this is g.w. newsline from but i lead the woman who could lead the european union's powerful executive body germany's us going on the line is that in the final phase of her campaign to become the 1st female head of think european commission also on the program. u.s. president donald trump launches a racist tirade on twitter telling for nonwhites american congresswoman to go back to the crime infested places they came from. and the painful out of her streets.

3 years ago today failed to do that some not just from generals to teachers to civil servants and journalists tens of thousands of being imprisoned all lost their jobs. i'm still gail welcome to the program. another breaks an extension a guaranteed minimum wage and expanded unemployment benefits just some of the goals germany is on the line and says she will pursue if elected tomorrow as european commission president she needs an absolute majority of votes in the european parliament to be confirmed in a possible sign of confidence ahead of the ballots she's just announced that she will step down from my current job as defense minister wednesday no matter how the . keeping up with. not an easy task

last week. she was on the move constantly meeting almost all the political groups of the e.u. parliament. she needs to convince enough parliamentarians that she's the right woman for the commission presidency and that could be a problem especially with the social democrats in the european parliament. they've called her commitments to being and they dislike. wasn't even one of the lead candidates especially the german social democrats are up in arms about the members of the democratic group in the parliament has not taken a final decision yet i guess there are some that might consider to vote for her any further questions and others who are. already. clear that they won't including you including me. so far needs to do the math will give her a hand she needs

a total of $376.00 votes to be elected commission president let's just say so get all $182.00 from our own group the conservative party now it gets dicey the liberals from renewed europe who have 108 seats seemed rather positive but not completely convinced will calculate with 70 votes. on to the social. kratz position but also lots of support from the spanish delegation there are $153.00 seats total if she's like he might get $100.00. finally there are the conservative euro skeptics from the e.c.r. group c. total 62 realistically she could expect 30 seats maybe even more from them. and that would put her over the hump.

to get those votes from the lion has a twofold strategy number one make sure the e.u. parliament feels respected the world is calling for you know for more europe more engagement and therefore we must draw all our strength i came here to work with parliament and i'm confident that we will work together. number to emphasize her european side so now she's tweeting in german english and french. nevertheless it will be a close call to succeed and we'll probably have to give the speech of her life right here in the european parliament in strasburg. report produced by the brussels bureau chief max hoffman who joins us now from the european parliament and welcome max let's start with the news that.

says she will quit as germany's defense minister regardless of the way the vote goes what should be read into that. that news reached us just before 5 o'clock local time here in strausberg and she announced during a group meeting of her own party the european people's party and it just shows she's going all in she's showing her commitment to the job she says it is this or it is nothing but it doesn't mean that she can be sure to get a majority here on tuesday. she's not written to the parliament social democrats what was i message. yes the social democrats had requested to ask a number of written questions after they felt like they didn't get enough time with the law and so when she wrote back she gave an 8 page summary to those questions a little more detail than what she did when she met them last week in brussels for

example she's making in sessions on fighting climate change so on climate protection an even more ambitious goal than her own party the european people's party and also i thought very important part there is when she says she will enforce the rule of law using the full toolbox of the e.u. commission that is something that was heavily criticized by the social democrats who had felt that maybe she was being too soft with countries like poland and hungary because she's hoping for the votes of some of the pieces of those countries so as she shifted the needle that max. well she's shifted a little bit but she can't shift too much because if she does the m.e.p. is on the left too much then she might lose some of the image he's more on the right it's really a balancing act that's never been so complicated as this year in the european parliament because you do not have a clear cut majority between the 2 biggest groups which are the social democrats and the conservatives so the party. and that's why she really has to find that

