this is g.w. news live from berlin they are being called the most important midterm elections in a generation after a fierce campaign voters begin casting their ballots we'll tell you what's at stake and why the poll matters but also coming up the nazi concentration camp should hold was a place of pure horror at just the trial of one of the guards begins in germany a camp survivor tell you why it is so important to keep talking about the cops. and

indian doctors and sound the alarm over dangerous levels of pollution in delhi with the fireworks of the day while the festival about to make the situation worse we will look at india's struggle to clear the air. i'm sara kelly welcome to the program. and the united states polls have opened in the most crucial midterm elections in decades president trump is calling the vote a referendum on his agenda democrats are hoping that a good result for them would force the president to rein in his policies survey suggests that the republicans will keep control of the senate and that democrats could take back the house of representatives but the battle promises to be close. pools have opened in the u.s. midterm elections. and early indications suggest it will be

a record year for turnout. there and it's all because of dismay he's divisive and he's energizing for those that love him and those that don't. the election is widely being seen as a referendum on the man everyone can't look away from if he doesn't say so himself . i mean who ever even heard of mid term they don't even know what it is i've had a lot of people say i don't know what big term is but now i'm watching every single minute and i'm going out to vote but the key is you have to go out to vote because in a sense i am on the ticket you got to go out to vote. the president's republican party is touting a booming economy in the united states. and republicans are accusing democrats of being weak and migration. democrats are inviting caravan after caravan of illegal aliens to pour into our country overwhelming his

schools yard spittles and your communities. the democrats not so secret weapon former president barack obama he's been on the campaign trail taking aim at the president's often abrasive personality. the character of this country is on the belt who we are is on the ballot. what kind of . what kind of politics we expect is on the ballot how we conduct ourselves in public life is on the ballot how we treat other people is on the belin. so there are likely to be swings on both sides across america and deeply conservative texas a surprisingly strong showing for democrat beat a well roark seeking election to the stunning. just

a few weeks ago democrats fairly sure of recapturing both the senate and the house but polls suggest the race is still wide open. and for more on the midterms i'm joined by alexandra for naaman who is joining us from washington why alexandra are these midterms so crucial not only in the united states but also abroad. well we're talking here about presidents trump who is not take a unifying but polarizing figure who is a divider he has fans here in the u.s. an old salt site of the u.s. but there are also many people that are repulsed but by what he does and what he says in europe for example were only twenty three percent of the europeans approve of president and then there is so much at stake here when we talk for example about all its climate change in the boat so the president's decision to pull off that

paris agreement with we talk about trades and state trade war with china his administration has launched so his actions have can have a huge impact on the whole world that's why it's the world is watching this midterm elections that are considered a major test for his presidency also a big impact when it comes to u.s. foreign policy so i'd like to ask you if the democrats retake the house the senate perhaps both how could a shift in power affect u.s. foreign policy potentially. well we have to say that this midterm elections are about domestic issues but they are also a referendum on president trump and many people here hope that if the democrats will be able to take over one or both chambers of congress trying to rein in their will try to keep this president to to try to block his agenda of course we have to

say that the u.s. president has a great also or two when we talk about foreign policy but congress has measures house ways to try to rein in for example last year lawmakers here approved a legislation that's called polls president to improve additional sanctions on russia. alexandra we have to talk about one of the biggest topics in this election because trump he really made migration and as he claims the democrats failure to tackle it a centerpiece when it comes to campaigning let's talk a little bit more about that in a minute but first we have this report providing bit of background. there's been a big turnout for early voting in the u.s. with long lines that many polling stations like this one in los angeles county but one group was noticeably absent as many election volunteers noticed i haven't seen a lot of latinas today. that's come as

a surprise since one latin american issue has played a big role in the campaign the migrants making their way to the u.s. mexican border from central america president trump has put the issue of illegal migration at the forefront of his campaigning for the republicans blaming the democrats for allowing them into the united states. democrats hope to turn latino discontent over trump's migration rhetoric into votes but they don't have a detailed strategy for the diverse latino community according to sonya diaz the head of a latino think tank. almost sixty percent of latinos surveyed in a national poll have not received any sort of. information from a candidate of latino interest groups are trying to fill the void many such as the immigrants rights organization cheered in los angeles have set up call centers volunteers have translated voter guides and are reaching out to potential voters

