few friends of. military industrial complex starts oct twentieth on g.w. . this is the only news live from berlin deadly flash floods hit the spanish holiday island of my new yorker several are killed including tourists after torrents of water carve out a path of destruction rescue crews are searching for a dozen still missing also coming up more grisly theories emerge about the disappearance of a journalist from the saudi consulate in istanbul the arrival of this black that is seen as a key indicator that the reader may have meant a gruesome and inside the consulate also coming up living on death row many of

those facing execution around the world experience isolation and torture during their final days that's the focus of this year's world today against the death penalty. it's great to have you along everyone we start this broadcast we're deadly terentia will raise on the spanish holiday island of new york at least ten people have been killed and many are missing after rain storms cost flash flooding the worst hit area is a village around sixty kilometers east of the capital palma rescue teams have been deployed to search for the missing. this was washed away by the flash flood one of the several people still missing may be inside but emergency teams have no luck the. it's empty here in sunny rank the ground is now littered

with a vehicle swept up in the torrents of water this man says his cousin's car was carried over one kilometer away from where it was parked. it was taken by the flood we live on the first floor and saw how the water washed away everything and we couldn't do a thing the only thing we could do was go to another house for shelter because we're just washed away by the flood. so were you able to limit it. to eventually rains overnight triggered the devastating floods some residents were blocked from entering the town after a river burst its banks. everything has been destroyed just destroyed destroyed destroyed really it's really bad what has happened i just can't believe it. do you know what happened to a family i don't know i think they were able to rescue themselves. many roads and bridges are impassable the floods also cut off electricity and water supplies

hundreds of rescue us including the spanish military are now trying to help the affected communities and clean up the mess the raging waters left behind. and authorities in florida are urging that nearly half a million people to evacuate immediately as hurricane michel strengthens into an extremely dangerous category four storm forecasters say the hurricane will hit the gulf shore of the state in the next few hours winds are already packing speed strong enough to destroy roofs and walls it's also fear that the storm could create huge waves as high as four meters u.s. president donald trump has declared a state of emergency and florida's governor says the hurricane would be one of the worst in living memory. now the storm is here it's not safe to travel across the panhandle. if you are in a coastal area do not leave your house if you made a choice not to evacuate please find a place to shelter seek

a place of refuge but if it is not safe to leave your home don't leave the worst thing you can do now is leave and put yourself and your family in danger again hurricane michael is forecast to be the most destructive storm to hit the sort of handle in a century florida governor rick scott speaking earlier and earlier we also spoke to journalist malcolm hornsby from an affiliate a.b.c. television station in tallahassee florida and he told us how people are preparing for the hurricane there in tallahassee i think we're good doing good in terms of preparation you go to the local gas stations there's actually gas i may go to the grocery stores pallets of water sitting around so it's not like i've been here in tallahassee for about three years and we've dealt with storms the last every year for the last three years in the past you would go to a grocery store and there would be nothing vast oceans with bags over the pumps so i certainly think it's

a promising sign that we do have supplies here in the area in terms of preparation i think people are taking this storm seriously just because we've had this before in years past you have in our coverage area with a few counties that have been told to that you won't present a wacko it out in franklin county and most of those some of those counties had shuttles that brought people to lean on county into tallahassee so we've seen those people come into the area this hotels or go past a hotel the parking lot as well so i think people are taking that seriously either coming and went or tallahassee because we are not around any bodies of water that should be affected by the storm so we're seeing the influx of people here. all right now are to some of the other stories making news around the world. fifty five people were killed in western kenya when their bus went off the road and rolled down an embankment about fifteen people on the bus survived the crash police say the bus was not licensed to operate at night and that its owners face charges. most

areas says a man has been arrested in germany in connection with the killing of all garion television journalist a victoria marin over the reporter was found dead in a park in the northern belgariad city of bruce on saturday. was investigating allegations of fraud linked to the funding at the time of her death a motive for the killing is still unclear. to turkey now where the media have published c.c.t.v. footage of an alleged saudi arabian hit squad suspected of involvement in the disappearance of washington post columnist jamal. has not been seen since he entered the saudi consulate eight days ago other footage shows what turkish security services say is a fifteen member saudi intelligence team arriving in istanbul one day before he disappeared from the consulate to show he wrote articles critical of the saudi regime for publications including the washington post the u.s.

