millions live. this is d.w. news live from berlin the end of an era the u.s. and russia abandoned a key cold war treaty on nuclear weapons and they don't sound a note of caution. we will not mirror what russia. we don't want to turn you are sure. each side pointing fingers at the other for ending the medium range missile agreement but both are calling for restraint also

on the program where's the beef president trump and the european union signed a deal to boost u.s. feedbacks forced to the deal you know it's just a small item on trump's long list of issues with the european union but it might win him votes from farmers and travel freedom path lapsed new laws allow saudi women to go abroad with the consent of a husband or male relative to the move is a game changer that takes us back to test the end of the month. i'm called asp and welcome to the program the west does not want a new global arms race at least according to nato secretary general against stoltenberg he was responding to the collapse of a landmark nuclear weapons treaty dating back to the cold war era the ending of the intermediate range nuclear forces agreement or i.n.f.

removes limits on the arsenals of both the u.s. and russia stoltenberg blames russia for the us withdrawal from the treaty saying that moscow failed to comply after it develops a new cruise missile. it was a tweet that announced the end of over 30 years of mutual nuclear restraint u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o squarely put the blame on russia when he declared the treaty ends today president trump had withdrawn from the agreement 6 months ago after russia deployed a new missile system that contravenes the ins terms according to washington and nato to. put russia is adamant that the us is responsible for the treaties unraveling. which we have discussed the subject in detail many times from the very beginning we were saying that this is exclusively a u.s. initiative and a couple friends confessed to shatter the scream and yell and then terminate

participation and at. times the question when this week i'm going to moscow has proposed a moratorium on deploying nuclear capable missiles and nato is also keen to avoid europe becoming a staging ground for a nuclear buildup would be funny we will not mirror what russia the us we don't want a new arms race and we have no intention to deploy the new land based nuclear me sides in europe nato continues to aspire for a construct relationship with russia when russia else actions make that possible. pompei used to eat to mark the end of a historic agreement struck between the u.s. and the soviet union president mikhail gorbachev and ronald reagan signed the treaty in 1987 a change of course after decades of cold war nuclear tension. the root of the tension was this the soviet s s 20 missile

a nuclear warhead that could strike western europe at short notice. the u.s. deployed its own mid range missiles in europe leading to protests across the west. the i.n.f. treaty resulted from widespread popular demand for deescalation when the cold war ended so did the fear of nuclear armageddon but with the end of the ins the specter of nuclear confrontation looms again. earlier we spoke to did abuse chief political editor. and we asked her if the demise of the i.n.f. treaty means that europe is now on the brink of a new nuclear arms race well nato says no so far mensa today said that that is not going to happen but what certainly has happened through the end of the i.n.f. treaty is that the gloves are off in developing the kind of technology that would still live up potentially deliver nuclear warheads between the range of 502-5500

kilometers and that prospectively could make europe in those scenarios that all sides always keep working out a battlefield even a nuclear battlefield in the future and that's why europe is so alarmed about this . saudi arabia has announced new travel rules that allow women to travel abroad without approval from a male guardian women over the age of $21.00 will be able to apply for passports by the end of this month reforms or shift away from the country's restrictive guardianship system saudi arabia considers women to be on the same level as children and gives men almost complete control over their lives there's been several recent high profile attempts by saudi women to escape their guardians well for more on this i'm joined by tom she's the director of the life and its center for modern oriental studies right here in berlin. thank you for joining us before we get into the lifting of these travel restrictions tell us a bit more about this so-called guardian ship system and that was what was

preventing women really from traveling in the 1st place right yes there are a number of regulations actually which made women dependent on their male guardians which could be their fathers or their husbands basically or their elder brothers if there was no father or husband and these rules are currently being loosened so to speak so what exactly did the system mean and what does it even mean a male guardian well the system meant basically that women were considered to be legal minors in many a a many issues they weren't allowed to register their children which they're also now allowed to do they weren't allowed to be considered female household heads which they're now allowed to do they weren't allowed to apply for passports which they're now allowed to do and to travel they also couldn't study they couldn't work with. their male guardians and these rules are now being massively relaxed the saudi ambassador to the united states called this move history in the making is

