this is deja vu news live from berlin is this the worst hour of the trump presidency two of the president's close associates are looking at the possibility of lengthy jail terms. former personal lawyer michael cohen pleads guilty to a hush money scheme to influence the twenty sixteen election and campaign manager paul matter or was convicted for financial crimes will have a look at the conflict patients for the white house also coming up. these are some of the thousands of african migrants now at the border between morocco and the

spanish song played. they're trying to get through it goes to europe's border in north africa to find out more. i'm dr thomas a very warm welcome to the show dramatic developments in the u.s. where two of president trumps closest associates have either pleaded guilty or been found guilty of criminal offenses the most potentially damaging for the president the statements of michael cohen president trumps former personal lawyer he pleaded guilty to multiple charges related to the twenty sixteen election campaign. charges were brought against cohen after was revealed he diverted funds from dollars from election campaign to pay off a former porn star who claims she had an affair with trump. mr cohen guilty

to two campaign finance charges one for pausing and on lawful corporate contribution and a second one for personally making an excessive personal contribution both for the purpose of influencing the two thousand and sixteen election in addition what he did was he worked to pay money to silence two women who had information that he believed would be detrimental to the two thousand and sixteen campaign and to the candidate and the campaign in addition mr cohen sought reimbursement for that money by submitting him for invoices to the candidates company which were untrue and faults they indicated that the reimbursement was for services rendered for the year two thousand and seventeen when in fact those invoices were a sham he provided no legal services for the year two thousand and seventeen and it

was simply a means to obtain reimbursement for the odd lawful campaign contribution. for someone else now we have with us in the studio rick know a correspondent for the washington post good morning to erect. does cohen's guilty plea mean that the president broke the law well it certainly makes it more likely that's people that investigators will figure out that he did break the law in case what cohen said was in fact true but whether that's going to have any legal consequences that's a totally different question ok the legal call a consequence of right now is the possibility of an indictment for the u.s. president out how likely is that scenario. well that's an area which is not very likely at the moment because the department of justice has actually done a few analyses in the past and they've always concluded that indicting we're charging a sitting president is simply impossible so you would have to have a prosecutor who's willing to take the risk to challenge that ok you know we've

seen legal troubles for the president before and for his associates i'm thinking of general michael flynn one example is the cohen case different than that well a coin case is different because it directly implicates the president himself and that is to a large extent different because it could have legal ramifications legal impact beyond his turn it could in fact leads to criminal charges after. you after the end of his term after the end of his term but not right now democrats of in these kind of situations especially with the michael flynn situation raise the possibility of impeachment is way too early to talk about that yet that is out there in terms of what the democrats to teach it interests are well it is too early to speculate about impeachment but certainly if the midterms change the political balance in washington and if the democrats take the house step becomes

a possibility at least triggering impeachment hearings would become a possibility and in fact there are certain democrats who are already demanding to ok we're close let's give our viewers the background on that second case that could put pressure on the u.s. president and that's another former trump associate his former campaign manager paul man of ford has been found guilty by a jury on a charges the judge declared a mistrial on ten other counts now metaphor it was convicted of filing false tax returns in connection with millions of dollars earned lobbying for ukraine failing to disclose offshore bank accounts and two counts of bank fraud. none of what strides came to light as part of the investigation into possible russian influence on the twenty sixteenth election campaign. or president trump commented on that verdict after learning landing in charleston west virginia where he attended a rally. of course it was withdrawn because

he was a lot of different people over the years i feel very sad about that. because that is me but i still feel you know they think that they have. nothing to do with rock blues started rushing killing you this is nothing to do so with that it is great. this is nothing to do what they started out looking like involved in our campaign they were i feel very badly hurt again he worked for goalie work ronald reagan he worked for many many people. the way. it was not the original mission believe it was. there was something very much. nothing to do with roger clinton we continue the with. ok we continue the which.

