clear. you want to leave the european union at a time in the world where if it didn't exist it would need to be founded right now strong headwinds for the starts who could well finish third biggest party on sunday but three other parties also have a shot at the a sign of germany's fractured political landscape just ahead of the election. political correspondent of course was following last night's debate as well let's pick up on the last point there in charlotte report which focused on what party is going to be the third biggest and the bonus target could well be the far right a after. yes indeed it looks very much like that will be the case and the latest

polls show the f.t. gaining slightly it's not eleven percent of the vote that would make it probably the largest third largest party in parliament and there is always a certain amount of doubt when where polls are concerned that regard the a of d. the right wing populists because there is a feeling that a lot of voters do not honestly say that they are going to vote for those right wing party because that is still regarded in germany with quite a lot of. disfavor quite a lot of the. condemnation and under these circumstances is possible that there will be in fact a kind of hidden for the f.t. that will only come out in the actual polls. talk to us more about last night's debate hans do you think it helped any undecided voters make up their mind because i understand about forty percent of the electorate haven't made up their mind here is that is true there is still a large section of the electorate that has said so far that they have not yet

decided what party to vote for. last night's debate did was an actual debate there was quite a lot of fierce exchange of views i think most clearly the profile that was most clear was the profile on the extremes of the political spectrum on the one hand the a of d. which in fact did not participate very strongly in this debate was bipolar but was attacked by all the others and on the other side the far left party which of obviously has the advantage of being able simply to attack everybody and managed to do that pretty well in the center of the political spectrum it was clear that there was a lot of consensus on the major issues so little infighting as it were in the center thanks so much political correspondent hans blunt. well here in europe germany's general election on sunday will take center stage

then but today all eyes are on prime britain's prime minister as she prepares to make a speech spelling out her country's key positions on briggs that theresa may is hoping to convince european leaders that her country is ready to cut a fairer divorce deal after major tensions in her own government should be speaking later today in the italian city of florence our correspondent has been looking at the many divisive issues and as you might expect money is top of a list. what does bracks it have in common with a night out at the pump when the funds over someone has to pick up the bill it's a comparison many brits will understand. and maybe that is exactly why do you commission chose this example to demonstrate why the u.k. my third will it's a bunch of commitments in full. it is. like going to the pub with twenty seven friends your round of

beer but then you can not leave well the party continues if you want to stay friends you pay your share of the final bill and for britain that's a hefty sixty billion euros. let's take a look at the biggest portion of the bill infrastructure signs and environmental projects such as this one in france all of these projects have been approved by e.u. member states but many still need to be paid for the u.k. share here amounts to thirty billion euros. another liability is pensions one option would be for the u.k. to only pay the costs of british e.u. officials but most experts agree london is liable for its share of all e.u. officials that's worth nine billion euros on the divorce bill the nationality doesn't matter all that european union employees of iraq the european union better

and the united kingdom why it was a member benefiting from the think of market and other european facilities now some good news for the u.k. has a share of the e.u.'s property and cash assets that will offset the brics a bill by nine billion euros but do they have to pay this bill you know very think legal sense do you need to pay a penny. because when the u.k. . all european union laws cease to apply to the united kingdom including going north that govern the financial contributions to the water but the e.u. parliament steve bracks a to go she tells me a good future relationship will require a settled bill. i have no experience in divorce but i know that in a divorce. you cannot walk out of the house and letting the other family

members alone without taking your financial responsibility which takes us right back to the negotiating table. as the fight might be over who's going to pay for the last round. my colleague there working very hard in brussels for more on theresa may is a much anticipated speech he joins us now from brussels good morning they are a lot of suspense surrounding theresa may speech what are officials in brussels bracing for without a doubt you know officials will follow this speech very closely but the prospects that the reason may will called breck's it not point of departure or an end to something but the beginning of a great future relationship and that is at least how history she's expected to be to say and we'll remember this point of departure of this. that is nothing that gets anyone excited here in brussels the chief negotiator michel been able to very clear when he said he's rather puzzled that even at this point with eighteen months

to go the u.k. has not been able to come across with concrete commitments on the key questions of it well concrete commitments hard numbers that's what many people looking for in her speech today theresa may is expected to say that the u.k. will pay roughly twenty billion euros to the e.u. during a post bragg's a transition period with that break the deadlock in a p.c. with a szell's. that would of course be a step forward that would be one of those concrete commitments the e.u. is looking for where negotiations could start but if course as i've said in my piece in the report this is just a fraction of the actual breaks that bill we're looking at the sixty billion twenty billion that wouldn't even include for instance the question of pensions though there's a whole list of other issues parts of them not even in my report which have to be tackled so the but twenty billion frankly

a step forward what about the rumors that have been circulating that negotiations have run completely into the ground that there is a deadlock is that your impression it really depends which side you tend to believe that there is of course david davis the press it resents to from the u.k. who says the discussions are fruitful which is a far cry from actual agreement and there is michele dunne you out ruled that there is actually a deadlock but who said you know we we have not made sufficient progress now i would say. the e.u. side tends to be able to be more honest about the actual state of affairs because they have not made the promise to their electorate that bracks it can be a huge success for the e.u. the backs of negotiations have always been about damage control and about a lose lose situation that europe is about to face thank you so much for now. in

