this is the interview news lot from berlin italy ask the lakes a dispute with his e.u. neighbors over my current the populace government and broken says the e.u. must change the rules on rescues at sea or it will close its imports to all vessels carrying refugees also coming up the east german city of camden braces for more on the rest of the far right nationalist bureau for another protest to.

i'm sorry so much kind of thank you for joining us italy is stepping up pressure on its european partners to take more migrants rescued at sea italy's defense minister and he said that a trend to announce that she will ask sallow e.u. defense ministers to rotate the ports that migrants disembark at calling on other countries to share the load that used joint naval mission in the mediterranean operation sophia was created to target people smuggling but has rescued thousands of people since its launch in two thousand and fifteen under current rules operation sophia brings all of those rescued to italy and rome says that practice is no longer acceptable it wants a change or else it could stop accepting my cards. that you use chief diplomat federica mcgreevey says it's a divisive issue and one that you states need to tackle together here's what you said a short while ago you sure of how to share the management of migration flows that is not an issue for one single country but is

a common european issue this is why we have a european union operation and this is why i believe that even if it's a very difficult discussion. it would be good if member states considered taking more responsibility so respect but it's a difficult discussion i don't see with the ministers how much political space we have to move forward for european defense ministers are meeting in vienna today for the second day of talks and after trying to as announcement operation sophia is likely to be the number one item on the agenda let's go right to our correspondent barbara vai so she is covering the talks for us in vienna today hi barbara so operation sophia was supposed to prevent people smuggling and further deaths at sea why is it only pushing to have this changed. italy has such an ultimatum to the european union and that runs in fact tomorrow so defense ministers are under quite some pressure to come up with a solution however so far things seem to be quite intractable it's only doesn't

want to accept the vessel itself its european neighbors which are engaged in emissions of fear anymore in their own harbors they say somebody else should take up france for instance or spain or whoever malta and sort of relieve it from the burden to have having to take in all those migrants not the point is that the figures have as we all know gone down dressed to kill you this year so this is a political issue it is not really any more about thousands and thousands of people arriving in italian ports but it is it an issue that the interior minister. is pushing day and night he wants to completely close off italy's from the italy from the arrival of all and any migrants and that includes emissions of so it's a important political symbol for italy however other e.u. countries likely to respond to at least request. the problem is that so

far they have not found any volunteers. neither the french government nor the spanish has said ok wheels sort of take over from italy because the rules so far of course have been and that's the also rule rules of international law that the harvest that are closed and that is in case it should leave mostly sicily in this case to the libyan coast i suppose to take in those vessels that come was rescued people on board however italy now really wants to use force there is blackmail in the room italy is threatening to not to agree to the next e.u. budget to not pay its fees to the european union and so on and so forth which is for the whole he's doing the atmosphere at the moment there seems to be not really a way out however if they don't find a solution emissions of more or less is at its end barrino bottom line here is that

the italian government is saying it is important to distribute migrants picked up at sea within the e.u. are they getting anywhere with that point. they have been getting in anywhere somewhere that by using more or less blood pressure during the last weeks and months because if you look at the last migrant boats that have been coming in they've been waiting and waiting and ports for days and days and then finally the way are distributed among the e.u. member states even albania has and the last round taking in a couple of people so yes they are getting somewhere. the the are the way they are dealing with the european partners really is causing a lot of bad blood and so it seems that the fia might actually be sort of running to run to ground and the whole thing be pushed on to the libyan coast guard in libya getting the sole responsibility to save people who are at sea and that would

constitute a breach of international law as we know the fate of migrants being pushed back to libya so the e.u. really is in a bind here in italy is not moving at all all right barbara facial reporting for us from the and i thank you barbara. now at some other stories making news around the world argentina's peso has plummeted to a record low against the dollar that's after president appealed to the international monetary fund to speed up disbursements from the country's fifteen fifty billion dollar credit line the peso was tumbled forty percent since january due to uncertainty over inflation and economic downturn and budget deficits. a two day public wake for u.s. senator john mccain is underway in his home state of arizona the war hero and republican presidential candidate will be buried that the u.s. naval academy in annapolis maryland on saturday mccain died last weekend at the age of eighty one german chancellor angela merkel has begun

a three day tour of west african countries with a visit to senegal michel what matz with the senegalese president macky sall in the capital dakar the german chancellor is calling for further investment in the region which is the origin of many migrants who journey to europe she's heading to ghana on thursday. right wing groups are again expected to take to the streets of the east german city of camden today some twenty people were injured earlier in the week with around seven thousand protesters and many of them far right nationalists clashed with left wing demonstrators after a man was stabbed to death here's a look at what life is like for residents of cabinets where violence and hatred of foreigners has dominated the headlines for the past few days. a snapshot of daily life in chemists to look cool runs a cafe in an art center it's a bit of an ivory tower he says here things are fine. but he also knows the city has a problem with right wing radicals. we don't see marauding bands of murderous

