this is the blues line from the control of a city that just won't quit the german government agrees to new talks about the fate of the country's had the domestic intelligence after his removal and subsequent promotion provoked widespread outrage also on the program aid organizations scramble to get supplies into syria's new provinces as a deal to delay fighting give civilians a moment of rest but. the large scale heathland fire sparked by military rocket test threatens to german towns putting thousands of lives at risk authorities tell

people to get ready to evacuate. i'm phil gal welcome to the program. and a surprising turn of events the party leaders of germany's coalition government have agreed to revisit this week's decision to move the head of the country's domestic intelligence agency. mohsin was told he had to go after he made controversial comments about father violence in the eastern german town of chemists but his subsequent promotion within the interior ministry sparked an outcry from the conservatives coalition partners the social democrats are german chancellor i'm going back will says it's time for a rethink. we have agreed to reassess the situation.

i think it's right and necessary. it's right and it's necessary because we need to be fully focused on our tasks in government to turn the many challenges we face at home and abroad. because it's our duty to resolve the worries and problems of people in germany. if we want to reach a joint sustainable solution this we can lead. on in this. so what's going on well let's ask our political correspondent thomas farah welcome thomas why does the chancellor appear to be going back on her her own decision well phil and it's not only the chancellor it's also the other members of germany's grand coalition that not forget that it was not even the chancellor who first brought this idea of revisiting that decision and why then they are knowledges the head of the social democrats who sent a letter to angela merkel the head of the c.d.u. obviously and causes a whole father head of the varian sister party to see as you say that it was time

to revisit that decision because essentially they had made the wrong decision when they decided not only not to fire mr marson but to promote him to another job within the interior ministry we obviously heard angela merkel just there she stressed once again that it was time to revisit that decision that she believed that that was the correct way forward but this is highly unusual here in in germany that this is happening and this just shows to what extent the germany the coalition here in germany is divided on fundamental issues like the fate of germany's domestic intelligence chief so we'll see how this pans out perhaps this weekend stay with us sir thomas as we take a look at the latest political polls which are out today which make for a scary reading for germany's main street party is the latest survey by german broadcaster the show has only twenty eight percent of voters but the chances conservative bloc that's their worst ever showing meanwhile a social democrat coalition partners the s.p.d.

are down to seventy percent and they've been overtaken by the far right alternative for germany party of eighteen percent that makes the f.t. the second strongest political force in the country calling for the green left and pro-business f.t.p. party since largely remained the same so thomas sparrow perhaps these polling figures explain why the three party leaders of a group so quickly two new talks in part that's correct obviously because they realize that they do not necessarily reflect. what the public what the german of voters are thinking you can just imagine the criticism that came from german voters after mr moxon was promoted and there was an outcry also on social media regarding this decision but i would say and i would interpret these numbers in a more much broader perspective because it's not only about mr marson that we see these numbers it's about a general sense of disconnect between german voters and traditional parties like the conservative bloc all the social democrats and that reflects precisely feel why

we are seeing these numbers and why other parties like the alternative for germany have precisely been gaining ground so yes obviously it does have to do with mr mostyn situation but not only with mr marson situation i would see it as part of a much broader problem here in germany there are political correspondent thomas frank and the united nations has warned that the deal between turkey and russia to delay a major offensive in syria's italy province may not prevent all of the fighting there the agreement leaves room for syrian forces to take on terrorist organizations many of whose fighters live amongst the civilian population and it is the plight of lives three million civilians many of whom fled fighting elsewhere in syria it has now become a priority organizations like the red crescent are desperate to get aid to them before the bullets start flying again the w.c. reports from her today on the turkish side of the border with syria.

everyone on time is short these aid packages are bound for the syrian border. but there are still empty boxes here at the red crescent depot in how tight. helps with packing even though it isn't one of his usual tasks he's the chief coordinator of his organization's aid to syria we're going to. these things we can care for one hundred twenty five thousand people from head to toe in the camps for displaced people and at last but in order for all this to go smoothly it's crucial for the transport to go quickly and be well organized. in one corner of the warehouse there is a display of what the red crescent workers take across the border to shoes toys washing powder hygiene supplies food and cooking utensils for the needs of the.

