believed to be in barman series of global three thousand on t.w. and online. news. i am genuinely. this is it will be news line from berlin several people are injured in a knife attack on a german bus policing the silence down to eight people on a bus in the northern city of lubec police have a suspect in custody local media say he is a thirty four year old german we'll get you the latest. also on the show john charles on the american signs off for the summer at her pre-holiday press conference americal says her government must strike a delicate balance on the hot button issue of migration and sweden struggles

sickened to dozens of wildfires the flames are forced villages across the country to be evacuated. the boy. thank you so much for joining us we're following breaking news in northern germany where a man with a knife attacked and wounded at least eight people the attack took place on a crowded city bus in the city of new bac police have confirmed there are no fatalities but say some of the injuries are serious police arrested a suspect they've identified as a thirty four year old german citizen let's take a listen now to what luke's prosecutor said to the media at the scene this afternoon. i mean man have to name a man on a city bus stabbed passengers with a knife the exact number of injured is not yet known and if there are no fatalities

from one of the injured is in serious condition one vital to the perpetrator was apprehended he's in police custody and will be questioned later in the act and put in the right or circumstances of the crime are unclear how to find them the identity of the suspect has not yet been verified so i cannot provide any further information. the prosecutor speaking a little early i want to go straight to do going to correspondent to grady to get an. we just heard from the prosecutor in the city of lubec they have a suspect in custody do we know at this time of authorities are searching for other suspects or that this person act alone. as well as far as far west so far the suspect is the only one that has been arrested since this attack this afternoon and the authorities are so far just focusing their investigations on that man the thirty four year old german citizen who the prosecution office in lubec has

since said was not born in germany but had german citizenship but what they also it is are still investigating as well exactly what the motive was behind this attack it was a few hours ago now shortly after half past one local time that the suspects reportedly pulled a weapon from a backpack and began to began they say attack and stabbed several people on that bus so. it is all working as quickly as they can to determine the exact motive behind this attack and we've also heard both from the interior minister as the coastline where lubeck lies in northern germany and also again from the prosecution office saying that there's no evidence so far to suggest that there was any political radicalization linked to this attack so causal thirty's are working

to investigate every avenue. kate remind us a little bit about those people who are injured or who are doing how they're doing . exactly so this attack took place on what we've heard was a full bus shortly after lunchtime earlier today many people on there were we heard were perhaps going to a sailing event that which it was jus to start on the coast in lubec later today and so it was have been a busy time those thirty people now being questioned thirty witnesses have been questioned by police but they are also asking for the people to come forward several people who managed to make it off the bus uninjured have apparently not yet returned to give a statement to the police as far as the victims are concerned where it's not yet a convent exactly who those people are and what their ages were but we do know

we've heard a confirmed figure from police that eight people or at least eight suffered injuries but the interior minister official as they call later said to that not all of those victims suffered stab wounds and some of them actually sustained other injuries during the attack and of course we did also hear from witnesses that the attacker was actually reportedly overpowered by other passengers on the bus so it could well be that the injuries were sustained joe ring the attack the driver for example we've heard sustained a blow to the face so police are still investigating and they're trying to clear up exactly what the motive was behind this as tack as quickly as possible for you correspondent bruce reporting thank you so very much gary. i know america has signed off for the summer or the annual press conference and

garland speaking after a rollercoaster start to her fourth term recognized rumors that she might step down before the end of the current parliament she also tackle some of the major issues confronting our fragile coalition governments now at least how to deal with dollar america and how to solve europe's migration crisis. i'm going to michael set aside one and a half hours to talk with the media before her official summer holidays began it's been a turbulent political year for the chancellor and many have wondered whether it would spell her downfall but of merkel was in some need of a home with it didn't show many of the questions posed by the press centered on donald trump and whether macko could understand why he singled out germany fix which is a. i took note it. i didn't look for motivating factors when the mom. said she would rather deal with the issue

rationally. tram's outrage at germany's trade surplus with the us solely concerned trade in goods she said. you know if we add services to that and the profits transferred back to the u.s. when you look at the trade balance then it looks quite different. then you see there is a balance and that it's slightly tipped in favor of the u.s. . man who went on to say that in the future europe will not be able to rely on the u.s. to be the world's peacekeeper she said that was legitimate and that europe had to solve its own regional conflicts including military wants the chancellor also said she had no problem with trump meeting with president putin and russia has been under international sanctions since of a mixed crimea in two thousand and fourteen if in then. i think it has to become normal again for u.s. presidents to meet with russian president. afterall ninety percent of the world's

nuclear arsenal is held by these two countries. on migration merkel said she remains concerned about how the issue has divided europe. it's. it's quite obvious that this puts europe under a lot of pressure that. only that she looked food to a few days rest. and other news the years she brags that negotiator has cautiously welcomed new proposals for britain on its future relationship with the european union michel barnier said the proposals contain useful elements that provide the basis for negotiations but there are also questions about whether some aspects are compatible with the basic principles while the border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland remains one of the key stumbling blocks

britain's theresa may called on the e.u. today to evolve its position on strike and new deal on the issue. i want to bring up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world rescue boats in the u.s. state of missouri have recovered the last four bodies from a tourist boat that sank in a storm yesterday i would miss video shows the boat making way in rough waters the boat was full of parents injures including children a total death toll now stands at seventeen. the white house says u.s. president donald trump has invited his russian counterpart vladimir putin to visit washington in the fall the invitation comes four days after their summit in helsinki and that meeting provoked an uproar in the u.s. over trump's failure to publicly confront putin over moscow's alleged meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election. french president. has

fired his top security aide after video emerged of him beating a protester the footage shows alexander banal out clubbing a man at a demonstration in paris in may my car has come under fire for reportedly knowing about the incident but will fusing to eventually contact the police. 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 there are threatening villages and causing major problems in a country more used to balance no climate change means this extreme weather phenomenon 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 it just burns and burns at the end we had to back up three kilometers because it became too dangerous of all that. 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 send help. it's only the biggest myth in the work we have one thing on this and it's capable of drop six thousand feet of all this 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. and they were poor it has highlighted at the scale of forced labor around the world the global slavery index estimates that more than forty million people worldwide were subjected to modern slavery in two thousand and sixteen the phenomenon is present in countries around the world but they report named north korea as the worst offender. millions of men women and children are subjected to forced labor forced marriage or sexual exploitation some are sold into slavery north korea tops the list of countries involved more than ten percent of its population is used as forced labor yawn me park was sold as

a sex slave to china and managed to escape trampled praise skins only. he's saying he's on active meaning mistake after and he's impressed by how rare it is running the country it's like hitler and saying i'm impressed by how you're killing jews right now the global slavery index compiled by the organization walk free list seventy nine countries in which more than forty million people are trapped in modern slavery germany is among them there are some hundred sixty plus thousand slides in your agricultural meat processing fee for import importations when your domestic workers where you are most affected by the products you buy the report says developed countries import hundreds of billions of dollars worth of goods every year including cell phones and t. shirts produced with slave labor. and before i let you go in our mind you of our

main headline. a knife attack on a bus in the german city of newburgh has left at least eight people injured several of them seriously police have detained the suspects local media say he's a thirty four year old german. we'll have more news for you coming at the top of the hour but up next a whiskey producing town in the united states prepares to swallow the bitter pill of terrorists alfredsson will have that story for you right after this some. of them.

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