during this period. sixty years. this week. this is d w news live from berkeley and taking a stand against new nazis in germany. more than sixty five thousand people turned out for a free concert against racism in the eastern city of tampa it's a show of defiance after last week's violent protest there against mike brooks also coming up i went to sleep thinking it was a nightmare i thought i was going to wake up from it so it could go to this

devastation and sadness in brazil as people realize the extent of the damage done to the two hundred year old the national museum in real de janeiro after it was gutted by fire and how some children in the afghan capital kabul are benefiting from a new local library it's the brainchild of a former oxford graduate but she wants to offer the children a respite from the country's difficult security situation and the opportunity to learn to read. i'm sorry kelly it is great to have you with us it is not about being left or right wing it is about doing of the decent thing that is how the leaders leaders lead singer excuse me of one of germany's best no rock bands to total holes in described of last night's concert against racism. in the east german city of camden it's now

musicians that they wanted to send a signal after anti migrant protests erupted in violence in the city last week a huge number of people turned out. and you made views into me there were more of us that was the motto of the candidates concert is liberal germans responded to calls to stand up against far right racism before it started there was a minute of silence for the thirty five year old whose fatal stabbing unleashed last week seventy migrant protests. the mood was peaceful albeit with a clear message to the racists who shocked the country with thousands chanting nazis out was i. this is absolutely fantastic because as the people of cannot we have to show that our city is colorful open to everyone and that we have no sympathy for what has

happened here in recent days. because international observers were never far right city the majority of the population is totally normal democratically civilised but not far right took out saying we don't want that here we don't want any such people. you know. several well known german bands perform to encampments including local group comes close the driving force behind the concert is the group singer explained at a press conference earlier it was not a dancing shafter all this rubbish happened we called friends on tuesday evening and asked them if they would join us for the concert. within twenty four hours everyone had said yes everyone got in touch with everyone else and then all these people here agreed to join the concert i didn't mention it simmered i'm still. the lead singer of one of germany's most popular rock groups and explained his motive

for taking part. it is essential that we are clear this is not left against right everybody who is in any way decent and it does not matter what political beliefs they have opposed as a radical right wing mob which attacks people. few people at the candidates concert would disagree with that their city put on a different face on monday with thousands united in a fun loving show of music and tolerance. let's get more now on what has been happening in new cabinets let's bring in our chief political correspondent melinda crane who joins us from the german capital this morning so a very strong signal there that we just saw from candidates how important is such an event. i think it is important we heard a lot of calls last week after the events in kevin that's meaning the stabbing of a young man and then the following marches through the city of camden it's

involving right wing groups who were hunting down people who appeared to be of immigrant background so after that we heard a lot of calls for people to take a stand against seen a phobia to take a stand against a right wing ideology and right wing violence and that's absolutely what this concert was doing and as we heard in the piece it was organized by a local group who said we want to send a signal and clearly they did so a signal with in germany and with in eastern germany the region that has had particularly strong challenges from the right wing heard by sixty five thousand people and of course also a signal to people outside of germany who have been following these events who may indeed have been thinking of cabinets as a stronghold of the far right that that the spectrum is much broader than that and

will it convert to neo nazis overnight of course not in the organizer said so but it's part of taking that very crucial stand and talking about taking a stand and we saw the german president himself take a stand and he shared the link to the concert on his on his facebook we understand he came under fire for that why. that's right he did well amongst the organizers of this concert amongst the bands who played there was a pretty far left a bad that has at times been under observation by germany's approval of the f.b.i. and that led to criticism interestingly enough from the conservative party here in germany from the christian democrats so not from well from the right wing as well from the far right but in fact from mainstream parties why is that because. there's enormous nervousness here about how to handle this rising right wing demagoguery and the fact is we have seen too few of the mainstream

politicians actually go to candidates only the family minister has done so and here we hear this nervous reaction from the mainstream i think people are very very uncertain what to do about what we see on rising polarization and and the right wing and at the moment they're feeling no way melinda crane of the german capital thank you so much. well now let's get a quick check of some other stories that have been making news around the world the u.s. president donald trump has warned to syria against launching an attack on it live the last rebel stronghold in the country syrian forces are massing around the northwestern province trump tweeted that an offensive could cause a human tragedy russia and iran are expected to back any assault. thousands of bolivian cocoa farmers have taken to the streets of la paz to protest against the

