this is. from berlin tonight a warning to the world not to forget its responsibility in syria as thousands begin fleeing ahead of what could be the final battle in syria's civil war more than thirty thousand people have already fled but for escape is not an option we meet a teenager who has already been displaced by the war to a refugee camp in syria's last rebel stronghold also coming up hungary's viktor orban rejects a european union report accusing him of undermining democracy as the european

parliament debates stripping his country of its voting rights and hurricane florence on a collision course with the east coast of the united states presidents from virginia to south carolina are moving inland bracing for the wrath of a category four storm. and the state of the world economy ten years after the collapse of lehman brothers every learned our lesson analysts say corporate debt has doubled and the wrists are growing as the era of cheap money drawls to a close. it's good to have you with us tonight the turkey is calling on the world to wake up to what is about to happen in syria in the u.s. newspaper the wall street journal turkish. president richard tell you

a better one today writes that the entire world stands to pay the price of an assault on syria is it live province and he adds that the consequences of inaction will be immense present to one's morning comes as tens of thousands of people flee it live to escape the syrian and russian forces preparing to take the final rebel stronghold the u.n. says that scores of people have already been killed more than thirty thousand displaced in northwest syria last week alone many fear that the assad government will deploy chemical weapons in an all out assault. well many of the people fleeing the it lib offensive are heading north towards the border with turkey the w.'s daniel has there visited a refugee camp there where he met a boy who was orphaned when a barrel bog hit his home when he's only fourteen but omar hussein alo already knows what suffering is three years ago he

fled to this refugee camp in northern italy and disabled traumatized and off and here he found safety he now sells food and drinks from this tent and i'm just i work a day and night and managed to earn about a euro a day it's just enough to survive. not a mouse family home was hit by a barrel bomb in his hometown of hama the blast killed his parents and left him badly wounded. not go mother will have a helicopter bowman's our house people had warned us about the air raids we were taken to hospital two weeks later i woke up and had the feeling something was missing he comes that he. has say. then i fell out of bed and i couldn't get back up that my leg had been amputated. but that closed door.

remained in hospital for three months and gradually learned to walk with crutches his body is covered in scars and he's racked with pain he's blind in one eye. incredibly his youngest sister bushra survived the blast uninjured they flipped it lived together she had been a model student but school stopped after the bombs fell. i hope i can go back to school one day but it will be difficult i can't leave my brother alone in the tent . eight hundred families live at the camp on the syrian turkish border among them are hundreds of children only basic necessities are available here there's no real education and hardly any medical supplies hope faded long ago it's been replaced

by worry of what's to come. we've noticed the air raids have started up again there's a lot of fear in the camp especially among women and children everyone is scared no one knows where to go we already fled the bombs once and that was to hear. omar and bushra hussein alo don't want to flee again the border to turkey seems impossible and heading to a part of syria under government control is out of the question. i don't know where to go but of course i'd like to leave syria for better care. dreams of a better life he hopes he'll one day get a prosthetic leg and drugs to ease his pain but he is such relief is unlikely. you know. that's where germany's government says it's talking about we're talking

with allies about deploying german forces to syria if the assad regime uses chemical weapons to attack it that washington in berlin have reportedly discussed using german jets to drop bombs on syria the german air force is already carrying out refueling and reconnaissance missions over syria and iraq chancer are going to merkel's coalition partners the social democrats say they will not back any german military involvement its. own my colleague in our political correspondent christopher spring joins me now here in berlin good evening to you christopher so have chemical weapons if they are used in syria in adlib province what could possibly justify germany's decision not to participate in any military response. well that's a political question and it's up to the politicians to to decide what answer they find to that let me just to bring you up to speed with some of the options that are

being looked at within the german defense ministry reconnaissance flights are an option they of course are happening already so certainly a viable option then there's something called battle damage assessment flights they might be another way that germany can assist its allies if there were to be some form of retaliation against. chemical weapons the use of chemical weapons in syria and most controversially the use of bombing raids german tornado jets getting involved with bombing raids over syria. but having said this the german government hasn't taken a decision yet. as to whether it will take part or not. but it is looking at these options it is examining fairly seriously the request for help from a major ally in. this deployment it would be

