this is the news live from the casualties reported in scotland after a passenger train derails of the nation's north east the 1st minister declares a major incident as the burgesses services rushed to the scene we'll take you there for the latest on rescue efforts also on the program if you're a news foreign minister tells d.w. news a fellow who said opposition leader. was put under pressure before fleeing to his country. was fighting. for it but

if you. look at it. and salads. are set to become the 1st woman of color to come from u.s. 5 president. joe biden has use running mate for the democratic party ticket. i'm phil gal welcome to the program was starting scotland where the 1st minister has declared a major incident after the youth development of a passenger train on the north east coast here are the 1st pictures of the crash which happened close to the town of stonehaven just south of aberdeen dozens of emergency calls on the sea local media say one person has died a matter of course others have been seriously injured. first minister. nicola

sturgeon i have just come off coal with network reel and emergency services and details are still emerging i am a fee to see that there are reports of c.d.'s injuries my immediate thoughts and i'm sure the thoughts of everyone across the chamber i with all those involved in this incident let's join journalist under so will some from dhamaal here in scotland welcome. what more can you tell us at this stage well phil as you said a passenger train derailed in the northeast of scotland close to the tylenol stonehaven that's near aberdeen this morning about 20 to 10 the emergency services received the call there are reports in local media that there is one fatality but this hasn't been confirmed yet there are however also a number of very serious injuries 1st minister nicola sturgeon has declared has said this is an extremely serious incident and has declared it officially as

a major incident smoke could be seen rising from the scene and there are around 38 emergency vehicles at the scene as well as helicopter it is understood that the locomotive off the train as well as 3 out of 4 carriages have slipped down an embankment. and this is not what is but was that when people are looking for the cause of this a day relevant because i believe the area has seen a lot of rain over the last day also. that's right so because of the real derailment there's a coal still on no one bought there has been some some very severe weather in the area and indeed around the u.k. with heavy downpours and flash flooding and this may have contributed to the and saddam's investigators are on their we to the scene to find out more network rail did say there was

a landslide in the area. this morning 'd and this may well have contributed to the derailment of the train and generally what sort of states it is the countries rail system in well in the early years of privatization in the 1990 s. and in the early to thousands there were a number of serious rail crashes like the wanted ladbroke grove and 1999 where 31 people died but since then safety has improved considerably and indeed in 2013 the european railway agency even paul said that britain had the safest railways in europe by the number of incidents so i think we really have to probably look to the weather as a possible cause to this incident could talk and to thank you for joining us on this to under so wolf that in scotland. to bella ruse for the government to protest no show no sign of a very thing following sunday's disputed presidential election the interior

ministry says police detained more than a 1000 people overnight police also used to live i mean if in the case protesters in the southwestern city of brest demonstrators a contest the election results risk of president alexander lukashenko 80 percent of the vote opposition groups allege there was widespread vote rigging the european union says the vote was neither free nor fair here foreign ministers are due to meet on friday to discuss possible sanctions. a 3rd night of anger and on bret's in the bellary sea and capital protesters here still furious about an election they say was rigged but it's demonstrators rallied once more to voice their outrage police moved in to make arrests. how is this possible fighting against your own people this is not fair.

protesting continued into daylight on wednesday with people forming so-called chains of solidarity across the country. president lukashenko has vowed to crush the protests his crackdown has now claimed its most high profile victim opposition candidate spent plummeting has fled to the. many will understand me many will denounce me and many will hate me. it's not you though but you know god forbid anyone should face the choice of either face to. options to choose spoke words when looking to. look at it with. say the least making assumptions that these other options were some kind of blackmailing that she was under pressure still are wrong anxiety too for the families of arrested protesters many have been gathering at the tension centers

