this is the w. news line from britain's prime minister to france's president. in paris. the withdrawal agreement being negotiated with the irish. president describes the indispensable though he does hold out hope that this deal can still be done also on the program 10 years in jail for the migrant convicted in the stabbing death of a german last year which sparked riots in the city of capt. brazil's rifling

president. accuses environmental activists of starting to profile i think in these countries amazon rain forest critics describe the claims. welcome to the program. british prime minister barak johnson has been in paris today for breakfast discussions with french president emmanuel mccraw both leaders said they believe a solution for the u.k. to leave the european union with a deal should be possible though a number of obstacles remain mr johnston says there would be no deal unless the backstop that's the current insurance policy to provide the hard border on the island of ireland is removed from the broadside deal here is spelling out the u.k.'s position when you look at the border with northern ireland just repeating

a point that bears repeating under no circumstances will the u.k. government be instituting imposing checks or controls of any kind at that board and we think i understand your desire to protect the integrity of the of the single market of course we understand that but we think that there are ways of protecting the integrity of the single market and allowing the u.k. to exit from the e.u. whole and entire and perfect as it were boris johnson space in paris let's go to paris where we join max hoffman welcome max did we hear anything new from the new british prime minister today. the little bit that was new and it's been new actually for i believe since since berlin was the clip that you just played we all know that boris johnson the u.k. prime minister wants to get rid of the backstop but he firstly really outlined what will happen if there is a no deal bragg's it saying that the u.k.

will not enforce border controls right there and that's tricky for the european union because that means if they want that border there to preserve the integrity of a single market and again this is only case of an old jailbreaks it then they will have to do this by themselves as johnson really keeps that promise that he made here and you know the history of the borders so that you could be held accountable for any violence to occur in the future that will be a difficult decision to make by the european union if it really comes to that ok so that sounds like the british prime minister sort of putting that bowl in brussels cold what was president macro's message today. it was more of the same we heard from. you know the contrary opinion here is to keep the back because he says it's indispensable and i quote here to the integrity of the single market but again the problem here is that the alternative would be if there was no deal

bragg's it to immediately have a hard border between northern island which is part of the u.k. and the republic of ireland which is part of the european union and i say theoretically you because in order to really have a hard border you need to enforce it so we're coming back to what i said earlier this is obviously a new bit of strategy of boris johnson who is clearly willing to play hardball but call seems to be willing to play hardball as well so this is really a high stakes game of poker right here and we'll have to see who blinks 1st if anyone really does blink. deadline is the end of october which is fast approaching that must be in favor of these meetings today in paris and yesterday in a less about finding a workable deal and more about allowing boris johnson to blame they in you when a disorderly bret's it happens. i think you're exactly right there phil but the problem is it's not necessarily about finding

a solution anymore although we'll have to wait and see they have about 30 days to work something out because as you know you need approval of the house of commons back in the u.k. you need approval of the european parliament but maybe it's already just about who is to blame at the end is that the use fault or is that the u.k. fault boris johnson really is a spin doctor we know that because he was a journalist in brussels in the ninety's and some of the older colleagues personally experience how he's able to spin a story and spin reality in the direction that he wants it to be so not all the cards on the table be really don't know where he's heading at the moment so that puts us in the position that we were before with theresa may but he added that little bit of strategy to it to put more pressure on the you regarding the border between northern ireland and ireland so how have these meetings today in paris or yesterday i think changed anything that makes. it's just that we get little bits and pieces of information going forward it really hasn't changed the fundamentals

the fundamentals are there is a withdrawal agreement a legally binding withdrawal agreement some people also call it the divorce agreement between the u.k. and the european union and force johnson was to change it because the backstop is right in there and the european union does not want to change that they have repeatedly said busy so and the message coming from the line to call him paris was the same as ever backstop indispensable we're not going to open up that withdrawal agreement so of both staying in that position then what happens next and that's where we get the added value from today boris johnson said we don't care we will not enforce the border it's up to the e.u. so like i said pressure might have shifted a little bit towards the european union the interesting to see how they react but really if there is any change it will come down to the wire. itself when in paris thank you. as take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world it's only as

