series for africa. t w dot com africa. this is d w news coming to you live from berlin and they're calling it a monster storm the people in the southeast of the united states are bracing for the worst hurricane in six decades more than a million residents have been ordered to evacuate as the storm barrels towards a north carolina also coming up the european parliament is preparing to vote on whether to punish hungary for ignoring european values prime minister viktor orban

accuses the e.u. of blackness and you look at this across the sea of pride they're all rather what's left of it it's one of hundreds of others. behind. our reporter investigates why so many ships are abandoned in nigeria and why the government there allows hotel. well i'm terry martin thanks for joining us authorities in the southeastern united states are warning people to brace for devastation as hurricane florence heads towards them the governor of north carolina says it will be like nothing the state has ever seen before and he has urged people to follow orders to evacuate residents of coastal areas in south carolina and virginia are also being told to leave immediately the storm is expected to cause severe flooding when it makes landfall

on thursday. there scramble to prepare before the storm hits. off the carolina coast the skies are already beginning to darken. hurricane florence is expected to make landfall on thursday 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. the hurricane is massive eight hundred kilometers in diameter. this weather plane captured its size as it flew through the storm's eye. some one million people have now been ordered to evacuate coastal communities. most are taking the advice seriously.

they're boarding up their homes filling their tanks and emptying the supermarkets. very ominous and we we've been here for six years i have been through one this strong so you know safety first our family and just try and prepare the house as best as we can right now in a press conference us president donald trump stressed the importance of evacuating depending on where you are you have to listen and you have to get out if they want you to get out because it's going to be impossible to have people get in there whether it's law enforcement or team or anybody else once this thing hits it's going to be really really bad along the coast trump has faced criticism for his administration storm recovery efforts after a hurricane devastated the u.s. island of puerto rico one year ago leading to the death of nearly three thousand people. track forecast. so far evacuations seem to be running smoothly

police have reversed the flow of traffic on some highways so that all major roads lead away from the sea. it. is due to address parliament for the first time since lawmakers returned from their summer break and the recent unrest in kennett's is expected to figure prominently in her speech on tuesday finance minister all of shorts started the debate about the government's proposed budget that's traditionally the focus of the first meeting after the summer break but the session was overshadowed by the unrest triggered by the fatal stabbing of a man in kenya so allegedly silent seekers just over two weeks ago when this type president addressed the xenophobic bile and triggered by the stabbing. zina phobia hitless salutes nazi symbols attacks on jewish institutions they can be no leniency towards any of this it cannot be trivialized.

and our correspondent husband is with here in the studio to talk about what's coming up in that business talk to beta hans we heard the president of the bundestag there yesterday strongly condemning a neo nazi ism anti semitism are we expecting similarly strong remarks from chancellor merkel today is i think we can expect that indeed she has been unequivocal in the last few days about condemning these kind of excesses in the similar way that flow from show good did yesterday and she has said very clearly that there is no. reason there is no support for these kinds of excesses. statements. xenophobic attacks attacks on semitic on the anti-semitic attacks attacks on jewish institutions and so on she's been very clear about that there has been this dispute about whether or not at that time and came as two weeks ago they were. kind of hunting scenes to people being chased because

they were foreign looking and involved in that dispute was also the chief of the domestic intelligence service in germany and in fact he is also facing parliament later today a full voice in criticism that in fact contradicted. so it's a very tense situation and parliament today will really be a scene of this dispute again as we all know the chancellor's facing tough criticism over migration not least from the far right party the tea party being the largest party in parliament right now the f.t. will have the right of speaking first in today's debate ahead of the chancellor what can we expect well they're going to try and take this opportunity for them they see it as an opportunity of as they used to say giving chase to anglo-american always putting pressure on her and they have in fact been profiting from the set.

to ation the f.t. has become clear in its association with right wing politics in the last few days if the people and the politicians have joined such marches by nazi groups by radical right wing us and we can expect that they will launch of a further attack on under macko on the migration policy on government today it's not going to be very pleasant i think so they have the party of course being the largest opposition party in parliament so what do people here make of the way the uncle of machall has been handling the situation following the incidents in kenya it's an elsewhere over the last couple weeks what people make of it well german society is very deeply divided on this issue and has to say and in fact the most recent polls of voters have shown that the if he has profited from this they have he has become stronger in some polls that is stronger than the opposition then the

