parents and explore fascinating and cultural heritage sites all the way to. the d w world heritage for 60 get the. last play. this is g.w. news live from berlin it was a choice almost no one expected after days of negotiations european leaders nominate was about to find out why germany's defense minister for the e.u.'s most powerful job but office vision is already broke and the european parliament has a big decision to make today electing its own new president also coming out to an

italian judge releases the german captain of a migrant rescue ship she'd been arrested for defying an order not to adopt italy's interior minister has called for tougher treatment and says he will expel her. also what happens to the piles of plastic that we throw away every day activists say if we want to save the planet and protect our environment and pictures like these must become a thing of the past. class england and the u.s. battle it out for a place in the women's world cup final the match was full of tension and drama right to the area to go beyond the highlight. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us lawmakers are voting to choose a new president of the european parliament the vote in strasburg will complete the use lengthy process of appointing new people to the talk to. now

a leader is have already nominated candidates for 4 other posts the most important job is that of e.u. commission chief and the nominee is controversial its german defense minister it was left underlined the european parliament has to ratify her appointment and it is not certain that they will. and let's go right to strasburg our correspondent max huffman is standing by there for us hi max so we heard that there is growing opposition to was left on the line as a candidate for this a european commission president post tell us more about what you've been hearing there today. i don't know if the opposition against it was enough underlying is growing but it's pretty strong i mean she shouldn't have a problem at least that's what many from the conservative group your say to swing around that group after all it's her party the european people's party it will be much more difficult with the social democrats who are very disappointed because many of them thought they had a very good chance of installing funds to moments their lead candidate as the e.u.

commission president and then also you have the green party that has categorically said no we will not vote in favor of that package and i'm standing now next to the head of the greens in the european parliament philip on boats is with us thank you for coming why won't you vote for it was an open ended well i don't know who's saying that because we did not say categorically no we said these about thank you that doesn't alter the qualities we need to face the challenges of this time come on what do we have there we have on the one hand an old going basically german minister whose principal qualities to be faithful to marco that's fine but do we need someone who is just was just being. well an aide to a german chancellor be going to the chief executive of european union and at the council we have someone we see heavy in depth to. it to another leader in europe

and that shall be shilling death to america and michael do we have their dippy people who have demonstrated over the past decades whole years of their political he told point that they understand climate change that the understand the rising social inequalities that the understand the challenges to all democracies i do not believe so so if you if you say you're not categorically against what would it take for you to vote in favor of that package and in favor for her taking over the commission president well you know that we are pretty much about substance we want to change of course for policies carried out of the european union how do we fix climate change in biodiversity how do we fix social inequality how do we fix them ocracy now she can still surprise us by making bold commitments you should never rule older people revealed themselves but i want to see it before i will believe it even though i'm a christian i need to see miracles do in order to believe them she's going to be here and strasburg this afternoon if you get the chance you're one question what's

that question going to be i won't diseased the weak argument of my human needs to get its act together and to elect its body so if time comes to to meet. and it's going to be probably next week i guess i mean no hurry. you know that we are we are skeptical about the whole package and we deplore the fact that the parliament had i would say a once in a lifetime opportunity to assert its importance but it's certainly a missed opportunity it's not only disputes and counted out and we were working on the all the candidates of the different parties yeah and we were also working on trying to define. the next year european commission president should follow in order to get a majority in the european parliament but now i understand that 3 groups in the european parliament by and large are prepared to full to hold that person regardless so what's the point of the exercise if the county did know so well you said it's going to be difficult frankly speaking. i can already predict what will

happen in the social democrats over it today the social democrats will just say we snatched the presidency of the european parliament one steady storm now they claim that while we are not going to hold off on the lion but then the oldest will come from outside of the association and then they will say well but we need to protect look at how many positions we got for both whole team of months for i don't know who shall reach and so we need to protect all so all soldiers sold a price for that is to agree with the deal and believe me my experience of the social newsgroups is that ultimately they fall in line thank you very much for the glum both so full of numbers here with us leaving the door slightly open at least for. depending on what she has to offer especially on the topics of climate change with that back to you in berlin and next before we let you go we do want to say that there is a vote underway in strasburg at the moment the vote for the president of the european parliament fill us in on how that is going. well the 1st round of votes

