this is p.w. news live from berlin another crucial european union post is the start of a tally in socialist david saucily is the new president of the european parliament he was elected after 2 rounds of voting in strasbourg what is his appointment tell us about where the e.u. is heading also coming up it's being called a horrific attack and potentially a war crime at least 40 migrants killed in an airstrike as they sought refuge in libya the e.u. says whoever carried it out must be called to account. plus one that the u.s.

battle it out for a place in the women's world cup final the match was full of tension and drama all right to the end we'll go to leon for the highlights. i'm serious oh my god it's great to have you with 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 the vote in strasbourg completes the e.u.'s a 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 enough on the line that the european parliament has to ratify her appointment and it is not certain that it will.

be used max health minister ending by and by the european parliament has been meeting today max there is a strong opposition there are 2 or is it us on the line as commission president what are any peace telling you. her 1st task and probably not the most difficult task is to convince her own party that she is the right woman to lead the european commission so she is expected to come here strasburg where the seat of the european parliament is this afternoon and she's only going to talk to our understanding at least with the e.p. that's the european peoples party so the conservatives what's the difficulty here well the difficulty is that the e.p.t. had another official candidate and that was not also enough on the line it was monthly it be about the so-called spits in the candidate the guy who did all the campaign but as the lead candidate of the strongest party to become the president of the european commission as we all know it didn't happen this way so now there's

a learning process involved for this party for the e p p and i talked to their vice president david mcallister and i put those questions straight forward to him does he think. we'll be approved by the european parliament in 2 weeks time. should it have that will have my vote but i'm one out of 751 it really depends now if she can get the support of the european people spotting a social democrats for liberals and the greens i think and she well i think we should really give us on the line a fair chance those who know it was in the front and i know she's a convinced european and she's a convincing european she has a huge expertise and obviously she was a compromise candidate where many governments from west to east and europe could rally behind her and say ok she's the woman it would also be the 1st woman in the history of the european union to be at the top of the european commission so we

should give it a chance and we should talk about have plans what does he listen to fund and plan to do as a commission president with a team the next 5 years and on the basis of this debate. on content m.e.p. call it should take a decision if we want to vote floor or not i don't know why some colleagues already refusing to vote without even having spoken listen to. our in mexico a very clear message from david mcallister there we should give was a law funded line a chance and she's visiting as you said the european parliament that this afternoon even if she is able to rally her conservatives around her what are her chances of getting her opponents on board so the greens and the socialists. especially the social democrats and socialists are going to be a very tough nut to crack because they had high hopes that they would provide the commission president and it was looking good for them for 2 or 3 days there last week their lead candidate funds to moments really seem to be in the lead for that

position even i'm going to medical had laid out a plan with him at the top of the you commission but we know in the end it came their family but of course this disappointment is still palpable right here in strasbourg and if they come around it will take them a long time to come around having said that they are part of that package deal that was struck in brussels on tuesday and i can only say this there are also leaders in the european union heads of government that were present in brussels when that deal was struck that are members of the european socialist party so there must have been some contact and somebody among the social democrats must have said yes we think we can make that deal fly even if it's difficult so a lot of things can happen in 2 weeks time right now a strong opposition among the social democrats but they might come around in the end. press and stressed very good to talk to you as always. that was enough an alliance nomination as proved controversial here in germany as well of the junior

partner and coalition the social democrats say they do not support her being named as president of the european commission author say her point shows that your european democracy is not working properly. a friendly welcome for the laugh on the line at the meeting after german cabinet in berlin the defense minister and conservative politician could become the next head of the e.u. commission a success we'll have party colleague chancellor angela merkel but fundal line is facing resistance from within germany's governing coalition the social democrats are not backing her. the. democrats want to strengthen the european parliament and democracy as part of the european political groupings chose lead candidates for the post of commission president those candidates were ignored so our goal of strengthening democracy was not to fulfill this moment in the. fund our line was

