this is d w news live from berlin taking a stand against rightwing extremism on the american condemns the violence of recent demonstrations against migrants in eastern germany and says there can be no justification for hatred towards people who look different the far right opposition accuses her of ignoring the concerns of its supporters you can also coming up an urgent call for unity the president of the e.u. commission says the e.u. must improve its ability to speak with one voice or risk being undermined by other countries. 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 the carolinas and virginia. and a dumping ground for maritime garbage. look at this rusty ship right there old brother what's left of it is one of hundreds of other ships that we had left behind . our reporter investigates why so many ships are abandoned in nigeria and why the government allows it to happen. i'm sorry so much good to have you with us chancellor angela merkel said there was no excuse for using nazi slogans and attacks on minorities in german society she was addressing parliament two weeks after demonstrations against migrants by right we extremists turned violent in eastern germany the larger. opposition party the

far right a.s.d. accused tackle of ignoring the concerns of people worried about migration one member of the government accused of using fascist language. as angela merkel arrived in parliament today it was already clear that this wouldn't be a normal address to the bundestag at the forefront was the recent far right violence in eastern germany she started her speech with a strong call for a common togetherness against exclusion and incitement it's good. there's no excuse and justification for incitement partially use of violence to nazi hatred hostility towards people who look different in a jewish restaurant attacks on police and conceptual arguments about whether it's hate or hunts really don't help us. if they think it's. the largest opposition party in the bundestag the far right alternative for germany

a.f.d. has drawn its own conclusions blaming foreigners a migrants for germany's problems. when this goes to chancellor merkel you have nothing more to offer this country and its citizens except stubbornness arrogance and insults you are barricading yourself in the chancellery further away from reality i repeat my question who in danger is here in a piece of this country not us. as emotions reach boiling point some politicians weren't about to allow hate in parliament prompting comparisons to nazi germany. and the migrants are to blame for everything that is there's been a similar addiction in this house before and i think it's time for the democrats in this country to oppose this kind of rhetorical armaments which in the end leads to a disk in. the result of which is. violence in the streets. it's hard for

democracy to stand up against these people mr president. live the dispute over the basic values of german democracy and in the center of it all the german chancellor and her mind gratian policy. while our chief political editor michelle ok snow has been following today's events at the bundestag for us hi michelle and this was supposed to be a debate about the budget what was it actually about. well there was very little time that was indeed spent about the budget it really was in the end about the far right if tea party as we just heard there trying to make this about the migration course about four against migration and at the same time a very stern message from pretty much all other parties that they feel that this is about the very essence of democracy in germany where the whether you are for or against democracy whether you for you are for or against the rule of law here and

there was a clear message that if you find yourself standing next to somebody who makes a hit the salute in the demonstration you are more than just touched with this kind of symbolism which of course is a crime here in germany so it was about everything but the budgets of me and michelle of this controversy surrounding those demonstrations in cannes that's how has that damaged the chancellor of standing. well it certainly haunts and this has damaged her own position even within her own government the opening sentence almost of the far right if tea party leader alexander garland was a quote from going to michael's own interior minister called migration the mother of all political problems so clearly there's a sense that on that issue they feel they have an ally there and what almost gets lost in all of this is that this is supposed to be about what the future holds what future policies there are and there we heard from the german chancellor almost buried in her speech today that that admission that there were mistakes made in the

migration crisis particularly not supporting the regions around iraq and syria stopping people from coming and that yet another crisis could be looming unless the german government and the europe as a whole makes africa a priority so these are the this is the big overarching issue but a lot of that gets drowned out by the noise over the current migration policy particularly the far right if you show it we should say the other big topic on the agenda today is the head of germany's domestic intelligence service and he is under a lot of pressure remind us why he's under fire and what is facing him today. well the opposition clearly sees him as trying to act against the german chancellor this is seen by some as an attempt to bring her down potentially together with interior minister horsy office a speculation here is rife about this after mass and questioned whether there were

indeed hunts in the street these hunting scenes that were quoted by the german chancellor self also questioning whether a video that was used as evidence and still being used as criminal evidence was in fact real footage now he doesn't seem to be producing anything to the contrary so he's not really backing up his findings from what we've learned so far he will face some questioning here both from the interior committee of the german born a stark and also the committee which talks about the secret service here so these are very decisive hours about what the future will hold for him and what the future holds for relations between of america and her own interior minister all right our chief political editor michelle the bundestag for us thank you. authorities in the southeastern u.s. are warning people to brace for devastation as hurricane florence heads towards the region they're calling the storm a monster the governor of north carolina says it will be like nothing the state has

