does europe start september 2nd on d w. this is d w news live from berlin britain's prime minister challenges the german chancellor over bragg sit on a visit to the german capital for strengths and presses on the markle to reopen the deal negotiated with his predecessor and scrapped the news plan to avoid a hard border in ireland britain's for caring to leave the block on october 31st also coming up after weeks at sea italy and the standoff that allows the open arms

rescue ship to land authorities say they're investigating conditions that forced some migrants on board to attempt to swim ashore. plus a record number of fires in the gulf the world's largest rain forest as flames consumed vast tracts of the amazon in brazil the researchers warn of an environmental catastrophe of the country's president and he says his enemies are behind the blazer. i'm sumi so much kind of good to have you with us we start with the latest chapter in the braggs that saga right here in berlin or strengths and has just wrapped up a meeting with angela merkel has been trying to convince the german chancellor to reopen negotiations over britain's withdrawal from the e.u. johnson is demanding the e.u. scrap the so-called irish backstop which is the block. current plan to avoid

a hard border in ireland both johnson and marco have expressed optimism that britain can still reach a negotiated deal to leave the e.u. but johnson has insisted the u.k. will depart deal or no deal on october 31st. no bracks it protesters shout as british prime minister boris johnson arrives in them and for the 1st time since he took office a month ago he met with german chancellor angela merkel his go to reopen negotiations on brics it we in the u.k. want a deal we seek a deal and i believe that we can get what we can do this shop windows i think is the is the phrase but clearly. clearly. we cannot we cannot accept. the current.

agreement johnson wants to scrap the backstop a clause designed to prevent the return of customs and security checks along the irish border the new however has ruled out renegotiating the existing bricks agreement in berlin merkel said johnson the challenge of finding a solution quickly to fix up the said look the back of them has always only been a last resort if we don't need that last resort and if we're saying that we might find this agreement in the next 2 years perhaps we will find it in the next 30 days why shouldn't we be starting from bottlenecks both merkel and johnson seem optimistic that a solution can be found in berlin however no solution has yet in that action and time is running out if no side moves the u.k. may had for a no deal exit at the end of october. get ever used chief political editor michelle or cooper is standing outside the chancellor a she has been following the talks for us today. we know that the main sticking

point to this bragg's a deal has been the irish backstop this insurance policy to prevent a hard border on the island of ireland did we hear anything in terms of alternatives to the backstop. well we certainly heard from boris johnson once again that the backstop simply can't be on the cards as far as he's concerned so when it comes down to it there hasn't been much change at the same time i must add that this is the 1st can do attitude the 1st error of can do attitude we've heard in a very very long time with anger mack or putting the idea of having a solution within 30 days on the table and boris johnson accepting that the onus is on us on the brits to actually come up with some proposals so certainly all of us in the media and politicians across the continent and beyond will be watching very closely whether now at last there could be some kind of movement that might make

the backstop obsolete all together which was always angela merkel's preferred option anyway michel or tell us more about that 30 day timetable seems to have come out of nowhere. yes and that's actually also what it appeared like it's seemed like a spontaneous comment by the german chancellor but of course there could be a calculation ingrained in that to actually get britain to get london to finally actually come up with some kind of concrete proposal in boston was asked specifically did you bring anything what could that look like. avoiding a hard border because he once again said that britain would not stand for a hard border wouldn't set up anything like that but what could be the alternative and they said while there could be some kind of technical solution well that's still very vague so it will be very interesting to see whether he will now at last get a bit more specific over the coming weeks tomorrow he's due to be in paris which has been a lot less patient than the german chancellor when it comes also to the bracks that

extension in monarch or the french president was against that from the beginning and at the weekend he will meet g 7 leaders for his 1st big exchange on the big issues in the world including iran hong kong you name it which we also discussed today we've learned what do you think about for boris johnson here michelle what do you think she can take home from today's talks with an american. war boris johnson has got his heart cut out for him brady after that press briefing today he has some homework to do there's an acceptance there and there's also an air though that this is also about political point scoring because if it comes to the crunch if person does leave the e.u. in the hardbacks it on the 31st of october he will need to be able to pin the blame somewhere and that could well end up being in paris and brussels all right our

chief political editor michelle o'keefe now speaking to us thank you. let's get a roundup now of some other stories making news around the world pro-democracy demonstrators in hong kong have staged a protest at the suburban train station where masked men attacked protesters one month ago activists say they want to try tension to the lack of progress by police investigating that attack many believe the attackers had links to organized crime the. spanish police have arrested a man suspected of making videos up the skirts of women on madrid's metro system police say use a cell phone in his backpack to secretly film victims police found hundreds of recordings of the man's home many had also been posted online. the u.s. government has officially lifted a legal barrier limiting the amount of time the children of migrants can be detained it says of the florists agreement which sets the maximum detention of children to 20 days will be allowed to expire administration as long tried to flout