not one of the lead candidates at the european elections in my back home she's facing a parliamentary inquiry looking into irregularities at a defense ministry that's one reason why the business friendly f.t.p. party has treated her nomination with skepticism and yet. all of a sudden. about how microgram it she has only been involved in european politics as a german minister. comes as quite a surprise. as in germany's political parties reactions on the streets of berlin were mixed. if i think she's capable of doing the job. for the older generation is the way european democracies transit is somehow disappointing. she hasn't done a good job. defense minister of the dock i doubt she'll maintain order in brussels

since oct with so i. decided to put a compromise i'm sorry found because friends are happy with the alternative. and found out i am seems to be a candidate that many can do business with. the few dollars. in dns the european parliament will decide whether fundal line gets to the top job and move from berlin to brussels is still far from certain. now the united nations says at least 44 people have been killed in an air strike on a migrant detention center outside the libyan capital tripoli more than 130 people were wounded now libya's conservative by many to be a failed state in north africa it's also a transit region for migrants heading to europe now the micro detention center that was bombed is located in just the east of tripoli a 2 governments have been fighting for the city and its surroundings in recent months one is led by. and has been trying to capture the capital from

a weaker rival that rival the so-called government of national accord led by. this government enjoys broader international backing the u.n. says it is too early to assign blame but have to us forces announced on tuesday night they were bombing the district where the migrant center is located. putting together the pieces this woman one strength of a better life she couldn't have imagined she'd end up here in the shattered migration center surrounded by the dead and these are the lucky ones the survivors of last night's bombing they have little to speak of and even now they caught between warring armies far from their homes whether they be in sedan or somalia. paul what we know this was once you were. told to record this because you didn't do was go have any problem and. it happened literally in the dead of night 5 plane

that dropped a bomb on a center field with hundreds of people. amidst the chaos people began recovering bodies the heavy death toll as grim as it was predictable. some people. on the group we were on the on something. to do blow even before last night the center to joy in a suburb of tripoli had been a disaster in the miking and now the bomb landed nearby and my rights group amnesty international said khalifa haftar its forces carried out the attack as they moved on tripoli the migrants in jura are among 3 and a half 1000 the un has warned are in detention center is located near libya's battlefront. weeks ago migrants at a different center protested an increasingly dangerous situation.

and 2 out of no where else to seek elation at the last year and the fronts of lane so we need a vocation not. our gentilly we need enough issues since then the fighting in libya has only escalated it's a country on europe store step through which those who want to go have long passed and for half a decade it has been as broken as the jury detention center is to die. 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 you and 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 are various factions fighting at the morning at the moment rather should be should the european union really be working with the libyan coast guard so interest that 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 be evacuated 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 fledged 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 val since april violence having escalated throughout tripoli it's no surprise that

people were desperately trying to flee this 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 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 a heart to strike refugee camp well. 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 centers 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. now to some other stories making news around the world the german captain of the migrant rescue ship sea watch has moved to a secret location because of security concerns kato was released from house arrest tuesday by an italian court she'd been detained for taking her ship carrying 40 migrants into court on the italian island of lampedusa. demonstrators burned tires and blocked roads across israel in protest after an off duty policeman shot dead and 18 year olds on armed ethiopian israeli on sunday activists say police at 6 systematically discriminate against israel's ethiopian minority. russia says details of a fire that killed 14 crew members on monday on a deep water submersible will not be made public because it includes classified

information that norwegian authorities say they believe the russian sub was nuclear power but they told the w. they had detected unusual levels of radioactivity. u.s. government inspectors have warned of dangerous overcrowding and migrant detention centers in texas they've 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 denounced 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. b.p. facilities all the while. 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 by women of all ages crammed into a cell with no running water and just one toilet. 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 in a humane 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 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 being 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. to india now and ruffle gun the has quit as head of the country's main opposition congress party taking the blame for its big loss in recent national elections gandhi was aiming to become prime minister but his party was beaten for the 2nd time by a nationalist prime minister narendra modi after the defeat gandhi a said he would not continue as leader although party officials still hope to change his mind this congress party has dominated indian politics since

