this is news coming to you live from berlin and world stock markets take a tumble spooked over signs of recession. the 3 main stock markets closed percent down sending the dow jones industrial average to his biggest one day drop of the year also coming up more on rest in hong kong police fired tear gas to disperse pro-democracy demonstrators and chinese state media air footage of mass riot drills seen as a warning from beijing to protesters with life on the enemy list this man's name

and address are among the thousands being shared between far right extremists online the german government downplays the threat but experts say he has reason to be worried. plus what lengths would you go to to make a point about climate change activist groups have torn back refuses to fly to a new york climate summit we look at why she's a ride on this special. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us stock markets around the globe are dropping amid signs of a looming recession the sharp selloff follows the release of poor economic data from germany and china a key u.s. benchmark also signals more trouble ahead on way. state the dow jones industrial

average suffered its worst day of the year so far closing 3 percent down while european equities shed more than 2 percent national jitters are continuing thursday with asian and european markets all busy pointing south. which for more we're joined here in the studio by christophe cover from our business desk and in frankfurt our financial correspondent annette to buy a stock welcome to you both and then to tell us how our stock market's doing there in frankfurt this morning they've been dipping around the world is that the same picture there. and actually we see a certain kind of satellite is a sin it's not an opera trend it's just a flat line but at least not a time to nation off the sale of the chase scene yes said they it's a very normal reaction after one day of the day of the next day people are kind of trying to come to grips of what has happened but looking at the pictures it's very

moving we're talking about recession risk vs the corporates with profit warnings all across the board and also there's no silver lining on her on the horizon because we clearly don't see the trade dispute being result for a much so and so the spat between the u.s. and china will go on because it's not necessarily only about trade it's also about technology. to stop what's got investors spooked is it mainly trumps trade policy particularly regarding china well as we just heard from. the the it's not soley the trade war but it is a major factor here because it's the world's 2 biggest economies the united states and china are at loggerheads. everybody suffers from that for about matter and it's it's not only impacting u.s. economy and the g. d. d. the chinese economy but when demand in china is going down not just for products

made in the united states which china isn't even doesn't buy that many of it also goes down for products made elsewhere in the world in germany for that matter so the trade dispute you know. it is a major factor when it comes to the whole souring of the global business environment there's no ignoring the trade dispute the big elephant in the room another germany is on the brink of recession now with negative growth in the 2nd quarter how does this factor into the overall economic picture. man it's actually a proof after germany as a very open economy very much depending on exports is severely hit by the increased protectionism and we don't know and economists don't know whether this is going away during the 2nd half of this year early on in the 1st quarter also the beginning of the 2nd quarter everybody was still hoping that the 2nd half of this here we'll see a lot of more of a rosy picture but this hope is gone away and so many economists now think that

germany is headed into a recession or scenario the question is whether this also holds true for the u.s. because what we have recently saying is just hard data is still ok it but the p.m.i. and also the leading indicators for the u.s. are also pointing towards a severe deterioration in the fed also has said that they have planning on cutting rates in a sign to boost the economy. ok so cutting rates one option may be cut off what other options do players in this global economy have for bucking the downward trend not many and cutting rates isn't well it is an option but for a limited amount of of central banks around the world because many central banks being some of the global players when it comes to addressing this economic downturn many central banks have kept their interest rates very low close to the level that

they slashed them to after the financial crisis 10 years ago so there is little room for them to maneuver they don't have many options and also global debt when it comes to governments who would be able to address these issues global debt is also is also very high so it remains a difficult issue and addressing this global downturn there are some positive signs to particularly in the u.s. you've got strong jobs market the economic data there is not all bad is it it's not all bad however as aneta mentioned there are signs that you know there are some clouds on the horizon their g.d.p. growth g.d.p. growth in the united states was 2 point one percent last quarter which is substantial yeah that's solid but it's down from the 1st quarter where it was over 3 percent and then again we also said that the fed already has slashed interest rates sort of being proactive in the sense of well we're seeing trouble down the road and we're already engaging in some mechanisms here to address these stuff

