starts september ninth. the city got me a news line from berlin turkey scrambles to stop the collapse of its currency the president says his country's financial system is under attack the central bank has promised to do all it can to stabilize they are up but it's unclear if the measures will be enough to stop the slide also coming out nine people are dead and another thirty injured after a fire swept through a wing of a hospital in taipei for terminally ill patients the authorities want to know how the play started and why it took the hospital so long to alert the fire department

. a debate about muslim headscarves comes to a head here in germany. some early childhood if they say you have to leave you had scars i'd say no it's my choice you can't tell me what you do you know my parents you don't have custody of me actually becoming my decisions for me. should the government be allowed to ban the wearing of headscarves by girls under the age of fourteen. and in football barton many begin the new season with an emphatic victory over brentford in the german super com we'll bring you all the highlights from the match. i'm sorry so much got to thank you for joining us turkey's central bank says it is ready to take all necessary measures to shore up the country's currency the announcement comes after the lira tumble to a new low again. the dollar and fears grew that the crisis could spread to other

markets the currency has nosedived this year over worries about president wants increasing control of the economy and as the diplomatic dispute escalates between turkey and the united states. and let's go right to istanbul where our correspondent dorian joes is standing by for us with more on this story hi dorian so president heir to one has been speaking what does he even say. well it was another very tough speech much of it aimed at washington he said that strategic allies should not stop their allies in the back then he went on to accuse washington for backing terrorists saying that. terrorists we can say goodbye to as a reference to the us its ongoing support of a syrian kurdish militia fighting in syria which considers its terrorists he then went on to say that. she was on justified he said that the fundamentals of the

circuits in iraq remain strong and he promised that they would be all over stalled soon he did not explain how how that will be achieved by our standards so this was quite restrained i'm in a very importantly he did not directly attack the us president personally and earlier in the day we will be hearing from the turkish foreign minister. go along with his and to us right to raise the goal saying that turkey was ready to have talks with the u.s. to resolve this crisis. how confident are turkish people that the measures that everyone's government is taking will really shore up the currency. but it depends who you speak to i mean the country's deeply divided like everything else between supporters and opponents of the president and those who support the president very confident in the president's stance they believe this is a war by washington and they believe that they will prevail opponents are far more concerned than fearful about the future it has to be said at the moment the real

effects of this dramatic devaluation have been being felt that will come in the coming weeks and i didn't expect to see a massive surge and prices price spikes given thursday's heavy dependence on any time on top of that the fears for many companies the forward in foreign currencies the fears of some possible closures. impact that will affect both sides of the political spectrum meanwhile as this currency crisis has asked a lady turkey's also indicated it may try to develop closer economic ties with russia. and move away from the bed of the west and how far could those relations actually go. well indeed moscow has been very quick to offer its support as even talk of turkey could pay for russian imported oil in rubles rather than dollars that's going to keep them out of turkey in the past has been reluctant to do that but it appears they are prepared to possibly offer that concession but the fact that turkey turkish economy needs around two hundred billion dollars of renewed loans and new money from foreign markets to sustain the economy doesn't

have that kind of depth of money to give to support turkey possibly china is another option turkey has been deepening its relations with china and it's increased you talking about sharing similar ideas of an economic strategy with china china may offer some support but again the size of turkey's demands from the four alone is something that even china could well it's really busy the only europe and the united states can offer a financial support the total economy sustain itself. during engines with the very latest for us from istanbul thank you dorian. a fire at a hospital in taiwan has killed at least nine people another thirty are injured and investigation has been launched into the cause of the blaze the fire broke out on the seventh floor of the building which was used as a hospice for terminally ill patients. this was a ward for critically ill patients many were bedridden they couldn't move when the blaze broke out hospital staff tried to remove them but for some help came too late

