managed by from. this is d. w. news lawyer from berlin tonight turkey's currency continues deployment stock markets around the world take a hit and turkey's president blames the united states president everyone says his country's financial system is under attack the central bank is promising to do all it can destabilize the lira but will air one stand in the way and world any intervention be too little too late also coming up nine people are dead another

thirty injured in a fire at a hospital in taipei for terminally ill patients authorities want to know how the blaze started in why it took the hospital so long to alert the fire to park. plus here in germany a debate about muslim headscarves free choice and freedom from oppression. time trial but if they say you have to leave you had scott i'd say not only it's my choice you can't tell me what to do not my parents you don't have custody of me and you can't make my decisions fully should the government be allowed to beyond the wearing of headscarves by girls under the age of fourteen. i bring golf it's good to have you with us tonight turkey central bank says it is ready to. take all necessary measures to stop the currencies freefall it remains

unclear whether this is will means what it says and whether president erda one will stand in the way one day marked another day of tumbling for the turkish lira the currency hitting a new low against the u.s. dollar and fears growing that the crisis could spread to other emerging markets the currency has nosedived this year over worries about the turkish president's increasing control over the economy and as a diplomatic dispute escalates between turkey and the united states. president richard tie affair to one says the country is facing an economic scene but he is also seeking to reassure siddhis. we're taking the necessary steps against these attacks together with the finance ministry of institutions and we will continue to take them. i believe that the currency rate will return to

a reasonable level. or that was turkish president richard pryor the one speaking there we want to get is stamboul now our correspondent dorian jones is following this story for us good evening to you dorian promises from the turkish of central bank tonight that it will stop the lira from falling further and that means raising interest rates is there any reason tonight to believe that president erda one will finally allow that to happen. well i think that's what in the international investors are all around the world will be now looking on the central bank because that is all that they can do now to stem the collapse in the currency and international investors are talking about a major hike a minimum of five hundred basis points possibly even a thousand to stop this run on the currency because there has been a collapse in confidence over the way turkish economy and the currency is being

managed but there is little indication that the central banks will do this because the turkish president has made it perfectly clear he's opposed to interest rate hikes in fact at the weekend he reiterated his opposition describing interest rates as a tool of oppression so there is little indication the central bank will not go against the president and then kill the central bank. independence there with little hope that the full on the currency will stop and in fact the sentiment here is now and internationally so much damage has been done even the central bank is independent and a major hike in interest rates may not be enough to stem the falls on the currency endure you know people turkish politics will remember that there was a recent election in turkey the constitution was changed giving the president more powers now how do you square that with the need right now this acute need for the central bank to show to international markets that it is hindu i mean can you square that circle. well indeed the president

made very clear in the run up to. election victory that when he did assume these powers. would be to take direct control over the running of the economy and including the central bank he made that clear internationally as well as domestically say he's arguing that i'm only carrying out while i pledge to do and what i was elected to do but the problem is that international investors of which the turkish economy the pend don't want a central bank to be independent and till that happens there's going to be no return of confidence and with that they little hope of more money coming into the it took economy to sustain it and every year the turkish economy needs at least one hundred billion dollars maybe more of renewed loans and new money to sustain the economy and that will not be coming until the central bank is declared independent and there have been rumors circulating around global markets today we've economists

actually saying out well that a bail out by the international monetary fund may be inevitable we've also had the turkish government today indicating that it may try to develop closer economic ties with russia worst case scenario move away from its dependence on the west i mean how far could that realistically go. well for sure the relations between moscow and ankara have been deepening in the last few years and the russian president vladimir putin was quick to offer his moral. a key import for turkey in rubles rather than dollars that could possibly help to alleviate the problems turkey is going to expected to face going forward but any hope that turkey can turn to moscow and receive tens of billions of dollars in support instead of from the international markets in europe in the u.s. it's just seen as allusion they just russia doesn't have that kind of capital to

