biala gassed. managed by truck bought. this is d w news alive from then she has been called a hero and a criminal captain coupled of outfeed to is in hiding to say she has no regrets about the scientists bringing prestige migrants ensuite and italian torch to the rescue boats a current they're trying to dump implicitly and d.-w. speaks of those on board also coming out of southern california and ruffled by one

of the biggest quakes in 2 decades the magnitude 7 point one quake shakes buildings cuts power supplies and sparks fly and more transparency maybe all the way. down to the head of the 1st response to claims that football's governing body turned a blind eye to claims of sexual abuse within the afghanistan. i'm on your kid's mackinnon thanks so much for joining us the german captain all of a migrant rescue ship says she has no regrets for defiantly docking at an italian port. to aggregate italian authorities last week by landing her boat that was carrying dozens of migrants rescued at sea kid to is now in hiding and faces charges of assisting illegal immigration she gave an exclusive interview to the

german board cost. on route to a secret location in italy reporters are off to interview kind of all of. the sea watch 3 captain has been in hiding since she rescued migrants off the libyan coast and brought them to the italian island lampedusa a mission she doesn't regret. stink and dust no often on this one on this list if i think we did everything right we obeyed maritime law school through so there was never a question of whether we should rescue people or not is hogwash to have to have a whole conversation see watch 3 sailed to lampedusa after 2 weeks of waiting in vain and despite a recent ban the captain says some of the migrants were suicidal and others threatened to go on hunger strike. and that's what is important in the end is that we rescued these 53 people and brought them to a safe harbor that's 53 people who don't have to go back to some torture camp in

libya. italian interior minister a man vini called her a criminal and now she wants to sue him for defamation. but she faces likely prosecution herself on charges of being an accessory to illegal migration a hearing is planned for next week food in case of an indictment which we don't expect i will of course turn myself in because i expect to be acquitted if it comes to that tough on national maritime experts suggest another possible outcome entering the harbor could amount to a violation of italian law she had to move. that she should have kept waiting she could have tried to get other harbors to open up and continue to ask for help from italian authorities. other rescue boats of have the same problem the german rescue ship island kirti saved 65 people off the libyan coast on friday it's also seeking safe harbor. that shit the allen kurdi is ringback now off the coast of lampedusa

italy is interior minister any has ordered the island's ports port to be closed to the rescue vessel earlier spoke to marcel debt from the n.g.o.s c r i he's on board the alan curdie and told us about the rescue of those 65 migrants the rescue happened yesterday in the morning we spotted rob about 6 am. after work 3 approached the boat. alaric's on thursday the boat went away from us because thought we had the libyans afterwards we could convince them and we trust each with a high risk commission distributed life jackets and chill called the people on board we currently have 65 people on board 39 of them are i'm flying miners and there was one woman within. all of them are very experienced it some of them are in bad conditions you so you can see that there has been an hour

of well placed in the last month or sometimes years the rescue we did was approximately 30 miles from the libyan coastline so we had to and from the libyan coast guard and replied. that they could offer assist a fart in the area which is west of tripoli this but usually the geneva convention really refused this and lampedusa is the next safe parts for us so we just followed maritime law and went to the next part. we ran the whole night to lampedusa now we are at the coast this morning we had the goddess deal on board they made a check up of the people and informed us about that the tradeoff felt the need and now we are waiting for further instructions we know it's a political game and we know what what happened to to to see what's. funny now we

just want to make sure the people are safe as far as possible and we know that the risk is has become more and more criminalized. but as far as there's nothing we can do as some form determine authority the foreign office. to wait for their instruction all right as cross now to do his report i even him he's standing close to the german chancellor's office in the center of where a demonstration is taking place in support of the sea rescue operations i have thanks for joining us tell us what's happening where you are. as you see anya we are standing here right in front because i'm 2 or 6 americas office and as you can see here there are about 800 to a 1000 people gathered to show their solidarity with the keys a couple of acute but also to send a signal against what they call the criminalization of humanitarian work as you can see behind me years there's a speech that they've set up over speakers have taken the stage today shortly

before we joined the broadcast there were a number of there was a migrant who shared his story other migrant workers from from prominent berlin. charities sharing the stories of migrants and the challenges they faced in coming to europe there was also a very moving speech by a doctor who was in libya working on some of the working at some of the migrant centers and talking about the kind of difficulties that migrants face face to face there so that's what's going on right now and they plan to march on or around the city shortly there's been a lot of solidarity expressed here in germany for captain couple hasn't met what has struck such a chord with the situation the story. i think seeing that one woman was sort of a lot of people here tell me that they felt she was left alone she was left to deal with what they called are the failures of politicians that someone who in from good