six out of ten latino is our millennial and many are voting for the first time the latest polls have shown that less than half of them know who's running in their respective districts with the political rhetoric high under growing distrust in the government and its institutions many have simply to date. i message into tramp. and look from good ministration has had a very negative effect on the way latinos view the elections. because we now believe that our vote doesn't count or it's not going to affect the administration that mr. kevin dileo and is a democratic candidate for senator he's been one of the most visible of all of the latino candidates in california and he's been urging democrats to articulate a position beyond stop trump during a campaign rally at his favorite taco vendor de leon called in latinos to vote for his fellow democrats to help win back the hundreds of representatives. critical i

mean very dangerous because you want to talk. about the soul of our nation the president without the latino vote comes out strong you know come tuesday november sixth the very clear message that one america the latino voters represent one of the fastest growing demographics in the united states this year's meant terror's me indicate where the democrats to find the key to mobilizing them at the polls. and perhaps in contrast to that we've seen donald trump using some strong language when it comes to migration policy very polarizing how is that playing out alexandra . well trump things and that's what he says that this strategy is effective strategy he builds on fear mongering on issues such. as race he hopes that that's going to pay off on the election day so today that that will drive his supporters to the polls however we have to say that according

to latest polls many people here many voters are opposed by his rhetoric especially after an attack and to submit to attack on a synagogue in pittsburgh where the suspects motivation was hatred against jews and against migrants so we saw here and discussion going on whether the president should tone down his rhetoric something that's refuses to do and it will be very interesting how this aspect is going to influence the outcome of this midterm elections alexander phenomena with the very latest on this midterm election day there in washington and around all of the united states thank you so much for bringing us up to date. and here on the w. we have extensive coverage of the midterms we're bringing you all of the results and europe's perspective the impact internationally of these elections you can follow us on social media and on our web site www dot com. but in the meantime

cameroon's veteran president paul bia has been sworn in for a seventh term following elections marred by violence and allegations of fraud bia was ruled the majority french has ruled excuse me the majority for speaking west african nation for thirty five years he's rolled out session for some troubled regions where the english speaking minority is calling for independence and on the eve of his inauguration seventy nine school students were kidnapped in the angle of phone northwest region the government is blaming separatists. this footage purportedly shows the dozens of students kidnapped it was released by the perpetrators. it was taken to an school last night and again on the loose. last evening and in. one member of the separatist group who is filming the

boys also appears on camera before turning it back to the children telling them they will be going to school there now. all of us. i am going to school. the kidnapped students are from them and in the western english speaking part of cameroon separatist groups like the boys are waging an armed struggle for independence in the majority french speaking country groups have long vowed to destabilize the region and have attacked and killed teachers for disobeying orders to keep schools closed the armed separatists broke into the school building before dawn and abducted the children from their dormitories as well as three stuff members. the local governor came to the school to meet with some of the parents assuring them that children would be brought back home.

despite what's happened. to state government will now serve and. to the nation. the students the people of the book to run back to the classrooms. disagrees and then to god. the incident deepens the atmosphere of fear and is likely to lead to more students staying at home in the future. for more let's bring in our correspondent andrea increase who is standing by in nigeria he just came back from cameroon and i try to do we have any more news about the possible whereabouts of these kidnapped children. at the moment unfortunately not so although according to the school thirty's they have met the demands of the abductors to close down the schools we're still not

sure where the kids an extensive search mission has started by the authorities nonetheless what we do know however is what actually happens in the night between sunday and monday a couple of men showed up at the school this is what some eyewitnesses some kids who managed to escape told us they managed to get access to one of the dormitories rounded up the people there the children the beds up some of them and before taking them to the bush they also tried to get access to more rooms to more dormitories where the boys and girls were hiding fortunately they did not manage that otherwise it was it would have been likely that's more of the kids would have been missing by now and so the search now for those seventy nine students and these three staff members who were kidnapped continues creation bring us up to date thank you. a quick check of some other stories making news around the world around twenty palestinians have been injured by israeli forces while trying to break the decade long maritime blockade of the gaza strip israeli military fired tear gas and live