term that the president used quite often requires the president defended manna for but made absolutely very ill a lengthy defense there but made no comment about going. well we know that he's been struck yesterday more by the news of a kohen cohen pleading guilty done by demand of ford burdick but also there might be some legal obstacles here because those are two very different cases you have a former long or one time campaign manager and then you have his lawyer and there are different legal implications for defending just personal ok what are prison trumps political options right now you mentioned the midterm elections coming up in november are they that much more of a higher stakes game for the political survival of the president. well they could become that if the democrats decide to make that their rallying cry there are two

options i think. either this could in bolden trump supporters who consider all of those investigations deeply unfair or it could important the democrats who managed to finally rally there is support is behind him still so it's sort of unclear what kind of impact it would be so it could fuel both bases both the trump base and the democrats as well. how are both these cases likely to affect and that's still out there the miller investigation what we just saw the president call a witch hunt into possible russian collusion on the behalf of the trump campaign well the question here is whether those prosecutions and in fact the possibility of going to jail for more than four years in both cases would in fact result in both of them cooperating with miller and sharing additional information about trump that may play into that very separate investigation and i think that is what's with

a lot of people involved in the murder probe of hoping ok that there might be some statements and in terms of sentencing presenting citizens in statements i could implicate the president while i'm talking mainly about the possibility of cooperation between man affords and cohen and the miller investigation and that is still something. that is a hope ok for the mole investigation but novak's from the washington post thanks so much for being with us today thanks so much. now we have a look at some of the other stories making in the news today facebook and twitter have removed hundreds of accounts they say were part of a dissin from ation campaign targeting its users the social media giants claim the accounts are part of a coordinated propaganda programs that originated in both russia and iran. thousands of anticorruption protesters have been rallying in front of argentina's

national congress they called on lawmakers there to strip former president cristina fernandez the character of a presidential munity in mr bribery. she's accused of leading or corruption involving officials and business leaders during her time office. a powerful earthquake shook venice whalers northeastern coast and parts of the caribbean tuesday the seven point three magnitude quake was the largest to hit the country in over a century but occurred so deep below the earth's surface that it caused only minor death. while as italy has tightened its border controls in recent months spain has now become the main destination for african migrants trying to reach europe and one entry point into spain is right in africa from morocco to the spanish glave sioux city utah but it's no easy feat a six metre high fence barricades the kilometer long border will say migrants every

sordid to violence to make their attempts to cross it but for those who do manage to get through it's no guarantee of an easy passage to a new life he wus all over solid falls a group who hope to make it to europe whatever the cost salif and his friends have to make their way to the hyde old carefully it's in the mountains of morocco near the border with see. they say the police could show up at any time and destroy their camp the group have thousands of kilometers behind them just a few hundred metres separate them from europe that fence this man from deep cuts they are from his attempts to storm the water. father is dead my mother has nothing not even food i'm the oldest son and i want to try and make some money to help my mother that's why i left. they have been

travelling for two years since leaving now they are stuck with fifty thousand others all hoping to make the journey from morocco to europe. has been waiting six months for this chance. is this final hurdle. i have many friends who have made it to europe. so many have recently crossed the border we trust in god that we will also make it someday. the fence is here to stop them it's eight kilometers long and fitted with razor sharp wire along with the enclave of milly's this is the only other in you border in africa on the other side is a phone from the spanish guard it's his job to secure this border but lately that hasn't always been possible. over six hundred migrants managed to storm the fence

at the end of july the police are helpless and talk of unprecedented levels of violence makeshift flame throwers quicklime and grappling hooks the migrants weapons of choice but i am we have put out those we are going to they were very well prepared and organized. but what small there was so violent that we could not get to the fence. i mean they threw acid at us and did all they could to prevent us from closing the holes that they had cut into the fans. the. victory over the fence it's taken years for them to reach their destination. the temporary reception center in c.u. to is fit to burst they have to stay here for one year then they can continue on to spanish mainland only a few of them apply for asylum since hardly any of them have any chance of asylum

