big moments in the life of a great fashion designer. starts september ninth w. . this is d.w. news line from berlin that could some reports of violence in the german city of cabinets last week the fake news this video of an alleged attack on a foreigner was widely circulated but now germany's domestic intelligence chief says he has no reliable evidence that such chases actually took place his remarks appear to contradict the turkish proposal diverting a humanitarian catastrophe in

a province but they have agreed to keep talking. also coming up sweden's populist right wing prepares for a breakthrough a scandinavian nation has long been a social democratic stronghold but it's expected to see a far right searching this weekend's elections i mean discontent over migration. i'm phil gayle welcome to the program. feast in german city of cabinet says tense again tonight as about fifteen hundred demonstrators march against the government's migration policies chanting we are the people and this is our city that carried black cross on for a complete halt to the arrival of asylum seekers hundreds of police officers have been deployed and there are no reports of violence cabinet's has seen

a series of protests on both sides of the migration issue since a man was stabbed to death last month allegedly by honest. lucy. only after math of that fatal knife attack has sparked a disagreement between chancellor merkel and her domestic intelligence chief after the incident the chancellor and her spokesman highlighted reports that far right mobs have hunted down foreigners in the city but germany's domestic intelligence chief is now raising doubts about those accounts saying that his agency has no reliable evidence that such xenophobic activity actually took place. videos like this one have been circulating online are said to show far right mobs carrying out racist attacks in the eastern german city of kemet on august twenty sixth. but in a controversial interview with the daily billed newspaper germany's domestic intelligence agency chief said he had no evidence that the racist attacks occurred

he said a widely circulated video could be fake deliberate misinformation but he did not say which one. hans-georg mawson's remarks contradict not only reports from eyewitnesses journalists and alleged victims the intelligence chief also contradicted chancellor angela merkel's comments just a few days ago. my near to it is that we have seen pictures that clearly show hatred and the persecution of innocent people and we must distance ourselves from such behavior. there's been something of a consensus among members of merkel's governing coalition that the races violence and chemists should be condemned and several german politicians have criticized mohsen for a second guessing what really happened. instead of speculating in public mr marson should present evidence. can and were because i have seen the pictures i've heard the eyewitness accounts i know about the many

reports from journalists and i think a prudent security agency head would be well advised to provide facts for such a controversial thesis to avoid exacerbating matters. but germany's interior minister mohsen superior has defended the controversial statements. to the from the us national message interior minister i have always said that in such difficult terrible events one must be accurately informed about what actually took place in full view most. what's the politics looking for. a spokeswoman for the interior ministry said investigations of the disputed videos are ongoing meanwhile mohsen has been asked to clarify his position. as the most d.w. political correspondent maximally on the course sheik who has been following the story welcome back many on how hard times go mass and back up his statement. well

this is the crucial point is the moment he hasn't at all so far we only have the interview that he's given germany's biggest tabloid newspaper builds today in which he makes these claims but doesn't back them up in any way and we've got the statement from the domestic circuit service itself the shots in which they say they're still checking they're still investigating the claims that this video may be fake but there is no proof so far and the bigger question is if there have been concerns by him or by the agency why have they not brought them up with a chance of a bit spokes person of the chancellor angela merkel or stephens i would said today that the has been no conversation between the head of the domestic secret service agency and the german chancellor and if he's have these concerns he shouldn't be he certainly should have raised them and so now he appears to be contradicting chance of magical so why is he likely to be doing this. again that we don't know we have

no idea how the situation occurred why he's come out with these allegation in an interview rather in a statement rather in the politico brief men briefing with the government before we know is. that the cause of the underlying issue that we're seeing here in germany is now the question like what to make of the events that are in chemists and there's a big debate there's a big question between different political sides how to attack that or how to address this issue it's a question of like how we are going forward with right wing violence with a phobia that's in germany and if there has been an institutional overside in the country in the government on this issue you know attempts about these concerns that have been raised about martin's political independence of the past few weeks. yes indeed the controversies about the head of the domestic secret service of the fourth. mass on have been piling up in recent weeks and months for once there was

the claim by a former member of the far right a of the party saying that he himself has been advising members of the party and how the far right party could avoid being observed by the domestic secret service there's also been the claim that he has been trying to hide unconstitutional the fact that a constitutional. informant was part of the group of the attacker on the german christmas market in berlin here in two thousand and fifteen that somebody from the domestic secret service was in wolf with the group that planned the attack and then also there has been claims and allegations in recent years that the domestic secret service has been paying attention to right thing violence and extremists and has maybe even been dodging investigations in these directions so no way video leader s.p.d.

