please. please. please. please. this is due to every news line from berlin president trump tries to solve the mystery of the missing saudi journalist he says he's spoken to top officials in saudi arabia and he's working closely with turkey that has more grisly theories have emerged about the disappearance of the journalist from the saudi consulate in istanbul also coming up the united nations warns that more and more people are going hungry every day eight hundred twenty million people did not have enough to eat last year their

reasons climate change and conflict also coming up in the next sixty minutes torrence killed ten of these spanish holiday island on the spanish holiday island of new york a flash floods of following heavy rains caused devastation on part of the island the spanish government declares the area a catastrophe zone as more extreme weather in the u.s. where an extremely dangerous category four hurricane man makes landfall on florida's gulf coast authorities are urged half a million people to evacuate. and living on death row many facing execution around the world experience isolation and torture during their final days and that's the focus of this year's of the world today against the death penalty. play. hockey. you so much for your company everyone

turkish 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 khashoggi shogi 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 prior to disappearance from the consulate the u.s. says it is ready to assist the investigation into his disappearance if asked meanwhile u.s. president donald trump said he has talked to saudi authorities at the highest level to demand answers. well to or talk more about the developments in the disappearance of a washington post columnist jamal khashoggi i'm now joined by my colleagues dorian jones in istanbul and my issue a there in washington good evening to you both of dorian want to give you the first

a word in istanbul a week now on from jamal khashoggi disappearance is still no definitive account of what happened to him what's going on. well indeed the turkish security forces are involved in an intense operation to find out actually what happened and as of yet they haven't proved that allegations the saudi officials were responsible for the for his death or his rendition back to riyadh but they believe they are building up a very powerful circumstantial case a lot of those are now focused on securing the identities of these so-called fifteen members saudi. will say they believe to identify many of them and their roles within the saudi security forces including one member who they claim has forensic medicine skills and the suggestion is that that member was used to possibly dismembered body and then take him out in one of the black to belong to the saudi consulate on top of that we all understand that many all the people

working at the saudi consulate were sent away for an unannounced holiday the day of him visiting the consulate fueling further suspicions over the saudis role in his disappearance my i want to turn to you now in washington i mean this is slowly turning into a p.r. nightmare for saudi. crown prince the n.b.a.'s has a very close relationship with president trump he was visited at the white house by the saudi crown prince seven some on earlier this year he himself went to saudi president trial has spoken very warmly about m.b.a.'s and now president trump and some prominent members of his administration in a really awkward position. absolutely and we should know that trip to riyadh was one of president trump's very first foreign diplomatic visits if not i believe his very first which is an odd choice for an american president when usually that first diplomatic visit is to someplace like auto water mexico city not only have

these administrative officials in an awkward position but it took them upwards of six days to get released any sort of statement about what had happened that we saw the vice president and the secretary of state released some one more some rather strong combinations the president trump himself has basically said yeah i know that it happens and i hope it's going to just sort itself out and it there's a worry among press advocates that this sort of have a leader attitude from the president of the united states position the traditionally been one of the strongest defenders of press freedom around the world will send a signal that the u.s. just doesn't care about the disappearance of a journalist from one of the country's most prominent newspapers and what sort of signal does that send to leaders around the world who are maybe a little bit less fond of press freedom dorian to talk to us about the two working narratives coming out of turkey at this moment.

yeah that's right to work on the basis that even a coach shogi was murdered in the consulate and then taken dismembered and taken out in boxes. all the alternative is said he was rendering a rendition back to riyadh but as of yet i mean there hasn't been any proof or a concrete evidence a smoking gun evidence to confirm these allegations even though took should have been very quick to put this. idea into the foreign media coverage but having said that we've been though the more and more evidence they are putting out there has been very little pushback from saudi arabia although than saying that we were not involved and in fact the president made it very clear he said if you if you all just push into the fence of truth and call shogi left the consulate shows the images of him leaving the consulate the saudi consulate have not done that and that this is fueling speculation that they were involved in some

way in the disappearance of course. my of the disturbing thing is that the venerable washington post as you referenced earlier has reported that the u.s. intercepted communications of saudi officials discussing a plan to capture what position does this put the u.s. in and has anybody in the administration reacted to that report. we haven't heard any corroboration of that per se other than this report in the washington post but what we do know is that trump is very very close with saudi arabia really she wants to be close to saudi arabia he views the message very strong allies of this definitely puts him in a difficult position showing that he can't do business as usual with saudi arabia and in addition the other element here is of course turkey and turkish officials trump an heir to juan do not get along especially with tariffs and other multilateral diplomatic dealings and goings on have been happening. so this u.s.