thank you so much christoph cover from our business desk in frankfurt our correspondent anetta thank you both for. now some other stories making headlines around the world today an autopsy performed on jeffrey epstein the disgraced u.s. multimillionaire as found several broken bones in his neck forensics experts say this can occur to people who hang themselves or who have been strangled epstein was found dead on in his jail cell on saturday he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. canadian prime minister justin trudeau says he takes full responsibility for the findings of an ethics report which found he acted improperly trudeau is accused of attempting to prevent a criminal prosecution of a construction company on corruption charges the prime minister said he acted to protect canadian jobs. and india is celebrating independence day

marking 72 years since the british raj was dismantled and divided into india and pakistan engines are high between the south asian neighbors more than a week after the indian government's revoked the semi autonomous status of kashmir pakistan also claims that region as its own. hong kong is bracing for more mass protests overnight police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters in the city's financial district the pro-democracy demonstrations are now in their 10th week marked by outburst of violence u.s. president all trump has linked a possible trade deal with china to a peaceful resolution on hong kong on twitter he urged chinese leader xi jinping to solve the crisis humanely meanwhile beijing is ramping up its rhetoric saying the protests are approaching terrorism. yet another night of protests.

and more tear gas as police and demonstrators clashed on the streets of hong kong. 10 weeks since millions marched against a controversial law the protests show no sign of letting up the police respond to tear gas tranche and under arrest. and protesters are beginning to retaliate. as police stormed decision and holmes a court on tuesday demonstrators beat a police officer who attacked a woman. the police have seized on the incident to discredit the protest movement. like we denounce extreme and radical rioters for the use of violence where they might even deprive others of their lives to pursue their so-called human rights but. as for such an illegal behavior of extreme violence the police must early enforce laws and and follow them up beijing

is backing your forces state media released these images showing a build up of paramilitary police on the border the message is clear if unrest continues china will intervene. on wednesday a small group of demonstrators were back at the airport with a message of their own and apologies travelers and for the protests turning violent . and in germany chancellor merkel chimed in to call for restraint on both sides. is false the fish does it's important for us that the basic law of 1907 is in shrines in law which also guarantees freedom of speech and the rule of law in hong kong. seek out the subtle and that has a long history there and therefore everything must be done to avoid violence and to find a solution through dialogue. but it is not a protest is police know china appear willing to compromise the specter of

confrontation limbs launch of a homecoming. our correspondent phebe kong has been following these protests from the beginning and joins us now from hong kong more clashes there between police and protesters overnight with tear gas fired any end in sight. well once again hong kong hall is tied to an uprising and a protest last night by firing tear gas that is the scene that we have saw so frequently over the past. week and. a protest and not compromising anyway as you show although the airport protest has put out a bit and i could already because i'll be in television by courts but a protest is down i'll be turning to see some of them they're gathering outside the station department today although it's not a massive protest but they obviously they're continuing the momentum off the

movement. the president has fired off a series of tweets regarding the unrest in hong kong here's what he had to say he appeared to be offering to meet with president xi of china and he said that he had 0 doubt that she could sole the hong kong crisis quickly and humanely in his words . appeared also to link a prospective trade deal with china to a solution in the territory urging china to work again this word humanely with on kong 1st so phebe the u.s. president reaching out there to china on hong kong any reaction to that from authorities in hong kong or beijing. well yes president almost time he's high c. time political crisis in hong kong the crazy with clean u.s.

