sixty eight. this week. this is w. news live from berlin two powerful storms on opposite sides of the world millions in the path of danger and the united states hurricane florence begins lashing these coast the slow moving storm poses a lethal threat pounding the region with rain and storm surges and a super typhoon roars towards the northern philippines mass evacuations are

underway in coastal problems and there's. also coming up a worldwide push to eradicate extreme poverty fall short g w reports from nigeria where the number of people living on less than two dollars a day is on the rhine. plus he wanted to help his family leave the war in syria d.w. goes to the prison where hakim and is now serving seven years on charges of terrorism the two thousand. thanks for joining us i'm mary and i haven't seen. the outer edges of hurricane florence have reached the u.s. east coast lasting coastal towns in the states of north and south carolina with strong winds and heavy rain the hulking storm has weakened to a category one hurricane with maximum sustained winds at one hundred fifty

kilometers per hour but it's florence's size that has forecasters worried at it as it slowly pushes inland where than six hundred kilometers across it could linger for days and dump about a meter of rain and vast areas and with the storm yet to even make landfall the region is already seeing signs of the flooding promise to come. to the north carolina coastline was first to feel the impact of hurricane florence . passed the storm placed in its leading edge sent sea water searching through residential areas. tens of thousands are already without power will start predicting lethal conditions to come the worst of the storm is not yet here but these are the early warning of the days to call. surviving this storm will

be attached during team work comments. some one point seven million people have been warned to evacuate in north carolina and virginia authorities remaining residents not to be food by news that winds was slowing as the storm approached and its huge size and slow pace mean potentially days of torrential rain ahead. the biggest concern right now is the risk of flooding because florence is a huge storm and it's slowing down and it's expected to stall as soon as it really properly hits land hits the u.s. coast meaning that it will dump its entire weight of water. and the agency response teams are bracing for deadly storm surges and catastrophic flooding. some ten million people every in florence's path. a major storm is also

imminent in the philippines evacuations are under way ahead of super typhoon monkhood which is set to make landfall on saturday the philippines weather bureau says the storm is nine hundred kilometers wide and is packing maximum sustained winds of well over two hundred kilometers per hour more than four million people live in its path. this satellite image leaves no room for doubt the super typhoon is packing a punch and it's heading straight for the northern philippines. coote typhoon looks set to be the most powerful of this year's pacific storm season if its path doesn't change it will make landfall in the northeastern province of. wealth already use of a huge storm warnings across dozens of provinces in the north of the philippines more than four million people live in regions at risk from the storm some eight hundred thousand have been evacuated from their homes in areas most likely to be hit by heavy rains and winds of up to two hundred fifty kilometers an hour. i'm

scared because they said this is a very powerful typhoon more powerful than the recent monsoon rains that's why we're frightened. that. guy on province is a major rice and corn producing region and harvest season is just about to begin so typhoon could hardly have come at a worse time. and now to some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. president donald trump has disputed puerto rico's new official death toll from last september's hurricanes tweeted that democrats inflated the number to make him look bad last month authorities there raise the toll from sixty five to nearly three thousand based on a computer analysis of the death rate after the storms. an eighteen year old man has been killed by falling debris amid a series of gas explosions in the u.s. state of massachusetts dozens of blazes broke out in several towns north of boston

injuring at least ten other people hundreds were evacuated from their homes investigators suspected over pressurized pipeline was to blame. now here in germany a dispute over the country's intelligence chief is straining the country's governing coalition germany's chancellor and key party leaders have held a crisis meeting aimed at resolving the fate of hans georg mohsen on the americans coalition partners the social democrats want him to resign following controversial comments he made about recent far right protests in the city of chemists. could the president of germany's domestic intelligence agency bring down the government that's what the papers were asking social democrats a conservative had scaled must and must go if they could quit governing coalition of those but so anyone at the head of a security institution of our country has to be absolutely trustworthy it's obvious

that this trust no longer exists so there must be consequences. musson is accused of improperly passing on sensitive information to germany's far right populist party the f.t. and the f.t. member told german media the data was contained in an unreleased government report . and we spoke with mr martin about the report it wasn't available in printed form yet we talked about various numbers and figures such as right wing extremism left wing extremism and islamist threats. critics point to other instances where they say mass and has favored the far right or been less than forthright about past conversations but for the time being his conservative boss interior minister horst say hoffa has backed the secret service had. this oh. god like to tell you that mr marson has my confidence as head of the office of the protection of the constitution of. say s.p.d.

