really soon irreconcilable. coming to. rock'n'roll. storms aug nineteenth w. . this is due to abuse live from berlin iran lashes out at renewed u.s. sanctions sighing and psychological warfare. president rouhani also slams donald trump's call for direct talks he says the move is aimed at creating chaos inside iran we'll get the latest from tehran also coming out. of court delivers its verdict in a trial that has shocked germany for years

a mother and her partner sexually abused her son and made them available to pedophiles on the darkness. and in the knees are steps up the search for earthquake victims but powerful aftershocks are hampering those efforts thousands of tourists are being evacuated from the holiday oh in the long haul. and too much of a good thing the international monetary fund says germany's trade surplus is adding to global trade tensions. i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show iran's president hassan rouhani has lashed out at the renewed u.s. sanctions that took a fact just a few hours ago and he's accused washington of launching psychological warfare and of trying to destroy. allies around president trump has reimposed many of the

sanctions that were in effect before the twenty fifteen nuclear deal with iran those sanctions will now be affecting millions of iranians. these people will be hit hardest by the u.s. sanctions measures suspended in two thousand and fifteen after years of suffering by the iranian population now brought back by the trumpet ministration. the sanctions target the iranian financial system including government purchases of u.s. dollars the trading of gold and other precious metals and of industrial goods and software they hit at the sales of iranian reels government bond sales and the automobile sector the iranian real went to freefall in anticipation of the sanctions coming into effect the currency slide has already been felt on the streets of iran. sanctions have definitely had an impact whether it's on the currency exchange rate or the price of gold. they've resulted in the loss of many

jobs. in the north if a dollar goes up the price of everything will go up. but in the end people should have some patience and tolerance towards sanctions you haven't but you hala if it continues like this we won't have a good life in the future. it will be better to have reforms and i hope the government will think about us people that want what i want and do a lot to fix they not a sentiment washington hopes will force to run back to the negotiating table. well they could take up the president's offer to negotiate with them to give up their ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs fully and really verifiably not under the onerous terms of the iran nuclear deal which really are not satisfactory speaking in an interview on state television iran's president hassan rouhani said sanctions were an attempt at psychological warfare but said tirant was ready for

diplomacy. the first step would be for trump to show that he genuinely wants to engage in negotiations what's the meaning of negotiations when you impose sanctions at the same time this year which. rouhani called on a rainy and to unite in the face of the coming hardship. and more of this let's bring in eric randolph he's the tehran correspondent for the good morning eric we just saw there what it is potentially at stake for iran but let's back up a little bit you know what impact will these sanctions actually have china india even the e.u. say that they will now essentially ignore them will they be that severe in their impact. a lot of the damage has already been done because they aggressively rhetoric from trump over the last year or more both had spooked investors who prevented foreign. companies from from do business hit the rules if you were to run

on the currency of recent months the senior news hotspot that was already having an effect sanctions will have some industries that came in today real probably come in november. the second wave of sanctions targets the oil sector which is obviously vital to runs economy though some countries like to say china or india and he said that they can't cut or groups such as this from iran too much. so there will be a bit of a buffer that but that will be when the worst damage is this fellow's ok so so we have a window of opportunity of attention here up until november for talks to resume to start up again do you think iran will return to the negotiating table with the white house. and it's very difficult for president rouhani and the iranian leadership. who have been shown to be somewhat naive in the

eyes of the conservative opponents to have trusted america in the first place with the nuclear deal. as a lot of trying to stage their retiring to the negotiating table a time when trump is launching this threats and accusations against them and is trying to destroy their economy and undermine the political system is going to be a very difficult political sell. they said they're open to negotiations if trump can show. respect and. roof reducing the fight. on the shore of trump is. ok should as you mentioned national pride in iran be playing the predominant role here might the country resume its nuclear program kick start again it's ballistic program and continue its military support for the syrian regime is that all in play now.