. hospital officials say the victims included not just patients but also nurses and caregivers first responders raced against the clock to save those injured in the blaze nearly twenty remain in critical condition. the fire started early in the morning on the seventh floor of a public hospital in the taiwanese capital firefighters were able to contain and extinguish the blaze within an hour but its effects were devastating. still sassoon fourteenth victims were experiencing cardiac arrest five are unconscious and four are awake all the other hospitals are now treating the heart attack victims still don't so. it's still unclear what caused the fire but firefighters say they suspect it could have been triggered by an electrical fault there have been nine hospital fires in taiwan in the past decade claiming thirty seven lives right now an investigation continues into the blaze and many patients who were

already gravely sick are now fighting for their lives. north and south korea have agreed to hold a summit in pyongyang in september it will be the third meeting between the leaders of the rival countries this year they now think came after officials held a fresh round of high level talks on monday morning the negotiations in the demilitarized zone between the two countries were proposed by the north last week were lation is on the peninsula have been thawing further despite tensions between north korea and the south ally washington so. let's get the latest on the story from seoul and josh smith the standing by correspondent for reuters hi josh good to see you we don't have an exact date yet for the summit but what do we know about what will be on the agenda here. both koreas have been trying to move forward on a number of issues north korea's likely to tout what it says have been goodwill gestures on its behalf stopping its weapons testing program and providing or

returning the remains of u.s. troops who were killed during the korean war in return for some kind of easing of sanctions south korea meanwhile is likely to push north korea to make more concessions on its weapons program bringing back something that it can bring to those allies in washington who are very skeptical of north korea these days just to mention this going to the third meeting between the two sides since april how significant are these talks now how deep is this stalled that we're seeing both koreas do seem very committed to peace maintaining this level of interaction which we haven't seen before this will be the first time a south korean president has met three times. at any point alone in one year with a north korean leader and so this meeting in pyongyang is definitely expected to have a lot of pageantry a lot of symbolism a lot of. you know a symbolism of korea in the car unity trying to show some kind of progress you know

some of the more concrete issues like we need literally remain unresolved and just you know these internationals sanctions against north still obsessed how much are they getting in the way again between economic cooperation between the south and the north here. this is something that the north has increasingly complained about it said that it made measures taken steps to reduce tensions and that sanctions should be reduced accordingly however south korea has pushed for some diminish the sanctions however in washington they say that they won't we do sanctions at all until there's a major progress on the news but there is a should that's a bottom line here are we really any closer to seeing the denuclearization of north korea. it doesn't appear so i mean you can be optimists here believe that that kind of process will take years if not decades and so does something bad u.s. officials are increasingly impatient about north korea does say that it's committed

to eventually to nuclear ice in the korean peninsula it works as a means to go beyond what kind of time it will will have to see. correspondent josh smith speaking to us from seoul josh thank you very much. now at some other stories making news around the world torrential rains and thunderstorms have battered the japanese capital tokyo the downpours on monday last subways and stores across the city briefly submerged thousands of households also reported power outages the storm lasted a few hours before the ferry. hundreds of people have been injured five seriously after particle britain promina collapse at a music festival in northern spain authorities say many people were on the boardwalk in the city of ego when it gave way to around midnight on sunday not only injuries is about to be less threatening. in yemen thousands of people have gathered for the funeral of dozens of people killed in an airstrike last week they died when a saudi led coalition air strike hit a bus as

a truck through the northern town of thursday many children were among the dead. you know. vote counting is underway in mali's presidential runoff after a tense election that was marred by violence security sources say a poll worker was killed by jihadists in the north of the country and the threat of violence may have kept turnout low the incumbent ibrahim is expected to win the the result is due later this week. checks at polling stations security measures will once again stepped up families presidential election runoff voters chose between the incumbent president even him. and opposition leader. seventy three year old to said he was confident of victory after topping the poll in the first round of voting. but many in the country were unhappy with the outcome . and. i'm a bit disappointed with the first round went but unfortunately i don't expect much

to change in the second round. the opposition are concerned about voter fraud demonstrating in the capital bamako at the weekend. plus many were unable to vote in the first round that's after around seven hundred polling stations were closed due to violence from groups but an opposition challenge to the result was dismissed by the constitutional court. in all the money as a haven for islamist insurgents that temporarily took control of the region in two thousand and twelve three years later a peace deal was signed with the government now monitored by un troops the german army is also involved but it's a fragile peace attacks are frequent. we need peace and stability in the country because our economic development social development everything at stake for a while we cannot materialize without peace and stability. but. this