one of the coalition parties will something greens on the left saying that manson should resign he said the quote a lot of passion. he is certainly he's only been in the office since two thousand and twelve and he's always said he's been really keen to be on the office he said when he got the post that he things he and the domestic secret service will be a great fit but as we've just spoken about there have been the controversies about him and the way he's conducted his his management style within these secret service has been quite controversial what's now happening is that the social democrats have asked for a meeting of the parliamentary oversight panel that overlooks the secret service agencies both the domestic and the ex. international braun's of it in germany and they want to meet with him next week and get some answers was really on the to see each thank you. iran russia

and turkey have failed to agree on a cease fire that would prevent a syrian government offensive in italy province the last major rebel stronghold at a summit in tehran leaders from three countries did agree there could be no military solution to the syrian conflict they say the walk and only through a negotiated political process but during their talks syrian government and russian warplanes mounted and strikes in it live aid agencies say an all out offensive and could be the greatest humanitarian catastrophe in syria seven year war. antigovernment protests erupted on friday in live province and the prospect of syrian president bashar al assad's launch of an offensive against the country's last rebel stronghold is looming. meanwhile at the summit in the iranian capital russian president that he may or putin rejected a proposal for any adlib ceasefire made by his turkish counterpart wretched pair to

one russian resumed its airstrikes in the province on tuesday turkey is concerned that the situation could cause a humanitarian catastrophe and lead to millions more refugees streaming to its borders. hosting three point five million syrian refugees population is three point five million people now take he does not have the resources or power to host a further three point five million people. tens of thousands of people have been bussed to it limit in recent years when their anti-government areas failed to us forces around half the residents have arrived from other parts of the country while turkey's main aim is to prevent a new influx of syrian refugees and stop the kurds from founding an independent state in syria russia and iran are mainly concerned with expanding their influence in the region they want

a unified syria under president assad. the un security council also met on friday to discuss the situation in need live special envoy to syria urged extremists groups to leave the region and warned of a looming crisis. could be a horrific bloody battle but agreement is proving elusive russia has dismissed warnings of a catastrophe calling it lip a nest for terrorism. let's get more on this from a middle east analyst at the new logo of the welcome daniel let's start with the stuff in the story calling for evacuation routes for civilians he also says he has

ideas on how to separate extremists from civilians i wonder is anyone listening to him does anyone care what the u.n. has to say about this i don't think so i think even the syrian opposition. has criticized mr a for this statement because they think this is kind of an in cars meant to displace people out of it loop people have been partly moved there from other areas but also people who are from the i think this is a very very difficult situation however the turks have tried to separate not the civilian population from the from the rebels from the armed groups but they have tried to what they did to separate what they deem moderate rebels that they can control and terrorist organizations also an organization that is by the way branded a terrorist organization by the united nations and that everybody in this scenario is entitled to bomb them to attack which is the front or what they call themselves now at the liberation front of the levant. today turkey proposed

a cease fire to avoid this potential. bloodbath. russia and iran both said no so now turkey is looking at potentially according to the u.n. eight hundred thousand people being displaced from italy if this is sold goes on that's got quite a lot at stake here or probably more yes of course and this is really understand why turkey is trying to find to to at least to buy time. the problem here is the turks have. closed the border and they wanted civilians from syria where they want to prevent them to and they are discussing to establish them saves them. inside syria that they can least protect but the military target has a very powerful military and took it could of course threaten and say if this offensive starts we will counter it and we will use our military to counter the syrian regime but then of course they will be encountering russia not so much you