social democrats who are involved in government i get with uncle america in other words that become the second strongest party in some of the polls and i'm going to knock those conservatives sten to lose votes tend to lose support in the most recent polls it is a divided society they obviously one has to say the majority of germans if you look at all the other parties involved still support. policies or at least support and supporting migration about the f.t. certainly has profited from that and is feeling very much upbeat about the whole situation thank you so much for now did i bond here and of course will be carrying some of that bonus tied to bait for you live in in the next hour on the consul note here general michael and of course the opposition as well hans thanks for now. now 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 debating whether or not to sanction hungry for undermining the rule of law the government is accused of weakening the independence of the judiciary and eroding press freedom among other things you parliament is due to vote later today if two thirds of all makers agree they could strip hungry of its voting rights an unprecedented move in europe. the hungary and prime minister took the initiative he travelled to strasbourg to in his own words defend hungary make sure you let me don't a person after i have come here today because you're not going to contend just the government but a nation as well. you are going to denounce hungary that has been a member of the family of christian european nations for a thousand years. do you know it all for you. is the entire nation being condemned the majority of politicians don't believe so including the hungary and.

explained to nobody attacking hungary what peace. in the european parliament this is the critique of the politics of the cut and go home and she unlike poland already facing a new sanctions hungary has so far been spared european green m.e.p. youth it's not containing believes this is political videsh at the political party its member of the european people's party and they have friends in commission council and in parliament. german conservative any kind of a bar is in a difficult position he leads the european peoples party and takes a much softer stance on migration than the hardline. if you say generally that you have to be afraid of muslims and generally take a religion then you do the chop off that she had it's we have invented human rights and not christian rights. with even his own political allies wavering hungary's

premier of victoria or bonn is facing a tense wait for the vote in the european parliament. last night we spoke of correspondent max hall in strasbourg and i asked him which way the vote is likely to go today. it really depends if the e.p. the european peoples party which is a part of so on is 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.r. very dissatisfied with the path that the door bun 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. well let's catch up on some other stories making headlines around the world today officials in afghanistan say the number of people killed in tuesday's suicide attack in our province has risen to sixty eight and happened on the highway between the eastern city of jalalabad and the main border crossing into neighboring pakistan. the leaders of ethiopia and eritrea have reopened crossing points on their shared border for the first time in twenty years it comes after they signed an agreement in july to restore ties eighty thousand people were killed

in a two year war between the countries in the late one nine hundred ninety s. . a court in peru has handed a second life sentence to the founder of the shining path rebel group. guzman was found guilty of orchestrating a car bomb attack in lima in one thousand nine hundred ninety two twenty five people were killed and more than one hundred fifty others were injured. now to brazil where the workers' party has named a replacement candidate for october's presidential election taking over from the jailed ignacio lula da silva it folds to former mayor phenomenon to try to just log brazil's current right wing government the relatively unknown how dad was due to run as deputy but now he takes the reins from the ex president who reportedly made the decision from his jail cell look hopes a groundswell of support following his incarceration will carry to success so that

was brazil's first working class president and he remains very popular. every morning at nine o'clock it's the same routine loyal followers say good morning to the east and. 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 by 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 that people who work like i do don't support lula. he subsidizes families cooking gas and whatever else he's simply buying the poor equal that was published by barring luau from running as presidential candidate brazil's top electoral court has forced his party onto the back foot. still followers remain optimistic that the workers' party can still win. dismissed. the surveys show that president lula is capable of transferring votes to someone else. we're voting for even if the picture on the ballot shows fernandez. with elections just weeks away it looks like brazil's political crisis isn't going to end anytime soon. while the brazilian workers party's

new presidential candidate is not doing too well in the polls the latest survey shows how with only eight percent support the country's far right candidate. who you might remember was stabbed during a campaign rally last week while he leads the polls taking twenty six percent of first round votes in simulated runoff scenarios both was in a technical tie with all major rivals. now across to nigeria where navigating the waters of the nation's ports can be a perilous undertaking for a fisherman because of shipwrecks flying just below the surface. to lagos to meet some of the people affected by the maritime garbage and to find out why nigeria has become a dumping ground for disused ships. one of the largest and busiest ports in

africa where boats and ships space but over the years it has become a dangerous waterway look at this rusty ship right there or rather what's left of it is one of hundreds of other ships that left behind. nigeria has become a graveyard for ships from all parts of the world the legal way to get rid of them is to dismantle and recycle them but that costs money no one knows the exact number of ships to know what a water facts are felt more especially by fisherman. when we're working our nets get tangled in the metal below it damages and we can't fish until we replace the net. result almost and it's coastal communities thank you way to have already been hit hard by unemployment chief raymond gold is a community manager and the situation is untenable. when laws are enforced there

shouldn't be any kind of shipwreck on our waterways they should be removed immediately and are not strictly enforced people feel very free to do what is wrong so why in forest i asked david who for years has been trying to raise awareness of the problem but he's had little success. because you have huge amounts of money going into the budget of the regulate those and nobody seems to be doing anything about it. to have ships removed after a twenty day period to help save the environment. helps. to be broken it destroys our costs to make them more usable and pollution from oil spills chemicals and toxic substances that ships come with us but if you think governments. the owner sort of assholes nigeria's armada abandoned chips will just

