homesites i live in the us i live in china before i'm french but doesn't is a very good place to raise a family. and i love it was my family. this is d.w. news coming to you live from berlin a prominent investigative journalist is killed in malta daphne. had repeatedly accused the maltese government of corruption she died after a bomb exploded in her car yesterday afternoon. also coming up iraqi troops

celebrate their recapture of the city of kirkuk from kurdish fighters function as thousands of civilians flee the city the kurds threaten to make baghdad pay a heavy price for their victory. and with the champions league hitting the pitch on tuesday it's crunch time for bonus league team leipsic they face porto it's a must win match that could kickstart their european hopes. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us she was multis best known investigative journalist yesterday she was killed by a car bomb duff make her want to leech it was known for her reports accusing the government of corruption she exposed what she said were links between government officials and secret bank accounts in panama on maltese prime ministers yosef must cut called the murder a barbaric act he also acknowledged that she was one of his harshest critics.

definitely cairo on a girlie thiers car exploded just after she had driven away from her home in moscow a town outside boxes kept of the latter the force of the blast flung her vehicle over a wall into a field the journalist had filed a report with the police two weeks ago but she was receiving threats some three thousand people gathered for a vigil on monday evening to mourn her death she was an anti corruption crusader on multiples best known investigative journalist the case and stone the small matter crimean island which is home to some four hundred pairs and people family friend luke friend o. told the crowd her death would not be in vain. i think that's when he was not only a journalist and an absolutely fearless human being but. a fourth pillar of our

democracy and that today's heinous crime was was not only against a human being against a journalist but against a pillar of everyone's democracy and i i hope that's why i know that her life is is it was definitely not for nothing and i'm sure though the torch will be carried by somebody else. sees prime minister joseph miscount who wanted to leave here accused of wrongdoing earlier this year called her killing a barbaric attack on press freedom. the journalist had revealed that the pundit papers allegedly showed the prime minister's wife owned a company in panama and that large sums of money had been moved between the company and bank accounts in azerbaijan muscat called early elections in june as a vote of confidence to counter the allegations he was reelected after he and his wife denied the accusations politico magazine had named. as one of twenty eight

europeans who are shaping shaking and stirring europe. for more now let's cross to the letter in malta journalist keith mccullough joins us now. there's a lot of suspicion obviously that the car bomb was planted by those who were being implicated in the leaches reporting regarding the panama papers has any evidence emerged to support that theory. as you know there is no hard evidence because investigations situations are very at the beginning. of even asked the f.b.i. to come over and even investigations themselves are shrouded in controversy because the inquiring majesty it was called who was on dubious didn't who is now opening the official inquiry and questions have been released about her because she was consolatory here the magistrate was often quite featured on sky one of only just

broke for allegedly misconduct this assessment of judith edition in fact the family over this week i want to go to testified in court so that she would recuse himself and the court appointed a different magistrate it to lead the inquiry as we speak in the middest it is a decision about that location from the from the i want to go it's yes family is being handed down by us to today. still not we're still not don't have any decision about whether she will be recusing herself or not and mortars prime minister also must cut he says that he will not rest before justice is done but he has inner circle where among those who are being investigated by and accused of corruption is everyone convinced that the maltese prime minister is really interested in getting to the truth here. i think there are

a lot of doubts i mean the prime minister was very clear in filing just. to say but let me quote this week i want your son. matthew government to go it's your own source of involved in the consortium of investigative journalist this morning he spoke for the first time following its barbaric act and he said the culture of impunity has been allowed to flourish by the government in malta it is of little comfort for the prime minister of this country to say he will not rest until the perpetrators are found one of the heads of government encouraged that same impunity so in the accusations are quite good if obviously only a significant chunk of the maltese population there's suspicion it's not an ordinary murder it's a political murder that's one of the suspicions that the cover of the rules were mostly political mostly against corruption ok kate thank you so much journalist keith mccullough there from the times of malta involved after.

fears a growing have a new conflict in iraq after government forces retaught the northern city of care cook from the kurds the government in baghdad said its forces were defending the integrity of the country after kurds voted for independence in a referendum last month by dead so the kurds put up little resistance but other reports say there have been clashes and that the kurds are preparing to fight back . celebrations in kirkuk as iraqi forces roll in supporters of the iraqi central government couldn't contain their joy after an intense day in which troops re talking key installations including an oil and gas field and a military base. cook an oil rich province claimed by both kurds and the iraqi government had been under kurdish control since iraqi forces fled an islamic state militants swept through the region in twenty fourteen. it comes three weeks after

residents in the kurdistan region voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence from baghdad in a controversial referendum thousands of kurds fled the city ahead of monday's iraqi advance. assumed you were heading to where bill because the situation is getting worse and the iraqi troops have entered and there is no way we could stay in. the lineup of the kids were terrified and we were afraid that there would be clashes and mortars would fall on us that's what i'm worried about. prior to the retaking of kirkuk baghdad said it didn't want an armed confrontation but kurdish peshmerga leaders have said the iraqi advancement is a declaration of war. well for more now let's cross over to journalist kathy she's in erbil that's in northern iraq kathy you're less than one hundred kilometers from kara cooke i understand what are you hearing about the current