nazis in the streets every day but things happen and the instrumental wires that and use it as a pretext to whip up a crowd. last sunday eight hundred took to the streets in response to the killing of a man the night before on monday the far right scene mobilized about five thousand demonstrators and they were not just locals the rally wasn't about mourning the dead man it was a protest. the state premier of saxony is coming to candidates later today to hold a town hall meeting. in ghana what would you like to tell him about what's been going on here. before that he's totally misunderstood the situation and that he's out of his depth this is given the right wing radicals a platform and they're rallying their forces it wasn't just people from community on monday but from all over germany i find out painful. is there

a general sense of frustration among local people other problems with refugees here this man's answer shows how rejection of neo nazis and concern about the presence of foreigners in chemist's are not always so far apart what's it like living here. this is not what i expected. i like to sit in the park when the weather's good but i see more and more foreigners there and they behave as if the time belongs to them . and they don't sit on the benches but on the backs of the benches with their feet on the seats drinking beer. that's not acceptable. i'm not a right winger but it bothers me it's just not right the specific issue. in. a city theater company is rehearsing for a video with dunces from twenty four countries we ask if they feel they're under threat they say no. but in fact. it's not that simple. fact we tend to hook up with we tell them they should try to avoid any possible

problems if they go home late they should go home together or not alone of course they're all trying to cope with the situation. and it's not easy and kennett's living together takes practice we have some catching up to do. most people we talked to here say they want to have nothing to do with the far right demonstrators but there is something that bothers them they feel marginalized the mayor offers an analysis. that the city has changed it will take a while for some particularly the elderly i would say to get used to the way things are now days it's different now. and in the meantime nobody seems to have an answer to that question what with all the heated debate the thirty five year old killed on saturday night is no longer the focus of attention flowers and candles but no crowd of mourners. our political correspondent covering this story for us and she joins

us in our studio hi nina we heard such mixed opinions in that report we heard one man criticizing politicians and the far right but also saying there are too many foreigners in chemist's how do you explain that. well sumi i feel reminded of our trip to greystone where we covered the demonstration together last year if you remember those statements a very very similar they sound very familiar people say i'm not a new nazi but there is an increased presence of foreigners and i just don't like that and the statistics do show that fear of foreigners is highest in areas where there are few foreigners so saxony has a share of only four percent that is very low compared to some twelve percent in say in the west but then also candidates for example has a slightly higher share and you hear those statements also in areas where people just don't meet the native population if you will the germans don't really get to

know those foreigners because they can't find jobs they're not allowed to work etc which is also why the national government government is working on an immigration bill that should make it easier for people to find jobs who know the onus is now on politicians and the regional leader the state premier michel he's holding something of a town hall in a football stadium today and he's going to have to have his work cut out for him isn't he's going to have to deal with all of these different opinions well that event was planned a long time ago is an event part of the citizens dialogue as they call it the c.d.u. is a member of a. conservative party the c.d.u. they lost tremendously in last year's general election new specially in saxon. going out to talk to the people and say ok we got the message what you want to talk about what are your concerns so this is part of this event is going to take place in a football stadium that can host fifteen thousand people a very strict security there and also a counter demonstration by the far right proclaim that you know what can we expect

there we are going to see another far right demonstration and likely another counter demonstration from the left wing well of course we've seen how the far right has managed to mobilize protesters from all over the country in a very very short amount of time we saw that on monday we saw how the police were overwhelmed how the authorities completely underestimated what was going to happen of course also the events from this week has mobilized the other side so there will be a pro-democracy rock concert next week but of course that will be big come to demonstrate demonstrations that today as well we can only hope that the authorities have learned their lesson and that enough police people will be on the ground to keep the groups apart all right our political correspondent nina thank you so much. now to a bit of sports news on day three of the u.s. open in new york there was an upset in the men's matches former world number one andy murray has crashed out losing in four sets to spain's fair number vasco in the

second round murray predicted he would struggle to challenge for the title as he is still working his way back to top form after undergoing hip surgery meanwhile moves on to the third round where he'll face third seed juan martinez both of whom made comfortable progress with a straight sets victory over american denis could lap meanwhile in the women's category serino williams and sister venus won their respective matches to set up a family affair in the third round it is their thirty if career meeting and serino last won the u.s. open in two thousand and fourteen. now a former head of the governing body for football in south america was sentenced to nine years in prison by a us judge on wednesday. one on head up which was also ordered to pay more than three and a half million euros in penalties last december december the paraguayan was found guilty of racketeering conspiracy and wire fraud conspiracy and put who was tried alongside jose mario monti and he is a former head of brazil's football federation he was sentenced to four years in

prison last week. thank you for watching d.w. news terry martin will be here at the news desk at the top they are. letter we were. when we were. in the percent of americans at some point in our lives will experience hardship listen.