and china. and just the same before actually china. has once again we present you asked for sending u.s. navy ships for business. and some of the service here in hong kong they see this as a kind of a reaction. my problem for not being strong not being. being criticized for not taking a strong ally against china's government. may be a kind of reaction off the us on the other hand hong kong has to stand still very hostile international support lawmakers and office thing us to try to lobby the u.s. government to impose a ban on export all the crowd cunto weapons to hong kong and also in the coming friday that will be another massive rallies to call for support from us and you say specifically for their support to the protests in hong kong. now all this is

happening. there appears to be a chinese military build up in shenzhen at the border with hong kong are people in hong kong worried about the. wall this kind of mass they show this kind of the picture is kind of a mania with hong kong local citizens because it's not the 1st time for china's government to send such warnings by. the chinese troops and intervening in hong kong so this is not something new to hong kong such as those and most something i'm including the police have this somehow mentally they can't prove that this is the west the system that can't happen but many are there is that it is they actually don't believe that the chinese government will handle it this way because obvious will be up to sauce to go to hong kong to me and that will be influential to the chinese economy as well and this will be a base to

a hong kong international law repetition. and that was phoebe kong there reporting from hong kong a little earlier you're watching the news still to come proud papa we take a trip to the berlin zoo where 2 penguin. are expecting. explain that one for you in a minute well meanwhile she's become the poster girl for climate change awareness great to back the swedish teenager is the face of the fridays for future movement so she's on her way to the united nations climate summit in new york but as to baucus trying to keep her own carbon footprint as small as possible she's refused to fly there instead she's set sail from england on an eco friendly yacht designed for speed not comfort. grettir to making her way to the yacht that

will be her for the next 2 weeks the 16 year old has never sailed before and she's facing a challenging journey but she says she's willing to rough it especially if it helps bring political action to curb climate change what i'm concerned about is whether we we will do something or not whether the people in power will react and acts with unnecessary force. has been the target of online abuse from across the political spectrum she says she's unfazed by the criticism. there are people who want climate delay years who want to do everything to shift the focus from the climate crisis to just something else or want to to make people question the science and i'm nuts worried about that so i'm just going to do as i as i want to do when i say i think will have the most impact. conditions on board the 18 need to minister to your spouse and there's no toilet and sleeping quarters

a basic. it shows her determination to accept uncomfortable conditions so she can get across the atlantic as carbon neutral as possible on a normal god she could have had her own cabin with air conditioning in the shower but she's taking the spars that only produces a small amount of electricity by means of solar power and it's very fast so it can bypass storms and hurricanes. his father and a filmmaker ira company on the voyage together with the crew they will travel some 5 and a half 1000 kilometer across the atlantic ocean. far right violence in germany is on the rise as according to the country's interior ministry in authority is recorded more than 8000 offenses in the 1st half of this year and many people have reason to fear they could be targeted their names have appeared on all right

enemy lists distributed online interior ministry has said the list do not pose a tangible threat but critics say authorities are not taking matters seriously enough. ruben i gave out his name is on an enemy next to put together by run 20 extremists they also put his address online in an attempt to scare him and his colleagues. we get a lot of death threats. sometimes these death threats are very concrete. it's something we live with and we've made a decision to deal with it so we're not intimidated by it that's. the reason ruben oig a bow is on this list is that he works for c watch an organization that rescues refugees in distress at sea. right wing extremists are constantly uploading left to bear political opponents online the same list that

ruben norgate bow is on also includes journalists and geo team members and politicians sometimes with insults next to their names and other less time it's jews their names are not with the star of david and although the authorities are aware of these lists and most german states they have not informed the people who are named. are authorities taking this matter seriously enough in june conservative politician bata lived here were shot dead by an alleged right wing stream asked that his name had appeared on a list compiled by the n.s.u. an extreme right tara network. the victim's advice center reach out documents rightwing and racist attacks unlike the german interior ministry workers here think the lists are definitely dangerous. i meant data is it not connected and of course it's going to be used as high. as can reach our host is

a danger maybe not right now that could be the case in the future. so the danger of this is really being laid down in this. is an expert on right wing extremism he wants the authorities to be more transparent and better at communicating especially where it concerns those who have already experienced hostility and are now more of a target than ever. because it only fair to these people already is a danger now for even more so that would bargain ferreted if the security services were doing a good job they would see that danger and make that assessment public of. ruben no i gave our has no idea who put him on the list but it won't stop him doing what he believes and i'm saving the lives of refugees out at sea. our political correspondent is covering this story for us and join just medaled we have any idea

