this is deja news for live from berlin a leader under pressure the embattled president of bella ruse turns to russia for help protests continue in the capital minsk despite a crackdown 20 journalists are mung those detained including a d w reporter. germany tightens restrictions hoping to reverse an increase in coronavirus cases chancellor angela merkel says travelers returning from high risk areas must quarantine a ban on large public events is also being extended until the end of this year. and

a city on edge after a rest over the edge the police shooting of a black man a measure of calm returns to the notion wisconsin but protesters complained of the investigation is too slow and too secretive. i'm told me a lot of good to have you with us the russian president vladimir putin says the leader of bella ruse has turned to moscow for assistance putin faces counterpart alexander look at asked him to prepare a russian law enforcement contingent to be sent to belarus if necessary police in the capital minsk have again arrested dozens of anti-government protesters. day 19 of the protests against relevancy and president alexander lukashenko saw dozens of women stand in a chain of solid. to highlight another flashpoint of the police crackdown

a peaceful and respectful showdown in the independence square in minsk with tensions run high the night before security forces arrested around 50 people and when dozens of others sought refuge inside at the st simon and st helena church policed lock the main. president lukashenko is both trying to exert control by his own means and secure the support of his longtime ally russian president vladimir putin and. he would like us to provide him with appropriate assistance if necessary i said that russia would fulfill all its obligations. the words match those of the joint security treaty between the countries but perhaps were not the round woods of unqualified support the bill of dictator of 26 years was looking for. it will only be used when extremist elements using a political slogans as cover cross

a certain boundary and start armed robbery start setting fire to cox houses which banks should try to seize government buildings and administrative buildings. so mr lucas think those regime remains isolated from europe and now waiting for russia whereas here it is not willing to intervene while protest remained peaceful . germany is increasing efforts to stop what appears to be a coronavirus comeback the number of new infections are surging now at levels not seen since april on the 1st day of the german chancellor and now tougher measures to combat the increase travelers returning from higher risk areas will have to quarantine for 2 weeks a ban on big events is being extended until the end of the year and people breaking the rules on wearing a face covering in public will be fined. it took 5 and a half hours of virtual talk to reach an agreement the rules for travel to high

risk countries will be tightened stricter quarantine and no more wage compensation for the time of crore and teen. we heard all those returning from travel to comply with the quarantine obligations and those also meet their responsibility towards fellow citizens knew that travel to designated risk areas is to be avoided whenever possible and also given the musical situation is that germany has navigated the pandemic fairly well but the number of new daily cases has been rising since early july worrying with the prospect of the upcoming flu season. for the fact that we are facing a winter that cannot be calculated at least from a current point of view when we do not know what effects the flu and other illnesses will have the numbers are too early too high so our goal must be to bring down the numbers and to avoid a 2nd lockdown by. the political leaders agreed on

a minimum fine for those who don't wear face masks people returning from low risk countries won't be offered free testing anymore but the testing capacities will be expanded. cunt to every infection that is detected early is again every infection that is not recognized as a problem and every infected person who gets a negative test result is downright a danger. and if you find that governments are also extending a ban on major events such as concerts or sports at least until the end of the year the premier and the chancellor couldn't reach an agreement on a limit of people attending private festivities let's now take a look at some other stories making news around the world rising floodwaters in sudan have left people but dozens of people rather dead and thousands of homes destroyed the waters have submerged vast tracts of farmland and are starting to

encroach on the capital khartoum recent heavy rains have been swelling the nearby blue nile to record levels. president donald trump is set to deliver his acceptance speech for renomination at the white house on thursday evening president trump is expected to attack his rival joe biden and president himself as a defender of law and order. new york city's biggest art museum opened its doors to visitors again for the 1st time since the pandemic hit the city the metropolitan museum of art in manhattan was closed for more than 5 and a half months a 1st in its 150 year history. the u.s. city of can militia in wisconsin remains on edge in the aftermath of the recent police shooting of a black man 29 year old jacob blake was shot several times in the back on sunday as he tried to enter his s.u.v. a measure of karmas return to the city but there is growing criticism that the

investigation remains secretive and slow. wednesday saw another night of hotez konoha but this time demonstrations stayed peaceful a day after the fatal shootings of 2 people please respect for this piece he does as a space secret nice piece of community on wednesday police in the neighboring state of illinois arrested a 17 year old in connection with the shooting he was part of a self-styled commotion a private militia video showed him firing his gun hitting multiple people. you know . at the republican national convention vice president mike pence said the violence must end. too many heroes have died defending our freedom to see americans strike each other down we will have law and order on the streets of this country for every american of every race and creed and color.