president they've blamed him for a crackdown on illegal cocoa cultivation two farmers were killed in clashes with anti drug police last week many cocoa farmers are unhappy at long's redefining areas where coca can be legally grown. time lapse video shows storm clouds gathering over the coast of florida in the united states a hurricane warning in force for much of the central gulf coast as tropical storm gordon heads toward land the national hurricane center is warning of heavy rainfall and possible storm surges. officials in brazil are blaming chronic underfunding for the fire which has gutted the country's oldest and most prestigious museum the national museum in rio de janeiro housed twenty million items including the oldest human skull found in the america the cause of the blaze is not yet known but the institution had no sprinkler system and fire hydrants

closest to the museum were dry. angry scenes the morning after the disastrous fire which ripped through brazil's historic national museum. protesters demanding to inspect the damage for themselves they want to see the museum rebuilt and punishment for those who failed to protect the two hundred year old building and its priceless contents. how can we explain in words what you have lost we are here to say goodbye to the museum and to fight for its restoration our national memories are here. but here let us i went to sleep thinking it was a nightmare i thought i was going to wake up from it is a. little just a feel more anger than sadness because it could have been avoided there wasn't even water of course there are guilty people and they have to be punished.

devastated stafford devoted their careers to looking after the twenty million pieces in the museum's collection this curator came straight to the museum on hearing about the fire she helped to recover some valuable mitchell writes. oh i was in a rush to get in because i knew where the meteorites where they were brought out of the ashes a real phoenix. officials admit the museum suffered from years of underfunding and neglect under successive brazilian governments it's necessary for all the authorities that have the resources specifically the federal government to help the national museum put its history back together. we've already lost part of our collection but brazil cannot lose its history. but as you'll be a sweet spot. it's feared as much as ninety percent of the museum's collection has

been destroyed even if the structure is rebuilt huge numbers of irreplaceable artifacts have been lost forever. a humanitarian crisis is unfolding in the lake chad region of africa the united nations more than ten million people are dependent on humanitarian aid nations in the region include me share tat cameroon and nigeria the crisis there is driven by extreme poverty climate change and attacks by extremists with almost one in five people displaced from their homes and an international donors conference in berlin and german foreign minister heikal moss pledged a further one hundred forty million euros said financial aid would be in effect while security remains precarious the head of the u.n. development program is among the participants at the conference and our correspondent sent this interview with. mr donahoe is the humanitarian situation in

the lake chad region it's serious it is not quite as dramatic as a year ago in terms of the droughts and i think the world often forgets that because of the international community together with national governments like in north east nigeria having intervened rapidly last year we made sure that a period of drought did not turn into a famine so that's a success but right now in the lake chad region over ten million people still need assistance partly because of the extreme weather conditions but also partly because of the insecurity and all the impacts it has had on people in the region but do you have the funds that you would actually and meet you know the fate of the united nations is that it often presents the world what it would need and what countries and the international community needs to get of a civil society to actually help people adequately rarely do we receive those pledges and so no the answer is we have not received enough funding but on the other hand a significant amount of funding was committed twenty seventeen and ninety percent

of that pledged funding was received which is very positive news and now we are in berlin for this high level conference on the lake chad region and yet again the international community together with the countries of the region i here together with the united nations looking at the next humanitarian response plan and extremely important also a view on how to make investments in long term development initiatives so that they actually attack of the root causes if you don't have enough funding what does that actually mean for the work of the humanitarian agencies on the ground. a terrible situation analogous to you know a hospital in which you have many victims needing help and you will have to make a tree house and decide who are you going to help in practical terms it off means cutting food rations shutting down schools incomes simply not being able to reach people so right now there are still a lot of people who we are not reaching and yet if we're not careful and funding does not come through for the next annual cycle then it means essentially

