w. . this is d. w. newsline from berlin the most violent storm to hit florida in living memory crushes assured her again michael washing that state with fierce winds and torrential rains more than four hundred thousand homes and businesses now without power our correspondent standing by for us also coming up. it's a very serious situation for sure and for this what you do she wants to know as you know this saying we have nothing to do with it but so for everyone. but so far

everyone is saying and president trump demands answers from saudi arabia on the fate of the missing opposition journalist jamal shogi there are fears he was murdered in riyadh embassy in istanbul. plus the syrian refugee children in eleven on forced onto the streets to make a living we meet omar and yourself who sell flowers to get by there are two of the many refugee children facing abuse and violence as they struggle to help their families. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the u.s. mainland has been battering southern coastal states hurricane michael made landfall in florida yesterday leaving widespread damage and flooding in its wake pictures taken by the international space station kept. the storm shortly before it hit the

southern tip of the state known as the florida panhandle it was the state's fiercest weather in more than eighty years the storm's intensity as waned as it moves inland as is often the case but neighboring states including georgia and the carolinas are bracing for more destruction. supercharged by the woman waters of the gulf of mexico hurrican michael blasted ashore battering southern florida with winds of up to two hundred fifty kilometers an hour residents in coastal areas who hadn't already heeded warnings to leave were told to stay put travel now just too dangerous. hurricane michael is the worst storm that the florida panhandle has ever seen or the worst power storms to ever make landfall in the united states. panama city felt the full force of her a concern on the slopes the wind was so strong and with these trees you can hear

this about every tree cracking in breaking in the ranges hitting up against a house it is you could tell it was something major but again if you've never experienced a hurricane or a major storm trust me this is something that you never want to go through the dumbest thing i've ever built does it when you decide to stay for her like a jet engine. i mean the winds just super super high you can feel it in your hears like the pressure just changing it in a now fallen trees and power lines are among the hazards left in her a can michael's wake thousands of rescue workers ready to move in after making landfall over florida michael has lost some of its destructive power as it continues inland across the southeast u.s. as a still highly dangerous storm. or correspond stuff and simon's joins us now from thomasville georgia that's about sixty kilometers north of

tallahassee florida where this storm hit very hard stuff and you've been driving for a number of hours to reach where you are right now can you tell us what you've been saying. wells georgia is getting now what to florida got when state heavy heavy rains and even the wind is still. getting or having some punch year with one hundred sixty kilometers per hour still and that's why you don't see anything behind me it's pitch black and dark here because the power is out and that's a big problem for a lot of communities see in georgia now we're dealing with. michael who is now a tropical storm as you had mentioned another hurricane anymore and the same is true for florida of course and as soon as day breaks here rescuers and organizations who are supposed to move in right away fim are for example a federal emergency management agency as well as people who found shelter in many

many public shelters there will be eager to assess the damage in florida further intel has. caused as well as here in georgia talking about florida. this is the worst hurricane to ever hit florida's panhandle the people there have enough time to prepare for. yes they had enough time forty eight hours is normally for us floridians enough time to prepare for a storm and many many people took advantage of the warning which came fairly early forty eight hours before the storm hits that this will be a monstrous storm and as you said the strongest hitting the panhandle in about eighty years in the second strongest after andrew from ninety ninety two and maybe some remember this was a horrible storm too so yes many many people floridians went to shelters or made it to relatives or friends. away from the coast and up north georgia the carolinas

but there's always some people who decided to hunker down and to ride the storm out and we'll see probably as soon as they light breaks here how well those people really did. are people getting the support they need what are you hearing about that briefly. all right no rescuers going out knowledge despite nighttime despite the fact that it starkie the darkness in a flood situation which we have now in georgia as well as of course in florida is really really dangerous since you really cannot see anything you don't know if there are power lines under the water trees or any any obstacles so this is a very very dangerous and precarious. effort from curious however in the morning you will and we will witness a rush of agents and people who can help those who are now maybe

