from the forest starts all these nice w. . news. this is the w.'s line from berlin several people are injured in a knife attack on a german bus police say an assailant stabbed eight people on a bus in the northern city of lubec several of them are seriously injured the suspect is in police custody we'll get the latest also on the show and german shells on the american signs off for the summer ever pre-holiday press conference

merkel says her government must strike a delicate balance on the hot button issue of migration and sweden struggles to continuing dozens of wildfires the flames have to force villages across the country to be evacuated. and while herat thank you so much for joining us we're following breaking news what appears to be a violent incident that unfolded in northern germany at least eight people have been injured in a knife attack on a crowded bus in the city of newburgh police have confirmed there are no fatalities but say some of the injuries are serious the assailant is and police custody local authorities say at this stage they can't rule out a terrorist motive. did you course want to keep brady joins me now with an update to kate what can you tell us what's the latest information that you're getting. so

little of what we know so far is that this incident took place in lieu of being in northern germany on the close to the baltic sea at around one thirty pm local time this afternoon the bus it was a public bus thirty witnesses on that bus and now being questioned by police and a rucksack reportedly fell from the suspect this afternoon from which he then went and pulled a weapon and according to eyewitnesses that weapon was a kitchen knife in the suspects then reportedly stabbed several people on that bus and figures that we've got com fome from police so far as eight people is it eight people were reportedly stabbed in this incident five of them reportedly suffering from slight injuries and another three they suffered fairly serious injuries now

we're not sure exactly what's going on with those people who have suffered those injuries at the moment but the area around where this attack a suspected knife attack took place is still being cordoned off and it's thought that many people on this both were in fact on their way to a sailing festival which was due to open today and the local prosecution office has said that it's not yet clear exactly how this incident might actually affect the security at that sailing event and there are more than a thousand people sailing enthusiastic expected to attend that event over the next few days but apart from that we all still waiting for more details from the police again the local prosecution service has said that they haven't ruled out any kind of motive yet including a terrorist motive but of course we're still waiting waiting to find out the

background to that incident from the police i can't that i understand that the police of the person who committed this knife attack is in police custody do the police believe that the assailant acted alone. so far there's been no reports either from police of any of the suspects in this incident we have heard from local media they've spoken to some witnesses who were on the bus is that there was in fact a small fire on the bus that's what we've heard from witnesses so far i am so explosive experts are now actually investigating that and having a look at that backpack which belonged. believe to the suspect who as you say has now been taken into custody have lubeck authorities provided any information kate about who the suspect is well so far at least going around social

media and also local media in the papers there have been some rumors flying around us to where the suspect may have come from but we still have no confirmation from police yet on who the suspect might have been kate can you tell us can you tell our viewers about the city of lubec. well there becky is quite a famous city really in germany best known for its marzipan industries also some famous figures came from there one of the former german chancellor's very big and but it is quite a small town a population of just over two hundred twenty thousand but it is also a port city and quite a quaint town of rating so it would have been very busy when this incident took place and as i mentioned before there is also a sailing festival juice to begin as well today and so it is usually very

filled with taurus especially at this time of year as well of course it is also the school holidays now in germany so it will have been busy especially on a friday afternoon w. a correspondent kid brady reporting on that breaking news a knife attack in lubec or thank you so very much. and back here in berlin chance on the american who has given her annual summer press conference she's faced a turbulent time since last september's election with her track to negotiations to form a coalition of bitter infighting that almost brought down her government but america also said she planned to see out her fourth term as chancellor on international issues she welcomed president just issued invitation to president vladimir putin to visit washington but she said europe could no longer rely on the u.s. and pose order on the world on migration a hot topic for

a government grant all said germany needed to find legal ways for people to come and work here but the e.u. was be able to protect its external borders. many demands on top of have also for that we need to find a common on how to deal with migration. we're still in the middle of that process. and it's quite obvious that this puts europe under a lot of pressure that's the the thoughts of about the fact that this issue affects every e.u. member state means of course that it will take longer to solve this those men who had been doing this because he had psych. and it shows how divided we are over this issue. but i believe that finding a common solution for migration is crucial for the future of the european union. is to give to cont. the chancellor speaking there earlier the chief breaks that