ever seen before new york's people to follow orders to evacuate residents of coastal areas in south carolina and virginia are also being told to leave immediately. i think never see if they're. in a rhythm. or a scramble to prepare before the storm hits. hurricane florence is expected to make landfall on thursday with a rental rains and winds of more than two hundred kilometers per hour. we are playing for devastation this is not a i like storm this is not a glancing blow this is a category four category five storm or hurricane is massive eight hundred kilometers in diameter this where the plane counter that size as it flew through the storm is i. some one million people have now been ordered to evacuate coastal communities. most of

taking the advice seriously boarding up their homes. filling their tanks and emptying supermarkets. it looks very ominous and we have we've been here for six years been through one this strong. you know safety first our family and just try and prepare the house as best as we can right now u.s. president donald trump stressed the importance of evacuating the pentagon 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 steam 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's storm recovery efforts after a hurricane devastated the u.s. island of puerto rico one year ago leading to the deaths of nearly three thousand people. 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. let's catch up on some other stories making headlines around the world russia's president vladimir putin says russia has identified the two men suspected of poisoning a former spy and his daughter in england he says they are civilians and there was quote nothing criminal there u.k. security forces had named them as russian intelligence officers. officials in afghanistan say the number of people killed in tuesday's suicide attack in the province has risen to sixty eight it 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 the 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. . and his last major speech before leaving office next year european commission president jiang or has urged europe to become more of a global player given his state of the union address the european parliament in strasbourg called for stronger external borders and a shared approach to tackling migration he pledged to ensure an orderly exit for britain he also proposed measures to crackdown on terrorism and election meddling and urged member states to resist nationalist tendencies. with the e.u. facing some major challenges ahead of the bloc was strongest when it acted together . so. giving in focus when we are united we are a force to be reckoned with something you cannot avoid. so i don't think we've.

some in europe were happy with the agreement i reached as president trump. or some were surprised. they shouldn't be surprised whenever europe speaks as one we can impose our positions on others. so it was that was. well one issue where the e.u. is less than united it is hungary lawmakers are set to vote today on whether to punish the rightwing government in budapest for undermining e.u. values its two thirds vote yes then hungary could be stripped of its voting rights and i'm president of move but the outcome of the vote depends on the center right european people's party and they are divided. the hungary and prime minister took the initiative he travelled to strasbourg to in his own words defend hungary let me show you that we don't a person have i have come here today because you are not going to condemn just the

government but a nation as well. you are going to denounce hungary has been a member of the family of christian european nations for a thousand years better for you know it all for you me. it is the entire nation being condemned the majority of politicians don't believe so including the hungary and really explained to nobody attacking hungary what is head in the european parliament this is the critique of the politics of the current government she unlike poland already facing east sanctions hungary has so far been spared european green and containing believes this is political videsh the political party is member of the european peoples party and they have friends in commission council and in parliament. german conservative m.e.p. manfred 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 or abandon the country if the so you generally but you have to be afraid about muslims and generally take a religion then you do the job of the cio just we have invented human rights and christian rights. with even his own political allies wavering hungary's premier of victoria or bonus facing a tense wait for the vote in the european parliament. to brazil now where the workers' party is named a replacement candidate for october's presidential election taking over from the jailed ignacio lula da silva it's also former mayor fernando haidar to try to dislodge brazil's current rightwing government they're relatively unknown her dad was due to run as a deputy but now he takes the reins from the ex-president who reportedly made the decision from his jail cell. hopes a groundswell of support following is incarceration will carry had to success 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 luis and asio landa silva. 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. to do 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 lawyers do all . 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 the. people who work like i do don't support lula. the will vote on the he subsidizes families cooking gas and whatever else he's simply buying the poor equal that was published by barring loon off from running as presidential candidate brazil's top electoral court has forced his party onto the back foot still lula's followers remain optimistic that the workers' party can still win. this one was to kill the surveys show that president lula is capable of transferring votes to someone else or you lost the most. we're voting for lula even if the picture on the ballot shows fernando had. a series of. with elections just weeks away it looks like brazil's political crisis isn't going to end anytime soon.