pressing to increase its you ready or not richmond today launched a plan to do so back in june but it housed stepped back from actually doing anything like the moment it's enjoying having the morrow and it's also trying to seek. support from the in russia and china the other parties to do to see what can be salvaged so it's keeping those threats and its back pocket but at the moment it's making a good point the it's america that looks i see that it's on this issue and for once iraq is the one that's been keeping to its commitments and looking like the folks in the rue neuve this and i think is enjoying that status but it will come a point when if all of its economic benefits run out and it's very hard to justify the nuclear deal then there would have to take some show some overt toleration. america's violation of the new good ok will be looking at what form that

retaliation might take in the days weeks months ahead eric randolph thanks for now well here in germany the verdict has just been delivered in the child sexual abuse case that has shocked the nation according freiburg has sentenced victim's mother to twelve and a half years in prison and her partner to twelve years four years the couple sexually assaulted the woman's son and made him available to paedophiles on the dark night as it's called several men have already been convicted for paying the couple to sexually abuse the young boy the case has also raised disturbing questions about the failures of authorities here in germany to protect a child previously been taken into state custody but was then released to his mother. i'm joined now by deed abuse of simon young who's following this very disturbing case for us today assigning can you fill us in on what has happened in court. yes brian twelve and

a half years in prison is the sentence for the mother for her part in abusing and then selling on the internet her son who's now ten years old twelve years for her partner he's not the boy's fall of the but he's a convicted previously convicted paedophile and should never of been living in the same house as this boy. he's also by the way going to be held for a longer period in protective custody after the end of his sentence as he himself requested to keep him out of reach of children in future simon briefly on this question if you could how did this case come to light well there was an anonymous tip that i believe came from the darkness itself. obviously not everybody there is involved in child abuse or pornography and perhaps somebody who was using that dot net for some other reason became aware of this platform and tipped off police ok so

many failures that you've listed out in the system here police social services included what are german authorities going to do to prevent child abuse cases like this from happening in the future. well course it's very difficult to tackle this problem because of the conspiratorial nature of it it's kept secret and indeed in this case in particular the mother. said to her you know put on a face for all thora tease suggesting she was protecting the child not arousing suspicions in any way and these were experts in dealing with child abuse they didn't think she posed a threat but she she hid away so how can the authorities get in there one thing they can do is use this instrument of protective custody because once people have been identified as paedophiles many experts say it's a lifelong problem that stays with them and one of the best things to do with a lot of people is just to keep them off the streets then they can't do any more

harm and they can also get some therapy and help as well ok talk about the dark what is the german government going to do to crack down on actively the sale of children on the internet well the darkness difficult to reach as well that's a second secondary problem there have been successful international police operations in the past for instance closing round closing down the silk road platform that dark net marketplace that was used for illegal transactions so there have been successes in this area one of the problems with ortiz faces how long they can keep data for because if they have to delete it they they're essentially deleting the evidence the digital evidence so there is going to be a constitutional court ruling later this year to bring german rules more into line with what done in the u.s. for instance so it's a difficult area but with orators are advancing we'll look forward to hearing more about that simon thanks so much and covering what is a very disturbing case for us this morning. ok let's take

a deeper look now at exactly how the dark net operates as we've heard it's a cyber underwear world where child prostitution is openly advertised now the sharing of photos and videos of child sexual assault there is rife dark net is unfamiliar to most people those who access the disturbing material there are usually looking for. the dark net where photos and videos of child sexual abuse of rape are exchanged and professionally organized the websites are headed making it hard for police to investigate child sex abusers you know. photos and videos of child sexual abuse online is not something someone would find by chance not even on the darkness a person looking for this material including on the dark night it would have to know how to find special sites how to access them whom to contact where to be invited for example. was such

a site german investigators uncovered the platform in the summer of twenty seventeen those wanting a user account had to upload images of child sexual abuse themselves site operators knew that this way even police would be liable to prosecution in many countries a treacherous way for perpetrators to shield themselves investigators found an inventory of photos and videos of children being raped sorted according to the torture of babies toddlers or young girls for example the fight against this kind of global network remains a challenge for police all over the world. deal with internet providers the market leaders have committed themselves to actively being on the lookout for images of sexual abuse of children and reported to essential i didn't. from the us we receive several hundred tips each day which we can pursue further overall the ip address is the first and most useful place to start an investigation into the perpetrators identities. but the exchange of these images takes place not only on