brussels. of course we'll be bringing you all the details on tourism a speech when it happens now where is the oil price had it that's a big question the business world today monica has more well terry it's hovering at the moment it's hovering but it's gained more than fifteen percent in the past three months currently trading at about fifty six u.s. dollars a barrel but that is a far cry from the days when a barrel cost one hundred forty seven dollars overproduction led to a massive crash on the oil market in oil producing nations are meeting today in vienna to tackle the problem the organization of petroleum exporting countries opec and some non opaque producers including russia first agreed in november last year to cut their output by around one point eight million barrels per day to clear global oversupply and support prices despite their efforts prices have remained low

amid increasing u.s. oil production. where german flak carry a loaf is poised to snatch up the largest chunk of bankrupt berlin that is according to local media reports citing inside sources is reported to be considering a take over of the bankrupt and subsidiary nikky as part of a bid to carve up the company the report says easyjet quando are displayed evidence remaining assets of the airline now says negotiations will continue until october the twelve. ryanair has good customers with flight cancellations that came out of nowhere 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 on syrus. the bad news

first ryanair 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 ryanair boss michael o'leary said it was due to errors made when planning pilot holidays but at a shareholder meeting in dublin on thursday o'leary said he couldn't guarantee there would be no more cancellations hundreds of thousands of travelers are already affected the airline is preparing for up to twenty million euros in compensation claims several shareholders gave vent to their criticisms. of bad relationship with him and pilots in general and after the pilots are coming back to him and not meeting him halfway cancellations are very unfortunate disappointing i have flights booked with the winner i now know that they're coming and. on monday the c.e.o. denied that ryanair had an overall shortage of pilots that doesn't mean that from

time to time we don't make methods and we do it this is clearly a mess up i take responsibility for the mess up it is my mess up and therefore i have to clean it up o'leary said 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 ryanair pilots have rejected o'leary's offer of a loyalty bonus to keep flying during their scheduled leave instead many sign their names to a letter demanding better pay and full employment contracts apple's latest i phone hits the shelves today the i phone eight boasts a new display and while a challenging among many of the fetus excitement is high as usual but some apple fans are having qualms about the new release. it's become a familiar scene a new i phone and long lines outside of apple stores worldwide to greet it today

its i phone eight buyers in australia and asia awoke early on friday to get the latest model in their hands new features include a faster processor a retina h.d. screen and wireless charging plus version offers more features not everyone is sold other smartphones already offer similar features and some say the improvements do not merit the price tag it's not much of an upgrade it's more of an it shouldn't in my pretty sure to be important issue to being called a seven s i phone some i phone fans may be distracted by the coming i phone ten that model which apple announced on the same day is they both an even larger display and facial recognition the ten is due to be released in november for a cool one thousand dollars. i think it'll be more lively here with more people with the i phone ten thousand and i don't know. many customers are willing to skip the i phone eight altogether preorders for today's release were lower compared to past releases wall street has picked up on the lower enthusiasm with apple shares falling yesterday and it's not just the phone apple's watch series three has received lukewarm reviews it also has

a software glitch aparicio yesterday apple is fixing that problem joining up enthusiasm for the i phone eight won't be as easy. well this seemed to be hot to placed in mexico now every minute counts to safe lives to me that's right monica following that devastating earthquake it's been more than two days since powerful earthquake struck central mexico toppling buildings and killing almost three hundred people a rescue workers are racing against the clock in their search for survivors in the rubble we sent our correspondent carolina chinmoy to mexico city where a desperate rescue effort is underway at a primary school. this has become the most important symbol of hope for mexico city after the earthquake it sounds harsh silence please someone might be calling for help under the rubble. volunteers are equipped at least with a spade or a hammer sudan a little german needle every want to help with

a hammer or with bare hands lifting stones have you found people. yet as those with yes of course a lot of the little while i was there at least eight people were measured to prisoners. but meanwhile there are hundreds of people willing to help around the color of spilled ings in the city some are even turned away by the authorities they ask for more control that's what they're doing but what is it about this. isn't it's about controlling the number and i think there. once we are inside the end to see asm and go will of the people seems unlimited. people are working here for hours many of them for the last two days i didn't start as one has been here for over twelve hours even fell unconscious but she still wants to help. that is why she was transferred from moving rubble to helping distribute food and beverage is.

she strongly believes that there are still victims who are alive under the rubble. to see yes i really think so. this is why i'm still here even though i fainted at least i can help a bit here. as they are. i think it's about them so i can no longer do so because these are my people this is my country i'm going to stay here as you were you know that. according to the major of mexico city at least forty buildings in the capital have collapsed like this one experts say that people could survive up to three days under the reasons this is why the atmosphere witnessing here is very tense people are on the pleasure and they still hope they can find victims alive under the rules it is a race against time. to do as carlina chinoy reporting there you're watching news

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