line got plenty of applause at the convention but did little to appease many and conneaut the milwaukee bucks basketball team refused to play a scheduled game and other teams followed suit we're calling for justice for. the man all to be held accountable. federal authorities are now investigating the circumstances of blake's shooting. for more let's bring in our washington bureau chief ines poll in us paul appeared to be several pocky contradicting reports on the events that led to the shooting of jacob blake what's the latest right so maybe don't really know does he have a knife on him or not some sources say yes police started to report that he had a knife on his body later they said he had it in the car and wanted to pick it up so this is still a secret we don't know the facts. ok let's go to the political side of things

addressing the republican national convention vice president mike pence called for an end to americans killing americans and for a return to law and order is that a vote winner in the current national climate. that is a very good question you know it comes at a point when the latest polls show that the support of black life matters is decreasing as people are more concerned about their own security specially white americans who live in suburban areas and this is exactly whom mike pence wanted to address in his speech because the republican party needs those voters to win this elections ok and in just a few hours president trump will officially accept the party's nomination what's the convention's message to the american voter so far. it's really interesting so far the republicans really presented themselves as

a party who gives the floor to many african americans there were many speakers from other minorities many female speakers we learned trumpet the 1st lady and i delivered a message saying listen you who might be in doubt that my husband is a little bit too harsh he's a loving reliable person and she wanted also to reach out to possible swing voters allowing them in a way to vote for the republican party telling them you don't have to be afraid we are not racist i'm an immigrant myself. what can we expect from trump himself tonight. evil take a totally different path to night we already learned that he will play law and order also big he will go very hard joe biden and come on the horror is his competitor is saying he's from the far left with him you vote for like increasing violence and so he will most definitely present him self as

a wary strict law and order president ok anis poll in washington thank you for that update. now rescue efforts slowly getting underway in the u.s. state of louisiana after it was battered by the most powerful storm is 4 people have been reported dead after hurricane laura hit louisiana and neighboring texas overnight with winds gusting at over 240 kilometers an hour. hurricane laura made landfall as a category 4 storm ravaging through the southern states of the u.s. . 'd now sizes of homes in texas and louisiana are submerged in water and many others

are severely damaged. hundreds of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate but not everyone did. i state we have several periods in everything our state gets and it was. ground water so that when you get here the neighbor's roof blew off the side of the house and this blew this. blew into the house. president trump says he's planning to visit the affected gulf coast though not immediately. was going to texas i was going to lose louisiana maybe arkansas it looks like arkansas just spoke to the governor it's going to be in pretty good shape but they'll need some help but now it turned out we got a little bit lucky it was very big it was very powerful but it passed quickly and so everything's on schedule will probably be going on saturday or sunday as president i just would encourage. people to keep keep the people we c.n.n.

in texas in arkansas where you sign an emergency declaration as a tropical storm moves north keep them in your prayers but also keep in mind organizations like red cross that are also on the ground that are providing assistance and support to all of the efforts for families. forecasters have warned of a continued risk to life as the storm moves inland deeper into louisiana though it has not considerably weakened. that chemical fire in the lake charles area of louisiana has broken out emergency crews are tackling it and the governor has warned residents in the area to shelter. the federal emergency management agency says resources are in place to help restore service says to affected areas in the weeks and months ahead.

in football man just united's french midfielder paul has tested positive for the coronavirus the news means will have to go into court and see him for 14 days as a result has been withdrawn from the france scored for the upcoming nations league matches against sweden and croatia but he could be back home manchester united's 1st game of the new english premier league season against crystal palace on september 19th. and here's a reminder of the top story this hour. police in the resume capital minsk have arrested dozens of anti-government protesters as pressure go girls on their own for a syrian president alexander lukashenko a number of journalists were also held the reporter was among them but has been released in the meantime. you're watching the doping as i'm told me on logical there's more news on our website e.w.

