and fish just. barking on the floor huge of discovery. expedition boy on. this is g.w. news why but from berlin tonight at the united nations a climate summit and an impassioned teenager calling elk world leaders to beginning of a mass extinction and what you can talk about is in money it came tails of talent economic growth how did. the popular young activist challenges the german chancellor

and other world leaders to stop delivering empty words and finally to take action to stop climate change also coming up tonight into the we have a deal germany france italy and malta to reach an agreement on who will accept migrants rescued from the mediterranean and where those migrants will live and more than half a 1000000 vacationers across the globe are left stranded after the u.k. travel company thomas cook collapses planes are grounded holidays have been cut short with people asking how do i get home and i think that here it says police of murdering people but in fact the protests as a very aggressive the police are just maintaining law and order. another saw huge of the protests in hong kong ex police officers say their brothers and sisters in blue have done great work to keep the peace despite allegations of police brutality .

i bring to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin tonight with trying to save the world as we know its leaders are convening in new york for a global climate summit at the united nations german chancellor angela merkel says that her country will double its spending to combat climate change u.s. president donald trump meanwhile he made a surprise appearance today after reports that he would skip the summit but the in question started the event you see right there has been the swedish teen activist gratitude back to you sailed across the atlantic on a 0 carbon emissions trip to reach new york before the leaders took to the stage today to bear gave an impassioned address accusing world leaders of speaking empty words here is her powerful message this is all wrong.

i shouldn't be apia. i should be back in school on the side of the ocean. yet she will come to us young people for hope. how dare you you have still in my dreams my childhood with your empty words and yet i'm one of the ducks once. people are suffering people are dying and tired ecosystems are collapsing and we are in the beginning of a mass extinction and what you can talk about is money and fairy tales of economic growth how did you. write there was granted to make there of the united nations earlier today we're joining us from more from new york is our correspondent on xander phenomena good evening to you alexandra so. she had one question today for leaders from around the world

how dare you i mean to have her words and they already made an impact. well you write that her speech was very emotional and this emotional address and you can really literally hear her outrage and anger and alert in her voice and this speech was meant to shock the audience and to galvanize the world leaders into action and the audience applauded and they were impressed and then either by a leader or started to pledge to do more to come with climate change and to be committed to more ambitious plans goals but of course we have to mention that those speeches were prepared ahead of the summit and that every leader came here to new york to present a plan that was ahead of the summit and we have also we have to say

that kreta didn't work she was right saying that many governments here are connected with the oil and gas industries and that many leaders use terms like economic growth or job security to excuse themselves from doing more to combat climate change you make a good point there the the speeches delivered by leaders today they were prepared written before the event today but one unexpected event was the u.s. president don't want trump appearing at the summit how did his presence go down. well it was for an interesting moment when president trump sneaked into the general assembly everyone was surprised to listen to what angle of merkel had to say and the prime minister of india what pledges they made and it was really difficult to

interpret periods here was he trying to show that he's interested in was he or was he trying to show that you know there is something like this meeting taking place and i come by it but i don't think that that really matters and what was very clear was the reaction in the audience when former new york city mayor michael bloomberg the u.s. and special in going for climate thing to president for his visit saying that he hopes that the conversations in the general assembly would help president to formulate his climate poses and the whole audience laughed at that so it was clear that president chavez at this woman moments was isolated at least with regards to the topic climate change it's true we go also caught a glimpse of its room barragan her reaction when she's soul double trump walk in the room you have been talking to climate scientists there alexander i mean what

are they are they hoping for more to be expecting to come out of this summit some of them told us that it's just empty words that they are very disappointed some of them told us that they hope that there will be at least sort of message a signal to live up to the promises already made and to go because we are not going to meet this goal of keeping the temperature. below 2 degrees celsius and others also told us that they were afraid that their leaders can follow the example of donald trump and just not do enough or do nothing on the corresponding alexander phenomenon in new york city at the united nations alexander thank you. well the world's oldest travel company the u.k.'s thomas cook has gone bust after failing to get a last minute bailout from the british government more than half a 1000000 people worldwide are currently on vacation with the company and now many