like this one unable to locate loved ones arrested amid the unrest. yesterday in the evening my father was kidnapped they were walking on the streets when riot police ran up to them and took him to the police vehicle police did not give any information 24 hours have already passed since he was kidnapped we have no information about his whereabouts we the relatives of we are searching for him and . the european union has denounced the results of sunday's election which saw president lukashenko win a 6th term with a why the disputed 80 percent of the vote. in a tweet that you used top diplomat joseph burrell kohl of the poll neither free nor fair and pledged to conduct an in-depth review of relations with fellow roofs he

said the $27.00 nation bloc would meet on friday to consider sanctions against those responsible for violence unjustified arrests and falsifying election results . could look at some other stories making news around the world. 3 people have been killed in the southern city of bangalore after a facebook post considered. violent protests thousands of people took to the streets post about the prophet mohammad believed. been written by a relative of american politician. the german government has agreed a 1200000000 euro aid package to keep the holiday company afloat it's the 2nd time the states stepped in to save world's largest tourism group to it says the phones will help it get through winter after global travel restrictions destroyed its summer business. of the coronavirus pandemic a slam the brakes on economies across europe for a 2nd quarter growth strength by 10 percent in germany 14 in france by more than 18

percent in spain but britain has been hit even harder the economy there has contracted by more than 20 percent in recent months and that's despite a president government intervention. doris johnson visited a building site this week a trip and boosting confidence in his country's flagging construction sector. but there's no plastering over the cracks of the u.k.'s battered economy. figures released on monday showed that british g.d.p. collapsed by a massive 20.4 percent between the 1st and 2nd quarters of 2020. that is the worst of europe's major economies a substantially more damaging drop than that suffered by germany and countries like italy france and spain. those figures are from the time when britain was in

a very strict phase of lockdown. the economy has since reopened and there have been signs of a modest recovery the hope johnson is clinging to. obviously we all we want to see is a return to economic vitality and health and some parts of the economy undoubtedly showing great resilience but clearly there is out there can be bumpy months ahead and a long long way to get those potentially bumpy months we'll have more than just the pandemic to contend with. the prospect of a no deal breakers and by the end of the year still looms over the british economy . talks of the e.u. have yielded little progress so far time is running out but the 2 sides still are quite far apart. 11 on germany has pledged 20000000 euros for relief efforts but only for forces that tackle corruption that's the message from foreign minister hike of mass in a visit to beirut

a matter of urgency responders at the size of last week's massive explosion and said the german aid for the country depends on the government enacting reforms officials have admitted that a dysfunctional bureaucracy failed to move thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate from port warehouse more than 170 people died when he blew up. oh my god is a representative of the center right political foundation the comrade shift oh he was at a meeting between germany's foreign minister and the lebanese president president michel in beirut today welcome to d.w. . lebanon's government has resigned so does germany now want to bring about these changes to this corrupt system. and almost again i think what's really important and what the german foreign minister minister also announced already on his way to beirut. lebanon but on the other hand.

that we are ready to help in this emergency situation is castro but on the other hand that reforms serious reforms are definitely needed and i think it's also. we are facing now days here in beirut where exactly that in the name on all that especially by its representatives and by the. air ok so let's be clear than just warm depend on the disjunction aid depend on changes to beirut that lebanon's government. i think we are talking about 2 different levels of support and help the want is the long term level of support which goes back to 28. where we have the international investment on friends etc just a couple of weeks ahead of the lebanese and 3 elections where 50 states support

its we are talking about total amount of 50000000000. excuse me $11000000000.00 u.s. dollars the 2nd level this is. targeting these situation we are facing all since last tuesday with a big loss in beirut and this can be framed as immediate emergency help from the international community including in germany last sunday we had an international conference that the french president also. the german foreign minister in beirut today it's just connected to water on sunday and out of the 20000000 euro pledged by germany or 1000000 euro in total of emergency aid worker all in and all being it will be directly to organize a she saw that in the morning at the airfield a check for 1000000 euro costs and it worked with the eleven's red cross.