will be the most important task for the future president. few issues are as controversial here in germany as the wearing of the headscarf by some muslim women critics say it is a sign of oppression by men supporters say in a democracy people should be allowed to dress as they please the debate is coming to a head in the region of north rhine-westphalia the local government there is considering banning the headscarf for girls under the age of fourteen as starbucks found out emotions are running high. and three classmates three muslim girls show he that has been wearing a headscarf since she was ten it bothers her that some politicians want to forbid girls from doing so. well on our screens this time only twelve minutes they say you have to remove your head scarf i say no it's my choice you can't tell me what to do you know my parents you don't have custody of me and you can't make my decisions

for me. i also want to wear a headscarf but only when i am older and mature enough to make my own decisions. but at what age are girls really old enough to make a conscious decision to wear islamic head covering the german state of more point was integration minister says that younger than fourteen is too young and he thinking about banning it. is very important to us we want women who voluntarily decide to wear a headscarf to be accorded full respect for society this is nothing to do with marginalization but we do not want young girls to be forced into it. most school girls here at elizabeth's elbert comprehensive school in bonn say they were the headscarf voluntarily. almost half the students here are muslim but only very few of them actually where he job under the age of fourteen what is striking though all the girls i talked to say they plan to wear one in

future. some teachers are critical of this trend but they feel a ban would be counterproductive the state islam teachers at the comprehensive school in bonn take a different approach. gunsmith that's the it's very important to me as a teacher to enter the debate this shouldn't be a straight ban but this should be a conversation with school girls who are searching for answers wearing a headscarf ease of course a symbol that strengthens one's identity so to ask about such a personal decision i can only do this when this trust and. sixth grade islam plus is supposed to inspired this peoples to critically analyze the religion to make room for open discussion and lo different interpretations of the koran. you also have to think about how things were fourteen hundred years ago and how things are today is the fourth. not an easy task when it comes to the headscarf debate most children have taken on their parents' attitudes oh. well i think the children

should wear a headscarf from puberty from the idea of fourteen or fifteen so they don't get harassed or something just like. my sisters have also started wearing headscarves and i've seen them wearing them and i was the only one left so i said ok i'll put one on t.v. so. these are religious traditions that have continued and of course they're also seen as traditions by their families. and their own absolutely seen that way by the mosques. to. them bocanegra is trying to get his pupils to question traditions for him school is just the right place for it. to sports now and football buying munich have won their first piece of silverware of the new season after beating frankfurt in the german super cup the reigning league

champs were an unstoppable form of actually winning the game five now the result made it a happy return from parents new coach nico cole that won the german cup with frankfurt just a few months ago. nico kovacs returned to his old stomping ground in frankfurt and he was feeling the love. but on the pitch he was looking to defeat his former club . at the start frankfurt brought physicality and looked ready for the match but byron opened up the scoring in the twenty first minute the pass from yahshua can make set up robert eleven go skeet a handy and give biron an early leak was. there things got a bit heated between marco fabini and goalscorer eleven dogs who posed gave the perfect response again with this he was great for goalkeeper frederick grunow looked uncertain to kneel by or homo's was lucky not to get a red card for this foul on me i got sheen of it. after the break byron took

advantage again through the window ski he completed his hat trick was but byron work finished kingsley coleman added another to pour salt in the eagles wounds was and then tiago added a fifth goal to seal the game was the coco botches new side of mali's his old one they probably won't give him such a warm welcome next time the win is byron's seventh super cup victory. new year venta signing chris and are now there was given a tally and fans a taste of what's to come during a pre-season friendly against the club's eighteen we're now was the first to hammer home a goal in front of the five thousand strong crowd bank account of the guy had also just a side. dreamed the crowd was so big in fact that it even exceeded the town's own population events the first team went on to win the intra friendly five mill

italian football the kicks off this. right have us here with business now and the turkish economy of year as we said is increasingly coming under pressure it's definitely more worrying news than what we just saw after losing more than twenty percent of its value on friday so we the turkish currency the lira has recovered slightly this monday but it's still moving near all time lows at the same time the government is now turkey's president at all one has responded to his country's economic crisis with a plan to boost investment meanwhile the lira is in freefall and while the turkish central bank has announced measures to help banks weather the storm ordinary business is already feeling the pinch. in trade but my business is interrupted because i sell imported goods and therefore we'll update the prices today because the prices we pay for goods increased twenty percent and as a result of currency fluctuation. eventually people will be affected by that.

