simply bushman. was no armstrong. was his destiny starts july 20th on w. . you. claim. this is the job you do use live for let another crucial post in europe is decided is a tally and socialist david saucily is set to become the new president of the european parliament he was elected after 2 rounds of voting in strasbourg so what if anything does his appointment tell us about where the e.u. is heading. also coming up it's being called and terrific attack and potentially

a war crime at least 40 migrants have been killed in an airstrike as they sought shelter in libya the e.u. says whoever carried it out must be called to account. every day we throw away piles of plastic but where does it all go activists say if we want to save the planet and protect our environment the pictures like these must become a thing of the past. lasting good and the us battle it out for a place in the women's world cup final the match was full of tension and drama right up to the hour we'll go to the on the highlights. i'm sorry so much going to thank you for joining us lawmakers in the european parliament have chosen their new president for the next 2 and a half years they elected italian social democrat david saucily who has been a member of the parliament for a decade now. the vote it's

a complete use lengthy process of appointing new people to the top jobs you leaders have already nominated candidates for for other posts their pick for commission chief is germany's defense minister was about funded by now the european parliament has to ratify her appointment and it is not certain that it will. let's bring in max huffman he has in her where the european parliament has been meeting today i max so david saucily we're hearing is going to be the next president of the european parliament so what does of his appointment tell us about where the e.u. is had it. yes david so slowly is the new president of the european parliament you mentioned it he's been in this house where we are at the moment the last 10 years before that he was a journalist also a t.v. journalist and he's an italian and the most important thing here though is he's a social democrat why is that important because the presidency of the european

parliament is part of this package deal that was negotiated on tuesday in brussels in order to have the social democrats maybe down the road approve the commission president funded then they needed to get the presidency of the european parliament so you see everything is connected to everything that's why it's called a package deal heart maglev message take a closer look now it was enough on the line you mention if she's confirmed as european commission president the 60 year old would become one of the most powerful politicians in the e.u. but her nomination as we've heard is not without controversy. she's considered a close ally of german chancellor angela merkel ursula funday line german defense minister christian conservative and long time politician a medical doctor and mother of 7 funder line joined medical c.d.u. party in the early ninety's she later headed the ministry of family and women

before serving as minister of labor as germany's 1st female defense minister funded line aimed to revamp the armed forces but she's recently drawn criticism for poor management in the ranks several scandals including revelations of far right extremists in the military equipment failures and deadly military plane crashes of plate 10 year. a european at heart fluent in both english and french as well as german funder line has long been seen as a possible successor to medical as chancellor or more recently as the next head of nato european leaders have now agreed to choose her as the next president of the e.u. commission if the european parliament endorsers her she would be the 1st woman to fill the influential post. so max was left on the line will be visiting the european parliament there in strasburg this afternoon do you think she's going to be able to convince parliamentarians there that she is the right person for this

job. what she's doing this afternoon here in strasburg is the easy part because she's as we understand only visiting her own party the european people's party so the conservatives where are going to back who is also a member of still it's not going to be a walk in the park we've talked to some members of that party who are disappointed that their lead candidates are the candidate who did all the campaigning during the european elections months they'd veba isn't up for nomination for the presidency of the european council so there must be some explaining to do but it will be much easier than let's say with the social democrats because after all it is her own party all right our max huffman reporting there in strasberg max thank you very much. now to some other stories making news around the world demonstrators burned tires and blocked roads across israel to protest after an off

duty policeman shot to dead an 18 year old ethiopian israeli on sunday activists say police systematically discriminate against israel's if the opium minority. russia says details of a fire that killed 14 crewmembers on monday on a deepwater submersible will not be made public because it includes classified information know which an authority say they believe the russian sub was nuclear powered but they told you that they had detected unusual levels of radioactivity. the german captain of the migrant rescue ship sea watch has moved to a secret location because of security fears. that was earlier released from house arrest by an italian court she'd been detained for taking her ship carrying 40 migrants into port on the italian island of lampedusa. the united nations has said 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