most of the families there have been displaced in the province of live alone there are more than four hundred camps and the people there have a very hard time getting by. most of them have lost absolutely everything they once had. turkey has taken in more refugees than any other country about three point five million syrians now live on this side of the border three years ago president out on the side of the country could not host anymore and effectively close the border since then turkey has been trying to keep refugees on the syrian side and give them aid over there. and to further its effort to prevent more syrians from crossing the border turkey has been building a wall it's more than eight hundred kilometers long and still expanding. and the red crescent truck arrives at the border crossing. with you i am not

allowed to accompany them. foreign journalists are not permitted at the moment to cross into it like. i. but the aid workers have showed me this video from the red crescent it gives an impression of the scale of their mission. on the outskirts of bombed out syrian cities new tent cities are being built. he said it was like and not all are as tidy as the camp filmed by the drones these images are from the syrian village of very close to the turkish border more than three million people are now living in the province of it house of them have fled fighting in other parts of syria. has returned from his eighth delivery and he says the people there are more optimistic since

a feared large scale offensive by the syrian army was for now a very it's a glimmer of hope but no more than it's a little we bring our aid supplies into the people there and we leave again but they are always there day and night for them explosions and bomb attacks have become a part of their daily reality for the children too that's very hard for me to take let's hope that this fighting truly comes to an end and all these displaced people can return to their cities because. the red crescent sends aid convoys across the border at least four to five times a week. makes his way back to how tie in turkey the next transports need to be prepared. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world tanzania four days of national mourning following a deadly fact ferry accident on like victoria more than one hundred thirty before

it was to have died after the boat capsized there are conflicting reports about how many passengers were on board the country's president has ordered the arrest of the first operator. floodwaters caused by how to confluence of breached a dam at a power plant in the u.s. state of north carolina sparking fears that a toxic cocktail of chemicals spilling into cape fear electricity supply. duke energy has described the incident as a developing situation. britain's prime minister has described the bracks it talks with the european union as having reached an impasse theresa may also said that for e.u. leaders to dismiss a plan for the u.k.'s withdrawal from iraq without proposing an alternative that was unacceptable was made comments on only a friday followed thursday's a use of an insult for. hundreds of demonstrators took to malawi streets to protest against alleged government corruption much assange zones criticizing the country's

president after a leaked and to corruption bureau report accused him of receiving almost one hundred and seventy thousand euros in bribes from the procurement. now here in germany a fire that started three weeks ago during an exercise to test military rockets is spreading posing a danger to two residential communities in the state of lower saxony dense smoke stirred by strong winds now found that over one hundred kilometers authorities say they're considering moving around a thousand people to safety and that report comes from stuff one of the town's affected. the small town of starvation is on the front line of the fire the roads here are busy with emergency vehicles weather conditions could change in a moment spreading the fire further east. the event. is turning and finding the far. flung time could be intelligence more than

a kind of human watching closely how it develops. authorities of make contingency plans to evacuate the town flying sparks and smoke could pose a threat to the residents near the fire that has consumed eight square kilometers of dry more land although authorities say there's no immediate danger more than five hundred volunteer firefighters have been called up to contain the blaze preparations are being made for a worst case scenario for the mood from its just in case of an emergency we don't want to evacuation but we need to be ready if lines barks come our way for now the region is affected by storms but the rain isn't enough to extinguish the blaze the german military is being asked to explain why rockets were being tested in dangerously dry conditions they'd only correspondent. is in the town of map and where the emergency response is being coordinated welcomed the weather's changing how's that going to affect the situation. that's correct phil

well contrary to what most people think as you can see now perhaps it's actually raining however the rain is not enough to actually extinguish the fire and the bad thing that is now happening is that this rain comes with thunderstorms and thunderstorms come with wind and that strong wind is actually potentially going to increase and worsen the fire into the weekend in fact police and authorities are expecting winds of up to eighty five kilometers per hour now since we're talking about a military training area it is surrounded and fill with tunnels and underground areas that could easily inflame and therefore it actually potentially can be even more dangerous seems as if i was started by the army testing rocket so i'm guessing locals must be pretty angry. that's right absolutely many residents with whom i talked to earlier are basically asking one simple or