democratic party says it is ready to form a new government with former opponents the 5 star movement deputy prime minister salivating withdrew his league party support from the governing coalition with 5 earlier this week. lawmakers in cos of i would have voted to dissolve parliament and try to fresh elections it comes after the prime minister resigned in july over a war crimes investigation the steps likely to defer the delay stalled talks between kosovo and serbia. scientists are warning that the wreckage of the titanic is deteriorating rapidly because of the you know particular types of bacteria that inhabit the ship the historic site is 600 kilometers south of new found land was recently visited for the 1st time in 14 years the ship which have previously been described as unsinkable went down in 1912 for the move to the. 1500 people. 5 elephants being rescued in the lazy after getting trapped in an abandoned illegal

mining pool in a video filmed by malaysia's department of wildlife shows the hood i gathered as an excavator caused the path for them to climb out the rescue operation took more than 4 hours but all of the beasts walked free. for germany has called for renewed efforts to end the conflict in eastern ukraine foreign minister moussa made the comments after meeting with his russian counterpart sergey lavrov in moscow he called for a diplomatic solution to the 5 year war between ukraine and the pro russian rebels 13000 people have been killed in the fighting according to un estimates. for the spring and they don't do correspond to any show in moscow welcome that emily was there any sign of progress over ukraine today. well at the meeting between mosque and lover a few yesterday after when they spoke and held their press conference yesterday

they both seemed to hint that ukraine had been the main topic of conversation but there seems to have been more words than actual concrete steps there was a lot of optimism from the german foreign minister heiko mosques who said he expressed hope that perhaps the election of the recent election of ukrainian president vladimir is the lenski could give some kind of a new momentum to the resolution of the ukraine crisis of the war in ukraine and could finally end that conflict he also mentioned the fact that this week bloody near putin men met with french president emanuel and my call and putin expressed cautious optimism about ukraine after after speaking to zillions key recently so there does seem to be some movement on ukraine but coming out of their meeting yesterday we heard more words than concrete steps they both mentioned the

fact that there could be a meeting soon in the normandy format so between ukraine russia france and germany and they also both talked a bit about the possibility of a prisoner exchange but lavrov kind of said that there were a lot of details that still need to be worked out there of the 2 foreign ministers also disagreed over press freedoms let's listen some of what the had to say. it is not realistic to think that germany all german media would want to influence russian domestic affairs. or. petition or even initiate such a development either now or in the future. that is not the task of a press outlet or a media outlet such as torture vella he does not engage in such activities i do not believe that anyone would seriously suggest that germany the german government or a german public body would take part in such practices so every show in

disagreement about this broadcast. well yes it was kind of the reason that this dispute about press freedom broke out at all and the 2 sides kind of accused each other of not sticking to the rules when it comes to press freedom. now in russia there have been accusations against germany and against. that that this broadcaster and that germany through this broadcaster had meddled in the internal affairs here in russia and that that there had been calls for protests now the background to that is the ongoing protests here in moscow over the upcoming moscow duma elections and those have been anti-government protests that not that were not all authorized by the government now lover of insisted though that there had been absolutely no restrictions placed

on deutsche vella or any other broadcaster and he again questioned the objectivity of the reporting of german media outlets he mentioned also r t the russian government broadcaster and said that there had been various restrictions placed on r.t.e. in various european countries as well so what we saw there was really a war of words over press freedom. i wish i would in moscow thank you. i was a syrian migrant accused of fatally stabbing a man in the eastern german city of candidates last year has been found guilty and sentenced to 9 and a half years in prison the killings spot a wave of anti immigrant protests and riots. guilty of manslaughter almost a year to the day after a killing that triggered violent protests and political turmoil one of the 2 suspects has been convicted both suspects were asylum seekers at the time of the killing one of them remains at large news of the stabbing spread quickly on the