that agreement with its 0 tolerance policies now to the continuing saga of the migrant rescue ship open arms 5 e.u. states have now agreed to take in dozens of refugees who had been stranded aboard the boat off the italian island of lampedusa for weeks italy had been refusing to allow the ship to dock late on tuesday and italian prosecutor ordered the boat to be seized and the migrants on board to be brought ashore. 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 some of rate their landing. 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 or the unnamed suspect could be italian interior minister monti salvini instead he was responsible for preventing the ship from coming to shore. it is highly likely that i am being investigated just a prosecutor. has begun an inquiry against an unknown person and you can imagine with the unknown person might be. the spanish naval vessel is on its way to italy it is offering to take some of the migrants to spain. to brazil now where researchers are reporting an alarming rise in the number of fires burning in the amazon rain forest this rate forces the world's largest and serves as

a key ball work against climate change by observing large amounts of greenhouse gases most of the blazes have been set by farmers trying to clear their land but the country's rightwing president also now has another theory she says n.g.o.s are setting the places to make him look bad more than $72000.00 fires this year and 80 percent increase over the same period last year smokers cover nearly half the country e.u. satellite data show as well as parts of neighboring countries president joe your ball scenario has a theory about the fires cause. i am under the impression that it could have been set by the n.g.o.s because they had asked for money. a stunning accusation he had no evidence for environmentalists have called the charge sick and pitiful. the real cause they say is both own policies which have slashed environmental funding and dismantle protections. when brazil space research center reported an 88 percent

increase in deforestation in june compared with june last year its director lost his job to those who call the amazon home are the 1st affected by the destruction. indigenous groups suffer with the impact because if enough food source begins to change. hunting is further away which forced us to go to the city for industrialized food. these groups may be the canary in the coal mine the amazon produces one 5th of the world's oxygen and absorbs one quarter of all the c o 2 taken in by earth's forests losing the amazon could mean losing one of the world's greatest natural defenses against climate change let's go to south paulo now where we can speak to the

director of public policies at the environmental organization. thank you for joining us why are we seeing so many wildfires in the amazon right now. well it's very clear very wide fire and it's a way to gear named for me coach or and soul the station brazil skyrocketing since he most are not of took office just the last 12 months we had an increase of 45 percent in for a station rates and in right of the fires increase was 145 percent so what is happening in the amazon right now is vet farmers and ranchers are answering to both or not it was the church i've been using berm into law against in civil society in guy against in burma to n.g.o.s and so i've gained. a lot ok that's not what he says is happening president boston are has his own theory he's accusing n.g.o.s of setting the fires themselves to make him look bad is there anything to

that well visa totally ridiculous accusation of course it's different from the strategy so he knows perfectly well will be splitting fire in the forest right now he knows that our land grabbers are grieving also that they're inside of a forest that are trying to go against the brazilian law but it looks like that he doesn't want to go off the vent it's off course. cues enjoy a little someone else event to do his job at least to put the one for instance in the ground what's not happening ok well the accusations are flying but i think most people would agree that the amazon is important it is the largest rain forest in the world put this into perspective for us how crucial is this ecosystem not only for the region for brazil but also for the global climate. well the animal is very important in these crucial for brazil and the rule for brazil most of the right info that goes to some politics of the main c.d.'s so that gives water of course

even to drink that gives water from ricco which are part of it gives water for our eagles from come from the amazon as we've all to the forests we don't have rainfall here we know i have rain falling in argentina we don't have ring falls most of south america for the world i'm a zone it's a carbon seat it's very important so you through the forest of the amazon so if we have just in the amazon maybe one big gate off all. of a greenhouse gases in there will and gallants very close to it sticking points so if we need forest more 5 percent of the amazon so it's going you know wait but it's going to be more a dry eye and it's going to turn itself in the us of a not enough for us anymore and venus is going to be very bad for you and for the world all right an important message there from now is valid director of public policies at w w f results the world wide fund for nature thanks so much for joining us you're welcome.

and a reminder now of our top story on d.w. british prime minister boris johnson cousin says it once more that the e.u. scrap its plan to avoid a hard border in ireland after a break that he was here in berlin for talks with german chancellor rhonda markel she expressed optimism that the u.k. and the e.u. can still avoid the no deal. coming up next new business which stay tuned for that. my 1st boss a total sewing machine. icon for all women their bones by this notion for women something as simple as learning how to write them by said both these and. since i was a little girl i wanted to have both buys a lot of my home and it took me most of them but. finally they gave up and went on

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