and the central banks proposals have done little to quell the markets the euro has hit a one year low against the dollar prompting some experts to warn of contagion. the fall has certainly been dramatic the lira has lost about forty five percent of its value against the dollar since the beginning of the year. that means it has become extremely expensive for turkish businesses to service loans to foreign creditors if the leader of tumbles further corporate debt could explode and some foreign banks could lose billions at the turkish border was default on loans. so let's talk to someone who knows banks very well i'm now joined by cost and has a condom used to bed i'm back in london thank you very much for joining us mr has a i'd like to start with the words of turkish president is saying that the crisis is part of an economic war with the united states and not really about the economy

would you agree on that. hundred percent no and i mean the turkish economic crisis hasn't stopped to yesterday and the turkish economy has been reliant on credit for a very long time and the twin deficit which means high current account deficit combined with the budget deficit was always in issue. and that's what it's well ways higher than many other emerging market ones what we need to see is that the central bank is really starting to take this crisis seriously it's not enough just to tinker with some small measurements and. try to extend the fire with a garden hose no they really need to increase interest rates significantly maybe by five hundred basis points or even more to retain the trust of international

investors secondly mr president. needs to improve the political relationships with the u.s. and the euro zone otherwise this crisis would only escalate now you mentioned that this has been developing over the last few years or months at least but what about the other emerging markets we're seeing stocks of emerging markets and also currencies under pressure how far do you think this could actually go. but for the moment of his investors are. a bit careful from any country which has similarities to turkey which means when deficit or a high f. x. loan exposure or a political issue with the with yes all those countries which are similar or which have issues like that i know in the crossfire we have seen for example that tina

has the currency and credit default swaps and has gone up a lot also russia has been in the cross-fire. we see also other countries like georgia smaller ones which are suffering a lot from the turkish crisis now this will go on for the moment. i think only when the turkish situation comes down probably the contagion risk to other emerging markets well that will calm down we'll see how the situation unfolds throughout the week thank you very much carson has been back in london for the analysis. and shares in german chemicals giant buyer have plunged ten percent don't want to spiral commit comes after friday's decision by a us court to order one sound to which buyer recently acquired to pay two hundred eighty nine million dollars in damages to a groundskeeper duwayne johnson who suffers from lymphoma claims his cancer could

have been caused by his contact with monsanto's roundup meat killed the jury agreed ruling that santo should have warned buyers that the product could cause cancer servers believe thousands more claims like this could fall buyers says the court's decision goes against scientific evidence. and here's one scientific evidence the debt sea is shrinking by one metre every year it's proven the main reason for this alarming development is the use of its waters for farming but big industries are also a major part of the problem especially mining that extracts minerals from the sea as a problem gets worse new regulations could turn things around. wellness and health tourists have long known the benefits of the mineral rich dead sea but not only the beauty industry is flourishing hear tell of if based israel chemicals is the biggest company extracting minerals from the dead sea they have been doing

so for more than six decades under a longstanding mining concession their activities here are a big part of why the sea is drying up the money. they have no incentive to reduce the amount of water they pump or even to think about it or to think about from where they get the soil to build their dikes all the actions through which they actually destroy the environment are allowed under the existing concession. the israeli government is now planning to read tend of the mining rights in twenty twenty two eight years ahead of schedule it would be a one off chance to said new regulations and curb the impact the mining has on the environment israel could show leadership here in helping to stabilize the city by putting in requirements that instead of just speaks of the exploitation of the dead sea from the mineral industry to the sustainable utilize ation of the resources of

the dead sea to benefit future generations. the big question now is whether israel chemicals will agree to an early read tender the dead sea mining concession is one of their core assets but off the role you can't extract minerals from a sea that isn't there anymore. before we go it's one thing to climb to the top of a mountain and quite the other to try to ascend it in the fastest time possible but that was the aim of swiss extreme mountain climber danny arnold when he scaled the north face of the gaunt in the alps arnold conquered the four thousand two hundred meter mountain in a record time of two hours and four minutes leave you with some stunning footage of this incredible set thing. it's.

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