says is ready to assist the investigation into his disappearance if asked. to or talk more about the developments behind the disappearance of washington post columnist democracy i want to turn now to dorian jones who is in istanbul for us dorian the plot thickens with a series of new revelations but still no hard evidence or final confirmation as to what happened to mr. yeah that's right the investigators are focusing all their efforts on these two black friends of belonging to the saudi consulate those vans to this paula to the consulate. late afternoon of the day of disappearance there are reports of possible images of the existing saudi officials carrying large boxes into one of the vans with the suggestion the car shogi dismembered body could be in those boxes one of the vans then left in a convoy of six cars where they actually went still trying to find out attention is

also focusing on the arrival of these alleged fifteen member saudi team that arrived on the day of disappearance and then left the same day also we're hearing that officials who are working in the consulate but they were told to leave early for an unannounced holiday and also security for the chief is still appears to have disappeared along to the saudi consulate and we are getting reports from the u.s. newspaper washington post citing sources that u.s. intelligence officials claim that they possibly intercepted communications with saudi officials the scouts in the capture of cole shogi has to be said though riyadh is tonight any responsibility for disappearance so we still don't know what happened on that fateful day can you tell us a little bit more about what we do know about the footage that's been released of this supposed that team of saudi agents who allegedly were sent by where yat to target. you know took your fish will have identified they say most

of this fifteen member team images of them are now being all across turkish media they've understand that they have identified some of the professions they say some of them work for saudi special forces there's even save one member was a forensic skills now there are suggestions he could have been used for the dismembering of. this is something that he strongly denied by riyadh but the turkish authorities do believe they are building up a picture of who they believe is responsible for this appearance of a possible murder. a very grisly a possible detail there that you reference dorrian how shaky are turkish saudi relations at this moment. things are really very bad between turkey and saudi arabia for a myriad of reasons but turkey is in a difficult position that saudi arabia is a key trading partner for turkey and at the same time turkey is pretty isolated from the rest of the middle east at the moment so he will be looking for support

internationally for any showdown. over its appearance and the offer of support from washington will be welcomed and i think we'll be looking to europe as well story in jos reporting from istanbul on the disappearance of jamal khashoggi thank you and we stay in turkey where the trial has resumed of the journalists chandu and our he's been a critic of the government and put turkey in twenty sixteen after a court sentenced him to five years in jail for publishing an investigation into government arms supplies to islamist militants well earlier this year turkey's highest court ruled that should face new charges of spying he now lives here in berlin and we'll speak with him and we've spoken to him earlier on in the day but first a look at his case which has caused tension between germany and turkey. one of two of these most famous journalists exiled in belin. chandu and has been living

in germany for over two years evading a five year prison sentence for allegedly revealing state secrets his case as part of the crackdown on journalists and activists across turkey following an attempted coup against ota one in two thousand and sixteen. and turkey continues to pursue him. during a recent visit to berlin turkish president red chip typo to one presented german authorities with the wanted list of so-called terrorists believed to be living in germany didn't i was on that list ankara is demanding that the journalist be extradited to face yet another trial this time with a possible twenty year sentence. didn't i had planned to confront at a one at a press conference in berlin but he pulled out at the last minute. he later explained he did not wish to give the turkish president an excuse to cancel

the event. it might sound strange to my german colleagues that a political leader could boy called a news conference because of a reporter but one is not used to being in the same room with critical journalists . doing the presented an alternative to one's terrorist list a roster of over two hundred journalists imprisoned in turkey. he said it was his duty to stand up for the rights of his colleagues. believe. it washington we news we still have a lot more to tell you about including the stability of the global financial system is under threat on that's the stark warning coming from the world bank and the international monetary fund after they lower global growth forecast across the board. we'll have that story for you later on in this bulletin but first more than fifty countries around the world impose the death penalty human rights groups say those condemned to death are often subjected to dehumanizing treatment

and isolation some are even tortured today on the sixteenth world day against the death penalty will look at what conditions some convicts face in their final days. carry dean long the sixteenth person to be executed in the u.s. this year his death by lethal injection was recorded and meticulous detail. turn his head left and mouth several words to piers the number of witnesses including the words i love you he said at ten twenty five am. at ten twenty seven am he started breathing heavily and then at ten thirty nine and twelve seconds the curtain went down so you can see the process took about fifteen minutes total. kerry dean moore had been sentenced to death as a twenty two year old for the murder of two taxi drivers he spent eight years in