intelligence report also puts the u.s. in a awkward situation having to potentially side with a world leader who trump is not fond of against a world leader who trump is trying to be very close with. my own as you're reporting we're just getting in a report from agencies that a u.s. state department spokesman says that the u.s. had no advance knowledge of. the disappearance to be continued think you both for your reporting my sugar in washington and dorian jones in istanbul and we saw you in turkey where the trial has resumed of the journalist. he's been a critic of the government and fled turkey in twenty sixteen after a court sentenced him to five years in jail for publishing and investigation into government arms supplies to islamist militants earlier this year turkey's highest court ruled that dunbar should face new charges of spying you know lives here in

berlin and we spoke to him earlier today well before we listen to what he said let's take a look at his case which has caused considerable tension between germany and turkey . one of two of these most famous journalists exiles dylan. has been living in germany for over two years evading a five year prison sentence for allegedly revealing state secrets. his case is part of a crackdown on journalists and activists across turkey following an attempted coup against zero to one in two thousand and sixteen. and turkey continues to pursue him . during a recent visit to berlin turkish president red chip type zero to one present to german authorities with a wanted list of so-called terrorists believed to be living in germany didn't i was on that list anchor as demanding that the journalist be extradited to face yet another trial this time with

a possible twenty year sentence. i. do and i had planned to confront the 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 boycott a news conference because of a reporter but heard 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. and earlier we spoke to a chandan door and asked him if he feared for his safety after president aired on one called him a spy at his recent news conference here in berlin. i'm afraid it's not only me but

the whole point of their donors on the risk everywhere in the world because everybody watched the press conference and you can easily. see how angry he is against the journalists was critical oh well tim and here it is you know we're looking for revenge and the fight of course you have to be careful who you are challenging him so there is no position left almost into a he in the media sector so that's why he's trying to punish to join is art side to be good just to give the message to the others that. he can find you everywhere so we are of course keep on struggling but of course we have to be careful about the security issue. now the global financial system is increasingly unstable at least that's the first warning coming from two major

international bodies helena is pretty well it's not good news that say when the international monetary fund and the world bank very issue that warning at the same time in a report today will they are currently meeting on the indonesian island of bali and that warning coming just a day off for the international monetary fund cut its global growth forecast for this year and next sighting at a rate of fresh challenges a decade on from the global financial crisis. trade wars unsustainable dass. the prospects of the no deal graham. these are just some of the risks to global financial stability mentioned in the i.m.f. report. if you think it all signs 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's

a clear up a talent to improve and expand trade think of the florey of 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 we have 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 how to take for tactile response between the world's top two economies could top the 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 up holding international banking regulations or britain and even the e.u. the report suggests that without political cooperation the cracks in the financial system will only widen. if the european union wants cars that have built in europe to pump out thirty five percent less carbon dioxide than they do currently and they've set a deadline of twenty thirty european union environment ministers how about the deal in luxembourg but then again stations showed a rift between east and west in europe germany backed by eastern states fiercely resisted a high a forty percent cut which the european parliament had voted for last week luxemburg the netherlands and nordic states had pushed for even more ambitious reductions. the german automobile industry is furious they say the target of reducing carbon

dioxide emissions by thirty five percent is totally unrealistic unfulfillable according to the d.d.a. automotive industry association they say manufacturers have already exhausted all available fuel saving technology. now jobs and the industry are in danger. in the negotiations some countries like ireland for example suggested reducing carbon dioxide emissions by half an easy demand when one has no domestic auto industry but even countries like france and italy with important car sectors lobbied for significant cuts. responding to the news german chancellor angela merkel adopted a conciliatory tone so does this i need it's good that there was an agreement and even had because if there hadn't been one the european auto industry what it have had in certainty ahead of the european election and that wouldn't have sent a good signal all in all sorts of justifiable result. in fact it

