two hundred forty million euros a year in search of a partner. and thirty percent of them now find their partner on line. the business and love on a special focus on made in germany starting october twenty fourth on d w. this is d w news live from berlin tonight bangladesh asking the world for help as the road hinge of muslim exodus from me and mar approaches a million people refugees just really need food medicine and shelter the u.n.

donor conference has raised more money for aid but has fallen short of its target also coming up a prominent russian journalist stamped at her office in moscow i'll talk to ya know if i can go or work for a radio station that's also been critical of the kremlin persis back to the attacker says he had a telepathic connection with her. i'm breaking off it's good to have you with us the united nations says it is a textbook example of ethnic cleansing hundreds of thousands of row hinge of muslims facing persecution in violence in me and more in fully as you see to neighboring bangladesh every day brings more refugees across the border and bangladesh says it needs help to cope almost a million richenda refugees from ian mars. kind state are now in bangladesh more

than half arrived in the past three months alone most of the refugees we know are children monday's donor conference in geneva brought the total amount raised to help the region just to about three hundred forty million u.s. dollars but that is still short of the four hundred thirty million that aid agencies say is needed well a short while ago i spoke to sky wheeler from a human rights watch and i began by asking her what she witnessed on a trip to bangladesh to see they were hinges situation firsthand yeah i got back about a week ago from a trip to. where i interviewed up about fifty women who had recently fled. it was absolutely heartbreaking both the absolutely horrific stories that they were telling us about why they flat and also the really of bismillah humanitarian conditions they found themselves in there in bangladesh. what did the women

i understand also that you spoke with the other hinge of women what did they tell you about the things that they've gone through since basically since becoming refugees. well i was interviewing women who had survived sexual assault and rape when they were still in me and ma. there were many of them it appears that rape has clearly been one of the tools that the me that i use to conduct ethnic cleansing in these villages when i interviewed them many of them were still suffering terrible injuries because of their rates not only were these women often gang raped sometimes by as many as seven ten different soldiers but the van they were forced to walk for many days on very serious injuries. the result being that even though they are now in relative safety security and safety

in bangladesh often they are still suffering from infections. in other words genital areas it's a really very sad situation for them and you know you say that they're in relative safety. these refugee camps in bangladesh but the truth is bangladesh while that allows them to come to these camps it will not allow the road to become citizens of of bangladesh so you've got a situation where me and more will not recognize them bangladesh will not recognize them these are stateless people what needs to change before these refugees can become normal people like you and me. not only are they stateless are also some of the most persecuted people on the planet the stories i heard were horrific but of course there is a long background to all of these terrible stories that have taken place and in the

last months. pretty much everyone i interviewed you know is desperate to be able to have the option to stay and. they want that security they want to be able to sleep at night they want their children to be relatively safe and the world needs to do it for them it can to make sure that they get that safety that they desperately. do you have confidence sky in the bangladesh authorities of providing an area for these refugees to do to be safe because we're what we're talking about right now is a crisis that is in an acute phase but if this goes on for more than a year let's say two years three years the situation on the ground can change do you have confidence that the bangladeshi authorities will remain the benign guardians that they are. i hope so and all of the humanitarians including bangladeshi humanitarians who are working around the clock to try and save lives keep people safe keep

a bull fed keep people in contact with health services they all hope so the bangladeshi government has been grappling with a humanitarian crisis of enormous scale these people have arrived incredibly quickly they've arrived in horrific condition after being you know treated with absolutely abysmally by the military in myanmar so you know they've been doing an incredible job that yes over the next months and you know we and everyone else hope that these people are allowed to save to stay in a way that is dignified and safe and where you know for the first time in many of their lives they can access health and education services that they would deny back home in manama you know that's definitely an important point to bring out in this tragedy is gone we are with human rights watch guy thank you very much for being on the show and for sharing the stories that you encountered in bangladesh we

appreciate it well tonight a prominent russian journalist is in the hospital after being stabbed at her office in moscow talk to you on the field can go or works for a radio station which is often critical of the russian government her attacker who is now when police custody claims she had a telepathic connection with her. a news room on high alert the attacker shown here being let off by police reportedly sprayed gas at a security guard in order to enter the offices of independent radio station and hamas coolly armed with a knife. after being arrested he told investigators he has a telepathic connection with touch on the fellow that she has been harassing him. what is the deputy editor in chief of the station and anchors a daily political talk show for both a joke some of them it is everything is back to normal though everyone is decrease od and i want to point out that the attacker knew exactly where he was going he

