this is d.w. news live from berlin britain's prime minister and france's president hold talks on bragg's it in paris for strong someone to renegotiate britain's withdrawal agreement and get rid of the irish backstop president across a backstop is indispensable though he is holding out hope that a deal can still be done. also coming up nearly 10 years in jail for the migrant convicted in the stabbing death of a german last year in an attack that sparked riots in the city cabinet. brazil's right wing president charles also now retracted his accusations that environmental

activists are behind a record number of fires consuming his country's amazon rain forest. and they've hit the ground running in sudan the country's female football players wasted no time in a new political climate and start their own link with 18 clubs. i'm sumi so let's go to thank you for joining us we start with a fresh efforts in paris today to break the brags that deadlock british prime minister boris johnson and french president in myanmar call have wrapped up a meeting aimed at jumpstarting negotiations over britain's departure from the european union and talks have stalled over the so-called irish backstop which is that use current plan to avoid a hard border in ireland after britain leaves the bloc johnson wants to get rid of

the backstop but mccall said the british prime minister has yet to present a better alternative. boris johnson striding towards what he hopes will be a new deal with the european union over breaks it has meetings this week with french and german leaders let the british prime minister sounding optimistic. i think we can get a deal and a good deal i was partially encouraged by our conversations last night in berlin with our mutual friends johnson's key goal is to convince the e.u. to scrap the so-called backstop it's the fallback policy that would prevent a hard border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland following brags that. a day earlier johnson was in berlin where chancellor angela merkel told him the backstop wouldn't be necessary if britain could propose an alternative solution quickly. i admire that that can do spirit that she seemed to have that i think she's right i think that the technical solutions are readily

available can have trusted traders schemes you can have electronic clearing of the goods moving across the board. to meetings main revelation a pledge that britain won't install controls on its border with ireland. under no circumstances will the u.k. government be instituting imposing checks or controls of any kind at that border and we think i understand your desire to protect the integrity of the of the single market but if you had hoped that concession might soften europe stance macron had bad news the e.u. has neither time nor intention to reconsider the brig's of divorce deal. or been any good the e.u. has negotiated at length a withdrawal agreement with the united kingdom i will not get into details and it's not for any member of the e.u. alone to negotiate or renegotiate this agreement leaving with nothing but

a handshake if a hard break that happens this week's visit could be seen as johnson's way of showing he tried to avoid it and to lay the blame on europe. max hoffman is in paris where he was following today's events here is his assess that. the fundamentals didn't change here in paris they're still the same boris johnson the u.k. prime minister wants to get rid of the backstop and everyone else in the european union including my call the french president wanted to preserve it to preserve the integrity of the single market but one thing seems to be different boris johnson has started saying that no matter what happens on the 31st of october the u.k. will not enforce border checks border controls on this border between northern ireland which is part of the u.k. and the republic of ireland which is part of the european union that potentially puts the pressure on the european union what will they do in case of

a no deal brags that if the u.k. does not enforce this border will they do it and risk having more violence like in the past decades if they don't then they cannot preserve the integrity of the single market so this once again has become a high stakes poker game and the question is who if anyone will blink 1st now a syrian migrant accused of fatally stabbing a man in the eastern german city of cabinets last year has been found guilty and sentenced to almost 10 years in prison the killing sparked a wave of anti immigrant protests and riots the verdict for the 24 year old migrant was handed down one year after the stabbing death of daniel aged 9 and a half years imprisonment for manslaughter and aggravated battery. immediately after the attack a year ago germany was witness to the kind of racist riots not seen for decades some demonstrators were seen giving the hitler salute which is against the law here

the shocking images from the city in former east germany made international headlines and police were criticised for failing to act sooner this cell phone video appears to show a man chasing a pedestrian and shouting racist abuse the footage supported eyewitnesses claims that people had been targeted for supposedly looking forand to their assailants. we've got video footage showing people being hunted down on the streets a crowd arriving and he crimes. this has nothing to do with the rule of law. but germany's domestic security agency chief at the time hans-georg mohsen disagreed with chancellor merkel he claimed without evidence that the videos had been faked his comments exposed deep divisions in germany's governing coalition he was later forced to step down according to the defense team the debate surrounding right wing extremism that gripped germany for weeks directly affected the trial.

i'm not implying that this was the judge's motivation i'm saying the court could have been influenced by the political events in cannons that's. the courts will be dealing with the case for some time defense lawyers plan to contest the verdict. our political correspondent maximiliano has been following this story for us she's with us here in our studio hi max what you make of this verdict and also the sentencing well as we've heard this may not be the end of this case the defense has already said they have lost an appeal though the court has said that they found the defendant guilty he has insisted on his innocence and there have been some issues with the trial there has been for example a lot of gaps in the evidence the evidence of the prosecution was lost in mostly on one evidence given by one employee of and snacks stand nearby and as we've heard the defense has also been saying that they don't think that this trial would have