in europe it's putting pressure on the city of eighty thousand people the number of arrivals is barely sustainable council representatives say the situation in seal to is becoming untenable. that you have to respect the boat is it's not say again that the migrants are attacking off fence in this way we do not have the capacity to accommodate everyone here that would be impossible. that's another reason why tough border checks are part of everyday life in sale to as well as hours of traffic jams some twenty thousand people travel in an alto over the course of the day many moroccans make a living out of trading with the spanish and play for. the guardian c veal monitoring this border is a mammoth task six hundred employees work around the clock they use cameras to control the various sections of the fans and also the coastal area around the

strait of gibraltar are it's a well rehearsed team but it's reaching its limits. but when it is stopping large groups of people it's very complicated you need good cooperation between the moroccan authorities and our own. usually when both sides organize themselves well and everything goes well then we reach our goal. the young men in the mountains of morocco believe in strength in numbers saif and his friends are already planning their next attempt to storm the fence they're tired of the brutality of the hands of the moroccan police. they only find food at a nearby rubbish dump a soft drink a cucumber. amole potato life here is unbearable it in.

morocco is teeming with police offices. all of my friends who left guinea with me made it to syria to see what am i supposed to do here i'll stay here until i can get in. their sense of desperation is what drives them for salif and his friends it's europe or nothing. europe or nothing we're joined more to talk about this more now julian lehmann of the global public policy institute here in berlin good morning julian thanks for being with us what's your group's assessment of the situation in say you to right now so the situation has been stable over the past weeks there has been in the past years even always been groups of migrants scrambling in front of the camps and trying to take their turn to get in what has changed a little bit is that the border has somewhat before defied in that the owners have taken the razor wires that way and the migrants have also we've seen that

a couple of weeks ago employed more violent means to get in but basically the situation is the same there is larger groups of migrants scrambling in front of the cans and trying to get in yeah the final means there were some spanish border personnel that were wounded in that were at the same time we're seeing the images of. boats taking migrants across landing on spanish beaches these are all playing out on spanish television what is your organization see is happening with the spanish electorate how is this going to affect their opinion of the current government's border policy you know i think. for the moment this benish government is one of the voices of political reasons in this so they have for instance talked with the german government a couple of weeks ago on a. deal on taking migrants back that have been registered in spain so there there is still an emphasis on political cooperation but that could well change and for

that to happen you don't need an extreme. increase of migrants i think a couple of more images as that's the experience from other neighboring countries if you have constantly these images the political perception of that may change so that's indeed the risk because if the spain if the spanish government is no longer on board in terms of finding you wide solution then the prospects of that obviously decrease ok is the e.u. acting at this point is a trying to put together a coherent e.u. policy for the external borders or will we continue to say unilateral national action so the biggest. the biggest inhibitor current plea is resistance to you law that is called the double in law and that regulates how responsibilities a shared across the european union and i think for this spain's to have the

perception that the e.u. is supporting them definitely needs to be movement on this question of how responsibilities are shared and as long as we don't see progress i think it's for the germans also to support the spaniards so that at least there is the perception you know we're not alone in this there is a couple of few countries that are in this together with us so that the the political. public opinion doesn't dramatically shift and we don't get this this change of retore that gets as bad as for instance in italy ok so there's a lot of pressure on berlin right now to support madrid in its policy i think there is yet all say ok yulian lehmann from the global policy public policy institute in berlin thanks so much for your comments this morning. germany football coach in sports the has presented his

a breakdown of what he thinks broke down at june's world cup debacle he did it in a private meeting with the german federation where discussions were said to be intense. on their way to a closed door summit the most influential people of german soccer they were hosted by the german football federation which needs a reboot after germany's disastrous performance at the world cup head coach here he moved and manager one of appeal were asked to lead the crisis something about germany crashed out of the first round of this year's soccer world cup after winning it all in twenty fourteen shocking performances cause disbelief among players and fans as the reigning world champions fail to qualify for the knockout stages during the most intense exchange of recent years at two more meetings are set for this and next week the latter of which will be public as york remove also announces his squad for the upcoming u.f.o.

