this is the w.'s life from bad ben britain's prime minister challenges the german chancellor said visiting the german capital paris johnson the press is i'm going to battle to reopen the deal and negotiated with his predecessor and repeats his demand that the e.u. scrapped its back stop plan to avoid a hard fought in ireland as britain prepares to leave the block on the 31st of october.

i'm phil gale welcome to the program german chancellor angela merkel british prime minister barak's johnson have agreed to work to resolve key issues regarding britain's departure from the e.u. on his 1st foreign visit since becoming prime minister last month mr johnson's involvement to push his case for reopening the u.k.'s divorce deal with the european union speaking in the last hour he repeated his demand that the irish backstop be removed from the bracks it withdraw agreement chancellor merkel said the e.u. was united in protecting the integrity of its customs union. so here's more from the 2 leaders on the irish backstop and prospects of a new bracks it deal. yes of course i think there is ample scope to do a deal and sprained i think pretty clearly what needs to happen we need to remove those elements of the of the withdrawal agreement that simply don't work for the.

the u.k. i've spoken of the things that i think are sensible the protections of the rights of you nationals but the the back stop that particular arrangement which i do think has grave grave defects for a democratic country sovereign democratic country like the u.k. that plainly has to go but once we get rid of it if we can change it then i think there is the real prospect of making progress very rapidly indeed so the backstop has always only been a last resort we don't need this last resort and we're saying we might find that agreement in the next 2 years but i'm sure find it in the next 30 days why shouldn't we that would take a big step forward and we have to pull all the stars out and make sure we manage to do it however this does work on the assumption that we have clarity about the future relations between the u.k.

. and i think this clarity is emerging. more from the. date of his chief political chorus a political editor joins us from the chancellor's office is welcome to tell that there is the german government to mr jobson's appeal for the backstop to be dropped . it isn't frankly machall points towards brussels whenever that is brought up and she has already said in the past that it was an easy way to get rid of the backdrop and that would be to find common ground to find a common solution to the issue of northern ireland of voiding a hard border there so it's interesting that today we see her mention of kind of a 30 day period to potentially work this out it's interesting that we see boris johnson seeing the onus on britain to come up with a proposal but essentially you have not seen a shift of position just a bit of leeway potentially for boris johnson. the news outlets seem to have seized

on this 30 day timetable for solving everything i'm just explaining to us how it appeared what it's about well to me it actually seemed like a spontaneous comment by the german chancellor and she clearly has also been in the past with comments we've seen in the past also her annual press conference where she did make that comment that she should simply be resolved in the backstop is off the table so she believes that the solution can be found to the issue of avoiding a hardboard and to me it sounded like she spontaneously meant to mentioned a 30 day period that is something boris johnson described as a blistering timetable but the question is of course well why not if there is common ground the 2 leaders now have a de facto deadline that we will all be watching very carefully to work with and we

will be of course be reassessing how far they've come in finding some kind of common ground of course this is about more than just the u.k. germany or no e.u. summit showed you'll until october so even with the best will in the world one could these final efforts to find a solution to the box don't actually happened. well nothing in the u.s. ever failed because of a scheduling issue for saw if the leaders were close to some kind of deal and that would be a deal in the future relationship that would not necessarily mean opening the exit agreement and that's really what where they are still at loggerheads then surely the european council of e.u. leaders would come together but in the past these talks failed because britain simply didn't come up with a proposal so it will be very interesting to watch what boris johnson comes up with if he comes up with anything it shows a willingness to try and make some headway but when

a reporter asked this chances specifically basically saying look you're still stuck on the very issue whether you will open that agreement she basically said well we don't have an answer for you there so i'm not going to read tea leaves here but this suggests to me that if. if london now starts pushing proposals on the table that would be seen as headway and that might allow some room for maneuver in brussels again because. the german chancellor thank you 4. we'll take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world the u.s. government is to remove the legal barriers limiting the amount of time the children of migrants can be detained department of homeland security secretary michael lehman on wednesday i'm not certain the so-called florists a dream limits the detention of children to 20 days will be allowed to expire.

pro-democracy demonstrators in hong kong have staged a protest train station where masked men attacked protesters a month ago activists say they want to draw attention to the lack of progress by police investigators many believe the attackers have links to organized crime. nigeria's president mohamed bihari has sworn in his new cabinet to nearly 6 months after he was in. to a 2nd term he remains minister of petroleum it's considered the most important ministerial position because oil exports account for about 90 percent of the country's foreign exchange. the number of wildfires in brazil's amazon rain forest as it's a record this year according to new data has been an 83 percent increase in fires compared to the same period last year as a jab olson r.-o. says the government's working to control the blazes and accuses environmental activists of starting with. italy's president he is holding talks with political leaders in rome to explore possible avenues out of the country's