chairwoman met for crisis talks with nicole on thursday but in the end it was only announced that talks will continue next tuesday perhaps giving masson time to decide to step down. well for more on this story let's bring in political correspondent. hello to you so just how serious is this crisis for chancellor merkel's government. well once again chancellor merkel is caught between the part of those who with whom she is forced to govern on the one hand the social democrats who have escalated this crisis by demanding an absolute in absolute terms of the firing of the chief of the domestic intelligence service on the other hand is her very own sister party from. the so-called see as you their leader is the interior minister holds the whole for the over the interior minister is the direct boss of the intelligence chief he has said his roof so far that he supports the

intelligence chiefs he sees no reason to fire him so if i'm going to michael once and force the firing of the intelligence chief she would have full force she would have to fire her interior minister that seems very unlikely to happen but it puts her in a very difficult situation on the other hand the social democrats at least part of the party has threatened to leave the coalition if the intelligence chief is not removed so at the moment it's not clear how far this crisis is going to go by that certainly could end up being very serious when mohsen himself was grilled earlier in the week by two parliamentary committees just how do you defend himself has he changed his stance. no he didn't change his stance at all he appeared in front of these committees and was really completely adamant that what he had to do and said in the past few days and weeks was correct that he would do the same thing again if the situation rose in other words he did not see a centimeter he did not see that all and in this stance he was defended by the

interior minister from the very so the silence on the sides of both the interior ministry and of mawson himself seems at them completely immovable there doesn't seem to be any chance that they're going to change their stance at the moment so given that he wasn't are willing to change his stance is he likely to step down briefly if you can well at the moment that's the kind of solution that everybody is hoping for that mohsen will for some reason be pressured into resigning on his own that would save face on all sides neither america would have to enforce a resignation or a firing all the social democrats would have to leave the coalition but the whole thing has been postponed to next tuesday there will be a whole weekend coming up and presumably during this weekend a socialist solution will be looked for already w.'s political correspondent hans but and many thanks indeed you're watching d.w.

news still to come he says he was helping his family flee the war in syria then how did this man end up in hungary in prison we'll have the story coming up later in the program. now three years ago world leaders made a commitment to eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere by twenty thirty but a new report just published by the overseas development institute warns that despite this pledge four hundred million people will still be living below that target a person is considered to be in extreme poverty of here she lives on less than one u.s. dollar and ninety cents a day extreme poverty totals have declined globally from eight hundred million five years ago to an estimated six hundred ten million today but africa is going against that trend with two thirds of the total number of people living in extreme poverty

w.'s funny french are reports from nigeria and oil rich country with one of the worst records on poverty. of poverty we are passing by people who live in inhumane surroundings need to torsen who have family they were evicted from their heart just like pencil thousands of others in recent years in lagos bus call a father of five was already poor before the eviction but he says at least he had a life he who had. now we don't have enough food no real house no boats fishing no business during the day we can stay here to prepare one meal but at night we have to sleep outside in the rain this is something no human being should experience i mean. at the today smeal tomato soup and they split off to solve a must few to several families in the neighborhood. this is just one family an estimated eighty seven million people that's roughly half of nigeria's

population are thought to be living on less than one dollar ninety cents per day nigeria has overtaken india as the country with the largest number of people living in extreme poverty. these young men and women are newly minted volunteers in their slums they are being trained how to let others know what kinds of prized a half before the are evicted the ultimate goal is to stop extreme poverty from spreading i want to change the poverty level in my community and provides eleven not our communities that means knowing how to mobilize other people so that lawmakers do their job and solve the deteriorating situation in slums magen chapman founded the justice and empowerment initiative five years ago she says eviction creates more extreme poverty unfortunately the government is not working with those

people hand in hand to eradicate poverty and help them to find a solution to their situation instead the government is putting in place policies that actually criminalize the livelihoods of the urban poor and demolish and destroy their homes the government wants to turn waterfront slums into attractive property it's a must be shut down because a breeding ground for crime and harmful to the environment but for her full flavor residence on the brink of extreme poverty the slums are for better or for worse their home. and joining us now for more is marcus mann well he's a senior research associate of the overseas development institute in london and he was the lead author and researcher for that report on global poverty mr emanuel thanks for being on our program so there is some good news in the last twenty five years the rate of extreme poverty has fallen by half and yet there's still eight hundred million people living in extreme poverty today so what are we doing wrong.