was not conclusive or although social democratic candidate from italy came very close 7 votes were missing so now they're in the 2nd round of votes if that's not conclusive they'll be a 3rd one so this might take all afternoon but we still expect the social democratic candidates to come out with a victory for the gunboats also expected in just told us that's often for us in strasburg thank you very much. now to some other stories making news around the world the u.n. says an airstrike on a migrant center in libya that killed at least 44 people quote amounts to a war crime more than 130 were wounded in the attack in the capital tripoli libya's u.n. back government has blamed the attack on the south styled libyan national army which has denied it. demonstrators burned tires and blocked roads across israel to protest against the shooting death of an 18 year old ethiopian israeli by an off duty. policeman on sunday activists have been angered by perceived systematic

discrimination by police towards israel's ethiopian minority. russia says details of a fire that killed 14 crew on monday on a deepwater submersible won't be made public as it includes classified information norway's radiation safety authority says it believes the russian submarine was nuclear powered but it told you it had not detected any unusual levels of radioactivity. and firefighters say huge force blaze in northern germany is now under control more than 1200 hectares of woodland have been scorched cooler temperatures overnight helped damp down the flames but firefighters warn that rising daytime temperatures may cause them to flare up again. the german captain of the migrant rescue ship sea watch has moved to a secret location because of security fears that's according to a sea watch spokesman. was released from house arrest by an italian court earlier

she was detained on sunday after taking her ship carrying 40 migrants into port on the italian island of lampedusa and doing so she called collided with a customs patrol boat the judge said she had been doing her duty saving human lives when she docked the ship in defiance of italian authorities. and we can speak to me and s. of us in the psyllium city of ugly gentle following the story for us hi good to see you so we know to think right now about the whereabouts of. well kate is still in italy her exact whereabouts though are being kept very secret and that's because she's received threats her lawyer told us yesterday that she's being keep in an unknown safe place here in italy. even yesterday when she was staying in the house where she had remained under house arrest for 2 days she didn't come out to talk to the press at one point an activist went in to talk to

her a show of support but when the activists came out she did not answer questions for the media so very secretive on that front the main reason why she's staying in italy is because she has another hearing on july 9th where she could potentially face further charges that would be charges of helping illegal immigrants essentially human smuggling i mean what about the migrants who are on board the ship that she was steering what has happened to them migrants remain on lampedusa the being kept in a holding center there this 40 of them i've heard the conditions described there as not so good but their fate is up in the air because even though other european countries including germany said they would accept those migrants to italy didn't have to. deputy prime minister here in italy matteo salvini has blocked that move so we don't know for sure what's going to happen to them hopefully something will be resolved in the next few days i mean this is been a very closely watched case the controversial case tell us what's going to happen

next with. well as i said she faces another hearing possibly of charges of helping illegal immigrants she has said that her victory yesterday she called it a victory that she was released on the more perhaps more serious charges of attacking a police ship she called it a victory of solidarity and she said she's received a lot of support but again the politics in the government here is turned against her mateo salvini has been very much against her and has been pushing for what he called punishment so he wants to see something happen to cover all the high kaita that will send a message now see watch told d.-w. but they're very optimistic given that the courts yesterday said that she was just doing her job. all right i mean s.f. reporting there from i'm going to gentle in sicily looks like we've lost that line thank you to a man for his reporting to some other news now in the u.s.

to government inspectors have warned of dangerous overcrowding at migrant detention centers in texas they publish photos of cells of the detainees were forced to stand the inspectors report comes a day after democratic lawmakers denounce what they called horrifying conditions at some of the detention centers u.s. government inspectors say it's a ticking time bomb overcrowded migrant detention facilities in the u.s. state of texas where people are forced to sleep hundreds to a room on concrete floors even trapped in cages sometimes with nowhere to sit these photographs of raised concerns for the health and safety of detainees while they are being processed but one shelter organizer in el paso says overcrowding isn't an issue. i know that but i keep hearing that. she b.p. facility. and we are now we are seen you know.