how many people are actually on these lists that the far right groups are keeping well actually tells us of people are affected the last at least that was made public is a list of 25000 people that was compiled by a far right a group called not cause that has been uncovered earlier. we also had earlier on this year trending on twitter of the earthquake and other which means to get you all these dot com pied the names of about 200 people who were targeted by a far right sympathizers there was also much smaller list compiled by a german so they have compiled $23.00 names that he deemed of individuals he deemed being enemies of the state and of course earlier on the n.s.a. the national socialist undergrad hos. ambers had committed 10 racially motivated murders in germany between 200-2007 how those so-called pis such

a list of about 10000 people how do these right wing groups publish these names on the internet and obviously using social media how do they go about compiling them well by hiking websites that's the main that's the main way of gathering data i want to talk about they it's not only names of people petitions public figures john it's so so their personal addresses their phone numbers so all the information that might be a that might help identify them and their whereabouts what's the interior ministry in germany doing about justice authorities are they going after these these these right wing groups who publish these lists well upon uncovering such at least the government would actively process to proceed to a risk assessment so are the threats really is is just so this is it's a desk this is there a concrete threats being made we know that about her new book the petition. in june

this year it was on such a this so does a risk assessment and then the government goes on to inform the people who watch on those 2 and they try to assess whether there are trees some people are placed under protection but many many suspects are under civilians but only for example more than 2500 people space and far right crimes nationwide but only 23 of them were actually arrested. i guess priority should also be to protect those who are truly threatened by those right wing groups or mental shows from a political desk thank you so much thank you. same sex couples in the animal world are not uncommon scientists have observed homosexual pairings in species as diverse as beetles and monkeys but 2 male penguins at the berlin zoo have attracted huge public attention for their all the early dedication to hatching in

a together when to visit expectant couple. the happy parents to be these 2 milking penguin and paying have adopted an egg together they're taking turns to keep the egg warm nestling it in their flaps of skin and they completely dedicated to the task at hand even the daily feeding con to struck them from caring for the long desired egg. such elocutionary it's emerged rather quickly that the pair belong to each other and had become a couple and wanted to had genetic so they started taking stones of fish they hadn't eaten and looked after them pretty well or and and the afghans able to come out. and that's why the carrots gave the couple an egg which had been abandoned by the zoo so female penguin same sex couples and males which brood aren't so unusual in the animal kingdom but these visitors still found it fascinating. life and

sometimes i think it's really great and i think that in our world many more men should take more time to do just that and do something for the children. this is the real issue. but you know certainly she. zookeeper. also things that these penguins are doing it right. think of that kind of wish to mention that i think humans could perhaps learn a thing or 2 from them because penguins are really tolerant and a large breeding colony a same sex penguin couple wouldn't be looked at strangely by any other pair it's just the way it is and they just end their breeding spots just like the others. at the start of september it will become clear whether the egg was successfully fertilized or not and if it is balanced it could be welcoming its 1st penguin to be born to 2 fathers. this week marks the 50th anniversary of the iconic woodstock music festival the event became a key moment in history as

a symbol of the counterculture movement and an entire generations hopes for the future in 1969 an estimated 400000 people descended on a farm in upstate new york for 3 days of music and culture the festival featured more than 30 syncrude ng janis joplin and jimmy had. it also became a byword for mind expanding drugs and useful ideals. ok. and before we go just a reminder the top story we're following for you here today on d w news stock markets around the globe have been suffering hefty losses amid signs of a looming recession a sharp sell off follows the release of poor economic data from germany and china. and hong kong police have fired tear gas overnight to disperse hundreds of protesters from the city's financial hall meanwhile u.s.

president donald trump has been linked to a possible trade deal to a peaceful resolution in hong kong the urge china via twitter to solve the crisis in his words humanely. watching the news still to come we've got business for you with christoph cabrera thanks for joining us.

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