lend to turkey it has its own problems another possibility is china now china does have deep pockets in moscow and the turkish president has been making comments about how turkey increasingly sees parallels with the way china runs its economy and does see that there is possible synergies to be had but even that china is expected to ball at the size of the bailout that it would have to give to turkey to sustain its column e. so at the end of the day turkey will have to look to europe and the u.s. to sustain its economy otherwise it is facing a at the full and a possible complete meltdown in the country briefly before we let you go you've been covering this story all day today the turkish president has not mentioned the name u.s. president donald trump one time in all of his criticism and accusations about the u.s. being behind this economic crisis how do you read this do you think there's a reason why he has not let the words donald trump cross his lips today.

well that is very important and in fact he has been very reluctant to challenge donald trump and make personal attacks he did that at the beginning when trump announced these new sanctions and now he seems to be pulling back from that and i think there is possible hoping that they can reach some sort of a deal with the u.s. the turkish foreign minister today. spoke also he had engaged in heavy u.s. anti rhetoric he also said that turkey is ready to talk to resolve this they do want some kind of deal because at the end of the day until they have some reproach mom with us that the u.s. pulls back from its threat of more sanctions against the pressure on the road will be still there whatever economic and financial measures they take our correspondent dorian jones on the story for us tonight from istanbul as always thank you. here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world

the afghan military says at least one hundred troops and thirty civilians were killed in fighting with taliban militants for control of the city of taunton four days ago the taliban launched an assault on the strategically important city on the main highway linking the capital kabul with the south iran's supreme leader says he's banning any negotiations with the united states because of the country's quote duplicitous decision to reimpose sanctions ayatollah let me also stress that iran had no intention of entering into a war meanwhile the country's defense minister visited a missile hangar to view a new short range ballistic missile it. italy is calling on britain to take in more than one hundred forty my gran's picked up by an engine run rescue boat off the coast of libya on friday the equerry is registered in the british territory of gibraltar the vessels crew say this ship is still at sea after being turned away by

italy and malta. a fire at a hospital in taiwan has killed at least nine people another thirty are injured an investigation has been launched into the cause of the blaze it 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. sounds as though it wasn't on the minds of me it was unfortunate that the ward still was open when the fire broke out. as a result the smoke came inside up and. there were many mattresses made from polly your thing so the fine spread very fast and was relatively large as a result. the country's premier expressed his condolences. the fire broke out of the ministry of health and wealth atop a hospital and caused many deaths and injuries in that. i would like to apologize to patients family members and to society on behalf of the executive. office of union sizing for the offensive. 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. all across europe a debate is taking place over the wearing of the headscarf by some muslim women now critics say that it is a sign of oppression by men supporters say in a democracy people should be allowed to dress as they please or the debate is coming to a head in the german state of north rhine-westphalia the local government there is considering banning the headscarf for girls under the age of fourteen. and shine three classmates three muslim girls so 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 right just because it's only twelve minutes they say you

have to leave you headscarf 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 like if 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 north wind with various integration minister says that younger than fourteen is too young and he's thinking about banning it for. the commies 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 behaved because . most school girls here at elizabeth's elbert comprehensive school in bonn say they were the headscarf voluntarily. and almost all of the students here are

muslim but only very few of them actually very 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 to the state islam teachers at the comprehensive school and take a different approach. mya see it's very important to me as a teacher to enter the debate this shouldn't be a stright ban but this should be a conversation with school girls who are searching for ounces wearing a headscarf is 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 a. sixth grade islam plus is supposed to inspired this peoples to critically analyze the religion to make room for open discussion and though different interpretations of the koran. you also have to think about how things were fourteen hundred years ago and how things are today when the courts are. not an easy task

when it comes to the headscarf debate most children have taken on their parents' attitudes. you're watching t.w. news live from berlin i'll be back at the top of the hour with more bold news followed by the day i hope to see if. the language courses. video. any time anywhere.