i am. this is you know we news live from berlin a powerful typhoon batters japan the strongest storm in more than twenty five years on leashes wind gusts of more than two hundred kilometers an hour to soaring homes and causing flash floods more than a million people evacuated also coming up in germany's big debate about organ donation thousands of people who need new organs but fewer and fewer are willing to register and become organ donors at a controversial law now is trying to change that. and google turns

twenty from the lucky start up to internet giant having conquered the world we'll look at the tech titans search for the next big idea. thank you so much for your company everyone in japan is being battered by one of the strongest typhoons in a quarter of a century authorities have urged a million people in western and central regions of the country to leave their homes and move to temporary shelters all typhoon made landfall in japan southwest hitting the cities of kobe osaka and kyoto with terentia will rains and violent gusts more than one point five million households are now without power the typhoon is also causing serious disruptions to road rail and air traffic. and earlier we spoke with

journalist a michael penn in tokyo and i asked him what has happened since gibby made landfall . well the typhoon is extremely powerful in fact they're saying that it could be the most powerful typhoon to hit japan in twenty five years. however it's also fast moving it hits the concept of region which is the second largest urban area of japan and it moved quite quickly through it and is now going along the japan of sea coastline the amount of damage that it did in terms of you know ripping off rules and and and smashing a ship into a bridge and cutting off the concierge's port was pretty amends but the good news is that it seems that the human toll is relatively light compared to the ferocity of the storm i think that among the nations of the world is probably no country

that's as well prepared to deal with the massive natural disasters in japan precisely for the region reason you say it's a country which is hit by natural disasters quite regularly major earthquakes volcanoes storms and this summer in particular has been a dramatic one with a heat wave which killed many people giant rainstorm so it's been rough going but japan handles it pretty well. michael pena reporting there from tokyo. and i'd like to bring up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world. a highway overpass has collapsed in the indian city of kolkata but there is no confirmation on the number of deaths or injuries it happened in the city's affluent much iraq's neighborhood while police and firefighters are using cutting tools to free people stuck underneath the wreckage. the wife of one of two journalists jailed in myanmar has called on the country's leader

aung san suu cheat to free her husband for the sake of their daughter while lone and that quiets who were convicted on charges related to their reporting on army attacks on me and mars will hinge on minority lawyers are now considering an appeal . to the syrian observatory for human rights says russian warplanes have resumed bombing rebel controlled in the province after a three week hiatus iran says efforts are being made to remove militants with the least human cost us president donald trump has warned syria and its allies against what he called a reckless attack on the enclave. i'm back here in germany thousands of people are urgently in need of a new organ like a heart or a kidney but fewer and fewer germans are willing to register as an organ donor all currently organ donation is allowed only if permission has been given or if close

relatives decide to allow it but that could change if health minister young gets his way he's proposed that organ donation be made automatic unless people explicitly the claire they don't want their organs used eighteen european countries have these opt out systems in place spain is one of those countries and last year it had the most organ donations. in europe some two thousand and hundred eighty three organ donations germany with its much larger population didn't even manage eight hundred donors in twenty seven so a very very a big difference there while mr spawn hopes by changing the system that organ donations will rise in germany york philip had a good life with a family and a solid career that's until an infection destroyed his heart when he was in his late forty's in the hospital the tormenting wait for a new organ began in c.

and killing one of armor in a hospital bed and suddenly you hear someone rushing down the corridor pushing an emergency resuscitation car then you hear the person's relatives arrive something because the person has died you go through all that with the family and the medical staff it's the worst thing your scared also that you could be next to us when you can also and and couldn't philip had to wait seven months for a new heart that's not uncommon because the number of organ donors in germany is falling with more than ten thousand patients on waiting lists donations have dropped to just eight hundred a year in feeling clean and many clinics organ donations and so rarely that the concept of donation is quite foreign so when it does happen the staff often don't know the proper procedures and overwhelmed follow ups and it's not that people are unwilling to donate experts say but rather that they fail to give written consent before they die as often leaves grieving relatives facing a momentous choice. even follow those for. the moment when

a loved one dies the relatives are not in a strong position to make clear decisions to prove. it's. for it's so easy if they know exactly what their family member wanted this is large but otherwise it can be very difficult to decide on their own discounts really that's why germany's health ministry and spawn wants to change how organ donation works in germany currently people voluntarily opt in to donate but under the new proposal they would have to opt out if they didn't want to. and if. lawmakers declare everyone an organ donor it is an infringement on people's individual liberty but i still think it's necessary for. some call the proposal an ethical. issue i believe it disregards the fundamental concept of organ donations it's no longer a donation donations a voluntary and this initiative is forced fleet which is against the very nature of