that saudi arabia really on the path to reform here well it definitely there has been social reform this has been going on since a long time it started very very slowly and carefully under the late king. but it has considerably accelerated and the man and his son these are social reforms they change the status of women they allow for more entertainment etc etc they do not mean political reforms that should really be differentiated there's also economic reform going on so there are reforms on a number of levels but not on all levels how about the saudis themselves how are they reacting to this i haven't been able to have a broad view there are certainly many. very positive very happy comments on this there are also some critical remarks which i have seen which comment that those who originally asked for the reforms are actually either still

in jail or under try and they're going trial and there are also those who remind us that female rights are not everything in the kingdom that there are also people without nationality that there are all sorts of other also social issues which need to be dealt with but it's certainly in the forward. of the center for modern oriental studies in berlin and very much. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world german customs officials have seized a 1000000000 euros worth of cocaine found in a shipping container in the port of hamburg the drugs the drug shipment weighed bore than 4 tons and is the largest ever confiscated in germany all the costs are vipers gathered at the auschwitz birkenau death camps to honor the 4000 ethnic sinti and roma people killed in a massacre there 75 years ago u.s. civil rights leader jesse jackson ended the ceremony called the nazi genocide of

half a 1000000 since. forgotten. suspected al qaeda militants have raided a military camp in the southern yemeni province of witnesses say the assailants killed at least 20 soldiers and battled yemeni security forces for several hours the militants were eventually expelled from the camp after reinforcements arrived at by the united arab emirates. ok to russia now and moscow's prosecutor has a warning for protesters who dare to participate and saturday's authorized rally expects another crackdown the warning follows violence between police and demonstrators last weekend when more than a 1000 people were arrested the protesters are angry that authorities have excluded independent candidates from the moscow city elections on september 8th they want them to be allowed to run. spoke to one of the protesters who was detained last week and. these were images that shocked russia during

protests for free and fair moscow city parliament elections nearly 1400 demonstrators were detained a number monitors called unprecedented you know you're. only keaton was one of them this photo has made him a symbol of the protests. when they arrested me i was trying not to get hurt so i tried not to fall over because they were trying to knock me down onto the pavement i also didn't want to let them twist my arm they were trying to do that when they were taking me to the police van. moscow officials have since called the police response at the unauthorized rally professional and reasonable monitors say the behavior of the author already in the upcoming protests is hard to predict. things are often wrong we expect a crackdown and then it doesn't happen we expect the police to night calmly and then that crackdown on protesters. hasn't decided yet whether he'll take to the

streets he already expects to receive a fine for disturbing public order at the last rally and is weighing up the risks of potentially being arrested again. when it comes to the demonstrators it doesn't look like they will come down so easily and even if there is a crackdown at the protests there will be a protest vote in september people will vote for anyone but the candidates connected to the ruling party. she doesn't exceed universe not this week several protesters have received criminal charges but despite the recent crackdown thousands have announced their attendance for this week's rally on social media and the opposition is already pushing for yet another rally the week after that i. find as ambassador to the united nations has called the demonstrations for democracy in hong kong quote chaotic and violent saying authorities there should ban what he called reprehensible behavior or demonstrations are expected this

weekend one of the protestors is likely to be a singer who is hugely popular throughout east asia but is banned on the chinese mainland. i think was a rather unusual place for him or took the session counterpart style denise who went to the fans are attending a protest rally in the suburb of communal. week before pro-democracy protesters were attacked here by suspected criminal gangs 2 days demonstrators are here to denounce the bomb but there is a tense police soon start to disperse the protest i know. all. the news more has been a familiar face at the end tried government games. the way that the chinese government they have been trying to. terrorize us into this population where

we are. playing clarities and then just giving up everything it's just not well the happen because it's a totally different culture. that he's always a performer of so called kind to a pop hong kong signature pop music style that has made the city's entertainment industry popular throughout east asia including on the chinese mainland has always stood out in the region's entertainment business in 2012 she was the 1st one from celebrity to ever come out as a lesbian. was wrong. but the biggest step for her came in

