the ring the new frontier. sex and love three. hundred twenty fifth on d.w. . business news coming to you live from berlin powerful storms on opposite sides of the world put millions in the path of danger the first hurricane florence is making landfall on the u.s. east coast the storm is pounding the region with heavy rain and causing storm surges the second super typhoon among quote is roaring towards the northern philippines authorities are evacuating more people have been warnings of major

destruction also on the program a global push to eradicate extreme poverty falls short g.w. reports from nigeria the number of people living on less than two dollars a day is on the run so. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us hurricane florence has made landfall on the u.s. east coast battering the states of north and south carolina with strong winds and heavy rain the storm is moving slowly and is expected to dump rain on the coast for hours hundreds of thousands of people have lost power storm surges are expected and rescue crews are scrambling to save scores of people who big nor evacuation orders . and on the other side of the world a super typhoon is barreling toward. as the northeastern philippines packing winds

of well over two hundred kilometers an hour more than five million people are at risk from the storm massive evacuations are underway. preparations for the arrival of typhoon man qute a storm with winds as powerful as a category five hurricane thousands have been evacuated with many fairing what this storm will bring. about that but i'm scared i think this is a very powerful time from the more powerful in the recent months when my house that's why we're frightened. the typhoon is expected to make landfall here in the province of ca guyin on saturday this region is considered the country's breadbasket. authorities have. to bring in their rice and corn harvest early morita the crops will be destroyed. some five million people live in areas at risk of being hit by typhoon man coote

and the storm is picking up speed as it approaches. now some other stories making headlines around the world today thousands of city mayors business leaders and climate activists have gathered in san francisco to promote efforts to reduce global warming the global climate action summit is organized by california governor jerry brown a leading critic of the trumpet ministrations decision to withdrawal from the paris climate change agreement. italian city of genoa is marking a month since forty three people were killed when part of a motorway bridge collapsed at exactly eleven thirty six the time of the collapse church bells and sirens sounded as residents paused where they were officials hope to have a new bridge in place by the end of the next year. 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 in extreme poverty by that year a person is considered to be in extreme poverty of he or she lives on less than a dollar one u.s. dollar 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 in africa poverty is on the rise the continent is already hardest hit with africans accounting for about two thirds of the total number of people living in extreme poverty. you know use funny reports now from nigeria the country with the world's highest rate of extreme poverty. a lot of poverty we are passing by people who live in inhumane surroundings need to tour seen one family they were evicted from their

heart just like pence of thousands of others in recent years in lagos pascale a father of five was already poor before the eviction but he says at least he had a life we heard. about now we don't have a now no real house no 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. today smeal tomato soup and they spout off must feel 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 to provide sea level not our communities that means knowing how to mobilize other peoples to that lawmakers do their job and solve the deteriorating situation in slums magen chapman founded the justice and empowerment initiative five years ago she said 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 criminalized the livelihoods of the urban poor and demolished and destroyed their homes the government wants to waterfront slums into attractive

property they must be shut down because a breeding ground for crime and home full to the environment but for her. on the brink of extreme poverty the slums for better. their home. in unusual award ceremony took place in the u.s. city of cambridge mass for two shifts on thursday night the eeg nobel prize honors achievements in scientific research that make you laugh and then make you think the ceremony is light hearted but the group's aims are serious. thank you i it's not what you would expect from a conventional award ceremony where else with the audience be encouraged to bombard the host with paper airplanes welcome to the twenty eight first annual ig nobel prize ceremony. and then there are the women's they may look on remarkable but they're all scientists who have done something out of the ordinary. the recipients

of the prize for medicine came up with a novel way of curing a very painful condition. the ig nobel prize for medicine this year is awarded to mark mitchell and david moore tinker for using roller coaster rides to try to hasten the passage of kidney stone i it may sound wacky but the two scientists from michigan state university really did prove that writing a certain type of post to helps expel kidney stones. perhaps even more bizarre is a research carried out by the winners of the economics prions de lance ferris and lisa they were on it for investigating whether it is effective for employees to use voodoo dolls i to retaliate against abusive bosses i gain it seems like a joke but the lead psychologist confirmed to her team conducted