gone in the same way in the same direction in another western part of germany we have to say as we heard in the report it's not just this case it triggered a series of events that cause huge political turmoil here in germany tell us more about that is that the killing itself took place during city festival in chemists in the city in the east in germany and after this event was cancelled there was a series of protests and almost riots incident or like course by far right. extremists they've been also clashing with a police income. and these events have ensued like of course for example we've seen footage of people chasing foreign looking people through comments and this has also had political implications within berlin so the german chancellor angela merkel at the time denounced this footage and saying there was more blood will be saw in cam that's happening and the head of then domestic intelligence service hans mos and

then said without giving any evidence of his experts that he claims. so he thinks this footage was not real and the questions ability of this footage and subsequently because he couldn't give any evidence of this and made this political statement was kind of removed from his post in 2018 and now a year later essentially we're seeing a verdict and it comes we should say also at a sensitive time i mean facts and the state where this all happened is heading to the polls on september 1st yes this trial has been overshadowing the campaign of the regional elections that are happening in the federal states of saxony in brandenburg on september the 1st but also next monday will see the 1st anniversary of this killing and this court has this trial has been. used also by far right groups for example the far right party do they welcome the verdict that has been given today and this group so far at

a state party is been seen to be one of the strongest forces in the upcoming election in brandon back in sex in the in on september 1st all right our political correspondent maximillian a question with us here in our studio thank you very much let's get a round up now of some other stories making news around the world italy's president . says he has agreed to requests by political leaders for more time to form a viable coalition government and has given them until tuesday to do so italy's populist governing coalition collapsed 2 days ago after the far right to lead the party withdrew its support to lawmakers in kosovo have voted to dissolve parliament and trigger fresh elections it comes after a prime minister. resigned in july over a war crimes investigation the step is likely to further delay stalled talks between kosovo and serbia. south korea says it is scrapping an intelligence sharing pact with japan and the agreement was due to be automatically renewed this weekend

the 2 countries are in an intensifying dispute over history and a trade. iranian president hassan rouhani has warned the united states that if it continues to try to stop his country from exporting oil then international waters will no longer be secure tehran 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 there were a blip it british flag tanker in the street and there's a top us sent us this report from the island of hormuz. 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 back in 1507 to control my routine traffic in the persian gulf today the strait of hormuz is

once again witness to conflict as the standoff over british rectangle seized 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 ports in the region. like this 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 the islamic 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. 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 the iranian 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 . i don't think they would welcome any sort of you know military presence down 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 in kuwait. and they are open of course to 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 moves seem interested in politics they're just hoping there will be a swift end to the regional standoff. bene's them and again if the tensions are resolved the entire economy may improve and we're part of that because 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. things would improve for tourism more tourists would pay a visit to this island and that way it could develop. more border. without stability turning homo's into a popular tourist destination remains a distant prospect. you're watching news still to come brazil is burning as a record number of fires consume the country's amazon rain forest brazil's far right president suggests without evidence that environmental activists are sending

the blazes after an outcry he backtracks. the 1st the latest attempt to repatriate refugees from bangladesh to me in mar has failed after no one turned up to board the waiting buses myanmar has agreed to allow more than 3000 refugees to return and even issued them with documentation but it seems that they all feared what would happen when they returned this is the 2nd time bangladesh is trying to send the region just back after the failure of another attempt back in november nearly 750000 of the persecuted muslim minority fled a military offensive and manned mars for akim state in 2017. nomi conrad is at the main where hanjour a refugee camp in the bangladeshi city of cox's bazar on the border with me and maher she sent us this assessment some people here told us that if they were full to go home they'd rather kill themselves 1st because they don't trust the government of myanmar to actually provide them with safety to give them their land

back you have to remember the spike they say muslim minority has gone through what some people close to ethnic cleansing their villages were bombed in some cases women were raped they simply don't trust the government backing me and ma to provide the safety and provide the human rights that they want a lot of people say once these. 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 who's talked to the u.n. so far want to go back willingly. brazilian president says his country lacks the resources to fight the record number of fires burning in the amazon rain forest brazil's space research agency has recorded more than 74000 wildfires this year and 80 percent increase on the same period last year around 10000 fires have been spotted in the last week alone in a speech broadcast live on facebook president both sonar also retracted his earlier

accusation that the fires had been started by environmental organization. let's get some analysis on the story now we have mollica vera saw me with us she's a researcher at berlin's humboldt university she's an expert on sustainability and conservation and she's currently researching how to prevent the for station hi melissa thank you for joining us and put this into context for us how significant is the situation that we're seeing on the ground in the amazon right now as you just pointed out you know this is an 80 percent increase from normal levels and i think the forest fire money says stations of the governments level. issues in brazil right now that's encouraging organized crime and killing of indigenous people. in 2018 we saw every week free indigenous people that's every week being killed for protecting that and suster land so. so what that

