well you. this is the w.'s live from berlin described by forecasters as extremely dangerous hits florida aurukun michael is moving inland from the gulf coast with winds of up to two hundred fifty kilometers an hour or forces tell half a million people to leave the storm still takes money by surprise also on the program. president trumpet weighs in on the mischief a missing saudi journalist jamal khashoggi king and to the saudi consulate in istanbul more than a week ago and fears about what happened to a multiplier. comply from death row money facing execution experience

isolation and torture during the final days this is the focus of this year's world day against the death penalty. unfold welcome to the program we begin with a storm for the forecasters of describe sixty three really dangerous it's wreaking havoc in florida officials are warning of a life threatening storm surge and have almost half a million people to move to higher ground again michael is raising cattle before i decide to be the most powerful hearken to ever hit the region. hurricane michel reached wind speeds of nearly two hundred fifty kilometers per hour as it made landfall in florida's panhandle. governor rick scott reiterated warnings of the storm's danger as it blooming from the gulf of mexico. again michael is

a deadly category four storm this is the worst storm to the florida panhandle seen in more than one hundred years remember we can rebuild your house but we cannot rebuild your life. about four hundred thousand floridians were told to get out of harm's way for neither floodwaters toppling trees and blown off roofs or just some of the storm's hazards panama city beach is among the low lying areas under orders to evacuate but not everyone was taking the warning of unimaginable damage seriously before the hurricane struck. just to hunker down we've been through so many storms in the media sometimes gets things a little bit you know crazy and you know people jump and run and you know they should do that but we've just been through so many that we're comfortable staying so we've got enough food in generator gas so will be just fine but.

now it's too late to leave the affected coastal regions. a number of families made it to some of the roughly fifty emergency shelters just in time. who joins us from miami florida welcome to the people preparing for michael's arrival. i mean with regards to how big or barren it's more based on location here so in the florida panhandle i would see the majority of the impact coming in from this category for the evacuation zones are deemed mandatory and versus by curation sones are going throughout georgia and the carolinas are deathly showing two different types of preparations since a storm is moving very quickly we're seeing a lot of accusations towards the west majority of people and more inland are staying with it. and i was sort of preparations are all authorities making for this . well thank you to president dahl trump in this regard we sorry to have

federal and also states preparations being not only prepared but also having a state of emergency being declared by him federal and our state enforcements and our response teams are definitely gearing up and getting ready to respond and get to the people as quickly as possible for now we're staying in the western states trying to seek shelter during this time and then be able to get back in and help out as much as possible to order residents in the panhandle so how is the current can expect you to progress. well census is a fast moving storm it's is expected to die down as they moves more inland and north and closer to the carolinas which was just recently affected by hurricane florence hopefully it dies down quickly before making more impact in torrance and then land and getting back over to that area of the budget few weeks ago so if god

is willing to then will be able to get to the storm pretty quickly so a full cast as the producing with this could michael good move across central georgia later tell us about preparations there. now georgia since it's not so much of a majority of the time the hurricanes go into georgia in ready die down significantly even get down to category one of the tropical storm. majority of georgia residents and operations are much more relaxed comparisons of the border and especially at four am right now it is definitely one of the first times a day if i see something this coming their way so we're just hoping that they're going to go over and in the state and federal and state level response teams are paired over get over georgia as quickly as possible good talking to you thank you for joining us nicholas snyder in miami florida thank you u.s. president will trump says he has spoken with saudi authorities or what he called the highest level to demand answers to the mystery of the missing saudi journalist

we cannot let this happen to reporters to anybody he said jamal khashoggi hasn't been seen since he went into the saudi consulate in istanbul more than a week ago to his officials have said they believe he was murdered inside the building this up by turkish media allegedly shows journalists. looking into some of the consulate the last time anyone saw him eight days have passed and there are new traces of his marabouts. to say they believe a saudi arabian hits to fifty nine year old media outlets published proposing to show the suspects a rival a day before went missing. before his disappearance he worked for the washington post during a self-imposed exile in the us. there he wrote columns criticizing saudi arabia's new rule as the washington post supports the view that saudi arabia captured him and says that u.s. intelligence knew about the plan to capture the columnist the u.s.