as a transit country for migrants trying to reach europe it's also a failed state riven by power struggles between various factions now the 2 most important are libya's u.n. backed government which has blamed the airstrike on the other key faction the self-styled libyan national army led by strong mentally it has denied being behind the attack. and we can speak to charlie yaxley u.n.h.c.r. spokesperson for libya charlie thank you for joining us do you have any more information on what is happening now at this migrant center in tripoli. well currently a rescue operation is underway and we know the least 40 people have died in last night's airstrikes dozens more injured and the death toll is in fact likely to reach even higher as that rescue operation goes on u.n.h.c.r.

teams on the ground and off staff are providing aid and medical care to the survivors and they tell us to survive as a rule deeply traumatized by what's happened fearful what could have happened to them i mean the thing is this was something that was easily predictable just 2 months ago u.n.h.c.r. came out calling for this detention center to be evacuated after a similar airstrike hit a roof injuring 2 of the detainees and no action was taken since we made that call and sadly people have paid the price with their life last night this was a horrific attack charlie libya we should say is not only a transit country it is also a failed state that's why you have issued those warnings there are various factions fighting at the morning at the moment rather should be should the air european union really be working with the libyan coast guard said intercept migrants and send them back to these holding centers if they're not safe.

there has to be a change in approach now the status quo cannot continue i mean 1st of all we now need to evacuate all the people who remain in detention centers there are still thousands in detention centers including in tripoli right now who are similar risks to the people who are who suffered last night we need states to come forward and help us evacuate people refugees out of the country but really the approach to the mediterranean is key here one of the problems we've had in the last 2 months is that new people are being brought to the detention centers after being intercepted by the coast guard faster than we can get them out we need a shift in approach that sees no refugee or migrant rescued on the mediterranean return to libya there is no port in libya they can be considered safe for rescued refugees and migrants at this time and charlie tell us more about the people who

are affected here who are these migrants and where are they coming from. i mean that's part of the tragedy here many of these people who are being detained in appalling conditions inside these attentions and says have themselves fled war and violence and persecution in their home countries the they've traveled through sub-saharan africa after falling prey to the smuggling and trafficking networks there we hear reports of smugglers and traffic is committing a range of abuses including beatings kidnap selling people as slaves by the time people reach libya they're already deeply traumatized and with bal since april violence having escalated throughout tripoli it's no surprise that people were desperately trying to flee the situation only to be brought back and killed by

the very same violence they were trying to escape from and charlie let's come back to this strike the u.n. is blaming the troops of general khalifa haftar one of the factions that we said is a warring at the moment how did you come to the conclusion that they might be behind this and what would be in it for how to strike refugee camp. would you and i see ourselves a mandate is to work with refugees in libya we're not able to independently verify exactly who carried out the air strike what we can say for sure is that these coordinates of the detention center is the exact location is shared with the warring parties there now needs to be a full and thorough investigation the individuals responsible for this attack need to be identified and they need to be fully held to account for this there needs to be consequences so this does not happen again all right charlie yaxley u.n.h.c.r.

spokesperson for libya thank you very much. u.s. government inspectors have warned of dangerous overcrowding of migrant detention centers in texas they have published photos of cells so full that detainees were forced to stand they also said that in some cases children were denied access to showers and hot meals 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 see 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 risk concerns for the health and safety of detainees while they're being processed but one shelter organizer in el paso says overcrowding isn't an

issue i know that i keep hearing. she b.p. facility. and we are not we are not seen you know if. i don't believe. this footage secretly filmed by a u.s. congressman has caused women of all ages crammed into a cell with no running water and just one toilet. i think. it's these conditions that have sparked protests across the country like here in new york. we're going to explore the border is disgraceful inhumane has to stop now. and we want to. avoid 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 get in people this is not