2014 when she openly supported the pro-democracy umbrella in there she immediately lost access to china's huge mainland market when the music was back shortly afterwards a record company used engine music and that her contract. can you out were bad. but then you'll guess you have to you have to. decide what you saw in the situation where the whole people is facing. such a big crisis. since then she has learned to be her own manager right now she's trying to organize a concert in hong kong's biggest venue because lizzie. i got rejected. 45 times before. i got the application through in 2016

but that was 2 dozen sixty's so i don't know what's going to. whatever the outcome may be she will not have to worry about being able to field a venue within the city who wrote spooky news as one of the many fans. through watching the news still to come attempts to strengthen a dam wall in northern england and stop the catastrophic collapse seem to be succeeding so far both ortiz are warning residents evacuated from the town below as they went to. the president's donald trump and the european union have signed a deal to boost u.s. beef exports to europe trade tensions have risen of course between the un the us strength from 1st years in office but both sides of called this deal a step forward trump has made shaking up global trade a central pillar of his presidency altering talks on a transatlantic trade deal and launching a trade war with china on thursday he threatens to impose

a new 10 percent tariff on $300000000000.00 of chinese imports and global markets took a dip in response trump defenses combative trade tactics as part of his america 1st . president trump said the deal was the result of a breakthrough in talks with the e.u. . today we're signing a breakthrough agreement that will make it easier to explored american beef into the european union we've been under negotiation quite a while. and rb farmers we didn't think we're being treated fair but the european union stepped up and we appreciated it we have great representatives here with us today ok more and more in trade we're joined now by stephen beardsley from business stephen so the president made this announcement today is it fair to say that a lot of people were kind of waiting with bated breath they didn't know if this was going to be another tariff or what. there's

a good chance it wasn't going to have anything to do with the tariffs because trump has put his threatened tariffs against auto exports which is one of europe's biggest fears he's put off the table until november so it was a low likelihood there would be something like that there are so many other issues though on the table right now including the disputed north stream to project this gas pipeline between russia and germany has been a big issue for trump air bus subsidies certain tariffs over that there's a lot of issues right now the digital tax that france is just introduced so he's had a lot to say you never know what he's going to say. but at the end the day i think they're still expecting some of these things to still hit the ceiling fan later on including those tariffs there's a lot of word that that will probably take place in november if that's the thinking here with that laundry list of issues that you just mentioned why beat i mean why is beef why are we talking about be fair why did he choose that that particular thing so i think this is a this is a win win for both sides here and this is something that's been. just feud between

the 2 sides for about 10 years now so it's not just the trumpet ministrations going back to 2009 when the e.u. said we're going to carve out about 45000 tonnes a year for outside be producers to import into the e.u. that was intended to really help out the u.s. at that time but it turned out that other countries like argentina like australia like or why they actually got most of those import tonnes us said hey that's not fair this was intended for us and so with and i think all the trade disputes and all the space between the 2 sides the e.u. actually agreed to this in june and so this isn't even something it's just happened but it has been announced 6 weeks ago. and now the signing of a by trump this is a win win for both of them it's a win for the e.u. because on the bigger trade issue agriculture is the sticking points and this sort of suggests that hey you know we're giving in here for trump this is a signal i think to farmers we're getting badly hurt us farm us farmers right we're getting badly hurt by the chinese u.s. trade disputes but actually not beef exporters they've been doing really well

what's interesting here is that it's grain farmers it's fresh fruit fruit exporters they're the ones who've been suffering more than beef exporters so they'll do much better but they weren't really suffering as much as the others who could continue to suffer frankly so maybe an olive branch here but does that mean that trump is having a change of heart when it comes towards his kind of america 1st policy or not at all especially regards the e.u. i mean he's made it very clear that he has a laundry list of issues with the e.u. and they will continue to pursue them i think this is something where it again it's a win win it's a good political signal specially the day after you up tariffs or announce you're going to up tariffs on china you're going to worry some of your own constituents in the farm belt this is a good signal for them and for the e.u. i'm sure that they're happy with us as well but again all those issues air bus digital tax all these things are really still at large we don't know what's going to happen president trying to use the pond again he still has a beef with china as well right absolutely and that's in the background of all of these trade announcements is that parts of the global trade infrastructure a large part of it is suffering because of what's going on and what's looks like