denies any former knowledge president on a sham has called the case a very serious situation and said he wanted to get to the bottom of that meanwhile saudi arabia remained silent as the alleged c.c.t.v. images run on news shows worldwide it has yet to prove its claim that he left the saudi consulate by a back door. more or less from the double correspondence store in jones in istanbul wash wired in washington welcome both of us are with you dorian jones. disappeared a week ago still no trace of him what's been going on. well turkish authorities have been really ramped up about their investigation they have some very strong leads they believe a lot of attention is focusing on this so-called fifteen member alleged saudi hit team which arrived the day arrived the day before he went to the consulate and in the evening of disappearance then all left the country on private jets. claim

they've identified at least eight of the teens some of believed to be linked to saudi intelligence one is believed to have forensic skills now that has led to speculation as person could be possibly involved in dismembering body and then that being taken out in one of the saudi consulates black fans of which a lot of attention is also being focused on it left in amman a convoy of six vehicles on top of the fact that it has emerged that most of the staff of the saudi consulate including all the turkish citizens were asked to leave the building before called arrival this is a thrilling third speculation that foul play was a tyrant but saudi officials are insisting no there's no evidence linking them to his disappearance and say they know nothing about what has happened to him. in washington jamal khashoggi has been a u.s. resident yeah to the u.s. administration a while to come out and talk about this why. so excellent point and as you said

phil we do have reports now that trump has spoken to a senior saudi official it was unclear if that was prince mohammed bin solomon himself although there are also reports that other members of the top administration did speak directly with the prince earlier today but when president trump was asked about this earlier he seemed to try to pass the buck saying i don't know more than anyone else i hope this will simply resolve itself we do know that president trump likes to brag on reporters quite a lot and both turkey and saudi arabia are also country is that do not have shall we say the greatest track record when it comes to press freedom it really seems like this was something that trump just wanted to keep off of his plate especially given that deflate matic trickiness between these three countries let's let's talk about just talk a slew of these conflicting diplomacy. but this is the talking the three countries in saudi arabia in the united states. exactly well trump is

not exactly on friendly terms with the president of turkey right now investors just several factors including an american pastor that's being held under house arrest in turkey increased tariffs on turkish aluminum and steel which aired on is blaming in part for the current turkish economic crisis and the crash of the turkish lira so they're not getting along right now but trump is sort of being forced to take air to one side against the saudi government here which is a government that trump has very much been trying to court as an ally we have to remember that riyadh was the very first country that trump visited when he became president on his very first diplomatic tour and he chose to go to riyadh and not say auto our mexico city which would be a more traditional choice for an american president and this is because trump has really been trying to address him self closer to saudi arabia for various reasons partly in the fight against isis but this really puts trump a difficult position having to somewhat side against someone who he wants to see as

an ally in favor of someone who he has not been getting along with who enjoys in istanbul talk us through the fear is to usual sources are working with and how credible well. well took forty two have two scenarios one is that they believe that he was killed when he went into the consulate there was a visual that's been quoted as saying they believe this journalist was killed within two hours of being in the building and then his body was dismembered there is reports now that the turkish security forces could be looking at the sewers under the consulate for possible human remains they have and the second scenario is a car show he was somehow disabled and then smuggled out in a van and rendered back to riyadh where he's been held incommunicado there are elements of turkey's proca approach to government media that are putting forward these claims but it has to be said that the investigation continues to deepen in

the background of this so-called saudi saudi team the belief is the coach has been killed and in some way his body has been disposed of and that is what the background briefing's of turkish officials continues to be pushing toward in jersey . and washington thank you bill. now to some of the other stories making news around the world to coast guard is searching for twenty five migrants believed to be missing in the aegean sea after their boat capsized and sank eight bodies have been recovered the four say an iraqi woman on board swam ashore and raised the alarm. prosecutors in peru have to tell you the opposition leader. keiko fujimori was part of an investigation into money laundering that's according to her lawyer you're looking now at video testimony a year ago in front of a parliamentary inquiry into alleged illegal political contributions from from

a brazilian construction firm. at least fifty five people were killed in western kenya when that bus went off the road and rolled down on a ballot went about fifty people survived police say the bus was not licensed to operate at night and that its owners face charges. for more than fifty countries around the world still use the death penalty but human rights groups say people sentenced to death are often subjected to dehumanizing treatment and even tortured today on the sixteenth world day against the death penalty we look at the conditions facing convicts in their final days. carried dean more 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 piers a number of witnesses including the words i love you he said at ten twenty five am

. at ten twenty seven and he started breathing heavily and then at ten thirty nine and twelve seconds the curtain went down possibly into the process took about fifteen minutes total. carried jane moore 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 u.s. they typically spent more than a decade in prison before they're 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 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. amnesty international has also cited reports of prisoners being executed without being able to say goodbye to their families. let's talk to a mystery international about this christina roth a senior program officer to usas criminal justice programs welcome to day doubly your organization that advocates for the abolition of the death i don't see why. thank you for having me on say i really appreciate the question so amnesty international will you say full scale abolition of the death penalty there's no question by our standards that it's the ultimate denial of human rights and crawl

and inhumane treatment of an individual. it raises to the level of a violation of right to life and depending on the case and also violate what trial rights could look like i say so if states started to execute their murders and rapists was honestly believe they should do with. that's an interesting question well it's up to the states to decide but we don't believe that the death penalty serves as a realistic deterrent. to those particular crimes or any crime for that matter it's not a punishment that as we've seen at least in the us keeps crimes from happening and in fact if you look at the nineteen states in the u.s. that no longer have a death penalty their murder rates are lower than those on the whole that do and so we don't believe this particular punishment will bring will solve that problem or bring any respite. i'm going to believe i don't kill them do