prison awaiting his execution which was pushed off seven times. there are currently more than two thousand seven hundred inmates on death row in the u.s. they typically spend more than a decade in prison before they are executed. during this time they're generally isolated from other prisoners excluded from prison programs and restricted in terms of visitation and exercise spending as many as twenty three hours a day alone in this cells. the united states is the only western country to still uphold the death penalty last year twenty three people were executed. but execution numbers in the u.s. are declining and they pale in comparison to some other countries in the world among the fifty six countries who still have the death penalty and use it iran saudi arabia iraq and pakistan top the table. but the country with by far the most

executions is china chinese authorities don't release any figures regarding the death penalty. television images like these of a former police chief being sentenced to death for murder and bribery last year are extremely rare. thing for you to ensure most trials happen behind closed doors and chinese authorities maintain almost total secrecy over the number of people sentenced to death amnesty international estimates that the number of death penalties in china is in the thousands. that would mean that china executed more people last year than all the countries in the world put together. in contrast to the us the time a prisoner spends in jail before their execution is often only a few months. but conditions for death row prisoners are often inhumane. a shackled to the wall and tortured. international who's going to prison is being

executed without being able to say goodbye to their families. i'm joined now by christina roth senior program officer of the criminal justice programs at amnesty international usa a very warm welcome misra more countries around the world are dropping capital punishment what is the situation in the u.s. do americans support the death penalty as a form of punishment thank you so much for having me on today and yes we are seeing a decline in the death penalty here in the u.s. and also around the world as we documented earlier this year in our annual death penalty and sentencing report you know in the u.s. there in nineteen states there abolitionists and there have been states recently that have made concerted efforts to abolish the death penalty we've seen legislatures of both political sides vote for it initiatives to repeal the death penalty like in the state of new hampshire but unfortunately they're the governor

had other other plans for it so i would say that also we are seeing a lot larger public opinion in support of the death penalty than we have in some time which is an excellent indicator that it's on its way out. you advocate your organization advocates for the abolishment of the death penalty how receptive has this current administration been to your cause. well i think this administration has some different perspectives and personally shares on this issue we saw earlier this year president trump make statements about those individuals involved in the trafficking of opioids that they ought to be subject to the death penalty as well and certainly we disagree with that notion there are other countries such as malaysia where the death penalty is mandatory for individuals who are involved drug trafficking and a particular case that we've invested in their. research so we we strongly disagree with that i think we've got an uphill battle with this administration but it's also

about the will of the people. as we've been reporting inmates on death row in the u.s. spend an average of more than a decade in prison before they are executed staying up to twenty three hours a day alone in their cells why not just commute that sentence to a life in prison without possibility of parole yeah so that's interesting so the mandela rules state that one in solitary confinement for twenty two hours a day and fifteen days in a row constitutes solitary confinement and could amount to cruel and unusual punishment we would strongly encourage states to reform their laws to do so as reforms have happened from juveniles in life without parole in solitary confinement as well but it's up to the states to change those laws. do you think that there is an increasing likelihood we will see the end of the

death penalty in the u.s. specifically because you pointed out in your first answer that a growing number of americans are against it. i do i do really believe that you know i think from where we sit here there is clearly a human rights concern the death penalty is the ultimate cruel and unusual punishment but there are other strong arguments and strong voices in this conversation that might not be you who you would consider and to see you know just the other day george will publish in the washington post an op ed about how egregious the death penalty is in relation to a particular case the supreme court heard last week of an individual madison who's been on death row for over thirty years and someone who suffers from dementia and no longer remembers the crime of which he's in jail for and whether or not we are really doing something to deter crime and by executing individuals like that think about the cost arguments and other arguments the government does not get it right every time and i think there's growing support across political parties of those of

those themes and the more education we do to get the word out the closer will be to getting rid of the death penalty christina ross senior program officer of the criminal justice programs that amnesty international usa thank you for spending time with us. thank you very much. here is corruption scandal has engulfed football in belgium after authorities today read a top flight clubs in the country and around europe more than two hundred police officers conducted dozens of raids in belgium and more in france luxembourg cyprus montenegro serbia and macedonia the premises of several high profile clubs including on the left and reigning league champions club were targeted in belgium prosecutors say they spent a year investigating player agents referees and club executives and found evidence of financial fraud and match fixing max match fixing a club coach even maaco was among those detained by police for questioning.