the dark net it's increasingly taking place openly on the internet messaging services or chats and twenty seventeen about ten million tips about child sex abuse images were sent from the us alone to the rest of the world and enormous amount for police investigators all over the world. now for some of the other stories making the news at this hour in venezuela a rally was held in support of president was made there oh after an alleged attempt on his life government employees say they were ordered to attend that march in the capital although the door of himself did not appear questions still remain over saturday's reported drone attack critics fear the president will use that incident to further consolidate his power. the son of a bahraini an opposition leader has started a hunger strike outside the country's embassy in london ali machine he says his father is being denied vital medical care in a bahraini jail seventy year old hassan was sammy was arrested in two thousand and

eleven and sentenced to life in prison for his role in pro-democracy protests. it's to indonesia now a country is stepping up its search for earthquake survivors on the island of lombok the death toll now stands at ninety eight but that is expected to rise rescuers have been having to comb through the rubble of the more than thirteen thousand homes that were damaged on the island powerful aftershocks as well as cuts to power and communications in some areas are hampering the search. rescuers sift through the rubble hoping against hope to find survivors the second devastating earthquake within a week has left the popular tourist island of lombok in ruins this man's brother is missing. everyone was shopping then suddenly the earthquake hit my brother wanted to run out to the middle of the road but the lights went out and he must have been

there when the bridge collapsed some local people say the authorities response to the disaster has been inadequate. we have not received any official eight they have not come to help us only the volunteers are here. we're traumatized. they're young children and old people with us thank god we're fine. at the height of the holiday season thousands of tourists were caught up in the earthquake the chaos compounded by fears the true nemi could fall and the earthquake. well we didn't get any warning at all and then it was literally every thought going into the health. ever follow each other and then the slats on the. moment until morning until daylight and then after a side. there was a huge evacuation. of

your forty's it actually. takes place. and destruction and chaos in. the authorities admit there have been problems with the rescue operation. in the accusation is difficult to see water levels are low or even so big vessels cannot reach the ports and that is why the rescue team picked up tourists in the open ocean using rubber boats. for the visitors it's an unexpected end to their holiday. for locals left behind. the damage will take years to repair. the government in bangladesh is considering imposing the death penalty on motorists found guilty of causing fatal traffic accidents that under certain circumstances the proposal is aimed at improving that country's dismal road safety record and a quelling the growing mass protests over traffic fatalities and gridlock in the capital dhaka. the chance

has been echoing through the streets of dhaka for more than a week now paralyzing the mega city of eighteen million. students are calling on the government to take steps to improve road safety they also want justice for their classmates killed by a speeding bus on july twenty ninth. many dhaka residents sympathize with their anger. that i those drivers killed the students and no students are protesting the killing i think the drivers should get the harshest punishment. but i do love the way they killed people just standing beside the streets of course it's a crime and a punishable offense everyone's life has value the drivers must get punishments like the death penalty so people will be more careful. in the ongoing protests and hope breaks the violence of put the government on the defensive. and that. private bus companies are also feeling the pressure police have stepped up spot checks and

started compounding vehicles. protesters have also said hundreds of vehicles on fire that's prompted some operators to keep their buses in the depots. that are going to be on we stopped our buses running because students attacked and damaged our vehicles we cannot go on the roads students hit our drivers in our things so no vehicles could move. protesters want the government to address issues that make the roads unsafe streets are overcrowded many drivers do not have licenses vehicles or old an unsafe bus drivers are. by the number of passengers they carry motivating them to overfill their vehicles and drive fenced it will take more than the death penalty to make roads safe for. the protests have forced many commuters to switch to the country's railroads trains leaving darko or more crowded than ever. over to get hard now and germany's under new pressure to do more about its trade surplus that's rising and german monthly trade figures have come out today and

there is indeed a mild surprise the seasonally adjusted trade surplus narrowed to nineteen point three billion euros and that's mainly because import levels on the record high that have come as welcome news to the critics of germany's massive just like u.s. president omar from for example us the international monetary fund is also long criticized the imbalance and is not sure germany has done enough to counteract it in a moment we'll discuss what's germany can and should do about it but first this whipple . today's figures from the german statistics bureau show that in june this year germany exported goods worth more than one hundred fifteen billion euros and imported around ninety four billion euros worth that's the highest monthly import value since foreign trade statistics were first published in one nine hundred fifty but the i.m.f. has been saying germany hasn't done enough to correct the imbalance its chief economist says this is nothing to be proud of in contrast to the common assumption