situation there. hi thank you for having me on this morning so as i had them out to new audiences today the trash has died down. here it is very remote valleys and trees coming in. thousands of kids as you. know and head anything else that clashes it seems to me for now. and there was some initial writing back to then so the concern that i'm hearing is not about the clashes but about the possibility of this same thing to happen in other disputed areas in northern iraq. areas in the province because can't cook is not the only place to train central and. ok so there's still potential for a more complex there kurdish forces and iraqi government troops that were supposed

to be allies in the fight against islamic state at least is this alliance now in shreds. i think unfortunately now yes this alliance does not have kids intent as i think is going to need some very strenuous to see going forward and to to try and put that together again they were allies and try to take most of her crisis and a lot of successful ration tice's onerous and out of iraq but what we're seeing in the wake of that is that these two sides that i've trained the us both of us were victims that tend to guns on each other to try and result problems. that actually go back decades and will not result in the ice and now afterwards revert to those same problems but with more weaponry on the books so really there's a need for quite strenuous to. the leaders to get around the table to avoid any

more any more i don't care yes getting back to kirkuk the kurdish forces there the peshmerga fought forces apparently didn't put up much resistance what do you think the chances are that the kurds will really give up their claims to care cook or could they attempt to retake the city. i don't think the parents would give up trying to claims to they call it an injury so very for. and national nationalistic project they want to state their have in north america and that's very much based around i don't think they'll get that of the least bullet but at the moment militarily and to me i don't think they will be and way back in the air actually people rented out tara i feel. so good i'm sure if i think. they they're wrong the pressure. pressure that. my stand now is

here to. make it. a lot of people tensions are high i can't reach it every day i'm thirty five cents a day so there is there is the potential street level. kathy thank you so much for talking with us this morning a kathy autumn there in northern iraq thank you so a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today venezuela's opposition has accused the country's election council of rigging sunday's vote to elect governors who are demanding a recount and have called for protests president nicolas maduro socialist one of majority of votes despite anger over soaring inflation and food and medicine shortages british prime minister theresa may has met european commission head john caught in brussels the two leaders called for stalled regs at negotiations to be

accelerated many in britain fear political deadlock could mean leaving the e.u. with out a trade deal. and in ireland a powerful storm killed at least three people and knocked out power to tens of thousands what started as hurricane ophelia in the atlantic ocean had weakened by the time it reached ireland shores but gusts of up to one hundred thirty kilometers an hour led authorities to ground some flights and shut down schools. at least thirty six people have been killed in forest fires and portugal firefighters are battling more than five hundred fires in the north and center of the country government the government says the fires are the worst in more than a decade have been caused by higher than average temperatures and the effects of the drought. many here can hardly believe they are seeing fi is a ripping through entire forests overrunning villages and destroying everything in that paul portuguese authorities say high temperatures strong winds and extremely

dry conditions have helped fan the flames. in. the central districts of colin brown and castello broncos other was hit areas many of the victims were caught unawares by the fires sudden a rival trapped in their homes they had no chance to xscape. it's very windy new fires a constantly being ignited and firefighters are unable to contain them. more and more people are having to leave their villages over five thousand firefighters and so just battling the flames portugal already saw devastating fires in june which killed more than sixty people now the country finds itself facing and all that is sauce to. love turns seems set on dominating the skies helen is here with news of its latest venture that's right terry of course the ink is

barely even draw it on tons his latest bid to buy out parts of ebony and now germany's largest airline has put a bid in a for another airline this time it is a tally of us italy's ailing flag carrier now live to answer a british budget airline easyjet are two of the seven companies that handed in sealed envelopes yesterday in the hope of scoring parts of the italian airline the battle to carve up is heating up the ailing airline has only made a profit a few times in its seventy year history. among the big names interested germany's lost tons of its reportedly offering half a billion euros for parts of the airline the air giant is only interested in aviation business and not its grand operations if that deal goes ahead half of the employees of italy's largest airline could lose their jobs that's around six thousand people another bidder is british budget carrier easy just put it to only

wants a slice of the pie europe's largest budget airline ryanair has already withdrawn its bid for the airline office for parts of alitalia may not find favor in rome which wants to sell the whole airline. now to a move that could a u.s. president donald trump european aviation giant has acquired a majority stake in bowen bodies ailing c. series passenger jet business at no cost the move would enable the canadian playmaker to use an airbus assembly line in the united states possibly by passing tough tariffs imposed by the u.s. . if you use a wife i internet connection you could be affected by a so-called crank attack researches have discovered a major flaw in one find connections duct crack which could allow data being transmitted between the internet access point in your mobile phone or computer to be in to set it in some cases that i could could then use the vulnerability to