of them are story and. vacations brought to an abrupt end these thomas kick customers in new york i have no idea how they're going to get home. we want to show in the news to fit in to what's happening. so no one has school and does no one has e-mailed a book to find it just one more but i. cannot imagine they mistrust. not wanted really the full. can you do. they are among the 150000 brits stranded abroad after the u.k. travel firm thomas cook collapsed sparking the largest recapture ration of precious citizens since world war 2 a total of 600000 customers worldwide are currently on holiday for years thomas kicks struggled with maintaining debts and fierce online competition and 11 area appeal for a government rescue was rejected putting an end to the firm's 178 year history. it

is deeply distressing to me that it has not been possible to say all of the most loft grants in travel. before leaving for new york british prime minister boris johnson fended off criticism he said to be ailing h. thomas cake would have created a moral hazard union slammed the decision. i tell you really to question the morality of a government that is prepared to spend spend more spend more money now and repatriating people and bring them back to britain that it would have cost to save telescope and 1000 jobs the motoring bankrupt the serious hotspots around the world are no precinct for the shock wave for example in greece some officials have warned that thomas ticks collapse could be a tsunami for the country's economy. this will have a financial impact this is certain and we need to see going forward how to do it

without impact a by supporting the business and be ensuring that the will. but it's thomas customers who are bearing the brunt of the firm's closure in the short term passengers just want to board a flight and get home. yeah so what does the collapse of the world's oldest travel agency thomas cook what does it mean for people who are stuck somewhere abroad and want to get home even beardsley's here to talk us through that we're talking about what 600000 people that's right 600008 lot of focus has gone on the british tourists who are abroad the british government has a plan to ferry them back home but 150000 is what they're saying there are also danes germans all sorts of europeans who are stranded abroad as well those governments are sort of working on plans as far as we know but is the british one this is going to be one of the biggest mobilizations as the report said in its history a piece of history and the government is going to undertake it in terms of who's paying for it most likely will come out of the insolvency proceedings it's fair to

say they've had some practice the u.k. based carrier monarch actually did the same thing in 2017 it suddenly collapsed stranding tens of thousands of passengers overseas so they had to bring them back as well so how did we get to this point where the world's oldest travel company goes belly up right grant is one of the oldest reasons that businesses go belly up its debts they had a lot of it and they could not afford to service it when you hold a lot of debts in the interest payments cost a lot and your creditors demands more money for that they had such a load that they couldn't afford to do any more than have the cash on hand in an effort to inject that cash were getting so expensive they couldn't foot the bill a lot a lot of that debt came from an acquisition 2007 it merged with rival my travel and loaded on the debt and actually had to write a lot of that down in may that left it with a lot of a lot less cash on hand to weather some of the normal storms that would hit the travel agency including. you know terrorism that could affect destinations in one lands or heat wave both of which have happened in recent years other travel

agencies have weather that they haven't and of course the industry itself is changing as you and i have been talking about it's. not as radical as you might think there is still a lot of packaging going on but these are mostly older travelers younger ones want sort of a different experience and of course there is the brics it's component here i mean what kind of role the bricks at play right the c.e.o. has mentioned that brags it may have pushed down travel or appetite at least from the brits this year so he's already said that could be something to happen in the summer and we know of course that the pound has taken a tumble and that means that anything you're paying for overseas as thomas cook is getting much more expensive so really the biggest problem was debt you know it's not brags that we see the british travelers want to go abroad they want to travel you know there are other travel agencies that are doing fine but they've had more cash on hand for example cash to debt ratio much much better than thomas cook and now it's showing we know thomas cook has a german subsidiary airline known as con door what's their situation or is still

flying they aren't flying thomas cook passengers but they do have other passengers they are still a profitable airline they've been seen as one of the best assets of thomas cook and right now they're in discussion with the german government for a bridge loan that would keep them still flying until they are sold off that bridge loan is said to be in the area of around 200000000 euros there is precedence for this british government i'm sorry the berlin government has extended alone before similar air berlin you might remember they did go insolvent afterwards they didn't make it but they did pay that loan back with interest actually a few days ago so this might be even a better investment actually writes stephen beardsley from our business desk as always david thank you thank you. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the united nations has announced the creation of a constitutional committee on syria it will include representatives of the government and the opposition u.n. secretary general antonio good to have ridge said that he hopes the committee can lead to a political solution and the country's long running civil war israeli prime minister