withdrawing our support leaving people to their own fate in an extremely difficult situation we're talking always a lot about the donors but what do the local governments what are the local communities in the region actually doing to assist the people who have been hit by this crisis well first we must recognize that a number of the countries themselves have very limited means they have constraints and therefore their ability to deal with extreme shocks is obviously severely constrained financially and institutionally part of the challenge is also in some of the countries around the lake chad region that the local government institutions only supported at a very minimal level that the resources they have available to even run basic services feed education health infrastructure services. the absence and so investments also by the federal government budgets in each country part of the equation we are in a partnership here thank you very much when the relations between russia and the west hit such a low point earlier this year that some were asking is this

a new cold war. at a political level at least the scribal affair and u.s. sanctions against moscow made it seem like it could happen so perhaps it comes as a surprise to find out that right now russian people view americans more favorably than they have in years as you know tracks or found out. he used to be a pro. now the steady one year old manager plays in the amateur league. but he still has one hell of an eye. as a kid he was fascinated with baseball and started trying to get an early age he's playing again today by his club the record on the outskirts of moscow. the more you know about the more people are becoming interested in baseball or the parents come and watch their kids play but it's not a hugely popular sport it's not mainstream. not like in the u.s.

anyway where games attract thousands of spectators until a few years ago american diplomats and business people used to play here but after the two thousand and fourteen ukraine crisis many of them left moscow. since then diplomatic relations between the u.s. and russia have to teria righted further something that many locals were great. you know the more stirring yours ensure no one in russia or the u.s. wants to see the relationship between our two countries worse than yours which mr vandeman yes the much thought i think the relations between our two countries will improve and then the world will become more civilized and conflicts will be resolved in well you may mice yes yes right first though by i like to see the political relations improve because on a community level that they're good i knew how to shoot. the most recent opinion poll showed that anti american sentiment has dropped drastically in the last few months in may nearly seventy percent of russians had a negative attitude towards the u.s. now that figure has dropped to just forty percent two thirds are in favor of

improving relations with the west. partly to confront that to me it seems that the politics of confrontation just isn't working anymore this is clearly a trend towards closer cooperation greater cooperation and overcoming isolationist thinking shared stated so for now blistering and. let's. just like in the us tasty snacks are a must watch a good ice ball but instead of hot dogs here in moscow pancakes are on the menu talking politics during the game is strictly. good when we play against american teams whether at home or abroad but amateur sports changed bilateral relations either for better or for worse. and that's why the few russian baseball fans who come along simply concentrate on the game. to afghanistan now which. has one of the highest illiteracy rates in the world more than sixty percent of the population

and one in three children cannot read or write now one afghan woman an oxford graduate has set up in mobile library in the capital kabul she wants to give at least some children the chance to discover the world of books. this is no ordinary bus it offers hope to children in capital every day it tours the afghan capital's residential neighborhoods for two to three hours children can discover worlds otherwise little known to them and get lost in a good big. books with stories about princes and beggars best. dragons to. i read books in two languages here in past two and dari. fresh to careen started the mobile library with the help of donations she studied at oaks for tonight wants to encourage critical thinking among children back home the bus isn't

a safe space in an otherwise dangerous city. explosions are a problem and that can happen at any time but then we are we are trying to park the car inside the communities where it is far better it is much more secure but i think overall the security problem in the country is less than that good exists for any project so we cannot stop our work just because it's your problem life is on you on security issues as the nine year old shot eagerly waits for the bus to come by each day i haven't heard of it if i enjoy coming here because there's so many exciting things to eat i like stories about best i don't have any pics at home that . shot nuns father always picks his daughter up from the bus the family fled to kabila from conducive northern afghanistan thinking they'd be safer in the capital but explosions rocked the city nearly every week recently a car bomb exploded near their home panicking shutdowns parents went out to look

for her. but. after the blast we finally found shot at the mobile library we were relieved but except to go to the bus we don't let the children out of the house or that. afghanistan has one of the highest a list. in the world at more than sixty percent one in three children cannot read or write so fresh to karim also reads to the children a lot keeping hold of for me is highly important because if i'm hopeful these children will be able for that together to get it right and we can make something happen in this country so i'm i'm hopeful fresh to karim has started collecting donations again in the hope of renting another bus and bringing more pics to more children. were heading out to the big world of surfing big waves sandy beaches blue skies and sun it's easy to picture right well now imagine if you were unable to picture any of it if you were actually blind this is the story of a blind surfer and surfing coach who more than next june with other senses on his