trapped in their in their attics or on their roofs or in their houses somehow and so you know people will get a lot of help and of course power companies will do their utmost to to restore power as soon as possible thanks so much for that stuff and staying in the u.s. president trump says he's spoken with saudi authorities at the very highest level to demand answers about the missing saudi journalist. a correspondent has been writing for media outlets including the washington post from the u.s. and has been highly critical of the saudi leadership he has not been seen since entering the saudi consulate in istanbul more than a week ago officials in turkey believe he was murdered there. this by texas media allegedly shows journalists. walking into the saudi consulate the last time anyone saw him eight days have passed and there are no traces of his

whereabouts. to say they believe a saudi arabian hit squad kuta fifty nine year old media outlets published purporting to show the suspects a rival the day before went missing before his disappearance show he worked for the washington post during a self-imposed exile in the u.s. . 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 that columnist the u.s. denies any form of the early church president says he has talked to high level saudi authorities to demand answers over the case it's a very sad situations a very bad situation and we want to get to the bottom of that meanwhile saudi arabia remains silent as the alleged c.c.t.v. images friend on news shows. it has yet to prove its claim that he left the saudi consulate buy it back. now for some of the other stories making the news this hour

indonesian authorities of officially called off the search for victims of powerful quake and tsunami two weeks ago thousands are believed to be missing and volunteers in a number of locations are continuing the searches more than two thousand people were killed the country laws on the pacific volatile ring of far. china's sheen showing region has changed its laws so that muslim we gores can be sent to so-called education centers authorities there say the centers are meant to curb islamist extremism but critics argue there are effectively prison camps reports that some one million we gore's are being held in these camps has sparked international condemnation. the united states has returned dozens of ancient colombian artifacts plundered over decades by an american collector the items were discovered after a tip off investigators also found thousands of pieces from other countries in the

mouths of the elderly collector died after the investigation was launched. it's to love it all now and that country is home to more than a million syrian refugees many live in extreme poverty refugee children are often forced to work out on the streets to help their families just get by the w.'s i am meant to brought. there's in beirut the boys sell flowers for a living but they would much rather be in school. it is almost midnight but almost and use of some work day is far from over. the brothers from syria sell flowers in the streets of beirut three days per week from dusk till dawn. i wish that. i work because my parents are sick i need to support them i wake up at five thirty or six in the afternoons i go and buy the flowers i work work work and then i go home. when i want. syrian children working on the streets of

beirut has become a common sight seventy percent of syrian refugees in lebanon live under the poverty line leaving many parents like almost and use of so with no choice but to send their children onto the streets to survive i'm not. almost says that our parents a sick but i want to say something he should be able to stay at home even if my mother and father are sick they should work because they had us they should be supporting us and not the other way around just because. despite international. neither yousif nor his brother go to school on the streets they often experience violence. one time i was six i came to sell the flowers here at the bar they beat me and did not let me sell flowers i said in a corner and cried obama. facing this kind of abuse for prolonged periods of

time causes what is known as toxic stress in children something and you know workers are growing increasingly worried about. whoever that about let's say a kid spends four to five years on the streets if he stays in lebanon or goes back to syria the pressures he faced on the streets will remain with him he won't be able to do his work properly and he does not. i know we are talking about children instead of being at school they are being lost i'm sad about that and this is affecting an entire generation. that messed up he didn't watch yet nadine was as part of a team that runs the fund bus an initiative aimed at believe eating the children suffering on the streets. for a couple of hours each week they can come inside the bus a safe space away from the gaze of the passers by to do arts and crafts. what. they said there and helps them release if you give a child a piece of paper cardboard and glue and then they can make something out of it the