talking to. from the. shift. thank. us democratic presidential candidate joe biden has chosen a comma harris to be his running mate in november's election the senator from california is the 1st woman of color to be nominated for national office by a major party the decision comes a week ahead of the democratic national convention biden and harris are expected to be officially confirmed. one time rivals no joining forces to launch a historic presidential bed this was how joe biden asked the california senate. to help him reach the white house opinions are divided. but they did that because all over the course you have a black woman a member of the vice president i think it's a little bit risky because she's highly controversial candidate through free in fact it was biden who welcomed the tough on crime prosecutor on to the national

political scene when she was sworn into the senate in 2017. that people. from there she burnished a credential as a combats of lawmaker the president has asserted that torture works do you agree with that so are of the rush this fast it makes me nervous and 2019 she ran for the democratic presidential nomination herself that campaign saw her cross examine biden over his track record on race. ahead of joe's shuttering she was hurt faugh. to hear you talk about the reputations of 2 united states senators who have built their reputations and career unsafer cation of race in this country which characterize my position across the board i do not praise racists they have buried the hatchet when she dropped out of the race and backed him to win

the nomination. on the ballot. and so on. and saw no is harris with rumors that the aging biden mealing savage single town it's a landmark pick that may 1 day propel hard to become the 1st female president. so 2 presidential running mates matter while who better to ask than the author of a book by name christopher divine joins us from dayton ohio in the united states a welcome to you what will come of the horace's job in the campaign be. good to join you i hope there watched you would you know you every day so early that when to be here so come here is this real campaign 1st of all is to reassure voters about joe biden's judgment that's what we find in our research my book with

a cow calf joke was a little town called we find there are primarily running mates influence how people think about the presidential candidate so come on here here's needs to show that she is up to the job that she could step in to be vice president and president necessary her research shows she does they are you going to have a positive effect on how voters you joe biden and maybe make them more likely to vote for biden although not dramatically so just at the margins ok so the job bannister is to bring in the out lies of biden supporters this can i kind of tries it that way. you know what i think everybody is to apply to swing voters but also maybe some people who are leery about him in the progressive base of the party i mean one thing that's tricky about camila harris is that she's hard to place ideologically is she a win for the progressives in the party she has more of the laugh but you know she's not exactly when according to make progress they think that she's not aggressive enough so you know she's designed i think to appeal to a wide range of voters primarily in the democratic coalition but also if there are

people who are let's say disaffected republicans maybe independents or other swing voters at least they probably won't be alienated by this pick like they would be if i had made some reckless electoral gamble and pick someone you know just to try to win a swing state run and indicate to voters that maybe this guy does have the judgment to do the job as president much is being made of cabinet how it's being about a 1st woman of color 1st person of indian heritage to be selected as a candidate for vice president how much do these racial fasts still matter. i think a very poor for many people for many americans particularly black women in the united states who not only made such great contributions to the united states in general but also the democratic party many describe black women as the backbone of the democratic party in the united states and certainly they think she to joe biden's presidential campaign thus far getting the presidential nomination so it's very important to many people perhaps in a symbolic way largely of what she represents as

a candidate intentionally vice president as far as whether that will change votes our research would suggest that it wouldn't of course we have not had a black woman let alone a black person as a vice presidential candidate we have as a presidential candidate barack obama we can only speculate about some of those effects but many of the other affair that people tend to expect they have in the past about let's say like mike pence that he would bring in evangelical christians or bring in conservatives or that serra pelada bring in women right actually our research shows that generally does not happen and frankly what do you think republicans are make of this choice you know republicans will not like her policy views there i think people who are already going to vote for down trump are not going to be thrilled with a comparison to probably paint her in the worst light for those who are let's say the john cases republican former ohio governor who speak of the democratic convention they may at least be reassured that she has the qualifications to do the job as president as vice president and also that she gets along well with joe biden