wasn't hard to see. the stricter the targets the greater the pressure on manufacturers to sell more cars with zero emissions such as purity electric vehicles but as yet german manufacturers don't have much to offer in that field and they don't have much time to catch up with the game. and as we just heard in that report japanese carmakers are unsurprisingly not very happy about the new reduction in emissions targets while my colleague and i caught up with the president of the german association of the automotive industry here in berlin a short while ago you have called these goals overambitious now wouldn't you say it is incumbent upon industry and regulators to be able to achieve these goals in this time frame onto twenty thirty a reduction down to thirty five percent that is. too much and needs a framework that really works especially when it comes to charging points for example seventy five percent of all charging points in europe in only four

countries of twenty eight. but all of these cuts have to be ambitious in order for them to have any effect that is true and we we are for ambitious goals that's for that's for sure but they have also to be feasible and we have to they have to be achievable then it works if they are not going to be achieved we are not going to achieve climate control chancellor angela merkel for her part however has said that these targets are defensible do you see any benefits to this deal. i see a good benefit for us because the german automotive industry is leading when it comes to alternative fuels when it comes to alternative power trains when it comes to electro mobility we are spending forty billion euros in the next three years we will triple the product line that we are offering and we are already market leader in europe but yet was it germany that wanted to make sure that these cuts for an severe yes because germany is convinced and i am convinced too that we need to

balance a balance of climate control on one hand and on the feasibility of reduction of c o two and the introduction of electability thank you very much you're welcome. back even out today and well concerning numbers when it comes to global food security very very worrying indeed a worrying trend that we are talking about here after years of progress in tackling global hunger the united nations is warning that more and more people are going hungry every day often because of climate change and conflict in twenty sixteen eight hundred and four million people didn't have enough to eat last year that figure grew to eight hundred and twenty one million people that's one in nine people in the world the worst hit country is yemen it's twenty eight million people more than eight million are on the brink of starvation and then there is the concern that figure could double by the end of this year and this report contains

some images that some viewers may find distressing. these other faces of a famine. the scars of war are visible everywhere in yemen and as a waffen the most vulnerable law children. in the hospital an aide in every room is filled with tiny patients he came with a seat up with money through asia for me to share a habitation on communicating with a kid what that is the area that's what i define with these. clinics here are overwhelmed after three years of conflict some five million children are at risk of starvation it's the country no use for using sydney for shortage

in terms of. locomotion of the symptoms in both the movies. even the phone to the men in who has been over the last one hour most who want to be. the blockade of the vital pulled city has caused food prices to skyrocket the world food program and numerous n.g.o.s are working to deliver aid to the many people who need it but the situation is precarious. fighting continues in her data and elsewhere and there's no guarantee that the aid corridors that are open today will be open tomorrow. providing assistance to eight million people every month which is what we're food programs target is in a very complex conflict situation is very challenging. in the u.s. and the conflict in yemen has been called the wealth forgotten war that makes its

citizens the forgotten people the u.n. going to may that if conditions don't improve chief thirds of the population could stuff by the end if they see it. and i'm joined now here in the studio by the director of the world food program david beasley a very warm welcome mysteriously i want to start off of course with those frankly horrifying images of those severely malnourished children infants has the international community abandon yemen is a disaster and you know it's not about numbers it's about those little children you see on that street every five seconds around the world child has died every ten minutes in yemen a child is dying from hunger hunger related problems this is a manmade conflict and that's what's so sad is heartbreaking to see what's taking place we're doing everything we can we get eighteen million people out of twenty seven million that literally don't know where the next meal is eight million are on

the brink of starvation as we speak right now it is a forgotten war but we're not going to let these people down that's why we're here . now sadly that isn't the only crisis that the world is was witnessing unfold right now a syria that is still grinding on that a civil war there today you met with a german leaders and you secured an additional one hundred eighty six million years for the world food program humanitarian work in syria describe to us how vital that funding is for your organization. is most vital to the organization is vital to the people there were helping of course when we know what happened in two. thousand and fourteen when the europeans and the international community didn't respond quickly enough in the syria crisis it was just a catastrophe and what's so sad in the last two years because we have been making so much progress on ending or reducing hunger around the world but in the last two years the hunger a has gone up substantially from seven hundred seventy seven