went through to touch on his office and stabbed her in the neck that's what we know she has a stab wound it was a lot of blood. is critical of the russian government and is often referred to as one of the last independent media outlets in the country just under two weeks ago russian state television showed a report accusing the station of receiving foreign funding including from germany france and the us an accusation which editor in chief has denied. the t.v. report specifically mentioned touch on the felgenhauer. according to preliminary information the reason for the assault was personal and maybe we will review all the versions of what took place. several people have been staging one man protests outside in support of fed can go the only form of protest that doesn't need to be officially authorized in advance here the demonstrators point out that case is not the first of its kind in russia. please be aware that

some journalists are beaten up a summer stabbed some are sent to killed it's a dangerous and brave and in some ways a thankless profession. so i came to support and express my position that this is absolutely insane and then you. would notice that with journalism is one of the most important professions for our modern society and unfortunately it's still one of the most dangerous professions. fisi russia's journalists union has called the attack a blow to freedom of speech the country's investigative committee has opened a criminal case for attempted murder against the suspected attacker theories over the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the government of the philippines says it has defeated an extremist group allied with so-called islamic state it happened in the southern city of marois you which extremists seized five months ago more than a thousand people were killed and hundreds of thousands more displaced heavy

shelling has left much of mirai center in ruins u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has paid a surprise visit to afghanistan to discuss washington's new strategy for the country in talks with president mr tillerson reiterated the u.s. his commitment to work with kabul to bring peace to lives and also visited the iraqi capital baghdad. syrian activists are reporting that the bodies of dozens of civilians have been discovered in a town in central syria now this after government forces regained control of a ton in homes province from so-called islamic state on saturday the dead are believed to have been executed by this in revenge killing us. within touching distance of a deal that is how britain's prime minister to resign may described a bright sit negotiations with the european union today she spoke before parliament

her tone was upbeat despite the fact that last week's round of negotiations ended without progress on a deal for britain to leave the e.u. we haven't reached a final agreement but it's going to happen. to have a degree of confidence i have a degree of confidence that we'll be able to get to the point of sufficient progress by december off of the from a speech that is a new momentum the front speech was a step forward and that should be a positive response to the willingness to work on the interim period and that has been established a momentum. that was a british prime minister there to resume a well i'm joined now by our correspondent charlotte shelves until she is on the story for us from boston brussels good evening to you charlotte so i have to ask you what do european leaders what do they think do they share to recent days impression that important progress has been made . hi brian well a number of e.u. leaders have echoed tentatively to reason may's remarks that there has been some

progress made to reason may even name checked a few as if to prove her point in her speech earlier they included german chancellor angela merkel but the fact remains that if there really was so much progress you leaders would have allowed talks to progress to the next stage to the next stage on on trade and on the u.k.'s future relationship with the u. as it was though they opted not to the summit last week saying the haven't been sufficient progress yet particularly on that very tricky point of britain's divorce bill how much money the u.k. owes the e.u. once it's left the blog and i think it's making a lot of people very nervous that we aren't on that second stage as as expected because time is running out the clock is ticking to when the u.k. is meant to leave the and uncertainty isn't doing anyone any good own the u.k. side or the e.u. side and certainly doesn't help and rumors and gossip don't help either case in

point today's german newspaper the front for the other mine and so i tuned reporting that theresa may and i'm quoting here begged the e.u. commission chief sean called the younger for help last week over dinner what do we know about their. yes brand this really set the room mill here in brussels a lie this morning i'm just going to read a couple more extracts just to complete the picture there of what this newspaper article was suggesting it was saying that two reason may in a dinner with a monday looked anxious and tormented that she desperate and despondent and that she had deep rings on to her eyes suggesting that she hadn't slept so controversial with these comments that even sparked a twitter spat with two reason may's former chief of staff suggesting that these remarks would leaked to the press by youngest chief of staff that was a very controversial debate the youngest chief of staff denies the allegations as

have you and to himself he's denied ever having said it but i think what this shows is how easy it is for discord to roy's between both sides and also the extent to which people are really feeling like there's something going on behind the scenes that we're not quite sure about you know there's plenty of rumors out there that is for sure our correspondent charles until all the story for us tonight in brussels charlie thank you very much. oh football's world governing body. board ceremony in london on monday night. it was named player of the year after winning the spanish league the champions league and the world cup with real madrid former france superstar. was chosen as best coach for his work in all those teams all those titles and italy and you've. got the nod for best goalkeeper after keeping an incredible twenty five clean sheets for club and

country. is a reminder now the top stories that we're following for you the un is appealing for more than four hundred million u.s. dollars. so far the international community has only pledged three quarters of that more than six hundred thousand have fled to bangladesh since late august because of violence in their home country. will be back at the top of the hour with more see that.