dot com you can also follow us on twitter and instagram news i'll be back with the headlines at the top of the hour from now for now though for me and the team thanks for. every day any surprises. anything. could come to great grief. counseling street. for a time you want. to marry match a life. challenge to the. german.

recognizing where exactly. was. the last car culture history of older. travel. extremely worth a visit. this is deja news africa on the program today dolphins all washing up on the shores off more vicious. more kopassus have been found on a beach on the indian ocean island is the oil spill caused by a japanese vessel to blame for the dolphin dates. and there's no bell still green books to the people to introduce.

hello i'm to see one to welcome to news africa it's good to have your company as always environmentalist's in morrish assault calling for an investigation into why they don't have been found washed up on the indian ocean islands scholz 7 more caucuses were discovered on a beach in grand sable on thursday it's a day off to 17 others were found near an oil spill. was caused by a japanese ship that struck a coral reef last month. fisheries minister has said that at 1st glance the dolphin dates don't appear to be related to the spill but environmentalist say there must be an urgent inquiry to determine the cause of the ditz.

my guest today is stefan goal of resistance to say vets a political party focusing on ecological and social issues in the rishis as defined is also an environmental activist and he joins me from the issues i welcome to day diving is africa stefan so you visited the site with adult fins was stranded what did you witness so we were unseen and work we saw. we saw. prince so we're going to don't construct. a more prison system around her. and this is where there's a confusion because it's also called a truck. and so there was a there were 2 bodies on this show in a place called consomme which is under south eastern part of the only and what resort really is a book for the heart. out. there where they were wounded

one of them probably by by year by a shock and then when we were. in the sea we saw. out. of those citizens that was in the sea but there were a lot of broken down there on their back. so this is what i personally. witnessed yeah thank you for clarifying that i for one had made the assumption that you had dolphins and whales thank you for that clarification but has this stranding of these these dolphins have anything to do with the oil spill in more vicious last month. right so what we need to know is so yes 11 month back we had the right under ridge and that 20 days from now we had already spilt and free days from now we had bought the bow out of the dark we're shocked but

was sucked into the into the sea so i think it's premature to establish it as a leak or not because it's on the yesterday on the 26th of august that we saw the 1st specimen of the dolphins that were wrecking on the show. but i think that there's a lot of question. in my hits from from what we've seen from what is happening and we don't we want easy by what is being said by the operatives saying that there might not be a link between a working shoot and. so because it might not be if you go to the lagoon now it might not be visible at the oil spill might not be visible but if you look at the surface of the sea you can see that there are still i drop you that are still some fishing the sea so that the level of. the law hood is not clearly known so we cannot conclude that it does not have

a link but we cannot jump to that conclusion saying that there's a link as well and serry math. there enough and i guess we could reach a conclusion if there's been no investigation and i know that a number of environmentalists in morris's are calling on the authorities to investigate how do you look at one such an investigation to be done steph and they could say we have to wrap up soon. so that's not the point because there's a breach of trust between those who are refusing the people now based on what has not been done since the wreck of the washer so now we're seeing that the analyses that are being conducted under nice only about gays and people in environmental ecology they're calling for independent. inquiry to be done independent and out of this based on simple principle of science that you need to come to very trite and now we're going to a neat rely on wall street especially when that stream has fear us so far so we are

asking for the possibility to access one piece once this none of the government is to carry on an independent investigation i'm not one right that is different was speaking to us from russia's thank you stephan it's. a brief look now at some of the stories making news across the continent kool-aid as in mali have released ousted president abraham from detention a spokesman from the military just to say i don't think the state has but he says one of the international mediation teams to months it's being manned by representatives from the west african group of countries ecowas who are currently in the country meanwhile the european union sais it will temporarily freeze its operation in mali. the important thing is to strange that our missions in mali civilian and military reasons. to temporarily

hold because the circumstances didn't allow them to continue their normal activity they are still there and they will start working again and as soon as possible we cannot pretend to have used to be routine in country like manly missed out having a military capacity from the government and that's what we're doing. and they seem that whatever the government will be. calling for sure we'll marry him people we will have to continue to do in this world. residence in sudan's capital khartoum have been reinforcing their homes using homemade sacks as makeshift barriers flooding in torrential rains have been affecting sudan for nearly a month now over $30000.00 homes have been destroyed and more than 80 people have died according to sudan's of course in the capital hot tomb and the blue nile and