well i think the things we're doing right clearly economic growth is coming and it's driving down poverty in many places but i think what we're doing is two things are wrong first we're not focusing the assistance that we give these countries to the countries that need or the most. and certainly all countries need to live up to their un target of how much aid to provide. all right so let's talk about the countries that are most in need we mention nigeria in our report what are some other countries and what's holding them back from tackling the poverty they face. so we think you really countries like malawi or countries like as well as countries like nigeria we know really how to tackle poverty we know it's a matter of making sure that everyone can afford to get to health care so much you're making sure every child gets to school and it must also making sure that the people that are most vulnerable the elderly children those may be living with

disabilities they have the additional totally support that they need doing that in so many countries but not use a very good example where there's just not happening at anything like this scale that needs to happen to eradicating stream poverty. and so what is it that's holding them back why are these programs not working. well the programs are working but the scale of them is just not there so here goes a much longer program than say nigeria nigeria has for a list of this kind of targeted support to the most vulnerable it also has real problems of people accessing health care and people accessing education so we know what the programs are it's a matter of making them affordable to the poorest and it's natural providing the network at the national scale that is needed coverage in nigeria particularly. all right marcos manwell from the overseas development institute in london thank you so much for speaking with us thank you well in twenty

fifteen more than one million migrants entered europe from the middle east and north africa many of them were from syria iraq and afghanistan seeking to escape war and poverty plaguing their homelands many asylum seekers followed this route north as they made their way into europe but hungary took a hardline stance authorities there built a fence along the southern border and imprisoned many migrants who managed to cross it. all d.w. has spoken to one man who says he tried to help his family reach germany only to end up in hungary in jail i mean as the reports. one of hungary's best known prisoners is waiting to meet me in this budapest prison. to the government he's a dangerous terrorist. others say he's a political prisoner and. tells me he does not know why he's here and never

understand what homecoming byrdsong going to be like this one what do you think of when you think of terrorism what does terrorism mean to you. doesn't who at least minimal make won't kill people. he has hatred for other people lead on this is because he has he has to do something from hate that what he did of the father who was. asked made a syrian resident of cyprus was arrested while helping his aging parents and his brother's family fled to europe in two thousand and fifteen. they arrived at the hungary and border the day after it was closed they were blocked along with hundreds of other refugees who lacked basic necessities. protests broke out. tried to translate between the police and the protesters. was but i wasn't. but when communication broke down he joined in

throwing rocks. half mad had planned to return to his family in cyprus but never made it home he was arrested and sentenced to seven years in prison. the court ruled that the intent to coerce police with violence is an act of terror within the context what that happened at the border but we do know that we. about what crime it constitutes throwing a couple of rocks. even if it's not the right thing to do in a situation situation like this. is not. what covers terrorism in a statement to d.w. the spokesperson of the hungary and government defended the decision of the court there has been a campaign lasting over a year including the involvement of the international press to prove that ahmed age is an innocent man hungry will continue to protect its borders will defend its

christian culture and its right to reject immigration. med feels he is a victim of politics. my friend who can imagine this week i want to ask you one question not american citizens or young america they do this to me if i don't get money they do this to me. it's from our meds wife gave me photos of their two daughters to bring to the prison with me. the last time ahmed saw them they were four and six. they will be eleven and thirteen when he sees them again if his sentence is not reduced. all right time for some business news with monika and this weekend of course marks the tenth anniversary of the bankruptcy of u.s. investment bank lehman brothers monica absolute time flies maryanna and event of course that sent shock waves around the world it's everyone from spanish property owners to american investors running for cover the most immediate impact was felt

by lehman brothers employees twenty five thousands of them found themselves out of work overnight the bank was a giant the fourth biggest investment bank in the world but not too big to fail lehman had become so deeply involved in mortgage origination that it had affectively become a real estate hedge fund disguised as an investment bank washington wasn't willing to say for the bank and lehman brothers remains the largest bankruptcy filing in u.s. history. and my colleague last had to spend many many years in new york as a wall street correspondent last tell us a little bit about that ominous day it was an interesting day because even though times were already tense on wall street at the time that day itself of course was a shock you remember of course those pictures of lehman brothers bankers carrying out their belongings in the morning so for them it was obviously a shock too but on wall street everything felt a little bit like you were part of