i don't know that. this footage secretly filmed by a u.s. congressman has caused by rage women of all ages crammed into a cell with no running water and just one toilet. it's these conditions that are sparked protests across the country like here in new york. with things going over the border is disgraceful and a humane has to stop now. and we want to. start putting young children sleeping on concrete sleeping with oil blankets like this is not how we should be treating children that's not how we should be treating people that's not a country that's supposed to stay for values for freedom for like pursuit of happiness and trump is running concentration camps at our border and i have to be here to protest that the trump administration has pushed back against criticism of its migrant centers arguing that it's been forced to hold people in unsuitable

facilities for much longer than the 72 hours normally allowed by law due to a lack of capacity leaving those continuing to arrive at the border with a longer wait in limbo. now in many parts of the world today is international plastic bag free day the european activists behind it hope it will highlight the damage plastic waste is doing to our planet and convince people to find other solutions let's take a look at some shocking statistics now the world produces a 300000000 tons of plastic waste every year that's just about the weight of the entire human population imagine that now what 10000000 tons. and up in the world's oceans a lack of effective waste management in asia is the biggest source of the problem now 90 percent of ocean plastic is carried by rivers such as the yangtze and the yellow river in china or the ganges in india as well much of it degrades and breaks

down into microscopic particles they are often ingested by fish and then eaten by humans now our trash permeates our oceans including in the deepest place on earth right here in kilometers below the surface of the pacific ocean in the mariana trench china announced 2 years ago that it would no longer accept plastic waste for recycling and that has put pressure on other developing countries that have become destinations for dumping. this is canadian plastic waste that was supposed to end up in the philippines right now it's burning up in the canadian incinerator the government says it's being safely treated in line with national standards the waste was sent to the philippines years ago following a legal dispute the government in manila hired a shipping company to send it back to canada. and this is what happens when southeast asian countries accept western waste. mountains of garbage from france

germany and other european countries items are used once and thrown away malaysian activists found this site next to a palm oil plantation. we followed the i 3 and they. all the doubt and then day but. ah the stuff i 3 so those. calls the law awful help. the problem has gotten worse since china stopped accepting waste shipments in 2017 since then millions of tons of waste have been shipped to thailand vietnam malaysia and indonesia environmentalists have called on the countries to stop accepting waste they also say the solution isn't just local the producers of plastic also have to change their ways.

and we are kidding always sell by using. we to depend on plastic. and then you'll trust to our country. the european union has promised to stop exporting its plastic waste to developing countries but only in 2021 so for now the trash mountains of malaysia and its neighbors will just keep growing. let's talk now to you seen my low of 0 waste to europe which is the organizer of international plastic bag free day she's also a policy coordinator of the rethink plastic alliance in brussels you steve thank you for joining us we should say that the e.u. was recently decided to ban certain single use plastics is that enough is that a significant step or is it really a drop in the ocean. the rules on think it was crafted is a significant step forwards in a fight against class a collision that's for sure because many of the plastic that we find on the beaches

are indeed single use plastic and that we really presented to us through a culture we are in over this it is much more to be done 1st of all we have to make sure those new rules are actually going to be implemented all across europe to actually make a difference on the ground and then there's much more to be done to promote a usable tenets if for example to promote a new business model that are based on the use and not by taking and there's also much more to be done when we think about michael's death and as you mentioned and also for looking at the presence of some chemicals in products including packaging and it's natural to be done that to make sure that those toxic southie that article from the products we use that's on the governmental level that you see what can people like you and i do to make sure that plastics don't end up in the ocean because the reality is when you go to the store most of what you see is still packaged in plastic. in this so the 1st said oh this is to

refute when it's possible for a lot of products now they're out musical that can assist if we think about tug bags instead of seeing is excessive back if we think about reusing the result that you can bring to your party have you reasonable what's available and more and more we. sell as growing and you say we're going to spend so that's based on reasonable so i think we can all make a difference and then citizens can also ask their retailers or the big companies that produce those products and tell them we want products that out and pay cage or that are packaged in the responsible way that is reasonable as much as possible sucks because we as well and what we can also do is push our local government or national the covenants to also add those measures that promotes all those new business model and then reduce the consumption of plastic but you see what realistically can we actually achieve to make

a difference at this point is it perhaps too late when micro plastics have been found in the deepest point of the ocean. i mean the picture is quite. bright and since but we have to remember that half of the test think that we ever produced in the world was produced in the last listing is that i'm just saying is that we do nothing and so we need i'm on the time for that was the means we can reassess the strong this trend least in more and more people aware of this issue and acting and in the break with fantastic movement of which we all pass was created on the screen years ago and now it's. bringing together more than 1500 members of the press there was this action around we sin conscious action more and more action and we've also sent the company a 1000 to thinking and we think the way they put just said products and how they can switch to wait for the zine so there's the decision to have big movements so we say there is this in the. end the fortunate position people we can step in to make

a difference all together too and best position for goods already seem a little of 0 waste europe joining us from brussels thank you. thank you. to soccer now the defending champions of the women's world cup the u.s. are in the final after a dramatic 2 win $21.00 win over england all the goals came in the 1st half but most of the drama came close to the final whistle. the united states have been quick counts of the blocks at this world cup against england it was no different thank you thanks for the nice christian press posting in the back post the shot replacements are making repeat justifying a price on the sides. england could have been overruled but they hit back so you know. why we. should go number 6 of the tournament.