a significant departure from germany's so far when it comes to the top of military conflict it is causing divisions within i'm going to miracles government isn't it. and that's the reason there's no clear cut answer as to how germany is going to react if it comes to chemical the use of chemical weapons in syria you've got very stark divisions even within the ruling coalition you have very influential voices within chancellor merkel's conservative saying. we cannot leave this kind of war crime at the same time you have the leader of the social democrats the social center left social democrats who of course are a partner in the ruling coalition under a analysis saying this social democrats. the social democrats will not agree either in parliament or in the government to germany's participation in the war in syria so very very stark divisions and christopher help whitely is it that the chancellor

will go ahead without the support of these social democrats and say yes to produce a patient in a military operation. looking at things from the perspective of today i think it's quite unlikely for chancellor merkel to ride roughshod if you want. the very clear opposition from coalition partners and ran on this opposition this was formulated in such a categoric way that it really chancellor merkel would take nor that it would threaten the survival again of her already fractious governing coalition. christopher's brigade on the story for us tonight here in berlin christopher thank you you're welcome. here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the united states is marking the seventeenth anniversary of the september eleventh attacks in which nearly three thousand people lost their lives ceremonies were held at the three sites targeted by islamist terrorists

including this one and it's the world trade center in new york city the people of ghana are paying their final respects to former u.n. secretary general kofi annan on his coffin is lying in state in the capital the nobel peace laureate who grew up in guyana will be given a state funeral on thursday he died in switzerland the last month at the age of eighty around a million people have taken to the streets of barcelona to demand cattle on independence from spain to protest his time to mark catalonia as national day protesters are also calling for regional separatist leaders to be freed from prison they're currently awaiting trial for their part in catalonia has failed bid to break away from madrid last year. with tonight hungary's prime minister viktor orban is accusing the european union of trying to blackmail his country over its treatment of migrants the european parliament is debating whether or not just

saying hungary for what it calls the erosion of the rule of law if two thirds of lawmakers agree they could strip hungary of its voting rights that would be an unprecedented move here in. the hunt area and prime minister took the initiative he travelled to strasbourg to in his own words defend hungary make sure you don't a person may have. come here today because you're not going to contend just the government but a nation as well. you are going to denounce hungry has been a member of the family of christian european nations for a thousand years get a fifteen year old girl for uni. it is the entire nation being condemned the majority of politicians don't believe so including the hungry and we will explain that is nobody attacking hungary but he's head in the european parliament this is the critique of the politics of the current government she unlike poland already

facing a new sanctions hungary has so far been spared european green m.e.p. units are contained believes this is political videsh at the victor organs political party is member of the european people's party and they have friends in commission council and in parliament first time european parliament german conservative m.e.p. manfred vega leads the european peoples party if we say generally that you have to be afraid about muslims and generally take a religion then you do the chop of the cio it is we have invented human rights and not christian rights on this front with even his own political allies wavering hungary's premier victor or banas facing a tense wait for the vote in the european parliament. or earlier we spoke with correspondent max hoffman we asked him which way to morrow's vote is likely to go.

it really depends if the e.p. the european people's party which is a part of so to or go on as a member of the party makes its members stick to a certain party line in this case it would be against article seven and it's going to be hard to get the two thirds majority now we don't expect that to happen actually just a reminder e.p. p. is kingmaker here and we expect this evening that the members of the e.p. are given free hand to vote any way they want so according to their conscience if that happens then because it is in trouble because many members of the e p p are very dissatisfied with the path that the orbán has taken they feel like he's not representing the values not only of the european union but especially of the european peoples party and so we expect many of those politicians to vote for triggering article seven so in this case against hungry and so that's why our sources here believe that the two thirds majority will actually happen tomorrow and

that article seven will be triggered on wednesday no guarantees but it seems more likely than not that was reporting from the european parliament in france brazil's workers party have named a replacement candidate for october's presidential election to take over from the jailed ignacio lula da silva it falls to the former mayor fernando a dungeon he will try to dislodge brazil's current government the relatively unknown who dodgy was due to run as a deputy but now takes the reins from the ex-president who reportedly made the decision from his prison cell. hopes a groundswell of support following his incarceration will carry dodgy success lou was brazil's first working class president he remains very popular.