river nile states are hardest hit more heavy rainfall is expected in the coming weeks. we brought many sacks that all along here filled them who would send them trying to blow the water from the root so that it doesn't enter the houses. for the street we have given up hope and that people are welcome it but the houses we can protect them i've got over there i mean 69461948 there has never been floats like this year and the problem has grown bigger and bigger every year but we don't know why we are affected by extensive damage caused by the water but also by the environmental effects that follows. because there are more. police in south africa have fired rubber bullets at demonstrators near johannesburg after they were attacked with rocks and bottles

the process is accused of shooting at this able to an age boy in the area of el dorado park also known as elders the 16 year old died of his wounds and hospital on wednesday night. we go to ethiopia next where there is a growing number of bookstores in the capital addis ababa but the price of literature is going up with the demands of making it a tough sell for then. they have become a common sight on the streets about this about mobile vendors are making the habit of reading more commonplace in ethiopia's fast growing capital they describe it as one of several 100 itinerant sellers he developed an interest in books during his childhood outside of the capital. as a funding odyssey and they're going to help develop yourself as a person and then introduce me to the many people there are really interesting my

friends are also working similar jobs and but given the some very happy to join the professional thing on it but the business has become competitive in recent years when he does the work behind his bookstand biggest who spends several hours a day walking along sidewalks and into cafes and strenuous work but it widens his reach so i scorn and addressing this is my job my daily bread so i just keep moving and carry the books if i'm lucky i might sell 5 to 6 weeks a day but on some days i don't sell anything and this utopian journalist is one of the uses regular customers reading is his main hobby he's particularly keen on history his last purchase was a book on the 896 battle of between italy and utopia. the main water wheel just between each other it's a great victory. on italy and we are so proud of.

although their client base has grown over the past years vendors are grappling with rising book prices this young man just bought 2 books but says prices are too high for avid readers like himself as a mom when i started reading as a child a book was $0.20. this time it's full year which i read this one when it cost $0.20 in the library that's when i started reading and. it was a forgotten of a normal. the price increase is partly due to rising production costs in this printing press for instance paper printing machines and ink are important and the company has to pay very high taxes but rising prices don't appear to be spoiling the appetite for books in the bigger cities in a country with a literacy rate of less than 50 percent and where men still make up the majority of readers mobile vendors are playing a key part in boosting the availability of books for all. and that does it for our

program today but be sure to check out our other stories that's on our web site and forget to say forward slash africa we're also on facebook and we're on twitter and that's top of the i want to put it to my handle is at one to say that it's always interesting for me to know what you think about the stories we cover here on news africa now after the sad news from orishas that more than a dozen day of dolphins have been washed ashore following an oil spill we want to leave you with with this a reminder of they have b.s.e. as well as the vital importance off for sex in our wildlife and on a ship enjoy these wild african dolphins along africa's coast we'll see you next hour before now have on.

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primates we have a totally ridiculous romanticized view of nature and there. is climate change phrases sex happiness improve books you get smarter for free books are new to. get out of the. who's afraid of a little inflation not the u.s. federal reserve in a major policy shift america's central bank says it will focus on boosting employment by tolerating higher prices along the bogeyman of monetary policy. absa the rescue of the nation in geo has developed a smartphone application to combat illegal logging. also on the show will visit the italian port of genoa where the cruise and shipping industries are running out of steam. flowing welcome to the show i'm stephen beardsley and berlin it's good to

have you with us it's a decision with consequences for home loans credit card debt and the labor market the u.s. federal reserve signaling thursday that it will keep interest rates lower longer after an economic crisis to boost employment even if that means higher prices for inflation a fed chairman powell saying thursday at the fed's annual retreat in wyoming that low inflation has been a bigger concern for the economy in recent years than high inflation which can price out low earners. are let's break this down now with our financial correspondent yens korda in new york. explain this in a way that we can understand this why is everyone saying this is such a shift for the fed. well i mean 1st of all for decades the federal reserve to try to keep inflation under 2 percent and now they're going to be a bit more flexible but honestly i'm not sure if consumers if the population really