favorite waves off of spain's basque cow country have a look. that's a tall frank a center warms up on the shoreline his four senses are tingling. being blind is no obstacle to doing what he loves most. the taste touch smell and sounds of the ocean got him along the waves at the famous star out surf break. and if that wasn't enough frank a center still runs his own coaching school. everybody says it's not possible to teach when you're blind but there are many forms of coaching i'm trying and i'm working with people who have a great results it's clear we're doing something right i was into this stuff i wish

that you. are born with congenital glaucoma frank assent to lost sight in his left eye when he was just fourteen despite initial concerns from his parents he took up surfing and flourished now he's a well known and respected surf guru in surrounds. a group in the countryside and at first i wasn't allowed to serve but now it's my life. in two thousand and eleven frank assent to became one hundred percent blind after a surfing accident it didn't stop him getting back in the ocean two years ago he won gold in the visually impaired world championships a friend made him a photo album to remember his exploits. and they're beautiful pictures i can't see them but everyone says they're beautiful. weather instructing from the shore all chasing the swell himself frank a center has shown nothing will stop him enjoying his life passion. i think is

impossible l. and i have friends here now and we're heading to frankfurt and german chancellor angela merkel as. well now right yes she's heading to the financial center later sarah well aware of the fact that come bragg's it well london's loss could be front gain of course britain leaving thier peony union in march next year an offer to break that banks and financial service providers based in london will no longer be able to do business in the e.u. from the british capital many bank is based there have already traded their apartments on the banks of the river thames for the rhythm mine but paris is also looking to new those on the move. the eiffel tower or the new for a gallery or the octave. globally recognized parisian landmarks and germany's frankfurt cannot hold a candle to the its room a city hall pales in comparison still frankfurt is germany's financial hub and was

so even before the european central bank was headquartered here that's why many in the banking district are cautiously optimistic about britain's exit from the e.u. . front foot isn't he a few known frankfurt's an important european financial center but it's also obvious that the city of london remains the european financial center it will take frank for quite some time to take the title still the increasing number of london banks are looking at paris and frankfurt as alternatives because it seems clear that all april first to lose the right to conduct e.u. business from their london offices over twenty financial institutes have already decided on frankfurt. fun for talking for a time frankfurt has the advantage that it's well established more so than paris frankfurt has the advantage of hosting the european central bank it's important for financial operators to be physically close to it to understand what's going on with paris got a boost with the european banking agency decided to relocate there from london.

frankfurt also. but paris was offering rent free offices and now paris is offering tax breaks for the banks as well. let's talk more about this now with hu battis fate he's the managing director of frankfurt main finance thank you for joining us so frankfurt as europe's new number one financial center what are its chances. well good morning helena i think the johns is a pretty good friend for took an early lead which has been however eroded with the loss of e.p.a. clearly perry sketched up but as of today we have more than twenty five banks that decided on frankford as a new european headquarters and that's a strong and clear lead he just mentioned that paris caught up what do you think the german government can do to attract the outflow of bragg's it financial services. will clearly the most important thing is that they show that the

financial services are want it what president michael and dainty personally got involved a lot whereas from the german side there was a little bit of reluctance to really show strong support for the financial sector but that's been changing last week we have the finance minister in frankfurt which made very strong statements and also made clear how important the strong financial sector is for the overall economy and we're very happy to have the chancellor here today which we believe is going to be a strong signal with that signal giving us had wins we we believe that that we can maintain our leading polite i think now is one thing though but what is the german government actually need to do you know to rival for example tax breaks. it will tax break is a very good example of the multitude of incentives that paris and also us are

giving paris is not alone there look at amsterdam look at milan or milan always also giving a very attractive tax package first of all what we need to do is to fulfill our promise and the brownness was that we going to reform labor law that the high. the high level of changes which is very high actually in the industry can be can be maintained beth says that managing director of crimes that line of finance thank you very much indeed thank you. and you're watching the news from more coming up at the top of the hour don't forget you can always get the latest around the clock on our web site that is of course dot com and have an entree and balance bank says i have a company and. free

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