political crisis so joe matter to him he's meeting with the leaders of italy's 2 houses of parliament and the leaders of the country's political parties the main opposition party the center left democratic party has indicated that it is prepared to discuss a possible coalition of the anti establishment 5 star movement these talks come after the collapse of the previous coalition between 5 star on the far right lead if no new coalition is agreed italy could see new elections elections before the end of the year. they doubly reporter mark zandi is covering this story from rome here's his assessment. the government crisis here in italy is in force wing after prime minister call to decided to step down last night and now the ball is in the court of the italian president and. his obligation will be to find a new strong coalition government this could be made up of the 5 star movement

together with the central f.p.c. party instead of these far right to leak. but at the moment it is not even clear if p.d.u. wants to be part of this government. salvini on the other hand has a different plan he wants new elections something he's been rooting for all the law and he is quite popular at the moment he is currently polling at roughly 37 percent but between now and the earliest election date which would be in october a lot can change and president's is doing his best to fight a solution as soon as possible as he says possibly even tomorrow. max reporting from rome and will stay in italy for the continuing saga of the migrant rescue ship open arms 5 a new states have now agreed to take in dozens of refugees who've been stranded aboard the boat off the island of lampedusa for weeks it's they had been refusing to allow the ship to dock late on tuesday and italian prosecutor ordered the boat

to be seized on the migrants on board to be brought ashore. that shortly before midnight the rescue ship open arms was allowed to dock in lampedusa many of the 83 migrants had been on board for nearly 3 weeks the sympathizers welcomed them at the harbor and summer break their landing on. the spanish n.g.o.'s rescue ship had been anchored a few 100 meters off the coast of lampedusa for days it wasn't allowed to come to shore. but yesterday an italian state prosecutor visited the ship with 2 doctors to learn about conditions on board the prosecutor then ordered the ship be seized and evacuated in the evening he began an investigation of an unknown person for abuse of office the inquiry is not centered on the spanish aid organization the unnamed suspect could be italian interior minister monti salvini instead he was responsible for preventing the ship from coming ashore more about the man it is highly likely

that i am being investigated to state prosecutors or gentoo has begun an inquiry against an unknown person and you can imagine the unknown person might be. a spanish naval vessel is on its way to italy it is offering to take some of the migrants to spain. and u.s. president donald trump has canceled a state visit to denmark because the danish prime minister refuses to talk about selling green under to the us describing the proposal as absurd agreement is an autonomous territory and belongs to denmark it's the biggest in the world is the biggest island in the world and its government has said it's not for sale cancelled by a tweet all the plans were in place in copenhagen for a state visit by the u.s. president but then donald trump announced on twitter he's not coming after all denmark is a very special country with incredible people he tweeted but at the danish prime

minister doesn't want to discuss selling greenland to him than the visits canceled . it is with regret surprise that i received the news that the president has canceled his visit to denmark the 2nd and 3rd. i have been looking forward to this it. does not change the capture of our good relations and we will of course from denmark continue. with the us on how we can develop. and deal with the. us we face a. greenland maybe geographically next door to the united states but it's been in autonomy's danish territory for more than 200 years and has its own prime minister came kielce and made clear what he thought about trump's real estate offer during a meeting with the danish prime minister earlier this week. which is if the

americans can trade resources with greenland just like any other country they can trade with us but our country is not for sale. there's been a u.s. airbase on greenland since the 1950 s. but global powers are increasingly interested in its vast oil gas and mineral reserves. germany's powerful but scandal ridden football association looks like it's getting a new president officials they gave their backing to fritz had to freiburg club to lead an association with 7000000 members the largest of its kind in the world it was the only candidate proposed by an exploratory commission to replace reinhard grendel who was the 3rd consecutive association president to step down amid allegations of wrongdoing callous 62 years old and will be officially announced as the new president on september 27th. i think a nazi symbol of

a swastika is banned here in germany but it sometimes crops up unintentionally for example in this case of an amusement park in the black forest. as it starts up this ride called the eagles flight looks unassuming enough. but once the eagles take to the yeah they seem to form a sinister shape few seem to notice at the park until the video of the eagles made it online now the park's owner is repentant so there's my mission possible i would like to emphasize that i apologize in every way i come along to anyone who feels disturbed and insulted by it is often. visitors to the tasmanian park seem to take it in their stride but. you wonder how you can build something. new because it really is still a sensitive topic on the other hand it's just the engineering just happens to look like. i'm not but that i didn't even notice that they might look like

swastikas. and the children they think nothing of it. the owner is talking to the ride's manufacturer about a redesign until then the eagles are grounded. next and b.t.w. out of business africa more well the headlines of the top. of the. coach of it. surely to news from africa. or link to exceptional stories and discussion. of these each i want website to debbie to come smash up to come join us on facebook. for god.