this is deja vu news live from her last chance for all america limits she lost touch with the people over the case of germany's domestic spy chief how damaged is germany's governing coalition after it fired him on a machall says she will now listen more closely to the voice of voters also coming up. three saudi arabian men jailed for disobeying the ruler and the man who stopped the desert and parking afonso we look at some of the winners of the right livelihood awards the alternative to the nobel prize. and pope francis pays tribute

to victims of oppression in the baltic countries in lithuania he honors those who suffered under the mob scene and soviet occupation. i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show we start here in berlin where chancellor on a macro has apologized to the public for being out of touch with voters or coalition has been embroiled in a dispute about a controversy all domestic intelligence chief there was a public outcry after he was fired and then promoted with a hefty pay increase here's what the chancellor had to say earlier today so i gave him some of that since let me be clear last tuesday's decision was unconvincing when i asked myself why. poppy and last tuesday's decision i was too focused on the workings of the interior ministry and gave too little consideration to what people

think rightly when they hear that someone is getting promoted. i deeply regret that this could happen that's because all the e z e r. well last tuesday's deal to remove intelligence chief. caused outrage when it was revealed that he would be promoted and given a pay high in another state agency so all of machall and her coalition allies went back to the negotiating table this weekend for another spate of wrangling and now a new deal has been announced that includes no promotion and no increase in pay. arriving to deliver a compromise a new solution to end the uncertainty over the future of germany's soon to be former domestic intelligence chief the secure because of the current president of the federal office for the protection of the constitution. will henceforth serve a special advisor to the interior minister with the rank of department head there

he will be responsible for european and international matters. into the sun or the scrutiny he said. last week there were calls for hans-georg masson to be sacked after he apparently downplayed recent violence in the city of chemist's he was to be removed from his post and then set to get a promotion in the interior ministry that sparked widespread public anger prompting communal goshi ations between i'm going to merkel's c.d.u. their very and sister party c.s.u. led by hostile and the social democrats s.p.d. leader on to be a novice gave her reaction in berlin following the hope as announcement thing. i have spoken again with the c.d.u. and c.s.u. leaders and i think that it's a very good sign that we took the criticism of our decision on tuesday seriously and could resolve it i would like to thank i'm going to call and horsey hoffa

taking up my initiative. an initiative that in theory at least should spell the end of the massive crisis and help lift the latest cloud over i'm going to merkel's government. so will the clouds now be lifting to be a political correspondent simon young joins us now for more assignment on america there conceding she made a mistake but will this be enough to silence her critics. well i think it should help calm things down brian you know it's not very often that the chancellor comes out makes a public apology like she's done today a couple of years ago she was sort of forced to admit that the country not been prepared for the large number of refugees who were arriving and she said she was sorry about that but here she said that what she's done is really a response to the fact that people in the country at large couldn't really understand why this man. who would seem to make unwise or even dangerous

comments had received a promotion and she said that she was sorry that she hadn't taken that into account in italy let's just have a listen to some of what the chancellor was saying today. it's not me it's all the more important of course that we now start solving people's problems we have resolved some of them but in some areas during the past months we were too concerned with ourselves that has to change. or there is a plural pronoun here we have not been solving people's problems now this public outrage has been focused on anglo-american but she says one of a number of people and it's in the coalition who are getting the blame right now and and this is all underscored the gap hasn't the politicians in the coalition and the broader public has this decision addressed that gap. well i think this is

a decision that all saw aides it appears can live with the debate was really about what kind of job this man could move into in future and obviously his supporters particularly whole say over the leave it leader of the bavarian conservatives wanted him to retain he's status or even get a promotion the promotion has been. cancelled now and he'll just stay at the same pay grade which is just about acceptable to many in the social democrat party although it's pretty clear that on that side of things people are still very unhappy and there are comments emerging from the social democrats today you know suggesting that they're still not really comfortable with this but i think it's a sort of compromise that everyone can live with it is the chancellor was saying earlier what really matters i think to people around the country is that the government gets on with some real work rather than squabbling and fighting about these rather technical matters us i mean mention the social democrats not being