nations league games. while it is to the skies over lower austria now where was sometimes difficult to actually see the sky because of all the world hot air ballooning championship action out there one hundred fifty blooms are involved in the week long event from thirty eight countries they go up twice a day the pilots competing in various events like flying their craft closes to certain targets or hunting a chase balloon this is the first time the bi annual event has taken off in austria . markets here now and from hot air balloons to the hot weather in central europe and implications for agriculture q i think it's just think it's cool they're going to put on the air conditioner and maybe we should have taken a balloon a couple of weeks ago when it was really boiling because germany has been sweltering through a serious drought this. especially in the mills and in eastern regions of the country and that's a nightmare for farm us who are faced with crop failure on huge on

a huge scale they look to berlin for aid but the german ministry of food and agriculture says it won't make a decision about assistance until the harvest report has been published well today it will be presented to the cabinet the report's findings are crucial for farmers who see the feed crops for their withering away we caught up with some in the region outside of the land. the fields in brandenburg are some of the sand used in germany and it hasn't rained in the region since april now farmers are calling their land the fields of horror the pheno farming co-operative in southern brandenburg has lost a shocking seventy percent of its crops. for our farm the drought means that we have a considerable shortage of. contacted even the one time we couldn't fill the contracts are not included with the agricultural co-operative due to poor yield sized corporative has a deficit of it all to five hundred thousand euros this year. is from from our

thoughts in all siena has eighteen hundred cattle both meat and dairy cows thirty farmers work here they weren't able to build up large reserves the prices for milk and meat are far too low to do that and the feet of a sin previous years weren't about. just one of the reasons this year's drought is destroying their livelihoods if. the politicians will declare a state of emergency and the federal government's together with all the states will provide generous a and will be able to use starting in october until the end of december of this year at the latest. we need the money now not whenever it suits them when. the german farmers association also wants billions of euros rapidly farmers need to know how they're going to get through the winter. i got me i'm actually upset that the federal government is still so low profile after the second consultation and is waiting for figures like we can supply the brandenberg figures

if we can do it like other states and i'm annoyed that they're not picking up the pace a little bit and put the phoenix operative wants to avoid emergency slaughtering with these young bulls who probably have to be sold for a due to a lack of feed. well let's bring in an expert now when it comes to heat extreme weather and the impact on fire. i'm professor of international food economics and rural development at the galle augustin avesta in gutting and good to have you with us so we had a sweltering summer not only here in germany but it's been hot around the world and everyone is going on about just how hot and dry this summer was was a greenie that's unusual yes. very unusual especially even if you look at the northern hemisphere and over in europe and germany some stations have recorded the august summer since the official recordings of weather data so yes

this is an extreme case and it's very unusual when we compared with the past it may not be so unusual when we come here and with warm climate change deniers are predicting for the future not only the mean temperatures but also more frequent weather extremes such as the drought that we saw this year all right so there lies more i have to just in order to give us an idea i mean in terms of the economy how big is the damage that we see already can you put a price tag that where the price tag is currently difficult because they are cultural harvests are not all in yet so we have heard in your contribution that in some regions of germany yields are you know below average by seventy percent but those are extreme pockets so the estimate or germany in all the europe as a whole is that we may be twenty percent below the longer term average and that's

of course a substantial. decline in comparison to what we usually have i mean what what would you say how many such samas can we handle before will we be faced with serious problems in terms of food security. when we have a few of these years in a row then we will certainly have serious wood security problem but much less concerned about germany because people in germany are rich enough so that even if prices go well for they can afford enough food i'm much more worried about the poor people in africa and so h.-o. we're hunger and poverty is severe anyway even in an average year and will certainly go walk with. prices go up and unfortunately i mean we're complaining here but all of our climate models are saying that the negative impact of climate change are all made repulsor will be much more severe and probably regions of so

hated africa than in europe and that means the biggest. negative impact will be where people already were and that's something we need to take very seriously exactly because of course that means the next migration crisis is just waiting for us around the corner professor. of international put economics in rural development at the university and getting and thank you so much my pleasure. it watching d.w. news coming to life from a berlin the who coming up after the top of the hour see that.

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