child gets to feel powerful which he normally does not get to feel yet they might but the bus is by no means a sustainable solution for syrian street children but you don't it can fit a maximum of fifteen children at a time. syrian children account for three out of four children living and working on the streets of lebanon. the resources to help them are overstretched leaving children like yousif an almighty with no resort but to wish for a better future. i wasn't going to war i hope it's an organisation would come and get me to study i would go with them maybe they would give me a better life i would learn english french arabica. i would be able to travel and go places. save the children is trying to help young syrian refugees like yourself and omar the charity spokesman on that byron joins us now from beirut thanks so much for coming on the show how many refugee children are

there in lebanon out on the streets right now. good morning their numbers all too much while. research by twenty fifty has found the research which was done in cocoa in collaboration with unicef and iow it's found that sufficiency hundred children are on the street to three being recruited just to do different jobs. to do the threat. of child labor laws are we expect much higher there are no accurate figures as to how many of them are on a straight. of course should it a problem it's not just being on the street and spend the whole day and weeks and years i'm thinking sending them to selling this trade. and probably it's it's huge. for

a country that has started sizing book elation our numbers are simply here. i'm you know here are these brothers talking about how they're beaten when they do their work out on the streets of beirut is that typical in beirut for children like this. fortunately or and use it for just to sadly too many children who say you're exposed to different types of. terror it's simply shouting and saying they get it so they get shot they get they get. seen they've been asked to try a cigarette they've been this is a drug abuse that. we are worrying about these children are all exposed to all different and the views of violence that no child should say and

between these corners of the streets of and also interlinked is with voters just as big and they're all they're all you know suffering children who drain like yourself from being something if you go absolutely those children they say they. want to be dropped this engineers architects something they still have that dream we found out most of them are electric and they cannot read or write. to them still have dreams this still have hopes that one day they will not be arsed to wake up at six five or six in that warning and not come back and so midnight. it is our duty to look off the beach of this incident to see where the problem lies rating. behram from save the children thanks so much for being with us and all the best to you with your work in beirut.

a wide ranging corruption scandal has engulfed football in belgium after authorities raided top flight clubs in that country and around europe several top belgian clubs including reigning league champions bogo were raided their coach was among those questioned prosecutors say they spent a year investigating player agents referees and club executives and found potential evidence of financial fraud and match fixing a well known agent mogi byock was among those detained for questioning. or germany's national football team was caring for some tough tests in european competition but they have a player who could provide instant help he's liberal i saw in a who didn't make the trip with the german squad to the world cup. the talisman to lead germany into the future leroy sunday 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. of 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 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. we have our ups and downs you could say that we've known each other a long time as we played together childhood i can say that iraq is 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 but the. 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. i think in the beginning it just hendry clicked for me here but i'm working on that all the time trying to fit into this team. but a player of his level could do a lot better than just fit in with his skill and speed sunday can be a match winner for germany provided he can transfer his club form to the national team. all there is a major sell off under way on stock markets christophe his latest on that thread brian it was a rough day on wall street and it's continuing in other parts of the world stocks in the united states and asia have plunged after u.s. president donald trump called the federal reserve call quote crazy for raising interest rates japan's nikkei hong kong's hang seng and china's shanghai composite all plummeted more than three percent this after wall street suffered its biggest loss and months investors were reacting to off the cuff comments made by mr trump

on his way to a campaign rally robust growth in the u.s. has prompted the central bank to gradually raise interest rates a way of trying to prevent the economy from overheating. the market turmoil comes as leaders of the financial world hold their annual meeting on the indonesian island of bali here's i.m.f. chief christine lagarde weighing in on why all trump was wrong to criticize the fed it's. a necessary development for those economies that's all no showing. much improved growth. inflation that is picking up and falling into the range or reaching the threshold unemployment to the top of extremely low it's inevitable that. central banks make the decisions that they make. their mess christine legarde speaking there now for more let's cross over to our correspondents at the i.m.f.

