digital africa starts december twelfth on t.w. . this is p.w. news coming to you live from berlin migrants and militias face off at the us mexico border. you know because the truck the old bus was working over because you've heard people are afraid of americans for. v.w. meets the armed vigilantes patrolling america's southern border to defend against what they call invaders this as to you want to confront a health crisis among stranded migrants living in desperate conditions also coming

up russia blames ukraine for the crimea crisis calling sunday's of naval standoff a publication in turn she is preparing the country for conflict over what it calls an act of aggression by moscow. quote chess championships finally produce a winner in a nail biting series of quickfire tiebreakers magnus carlsen defends his crown beating fabiano caruana. and is a whole really are and who owns it anyway we'll have a report on the plight of the aged hole of mannheim which was destroyed when the german city's old art gallery was made or made way for a modern museum. hello i'm terry marchant good to have you with us we begin at the. the u.s.

mexican border more than seven thousand central american migrants are living there in squalid conditions piles of trash open sewers and the risk of disease are a daily reality the migrants are trying to get into the u.s. but with tight security on both sides their hopes for a better life are on hold and their numbers are growing this week a second caravan arrived at the border town of tia want to some americans though have little or no sympathy for their plight. our correspondent stefan seem met with a group of gun toting vigilantes who are voluntarily patrolling the border near the border town of cumple in california. we're following a member of a private and controversial border watch project called minutemen robert crooks sixty seven year old retiree from las vegas patrolled the u.s. mexican border in the campo area about ninety six kilometers southeast of san diego

crooks has been doing this for months now every day he lives and sleeps in his pickup truck and he patrols watches and tracks what he calls invaders an enemies of the united states of america that are coming this way and if they do you know of your wait for watching. him. robert joined the minutemen project group that many described as a dangerous militia in two thousand and five he says even back then he felt he needed to help secure the border and fight off what he calls an invasion of illegal immigrants. as my country is your country are. you know if you know where you make stand have. he sees himself as a patriot he claimed this hilltop overseeing the border for himself by installing a flagpole this is his base he named it point patriot. where in his view he served his country at a critical time where he makes a stand in what he calls. the epic battle against illegal immigrants this is

a defining moment in history right now if we don't do something here today this you know right right now. this could be is get through because you're so very dangerous to our nation if we start a lot of hordes of thousands of thousand just across the border crusher cities you know it's recipe for disaster it has to stop here. for all of the criminals in tijuana sequence the caravan migrants from central america sheltered on the other side of the border robert has this message. we got to stop it discuss that they have to go back or they got to her truck flown bus walk whatever they have to go home and they have to work on their own problems if they've got to get elections there you know revolution if that's for ticks whatever because the american people are fed up americans for the federal agents of the u.s. border patrol do not necessarily agree with any of troop sentiments however out

here in the field they do appreciate him patrolling the area watching and alerting them to suspicious movements from the other side that's enough of a reward for this minute long is this is going. to be a correspondent reporting there on the vigilante minutemen project that monitors the us mexico border and stuff and joins us now from more stuff what do americans make of this so-called minuteman project. although most americans would disagree with the minutemen then with pretty much anything and everything the protagonist of this piece in our story just said and what you just heard the majority of americans have quite a different opinion about illegal immigration or immigration those minutemen and this project minuteman is highly controversial and most of the people who are in

this group or in this project are not just against illegal immigration they're pretty much against any immigration for them it's a little bit about this survival of the the white race against anything which comes into america is trying to get their jobs or endangering somehow and some want their livelihood again most of america i would say and be on the safe side with this estimate is not buying into this in this sentiment of the minutemen project not at all ok stefan coming back to your side of the border the mexican side where you are now president elect manuel lopez obrador will be sworn in on saturday he is expected to is he expected to deal with the migrant caravans and the border crisis any differently. well let me say this the mayor and that you see here they are for sure having all hopes on

this mr albert gore will take measures and better measures than his hands dealing with the crisis. and it is a crisis to quantize dealing with a humanitarian crisis that's what the mayor tells us. very very vehemently says like we need the help of the federal government we need the help of mexico city we can't go into red numbers i can't suspend any other city service here for taking care of more and more migrants which are coming in this sports center the. sports center there are now almost seven thousand migrants seeking shelter and having shelter alone in all of the numbers about eight eight eight and a half thousand so this is going to be increasingly difficult without federal help from mexico city to want to go and mayor sade's down the drain. seven tell us what