rightwing scene and soon germany was witnessing the kind of racist riots not seen in decades. for days protesters marched in the streets of kennett shouting racists as some were seen showing the hitler salute which is a crime in germany. the police were criticized for failing to intervene quickly enough. the cell phone video appears to show a man chasing up house and by and shouting racist abuse. watched the video triggered a debate about what had actually happened was. a common view often we have video footage showing people being hunted down on the streets a crowd rioting and he crimes. this has nothing to do with the rule of law i cannot repeat this often enough stephen but germany's domestic intelligence security agency chief at the time hans-georg masson didn't agree with chancellor merkel he

said nobody had been hunted down his comments exposed deep divisions in the federal coalition in the end mohsen was removed from office the conviction may be an important step but politically the case continues to cool shock waves. we'll get more on this will be doubly right political correspondent kate brady welcome kate let's start with the trial itself what do you make of the verdicts in the sentencing well they certainly were shorter than what the prosecution were asking for they were asking for 11 years but this also isn't a surprise even i mean that said it wasn't always a foregone conclusion that. gentleman would actually be found guilty of course there have been a lot of dispute from day one of the court case gaps in evidence and also whether there might be even possibilities of bias among some of the lay judges the defense for example wanted to know if any of the late judges

that's basically the german equivalent of a jury they wanted to know if any of the late judges had for example attended any of those far right extremist demonstrations or even some of the counter demonstrations and also most of the prosecution was actually largely based on evidence by one employee of a combat shop who witnessed the killing of danielle last year and so there was a lot of public interest in this case as well which is also one of the reasons why it was also held in dresden and not in kemet so it's a lot of security around this case and so this was held today in the state capital and not in kenya it's ok so there's a trial and as we heard in the report this sets off a whole chain of events not just their income but public in the public but politically as well exactly not only did these events fuel to the fire of the

migrant debate that was already ongoing in germany and still to ascend degree is still ongoing but also that why do police record of a back here in lynn over some of the video footage and also about those events that we saw there and the reports about some. cases of. seemingly attacking and targeting people who the mobs at least deemed to be over for an appearance and now the chief of germany's domestic intelligence agency at the time question the validity of those videos and in the end those comments resulted in him resigning with the repercussions of that big political fallout here in berlin are still being felt and his name is certainly one which keeps reappearing here in german headlines . briefly vis a verdict comes at a sensitive time it really does on monday just 4 days from now that will be the 1st anniversary of the killing but also just

a week away some very important states elections in saxony that's a state where cabinet's is and all the chemist's has done an awful lot to try and revitalize its image which was tarnished very severely in the international media after this killing in these far right extremist marches if you look at the polls right now although they have made efforts to revitalize that image and make a better appearance of being open minded if you look at the polls the political leaning is a very much still to the right in the far right a posse are expected to do extremely well brady political correspondent thank you. state of the news live from berlin still to come brazil is but it has a record number of fires consume the country's amazon rain forest countries fought by president suggest without evidence that environmental activists are setting the blazes and then backtracks. first though

a new push to be patrick to read injured refugees from bangladesh to me and appears to have failed after no one turned up to board the waiting buses as agreed to allow more than 3000 refugees to return and even issued the documentation but it seems they fear what would happen to them when they returned this is the 2nd time bangladesh has tried to send the rangers back after the failure of another attempt by another attempt back in november when the 750000 of the persecuted muslim minority a flatter military offensive in manaus reclaimed rakhine state in 2070. d.-w. is that now we cannot is up and may not range at refugee camp in the bangladeshi city of cox's bazar on the border with minimal some people here told us that if they were full us to go home faith rather kill themselves 1st because they don't trust the government of myanmar to actually provide them with safety to give them

their lands back you have to remember this fight they say muslim minority has gone through what some people close to ethnic cleansing their villages were bummed in some cases women were raped they simply don't trust the government back and be a mob to provide the safety and provide the human rights that they want a lot of people say once these 7 months have been fulfilled they want to go back but at this point they all prefer to stay here and no one we talked to and no one has talked to the u.n. so far wants to go back willingly. because reporter now iranian president hassan rouhani has warned the united states that if it keeps up its efforts to stop this country exporting oil and international waters would no longer be secure. has previously threatened to close the strategically important strait of hormuz which is used to transport much of the world's oil supplies last month iran seized a british flagged tanker in the straights the reporter theresa trucker said fish

