this is t w news coming to you live from berlin the top democratic presidential candidates face each other for the 1st time. i don't know what's broken i know how to fix it and i'm going to lead the fight to get it done for leading democratic presidential hopefuls clash on health care education and climate policy but who's got what it takes to defeat donald trump in 2020 also coming up the harsh consequences of demonstrating for democracy in hong kong we meet a young man going on trial after clashes with police he faces

a daunting jail sentence is found guilty. and the uranian shooter westley 20 of the best in the world who may seek asylum here in germany he defied iranian authorities by competing in the world championships there worried he was up against and is really opposed to the w. has the interview. hello i'm terry barton good to have you with us we begin in the u.s. where the leading democratic presidential candidates have clashed over health care in a televised abased debate broadcast by a.b.c. news for vice president joe biden challenge progressive senators elizabeth warren and bernie sanders to explain how they would pay for a universal health care plan last night was a purse time all the top $10.00 candidates were in front of the cameras together in

a moment we'll have analysis from our washington correspondent but 1st the highlights of the debate. the candidates began by laying out competing visions for the future of health care we all owe a huge debt to president obama who fundamentally transformed health care in america and committed this country to health care every thank you. and now the question is how best can we improve on it i mean i can that question needing to picturing between moderates and biden and left wing band you're forgetting that in the united states of america we are spending twice as much per capita on health care as the canadians or any other major country on earth this america you know what on earth it's the want to pay twice as much as other countries and they guarantee health care to all people personally do lies on front runners biden julian castro went on the attack that president barack obama's vision was not to

leave 10000000 people on cover because he wanted every single person in this country covered my plan would do that your plan would i do not have to buy you do not have to buy you just said that you just said that 2 minutes ago you just said 2 minutes ago that they would have to buy you you said they would have to write i had to buy it in our fire you know you forgetting what you said it matters who voted for who was the what you said just 2 minutes ago. should have been a person's well i will leave change on this issue because i have seen what the corniche creates in communities like mine and in odessa i met the mother of a 15 year old girl who was shot by an a r 15 and that mother watched her bleed to death over the course of an hour because so many other people were shot by that an ar 15 in odessa in midan there weren't enough ambulances to get to them in time hell yes we're going to take her in our 15 you're a k 47 if i was

a. center they want to see the democrats agreed on their opposition to the president on trial and his family's actions. we don't use washington correspondent of xandra phenomena was following the debate in houston we asked her which candidates managed to stand out among the 10 on stage well 2 candidates stood out for me at least one of them more spatter a former congressman from el paso texas he has been not doing well with his campaign but he has made gun control his signature complain issue and he was asked about that here and he was very oh then think very strong he was even asked if he is willing to take assault guns away from people and he said hey hello the yes and it was a very strong moment and the other candidate that. stood out for me at least was kaamelott harris she was not very strong on concrete issues but he was the only one

who not only attacked donald trump the real target here for all of the candidates but who also addressed directly the president. john there from naaman reporting there and now to some of the other stories making news around the world today european central bank has unveiled a massive new stimulus plan to boosting the eurozone economy the bank also cut interest rates to a record new low to stimulate growth and encourage banks to lend many of the euro zone's biggest economies have been dragged down by global trade just because italy's new government says it has reached a deal with e.u. countries to settle migrants currently aboard a french charity ship and its waters ocean biking ship was carrying 82 people rescued off libyan coast this week previous government closed the country's ports to best carry migrants. and southeastern spain has been battered by severe rain

and flash floods forecasters predicting the most rainfall in a century in the valencia region the torrential rain caused a major river to burst its banks and in the neighboring. region an elderly couple died after floodwaters flipped over their car. in the malaysian capital kuala lumpur is being blanketed by thick tall 6 small explained on smoke drifting from forest fires in neighboring indonesia several schools across malaysia have been forced to close due to hazardous air pollution index readings. hong-kong steep executive kerry has promised to prioritise housing to appease deep rooted discontent about the way the territory is governed as protesters geared up for fresh demonstrations used a facebook post to say her government would increase the supply of housing scores of people have been arrested in the protests that have been taking place in hong