sort of conditions are the migrants facing there on the border you describe a humanitarian crisis. well it's a cry for curious there in this in those shelters situations deteriorated from last week when we were here significantly last week we were here were two and a half thousand people in this sports center in this major shelter and it was laid out to accommodate exactly that number now that number almost tripled so you can imagine everything there is just basically breaking down the cemetery situation is precarious. they's not even enough food now or diapers and other products people there need and that's explains the really this this cry for help from. want to officials and the people here they are quite fed up that

they are kind of left alone with dealing with the migrants there and they are in a bind for this it's going to rain for the next two days misery here will be all over the place stephanie thank you very much for the d.w. stuff on siemens there in tijuana mexico. now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today the united states senate has voted to advance a bill that would end u.s. involvement in the saudi led war in yemen the vote is being seen as a rejection of president trump support for the saudis after the killing of journalist jamal cuts all genes senators will debate the bill again before casting a final but. a court in the philippines has found three police officers guilty of murder for the killing of a teenage boy are the first convictions of officers carrying out present terror to his so-called war on drugs the death of seventeen year old lloyd at los santos has stirred unprecedented public anger. sort of his vili has

won george's presidential election becoming the former soviet republics first female president near final results. really won fifty nine point six percent of the vote the former foreign minister is backed by the ruling party favors balancing georgia's relations with russia and the west. well russia's president vladimir putin has accused ukraine of orchestrating sunday's naval standoff russia seized three ukrainian vessels and has detained their crews pending trial in turn kid has condemned the black sea skirmish off the coast of crimea as a russian act of aggression ukraine's president has declared martial law in the border regions he says moscow is preparing for war. putting on a show of readiness ukrainian troops deep trenches near the russian border they have been put on alert as martial law comes into effect ukraine's president petro

poroshenko visited a military training center urging his troops to get prepared for action even in the morning. we'll give them no chance to invade into ukraine. that's why today we are doing everything possible to provide extra financing of the armed forces. not to be outdone russia's defense ministry also released a video of training exercises in the south of the country. both sides are blaming each other for provoking sunday's naval clash in the catch strait russian ships fired on and seized three ukrainian naval vessels capturing the crew. of the ukrainian sailors have been charged with unlawfully entering russia and of being held pending trial western countries are calling for their release the united states special envoy for ukraine told d.w. that further sanctions against russia are on the table and we've tried to ratchet

up sanctions gradually in order to create pressure and to indicate that there is a way out that we would like to talk with russia. ending the conflict with its forces. security and then getting the. u.s. president donald trump has threatened to cancel a planned meeting with russian president vladimir putin at this week's g. twenty summit but russia says the meeting will occur as it's too important for both sides. or for the very latest let's cross over to our moscow correspondent yury rachet oh last year we've got martial law in ukraine russian troops on the border new russian missile systems for crimea any idea where this is headed. i don't think we have to be afraid of a potential war or a huge huge military conflict between russia and ukraine now terry of course we're hearing determined statements on both sides in ukraine and russia we see on

television a ukrainian president showing plant species which he says prove that the russians are preparing an attack but i don't believe that moscow now wants to annex eastern ukraine for example like a did with grammy intervention fourteen first of all first of all it's important to pointing out that it's still unclear what exactly happened in the strait of couch some questions are still open secondly irrational wanted to annex eastern ukraine it could have done it twenty fourteen when it annexed crimea and there time that would have been the simpler simpler militarily and politically from the russian point of view in the meantime moscow isn't paying much attention to the dawn bust because russia is fighting on many other fronts after all the political situation has changed as well a lot since twenty fourteen so moscow is an outcast on the international stage not a month passes without the new sanctions from the west so it would be a very inconvenient time for russia to carry out any kind of invasion at the moment