ammunition at protesters nearly forty fishing boats were forced to return to shore secretary of state my pump aoe has said that the u.s. will burn landless c. ter su iran this after president trump ordered renewed sanctions on the country washington wants tehran to end its ballistic missile program and abandon regional conflicts iranian president hassan rouhani says that tehran will to fight american demands. the trial of the notorious drug lord el chapo real name joaquin guzman is set to begin in new york under tight security he's accused of leading a criminal enterprise that sold vast quantities of cocaine and smuggled billions of dollars into mexico. a ninety four year old former concentration camp guard has gone on trial in germany the man is charged with involvement in hundreds of murders at the nazi camp stood hold prosecutors say that the defendant didn't take

part in a specific killing but that he knew inmates were being murdered at the camp during world war two the man was a guard it should hold concentration camp near what was then the city of dance a now done in poland. w. correspondent on a call attended the first day of the trial and once she joins us now on what exactly is the former guard accused of. what he is accused of complicity in the murder of several hundred people from nine hundred forty two to nine hundred forty four you know it is important to mention that there is no specific evidence linking him to any specific crime but the prosecutors argued that as the guards at that camp he was a crucial part of the whole cam system the suspect himself he admits that he served as a guard during that time but he says that he did not participate in any of the

killings and furthermore he says that he didn't even know what was going on in the camp he didn't know about the murders the prosecutors however they don't really buy that argument they say that being a guard standing on a watch tower for example it was impossible not to see him not to know what was going on especially taking into consideration that the camp of self was rather small and now he is facing the court he is ninety four years old explain to us why they chose to bring him to trial now. well for a long time german authorities so focused on finding and prosecuting the headmaster's a few will of these crimes that changed a bit then two thousand and eleven when a german court finally decided that it's not necessary to have specific evidence linking a suspect choose specific crime but being a guard to know one of those cams is enough to be convicted and since then german

authorities have also focused on finding those people who might not have played a major role in these crimes but who have helped to keep the whole system running. and interestingly his people tried in a juvenile court. why is that. yeah that is because at the time of those alleged crimes he was under the age of twenty one nowadays as we heard he is ninety four and that also affects the trials for example the hearings can last a maximum of two hours per day due to the poor health conditions of the suspect today he entered the court room in a wheelchair and it was obvious that he had a hard time understanding in talking to the judge but the judge has decided that he is mentally and physically fit enough to undergo this trial now unlike camps such as auschwitz for example or involves hope is a very well known tell us

a little bit more about the specific count. yeah it wasn't german concentration camp near the polish town afghans steppers from nine hundred thirty nine to nine hundred forty five and an estimated sixty thousand up to sixty five thousand people died there a lot of them died in the gas chambers but they were also shot some of them died because they had to work during winter time outside without any clothes and one of the lawyers today in court here read a statement by one of the eyewitnesses she described the situation in the camp she said there was no food there was no sanitation and death was a daily companion to her and yes you are right this campus is not very well known not even among germans and i think this is why so many witnesses so many survivors are so keen on having this trial because it is their chance maybe their last chance to get the atrocities that happened in these camps to get them acknowledged

publicly on your call sending by and munster as this trial gets underway thank you anya. and some one hundred and ten thousand people were imprisoned inch to half and as we just heard around sixty five thousand of them were killed one survivor door rock has made it her mission to tell her story now living in israel she spoke with tania kramer about why it is so important to keep talking about her experiences there sometimes it is still difficult to tell her story daughter of wood says as a child she spent several years in the stator of concentration camp her parents and her sister were killed in the holocaust born in poland doris family fled the jewish ghetto in warsaw to lithuania from their tour of us to puerto to the state of concentration camp near done thick i can only tell you what happened in the in the

years sings that they will never forget i will never forget that i was hungry then . i will never forget that and my mother died from hunger because the little piece of bread that she got she gave to me it is estimated that over sixty thousand people were murdered institute of gassed executed or killed spoke stream labor conditions and frequent epidemics. remembers both the fear and the daily violence off the nazis what they did it's not he was not human you dunce at all child into the health can of water the learned you have done to make a child. pick up a twenty killer cement which i had through pick up and i couldn't so i was beaten up. only door and her brothers survived the