from yesterday with the announcement of the 10 percent tariff on an additional $300000000000.00 in chinese goods it looks like that problem is going to continue that there is no end in sites and so it's not a bad day to throw something to you know a part of the american farming industry or to say it's your european counterparts we're about to enter into a trade deal with you see you know we can be flexible but all eyes are really on the us trying to dispute right now and that you trade a few probably later this year is really going to come into full view stephen beardsley with the business thank you. staying in the u.s. now president trump has been heavily criticized for his recent remarks targeting people of color especially democratic politicians and yesterday's rally in the battleground state of ohio he stopped short of overtly racist comments but he continue to lash out at the democrats and mock presidential hopefuls such as former vice president joe biden alexandra phenomenon met

a trump supporter in cincinnati who will be voting for trump in next year's election regardless of his opponent. for diana ridden things are falling into place right now born and raised in cincinnati she has been a republican for decades she even met her has spent on the party events and day and read and is an ardent supporter of president strom she says there are plenty of reasons for him to get reelected unemployment as an all time low employment at an all time high the stock market is as high which means all of our investment accounts are all very high right now he believes in secure borders i believe in secure borders i think to have a country you have to control who comes in and out of our country in downtown cincinnati the crowds began gathering hours before the rally as they already chairwoman of the hamilton county republican party diane written and shut the arena

through at the ip entrance i'm excited about and excited about it all day it's hard to concentrate and work this morning to get that out of the way so i can be free to enjoy the afternoon usually trump uses his release like he uses his twitter accounts to praise he's accomplishments and to rate he's opponents last month he attacks democratic congress women of color urging them to go back to where they came from and they do more then a year before election day president trying to make you know. elemental piecemeal like thank you. they have a very retrograde right concerned with stability and political correct and that is what he supporters like about it because they see it tells it like it is unlike and the al there are only decent democrats lawmakers care more about illegal aliens then they care about their own constituents they put foreign citizens before

american citizens they would love to see a guy like sleepy joe biden who has no clue why. they're always doing i in cincinnati trump attacked prominent democrats painting them as left wing extremists but here voided remarks that could be criticized as racially charged why are you relieved that the word new center back chance that he didn't talk about politicians of color very very much yes i we did not want that to cincinnati and i did not want any of that here so there was no negative about that so that was a big plus diane read and was happy with the trump rally in cincinnati he was talking to his crowd here she said these were he's people. to the u.k. now and fears that a dam in northern england is about to collapse thousands of people have been evacuated from a town below the dam as attempts are made to reinforce the dam wall which has been

damaged by heavy rain. workers are doing everything possible to prevent this dam from busting since dawn a military helicopter has been dropping sacks of gravel to his tune open the concrete struction at the same time firefighters are trying to pump out water the reservoir contains about 1200000 tons of water and residents of northern england's peak district fear the area will be flooded the environment agency has issued a severe flood warning because we don't know the state of the the dom and if there was a catastrophic failure of the volume of water running through a term like where live ridge would have a devastating impact days of heavy rainfall caused water levels to rise and seriously eroded the dam which lies south east of manchester. more than a 1000 residents of whaley bridge were temporarily evacuated from their homes many spent the night in emergency shelters and no one knows if and when they'll be

allowed to return hyun i mean really if you are a person with. a include we're all good and we're ok people are horrified what's happened to your source of a shock you know because it was in the days of people's lives where they live authorities say the water level has already fallen by to meet is but it will take more time to stabilize the dam the situation is still dangerous they say which is why the area has largely been cordoned off. are changing gears now and in scotland things are looking up for wild cats with luck these little guys right here will grow up to be ireland under scottish wildcats are native to the highlands but they are functionally extinct however very cute that means these captive bred kittens like these are the populations only chance of survival conservationist of bread about 100 that they hope to release into the wild.

they hope that release will mean that they can save some of scotland's most iconic creatures all right now reminder of the top stories that we're following for you at this hour the u.s. and russia have blamed each other for ending a landmark nuclear missile treaty dating from the cold war nato secretary general jens stoltenberg has insisted the u.s. does not want a new arms race. and u.s. president donald trump has agreed to a deal to sell more duty free u.s. beef to the european union a deal represent some progress and trade talks between the u.s. and the e.u. and may when trump some form it was back in the states. don't forget you can always get news on the go just. download are out for google player from the apple store and that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for the breaking news you can

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