a large trade surplus is not necessarily a sign of strength it can rather be seen as evidence of weak domestic investment. wants to see berlin invest more at home in digitalisation and infrastructure than germans might consume more and perhaps even spend a bit more on imported goods. let's discuss germany's trade. these from the hans voeckler foundation time of germany's conversation consideration of trade unions. the i.m.f. says germans germany's hesitancy to reduce its trade plus is contributing to trade tensions and adds to risks that could undermine global financial stability does the international monetary fund and does indeed donald trump appoint the international monetary fund has a point and in his criticism donald trump also has a point and basically he says this criticism not only with the international monetary fund but also with

a european central bank is the european commission and they are indeed right we are exporting much more than we importing which necessitates that the rest of the world does exactly the opposite then porting much more than they're exporting and they basically finances via debt so they increase their debts so we're living off our economic model is built on others increasing their debts and this is clearly not sustainable and this was also like that don't we we like that because it's not us who make the debts it's the others but at some point they will have difficulties and we've reached this. and already this was the financial crisis of two thousand and nine and two thousand and ten the europe is the euro crisis. so this is not only some abstract danger that lurks in the future we've already been at that point if we only come out of this crisis because of very low interest rates. management more government debt fathers but it is likely that the situation might repeat in the future. is germany really to blame as many politicians say for

the popularity of german products around the world so this is a little bit of a misconception the problem is not that to be exporting so much because we're doing because it's basically it's attractive the problem is that we're importing so little relative to what we export that's the real problem is it because we make everything ourselves no we don't it's because domestic demand for the last twenty years has been stagnant more or less it has been grown additional bits recently but not enough so that we can import more how can we increase domestic demand we can't do it for instance by government spending we now have a huge surplus in government accounts huge takes of classes that we didn't used to have the government could spend much more for instance on infrastructure we have a crumbling infrastructure in germany because we have this debt mania we don't want to have more debts now we have to stop us if we could use the surpluses invest in infrastructure hire more people they would have higher income they would spend it and part of the spending would go into imports briefly if you count why on germany

not spending its money we cause we have the debt break we have a debt mania we say public debt is. the worst and we're paying the price in a crumbling infrastructure for that. thank you very much. germany's economy minister says berlin now wants to intervene if not e.u. buyers intent to acquire more than fifteen percent stake in a german firm a new law being drafted would mean further tightening from current rules allowing government intervention if a foreign company bought a twenty five percent share of the german it's a response to recent acquisitions by chinese companies that raised fears that might threaten national security and the loss of key technologies. that it was ready to block the purchase of mechanical engineering company life it by chinese investors. now facebook is after your financial data it's asking banks for uses financial

information like credit card transactions and account balances reported by the wall street journal facebook wants to use the data for new features for its messaging service including account balance updates and folders it's also asked several financial service providers to discuss potential services it could pose a bank customers report is coming at a time when germany when facebook has been under fire previously started. bring in financial correspondent a call about the frankfurt stalking strange actually on the top of the french. government what exactly does facebook want to do with this data and what's the market stock markets take on this. facebook once it's made messenger service to become a platform for financial transactions a place where people can make payments and the markets take on this is positive the stock price of facebook has gained nicely after the news came out and from an

investor's point of view all this really makes sense facebook recently talked about how it might become difficult in the future to increase its customer base as fast as much as it has man. in the past analysts are talking about how especially here in the western world peak facebook might have been reached so facebook must do something to increase traffic on its platforms after the recent purchases scandals will users give facebook to have banking be. well that's a big question of course and if you look on the internet in the discussion platforms about this story the majority of people there are appalled about the idea to share your banking data with a company like facebook so obviously the banks are walking a very very fine line here but also they have to follow the trend

of the trend goes tech the banks have to make sure not to lose too much of the payments business to the tech companies. for such a long time they have been trying to you know appeal to a younger crowd that's used to use their mobile devices for everything so the trend is in a couple collarbones and frankfurt thank you. and that's all your business here's a reminder of the top stories we're following for you here r t w iran's president on rouhani has told renewed u.s. sanctions psychological warfare the sanctions trying to force just a few hours ago u.s. president paul trump promised to reinstate them after pulling the u.s. out of the iran nuclear deal three months ago. as if you're up to date you're watching t.v. news live from berlin more news coming ask the top of the hour i don't forget to check out our web site for more news and information that's of course to tell you

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