means is that. these 5 years have huge implications for biodiversity and people living in the us i do want to ask you more about the governance but tell us what those implications are 1st of all for biodiversity why is this such an important land as you know the amazon basin is very rich in bad diversity and has important forest climate 50 bucks to impacts on the forests climate implications and an and and of course biodiversity implications because of it's a rich hot spot for biodiversity in the wild fight forest fires are rare in the amazon but in the during the dry season people exploit the dry conditions to set fire years for forests create a ring for farmlands and cattle pastures so what you get getting is that the current government governance situations and very warm conditions in brazil is

encouraging more people to more organized crime specially for a skewering so what do you mean by organized crime who do you say is behind this so there's a huge market in brazil for clearing len and legalizing these lend these lands forth for farming and cattle right ranching so i'm not talking about farm muslims of course some of the fires are caused by farmers themselves but most much of it is what you call gorillas the people who are looking for lent to convert into cattle ranching and famine and this is a business that's happening in brazil and the current government situation is encouraging that kind of business model you keep saying the current government situation are you pointing the finger directly at the president also narrow environmentalists say he has leased loosen the regulation environmental regulation can there really be a direct link made between his policies and what we're seeing i think i think there can be directly and i think he's and courage. doing he is dismantling and vironment

the laws and he's. and in particularly he's undermining indigenous rights. because he knows that indigenous people have been protecting those forests so this double actions is really dangerous for the amazon right now what can countries like germany for example do here to help the situation i think. i think recently we saw the suspension of german aid for the environment and we clearly see that this has no if it didn't work and didn't work i think what we see is the only actions that can really work is to work with the trade deal trade agreement other trade agreement between bridge between the e.u. and the marcos a country clearly says that both parties need to respect the united nations convention for him work for climate change clearly everything that's happening in

brazil even before the trade agreement. with all those things happening the trade agreement was still sign and now that we see the money for the acceleration of the actions on the ground. the dismantling and of and vironment the laws and. especially an indigenous people we see that the trade deal is even more dangerous so what we are asking is for angela merkel to work with e.u. governments to block this trade deal unless until governments like bones and iran's government able to show commitments to the virus agreements in particularly to run to the rights of indigenous people you talk about economic pressure here just very very briefly they are both in our 0 says his government doesn't have the resources to fight these fires do you believe that no because i think i think we saw in the past that the space agency have done amazing work in fact we have seen that nowhere

in the world where they are doing live monitoring of their frustration and immediate enforcement so this has happened in the past i don't know what has changed right now economically for bows and arrows to say that they don't have the resources to do it all right vera saw me from berlin's humbled university thank you so much for sharing your insights with us today thank you so me about the changing political climate in sudan has prompted plans to kick off the country's 1st ever women's football league it will include 18 clubs and the 1st match will be in september under the rule of deposed president omar al bashir sudanese women's football was almost nonexistent but today some female athletes see change just ahead. a year ago the idea of a women's football league in sudan was far fetched females want you to follow their football playing aspirations in the pairs world 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 advance women are part of the ruling council in measures are being taken to further women's rights and promote sports and the arts. got in the past it was difficult for women to play football 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 of the people in magenta

a new reality where sudanese women athletes can follow their ambitions. now rally racing's world tour has arrived in southwest germany far from the sand dunes and while to reign of other stocks in the championships today's that warm up had a rally germany featured drivers flying down twisting country lanes and bumpy tracks between vineyards the defending champion and season points leader will be looking for his 3rd consecutive title in this like finishes on sunday. now a team of explorers have taken the 1st images of the titanic in a 14 years the video material was taken in a deep sea submersible specially designed to reach the nearly 4000 meter depths where the ship sits we searchers say that a rusty eating bacteria is breaking up the ship faster than previously thought. 4000 meters below the waves the world's most famous ship emerges from the darkness

. it took 3 years to build a submersible capable of the dive its pilot recounts the journey into the deep 1st impressions it's big it is a big wreck i wasn't fully ready for just how large it was and when it came up on sonar it really stood out and there was a very strong current and visibility was quite poor there so much particulate matter there was just in the water and we have relatively small view ports because it's a full ocean depths or percival but eventually got properly oriented and was able to see some of the detail on the bow and eventually i got to the balance and the most amazing moment came when i was going along the side of the titanic and the bright lights of the submersible the 1st time when they reflected off the portal and came right back it was like the ship was winking at me it was it was really amazing. the biggest ship of it's

a the titanic sank on its maiden voyage in 1912 from southampton down to new york. rescue efforts came too late for most passengers and crew in the i.c.c. 1500 people drowned. now london zoo has begun its mammoth annual task of checking the height and weight of some of its 19000 animals some like this bullfrog were easy to coax onto the scales for others it was more of a delicate balancing act the way in allows keepers to check the animal's general health a find out about any pregnancies and determine the right dose of any necessary medications information has been shared with zoos around the world the falls. are minor in our top story here on boris johnson and kong have held talks on break that in paris johnson insisted once more that the e.u. scrapped the irish backstop president mcconnell called the measure indispensable

and said it was up to johnson to present an alternative. coming up next as hong kong protesters continue their fight for democratic freedoms will we see concessions or crackdown from beijing stay tuned for that debate next on ide rica thank you for watching.

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