run by the way i don't think iran is the military is the main military player here it's mainly the syrian regime and russia but let's not forget whenever russia iran and turkey gather somewhere it's not only about it trump is always in the room because it is of course about redefining the relationships between the countries and their respective influence in the region and of course the global politics have contributed also to this difficult situation at the moment it is very very very difficult to get any kind of concession from the iranians. let alone from russia and so turkey is very much alone and we don't see that turkey is very much it's supported by europe or by the americans in this endeavor to prevent this crisis in the this is because of the point about the people not in the room america not in room today and syria not in the room what do we take from. yeah that's of course mean that america is not in the room is no wonder because they

have been out of these negotiations the strata for new solutions for a long time they had been invited america's present in syria america. has also sent some very contradictory messages beginning try a few weeks ago trump said we want to pull out of syria let's not forget that they are present in the euphrates the area in the north east of syria then all of a sudden they decide to stay and they say we will keep our military forces deployed there until we have found a political solution. on the other hand from somehow gave messages that were interpreted as a green light to the syrian regime and to russia to attack at length because what's at stake there is not only the fate of the of the of the civilian population but all. also what to do with the jihadist groups that are there for jihad is groups to which. turkey has in a way turkey has played a role there because the turkey is also responsible for the present and the growth of these jihad is groups in this area not only the syrian regime and not only the

russians so this is quite a difficult it's starts it's tricky it just got to tricky and tricky and sure here thank you obviously have the us us. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world officials in the iraqi city of basra say one person has been killed eleven injured in protests demonstrators set fire to the right in consulates in this they say they link iran to the local government which they buy for corruption unemployment and poor public services wouldn't ten people in russia have been killed in violence since monday. israeli forces are shot dead a palestinian teenager in clashes along the border with gaza palestinian health officials say at least thirty people were wounded. israel's military said it had struck out a group of militants who were launching in century balloons towards israeli territory. an intense wildfire in the u.s.

state of california forced the closure of an interstate highway motorists had to flee their vehicles as the blaze raged in the shasta trinity national forest scores of homes rather threatened many residents have been ordered to leave. christopher but is here with your business now a pressure increasing on the russian economy that's right bill the russian ruble has been hovering near a two year low against the dollar due to sanctions and overall concerns about emerging markets while the slump of the currency is adding to russian's woes as the government recently announced an extensive pension reform starting next year the retirement age roll gradually increase ultimately forcing people to work much longer now the reform was announced during the football world cup in russia when demonstrations were prohibited but now russians are taking to the streets. ha ha ha ha putin is a thief they call out because they're afraid for their pensions women are supposed

to work eight years longer men five years the life expectancy isn't that high in russia only sixty seven point five years for men according to the moscow school of economics about a sixth of men don't even make it to the pension age complicating matters many older workers can't find more work. and i would have somebody shoot wherever you go to look for work they pay particular attention to your age it's easier for younger people to find employment. that it we might think that at fifty it's already difficult if you already have a job before that you can work until you're eighty but if you lose your job after fifty it's very hard to find a good new one which includes. a pension is a critical source of income for many often their only source maybe for some people with incomes or was it comes in small formal sense if this includes reasonable age but. you also can russia may be near for

pollution sport. and from europe. point a few more than eighty percent of russians are opposed to the pension reform in recent months thousands have joined protests and not just on the streets two point eight million people have signed an online petition rallies are also planned for sunday when many russians vote in regional and community elections. from russia to the united states now the trump administration may be fighting with its trading partners u.s. companies seem unimpressed the pace of hiring quickened in august and wages grew at their fastest pace and nine years overall the u.s. economy added more than two hundred thousand jobs last month with the unemployment rate at three point nine percent the economy. is considered to be at full employment the us federal reserve has said that under such circumstances it would continue to raise key interest rates the governing board is said to me at the end