report from the island off the straits. it's early morning in the sun beating down on the island of relentless there's no natural water source and few other resources for that matter despite that the island has been highly valued for centuries as a strategic location portugal for instance constructed this fortress spec in 1507 to control mara team traffic in the persian gulf today the strait of hormuz is once again witness to conflict as the standoff over british lek tanker ceased by iranian authorities continues a fisherman takes us out into the straight past the island of la rock the iranian military uses the island to monitor the area which includes the narrow passage all ships must pass through to reach the largest oil imports in the region. on oil tankers like this one a quarter of the global oil consumption passes through the strait of hormuz making

it a very strategic location for international trade and an important leveraging point for iran republic has repeatedly threatened to close the strait of hormuz for international ships as long as it's not allowed to export its own oil but so far it hasn't done so but the detainment of the one british tanker is already enough to slow down traffic and trade in this area along. currently very few international tankers use iranian waters to navigate the strait many fear being swept up in the conflict between washington and tehran. and they run in military is not alone as it petrols these waters the u.s. has also deployed ships into the persian gulf the u.s. wants to strengthen its presence here to guarantee the passage of international cargo ships which has angered the iranian government as well as the iranian people . and i don't think they would welcome any sort of you know military presence from the region itself that's

a part of iran's political culture not to you know ally with. you know non local actors in the region iran try to reach out to again to you know many countries in the region quiet. and they are open of course to the u.a.e. and i think saudi arabia as well to discuss these kind of issues. there's been no movement on the issue so far iran's neighbors seem unwilling to offer support. few people on the island of a movie seem interested in politics they're just hoping there will be a swift end to the regional standoff. been a seminar if the tensions are resolved the entire economy may improve and we're part of that. everyone is out of work here in hormuz i don't know what to do with my wife and kids we can't all live on fishing alone. but. things would improve for

tourism more tourists would pay a visit to this island and that way it could develop. without stability turning homo's into a popular tourist destination remains a distant prospect. brazil's i was on rain forest to say a record number of fives this year without evidence the country's right wing president accused non-governmental organizations of setting the blazes in order to embarrass him and his government but when environmentalists challenge what they call the president's outrageous accusations. said he only had suspicions. more than $72000.00 fires this year and 80 percent increase over the same period last year smoke as cover nearly half the country e.u. satellite data show as well as parts of neighboring countries president 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 i 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 in our 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 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. sudan's changing political climate has prompted plans to start the country's 1st ever women's football league it's to include 18 clubs and the 1st match will be in september historically sudanese that women's football has struggled the plaza hoping that that will soon change. a year ago the idea of a women's football league in sudan was far fetched females one teacher followed their football playing aspirations in the past were without hope. before the revolution i could not have imagined myself being a player in a woman's football team or even expected myself to be able to play the sport i've loved there were many restrictions on sudanese women and it was not possible to

play football. but now a joint military civilian sovereign council is in power and it's seen as a significant event women are part of the ruling council and measures are being taken to further women's rights and promote sports and the arts. of the 7th day began in the past it was difficult for women to play football but there were many complications that prevented them from participating in this activity but now everyone is looking forward to a new reality and has a new ambitions now society has become more receptive to this idea and more accepting of the participation of women and all the areas of life the people in medina a new reality where sudanese women athletes can follow their ambitions. and here's a reminder of our top story this hour british prime minister barak's joelson on

french president emmanuel might call have helped talks on bret's with in paris mr johnson said he believed there was time to find a solution to the i'm sure the problem doesn't micro said the e.u. how to protect the integrity of its single bodies. coming up next here on the w.i. germany's fall right on the rise of the right wing after the party focus for big within state elections that's next. i'm going to.

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already uncle will return to. visit friends i don't think i'd ever go back there to live you know what i live there again i don't know so i'm not sure. bearing witness global news that matters. made for mines. hello and welcome to focus on europe. thanks for joining us a political earthquake is looming in east germany state elections will be held in brandenburg and saxony and the right.