benjamin netanyahu has met with his political rival binny guns after calling for a unity government now the israeli president has invited both of them in to meet with him after recent elections in failed to provide a clear winner both sides have been looking for coalition partners to form a majority but so far have come up short 2 people including a press photographer have been wounded in a confrontation alcide haiti's senate building when a senator opened fire on opposition demonstrators this after hundreds of people marched on the building protesting food and fuel shortage here. or here in europe leaders meeting in malta have reached a deal on how to resettle migrants rescued from the mediterranean now the agreement is aimed at easing pressure on southern european union countries it will be presented to other e.u. member states next month and they're hoping to resolve one of the most contentious

issues that the european union has faced in recent years. on land. in malta migrants rescued off the coast of libya finally able to disembark on european soil in many cases asylum seekers have been stranded at sea for weeks while e.u. countries argue about who will take them. europe has wrangled for years over what should happen to migrants rescued at sea the dublin agreement states that migrants must seek asylum in the 1st country they reach. and that has been a major bone of contention for european countries that border the mediterranean now a deal struck by germany france italy malta and finland could finally see an end to the route over the redistribution of migrants rescued in the mediterranean it's a plan that would take the burden of italy in malta and foresees the swift

relocation of migrants to other e.u. members part of the plan could see germany taking in a quarter of those migrants to help process that asylum applications the lawyers at the the people that have brought onto land have to be redistributed to kind of their security status can be determined through a process of interviews but it's impossible to determine their legal status in such a short 4 week period so their right to asylum is for example what will be decided in germany. these are just the bones of the plan that will be put to the e.u.'s other interior ministers at a wider summit in october for now at least there's hope that could soon be an end to the days when rescue ships packed with desperate people are turned away from europe's ports. are the take the story. he is at the e.u. refugee summit in malta good evening to you baron so this summit aimed basically to

find a resolution to this debate over the resettlement of refugees so tell me a little bit about the results. the core result of this gathering this meeting here in malta is just a proposal it's nothing which is practical on the ground yet the ministers say we want to establish an emergency a temporary emergency mechanism to relocate migrants from italy in malta to other e.u. countries but this will only happen if other e.u. countries join this coalition of the willing and if that is the case italy had malta would be able to reopen the ports for private ships which rescue these people between libya and italy but this is. only theory as of now the decision has not been taken. and as you said this is

a draft agreement how likely is it that other european union stage are going to back the plan i mean do they plan to do the same thing as germany france italy malta in finland for example. the vivia crucial meeting in october in luxembourg when all of the home affairs minister of the e.u. meet who are dealing with migration and then the german minister jose if i expect as least 12 maybe 14 to join this coalition of the willing and also to take migrants it's clear that for example hungry in poland will not show solidarity with the italian military but others have to and only then the clothes system book in germany proposed 25 percent france will also take maybe 25 percent italy 10 and then they have to deal with the rest the 20 percent which will be relocated to other countries and we know that thousands of refugees have drowned trying to cross

the mediterranean in recent years at how is this going to be handled moving forward . i'm afraid nothing will change here because this mechanism this image making islam is only meant full of a tiny portion of migrants only migrants who are rescued by private ships this only 2000 in the last 15 months and people drowning you can only prevent that if you risk you more but the you will not send additional ships into the sea the ships will remain the same the 9 private ships which currently cruising the mediterranean can responded very good fare at that e.u. summit in malta and thank you. hong kong you have seen 16 straight weekends of pro-democracy protests and the battle on the streets have been matched by the battle for the hearts and minds of the people demonstrators say