independence in 1988 but its support has collapsed over the past decade. now to china where border guards are secretly installing surveillance apps on visitors phones as they enter the region of the country and that's where china hasn't turned hundreds of thousands of muslims in camps because of their religion they the use of the spyware was revealed by a group of western investigative media outlets including the dailies into a title and broadcaster and d.r. in germany and the guardian newspaper in the u.k. these pictures are of china's remote jang region it's home to the mostly muslim we go people beijing closely monitors everything that goes on in this troubled region and now even tourists are being forced to install a state developed spy app on their phone if they want to go there that's according to visitors who have recently been approved and since stored on your phone and you can see on the screen that everything is being scanned text messages contacts

browsing history and so on you you get really worried they could be something there they don't like and you don't know exactly what they're looking for or. experts of germany's who are university and bomb have been analyzing the app that found that the chinese government is not only copying content from phones it's also comparing it with the database the software not only searches for militants or islamist content it also searches for religious symbols the chinese government appears to be testing mass surveillance techniques and showing jang something that deeply concerned experts. put in ca for his potentially be accused of being terrorists without any concrete evidence and under this pretext of fighting terrorism their private data is systematically collected it's a massive attack on citizens' rights privacy laws and people's parasail dignity the chinese government has refused to comment on the app or what happens to the data

recollects with it. to soccer now in the defending champions of the women's world cup the u.s. had for the final after a dramatic $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 nice christian press posting in the back post to show replacements for making repeat justifying her place in the side. england could have been overruled but they hit back so you know. why you. should go number 6 of the tournament. but anything she could do so you could birthdate go alex morgan. headed for the stuff and beat. moving cheekily said the bracing her 30th in a very english way is that having been choking on mixie they were positively crying

into it by the end the video referee having earlier choked off a goal for offside steamed there's a penalty step captain steph fortune she. us breathed a sigh of relief the day with the deserved win as. a reporter all of a moody was at last night's game and leon here's his take on the match and what the outcome means for both teams. so the united states through to another world cup final but only after an almighty battle with an england side that leaves this tournament with its reputation and haunts the likes of ellen white and lucy brown's have shown themselves to be genuine stars on the biggest stage of all and although the emotions will roll last night they can look forward to a brighter future but it's the us that push on now in the 4th world cup title alex morgan was on form for the semifinal megan rapinoe expects to be fits again for the final and that is for the likes of the netherlands and sweden their potential

opponents in the final the only question that remains is which one of them will go on sunday's finale. all right as we just heard there the netherlands and sweden facing off in tonight's 2nd semifinal neither team has ever won a world cup title but the dutch will have a big group of supporters on hand sweden looks extremely relaxed. don't worry sweden haven't forgotten how to play football after all they've just knocked out heavyweights canada and germany but true to the underdog tag their coach was humble when it came to assessing his team's chances against the reigning european champions from able to. see it off an all in one on the other in the euro 2017 finals but if you start watching the neverland's play against denmark for was absolutely fantastic because that game was very close to being perfect football and ideal football so this semifinal will be very beautiful and it will be interesting

to see if we will be able to beat what is one of my favorite team. despite their recent success the netherlands don't post much world cup pedigree this is only the 2nd time they've reached the tournament and the 1st time they've made it to a semifinal but they are favorites at least according to the press. if they've done well by far for each i feel a thing where the favorites in this semifinal i'm not so sure about that i think the 2 teams are equal if you look at the fee for ranking we're separated by only one spot so i think we're on a par so i think the much will be like that to equal teams and we hope to come out on top to cope a dozen variants and also to. a match that hangs in the balance but at least in terms of support the dutch are expected to have the upper hand with floods of orange cloud ready to take over. a reminder now of our top story here on t

w the european parliament has elected italian socialist lawmaker david saucily as its president for the next 2 and a half years as a solo was chosen after 2 rounds of felt by lawmakers at the 1st the clearing session of the family which was elected in may's wide hold. coming up next on d w news asia india financial capital mumbai is again flooded after heavy rainfall why does it keep happening we'll hear it from an activist who of flames the tough times. asia's pushback against plastic waste from the west on a international plastic bag free day will see how some countries are fed up with being destinations for dumping. and camp and the chemo now how can a car dash in the latest line of underwear sparked an uproar over cultural appropriation. parish foundered you will have those stories coming right up on news asia that in just a few minutes don't go away. how

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