allegedly simple question how could this be how could this be that a military exercise taken place in an area in which the german military performs a lot of trainings how could it be that such a mistake happens and one that actually causes a fire that lasts a couple of weeks i've talked to several firefighters earlier and they were prepared to stay here for at least a week and a half they told me another worried resident basically said how could this happen we want answers or softened léon we want her to supplies supply us with some answers about this questions that we still have and we don't understand how this mistake could cause such a disaster i've done a regular thanks so much to sports on the world the sports world has been reacting to yesterday's decision by the world anti-doping agency to fully reinstate russia's anti doping body following

a three year ban for state sponsored doping the kremlin said the move was a positive step in the right direction as deputy gondolas the director general of the russian doping agency rosado the former head of wada criticized the decision describing is the triumph of money over clean sport david howman also accused the agency of barry to pressure. not only we spoke to another former head of the water dick pound he welcomed the decision and said that russia had agreed to keep conditions set down by the anti doping agency. i think there's a lot of misinformation out there the two conditions that were outstanding for water were one that russia acknowledged that it behaved badly it doesn't like to accept what reports but it accepted an i.o.c. parallel report that came to the same conclusions relying on the water report so that's good enough as far as the second requirement namely access to the board tory

and samples that are stored there which access it denied what it actually improved its ability to assert anti doping violations if it fits the information supports it we had asked in our roadmap for the computer records relating to the lab but in order to mount an anti doping case you actually have to have the raw data and we hadn't put that in our midst so we said to the basically to the russians will cut you some slack on the acknowledgement but in return we want access to this material all of it and we want it within a matter of three months so there's a hard deadline in place now i think pound. this is where the business news on the topic of economic situation question and economy fill that is in the midst of a perfect storm if you will it was

a year ago that tropical storm maria hit the caribbean island of puerto rico the country associated to the united states and considered a u.s. territory has had a rough time trying to rebuild critical infrastructure after the storm critics say the u.s. government didn't do enough to provide relief after the emergency but even when the island someday close is this chapter economic problems will be far from over. one year on from the disaster and in many parts of the island rebuilding has yet to begin often just the bare essentials have been repaired from above is an island under a blue tarp all in plastic sheeting in place of the roofs ripped off by maria. as the readers lives under one of these top olin's she's eighty six years old one go you have f.m. and when it rains my entire house gets wet the roof was ripped open because the house above it was made from cheap materials people from phoenix and this lady

asked me how we used to living here because the water was very high it went all through the house. that. femur is the u.s. government's emergency management agency after the storm it sent hundreds of relief workers to the island. a little while later i got a letter from fema saying i didn't lose anything in the hurricane when i lost my fridge the washing machine i lost almost everything even my clothes because everything got wet the beds my furniture everything i lost everything and i got nothing not that. many puerto ricans have similar stories washington promised forty four billion dollars in aid off to the disaster puerto rican authours he's say they've only received a quarter of that victims in need of financial assistance say the bureaucratic hurdles a huge total damages from the hurricane are estimated at one hundred billion dollars

the power outage on the island was the longest in u.s. history electricity was only fully restored in august twenty eight hundred and the next hurricane will likely ted downed power lines again hurricane maria claimed around three thousand lives most died in the aftermath of the storm due to the fact that for months there was no drinking water or power nothing worked on the island which was not. well off in the first place a few months before maria struck by to rico had declared itself bankrupt washington imposing austerity program on its care being called any ruse it did not relax even in the wake of the storm and often maria tourists also stayed away from the island dealing a heavy blow to its biggest source of income one year on from the hurricane puerto rico is still far from being back to how it was. a situation that is controversial to say the least let's find out more with our new york for national correspondent

yes called joining us from wall street it's good to see you on this friday what can you tell us about the current state the current shape of the puerto rican economy. well there's still a lot of financial pressure on the island there was a debt load off more than seventy billion dollars there has been a little silver lining here on friday a federal control board actually is about to finalize a seventeen billion dollar debt relief but that's planned still has to be presented to a federal job next month and this is seventeen billion but the whole debt load is as i mentioned more than seventy billion already had been in a recession before maria hit for a good eleven years and even before maria all saw the island had to declare bankruptcy so it's a long path back to normal and there has been quite some criticism to the u.s. government that it acted too slow and also not brought enough. bad times difficult