sweet spot in order to get the majority on tuesday so the lines candidacy came out of nowhere to european leaders have another surprise counted as if the parliament says. many here say it did actually not come out of nowhere if you talk to some people of the the german army they felt like this had been coming a long way that she was preparing to do this that she was quietly doing this behind the scenes so this is probably not something that happened just you know 2 weeks ago but she had toyed with the idea earlier probably trying to get the commission. job you know just as a regular commission or not as the president of the e.u. commission now having said that what we do know is that the package that heads of state government in the delta this package for see that the commission presidency goes through the conservatives so even if the social democrats make sure that was

it i found out i was not elected on tuesday the successor would still be someone from the european people's party we've heard a couple of names there one for example could be. the director of the world bank in washington she's also a member of the. macsoftware in strasbourg thank you we'll take a look now at a couple of the other stories making news around the world are you foreign ministers meeting in brussels discussing how to get the iran nuclear deal back on track tensions in the gulf of worsened since donald trump withdrew the u.s. from the deal last year iran has recently begun to exceed limits on your a b. and richmond in breach of the agreement. head of the world health organization has described the latest case of a bowl in the democratic republic of congo as a possible game changer official said on sunday that the disease spread to go home a major city in the east of the country the u.n. says millions of dollars in aid is needed to tackle the outbreak. and us president

donald trump is under fire for a series of racist tweets targeting several democratic congress women in the attack cases the lawmakers should go back to the countries they came from even though all u.s. citizenship and 3 were born in the u.s. . trumps tweets targeted for freshman congresswoman alexandra ocasio cortez rush to leap i gonna pressley and ilan omar all of them democrats all of them women of color in a series of tweets the president said they should quote go back to the crime infested places from which they came rather than loudly and viciously telling the people of the united states how to run the government many online including democrats quickly denounced the comments speaker of the house nancy pelosi saying here when donald trump tells 4 american congress women to go back to their countries he reaffirms his plan to make america great again has always been about

making america white again democratic presidential candidate camila harris also fired back it is absolutely racist and un-american and it is an old trope go back to where it came from that you know you might hear it on the street but you should never hear that from the president of the united states 3 of the 4 congress women targeted by the president were in fact born in the u.s. including ocasio cortez whose birth hospital in new york is just a few miles away from donald trump's this was her response she tweeted mr president the country i come from and the country we all swear to is the united states. let's get more from t.w. corresponding to all of a salad in washington welcome all of a president trump has been accused of racism before what is there anything different about this time. well it's certainly not the 1st time as you say that he has been accused of racism so the question is not what's different

really and also. it doesn't really make any sense if you look at the fact checking what he said there so he's essentially accusing 4 american congresswoman. essential saying that they have to go back to where they come from well 3 of these congress women were actually born in the united states as we just heard in the report. test was born in the bronx and that is just a very few miles away from where donald trump was born another congresswoman by the name of presley was born in the united states has american parents but she is simply black and there is only one congresswoman that is not from the united states that was born in somalia and her name is she's a muslim representative but of course she's also an american citizen she's been here for many years and above all she has been elected by the american public to represent them in congress and that has not been the 1st time the donald trump is essentially trying to put 2 race dollars on the origin of his political opponents

earlier did that for many years with barack obama when he raced out in the authenticity of his birth certificate eventually in 2016 then a college that barack obama was born in the united states but then falsely claimed that hillary clinton was actually the one to 2 to raise these rumors in the 1st place so we've heard all kinds of these racist comments by the u.s. president before tweets that we had here yesterday do not come as a big surprise we've seen strong reaction from the democrats what are the republicans say. they haven't been a lot of responses from the republicans so far just a very few officials actually gave t.v. interviews last night and they essentially declined to comment refused to defend the comments here made by donald trump what they said was all was on the

lines of you know you need to discuss this with the president himself obviously so it seems like republicans have been trying to ignore this is trying to focus on other things and that comes in stark contrast to the response all of the house democrats year as of last night 90 house democrats denounced these tweets calling them racist xenophobic just like the speaker of the house nancy pelosi and her very famous line here was donald trump's policy has never been about making america great again but rather about making america white again. all of a seller's in washington thank you. to south africa now where former president jacob zuma has denied allegations of corruption at a public hearing in johannesburg rather he said he was the target of a character assassination by political and an enemies who want to who wanted to