but anything she could do so you could but if they go out and get a few 100 in the stuff and the team moving cheekily celebration her it's you know very english why is that having been choking on that city they were positively crying and sweet by the end of the video referee having earlier choked off a goal for offsides help steam vis a penalty step captain steph. she. us brief a sigh of relief the day with the just so when else. as we heard one of the top u.s. players meghan rypien all sat on the bench for the match she said it was because of a muscle strain and she vowed to return for sunday's championship match the focus now is just to get healthy and get everyone healthy and make sure we have the full squad but. you know over the course of 7 games like no one person is going to be the main person every single game and we talked a lot about our jeff leading into the tournament and during the tournament and it

was on full display and it was very good tonight. all right our correspondent all over moody was following all the drama in leon last night he joins us for more on this story hi ali the favorites the u.s. are on to the final but they really had to work for it didn't they. they certainly did yeah although early on it didn't look like they would have to look like it could be a walkover in the early stages the u.s. started in their usual rampant fashion they got the opening goal at 3 kristen press and it was fully deserved it looked like at that point england had no long says to the u.s. attack but then ellen white the hero really of england's world cup campaign struck the equaliser and after that it was really quite an even gaming and really did go toe to toe with the u.s. from that point on but look this u.s. team has sorrow much talent ability all across the pitch and in particular up front with alex morgan and of course it was her who got what turned out to be the winning goal proving once again that she is one of the best in the world on the biggest

stage of all the world cup semifinal. came so close to tying with that penalty what was the mood like in the stadium at that moment. yeah well i was sitting around mostly american fans and they were very loud throughout the game except at that particular moment when the referee. to the screen to check the video replay of the foul on ellen white a hush descended in the heart of the crowd and of course they didn't stage hushed for very long because just a few moments later a listener pulled off a huge penalty save a save the ultimately put the u.s. into the world cup final a moment of ecstasy for them a moment of misery for england it wasn't the only one they also had a goal another goal for ellen white ruled out for a marginal offside 2 moments that will haunt them i'm sure right up until at least the next major international tournament in 2 years' time despite the fact that they

can be very proud of their performances we heard from lucy braun england's right back right after the game about those particular moment so let's hear what she had to say obviously because many creative. part of our decision offside an offside we're not going to argue with that but you know it's these are the fine lines and for poland and a semi final of the world cup i think it pushed us a right to the edge and. you know even at the end of the game we we still looked and even with 10 men unfortunately that's the way. that is the way football goes all in so the defending champs are in the final again can they be stopped. well we've got fans of the netherlands and sweden arriving at the fan zone here behind me right now and they will certainly be hoping that the usa could be still below the u.s. a clearly the best team in the world we knew that going into the tournament and anybody who doubted that has been proven wrong frankly with the u.s. eyes wins over france the hosts and now england as well the u.s. will be in sweden in this tournament already of course so i think is going to be

very very difficult for anyone to stop them but if anyone does want to still does hope to stop them they have to stop the scoring at the beginning of the match the u.s. has scored in the opening 12 minutes of every single one of the world cup games so far stop that from happening and see if the u.s. have a plan b. that's the only way to beat them. in leon thanks so much. now in chile and argentina tens of thousands of people watched in awe as the sun vanished behind the moon and a total eclipse the 2 countries are the only inhabited places on earth where the worst sight could be seen its path started in the south pacific and stretched to the south american continent 11000 kilometers away. but. we're. pretty. reminder now of our top story that we're following for you here on d. w.

ill leaders have nominated the german defense minister it was a lot on the line for the top job of the president of the european commission a surprise choice came after 3 days of marathon talks by the european greens and socialists a very opposed fund alliance nomination making it unclear whether she will be confirmed in the post. coming up next our environment show eco india stay tuned for that.

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