now it's no secret it's not been a good year for germany's national football team so far they were disappointed we kicked out of the twenty eighteen world cup in the group stages you may remember and then or embroiled in a scandal involving star player message result on now they decided to connect with their fan base a very young fan base. it's the type of reception the germany team really gets these days five thousand cheering fans isn't bad considering the events of the past summer but not all that surprising either given tickets were distributed through berlin's youth football clubs hardly the toughest critics they flocked to get a glimpse of this favorite stars do you remember watching tony because the last minute almost miller noir don't forget then i guess. even thomas millar a poster boy for germany's failings this summer and fall by munich's current struggles support for binds a clutch of national plays isn't what it used to be. the result was the ins

a shake up of the squad never happened but i guess it doesn't make sense to change twenty players. you'll both do in your own boat saying needs a break he's had it's is scope he's not good to us all so i would mix things up a bit more. bring in some younger players from different clubs. but the only genuine newcomer is a start but fans are most excited by leave royce sonny. you brant and the team of venom may have more experience but they are yet to produce their best for you if you live side. should give up they need to play more. up. to do their thing and will win games. for the time being fans remain skeptical this open training session was the first step towards reconnecting with supporters for those lucky enough to be in attendance anyway. all right now the global financial system is increasingly unstable that's the fresh warning coming from two

major international bodies and characters here as promised with more details that's right it's actually the conclusion of a report by the international monetary fund the world bank currently meeting on the indonesian island of bali after the two institutions lowered their global growth forecasts they're seeing a whole array of challenges that posed considerable threats to the world's financial stability. trade war is unsustainable dass. the prospect of a no deal bring. peace and i just some of the risks to global financial stability mentioned in the i am math reports. if you think it all things pretty bleak take heart from the i.m.f. chief christine lagarde. but it is tempting to be a bit depressed about this perspective i am actually hopeful because there is a clear up a tight to improve and expand trade think of the flooring welcome discussions and

proposals to strengthen the w.t. you all think of all the new trade deals such as d.p.p. eleven. the regional african trade agreement and the progress made on the us mexico canada deal what progress in some areas yes but all this against a backdrop of a trade war between the united states and china. the world bank had a sober message about it had a tit for tat tat response between the world's top two economies could tap a contagion effect. protections trade policies can cause a chain reaction has more countries adopt similar measures. the global recovery is built on investment and there's a real danger that businesses will decide to wait for more clarity before engaging in new projects ten years after the last global financial crisis there's a whole new set of risks to the world economy. whether it's trade war is the

question of upholding international banking regulations or breaking leaving the e.u. there before it suggests that without political cooperation the cracks in the financial system will only widen. serious. financial correspondent standing by in frankfurt carl how did markets react to this . well this has been the second warning by the i.m.f. in only twenty four hours so it added of course to the has a very bad mood on the financial markets right now because well all the optimistic points that the i.m.f. chief legard had to mention there in bali did not sound very convincing i mean those proposals to threat strengthen the w t o the world trade organization or the

t p p the transpacific partnership one important player is not taking part in this and this is the united states and what i've got and her team of the i.m.f. have been very hesitant to directly criticize the united states and its administration in the face of course a lot of those dangerous undercurrents that the i.m.f. has talked about there in bali are addressing american policies you know the trade policies the tax cuts that sort of influence a worldwide financial flows stuff like this one of the one of those undercurrents of course is the trades conflict between the u.s. and china and that seems to be as good in further now the americans are suspecting can see a money bill ation what is more. well steve who is the secretary of the treasury the finance minister of the us has said that the americans are looking into this tomorrow supposed to meet his chinese counterpart

at this i.m.f. meeting in bali and he said that he would address the topic there. in the frankfurt thank you very much. the world trade organization has also issued a dial warning for the world economy if the u.s. and china continue to escalate that trade conflict they predict that a full blown trade war between the two economic superpowers could cause world trade volumes by more than seventeen percent leading to an almost two percent contraction in world's productivity and that's likely to have repercussions for everyone. also complained that there were little signs the two countries were making any progress at the negotiating table. that's all your business. this morning news coming up at the top of the hour thank you very much for watching .

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