which would suggest that she could be effective operator in the white house talking to thank you for joining us christopher divide thanks to a brazilian president balls and says it's a lie that 5 of ravaging the amazon rain forest this district got state a from his own government satellite images from brazil's national space agency show the number of places in the amazon rose 28 percent last month experts believe most were deliberately set to illegally clear land for farming. this is all they got a few buckets and basic hoses. but the farmers he had determined to battle the raging fires in the amazon rain forest. you forgot about part of the point it's now out of control we're trying to save animals and save houses that's the most important thing right now look at what we're doing to nature look out that just turning everything into

a coal and smoke. more than 10000 fires have been recorded in the 1st weeks of august alone the worst on record the fires are usually manmade to clear land for farming and ranching it's illegal but for many it's the only way to survive. but. we don't want to destroy anyone's lives i'm just clearing a field to bring up some cows there but they're in it. the brazilian government is now under mounting pressure to stop the forest fires the president gerry of all the narrow has dispensed the military to assist with fighting the fires the president has also denied the fires exist. because of course phil left i want to because it's a rain forest like most of you it does not catch fire so this story that the amazon burns with fire is

a lie and we must fight it with real numbers and that is what we are doing here in brazil. data from brazil's own space agency shows and nearly 30 percent increase in the fires in just over a year but so narrow has fired the head of the agency international experts are increasingly worried about the decline of the world's largest rain forest an important ecosystem helping the planet against climate change. you noted states is moving ahead with plans to withdraw around a 3rd of its 35000 soldiers stationed in germany american troop presence has played a major economic and security role in many german regions for decades the u.s. airbase and bang dollar in the western states of north rhine-westphalia will see about $4000.00 of its troops redeployed not everyone is sad to see them go the w correspondent and their drug sort of reports.

spangdahlem in western germany has been one of america's most important bases in europe for nearly 70 years going to shine his family has lived in spangdahlem for generations the bases runway is just a few 100 metres from his home. that's what we mostly have to put up with during the daytime it's pretty severe. closes for the most of. the noise has taken its toll schneider has had 3 heart attacks he and his neighbors had practically given up hope it would ever be quiet here again then washington announced it would be pulling u.s. soldiers out of germany including from spangdahlem but it announced shortly afterwards that the base would not shut down. there's not those moments it's very confusing just now because of all the newspapers saying different things every t.v. report says something different was on the. stock well so on those. spangdahlem

is one of europe's most modern military bases after the announcement that thousands of soldiers would leave german politicians began campaigning to preserve it one of them is your human stright. and the icon of the americans spend around $100000000.00 euros annually in the region on various services on rent and at restaurants but also in investments so construction firms and other companies make a living with and from the americans. residents have different views on the plan plan in mind i think it's not good if the americans go. along in america not in germany. although the f. 16 fighter jets based in spangdahlem are meant to relocate to italy the families of most of the air force personnel will stay put while the military is not allowed to comment former servicemen like richard land feel free to speak their minds. he

lives close to the base and says he has no plans to return to the us apart from his passion for all german motorcycles he says there's too much at stake. they've spent millions of dollars building a new hospital their dental clinic they've built a new school huge fitness center i just can't imagine that not being used. some think it's all a political game like farmer a villain he's also a local politician and lobbies for good u.s. relations. and you can chastise marco you can try to blackmail german politics you can upset people but america can't give up the strategic nato location it would be giving up its claim to be a world power but. the residents of spangdahlem cannot influence the decision they can only live with it's consequences good and bad. of the u.s. space agency nasa says it's found water on

a so-called war nasa scientists say there are reservoirs of salt and water beneath the surface of syria's largest object in the asteroid belt between mars and jupiter they think it's cracked the surface could have been full by water losing from cracks and then freezing researchers don't know whether the door planet has ever supported the thing organisms. this is that the double life from coming up next a news asia some thoughtful arms us from the chinese government of his father's death from the comfort of 19 but not a forthcoming. i'm a vietnam thrice to contain the main gist of the latest resurgence of the fatness. responders able to have post tours of more than just a moment off the back of the talk of the hour with more world news mccool said it's always that around the clock on our website c

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