happy but it's not just them we're hearing that a crisis has been avoided but voices inside the s.p.d. and the conservatives say this government is hanging by a thread. well that's quite a drastic sort of way of putting it certainly it does look like a kind of crisis you've had three crisis meetings in the last ten days and you have certainly had people within the coalition parties talking about the end of the coalition. if certain things are not achieved but as i think as i said the chancellor was saying today it's time to get back to the nitty gritty of real political issues housing jobs pensions breaks it was an issue that the chancellor mentioned when she was speaking earlier there are plenty of things for people to do and frankly the electorate won't understand it in this particular squabble about an internal matter in the ministry carries on being fought out in public some young

first day simon thanks very much for now we want to put the spotlight on those who are making the world and working to do so a better place each year the right livelihood award on earth people and organizations offering smart solutions for the environment and for development a swedish philanthropist created the award because these areas are not by the more famous nobel prizes and the more it is therefore are known as the alternative nobel prize there are four winners this year we'll be looking at them throughout the day here on the w one of them is tony. he was pioneering a simple but effective solution to deforestation that brought him into the spotlight it earned him the nickname the forest maker. a lot his technique involves growing trees from existing root systems which are often still intact using a simple set of management practices taught by are now though farmers can

regenerate and protect local vegetation the ag and all of us believes it has the baton potential to restore degraded dry lands with an area that combines size of india here he is in his own words talking about the success of one project in northern ethiopia. so what we see here in this valley is a wonderful example of integrated approach to resilience and livelihoods this is a deep valley with steep hills they've started the soil erosion control at the top of the hill very important to reduce the speed of the water flowing off that it's hills so that console banks they're putting check stands. before they started all this work there's no grass at all this was just sand but the soil moisture levels increased and that's been unable them to bring in other species that we can benefit from and now this is very very useful pasture land paper very vulnerable in the

eighty's and around that time it fluctuated between experiencing drafts one year and then if it did right instead of searching into the ground is that that's now it would flood often even if they had a successful club growing it would be destroyed by the floods so there was starvation people didn't die the environment so in interventions check dance growing trees through f.e.m.a. now and planting all of these activities have. acted like a buffer to the variation in the weather so that when there's a drought it's less severe it's impact is less severe because this moisture to draw from in the soil and when there's a year of heavy rainfall it doesn't have that opportunity to cause damaging floods because it's court at every level coming down the valley. there are a lot of sad stories famine and drought in norway recipe what they've achieved in

a very low rainfall area under extremely harsh conditions shows that if you look with nature miracles possible you can turn the landscape around even dry. region with intimidated or irregular rainfall you can turn that around when you work with nature to make it a highly productive and stable system well it's good to hear that miracles are possible tony manado joins us now from melbourne australia welcome to the w congratulations on winning the alternative nobel prize. saying this is a great honor it's a great honor to have you on as well tony this award has put the spotlight on your technique specifically can this be done on a larger scale to fight deforestation we're just looking at north and ethiopia what about the rest of the world most distantly almost universally tree most species have to restrain from stumps and certainly

even if that capacity they're very very often there are three states in a list so it just waiting for the right opportunity to reestablish and that often requires a change in the way people are managing the landscape. ok a change to how people manage the landscape you came up with this idea for for growing trees from the existing root systems how did you come up with it. well actually it's an ancient art it's been practiced confidence around the world for centuries but for whatever reason modernization no commercialization it's been largely forgotten and what we had really was liable for i think trying to establish seedlings from the nursery and having mr bailey what we've missed was

that this is the last what i like to call underground finest of trade stamps just waiting for liberation if you like and so for me it kind of is a crisis point i've been in the country of new chair west africa for nearly three years working very very hard on conventional approaches to retire a station and failing miserably and it was an observation one of the. strangest of the tree get the idea of briefly if you could tell me liberating underground for stuff that sounds fascinating we have seen devastating forest fires this summer here in europe portugal greece spain can this technique help reforest burnt out areas. where you have stations that. responded from the start it's very very easy but even forests which might be predominantly kind of species which they're not very good at respond

asking at the very least this should be a sea bank traces in the soil and if you manage the landscape by minimizing perhaps livestock interference minimizing future fire then those states should germinate and you should i will to regenerate a farce he's a natural process tony not of thanks very much for the work you've been doing and congratulations again on winning this award thang. now for some of the other stories making the news at this hour the russian opposition leader alexei of only has been detained just moments after walking free from jail he's been serving a thirty day sentence for organizing an authorised protest the spokesperson said that he's now accused of violating a different protest law and could face another twenty days in prison. u.s.