here you mention saying sions or there's talk of imposing new sanctions on russia and fully implementing the existing ones how much could that hurt russia. i don't think new sanctions would do any good for us russia is used to saying at this point second it would only bring russia further away from the minsk peace agreement the greens might never have been really implemented but all politicians at all levels terry emphasized that there is no alternative to it but the source of all problems is and remains the issue of crimea and it's the source of many of the sanctions as well the russians have seen the peninsula's for the russians for more than four years now the ukrainian see the peninsula as ukrainian and both sides will certainly not change their positions there for a practical pragmatic solution on the ground just around the straits of kids couch is strongly needed and political negotiations. we've heard u.s. president donald trump say in an interview let's get angela involved referring to

german chancellor angela merkel of course what role could germany possibly play in this conflict in terms of mediation. i think germany could play a bigger role anglo-american enjoys a very high respect on both sides have great respect ukrainian president poroshenko said for example yesterday in a german newspaper in an interview americal safeties country in twenty fifteen he meant medical stroll during the negotiations on the means to peace agreement russian president putin also has great respect for america she talked to her in the fold after the conflict last weekend and i think that of all western politicians terry americal has the best chance for mediating and raise issues yuri thank you so much for that our moscow correspondent yury rachet oh there. well here in germany the government faces a tricky decision today on a controversial farming practice the routine castration of male piglets farmers do

this to prevent something called boar taint an unpleasant taste in the meat that some say develops when pigs reach maturity five years ago they were given a deadline farmers were giving. alternative castration but lawmakers could now extend that deadline by another two years as the pork industry resists the move to stall the snip. some of the new. piglets are castrated when they're just free days or it without anaesthetic. you can see just an incision is made with a scalpel before the testicles a ripped out. this painful procedure is to standard practice on german pig farms it's done to prevent what's known as bore taint and unpleasant smell or taste that occurs in the meat off some pigs.

yeah but it's not a fun job it would be great not to have to castrate but if we didn't do it we wouldn't be able to sell the pigs. castration without anesthetic has been prohibited in germany since two thousand and thirteen families were given a grace period with that now due to end the precious on for families to change their methods big families had five fought on it and they do exist castration on the general anesthetic and immunize a. sexual maturity and stop the meat from smelling all raising the animals without immunization in the so-called war fattening process and accept that some of the meat will smell and won't be fit for human consumption but the anesthetics haven't been approved and man. any meat processing companies won't use pork from immunized o'boyle fatten pigs the plan to allow castration without anesthetic for

another two years has been met by criticism from animal rights activists this have this it's been scientifically proven that newborn piglets a fully sensitive to pain which means twenty million piglets a year going through that intense pain. didn't attending an animal production trade fair and hanover in a bid to find common ground she believes the government has given in to pressure from lobbyists. on a political we expect politicians not to be bullied by the meat production lobby they have a duty to enforce animal welfare laws and not soften them for the sake of the export market itself device and support that. pick five. six supports an extension of the grace period she'd like that time to be used to put pressure on the production industry to accept meat from on castrated pigs she no longer wants to castrate piglets but for now her priority is selling meat.

now norwegian chess superstar magnus carlsen has successfully defended his crown of world chess championship in london the twenty eight year old beat american fabiano carolina in three straight rapid chess tiebreakers on wednesday that was after no winner had emerged in nearly three weeks of face all. twelve games had not managed to produce a winner with all twelve indeed in drawing a novelty and a world championship but it wasn't quite unexpected magnus carlsen and challenger fabiano carolina were the two best chess players in the world it's possible defending champion carlsen had decided to pay his fortunes on the quick fire tiebreakers after all that's how he won the title two years ago for his latest triumph the norwegian will take home five hundred fifty thousand euros since very special for me to win this time i feel like i've played. the fundamentalists the

strongest of on and play it's i mean in classical chess at this point just as much rights rights as i have to call himself the best in world it's magnus carlsen who hoists the trophy for the fourth time. now the art world is closely following a legal battle in germany between an installation artist and a museum it concerns the curious questions does a museum have the right to destroy an artwork it owns and if so does the artist deserve compensation for the case stems from controversial renovation work carried out at the renowned. in one hundred. come visit whole be considered the art it is or rather was called the age hole of mannheim it was an integral part of the german city's main art museum before its new building was inaugurated earlier this year the holes creator was outraged that her work of art