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a survey that took place around the year a year and a half ago counted two thousand five hundred illegal beetle taxis. officially registered taxis don't they have ventured here because the crime filled neighborhood is notoriously dangerous but the gap in services has created an opportunity for many drivers who have turned their beetles into a source of income. if the this car was created for challenges it is cheap when it comes to gasoline consumption and also in terms of its being a parts how easy it is to repairing one that. they may be old but the v.w. bugs called the pack continue to do their job after the last one rolled off a production line in pueblo fifteen years ago. more business news throughout the day but now we're taking a look at the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crisis in myanmar and bangladesh terry that's exactly right helena the united nations has released new aerial

footage showing streams of rw hinge of muslims making their way to bangladesh most are on foot and carrying their belongings the un refugee agency says more than five hundred thousand really hinges refugees have fled persecution in myanmar in the last five weeks they've cracked they call the crackdown ethnic cleansing in a moment we'll speak to a journalist in myanmar but first this report. the humanitarian crisis unfolds thousands of range of muslims fleeing persecution. trying to get to bangladesh by whatever means possible. meanwhile five hundred kilometers away in my own capital nappy door the united nations political affairs chief jeffrey feltman met with. to try to halt the military operations and violence in northern iraq on state he's also demanding unlimited access for humanitarian support for the ranger

but the toll of the exodus is rising around one hundred eighty rangers have drowned while trying to reach bangladesh on monday twelve more including six children drowned when an overcrowded boat capsized in the bay of bengal. dozens are still missing. when our homes were burned there was no place to live then we started walking towards the west there were no boats and we had to wait for more than ten days without food when we got the boat it took us along a different route we were near an island when the boat man ran aground and then a big wave hit our boat and it capsized. more than half a million range i have fled my own since co-ordinated range insurgent attacks more than seven weeks ago sparked a ferocious military response security forces have been accused of murdering

civilians and right. the united nations has labeled it ethnic cleansing. let's bring in journalist poppy macpherson she joins us from yang gong in myanmar hi poppy myanmar claims it has ceased military operations in rakhine state yet running the refugees are continuing to fully what is going on in rakhine state. difficult question to answer because obviously we're still not allowed free access rakhine state journalists aid agencies not allowed to go and see what's going on and but what we do know from the refugees who are coming across the border arriving many many thousands or i think especially in the last days there's been an enormous increase in the number coming and they are saying that there's not enough food

shortages there's a huge shortage of food in the villages and the con. that they can't they're not being allowed to go to the markets they're not getting aid deliveries which they were relying on and so that kind of thing pushed out by the threat of starvation sounds like a real humanitarian crisis now there in rakhine state the un has asked me on mars de facto leader aung san suu kyi to allow aid deliveries to the written job there in rakhine state how likely is it that that's going to happen. well last week on san suu kyi and now creation of a new committee which is supposed to be dedicated to this this crisis which is going to be involving private donors the private sector here in manama. local

n.g.o.s and u.n. agencies and delivering humanitarian assistance will be part of that its operations supposedly began today and that was constructing homes for villages effected by the crisis but actually not revenge these were just from another ethnic minority who were affected so. that she is is saying that humanitarian assistance is beginning but it's not what the u.n. and all of this you had perhaps imagined now much of the outside world is looking at pictures from bangladesh seeing these streams of refugees pouring over the border and wondering about this crisis very concerned what about the people in myanmar are they aware of what's going on and what do they think about it. well it's definitely being seen very differently here than it's being seen outside many people m.m.r. are not sympathetic to their injuries they see them as illegal immigrants from

bangladesh and they call them bangali rather than ranger. and now many people see them as terrorists extremists that's what the government and military propaganda has been painting than that because this crisis began in august when ranger insurgents attacked police. prompting this enormous enormous crackdown by the military so here and lot of people complaining that the international community is betraying their injuries victims when according to government ministry. what's coming from from those sources that condemning the most extreme. poppy thank you very much the update there is poppy macpherson there in yang gone myanmar thank you so much. soccer news rb leipsic or in action in the champions league group stage later today last season

the red bull backed out put storm to a second place finish in their debut bundesliga campaign but so far they've struggled to find success in europe and are bottom of the group ahead of their home game against f.c. porto. so far the red bulls haven't really had their head in europe and are bottom of their group after two games playing multiple matches a week requires squad depth and coach is confident he can get the best out of his team and you this is the coaching staff have to ensure we have the fittest players in the starting eleven and those players play the leipzig way if we manage that they were uncomfortable opponent for every team in one shift on the game to be. on the back of an impressive win against dortmund lights are in good nick even better star striker team or vanna could return after a prolonged spell on the sidelines. for his marshall plan for number one i haven't

yet decided whether he'll starts or be on the bench. the important thing is he's injury free. but he needs some time to get back to his best after such a long break from training. opponents porto are.