senators are investigating new claims of sexual misconduct against a pre-record nominee brett kavanaugh a former classmate says he exposed himself to her at a college party was already facing allegations of sexual assault brought by university professor christine blasi forward he's denied any wrongdoing. the last private migrant aid ship operating in the mediterranean can no longer conduct rescue missions panama has revoked the ship's registration under pressure from the italian government the vessel had been conducting operations off the libyan coast. pope francis is in latvia today the second stop on his four day visit to the baltic states is visiting the three countries as they mark one hundred years a century since winning independence after world war one. the country's president was on hand to welcome the pontiff at a ceremony at riga castle later an older mass in the village of the country's

southeast before arriving in latvia francis spent two days in lithuania where he addressed the atrocities committed by the nazis and by the soviet occupation his message to the faithful remember the suffering of the past and the struggle for freedom. as many as one hundred thousand people attended pope francis's mass encounters a huge turnout but it's less than half the number of lithuania's jews murdered in the holocaust lithuania uses this day when seventy five years ago the nazis fully liquidated the ghetto in the capital vilnius to remember that destruction it was the pope's moment to remind the country now eighty percent catholic of the dangers of forgetting the murder of more than two hundred thousand jews but your mind more . let us think back on those times and ask the lord to give us the benefit of hindsight to prevent the return of that resurgent attitude in. the quote we must remove any with of anti-semitism among those who did not experience

the holocaust and can therefore be seduced. the pope prayed silently of the vilest ghetto memorial and met members of lithuania's jewish community today numbering about three thousand people one woman who survived the ghettos liquidation now ninety six years old was there. at the level a it this is important. it's shameful that in the world today there are people who say the holocaust is a lie that there were no get a's and no such thing happened but what is most important is that the pope came here and prayed it shows that he supports us morally you know god oh that's right you're right. pope francis then told a former k.g.b. prison in vilnius it's now a museum documenting the hundreds of lithuanians from a murder and thousands more including many priests shipped off to forced labor

camps in siberia the soviets for decades occupation is still fresh for many lithuanians. we other thoughts and we really appreciate that then shown on the pope on the what you can call in the pendants actually before father freed on and especially the whole it isn't as a christianity it actually helped us. to fight against the soviet regime and. the pope will end his trip with a visit to london and a stone. but francis hopes his message to remember will still resonate. with you. time now for a look at the weekend's football because it had a difficult start to the bundesliga season losing their first three matches sunday's own clash of minds was an opportunity to finally get some points up on the board they got off the mark thanks to another great performance from their new

young star. europa league double for can i have it from thursday when she was a shoo in to stop the gates minds may be cruising dominated in the first half as they went to desperate search of that first bond as they got points reese jimmie call on a shooting over. after the break in against the run of play mind set the ball in the nets but the video assistant rule dropping quiescent had used a hand the dome was choked off. then just after the hour union brown crossed uncovered the king live accuses hero again having won't fit into the marked books on mock the nineteen year old is on fire. how much shines his lead accusing get their first win of the season a much before just like last term michael haley has a real gem on his hands. or frankfurt in are be alive so you have also struggled in the early stages of the bundesliga season with both clubs in the bottom half of the

table ahead of sunday's showdown but neither side can take charge as a mixture of injuries and suspensions made for an evenly matched affair. away in front leipsic took to the field without forward john kevin now to stand and defend nobody mchale in the past was suspended by coach wrote frantic this week over disciplinary issues his defense could do it some tough love as well judging by how easily frank threw them in the twenty seventh minute lookee over it with some excellent wing play in the build up jillson fernandez with the simplest of finishes off the sebastien islands header was saved. it wasn't until the second half that light to givenchy showed some gumption filling cost each handful gifted the visitors a chunks from twelve yards. emil hall's bird slotted hun coolly to pull his side level in the fifty third minute one one the final score neither side offering much in the way of performance or discipline.