holocaust in is where she got married and raised a family since then she has made it her mission to talk to children about her experience. syncs which they were germans put on our shoulders. it's incredible therefore i sing that whoever knows it and when it all ever knows how to share it with others i think they should that because our need that way we can prevent another holocaust it is important for her she says to speak out for the many other children who didn't survive to keep them memory alive. sports now and football's champions league returns with some intriguing clashes tonight only one who talk if

a sports joins me with expert analysis so we have been to sleep leaders and hear there in action and what can we expect from their game without the tick of a tradable to say so let's just hope that the players are not too shaken up because they had a bit of a landing scare yesterday when their plane it was about to land at the airport and it was for a few six hundred meters above the ground and instead of danding it ended up taking off again and that's because the landing they in was occupied by another plane the come past come out with a statement saying that everybody is safe and that the incident is not not as bad as it sounds but of course you don't want incidents like that to you know rattle up the pay as to affect their form because dortmund i mean they're on fire right now they know how to score goals you know right center their heart for in the coming off that one nil win against wolves who work on the weekend captain of course you know also back to his old ways and i think and to do so in proper the rebuilding

has been happening in like the lightning speed and and all they need now is a win to top the group but at their core of course still remembers that four no loss so they'll be out for revenge so let's take a look at that. it was all smiles at the airport before dortmund boarded their flight to madrid the aborted landing which followed was hardly the perfect preparation for a big game but dortmund there in such good form they're on the brink of the champions league last sixteen with two games despair handsome home win over a cliff to go in october underlined their speedy revival under coach lucy. but he is staying as cautious as ever. if you must and that would for we have got to prepare really well at they might have lost against us for neil but that game is gone now it was just one match and we know all about atlantico they have been one

of the best teams in europe for seven or eight years with the munch of the new world to even. fiver is right about that politico's champions league pedigree they've reached two finals in the last five years but dortmund red hot streak as the spaniards worried. they're playing very well they are producing spectacular football and it's clear that if they keep up this level they have a big chance of winning the bundesliga title in the middle of. the bundesliga is not the only trophy on dortmund's minds they are well aware that this season's champions league final is all selected let it go stadium a repeat visit is the aim. and we also have to talk about liver fall because i mean they were last season's runner up and they're facing red star belgrade but they have left a big name at home why did they choose to do that yes they have the player in question is a key leader and he's

a liverpool forward and he also plays for the space national team and he's of the nion background but he comes from kosovo and kosovo of course is not recognized by serbia as an independent country and at the recent book cup invest what happened was that when switzerland faced off against serbia see that even the gesture with his hand he made that because he was taunted by some of the fans and he in return made that gesture and that's a national symbol of albania and liverpool of course the cup have come out saying that they didn't want to take the risk in terms of they don't really know how how these red great fans might react if something like that were to happen again so they said to avoid any distractions we wanted to focus on the football and that is our justification our reasoning for leaving shaquille the out of the match tonight ok meantime sticking with the same group going with a complicated for big spending p.s.g. . mean there's no excuse for their poor performances you have stopped

a as like neymar and bob pay cut vania and you know you're starting to think what is wrong with them you have to let the home a tactician and let's take a look at group c. right now and we can see where they standing i mean look you know the third in the group behind liverpool behind napoli they only have a single win in three games and what's so of course we have this question every time is that it's in stark contrast to the league form you know in the french french the they have yet to lose their unbeaten in twelve games and every year we have this discussion the same question that why can't they transfer exactly that success on to europe. and they'll be it really tough against nap of the tonight again and i will see how they do and they were ho talky from data for thank you so much. you're watching news still to come on the program indian officials warn up choking smog in delhi and fireworks in the country's upcoming festival of lights

threaten to making a dangerous situation even worse plus the web summit gets under way a little spin it is the world's fastest growing tech advance but questions are mounting about the dark side of the internet. we're back in a few minutes i'm sorry kelly enver away and hope to see you can see. some love them. others hate him like toast. why do disappoint the supporters still but donald trump to get. two years after selection we take stuff. usa the trump phenomenon. in the final minutes of w. . we make up oh but we want tons of outfits

