time gorbachev and the opportunity for peace winston starts oct third on d w. i and. this is due to be news coming to you live from berlin the trail of destruction tropical storm florence and homo's the east coast of the united states with the posting winds and heavy rain people are dead and hundreds need to be rescued from the national hurricane center says that the danger is far from over also coming up . the strongest storm this year perils across the philippines typhoon one cute

tears through the country's main island ripping off roofs knocking out power supplies as authorities assess the damage they warned that more floods and landslides could call. kills i'm the american has been very and allies are under pressure the c.s.u. meet in munich as they scramble to stave off a challenge from the far right in the coming elections polls suggest that the party could be heading for its worst result in more than sixty years. i'm good to have you with us at least five people have died in the u.s. as hurricane florence slowly moves inland across the states of north and south carolina florence has been downgraded to a tropical storm but it's still bringing extremely heavy rainfall and dangerous storm surges hundreds of thousands are without power. florence's first victims were

a mother and her baby they were killed when this tree crashed their home in the coastal city of wilmington north carolina. a neighbor described terrifying scenes as the storm bordine. very dark. and the wind being higher like it is now higher then so all you could see was water and it was very low. so. here really figure out what's going on out there. further up the coast in new bern a huge storm surge left hundreds of residents trapped as the waters rose around them . so. rescue crews used boats and military vehicles to get the might. have never been so terrified my entire life. it was horrifying. just wondering what's going on in

and where the water's going to go and how high it's going to go and how we're going to get out and if we're going to get trapped in the attic or. hundreds of thousands of homes and i without power authorities are warning evacuated residents to stay put in shelters. resist the urge to go out and check on the damage. we have days every heard of us that means more river will rise in flood communities. not cruel in west where it's florence is expected to linger for days forecast as a predicting more life threatening storm surges and flooding with parts of north and south carolina sent to receive up to a meter of rain. barreling toward southern china on the densely populated territory of hong kong after leaving a trail of destruction in the philippines the storm made landfall on the country's

main out and of its own early on saturday strong winds and torrential rains caused power outages floods and dozens of landslides at least two people have been confirmed dead and more than one hundred thousand have had to flee their homes the philippines takes weather agency has downgraded the domestic threat level but warns that the danger is far from over well joining me now is journalist ana santos in manila on a typhoon mungo's is the strongest storm that has hit the philippines this year what is the latest news from the philippines and can you hear me. ok we seem to be having some technical difficulties so we will try and reestablish that line later on in the program moving on a to some other stories making news around the world's u.s. president donald trump's former campaign chief paul montfort's has pleaded guilty

to two criminal counts the move is part of a deal to cooperate with special counsel robert mueller who is investigating possible collusion between presidential campaign and russia the criminal charges are not related to the campaign. three people have been killed and at least seven injured in the shooting as a popular square in central mexico city police said three men dressed as morace musicians opened fire at the plaza garibaldi before fleeing on motorbikes the square is near the to petone neighborhoods home to one of mexico's this he's most of tourist drug cartels. palestinian medical officials say israeli soldiers have killed three palestinians including a boy taking part in weekly protests that gaza's border with israel many more people were wounded as the israeli military says its use the force necessary to prevent border breaches by some twelfth has the palestinians not just near the fence so move them hurling rocks and fire bombs. i know america is

conservative allies in bavaria the c.s.u. are meeting in munich to discuss strategy ahead of a key regional election in the state next month polls show that the party could be heading towards its worst result in more than sixty years as voters defect to other parties including the far right if t. the popularity of the party's knees or horse a horse say who for who is also germany's interior minister dropped to an all time low after he clashed with merkel on a number of issues including migration. the c.s.u. party conference for us in unique nina recently the c.s.u. has taken on a more far rights viewpoint facing the challenge from the anti immigration a.f.d. party has failed as a strategy to think. well this is here consider themselves the most right wing party that should be sitting in a bit varian polman done so that they're simply not used to competition from even

further to the right of the political spectrum there were a lot of c. as you fishel sue openly criticised medical for her refugee policy in twenty fifteen and in the years since twenty fifteen and so now they have to bridge that gap between still representing democratic values but also a tough stance on migration and not lose people to the giftie not lose voters and the some people did take on an approach like costlier for the interior minister where sometimes he sounded extremely right wing populist and this strategy does not seem tough worked and that's what the polls show the sea is used as a direct quote lower at the moment so i asked. a member of the european parliament for the c.s.u. just how this is used trying to win back the vote has. a completely different rightwing paula do not to comply with this. we want to help people who are all