something else but you decide how is your message going to the united states which is still as you were saying execute people i'm sorry could you say that one more time how's the president how was the trumpet ministration reacted to your overtures . well the president president trump has expressed some opinions about the death penalty and his tenure earlier this year he came out with a statement that he believed in an effort to fight the opium crisis here in the u.s. that the death penalty should be a tool used for those involved in the trafficking of opioids if an individual if it results in an adventure death however we would oppose that you know there are states already that have the ability to do that although it doesn't appear to be a tool that's being used and to the extent that i made the comparison earlier with the murder not only is that an extreme punishment for someone involved with drug

trafficking and other countries that that also use that like malaysia. i don't believe that it serves as a relevant attorney and isn't it an extreme punishment for such a crime. executed which i hope will surprise a lot of people. yes absolutely unfortunately iran is at the top of that list coming to mind and this year on world day against the death penalty amnesty is advocating on behalf of an individual mohammad reza. who was just fifteen when he was sentenced to death in iran he's been on death row for fourteen years and he has had six different executions dates of which he has survived you have to think about the sort of anxiety that causes one to never know when their death yet seems eminent is coming and to experience such a large fraction of their life to be on death row. row.

thank you. because you should have a home for them phil thank you very much indeed and we're going to start by going straight over to wall street now where off financial correspondent is standing by gains we've seen that the markets are severely down heavy selling in the wednesday session was it going wrong. you know well enough it was really a pretty rough day here on wall street and we haven't seen anything like that pretty much since the breaks are devoted to god to two years ago blue chips down by more than eight hundred points days of lows and that means was just it was in one trading week we have lost of thirteen hundred points just it was then the dow jones industrial average has been down four percent well investors are getting nervous about the upcoming earnings season and specially regarding the outlook from u.s. companies you have a couple of factors going on we have

a higher dollar we have higher interest rates that makes that more expensive we have tariffs for example on steel on that could increase production costs for u.s. corporations we have a slowdown of the chinese economy so there really a couple of factors going on and that is starting to make investors feel quite nervous at this point and there's also been a white house statement what's come out of that. you know certainly there has hardly been any president in the history of the united states who was so focused on the stock market as donald trump is and in the past couple of months he always showed the charts of the dull joneses so to speak get to brief prove how great the u.s. economy is doing so what we do know is that the president has been briefed today on the movements on the stock market and what we're hearing from the white house is that they're not concerned at this point they're talking about a correction in an overall bullish market environment that the economy will remain

strong looking ahead and that for certain is going to be the big question if it is a just a brief nosebleed is it just a small correction was in the bull market or are there some bigger forces on their way so we will certainly have a closer look at how the market opens on thursday a financial correspondent for us in new york thank you very much indeed. and you countries won't cause built in europe to emit thirty five percent less carbon dioxide by twenty thirty negotiations in luxemburg exposed a rift between easton and western europe though germany backed by eastern states facing resisted a high a forty percent cut which the european parliament and voted in favor of last week luxembourg the netherlands and nordic states have pushed the 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 in 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's an agreement and you've been in it because if there hadn't been one the european auto industry what it has had uncertainty ahead of the european election and that wouldn't have sent a good signal all in all so to 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 purely 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 german carmakers unsurprisingly not very happy about the new reduction in emissions targets. caught up with the president of the german to save the automotive industry in berlin a short while ago. you've 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 a 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 and 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 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're 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 weren't as severe yes because germany is convinced and i am convinced too that we need

a 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. the world trade organization has issued a dire warning for the world economy if the u.s. and china continue to escalate their trade conflicts they predict that a full blown trade war between the two economic superpowers could cut wild trade volumes by over seventeen percent leading to an almost two percent contraction in world productivity and that's likely to have repercussions for people everywhere not just in the u.s. and china. there's also complained that there were few signs that the two countries were making progress at the negotiation table. and just a reminder now of the top stories we're following for you a hurricane described why forecasters as extremely dangerous has hit florida

hurricane michael is moving in and from the gulf coast with winds of up to chew on . up. on us president donald trump says he's demanded on systrom top saudi officials in the case of the missing saudi journalist. visa not been seen since he entered the saudi consulate did. more than a week ago. when. you're watching d.w. news strong have a home for you we have plenty more you coming up at the top of the hour you can always get the latest on our web site of booze that's money dot com thanks for your company and c.c. .

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then of discontinuous down love this should be. a pretty. and not a few. bangladesh the dawn of islamism and exclusive d.w. report starts october eighteenth. aurukun michael has made landfall on the florida panhandle a category four storms pushing a deadly storm surge and whipping the coast with one hundred fifty five mile an hour winds the state's governor tells coastal residents it's too late to run i'm phil gale in berlin this is the day.