a big family that financial community so these were people you could relate to they suddenly lost their jobs thousands of them so of course that was painful to watch but of course then later as the story developed and as we learned more details about what the banks did in those mortgage crisis how they pushed loans and people how they partially even committed fraud that changed the entire picture that changed the relationship we had as journalists to to the rest of the financial community and then at some point so some people who felt sorry for others maybe not so much harder of course you'll you'll stick around a bit longer for us to talk to thank you for now. and of course in the aftermath of the lehman brothers collapse then you as ministration introduced a strict a banking regulations known as the doj frank wall street reform and consumer protection act u.s. president donuts trump has long been a critic of don frank back in may this year he scrapped some of the rules for some

small and medium lenders to many on wall street want the deregulation to go even further and critics say raising restrictions on banks could prompt the next financial crisis. and for more i'm joined by john jordan u.s. economist and advisor to multiple presidential candidates including the current us administration good to have you with us so please tell me how healthy is the u.s. banking system ten years on from the crisis well the u.s. banking system is much healthier as is the u.s. economy the next threat is going to come from a very different quarter and it's going to if it's a very different nature than what struck the world in two thousand and eight it has to do with publicly held debt both in the united states and europe and that is the next mid-term threat to the world economy and the results could be every bit as

catastrophic and perhaps even more so than what happened in two thousand and eight well it's it's good that you mention that because the global date has the deed ballooned over the past decade largely of course thanks to low interest rates old measures that central banks around the world took following the last crisis u.s. debt stood at more than twenty one trillion dollars this summer which is a record when is the next bubble going to best. well it's hard to tell but let's that's hard to know exactly but let's look at some of the forces involved since two thousand and eight in absolute terms as well as a percentage of g.d.p. u.s. public health public debt has doubled it is now north of one hundred percent of our global gross domestic product here in europe the picture is a little more complicated the average is about eighty three percent of debt to g.d.p. but you have some e.u. members including big ones like spain and france that are one hundred or more and so obviously you have the basket cases like italy and greece so what sets this off

eventually the bond markets are going to get wise to this and it's possible that a contagion begins in the united states or it begins in europe and spreads worldwide and policy of the central bank certainly in the united states has mishandled this badly in the last ten years did the previous administration with its anti growth high tax redistribution us policies aided and abetted by janet yellen in the federal reserve who kept interest rates artificially low and was very slow to unwind a lot of the extraordinary liquidity measures otherwise known as q e one two and three inside the united states are now central banks are woefully unequipped to deal with that next crisis because interest rates are still very very low but bad that there's nobody but surely rising let me just bring you to another possible threats to the global system financial regulation known as the don't act which was put in place following the two thousand and eight crisis is now rolled back under

the current administration doesn't that open the door to new let's call it reckless behavior. you know it was rolled back largely for smaller banks inside the united states who really the cost of compliance for dodd frank was prohibitive for a smart of for smaller to midsized banks and basically all that was functionally was a protection scheme for big banks who could afford the compliance the compliance costs involved but again the you know it's amazing how we worry about shutting the barn door when the cows already out the real threat in the near long term is is is publicly held debt and i stick by that and it's scary and it's and it really scares me ok well that's worrying then don't join us economist and also advisor to the current u.s. administration thank you so much for your time my pleasure.

it was the car of the find a generation and one of germany's most iconic brands but now the venerable v.w. beetle time is coming to an end fox has announced it will halt production of the beetle in twenty nineteen bringing an end to the cost a seventy year history but it's not all bad news for people fancy w. will release two more editions of the cult car before the beetle rides off into the sunset. this is d w news is a reminder of the top stories we're following for you. hurricane florence has flooded streets with ocean water along parts of the u.s. east coast and forecasters warn of catastrophic flooding the storm has been downgraded to category one but could dump astounding amounts of water on the region in the coming days. they're watching t.w. news coming to you live from berlin more coming up at the top of the hour in the meantime you can get all the nation's news and information on our website that's the domain dot com thanks for watching.

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