wouldn't survive. and they leave this concert mccartney it's not experience you can only understand it when you experience it if you only see photos of it then it would be like seeing only part of a living thing if you only show one part of your body then you don't get the full picture guys and mention the state. that it was three years ago on this is my own himes new art museum built as planned without. this hunted system and it's a living work of art she wrote that herself and what lives sometimes die is too much in any case a living artwork changes and i as an expert consent leave out for that appeal in its day the age old was a popular attraction. for some time residence the price tag of over sixty eight million euros for the new building was expensive. thanks to the an easy m's right

when they say that there they know is that the os installation and his anus can decide what they do. hold can be art but a new building is a new building not really brown bivens demanded three hundred twenty thousand euro compensation from the city of mannheim the court battle over the age old has lasted for years when things sure ph holds time has already run act. talking about battles the battle over break that is continuing and there are some grim predictions for four brags that britain economically go as if we didn't know that or. the u.k. leave of european union with no deal would have devastating consequences for the british economy that's the consensus of both a government report and an analysis by the bank of england in any case britain would be poorer outside the bloc both reports suggest but it is all in a divorce what multiply the negative impact in two weeks from now british m.p.'s

are set to vote on a promise that there is a maze back that plan. no deal breck said what hit britain's economy hard the bank of england predicts traumatic consequences if that happens. by the end of twenty twenty three g.d.p. is more than ten percent lower in the disorderly scenario compared to that me twenty sixteen trend the bank also said if the island nation has to leave the e.u. in a hard breck said the pound could plummet twenty five percent against other major currencies that's a worst case scenario it says but possible if the country doesn't agree to a deal even so it's still far from clear that theresa may will be able to push her agreement with the e.u. through a comeback of british parliament although she's doing all she can to give things a positive spin on what we see behind the analysis that we have published today and indeed the chancellor recognise this morning is that our deal is the best deal

available for jobs and our economy which allows us to all of the referendum and realise the opportunities of rights in the analysis carried out by the government also shows britain's economy will suffer even if the deal goes through so the big question is just how bad will the damage be if the deal is passed says the study the economic consequences will be much less drastic shortly before the vote on december eleventh breaks it remains as contentious as ever. japanese companies are mitsubishi must compensate the victims of forced labor during world war two south korea's top order. tokyo criticize the verdict saying the question of reparations stemming from wartime transgressions was settled by the two countries reestablish diplomatic relations in the one nine hundred sixty s. . mitsubishi must apologize and compensate the victims they span a raids and south korea's highest court agrees with at least some of the victims of

forced labor from japan's wartime occupation of the korean peninsula it's ordered the kamani factual to compensate ten south koreans who had been forced to provide labor for the company but almost eighty years after the end of the war some justice has come to light. but also very sad today. it would have been great if any one of the five deceased victims could see this result but all five of them passed away and only way their children are here to accept this verdict so it's very sound. but japan has been on the moved by the verdict tokyo has called on south korea to reverse it warning it could take quote counter measures to protect its own economic interests func ledes is about to kick out safety inspectors brought in after the rana plaza

tragedy in april twenty third when more than a thousand textile workers died in the factory collapse tragedy shown a spotlight on the working conditions in the sweat shops of the bangladeshi garment industry used by many western clothing brands international pressure forced the government to allow safety checks but now the international team of inspectors will be forced to leave the country this friday for. worsening conditions for garment workers many are worried that reporter of international safety inspectors from bangladesh would mean just that. the country's high court is objecting them a little bit from the language as she government for more control over the inspections the international safety regime was put in place after one of the deadliest manufacturing accidents in history. over a thousand textile workers lost their lives in the run applause a complex on the outskirts of the collapse in two thousand and thirteen. labor

unions have called it a quote mass industrial homicide. inspectors were brought in to oversee safety improvements in more than twenty three hundred of bangladesh's garment factories many of them are suppliers of clothes for big global brands like h. and m. and prime mark. since then the teams of help identifying fix over one hundred thousand safety issues in the past five years studies show that in the same period yes across the sector have fallen from seventy one annually to just seventeen. but the bangladeshi government will take over the monitoring is a cause for worry for many experts they say it's far from prepared to do so. it watching the news from above when there's more news coming to the top of the hour standard of you go to margie day is up next thanks for watching.

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