a real study that showed that disgruntled employees felt significantly better after touring voodoo dolls resembling that boss's. organizers say this is a good example of the kind of ideas they want to set up right things that make you laugh but then make you think and above all spokeo curiosity in science. now we've got some breaking news coming in from the united states president charles former campaign chairman paul metaphor is expected to plead guilty to two criminal counts as part of a deal with spittle counsel robert mueller a court hearing. is now underway if the deal is confirmed but a court will plead guilty to one count of conspiracy against the united states and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice he was convicted in a virginia court last month on bank in tax fraud charges and was due to go on trial a second time on related charges in washington it's not yet clear the deal will

include him cooperating with pullers investigation into russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election. well to probe the very latest on this let's cross now to d.w. correspondent hike a slansky she's standing by for us in washington d.c. hi kay the hearing with paul metaphor is taking place now i understand has he as expected pleaded guilty. we don't know that yet there is no news that has come out of the court yet whether this deal actually has happened and also whether he will cooperate with with amal or investigation regarding trump's campaign's involvement with russia in the u.s. election two thousand and sixteen so we're still waiting to hear it sounds like a deal has been made that he will plead guilty which is big news because he has claimed the whole time that he was completely innocent one of his close partners.

rick gates has already started to work with the government with the moller investigation and maybe mahler investigation is getting a lot of information from his partner that they may not necessarily need more information from him this of course for paul man of ford who has already been convicted and will face up to ten years in jail means that he if he pleads guilty now and the judge accept that he can save a lot of money with his law team trying to fight all these things that he's being accused of if the count is reduced to two and that would also help president trump in some ways because it wouldn't be so much in the news anymore but as you say the kilt the number of charges has been reduced to two there were many charges in this surely the that he was still facing poll metaphor what can he all for what do you

think he might have offered in order to get this deal. so we really don't know that at this moment the fact of the matter is that donald trump the us president has tweeted about this matter and has spoken to fox news and friends about the matter and has said that tall man of ford is a good man he called him a brave man he had a great deal of respect for him even though he had been committed convicted by a jury in virginia of many tax fraud crimes and bank crimes and lying to the government so clearly paul man of ford is hoping to get a pardon and as we know from reports in the united states president trump has spoken to his legal team about pardoning paul mann of florida and they have they have suggested to him that it would be better if he waited until the trials would be finished and he has called people who have turned on trump meaning that they're

cooperating with the government with the malar probe that they're basically traders and so it is obvious that paul man of ford is hoping to get pardoned by president trump and maybe that is why he will now take a plea guilty. thank you so much from the. force in washington. now the bonus league is back after the international break and for others opening game is arguably the match of the week and seventy five thousand persons will cheer on dortmund when they meet german cup winners on. dortmund are still finding their footing hosting frankfurt offers an opportunity to improve on a mixed start to the season and stake a claim as title contenders coach lucien five the knows it won't be easy dortmund dominated their last match against hanover but it ended scoreless frankfurt should

prove a tougher test someone's now have to hold because they lost the last one at home but were down to ten men for sixty minutes against their to blame and i saw that game it's tough to judge of ten men but it was a good game they're a good team they're very dangerous as five observed frankfurt weren't quite dangerous enough to earn a result in their last match with bremen stoppage time winner proving a heartbreaker. side will hope to have regrouped in the international bridge. as he . has to go there and just defend we need to try and play an offensive game obviously after our own lucky result against better braman we want to pick up points no matter where we're playing. frankfurt are still adjusting after an off season full of change but will be aiming to put dortmund through the paces. and just reminder the top story we're following for you here today on the news hurricane florence has made landfall in north carolina sending

storm surges into the streets and ripping apart building swith with wind and rain four hundred thousand homes and businesses have lost power so far forecasters warn that the category one storm could linger for days and trigger catastrophic flood. news for now will be back on top of next hour with more thanks for watching. we make up over a week watch as a physical and that's because we are december so hopeless and. they want to shape the continent's future. part of it and join them stores as they share their stories their dreams and their challenges the seventy seven percent platform for africa majority.