million to eight hundred and twenty one million the severe hunger rate has risen from eighty to one hundred twenty four and the question is why the answer is simply man made conflict whether it's syria whether it's yemen whether it's somalia northeast nigeria south sudan and the places go on and all this money from germany who is one of our greatest partners clearly they clearly understand the germans understand if we can get ahead and address the root cause then we can address so many other problems because if you don't have food security we know from past experience for every one percent increase in hunger there's a two percent increase in migration destabilization and other consequences from not getting out front of the issue let's talk about another potentially man made disaster climate change you've already got on the way record saying that nobody could dispute that climate change is happening and that it's a key factor in world hunger would you care to elaborate on well the in the last

couple years a major driving force for the increase in hunger has been. a conflict but the second driving force is climate extremes we can see it in the seville region where the horrors moving down about one mile per year pushing the herders into the farmers creating conflict of course the extremist groups are exploiting that but we what we see when you have conflict with climate extremes it is a perfect storm created destabilization migration and many other issues if we can come in like what we are trying to do with effective programs utilizing for example the german dollars as come in in. effective rehabilitation for land programs planing trees beneficiaries who want to improve their community it is we've got some tremendously successful programs that we want to implement all throughout this and the greater social reason if we can do that we believe we can stabilize the region reduce migration so that is migration by choice not by you know necessity

and do so many other good things by addressing hunger because if you don't address hunger. you have so many complications destabilization migration and the list goes on and on and people don't want to leave their home area they don't they want to stay there sir you've been appointed by the trumpet ministration president trump has pulled out of the paris climate accords you feel very strongly about climate change i mean you just make the case of how that's affecting many lives for instance in this how region have you tried to convince president trump well one thing i do believe in washington his is i've explained to many my friends in washington that you might dispute what's causing the climate to change but what you can't dispute is the climate is changing we see the extreme weather conditions where there's droughts or floods and so give us the tools that we need to be on the ground to at least impact it with regards to these fragile communities so i'm hopeful that the leaders in the world will come around with solutions that will

will truly resolve these issues but i'll leave that up to v.a. as the humanitarians we on the ground dealing with the implications for men made decisions whether it's manmade war or whatever it might be is there enough food for everyone around off to feed the entire planet as of today if we could in the men made conflicts it is our opinion that we can truly in world hunger but until we in these conflicts we will never in world hunger if we're having problems today struggling with seven point five billion imagine when we have ten billion people twenty five years from the world food program director david beasley thank you so much sir for spending time with us greatly appreciate you coming into the studio all right now to the spanish holiday island of new york where at least ten people have been killed after rain storms cost flash flooding the worst hit areas a village around sixty kilometers east of the capital palma a spanish government is the clearing the area a catastrophe zone. residents have begun to clean up that devastated

hometown flooding subsides and is dealing with the often mouth of the raging lord says. tarantula rains caused the river to bust its banks the current sweeping away cars and ravaging people's homes and businesses. you see in a minute in the news this morning i came back to the shop and it was very chaotic as far as i know i've lost everything it looks like the end of the world. if indeed . this family judging by how survived by sheltering ups. several others in the town were killed in the disaster. but there was the red the water came up to this little. you know we're grateful that we're all alive but we pray for those who lost their lives i somebody told me that one. spanish prime

minister pedro sanchez visited sanyo vents and assured the community they'd get the government's full support. now hundreds of emergency workers including the spanish military a combing through the damage. and helping to clean up the mess the torrents of water left in their wake will be right back. to. georgia as a dream. the former soviet republic once to join the european union. since gaining independence georgia has taken over. at the same time concerns have grown at the pressure from its powerful neighbor russia. to just dream. only to. leave.