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starting to play us war here the response to that statement should be yes we are starting plans we won't be here because with time you could see the destructed you could have a. bridge. to try to please report starts november seventeenth on d w. welcome back here with your news i'm sarah palin in burbank our top stories for people in the united states have begun voting in what is being called the most crucial midterm election in decades the hold is being seen as a referendum on donald trump's presidency democrats are hoping that a good result for that would force the president to rein in some of his policies and rhetoric. only time social media giant facebook announced today that it has blocked one hundred fifteen million accounts due to suspicious behavior on the eve

of the midterm elections and after heavy criticism for failing to stop election meddling back in twenty sixteen facebook has made this one of its top priorities but how's it doing let's bring in our social media editor jared reed who is with us here in the studio so looking forward to today's midterms has facebook cleaned up its act well it's kind of hard to hold social media companies of how to because they've had the threat of regulation hundreds of their heads and so in the past two years facebook's had to take a good hard look at itself and prioritize safeguarding elections which it's doing through things like you just mentioned deleting fake accounts cracking down on news that isn't true and. bringing some transparency to the process around political ads and elections and now you're actually into one of the. earlier this year facebook google and all launched searchable database is for election ads and we're looking on facebook because basically it was more implicated in the election

meddling so anyone can go to what's called the facebook and this is what you see if you search for donald trump for example we can see all of the ads featuring the u.s. president since the launch back in my birth. and he trump if you click on one of those we can see how many people's timelines roughly it's been on and how much the group behind the ads and then below a demographic of who's seen which gives us a good indication of the target audience so really good information there to help people understand why they might be getting these ads in their time why. there isn't it's all about money and the money that's used to fund these ads and the origin of which can sometimes be quite. facebook's decided to create a tool called paid for by within these ads and that basically tells us who paid for

the ads. like of course there are some loopholes i'm going to show you an ad that ran last month in britain which we know is leaving the european union this one has taken quite a break that stance we can take a look at who paid for the ad and it's not then cambridge and the political consultancy that dragged facebook through a huge dot. is the think cambridge analytical has gone out of business it's broke basically so we paid for the the big question is who did it and it was journalists at the web site business insider. who we have to thank for their research basically by set up a fake page for a nonexistent end and ran these fake having been paid for by cambridge analytical just basically by typing that name in journalists' advice dot com did a similar thing and so basically there's

a lot of questions around the process facebook says it stopped foreign advertisers being able to run election ads in the u.s. clearly this attempt to bring transparency to the process it's welcome but it seems like a little bit more work to do on its posh there are certainly ways to game the system . read our social media editor with the very latest on this issue thank you so much . third and these u.s. midterms they are getting unprecedented attention here in europe and also worldwide a strong showing for democrats could impact the trumpet ministrations foreign policy to ask people around the world why they are paying close attention to this vote u.s. is getting pretty persuasion this. in the world and i think. i don't have so many hopes i just think. it could be good for the world and for the u.s. if this close to loose their nation next time let's go to this behavior is kind of

scary especially for turkey we don't have very good relations right now so i hope it'll get better soon see if i think the good thing is that the u.s. has become more said. about going the meeting that the economy is going down and they need to you know sort of bring back jobs and they're doing it for themselves which is not bad i would say because india was also close economy back before ninety one so we were you know we all everybody has these fears that our jobs might get beaten so it's a legitimate fear i would see if anything the current u.s. president donald trump doesn't have any influence on the state of u.s. russian relations his personal relationship towards russia can change anything at all through and use me. to. a record amount of donations has been made in the run up to today's mid-term elections in the united states the seventeen german companies are among those making financial contributions to the election campaigns of senators and members of

the house of rubber representatives in total german companies gave two point six million dollars to both republican and democrat candidates some of the biggest donors are chemicals company b. s. f. and telecommunications firm deutsche telekom with more than six hundred thousand dollars each contributions of pharmaceutical giant buyer clocked in at two hundred and sixty thousand dollars. now to tell us more about the story over our common joins me in the studio he's my colleague on the w. business model who profits from german corporate money democrats or republicans well as you might expect with corporate donations the republicans got the most of it fifty nine percent of german corporate donations but we what we can also see is that a lot of the companies from germany a splitting the other nations b a s f we've seen it as the top company in the list just then they reached the relation of almost fifty fifty between democrats and