they save is there to save people is put in that situation i think this really struck a chord but a lot of people also said that you know it's not just about a couple of the cases she's just one case and she represents sort of the challenges that many humanitarian workers face they're not just here for her they're here to talk about the what they call the criminalization of humanitarian workers in general and they say that politicians should do more in that sense was speaking of politicians germany's interior minister a whole see if tweeted earlier today that germany was ready to take in some of those rescue just part of the european solidarity solution but what can the german government really do for the migrants who are currently at sea. so the workers here say that one thing that the migrants what the protesters here says that the german government needs to work more on the causes that lead these people to leave their countries and flee to come to europe in the 1st place whether it's working to establish rule of law in the countries that the migrants are are coming from but

also that you know agreeing to take on the migrants a little bit today that they should act earlier that the ministry of that income to your ministry and germany should have acted earlier and not left the migrants in the case of coal and a kid had for almost 2 weeks all right the ws i abraham thanks so much. a magnitude 7 point one earthquake has struck southern california the region's strongest trauma in 2 decades the epicenter was some 200 kilometers northeast of los angeles injuries and fires have been reported and it's the latest in a series of recent quakes to hit california and experts are warning that more are likely to come. residents watched helplessly as the quake hit the most powerful in 20 years. go go go the tremors traveled as far south as mexico for tourists visiting the region it was

a surreal moment well we were just you know hotel room what if you do know and oversight in the room started sort of shaking and we didn't offer you don't really know what what leads you to think what you did it doesn't register straightaway that until being killed every everything's moving in the chandelier was shaking and the kids were saying it's an earthquake that is a pretty bad word and the whole day i was sitting on a chair and i don't think the way that it will be a word for it and they would realize oh i. think we're on our fireback account of. the quake triggered fires power outages and damaged roads minor injuries were also reported. here it was the 2nd to strike the region this week the 1st came as americans were celebrating the 4th of july. experts are urging residents to be prepared for earthquakes of all sizes. so this earthquake is yet another opportunity for people to be aware that there will be

a big earthquake in southern california it's not a matter of if it's a matter of when but the really important thing is just not to prepare for the big one even these moderate earthquakes like the one that happened yesterday in ridgecrest can cause damage. to the airways already has reignited fears of what's called the big one a predicted catastrophic earthquake the san andreas fault line runs through california the statewide warning system is permanently being created to inform residents of impending danger. all right let's have a look at some of the other stories making news around the world today turkey's president dredged up type one has fired the central bank governor more upset and kaya he's been frequently criticized by the president for not cutting interest rates in response to turkey's economic downturn session has been replaced now by his deputy. roles have been held for 15 russian sailors who died in

a fire one of the russian navy's research submersibles the men were buried at a 7th tree in st petersburg there isn't much information about monday's blaze but the defense ministry has confirmed the sailors were killed by toxic fumes from the fire. and a team of swiss scientists say planting one trillion trees would be enough to absorb the carbon dioxide emissions that are fueling the world's climate crisis the trees would cover a landmass the size of the united states but scientists say it's no substitute for using less known or new opel and she's also. the president of has defended how soccer's world governing body handled allegations of sexual abuse instead of female players in afghanistan allegations of abuse 1st surfaced back in november last month the president of the afghan football

association was fired the 1st says it couldn't have acted and if asta. last month banned for life the former president of the afghanistan football federation kind of would encounter on the world body's ethics committee found him guilty of abusing his position and sexually abusing female players. however the team's coach said she and players had raised concerns to fifa and the asian football confederation much earlier but were rebuffed even when you put in. a report you get nothing back nobody responds you can send it through all layers of a.f.c. and you'll get nothing back and it's disgusting this is a case that to me is so clear cut the fuss as it quickly began an investigation in accordance with its regulations but didn't make the investigation public for security reasons i've got these things not like france or a medico or other countries in this respect. if nobody even there is to say

something about something like this whether it's right or wrong this person and his whole family risks his life. before we criticize out. of what needs to be done so of course we acted immediately thinking about the health of these persons 1st. and there from it's the lawyers for karama say they will bring the case to the court of arbitration for sport. now cycling's biggest race the tour de france is under way not in the line of fine wine cheese and gets but just across the border in belgium the 1st stage is always a massive event and this year is called a pop up mocks the 50th anniversary of a breakthrough performance by a belgian at. the defending champion karen thomas is the favorite to win this year's tour which started with a 194 kilometer stage that will likely favor the sprinters.

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