kong for the last 3 months trials are due to begin soon and as. a reports some of those charged face daunting prison sentences. the shore new hong kong legislature has been a hot spot of the anti-government protests daniel chan has spent a lot of time here but that could change soon daniel not his real name was arrested and charged with rioting in july he faces up to 10 years behind bars now about. the moment i was arrested i was very calm i was thinking about what i needed to do in the situation but when i was told what the charges were it felt like i was entering another world. hong kong has some of the most draconian assembly laws in the world some of them have rarely been applied until now but since the protests began authorities have brought the full force of these laws to bear daniel denies having been involved in any violence. i'm too much of

a coward to get into fighting and i don't want to be beaten but i also don't want to stand there and do nothing so i went to the front line and to help those who were tear gassed and i helped them wash their eyes out with saving solution $43.00 others were arrested the day daniel was detained or have been charged with writing the most severe offense on the books it is the most people facing such charges since hong kong was returned to china in 1997 the british government established the laws to quell anti-colonial unrest but they remained in place after the handover then a squawk a lawmaker who represents the legal professions in the legislature says charges are politically motivated. if one is to look at these cases. impartially i think i'm sure you'll find that a lot of these charges are not supported by evidence and they were made up charges and done to scare people hoping that they would be deterred from going up. in

a statement to g.w. the department of justice denies political considerations it insists prosecutors would act fairly and impartially daniel chan is not convinced. that i try not to think too much about the possibility that i might go to prison for the next decade. and like i would rather focus on what i can do to support the movement. to worry about the sentence will just demoralize me. something i thought this trial is scheduled for the end of this month but whatever the outcome might be the government's strategy has already had an impact since july daniel hasn't taken part in any more protests. correspondent is standing by for us in hong kong the tears or would be protesters

now thinking twice about taking to the streets knowing that they too could face serious charges like daniel chan. well the interesting thing is that all these strategies off deterrence speed these charges these harsh charges against the protesters be it the threat to invade with the military police from china all these strategies of teachers have not worked in hong kong off course many hong kong has do not dare to go to these are an authorised protests for fear of being arrested or having trouble but there is still a huge number of people who go and who know that they face a lot of trouble but who still go so deterrence is definitely not a strategy to end these protests what are the prospects mathias that daniel chan and others will actually have to stand trial and if they do can they expect

a fair trial. well the courts in hong kong are still the judges us to pretty independent the prosecution is under the department of justice so political abuse of the prosecution is much more likely then of the judges. whether they can be convicted of rioting stands at question here because they say the judge the courts or the prosecution would need to prove that they had an intention to use violence and this is something that many experts here think is not easy to prove and we might not see all of these people convicted however of course once the procedure is in court there is a risk of being convicted and this is obviously what was intended since the controversial extradition law was withdrawn the protesters have focused on their

demands for democratic reforms in hong kong do they have any prospects of actually pushing those demands through against the will of mainland china. the interesting thing is that almost no protests the things that they have a chance to push and of their demands or maybe at least to push leg political reform through this is something that is very unlikely and the reason why the protest is continue to protest is because there is a fear that once they stop there would be a revenge beijing would take its revenge more people would be charged so the protest basically is the protesters keep taking to the streets in order not to show weakness and to keep this going on hoping that there will not be a backlash but with little hope that they can through achieve their demands but yes thank you very much for filling us in spelling out there in hong kong.