republicans and these donations they're also of course a way of of hedging the bets of who will be in a position to return the favor after the elections and that's the reason why german companies are getting involved in an election the second place in the united states exactly that i mean a lot of german companies are doing business in the u.s. they are tens of thousands of jobs linked to that billions of dollars of in revenues take by a for instance who just bought. one sound so or take the edge of telecom who owns the majority of t. mobile one of the largest mobile networks in the u.s. so of course these german companies have an interest in the political landscape in the u.s. and as it seems that trying their bit to shape it a bit as well and hoping for a benefit of course how does this work do you just wire the money over to the party headquarter not really because actually in the u.s. . corporate donations are illegal that prohibits it's the way companies get around

that is by forming so-called pacs political action committees through which they can then donate money to to the campaigns every company can have one and when the german companies have been asked what their influence in these donations was they'll deny that and say well it's the pacs doing all that but if you look at who sits on these pacs it's usually high ranking managers of the company in all of these companies in the u.s. so it's quite ever the. that there is a link between those donations and some influence on policy making makes it quite obvious in the end what effect will be donations have on the outcome of the elections yet we really have to put this put all of the donations made by german companies into perspective about two point six million dollars out of a total of the nations of five point two billion dollars so you see it's a rather small share and accordingly small will the influence be that german business really has on the elections and on less politics i don't have a common of business thank you so much for your assessment. as i heard earlier

facebook has blocked one hundred fifteen accounts ahead of the us mid-term elections the company said law enforcement notified it of suspicious activity saying they believe the accounts may be linked to foreign entities so the network then blocked eighty five accounts on its photo sharing network instagram and thirty on facebook itself the surrounds were in english while the pages on facebook were in french and russian authorities say the aim of the accounts was to influence the political debate and interfere in today's vote. now the role of social media platforms hate speech and web security are among the topics of the web summit that kicked off in lisbon portugal earlier today the world's biggest technologically technology conference is taking place as governments and companies around the world are discovering the darker side of the world wide web the event has drawn about sixty thousand people this year and is playing a key role in transforming the ports of these capital into

a key european tech hub. and inspectors say are now and india's biggest festival is just around the corner but to some it has some bit of a bitter taste lies we're talking about the festival of lights of course for stuff it's a bit controversial for this particular race and people across india they are preparing for this festival diwali but in delhi it's turned into a time of protest there demonstrators are worried over dangerous the air quality in india's capital current pollution levels measure more than thirty five times the world health organization safe limit and the approach of volley has brought more concern traditionally people set off fireworks which could dirty the air even more reports. in most indian homes this is one of the

bali to thank. but the but usually spiking in the city go dead some are questioning each old tradition. the last time the kentucky family's going to be just the body before wasn't that difficult now the festival season meet the end of the road good activity on the ground heidi just because it's nice and she. ends up going to. their mother being dropped that to buy a car because on the one that's now as a damp enough because now she thinks it's time to change this is a festival of lights as well not as to a crowd goes nowhere you know over the years that you feed but i do not miss that one minute or one second because it's a matter of my own children it's a matter of my one health you know this is there is no compromise on that. already the goods have missed crucial tone in the sense that back to sessions if you accidentally stop the quantity the situation has become so dire that this that these doctors have declared a public health emergency. this is becoming

a familiar scene and complaints of respite should problems shoot up everything for doctors save the elderly and the young are the worst affected by the government nor the. doctor other than a long sojourn with as long campaigned for the right to be born there in the caribbean over thirty years he says he has seen lungs and benito and from a healthy thing to black a very bloody breeding in the city of delhi including you and me smoking twenty cigarettes and unfortunately that includes of a newborn's arctic country who presents a pack of cigarettes to its newborns on the day one of their life and firecrackers he says only act to the problem as opposed to the pollution coming from those sources crack good lip resistance a very acute and very high heat and very toxic