every morning at nine o'clock it's the same routine loyal followers say good morning to luis a nazi only allowed to selma. they've been turning up here for the past five months convinced the former president has been wrongly imprisoned they say it's all part of a political plan. the judiciary and the parliament have carried out a coup against brazil they removed president dilma rousseff from office who had been legitimately elected with fifty four million votes. their goal wasn't only to remove her but also to keep president lula away from these elections bytes the other twenty campers share this conviction they take turns at the vigil here at camp outside the prison where the former president is being held ironically it's a prison lula himself inaugurated eleven years ago he probably never thought that one day he would end up here in

a fifteen square meter cell on the fourth floor. lula has many supporters in brazil but he also has many critics like in the city of cody tiba just a few minutes away from the prison. many here see him as a danger to the country. is popular because he and his party act like populists. it's all based on promises that he never fulfilled when he was a politician but what were you to. brazil is deeply divided politically and socially. it started when the middle class that traditionally supported lula's workers' party became increasingly disillusioned with his leadership. this research get that balance people. who work like i do don't support lula. he subsidized his family's cooking gas and whatever

else he simply buying the poor equal that was bobby's by boring lou not from running as presidential candidate brazil's top electoral court has forced his party onto the back foot still lose followers remain optimistic that the workers' party can still win. dismissed. this survey show that president lula is capable of transferring votes to someone else. you know. we're voting for a little even if the picture on the ballot shows fernandez. fault. with elections just weeks away it looks like brazil's political crisis isn't going to end anytime soon. oh well you're watching t w news live from berlin still to come hurricane florence is speeding towards the east coast of the united states and authorities are warning it's going to hit the region head on

. big headaches for folks there but first we're going to talk about business with bends what been ten years since the collapse of lehman brothers have we learned our lesson ten years this weekend and some people say we have learned a lesson that nothing at all has changed others would argue things are looking up if you take a look at the for example corporate profits they are on the rise wall street is celebrating one record after the next but is the but growth has been fueled by low interest rates and they're staying live the man that. those low interest rates of course a prompted a lot of companies to go into debt on a massive scale. tesla is ten billion dollars in debt. net flix eight billion dollars. how pumped lloyd germany's leading shipping company is seven billion dollars in the red these are just three examples of loose lending

never before have companies worldwide had such easy access to money as in recent years. according to a study by the mckinsey management consultancy worldwide corporate debt has increased to sixty six trillion dollars almost double what it was at the start of the financial crisis ten anshul institutions and economies get back on their feet. the us federal reserve looks set to raise its key interest rate again the european central bank on the other hand is not ready to take that risk in fact the e.c.b. is still in crisis mode with its zero interest rate policy loan still cost virtually nothing some fear of the accumulated corporate debt could trigger the next global financial crisis. all the money that was borrowed has to be paid back if interest rates go up repayment will be more expensive and may have to be countered financed with new jet if that gets compounded by an economic downturn

many companies could find themselves in a tight spot. i was when your correspondence official matzke sophy what's with wall street ten years on since the lehman brothers collapse has anything changed in your opinion. oh man i would say something had changed the banks might give a more stable from experts say but there are other problems as we just heard copper that is at a record high and that american couple rationed are exposed to higher costs and they would have to refine unfair dad and on top of that higher interest rates might also keep consumers from taking on too much debt and this could mean their faithful cooperation but. talking in general about how markets are affected all in all people here behind me on the trading floor do not really bother to look back to this crisis most of investors it seems to me are caught up in the moment and right now thoughts are performing really was so they do not move back neither too far