world bank meeting in bali florian how are people reacting to the head of the i.m.f. essentially telling the u.s. president you don't know what you're talking about. well i would say that christine legarde is in very good company here at the i.m.f. annual meeting she has basically just voice what everyone here has been saying yesterday who was the french the e.u. commissioner who we see used to be for prime says finance minister show he did so he also knows what he's talking about and he basically said that the trade war bad donald trump has started is stupid so even though donald trump is not here he's basically taking center stage at these meetings here and there's a lot of consternation about what he might do next for a mere mention of one of the big topics of this meeting is the trade dispute

between the united states and china what ways of solving the problem are being discussed. well as head of the dow but you see all. it was also here yesterday he said he said i don't see any light at the end of the tumbled right now apparently there's no direct bilateral talking between the u.s. and china so the am i am happy that the world bank here that they might be able to create a forum where these two superpowers if you will. can talk again and you can maybe be deescalated but so far there are no signs of that and so this is basically the topic that is overshadowing this this whole conference that might be nuances some say we're just in ask elating trade conflict some of saying we're

actually headed for a fully fledged trade war now the i.m.f. experts here have run a scenario and they said if we really get into this fully fledged full blown trade war it might not knock off seventeen point five percent of global trade and almost two percent of the percentage point of global growth so the scenario is actually pretty dire. for a news reporting from the meeting of the international monetary fund of the world bank in bali florida thank you so much. and the apologize for the quality of the sound there. german carmaker b.m.w. has announced a plan to take control of its china joint venture the first foreign automaker to take advantage of beijing's new ownership rules for the sector b.m.w. will acquire a further twenty five percent stake in the venture with grow un's trying to automotive for three point six billion euros the company said that would bring its stake to seventy five percent by twenty twenty two foreign automakers have long

been restricted to holding no more than a fifty percent stake and they're trying to offer a sions but beijing decided to relax the ownership caps this year. and stay with the automotive sector reports. a u.s. car maker forward is preparing massive global layoffs they come in the wake of comments by new ford c.e.o. jim hackett we said the president trumps terrace on imported aluminum and steel have cost the company nearly a billion dollars in profit a recent report by investment bank morgan stanley says twenty four thousand jobs could be set to go on the reconstruction or around twelve percent of the workforce u.s. car sales are down since donald trump implemented tariffs and all those stocks have also been under pressure recently with ford currently at a six year low. the united nations office for disaster risk reduction says economic losses from natural catastrophes around the

world surged in the last twenty years to a total of two point nine trillion dollars of striking geophysical events such as volcanic eruptions and earthquakes accounted for barely a third of that the main damage is caused by climate related disasters coming in at a staggering two and a quarter trillion dollars. the figures reflect a loss of resources and assets like holmes factories and farms caused by more frequent and intense climate related disasters like heat waves droughts and floods . presenting its report the disaster risk reduction office says climate change is posing evermore problems and dangers. we have seen already that there is a very sharp increase in denominator for climate related events which are actually creating seventy seven percent of the

total direct economic losses caused by deserts to use. the report came as the southeastern u.s. brace for hurrican michael to tear in from the gulf of mexico said to be the worst hurricane to hit the region in a hundred years. but while rich countries have a wealth of resources to mitigate the damage developing countries are helpless in the face of catastrophe. poor people in poor countries do not have twenty s coachy is forty years most of those children began. this is what is going to happen i did even be dead because of the catastrophe itself all began because of the. prevailing persistent effect off menu titian that comes in all these good strategies with the droughts and floods the un says that especially when taking under reporting in poor countries into account it's study shows that investing in disaster risk reduction must become a major punch of climate change policy. and reminder of the top stories we're

following for you out this hour on michael has better than the u.s. state of florida with winds torrential rains and flooding one person is reported killed so far as the fiercest storm to hit the state in living memory tears through storms intensity is weakening as it has for intellect and u.s. president has demanded answers over a missing saudi journalist comes first here in these details of operatives it says killed a dissident writer jamal khashoggi after he entered saudi arabia consulate in istanbul last week. is coming to your live from berlin more coming up at the top of the hour in the meantime for me and the entire team here in berlin thanks for watching wherever your.

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