level i call it the lowest hanging fruit as far as addictive finding a cause of pollution is concert. even in just supreme court has weighed in on the issue two years ago it's damp already banned the seal of firecrackers this year it tightened these limitations for them but not everyone is happy with the ban traders are angry deceive the destructions are hurting business and destroying the best of environment delis mean firecracker market usually wrong with crowds at this time of the oh you can only quiet at the theme park on a hike shut down the thing they're not selling environment friendly fire but shopkeepers say these do not exist. on the streets of dirty precedents have mixed views. if you can bust crackers in the hole in the wood on john refinanced and it doesn't pollute so much what harm is being done by one deal of the body in india i

feel it's my personal responsibility to give a green in my human to my kids and the generations to come so i would like them to breed without wearing the mask on throughout and that's what constantly i've been telling my kids that you know have a green devoutly i believe it's important because also because that's all it brings families together on the other side it does on the environment. some of beginning to acknowledge that the valley is about more than fine a crack of a deal of light a deal of celebration and a deal to get. and the more who feel this way the easier than he made pretty. let's forget our correspondent in delhi the misha gys fall so the indian supreme court is allowed only so-called eco friendly crackers for diwali is there such a thing well that's what the tree of us actually protesting about that is as of now no such thing the ban of the destructions have kicked in from two years ago but now with saving restricted only to eco friendly fire

crackers the trade traders are saying we don't have any such thing we only have to stock the line with us for the last two years in addition the reason while supreme court has probably awarded putting a blanket ban on all kinds of setting off is that there is still a lot of emotions tied in with the practice of setting a fire crackers on the volume this would be a controversial move that has been resistance from hindus who think this is an integral part of celebrating the festival of but as we also heard environment rights groups as well as spared in groups are saying this needs to be stopped for the safety of this children and that's really a feeling that you highlighted we saw there in that report the different views and of course fire crackers are one thing what else are the causes for this heavy smog every november. well one of the small has already started in the valley is to morrow's security it is not just one thing that is a combination of factors that result in this doc six more that december would be

one of the key factors is that that is that a foam fire was in the neighboring states with the state's open job and how they are now very close to death he actually set fires to their farms to remove the rest of you of the crop pretty quickly some other crucial because it's all the problems with public transport which cause more vehicular back goods and more and more vehicles to be added to destroy those on a daily basis as well as the fact that they're all learning factories that are only shut down temporarily and truck spotting children need to produce to deliver supplies to all of these factors the mine and many others to make the stocks that small so much was in the cold when all the spots but not just settle down over delhi and make it much worse for the stress is there the feeling there that the government could and the government should do more in order to mitigate these factors contributing to the poor area there well the problem with this being a combination of factors is that governments at every level end up passing the

blame to the other government just for example the delhi government says the whole john of the state governments of punjab need to stop their farmers from setting off fires the central government similarly fosters long blame to the delhi government but what needs to be done on every level is to implementing important changes in the kind of fuel standards that have been used to put limitations on very polluting because they are clueless as well let's improve the public infrastructure to have better public transport to have people opt out from using private vehicles to use and public transport and even something like putting restrictions more restrictions on firecrackers can help but clearly there's a lot of pushback not just from the government but from people as well and once again we're breathing i stopped sick and as we were last. night me said well with the very latest on the ground there thank you so much. now the trial of the notorious mexican drug lord joaquin guzman also known as el chapo

has opened in new york prosecutors allege that he smuggled tons of drugs to the united states including cocaine and heroin and that he oversaw a campaign of killing and kidnappings if convicted he faces life in prison the first day of jury selection was held on monday. he's been notorious for decades as the head of a multi-billion dollar drug cartel accused of a ruthless campaign of murders and kidnappings now mexican drug lord joaquin guzman known as el chapo faces seventeen criminal charges in a u.s. federal court in brooklyn under unprecedented security measures which include deployment of a special gas detection device chapo has been held in solitary confinement at a new york prison for nearly two years after mexico agreed to extradite him to the u.s. he did skate twice from jail in mexico in two thousand and one in a laundry cart and in two thousand and fifteen through an underground tunnel dug by

accomplices that dramatic escape triggered a worldwide manhunt but there were few clues until chapo invited american actor sean penn to interview him it is hide out for an article in rolling stone magazine together with mexican television star kate took a studio who wanted to make a film about his life. u.s. prosecutors have spent years piecing together the case against al chapo with more than three hundred thousand pages of evidence the trial is expected to last more than four months and will cost millions of dollars but even as el chapo faces the prospect of life in prison the cartel that he founded nearly thirty years ago is still incredibly powerful and violent drug trafficking continues unabated in mexico . and arts and culture today we are going to be looking at artistic freedom here in germany recently a punk band was stopped from performing on a t.v.