organ donation. spend but for organ recipient york philip the decision is clear especially if the horrible waiting time experience could be shortened substantially and people in this situation would be happy if the circumstances were improved in my view that wouldn't be hard to do this philip has been living with someone else's heart for three years he is grateful for every new day it gives him. google it so now that became a verb and a very very valuable company what twenty years ago today a couple of ph d. students working out of the proverbial garage wanted to improve internet searches and the rest is history as they say well google was born in the heyday of the internet when all and everything was possible but the company its business practices and its aim and scope and also its users have changed over the past twenty years beyond recognition. google's business model is simple users

searching the internet tell google about themselves allowing google to sell targeted advertising to businesses the firm i.p.o. at eighty five dollars a share in two thousand and four and quickly rose in value. new products like google mail and acquisitions like you tube expanded google from a search engine into an online network where users could shop or find news. as the mobile internet and apps began to rise google moved to make up ground to pioneer apple releasing the android operating system and app store. today google employs more than eighty five thousand people worldwide and is worth more than seven hundred billion dollars it has fifteen data centers around the world and that's part of the problem information is increasingly seen as something to protect tech firms are being held to new standards of social responsibility. and inside

google there are pushes for gender diversity and against collaboration with governments like the u.s. or china. so a lot of transformation in only twenty years. and new advertising campaign by sports giant nike has throw its weight behind american football player collin capper nick and it lit up an already racially charged debate in the us well this just days before the start of the new season on kaplan it is the quarterback who caused division protesting racial injustice by kneeling during the american national anthem all that protest started more than two years ago and president trump has chimed in source fully against the movement that capper next started not he's new campaign pulls no punches believe in something even if it means sacrificing everything. that's exactly what colin kaepernick has done over the past two years after starting his protest in aug twenty sixth same

company because not being offered a new contract by any n.f.l. club. his decision to protest racial injustice specifically police brutality against african-americans caused a vision as fellow n.f.l. players joined the movement. u.s. president donald trump was among the most vociferous critics. when you love to see one of these n.f.l. owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a bitch off the field right now out of the five five thirty five. in may and a fellow owners ratified opposed seawitch directed protesting players to remain in the locker room during the end them all face punishment we want people to be respectful to nationally it's we want people to stand at all personnel and make sure that they treat this moment in

a respectful fashion. that policy is yet to be implemented and the new nike campaign has now intensified the divisive issue nike and kept in the face of backlash on social media hashtags boycott nike and just burn it showed fans discarding nike products with just days before the start of the new season not he has added fire to an already fiery debate. all right in tennis five time champion roger federer has crashed out of the u.s. open losing to australia's john millman federer cruised through the first set against his unseated opponent but millman took the next three says he now advances to the quarterfinals for the first time where he'll face none other than novak djokovic who powered into the final eight with a straight sets victory over portugal's so-so. now to the

world of surfing big waves sandy beaches blue skies and sun it's easy to picture right when i imagine if you were unable to picture it if you were blind well this is the story of a blind surfer and surfing coach who more than makes do with his other senses on his favorite waves off spain's basque ost. as i tore frank a senate warms up on the shoreline his four senses are tangling being blind is no obstacle to doing what he loves most surfing. the taste touch smell and sounds of the ocean guy he will long the waves of the well known surf break. and if that's not enough frank assent to still runs his own coaching school. stock let ok's the feel well 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 play we're doing something right now those into this is start local stuff i wish that. frank asuna was born with congenital glaucoma and lost sight in his left eye when he was fourteen despite initial concerns from his parents he took up surfing and flourished he's now a well known and respected serve guru in surats. not seeing as i grew up in the countryside and at first i wasn't allowed to serve but now it's my life. in two thousand and eleven frank asuna 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 a photo album to remember his exploits. and that beautiful pictures i can see them he put everyone he says that beautiful.

opinion of him whether instructing from the shore or chasing the swells himself by to or frank a son to his show nothing will stop him enjoying his life passion. inspiring thank you so much for spending this part of the day that's what these kids. at the top of the hour. like we were. when we were. in the percent of americans at some point in our lives will experience hardship. listen up.