in the bahama authorities now say $1300.00 people are unaccounted for in the wake of hurricane dorian down from the previous estimate of $2500.00 official say the larger figure probably included people staying in shelters 50 people are confirmed dead the storm devastated the bahamas at the beginning of this month. it is breathtaking in its brutality. hurricane dorian has transformed this cow to be in part of the east into a war zone. and left communities here clinging on to life shipments like this from the u.s. army are desperately needed. from the. efforts to rebuild the bahamas slowly under way the government says operations have moved from rescue to recovery and restoration but as horrible and

vicious as dorian was. the bravery and resilience of the beam in people is even more powerful. more than a week after dorian ripped through these islands search teams like they're looking for victims not survivors we recognize the extent of the devastation we're not going to speculate what the numbers. will be. but that is the count as we get the official count. of the public aid teams are yet to reach cutoff communities like this one and. these haitian migrant workers rely on the aid brought by journalist with a borrowed phone this man is able to reach his wife and baby who were evacuated. the emotional toll here is exhausting for those who started with little and lost

a tall. relatives of zimbabwe's former leader robert mugabe have snubbed the player and have him buried the national monument the governor was overthrown in a coup 2 years ago and replaced by a former ally squabbling over the location of god his funeral has even thrown into doubt the date of his funeral currently it's to take place on saturday. the. robert mugabe's body being carried into harare's rafah stadium to lie in state his black clad widow grace who is at her late husband's side his final journey several people were injured when mona's broke through the police called and around his coffin. thousands that come to pay their last respects here in harare many had the most no words of tribute. everest intended with this committee at home because the man deeply touched. this has affected me and your

thoughts in the kind of way i don't even know how to express it. uses kurtz's was exceptional. and he he provided us with shelter money and learned my lengthy sentence with a big fool it i could see through and that if he had seen that what i thought. this is where the government of president amazon me once mugabe had buried zimbabwe's national heroes a for many it would be a fitting resting place for the former colonial era guerrilla fighter. we wanted the old man to go to heroes acre where his other comrades are since he was our real founding father. so this is what we want for him to go to heroes acre. but analysts say there is still deep between grace mugabe and emerson the man who

1st tried to sideline her and then seized power from a husband in 2017 the mcgavock family has accused the government of trying to strong arm them into a state burial. deferment is the one that makes that decision in the government but if it wants to do. so there is no fuit between us. to make up his insist that the former president will be laid to rest in a private family ceremony even in death robert mugabe is proving as divisive a thinker and he ever was in life. now to the story of a former rainy and judo world champion who says he fears for his safety and that of his family after ignored orders to pull out of last month's world championships iranian authorities were concerned that saeed might face an israeli opponent in the

final israel is considered an arch enemy by the iranian leadership and he is here in germany considering whether to seek asylum d.w. spoke with him at an undisclosed location about his a plastic and political rights. saeed mulai arrived at the 2019 world judo championships in tokyo with nothing but glory on his mind but after he reached the semifinals in his weight division things turned sour. mulai claims his coach then received 2 calls from iranian or thirty's instructing him to withdraw his fighter from the tournament to avoid meeting an israeli judoka in the final. however he did contest the semifinal and he says purposefully last showing disappointment at the time was now at

a secret location in germany he told the w what happened that day but you see my sights i mean the best of all my career i beat the olympic champion and the bronze medalist i beat many of the best but then came the semifinal in order to comply with the laws of my country i lost the fight and the much for bronze to add to what it will. mulai says his family was being threatened now he's being kept in a safe location but fears for his and his family's future in the. new life i've begun could have consequences for me not just could he definitely will 100 percent i can't return to iran and that. it's uncertain whether mulai will be able to stay in germany or compete at becoming a lympics for now sport is not his priority. oliva

tuckey from b.w. sports is here to tell us more about this story good morning alina so what does this case tell us about iran's approach to international sporting competition i think it gives us the i think it just basically tells us that sports in iran is still a highly highly politicized and that iranian politics before everything else that that reign supreme but cite more i use case is very typical of that of many other ukrainian athletes who have been told not to compete against the off position and the main reason for that is of course because iran does not recognize the state of east for a while and sometimes they'll even offer an athlete money to say don't compete and in return we'll give you compensation but there's also a huge element of inequality in uranian sports we see that with the ban on women in terms of when it comes to attending put on matches and that was highlighted by the tragic event events earlier this week by the glue. who ended up dying after