time supporting ricco but not so difficult times for wall street we have seen a fairly good week where the takeaways. well fairly good that is also a way to put it we had a very strong week here on wall street besides all the trade turmoil new tower of terror was being announced at the beginning of the week and still blue chips managed to increase by more than five hundred points for the week here on friday the doll industrial average actually closed at the second consecutive all time high of wall street is in good shape the u.s. economy seems to be in good shape and now we're looking forward to next wednesday when the us federal reserve is probably going to increase interest rates by the aids time since a december twenty fifth and then also earnings season will slowly begin so well

certainly a lot to look out for for the next couple of days and weeks his call to in new york thank you very much for the analysis and have a great weekend. as we can. so good news though for one of the banks while fargo plans to slash up to twenty six thousand jobs over the next three years as a grapples with the rise of online banking and soaring legal bills the u.s. third largest bank has been under multiple clouds of scandal starting in twenty fifteen when admitted its employees had opened up millions of fake bank accounts to meet and we listed sales goals wells fargo also sold all the insurance to borrowers who did not need it regulators have find the bank more than one point two billion dollars in penalties for its bad behavior currently wells employs two hundred sixty five thousand people. the migration situation here in europe was high on the agenda at the e.u. leaders summit in austria on thursday which you follow here on the w.

the big challenge how can millions of my rents who have arrived here be integrated into european societies most experts agree the key is to get them into work and quickly very often small businesses are leading the way in that field because they are having trouble filling vacancies our example from of area shows you how. driving large amounts of beer around that's numbing seventies main job he's employed by the hallett brewery. i'm so proud about his. abuse because of the big news from the knowledge they how to walk. if you and if you bitch or so are so kind to me yeah sure failure to appear to have got fried had they hired him three years ago he needed people for simple unskilled labor. just love it i mean seventy seventy has been working for the company since march of

twenty fifteen is a good worker after him we hired three more refugees. the migrants are young and they learn quickly but for halle the social aspect also plays a role he pays for the refugees german classes and ensures that they find accommodation. all my stuff is out of egypt the job is most important they have a structured day they have their own money that is important i talk a lot to the refugees and they all say that they do not want to depend on the payments they would get from the german state because. the chamber of industry and commerce has established a network with the aim of integrating migrants into the labor market. fact there are two motivators for the companies to commit themselves socially and to contribute to society and the other is quite simply the lack of specialists many enterprises need people and they simply found an exciting target group

a lot of young people who want to build something for themselves. and i mean seventy and his colleagues grows between one thousand eight hundred and two thousand euros a month depending on how many hours they work and after being here so long the new one say they almost feel like they're from here. that's all for business it's back to phil now in a controversial kenyan fill in the thank you have here yes it made history this year is the first kenyan films been shown at the cannes film festival now ten years high courts has overturned a bad. a film that explores lesbian themes the decision came after the film's director assumed the government not just to allow it to be screened in kenya but also to make it eligible for potential oscar nomination. just to be. it's

a story about the love that grows between two young women and the pressures they face from both family and society in a country we're going to sexuality is punishable by up to fourteen years in prison . screenings of rifi key which means framed in swahili had been banned by kenya's film board back in april over what it called its clear intent to promote lesbian ism contrary to the law. the high court has now changed all that practice. need not begin with if we want to think. this is a subject that goes back to the big drop i think in many quarters including the opinion. where this thing is not legally. one we're really going for at least the creativity is the class the sadness cautions even on very vexing dog beaks subtle forms that surely to. nairobi can be screened for just seven days which means it

meets the oscars criteria for a best foreign language film nomination to be eligible a film must have been shown in the country submitting it. after making history in cannes the cast should be hitting the red carpet again in february this time in holy which. it's a chill up today it's more at the top of the hour in the meantime of course as always the web site that's the w dot com other better.

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