we may come over we want tons of food and up to two pilots we all deserve some of the same see the same seven percent plus for africa charging. nothing to the gym well i guess sometimes i am but most of the things which would be the germans digs deep into the german culture of looking at the stereotype cracks in your sink the future of the country that i don't. even see we think it is grandma there you go it's all about who. knew i might show join me to meet the germans on the w. . post. what keeps us in shape what makes a c. and how do we still come from. my name is dr carlson the i talked to medical experts. watch them at work. and they discuss what you can do to

improve your health. stay tuned and let's all try to stay in good shape. d.w. . great to have you back with us you're watching the ever you know is the i'm loyal of iraq in berlin this is our main headline this hour. u.s. president donald trump has been in touch with top saudi officials in an effort to solve the mystery of the missing saudi journalist democracy he has not been seen since he entered the saudi consulate in istanbul more than a week ago. authorities in florida are urging nearly half a million people to evacuate immediately as hurricane michael string strengthens into an extremely dangerous category four storm forecasters say the hurricane will hit the gulf shore of the state in the next. a few hours and correction please i'm

very sorry it has already made landfall are already packing a speech strong enough to destroy roofs and walls and it's also fear that the storm could create huge waves as high as four meters while earlier on the day u.s. president donald trump has declared a state of emergency and florida's governor says the hurricane could be one of the worst in living memory now the storm is here it is not safe to travel across the panhandle if you are in a coastal area do not leave your house if you made the 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

florida panhandle in a century. and that was governor scott speaking before the hurricane made landfall in the meantime it has made a landfall and we spoke earlier to journalist malcolm hornsby from an affiliate a.b.c. television station in tallahassee florida and he told us how people prepared for the hurricane there in tallahassee i think we're good doing good in terms of preparation you go to the local gas station there's actually gas i may go to the grocery store the pallets of water sitting around so it's not like i've been here and i think 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 gas stations with that as 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 the storm seriously just because we've had this threat before in years past you have in our coverage area with

a few counties that have been told to that you wait for example local accounting franklin county and most of those that some of those counties had shuttles that brought people to leon county into tallahassee so we've seen those people come into the area of hotels or go kind of hotel the parking lot is full so i think people are taking that seriously they're coming and went towards 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. our agenda as hurricane that michael has made landfall want to hand you over now to how and where farmers are trying to adapt to climate change absolutely leyla because of course unpredictable weather is tricky for all of us but it's a nightmare for farmers their livelihoods depending on knowing what to plant when take south africa for example it's been in the grip of a serious drought and now some local farmers in eastern cape of switched to producing indigenous flowers to extract essential oils as another source of income well the hopes require a little water and also help prevent land from turning into death it. rosemary

prefers sunny and dry locations its value lies in the plant's tips where preciously theory a loyal collects a high quality resource for the cosmetics and pharmaceuticals industries from a william fund rensburg and his helper are nervous this is the first harvest in the future of the whole valley depends on this crop. and. constant small stock farming and limited space simply became too much for our and. so we need to find other means of income and that's why we look at this kind of thing. so we can continue with our livestock with and together with their oil or in fear. of when the fear can board already when. farmers here keep on gora goats dismal here wool is a luxury item in the clothing industry with more and more goats however the local vegetation has been eaten away the thick green bushy flora once covered the slopes

now the barren wasteland holds no water no life the valleys development company is managed by daniel three. together with van rensburg and other farmers he leads the transition from exploited of livestock farming to organic essential oil crops the oils are extracted in this distillery. the things you will see take a lot of plant material you distill it to a very small amount of product that you can easily transport in an art over the cliff and in that way we we we reduce the amount of material that we take out of the system and all the plant material once it's been distilled can actually go back into the fields go back into the system we can use that to make up for it it's a high value. if you need to do with with. the go

tree slopes are slowly recovering the living lands organization helps the farmers rejuvenate their land also budgets and his team worked hard to protect every single tree so in bushes keep the goats away well canvas walls collect rainwater. beneath the themes new hope is sprouting. you know we are starting to see changes even at a small scale we've just gone through one of the worst droughts in over one hundred years. and despite that we are seeing positive changes in the ecosystem we're seeing positive changes in social systems. you know and the way that people perceive the environment. it was a leap of faith for all involved from friends to buy a new very geisha system for over sixty five thousand euros but the first batch of rosebery looks promising and he's sure his investment will soon pay out. well to