skiing for asylum in europe that's not it's an issue but that you know that we don't know on the basis you know there's a regular procedure to be established that you know who is coming into our country this is different to the a it's dean who simply says no it's because there's no refugees at all in our country that is not our line you know. and speaking there and i mean at the very end conservatives have brewed the state for more than seventy years and it looks like they're back to lose their absolute majority and why is this so significant. well the sea this year is a special party in that it can only be elected in bavaria bavaria is one of germany's strongest economically strongest federal states and so the c.s.u. has been ruling here by itself for decades and of course the stronger the c.s.u. is in bavaria the more say and more impetus to see as you has on the national level

because under machall c.d.u. is their sister party the c.d.u. is not electable in bavaria and serve the week of the sea as you is here the week the conservatives are in germany. their party leader are saying over is at odds with chancellor angela merkel is the threat to her and the federal government. well many say that hosty of her has been acting a trig stream erratic late many people who've known him for years don't really understand this before hevia because he openly criticizes and america and the coalition survived a near collapse in in the early summer in june because of posse of us provocations towards i'm glad merkel there will be a crisis meeting between the coalition partners including the social democrats on tuesday coming up and of course it's not the last day well under maclin hasi over

will be at odds over the future of the government coalition in berlin and now there in new nick thank you. japan is threatening to withdraw from the international whaling commission after it folks have down the countries there to lift a ban on commercial whaling japan had argued that since the ban was introduced of the one nine hundred eighty s. stocks have recovered sufficiently for it to be left us but i'm still willing countries led by australia the european union and the united states to face it japan's proposal it's likely japan will continue to hunt whales by making use of a loophole that allows so-called scientific way. whales are the world's biggest sea mammals and their existence is threatened as ocean pollution increases but they're also highly coveted for whale hunting by japan these japanese ships official mission is to perform scientific research you know to meet some of the international whaling commission in brazil japan push to bring commercial whaling

back there was supported by iceland and norway but the motion failed japan accepted the decision but has threatened consequences if russia or winning based on science is completed you know. if there is no possibility for the different positions use to cory's this was mutual understanding and respect. then just crown prince two hundred three a fundamental assessment its position as a member of the see. the decision is a relief for environmentalists to calling for a complete ban on whaling and more protections for them by listening in on site whales face dangers on multiple fronts commercial fishing underwater noise pollution toxic chemicals and of course ubiquitous plastic waste dealing with these

problems is a tall order. this year's meeting of the whaling commission was the first time these problems were officially recognized member states is to say that they want to dress to increase well populations. well in sports days bundesliga football dortmund be fined for three one in the friday night game and they're now in first place at least for a day so resigning opened the scoring for dortmund in the thirty sixth minute his first goal for the black and yellow and sixty eight minutes about in a lair equalise for frankfurt hammering home at downing to cost across in style but just four minutes later dortmund delay thanks to marius falls and two minutes from time packer like i say rounded the home victory with the debian goal. kazakh boxer get out a goal of can remain canelo alvarez is being called the fight of the century by

pundits and seen middleweights mash just under a year ago when the match controversially ended in a draw and sparks flew at friday night's way and three world title belts are on the line and one of the fighters is said to have a home crowd advantage of sorts. he would leave the crowd on saturday will be firmly in his camp so this nicknames canelo meaning cinnamon will left plenty of mexican backing in las vegas on fight night it will be three hundred sixty four days since a controversial draw between the past save kanellos belt after the decision judge adelaide bird stood down from scoring major bouts since then canelo twice tested positive for a banned substance clenbuterol but the levels found suggests that this was due to tainted meat a common issue for mexican athletes in any case the counterpunch specialist prefers to hit back in the ring when. you already know if you follow my fighting career that i never like to talk i do it in the ring it's my job to perform in there i

hope everyone enjoys this huge fight and a huge victory for my fans and for all of mexico. at friday's weigh in his opponents cannot begin not be of its color confident figure a triple g. is feared for his ferocious punching power is undefeated and has two belts to. cut. also showed a cooler head when the two faced up after the successful weigh in and wasn't impressed with kanellos antics. so he's like along his shoulder when he's natural guy. it's rare in boxing that fights live up to the hype but this rematch packs a punch him on saturday. and to serve weiner of the top stories that we're following for you. at least five people have died in the u.s. as hurricane florence slowly moves inland across the states of north and south carolina it has been downgraded to

a tropical storm but it's still bringing extremely heavy rainfall and dangerous storm surges hundreds of thousands are without power. and. that's it for me for now you are watching duty of the news coming to you live from berlin and more news again at the top of the hour and don't forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our website that's on detail dot com thanks for joining us and keeping your. own children i mean. surely from africa and the world we're going to exceptional stories and discussion from own use a v.z. to our website d.w. dot com smart enough to join us on facebook. or go.