ahead by the way as there are warning primes indicating the economy could be a downturn and the stock market a pullback or price to ten percent let me at the floor traders did look back today to this day in two thousand and one back to nine eleven and so i think i'm twenty in the morning there so if the minutes are fine and to honor the victims and their family i think that's ok i'm glad to mention the consumers there as well as the corporations because i bet there are a lot of mortgage holders who will be in for nothing surprised if those interest rates suddenly bump up they can start to. think germany thought it was the asian a.b.c. is planning to bring fox fogging to call it it wants compensation for two million owners of diesels that aren't as environmentally friendly as the company claimed the news came a day after the opening of a test case brought by institutional investors seeking compensation for losses in v.w. share price in the days after the emissions cheating scandal broke during proceedings

on tuesday the presiding judge said v.w. c.e.o. had dragged his feet when it came to public pronouncements comical faces a total damages bill of a nine billion euros if it loses the case. and ryanair is canceling one hundred fifty flights in and out of germany tomorrow as pilots and flight attendants plan a one day strike it's the latest in a string of walkouts which of affected tens of thousands of passengers across europe this summer the airline stuff a demanding better conditions and higher wages ryanair which only recently recognised unions as condemned the latest industrial action saying the walkouts could lead to job cuts in the job and market this winter. that sounds like a threat fact brant jeff ashton says this week russia later actually rides van russia has begun its biggest military exercises since the end of the cold war hundreds of thousands of russian troops have been joined in eastern siberia by

soldiers from china and mongolia nato says the exercises show that russia is preparing for a large scale conflict. military equipment from all over the country deploys for the largest rail since the fall of the soviet union a demonstration of military strength the likes of which has never been seen before in the russian federation according to the defense ministry three hundred thousand soldiers are involved that's a third of the country's troops thirty six thousand military vehicles and tanks are reported to be taking part as russia tries out its latest technology and for the first time china is joining the war games until now only very close allies such as bell arutz have been allowed to participate in a small contingent from mongolia is also involved. as the drills got underway russian president vladimir putin greeted his chinese counterpart the cheating playing at the economic forum in flight of on stock the two countries are closer

now than at any other time in their history to you to western sanctions russia is looking to deepen its economic ties with china no other leader has met putin more often than she only three thousand chinese soldiers are involved in the joint exercise a tiny minority but the message this sends is significant even if russia and china are at odds on some foreign policy issues such as crimea or eastern ukraine militarily at least they're moving closer together. space for a look at this hurricane florence the storm speeding towards the east coast of the united states and as you can see it is a big one currently a category four hurricane florence is bringing winds of more than two hundred fifteen kilometers per hour authorities have warned that it will hit americans that land to coast head on causing power outages flooding and potential loss of life more than a million people in virginia north and south carolina have been told to leave for

safety. a foretaste of hurricane florence docklands the skies off the carolina coast the main storm is expected to make landfall with torrential rains and winds of more than two hundred kilometers per hour. we are planning for devastation this is not a storm this is not a glancing blow this is a category four category five storm whether you think you're in a safe building if it's not a famous you know sort of. hurricane shelter i would encourage you to evacuate. some one million people have now been ordered to evacuate coastal communities most are taking the advice seriously protecting property emptying supermarkets. and filling that tanks. cars.

florence is growing in strength and is expected to hit land sometime late on thursday night at the same time as carolinas authorities urged people to be prepared as the hurricane approaches planning for the aftermath has already begun. get ready for florence. the president. for a federal disaster declaration so that. resources can come quickly. police have reversed the flow of traffic on some highways so that all major roads lead away from the sea florence the most severe hurrican to threaten the u.s. mainland this year will better the coast with massive waves and storm surges but will also send heavy rain and damaging winds far inland. well here's a reminder of those top stories that we're following for you turkey's president erda one is warning that the entire world stands to pay the price for an attack on

syria is it live province tens of thousands have fled as syrian and russian forces prepare to take the problem. you're watching news of live from berlin i'll be back after a short break to take you through the day stick around for the. money

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