another sort of herb now in the recreational use of marijuana is set to become legal in canada on the seventeenth of october and it's not just uses who want to come forward to a new go high the government is also looking to cash in with canadian provinces preparing for a tax bonanza. cannabis is big business and business is in canada have been gearing up for the big day even medium sized producers like pure son expect to see in significant volumes to market conservative fork out the seventy five thousand kilograms you. can it is cannabis industry has bloom since the liberals came to government the country has more than twenty publicly traded marijuana companies with a combined market value of twenty three billion dollars unlike in the us marijuana is illegal at the federal level the canadian cannabis industry will have access to banking and mail delivery customers will be able to order marijuana online and have it delivered to their door. we will soon have

a new system in place one that keeps cannabis out of the hands of our kids and keeps profits away from organized crime and like any new industry can it is cannabis sector also means new jobs deloitte estimates as many as one hundred. fifty thousand new jobs across the country. but this budding industry will have to fight for a small share of the profits it's canada's provincial governments that will be the biggest winners the provinces will make around three billion dollars a year from licenses and taxes. and is over to lay lead now and an important day for human rights activists absolutely helena more than the fifty countries a world wide still impose the death penalty human rights groups say those condemned to death are often subjected to dehumanizing treatment some are even tortured while today on the sixteenth world day against the death penalty we look at the conditions that those on death row face in their final days.

karey dean maw the sixteenth person to be executed in the u.s. this year his death by lethal injection was recorded and meticulous detail he turned his head left and mouth several words to the peers a number of witnesses including the words i love you he said at ten twenty five am . at ten twenty seven am here you have certain breathing heavily and then at ten thirty nine and twelve seconds to curtain went down possibly into the process took about fifteen minutes total. carried in more had been sentenced to death as a twenty two year old for the murder of two taxi drivers he spent thirty 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 us they typically spent more than a decade in prison before their 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 for 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. or television images like these of

a former police chief being sentenced to death for murder and bribery last year are extremely rare q if you think 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. amnesty international has also cited reports of prisoners being executed without being able to say goodbye to their families.

and in pakistan there are over seven thousand people waiting on death row one of them is the christian woman as. she was sentenced to death back in two thousand and ten for allegedly insulting the prophet muhammad it has become the most high profile blasphemy case in pakistan and gone all the way to the supreme court this week the judge just postponed their verdict on whether he her death sentence should be overturned. and there karl masterman is here from social media disk a call you've been tracking this story this is a highly contentious case in pakistan and that's also reflected on social media yeah absolutely i mean all eyes are kind of on this case right now has been on death row for what eight years now on the one hand of people calling for release on the other the majority at least in pakistan actually are calling for the death penalty and you see a lot of this campaigning from religious hardliners in pakistan they're afraid perhaps if her case is overturned the country could could take

a turn towards secularism so there's a lot of pressure from them actually on social media in pakistan you can take a look at some of the things we're seeing here we're not going to show you everything there's a lot of graphic images but two of the most popular hashtags about her case are actually these ones one is hanging and the other is punished under two nine five see that refers to the penal code for blasphemy some of these pose there as we mentioned there a bit graphic but you can kind of get a sense of what we're seeing here this campaign that goes beyond just hashtags it's also a video is circulating like these ones here and these are actually some speeches and some interviews with local clerics and they're directly pressuring even threatening pakistan's supreme court judges they're saying that if they released. the judges should be killed religious extremists are also saying that they'll be at the courtroom when this verdict is finally announce maybe some kind of subtle pressure there against these judges those safety concerns over not limited to just

those judges ozzy's husband has been in hiding ever since he's afraid for his life we actually reached out to some experts in pakistan today it became rather clear to us that we suspected that their phones were actually being bugged or were being eavesdropped on based on their conversations and it just shows just how not just controversial but how influential this a pakistani blasphemy law is absolutely is really had wide ranging effect as came into effect in the one nine hundred eighty s. this bans blasphemy against any religion includes a penalty up to the death penalty it could also be a fine in many other cases one recent example one man was what's happening with his friend the friend reported one of those texts as a blasphemy and he actually receive the death penalty so it could even be for something like a whatsapp message we want to give you some perspective on this law and some of the numbers that are behind it take a look we crunched some of the numbers behind this blasphemy law so nearly fifteen