continue to grow. let's say look at some european football the champions league and the europa league are the only two continental club competitions in european football but starting in two thousand and twenty one there could be a third tier tournaments european club association chairman andrea told members meeting in croatia that the main aim of the new event would be to reduce the number of teams in the europa league from forty eight to thirty two that would be the same number as in the champions league and in the yet to be named new competition. in formula one former world champion kenny right can and will leave ferrari at the end of the season he will move to where ferrari will get twenty year old driver charles. this marks the end of reichen in second spell with ferrari the finn became world champion with the italian team in two thousand and seven this is the

sixteenth season for the thirty eight year old and he's currently right third in the driver's stand. why is the dollars still the currency of choice for world trade and not the euro the e.u. would like to change that right on it exactly especially european commission president. he wants. a bigger role for the euro he's expected to call for the e.u. to do was to promote the euro as a global currency in a speech today that way the blocks currency can challenge the u.s. dollar is concerned about the pricing of energy imports in dollars you can believe that prizing in your rose could be possible only norway's energy exports to the block are priced in europe russia the gulf states price this in dollars so european bias have to take into account the exchange rate between the euro and the greenback . germany's auto association the

a da c. and a consumer group bringing folks to court they want compensation for two million v.w. owners of diesel cars that are not as and barra mentally friendly as the company claimed at the time off sale now this follows shortly after a test case brought by the institutional investors opened this week and they're 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 to v.w. says oh hard to drag his feet when it came to public pronouncements e.w. faces a total damages bill of over nine billion euros if it loses the case. well this week marks ten years since the lehman brothers collapsed an event of course that triggered to the global financial crisis and the impact could also be felt in

asia where the gap between rich and poor deep tartus to china indonesia india and laos whereas in vietnam and bangladesh inequality is less of a problem today also thanks to the action taken by one social entrepreneur. there this is a school in a poor neighborhood of. here children from underprivileged families have an opportunity to get an education. you or anyone know what lay has an op ed found at the school he gave up his career as a corporate executive to establish brock in one nine hundred seventy two it's now one of the world's largest non-governmental development organizations it operates throughout bangladesh and in ten other countries in asia and africa it's a stoppage tens of thousands of schools launch community based health care programs especially for mothers and young children and provides micro credit so women can

start their own businesses it's to get people from poverty a different angle not just improving in the government employment but also improving you know unities so that they can. have access to education access to healthcare and access to a more dignified like that's what we want. in the newly industrialized countries of asia the gap between rich and poor is vast and growing according to the asian development bank the income of highly skilled and educated workers has been rising while the last of the low skilled has been declining. in indonesia wealth inequality is particularly extreme class and education are key factors but also gender a study by oxfam fan that women's wages across asia are between seventy and ninety percent of men. and for more on the topic i'm joined by your claim a chief economist at commands good to have you with us so why do you think

inequality is such a big problem in a burgeoning economies especially since the global financial crisis. well i don't think that income inequality has significantly increased over the past ten years look at china for example sure the level of inequality in china is huge much higher than in the united states for example but over that over the past ten years the income level has increased a lot and we have seen the emergence of a middle class in china and these are arguments for for a decline in income inequality and also globally you can clearly see that income inequality on a global level has declined due to the emergence of asia ok so if inequality isn't the biggest problem since the global financial crisis we suddenly see that emerging market currencies have come on that you know miss russia do you think

there's a connection between the financial crisis. i think the main reason for the for the current problem of emerging market currencies the main reason the whole made think off turkey for example is that the president prevented its central banks by citing the high level of inflation via high interest rates and this is a homemade problem but to some degree the financial crisis of the past of ten years ago also played a role because the fed the e.c.b. all these western central banks reacted to the to the financial crisis by implementing a very loose monetary policy by cutting their interest rates to zero and then western investors could no longer be using their interest in their countries moved their funds to the emerging market and contrie butyrate to an increase in private debt which is partly also

a problem effect to explain the weakness in their currencies whereas i think the main factor ok. we have about thirty seconds left some top economist among them robert shiller nobel prize when the u.s. fed chief ben bernanke they warned that the next financial crisis is just around the corner do you agree. there's a risk especially when you think of the c.p.b. courses loose monetary policy can be fewer new bubbles in the future not in the next to two three years but on a five year perspective ibori ok your claim of the chief economist at command thank you so much. it was a good overview news coming to life from a berlin wall coming up at the top of the hour in the meantime you can get all the latest news and information on our website that's the docking dot com thanks for joining.

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