push him out of power mr zuma is testimonies being broadcast live on t.v. and is due to continue until friday. this isn't the 1st time film south african president jacob zuma has had to answer to corruption charges but this was his 1st appearance before a high profile commission into crafty allegedly at the school zuma as the keys to presiding over a culture of must looting of state assets during his 9 year tenure that was before he was ousted as head of state by his ruling a.n.c. party last year speaking uninterrupted was simply dismissed the multiple graft allegations against him he claimed he was a victim of a conspiracy. there has been a drive. to remove me from. it has come in different forms and that's why.

they've been people who serve their way of trying to torch things in one form or that. the commission in charge of the inquiry hasn't been tasked with proving a case against anyone and the supporters are angry at what they say is the media's unfair portrayal of him. in the in the case of prison to cook zuma we've seen now avalanche of media take an avalanche of me dead child finding president jacob zuma kills it without a fair trial they keep on telling us nonsense but they don't give us a tangible thing to take people to court to to to do jane this is really to jamie now if somebody is wrong that there's someone in jail. zuma set to face cross-examination at the inquiry which could last all week you're watching d.w. news live from berlin still to come europe's satellite navigation system got

a liar has been out of service since friday positions a future rival to the american g.p.s. system so it will look at what is behind the outage. first or turkey is marking 3 years since a failed coup against president vetted type about how many questions remain about that time including whether top members of the military or foreign powers were in fall ved despite this the consequences of the coup attempt a very clear. the night of july 15th 2016 was filled with chaos and violence elements of the turkish armed forces launched an operation to unseat president richard. aircraft attacked government buildings troops occupied bridges and squares as many as 300 people were killed. on the 15th of july offices told us it was a trying operation but they juked us we went out onto the streets then the police

came and we learnt the reality when they did das. forces loyal to heir to one put down the coup his government has since arrested tried and jailed tens of thousands of soldiers teachers journalists and other public servants many more have been removed from their posts they stand accused of supporting the attempted takeover or at least disloyalty to the government many more turks at home and abroad still support heir to one but that's not guaranteed to last a week currency skyrocketing inflation and high interest rates have shaken his grip on power relations with the west are at a low point. then there's. an opposition figure and the next mayor of istanbul area one held the post before he ascended to the national stage a parallel not lost on some voters. who say much on the president was merritt's well acronym emma lou is following the same path we will see headed dies. no

one can say when those better times for ever once opponents may come he survived the bang of a coup attempt the whimper of everyday politics may pose the bigger challenge. take a look at some of the masses arising with chand and until 2015 he was editor in chief of the turkish newspaper which was often critical of the president in our lives in self-imposed exile in germany and faces a prison sentence if you returns to turkey welcome to doubly so today and national holiday in turkey to commemorate the victims of the coup attempt what do you associate with that date. i've felt this is the 2 he's fire. and we present on a huge power afterwards so i wonder if germany celebrates. you know explain to be a little knowledge. of course everybody every party and every people

every season of tookie was against the quick temper so it was a huge opportunity for everyone to embrace all the people and it could have been. very meaningful democracy faith into a key but instead he used it as an opportunity to gain more power and just after the coup he said it's a gift of god to him and 5 days later he declared state of emergency and since then tootie been under this. new group so it gave aired on a lot of power. over and he used that to clean up all the political arena and smash all the opponents of him and you clearly you see the country now as having been changed irrevocably stir matter which changed of course i mean we survived from a military coup but it turned into a police state and he declared state of emergency for 3 months and he you