hundred people have been charged under this law across about three decades of those at least forty are currently on death row in pakistan however to date there have been no official executions under this law and no government executions that said some sixty people as you can see that were accused of blasphemy have actually been murdered simply because of those allegations against them we're talking and a vigilante justice there were really does one of the scariest things about this you know the simplest act even a whatsapp text that can lead to a death penalty or even just kind of an angry mob coming at you and taking justice into their own hands and we've got twenty seconds carl see a baby's case is garnering international attention as well as we've even seen pope francis meeting with members of her family to support her case other human rights groups. and definitely pressure on the new prime minister there in iran khan this is seen as really a test for him and his government will this be a new case for human rights in pakistan or will this go ahead with the death penalty all right keep tracking that story for us karl thank you so much for that.

back here. a huge corruption scandal has engulfed football in belgium after authorities today raided 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 their list the end arena league champions club but if it 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 the bit of a coach even on late go was among those detained by police for questioning. now germany's national football team is gearing up for a pair of stirring tests in european competition and they've added

a player who could provide instant help he's a leroy son a young player of the year in the english premier league who did not make the trip with the german squad to the world cup. the talisman to lead germany into the future leroy son a got the berlin fans excited the manchester city winger was not part of germany's world cup debacle he was surprisingly dropped from the squad right before the tournament. course i was disappointed not to be at the world cup so now i'm more motivated than ever over the field outside learned a lot over the last few months and i'm really happy to be back in the germany squad back in the mix with all these players. for many sunday is a mixed bag incredibly talented but with questions surrounding his attitude and team spirit but he seems well liked in the german team as. we have our ups and downs you could say that but we've known each other

a long time as we played together childhood i can say that year i was not a weak character or anything like that i can stick up for him in that regard. of course there will always be a lot of speculation when a player of his caliber is left out of the world cup squad so it is better that mr by coach has yet to fully explain his decision to drop him but the twenty two year old has cut a reformed figure hoping to silence critics with more effort on the pitch think it's an awful lot i think in the beginning it just tenderly clicked for me here but i'm working on that all the time trying to fit into this team in the months of bustle but a player of his level could do a lot better than just fit in with his skill and speed sign a can be a match winner for germany provided he can transfer his club form to the national team. book fans from all over the world have descended on the german city of frankfurt

for its annual book fair frankfurt book fair is the publishing industry's biggest trade fair with over seven thousand exhibitors for more than eight hundred countries taking part and with me in the studio is our box for our culture just to tell us more about this good to see you go right take it away what can we expect from this book fair well a lot actually of course but lot of controversy also political inside and actually this year there's many things that makes it special one is that it's the seventy's verse three of the u.n. human rights declaration so human rights will be a big topic on the books for and as every year the books are also draws a lot of big names and celebrities from the arts as well as politics one highlight for me personally one highlight was opening the nigerian writer and woman rights activist from a month on goes the adichie she took to the stage and gave a powerful speech calling for more gender diversity in the book in the street and women's voices that they need to be heard

a lot more she said that many women read books written by men a lot more than the other way round and she also spoke about the importance of literature because it's ability to actually human eyes so i think really that is someone to keep an eye on there absolutely she's already really huge so it's great that she's been here every year the frankfurt book fair has a guest of honor a country that's in the spotlight who is it this year this is georgia actually i think that's very interesting because georgia is a very small country but still only five millions of people speaking the language but still having a really large. history in terms of literature or one thousand five hundred years the small republic located on the crossroads of western asia and eastern europe has a very colorful past marked by centuries of foreign rule and oppression so a very total power. that we can also see in the novels over one hundred georgian