negotiator michel barnier has welcomed new proposals from britain concerning the u.k.'s future relationship with the european union but in years so the white paper contains quote useful elements that provide the basis for progress in the goshi issues but he said there are also questions about whether some of the proposals are compatible with the basic principles the white paper was a thrashed out by the u.k. government just two weeks ago prompting the resignation of heartbreaks the tears from the cabinet now to bring you up to speed with some of the other stories making news around the world the white house says u.s. president i will trump has invited his russian counterpart vladimir putin to visit washington in the fall the invitation comes four days after their summit in helsinki all that meeting provokes an uproar in the u.s. over terms failure to publicly confront russia's putin over moscow's alleged meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election. french presence and money on

my car has fired his top security aide after video emerged of him beating a protester the footage shows alexander up in allow clubbing a man at a demonstration in paris back in may mcconnell has come under fire for reportedly knowing about the incident but we're fusing two and initially contact police monitor school messaging service whatsapp says it's limiting message school wording in india in response to a series of lynchings in recent weeks at least twenty people have been killed by angry mobs after false messages about child kidnappings spread rapidly over the app some two hundred million people in india use the messaging service. and we stay in asia where pakistani police say they have identified the suicide bomber who attacked an election rally last week killing one hundred forty nine people on the

attack or allegedly had links to a so-called islamic state the bombing was just one example of the violence that has plagued pakistan in the build up to a fiercely contested election next week. pakistanis head to the polls next week amid fears of militant attacks. and this is why the aftermath of last week's suicide bombing on a political convoy killing nearly one hundred fifty people claimed by islamic state it was pakistan's deadliest since two thousand and fourteen sending a message to head of elections. this man if elected prime minister wants to sit down for talks with terror groups imran khan international cricket star turned politician can whose name recognition most politicians can only dream of and his pakistan tehreek e insaf all movement for justice party is campaigning on a popular anti corruption pro islamic ticket. critics say that he's backed by

pakistan's military often referred to as the country's deep state the military holds considerable influence and has ruled on and off for decades. comes main rival shahbaz sharif and the well established pakistan muslim league are mired in a different kind of controversy. corruption. his better known brother now as sharif three times prime minister is now in jail after returning to pakistan to face corruption charges political dynasties count for a lot this is dorie age twenty nine pakistan's third prominent candidate he's the face of a new generation of the bhutto dynasty campaigning for his family's pakistan people's party on an anti-poverty ticket. bill well isn't likely to become prime minister but he could play a future role pakistan has had only one successful peaceful civilian transfer of power in its seventy one year history whoever wins the country is united in its hope that next week's elections will be its second. now with

much of europe sweltering under high temperatures even regions in the arctic circle are feeling the heat sweden is struggling to contain around fifty separate wildfires some of which have become too big to fight they're threatening villages and causing major problems in a country more customs more accustomed to battling snow climate change means extreme weather events could soon become the norm. inferno near the arctic circle. four days firefighters have been struggling to contain a rash of wildfires scattered over a vast expanse of sweden from north of stockholm all the way to the arctic forests . this sense and it feels like we were in vain and it just burns and burns at the end we had to back up three kilometers because it became too dangerous of all it. multiple villages have been evacuated and officials

estimate the fire damage at around seventy million euro so far. at fault as an extraordinary heat wave that has turned much of the evergreen landscape into kindling. temperatures have climbed to thirty three degrees celsius in recent days conditions befitting italy more than sweden and so the italian government has sent help. it's only the biggest need in the work we have nineteen of this and is capable of drop six thousand leader of all them about one second. in fact the effort to extinguish the nordic blaze has become a european task with further personnel and air support sent in from france germany and neighboring norway. sweden has dealt with wildfires before but rarely over such a large area now meteorologists are warning that with global temperatures on the rise fighting fire in the arctic could become an annual battle.

arsons force news now unfinished formula one driver of all terry boaters has signed a new one year contract with mercedes until twenty nineteen but does is currently in his second season with the german outfit but is yet so in a race this year sitting fifth in the overall standings while the contract extension means protests will continue to partner the your team's number one driver lewis hamilton the brits use the ring formula one champion agreed a new two year deal on thursday. all right and a reminder of this top story that we're tracking for you this hour a knife attack on a bus in the german city of new beck has left at least eight people injured several of them seriously police though say they have overpowered and detained a suspect. but don't forget you can always get to that we knew was on the go just

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