the state city stands with them government officials however insists that a silent majority exist one that's opposed to the protesters demands d.w. has been speaking with 2 retired police officers in that crow government camp. joseph it has agreed to meet us although he says he does not trust the press so we'll mind recording our conversation ok he is a retired police officer and a staunch supporter of the hong kong government side in the current crisis the side that he feels is not representative accurately in most news outlets. i start awarding the neils. since july. watching just a white or news reporter but you know because i can still get in touch what was happening from all those messages from my friends because the longer the protests

last the most strident from both camps refused to communicate with each other internet forums are shaping and polarizing opinions in each group rumors and ones here is the theories. and when both sides meet things often get our. car for a long is also a retired police officer when he walks through his neighborhood it is hard for him to miss messages from the anti government protesters they have set up a so-called lenin wall near his home. while they do that here it says police are murdering people but in fact the protesters a very aggressive the police are just maintaining law and order tot. mom has just returned from a long stay abroad and says he doesn't recognize his city anymore. in his spare time he sometimes helps out at police stations as

a volunteer handing out food and drinks to the front line offices and while he says he understands demands for greater democracy he doesn't think they are realistic. while all that you think is our legitimate i used to serve in the colonial police fals case held off then the british government could decide on everything. well hong kong belongs to china case at pace there are problems at the hong kong government can't solve it makes sense that by jing intervenes. but fewer and fewer hong kong is a willing to accept beijing's authority on the clashes between police and protesters escalating with petrol bombs and bricks thrown by radical protesters and police being accused of deliberately hurting demonstrators and posses by. in a recent poll almost 3 quarters of respondents said that they thought police was using

excessive violence joseph also started his career in colonial times does not agree at my time we are taught to. write us off rowing petrol bomb it you. should if live wrongs. but knowledge i think they are doing a great job in the sense that they. did restrain he's glad he says that he is not on active duty and the more. the paralympics start in just under a year from now when athletes across the globe are your enough to qualify for tokyo 2020 and that includes 10 teams competing in the blind european football championship in rome germany just missed out on the semifinals and thereby failed to qualify but they have learned another valuable lesson in team spirit can see if we have a aggressive tempo rich and well organized blind football that's why i will go out

and oust the french because we are a team. they don't want to impress their opponents they just want to instil courage in themselves the gemini team have a set of principles that they take with them to every european championship game. captain alexander fund man helped create a team manifesto since 2006 the 34 year old has amassed 97 appearances for germany more than any other player a good book out there called the macbook it was with most of the. cargo yesterday i read. the coaches on the sidelines shout instructions to they play guiding them on when and where to shoot it's do or die for germany if they have to win then asked 2 games in the group stages to reach the semi's germany underdogs against france but i'm not without their fair share of chances. i.

was good because i after a foul it is the french that take the lead a moment of joy is short lived the german captain immediately replies. i don't know what was in that even. when a blind person notices things a person of sight doesn't and realized the nuts amazing thing money is unbelievable that it's in the games you can anticipate what's a go so you can anticipate the opponents and it simply great the match ends in a 10 draw that was no semifinals and especially not paralympic qualification the but instead a lot of perspective. it was a great game we gave it our all but we still lack of it's of luck and the ability to pull through at the very end. with a finish is important for how much funding they will receive that's my tactics aki

for the remainder of the tournaments. the tactics sport is a helpful part of pre-match preparations russia a tough opponents they have 3 control and understanding. but after a foul it is germany with the advantage of the coach use a side. and to help his penalty taker and the gemini captain does not miss. god. but russia turned it up a notch after a spell of pressure they managed to level things up. ah. and he both sides have to settle for the draw. they did on the young and remain at scene. the more they say it the more they will believe it. sigmund yang the 1st german space

explorer has died at the age of $82.00 in 1978 overdid the earth for 7 days in a russian space capsule the trip at the height for the cold war made the cosmonaut a hero in communist east germany but he remained largely unknown in west germany after german reunification being helped train other european astronauts at the european space age. it's a quick reminder the top stories we're following for you world leaders are gathered in new york for an emergency climate summit ahead of the general assembly on tuesday a swedish team activist took to the podium and gave an impassioned address accusing leaders of empty promises after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day.

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