burning herself for protesting a prison sentence for attending a football match and of course iranian women as well they told to compete in the hit job and if they don't then they no longer part of the national team and even something like the international marathon in toronto the men and women run separately it's segregated ok i want to get back to. the for a moment his particular case he says that his family are being threatened back in iran what sort of recriminations could they face so in the past other ukrainian athletes for example this is a threat stance intimidation this harassment and we've seen that it's very similar to what often doing in political dissidents a political activists say so but sometimes they do is the iranian government will get the family to denounce the athlete on state media of course it's just and sometimes don't tell the family to put pressure on the app and tell your son no you

have. audit to withdraw and of course in a worst case scenario we have to watch. can you tell us why mr morley in that match in tokyo apparently the semifinal why he felt of bloodshed why it's apparently that is the standard in these cases for that why he felt obliged to lose the match against israeli opponent so we've found out that and as the report showed a value he received instructions from iranian authorities to not complete and it's an edge that these iranian authorities thought one of them was the iranian deputy sports minister and the other one was going in and then pick committee president that they told him that iranian security services are at your parents' house so they were putting pressure on the family that dad to get his son not so the i mean and if you have that kind intimidation what's your family of course you're going to give up a match of course you're going to lose it all withdraw ok finally just briefly is mr malaysia getting any support from the sporting world outside of iran so the

international judo federation have publicly supported him they have even said that they'll try to make it make his dream come true of competing at the tokyo games perhaps under a neutral or refugee flack we'll just have to see but his sporting dream might not be over yet alina thank you so much a limo talkee from v.w. sports and you can find out much more about the former judo world champion and his standoff with tehran on our website g.w. dot com. now for time tennis grand slam champion kim clijsters is coming out of retirement again she's 36 now and hasn't played competitively for 7 years but lies to say she is ready to challenge yourself to become one of the best in the world licensors 1st quit tennis at the age of $23.00 having already won the u.s. open championship after starting a family the belgian returned to win 3 more grand slams and retired once more she

plans to restart her career early next year. for the 1st time astronomers have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of a planet with earth like temperatures that could support life as we know it it's outside our solar system and orbits a star within what is known as its habitable so. this planet has water vapor in its atmosphere. it's also opening its stone at just the right distance so it's not to haunt and not to comb. this means liquid would take. an essential pre-condition for this particular planet is taking all the boxes it doesn't mean that is it good to have the support for haas you me because for instance we have found also that there's still a lot of mileage in the atmosphere and energy is not a necessity something that we will be comfortable with as human beings. with the hubble telescope research has analyzed starlight pos into the planet's atmosphere

that's how they detect the water scientists are waiting for the launch of powerful telescopes to study this planet found and others like it with a much bigger picture more complete picture of what's the constituent atmospheres of these planets they will have a much better idea of what's going on whether in fact in life or whether you're interested in climate formation. in the meantime don't pack your bags for a trip. need to travel at the speed of a. for more than a 100 years to get that were so we won't be visiting any time saying. this is news here are top stories. in the us the leading democratic presidential candidates have faced off in a 3rd televised debate held in houston texas former vice president joe biden challenged progressive senators elizabeth warren and bernie sanders on health care

top issue for american voters other issues debated included immigration and gun control. in the bahamas $1300.00 people are still unaccounted for in the wake of hurricane dorian down from the previous estimate of $2500.00 officials say the larger figure probably included people staying at shelters 50 people are confirmed dead health officials warn that outbreaks of waterborne and insect borne disease could further drive up the death toll. the malaysian capital kuala lumpur is being blanketed by i think it's top 6 small it's blamed on smoke drifting from forest fires in neighboring indonesia several schools across malaysia have been forced to close to 2 hazardous air pollution index readings in an aegis forest fires are an annual problem but have been worse than this year by particularly dry weather. this is g.w.

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