of this month. now for more let's cross over to our wall street correspondent scored against which affected the markets more on friday the jobs figures or donald trump's threat to potentially hit all chinese imports with terrorists. yeah the story of that u.s. president on a drum actually might impose more tariffs on china that was really the big story here on wall street and at some point good jobs lost a good one hundred fifty points in value even if we could recover a little bit when the market closed but what would it mean if u.s. president really wanted to kick in another two hundred sixty seven billion dollars in tears that would mean that basically more or less all goods imported from china will see a tariff and as we are learning maybe even some apple products might be involved so that was the big story here on friday night and let's take

a look at tesla shares plunged today that as footage of footage emerged of c.e.o. elan musk smoking pot in a web cast any connection there. oh well certainly investors were not too happy about those images and it has not been the only miss said from musk in the past couple of weeks there was this flip flopping about taking his company taking tesla private then he. told called someone a pedophile and now this whole wall street investors are quite concerned if musk is really still the right person to lead tesla and then on top of it the head of bookkeeping quit his job he wasn't even a month so all of that old saw was one reason why the stock dropped by more than six percent so we have executives leaving the c.e.o. in the headlines for what often seems the wrong reasons meanwhile tesla is still

far away from reaching its own production goals what do investors make of tesla these days and going forward. well they're still probably have a good product at hand even if go. for example analyst earlier this week said that competition is increasing also from german car makers and this goldman sachs analyst is saying that the stock will drop even in additional twenty five percent of seoul just was in the next six months so it is certainly a crucial time and the stock of tesla just in the past month has lost about one third in value and scored in new york thank you. it's back to phil now and a look ahead at the general elections in sweden thanks christophe voters look likely to give a big boost to a right wing populist party on sunday according to opinion polls things sweden

democrats on law and order and see my grandpa a surging against established parties right wing populists now have a presence in coalition governments in eight a you countries united by ideas of nationalism you're of skepticism and opposition to immigration those issues are also weighing on sweden's own swedish voters' minds crime is another subject on their minds and the sweden democrats the made it one of their key talking points this approach in the city of mobile. right. up my attitude is just in time to break up a dispute between young arab immigrants in miami he knows that once the fists begin to fly someone could end up dead especially here. but the young men listen to him. to hash dealers got into it here. one said the other was muscling in on a deal. these are the kinds of things that can lead to violence. turkey knows what

he's talking about a lebanese immigrant he spent four years behind bars in sweden for convictions related to violence and narcotics now he's trying to prevent crime in his adopted home at night she and others like him patrolman new street talking with young immigrants and others interested in dialogue. we're here to talk we want to prevent chaos and violence so the police won't have to get involved it's a matter of prevention. to a key cause his initiatives no two crimes supporters are recruited via the internet turkey knows what life is like for young immigrants in the cities disadvantage suburbs and he's able to talk to them half of them don't finish school. the surge in violent crime has become a decisive election issue of the right wing populist sweden democrats have benefitted the party's hardline stance on refugees and immigrants has gained it

close to twenty percent of the vote in recent elections. have told he also wants to talk to the right wingers he blames their campaign rhetoric for souring relations between the swedish majority and migrants. you're always talking about more police harsher penalties and deportations but shouldn't we all instead be addressing the causes of the violence and asking how it comes to that. course there's going to be fine but we still say that if a foreigner with a residence permit commits a crime he must be expelled the moment. that i'm all for people in the countries racists are hoping for some wind beneath their wings what happens if these parties when the elections everyone should be asking themselves that. there be war in the street. and have a current and former convict campaigning for social dialogue no two crimes will soon be taking to the streets to prevent violence and take for it all across.

when the liver oil sorry has pulled out of the squad for jim his friend they can sproule on sunday for personal reasons so they came on as a substitute in thursday's goldstraw with world champions france a day after his attitude was questioned by teammate toni kroos the manchester city player he starts to compress the dates of both of the months the fans make just as world cup squads german newspaper builds reported that his go fund is about to give . me remind you of our top story this hour here on d w germany's domestic intelligence chief is that pictures like this from the violence in chemists last week could be fake news. scale mohsen says he's an agency had no reliable evidence of the alleged chasing the farmers actually took place. in situ up to date of more of the top of the hour funding date on the website of course s d w dot com how good to.

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