a country that's a pretty stable for values for freedom for like pursuit of happiness 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 than 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 of the european activist behind it hope it will highlight the damage that plastic waste is doing to our planet and convince people to find other solutions let's take a look at some shocking statistics now of the world produces $300000000.00 tons of plastic waste every year and that is just about the weight of the entire human population and perhaps even worse that 10000000 tons of that plastic waste end up

in the world's oceans a lack of effective waste management in asia is of the biggest source of the problem now 90 percent of ocean plastic is carried by rivers such as the gang sea and the yellow river in china or also the ganges here in india now much of it degrades and breaks down into microscopic particles they are often ingested by fish and eaten by humans now our trash permeates our oceans including the deepest place on earth right here a levon kilometers below the surface of the pacific ocean in the mariana trench now 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 a 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've followed though i 3 and they. say all of the reach out and then dave but. i treat so those a. radio recalls the law awful help. the problem has gotten worse since china stopped accepting waste shipments and 27 team 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. but i think way. and we are kidding oversell by you seem to. think we took the plastic. and try 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. rules on thing it was crafted is a significant step forwards in a fight against plastic pollution that's for sure because many of the plastic that we find on the beaches are indeed single use plastic and that 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 there's much more to be done to promote reusable tentative plans on hold to promote a new business model based on the use and in the back taking and there's also much more to be done when we think about myself i think as you mentioned and also looking at the presence of some chemicals and products including packaging and that's natural to be done in that to make sure that those toxic southie that are all from the products we use that's on the governmental level but 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. indeed so the 1st step of this is to refuse when it's possible for a lot of products now they have been used as well as an estimate if we think about a tug bag instead of seeing these excessive bags if we think about reusing the results hopes that you can bring to your party have you reasonable what's a bottle and more and more we. sell sell as growing and you databases and so that's based on the usable so i think we can all make a difference and then citizens can also ask their retailers all 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 at

some $60.00 as well and what we can also do is push our local government or national the province to also add those measures that promotes all those new business models 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. broad in this but we have to remember that the half of the test that that we ever produced in the world was produced in the last thing is that after seeing is that we do nothing and so we did and then the time for that also means we can reassess the strong this trend least in more and more people aware 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 a bringing together more than $1500.00 members all across the web this action

around we've seen cancian taking more and more action and we've also the same deep company a 1002 things and we think the way that quote is set for that's and how they can switch to a president so there's there's definitely a big movement so we say. there is this in the. end of what's in it and just different people we can step in to make a difference all together too and best position for bits already see medal of 0 waste europe joining us from brussels thank you. to soccer now and the defending champions of the women's world cup the united states are in the final after a dramatic $21.00 win over england all the goals came in the 1st half but on most of the drama came close to the final whistle. the united states have been quick count of the blocks at this world cup against england it was no different from a big relief christian press very stinging at the back post the shock replacement

for making repeating no justifying how praising the size. england could have been overruled but they hit back to no. right. 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 answers 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 gaining 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 in 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 house descended in the heart of the crowd and of course it didn't stay hushed for very long because just a few moments later a listen i have 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 all sides in offside we're not going to argue with that boy you know these are the fine lines and for poland and a semi final of the world cup i think you pushed us a right to the edge and. you know even at the end of the game 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 fanzone here behind me right now and they will certainly be hoping that the usa could be stilt 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.a.'s wins over france the hosts and now england as well the u.s. also beaten sweden in the storm that already of course so i think is going to be very very difficult for anyone to stop them but if anyone does want to start in those hard to stop them they have to stop and storing 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. from to give you sports for us 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 in a total eclipse that you countries are the only inhabited places on earth where the rare sight could be seen. on. a reminder now of our top story here on d.w. the european parliament has elected italian socialist lawmaker javid saucily as its president for the next 2 and a half years saucily was chosen after 2 rounds of votes by lawmakers at the 1st primary session of the assembly which was elected in maine's e.u. glide home. coming up

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