show here robin merrill from our culture desk has more so what exactly happened to stop this bad from performing well first of all i should say it wasn't the t.v. channel that stopped them from performing this is about. a phish delay and i should also moves in the past. they have been accused of rocky anti-establishment lyrics and they've even been investigated by the security services they have in recent times more reason to distance themselves from some of the early songs and don't see them anymore anyway they would do to perform tonight a t.v. show that takes place in the house in decibel and the bar house was designed as should was a renowned german design school in the early twentieth century in the one nine hundred thirty three it was closed down by the nazis who considered bauhaus design degenerate alt now i mention this because isn't what the nazis did what the bauhaus foundation indulge you now because it is they that have stopped the band performing

one of the buildings they say there are threats of disturbance from right wing groups so the band was cancelled by the way the band are going to perform tonight in death as well but in another venue that also be taped by the broadcasters so the t.v. thing will happen but not in the original place instead if the game has sold out the back and offering tickets to any children of parents who have the member which is the far right far right wing party here in germany so there is a sort of artistic sense of humor on here as well anyway let's find out more about this band with the unlikely name of finas on a fish from a which would be fine creamy philip of fish. there was a recent documentary go visit as has a while hot has more of a band about the singer and much more.

this house is more than the portrait of a band its central theme is the rise of the right wing in eastern germany when nazis started coming to their gigs the boys from the band realized they had to adopt a clear position their songs began to reflect their refugees welcome stance and they were also increasingly on the front line when neo nazis were challenged on the streets. during the twenty sixteen state election campaign they toured mechlin book flop on one with a very political message as this goes on to go to the beach going to the home was privy to that wasn't quite sad here was that so i focus not just here if you know that if she starts it would. turn it on t.v. or turn to dot all of the stasi responders are headed to that over both of us that's right uploaded to that of your bowl of butts motivates them to. the band achieved notoriety after being placed under surveillance by germany's domestic

security service so is singer young and kane mancini a hero in the eyes of the director. of the in front of a hero for sure because a hero is someone who finds a situation and re-imagines it or approaches it in an entirely new way and the band anyon have done just that since they first got together before the current come on chase solidarity with refugees is a given. as we know when we see a police this month as this is a concert for things to butter the show sort of itself isn't even the fruit machines and one of the commencement leads me cool on it's mother goes on one decision to toast that's really just not an issue that. china's unofficial a show that mixing pop and politics is still relevant in this day any age.

and robin this is the first time that music has entered the political fray in recent weeks known it won't be the last many offices speaking up against well extremism of any kind it tends to be against right wing extremism but i'm sure you remember in august a man we reported on a lot on the demand was stabbed to death in the east german town of kemet allegedly by migrants the followed violent protests and a lot of hostility towards foreigners and then one week later actually a concert was filmed famously organized by well known german bands including fine isn't a fish for they have they are performing back home so the concert was peaceful over fifty thousand people. and the concert was advertised under the banner of visine we are mall which was the idea the idea being that there would there were more people full multiculturalism here in germany than against it at a cost of a ballista t. goes always to the right wing extremism and what has happened with the whole

debacle well concerning the bio has foundation i personally hope they will not try to interfere in. autistic content of t.v. shows in the future that's going down the slippery slope of not allowing artistic freedom which we're all aware of is essential in any free society and especially here in germany because of course of the da of german history so let's hope it doesn't happen again we have so many different themes crossing in this these particular incidents where our viewers can find out more yes do go to detail dot com slash culture because it's very difficult subject to have just a few minutes on it's much deeper than that so check it all out on a website due to a dot com start culture important reporting robin merrill as always bringing us a very thorough and important view here we appreciate things. and with that you're up to date here on news we have more coming up at the top of

the hour and don't forget you can always get all the latest news and information around the clock that's on our website at www dot com you can follow us on social media i'm sorry kelly in berlin after a few short minutes we'll be joined by iraq thanks for watching. some.

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