or the market now and china is accusing united states of engaging in trade bullyism what's that yeah well nobody quite knows where this will end and how this will play out but the latest round of u.s. tariffs on chinese goods kicked in today. at the stroke of midnight washington started imposing tariffs on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese products beijing retaliated by targeting sixty billion dollars of u.s. goods with extra duties and this of course is the latest escalation in a bitter trade dispute that's of rattled financial markets and so far neither side has signaled willingness to compromise. workers in a chinese factory making flags and banners for donald trump's reelection campaign in twenty twenty if you want an idea of the irony and complexity of the trade dispute between the world's two biggest economies here it is in a nutshell. the dispute has escalated dramatically since this meeting between the

american president and his chinese counterpart changing ping almost a year ago so what's happened since then and what it meant for both economies let's take a look at last year the u.s. imported five hundred five billion dollars worth of goods from china back in june trying to impose tariffs on fifty billion dollars worth of them as of today further duties have come into effect on another two hundred billion dollars worth of goods . on the other side to china it's imports from the u.s. and twenty seventeen total one hundred twenty nine billion dollars in the summer china responded to u.s. tires by imposing duties on some fifty billion dollars worth of u.s. goods and now it's retaliation again by adding judy's to a further sixty billion dollars of u.s. products. meanwhile the war of words continues to. here's what u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o had to say about the trade war when he appeared on

fox news on sunday. we know this much the trade war. state has been going on for years. here's what's different in this administration to the extent one wants to call this a trade war we are determined to win it china for its part accuses the united states of bullying with no sign of a less open the tit for tat spot economists say the real losers in this trade battle could ultimately be consumers in both countries. are moving on to another bastille german chancellor comic us on sunday to discuss additional measures to avoid large scale diesel vehicle bans in german cities among the most contentious issues engine retrofits which the car industry has so far opposed to sunday's so called the diesel summit also ended inconclusive with more talks to

come later this week. perhaps b.m.w. wanted to show a little goodwill the c.e.o. came to chancellor angela merkel's office in an electric car for his company there's a lot at stake the same for mercedes boss and v.w. management they'll be meeting with macko finance minister should send transport minister sure once again the subject is driving bans for diesel vehicles the coalition wants to prevent this is much as possible but the industry does not. want to make any promises for rick for a fitting. instead for clean air and the city's fleet renewal remains our priority we've also talked about retrofitting now they'll be discussions at the federal level and the individual car manufacturers will do the same with an automobile have been like a tone but the green party demands the conversion of all vehicles that don't meet exhaust emissions standards and similar high school they always say that only older diesels are affected but it isn't true there are many of the relatively new euro

five diesel vehicles which totally exceed the standard values and many of the newest euro sixty's of vehicles considered the most modern don't meet the standards that's why we demand that the vehicles be retrofitted at the expense of the car industry. the german government has blocked the retrofitting of older diesel engines and prefers offering incentives to buy new vehicles the big car bosses left until americans office without a deal but the german chancellor wants to present a solution for diesel vehicles by the end of the month. now meanwhile porsche announced that it will did diesel fuel good let's cross over to pakistan pits our financial correspondent in frankfurt how how investors reacting to that. well monica the error here in frankfurt might look clean but it isn't that it's full of nitrogen it's not nitrogen oxides caused by diesel and that has brought a court to rule that they won't be able to enter the city starting next year now

this decision has brought a mood swing. towards retrofitting even with michael who seems to be heading this direction that's not good news for german carmakers porson porsche can easily ditch the diesel the doesn't rely on it much anyway but for other carmakers there are suffering their stocks are suffering this morning across the board even cantin car supplier and that's because it's yet unclear who is going to pay the cost of such retrofitting should it be decided upon and it's going to be costly definitely of two three thousand euros per car ok talking of costly a major change actually two major changes on the backs of the eurostar tell us about that. yes the major shuffle in stocks in both these indices and the losers here are german traditional banks here in

frankfurt a bank has been kicked out of the europe socks fifty the fiftieth largest traded companies in europe and. germany's second biggest lender was kicked out of the dock today its first day out and the first day in four wire card a fin tech that has risen in the past months focused on electronic and mobile payments a digital enterprise exactly the area where german traditional banks are losing out and haven't really caught up on and rumors of mergers are now coming back up for those german. pakistan but it's from frankfurt thank you for the update. you're watching the news coming live from berlin more again at the top of the allies in about.

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