know and for 2 years he ruled the country on the floor and he demolished the whole parliamentarian system change the constitution and he has become the power into a key without any rule of law or parliamentary regime anymore it's interesting there is a debate because now though he's at a situation where things have looked have looked better for him really as he has a an economy that is that is shaky he's a k. party lost all allies and now he's looking at deteriorating relations with with nato because he saw the united states behind the coup attempt and then since then he is getting more closer to moscow and putin. changed the turkish diplomatic traditions dramatically and internally of course he tried to use

this system to become a kind of. authoritarian leader in turkey but if ailed him so people fed up with this hate hatred and they want their parliamentarian system back and that's why in the last elections local elections it was the 1st reaction to hear them they use this as an opportunity a gift of god. to get rid of ed on and for the 1st time he was the big cities and for the 1st time he has faced with a very powerful democratic front against him and finally now he has a failing economy with the rising power within his party. let's go from the big picture to a small picture let's talk about about you so clearly you're watching things back home but you're a man with

a price on your head if i can put it that way. do you think you will ever be able to go back to turkey it depends on add on of course i mean as long as he is there it's impossible for me to go back but i don't think that it takes so long to get rid of him really what about you or your life here in germany are you able to go busy about your your business or are you constantly looking over your shoulder of course you have to be careful if you challenge a leader like adam you should be very careful wherever you are using the possibly he's looking to do was get you out of here with everybody aware of his long handle would germany and over europe so that's why he has sought his followers supporters are really active here there are a lot of freddie. people or intelligence service activities so you have to be careful of course we wish you well thank you for coming in and talking to search

and and i thank you thank you. about 3000000 people are on the move in nepal northern india and bangladesh fleeing monsoon floods and high water close to 100 people have been killed and more are missing the heavy rains have triggered landslides and deadly building collapse like this one in northern india soldiers had gathered for a party when this 4 story building collapsed on top of the flooding has also affected hundreds of thousands of range of refugees after fleeing their homes during a violent military crackdown in may and now many not risk losing whatever shelter they've managed to find. life for rohingya refugees in cox's bazar is difficult as it is during monsoon season it becomes outright life threatening flooding and mudslides have killed at least 10 people in the overcrowded camps and destroyed some 5000 shelters authorities limit what materials refugees can used to build here

their homes are meant to be temporary making them particularly vulnerable to the rainwater enters my house i'm suffering a lot i don't live in a tent mine is a connected house but the middle section has been heavily damaged there's a hole in it. but structural damage is just one aspect of the problem more than 200 landslides have been reported in the camp since april disrupting logistics and daily activity. in the rainy season we have problems getting food. get sick. toilets and bathroom hygiene are a problem. the kids can't get to school the school buildings a falling into disrepair it's all a big problem. the world health organization is warning that this could be only the beginning of a much bigger crisis. in an already unsanitary environment the flooding means there

is a greater threat from water borne diseases and weather warnings suggest the downpour is likely to continue. our european space agency says its galileo satellite positioning system has been down since friday it's plainly out technical glitch with equipment on the ground but provided no further details galileo is billed as a future rival to the american g.p.s. navigation network. rocket launches like this one were supposed to bring the european union more independence and security. the payload a satellite intended for the european union's galileo navigation system a direct competitor to the united states g.p.s. . but the galileo system has been crippled since friday with all $22.00 of its satellites offline officials from the european space agency blamed the outage on an inner and galileo's ground base infrastructure industry reports indicate

a glitch at an italian monitoring station is behind the disruption. or has been in the testing phase since 2016 when fully operational it should offer navigation services worldwide recently more companies have begun to make use of the service including many mobile phone manufacturers however an outage of this scale is a painful misstep it may delay the european space agency's plan to make galileo fully operational by next year. stark reminder of our top story at this hour germany's on the lion has stepped down as defense minister ashley and says the final phase of her campaign to become european union commission president the european parliament will vote tomorrow on whether or not to make her the 1st woman in the row. this is d.w. up next global $3000.00 visits a symphony orchestra and the democratic republic of congo more world news for you at the top off the hour and in the meantime of course as always the web site that's

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