books have been translated only for the book fair and basically there's a whole plane full of georgian writers coming to the book fair it is seventy so again the number of the number seventy eight is it plays a very big role actually so yes some of the others will be other books there and i would say we take a look at two of them. darpa has an eye for the changes in his city country and its people. carbon do not colors of the night is the award winning playwright and critics debate a novel sera is the happy far not so happy house husband he's lost his job and out of boredom watches the young man across the street he sees a terrible argument with tragic consequences and an opportunity to take care of his family again the action takes place in the summer of twenty twelve amidst widespread dissatisfaction with president mikheil saakashvili tens of thousands

take to the streets in protest after graphic videos emerged showing prisoners brutally beaten and tortured in the country's prisons the situation threatens to explode. the characters who are normal people who are not distinguished by any. anything and put them in boiling situation and observing something terrible happening program was that's that's my primary. what then happens in gaborone is novel offers a glimpse into a society where homosexuality used to be much is my was widespread and where it's every man for himself. really grew up in a village near the capital tbilisi next to a children's home. the relic from the soviet era housed unwanted children children

who grew up dirty abused and brutalized as a child the author played with these children and remembers them talking about a ritual or cheered when you come a girls raped after coming across some of her former playmates begging in the streets twenty years later she was her childhood memories into a disturbing novel the peer field. when you have experienced violence like this. even loud functions through violence it's very normal for people who have grown up with this and who don't know anything else that's how they go through life so give. it to me she really is also known as a filmmaker she studied in germany but the story she tells all type places in georgia and it's women who are at the center of her stories women who take their lives into their own hands and see change system just. so you are clearly

a georgian authors are very special and have a very interesting narrative to share with the world definitely as we could see also in the report i think what i think is interesting that most of the knowledge of religion discover a lot about georgian culture history and society which he mostly don't hear about so explicitly so i think that's interesting and many young arthur's also focus on social topics in the present society while the other older generation is trying to come to terms with their past with the tribal and political past now let's talk about the frankfurt fair because it's marking a milestone this year it is because also again the number seventy. oh i don't know if they haven't is the first day of the vote for actually in ninety forty nine the first book fair took place in frankfurt and a whole different climate in the war torn historic center frankfurt with only two hundred exhibitors and all just from germany so most of the publishers would come there. just with one book in their luggage so a lot has changed of course because now today we have over seven thousand

exhibitors and that's quite a change right thank you so much thank you appreciate it and before i let you go want to remind you of our main headlines this hour. u.s. presidential trump has been in touch with top saudi officials in an effort to solve the mystery of the missing a saudi journalist jamal coachy has not been seen since he entered the saudi consulate in istanbul more than a week ago. and at least ten people have died on the spanish island of new york and flooding caused by terentia will rain and governments is declaring the area a catastrophe zone and in the u.s. florida's gulf coast has been hit by what the forecasters say is an extremely dangerous category four hurricane. that does it for me on my iraq in for a landing on behalf of the entire team thank you so much for spending this part of

your day with us the news continues would fail gail and i see them are.

georgia has a dream. the former soviet republic funston join the european union. since gaining independence georgia has been taken over. at the same time concerns have grown ever pressure from its powerful neighbor russia. georgia stream all on his own german mafias two minutes on d. w. .

any colby's in germany to learn german english cynical. why not learn with him d w z learning course because fake. od if you ever have to cover of a murder the best way is to make the most accidents raring to. never read a book like the some of. the traumas to modern german streets. an analyst on consuming conflict for power and religion. thirty years. but challenges failed to determine its outcome. in negotiations lasting many years mediators succeeded in reaching agreement it was the birth of modern diplomacy. sixteen forty eight belonged to starts october twenty fourth on two w.

. terrace monley sometimes it's night just hide your identity. bangladesh what is the true face of the country . freedom independence a separation of state and church that used to be important but for decades political infighting here has hindered progress and islamist extremists are gaining more influence democracy and the rule of law are on shaky ground in of discontinuous down love it should be. a pretty. and often. bangladesh the dawn of islamism and exclusive d.w. report starts october eighteenth.

noon. this is the w. news live from berlin president's trip tries to solve the mystery of the missing starving journalist and he says he's spoken to saudi arabia and that he's working closely with jamal khashoggi all went into the saudi calls of us in a stumbo more than a week ago for theories about his fate not multiply also on the program many of the world's death row inmates experience isolation.