now to nigeria or navigating the waters of the nation's ports can be a perilous undertaking for a fisherman because of shipwrecks lying just below the surface. went 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 for space but over the years it has become dangerous waterway look at this rusty ship right there or rather what's left of it is one of hundreds of other ships that were 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 the king the water facts are felt more especially by fisherman.

when we're working our nets get tangled in the metal below. and we can't fish until we replace the net. result almost 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. are not strictly enforced people feel very free to do what is wrong so why all those laws enforced i asked david who for years has been trying to raise awareness of the problem but he's had little success. corruption because yearly we have huge amounts of money going into the budget of the regulators and nobody seems to be doing anything about it he demands a lawyer to have ships removed after

a twenty day notice period to help save the environment. helps. break allows the sun dunes to be broken it destroys our coasts make them more usable and above all pollution from oil spills chemicals and talk substances the ships come with but into the government's course accusing the owner sort of assholes nigeria's armada of abandoned chips will just continue to grow. right now just a quick roundup of results from the new european football format the us five nations league several heavyweights were in action on tuesday spain thrashed world cup finals croatia six nil while world cup semifinals belgium backing away when iceland bosnia-herzegovina managed to beat austria with a solitary goal at home and luxembourg put three past san marino in a dominant performance. right monica is here with business news and news one about

the number one financial hub and it's no longer london i can tell you that much to me because new york is now the world's most attractive financial center that is according to the latest xavier and financial centers index the rankings are based on infrastructure and access to professional stuff london is now second to new york the united kingdom's decision to leave the e.u. has made the british capital less attractive its access to the european single market post brics it remains uncertain so several major financial institutions are moving jobs from london to other cities in europe including amsterdam and front foot. and that's where we're headed to because that is germany's financial hub and god is standing by for us there come up how is this shift from london to new york how is this tangible way you are. in many different ways

monica for example if a company here in frankfurt has to go to court it can do so more and more in english the legal authorities have increased their capacities to deal with legal matters in the english language of course in particular when it comes to cases that have to do with financial matters trade matters cetera also when you corporate bonds issue the companies try to make sure that more and more companies try to make sure that the the jurisdiction that governs those bonds can eventually be switched from english law to european country mental all this of course is meant to make sure that those corporate bonds can be traded on the european bond markets only or also when we get a no deal breck's it and last but not least on the cup people who live in frankfurt or in the right mind area here get to feel all this on the real estate market of

course prices have increased so much also because of the speculation with breaks it right conrad and just just very very briefly because a lot of changes happen in european commission president. today said he wants a bigger role for the euro equal to the u.s. dollar what are the chances well at least i can tell you that the euro is making some and it's gaining you know traction in the race with the dollar during the last three years the euro in international financial transactions has gained a market share of thirty four percent that's up from twenty five percent a couple of years ago right on a dozen in frankfurt thank you so much. well this week marks of course ten years since the collapse of lehman brothers an event that triggered to the global financial crisis the impact could also be felt in asia already struggling with inequality especially in countries such as indonesia and india bangladesh however

managed to narrow the gap between rich and poor also thanks to the action taken by one social entrepreneur. there this is a school in a poor neighborhood of data here children from underprivileged families have an opportunity to get an education. you aren't going to 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 extricate people from poverty a different angle not just improving in the government employment but also

improving you know committees so that they can. have access to education access to healthcare and access to a more dignified like that for people. 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 boss 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 found that women's wages across asia are between seventy and ninety percent of men. w. someone we took us back to our rich is at the summit currently underway in vietnam and there she caught up with forma indonesian finance minister mohammad. to ask him about rising inequality and how this problem could be tackled. well finance

minister of course. fiscal policy. in order to make sure. that you know. because we have to have enough money for that but the second one is also. the thing about the social spending. let me give an example on the. issue. we need to make sure the one who get a benefit will be the people let me give an example of the. fuel subsidy but in fact the one benefit. and not the poor. giving a subsidy you know like the fuel subsidy it's. very

important. to poor people and also to our. income by providing equal opportunity for the people like spending on education and also in health thank you very much thank you for that interview. and he is a reminder of the top story we're following for you. there is no excuse for expressions of hate. in response to crimes committed by. the opposition. coming up at the top of the.

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