has to be concerned about the price spikes in the near future how does inflation work off some higher wages for example driving prices so it drives inflation higher and with the labor market still being pretty painful here i do not see any wage pressure at this point having that set i mean you clearly do see higher prices in some areas of food for example has gotten much more expensive but at least for now i do not really see a huge spike in inflation and what the federal reserve did not say is that they let inflation run it to fall 56 percent so it will be roughly around 2 percent of little bit up for a certain period of time but most economists do not really expect a huge spike in inflation anytime soon it's a good point everyone's been looking for inflation in recent years are you in stay with us when we look at another story that's been this potentially moving markets

wal-mart says it's partnering with microsoft and its bid to purchase the u.s. operations of social media hit app tick-tock the american retailer said the tick tock could help it reach customers and grow its 3rd party marketplace and advertising businesses u.s. president donald trump has demanded the abstains owner buy dance divest its u.s. operations in the coming months wal-mart's announcement came hours after tech talk c.e.o. kevin mayor told employees he was resigning after only 4 months at the helm. all right yet another puzzle why does wal-mart a big retailer want to social media company i don't understand this personally. i guess you're not the only one of there were a lot of people when they saw this report that they really had to look twice or that it's really warm going. to talk by the way that the c.e.o. resigned could be assigned to sail it judy is imminent and might have been even was in the next couple of days well self is probably looking to catch the attention of

the younger crowd so they would like to use it for advertising for but also they're in a battle with amazon dot com and that could give them a better position to compete was ever than amazon and clearly wal-mart cannot be doing this in alone they need the clout infrastructure from microsoft and sold those 2 giants they're teaming up and trying to catch the u.s. as it's probably all for the u.s. canada new zealand and australia as it actually might be worth $20.00 to $30000000000.00 so that's the amount that people are talking about but wall street seems to think the deal is likely wal-mart was up by a good 4 percent and was that the biggest winner in the dow jones industrial average. falling in the coming days yes quarter there for us in new york thank you . all right tech talk may be all about entertainment but of course other apps have

much more serious uses and ghana's be a national forest and in geo is developing one that monitors illegal logging and rewards legal harvesting take a look for. the man using this up wants to remain anonymous because his life would be in danger if the wrong people cause him collecting data here. he uses the app to report him to thieves who fell trees illegally in northwest indiana. and i. don't surprise these illegal loggers in the act because they're dangerous an armed. can. only report their actions once they're gone. and in the form of this teak tree an endangered species was felled illegally into pieces and a large part of it was taken away there must have been between 5 and 10 men involved with heavy equipment. to track down the wood perches the n.-g. o.

nature and development foundation since local observers into particularly affected areas across the country. it's in the trade is one of ghana's most important industries tropical woods are sold all over the world thanks to bread timbers that sell for high prices. john guitar and company is the largest in the processing in northwestern gonna it says it's committed to forest management says the cation to label guarantees that good products come from sustainably managed frogs. the nature and deforestation foundation not only works to prevent illegal deforestation it also mediates between local people and industry resistance to the timber monopoly has eased and instead there is more cooperation in the village of big deal in the south of the country residents are using taxes from the timber industry to build their own hospitals. every day hundreds of timber

transports from the region head from markets throughout the country to places like a month a suburb of a crop. in this big timber market the origin of the word is not too closely but the head of the market association insists that the proportion of wood with us a typical of origin is on the rise in the north going on we have that in the team us our business does not demand that for us we're not our business so we don't you just look at it that we gobble that. things may be changing in ghana's forestry sector but there is still plenty to do for the local monitors who make fresh discoveries of illegally felled trees almost every day. right now to some of the other global business stories making headlines. delta airlines has put 240 people on a no fly list for failing to wear masks on board and the absence of federal

regulations airlines have to enforce their own rules they can deny boarding to anyone not compliant on the plane there is little staff can do to ensure compliance except threaten to ban passengers from future flights. germany's delivery hero is hungry for more than just online takeaway meals the company has agreed to buy middle east online grocery marketplace insta shop for an initial $270000000.00 delivery us hero has been one of the winners of a covert 1000 pandemic as more people order in an earlier this week it catapult. into germany's blue chip dax index just 3 years after its i.p.o. . the global cruise ship sector is a high profile casualty of the krona virus pandemic but officials in tokyo are hoping to refloat the industries that prepare to open a new cruise terminal the $370000000.00 facility officially opens next month.

and genuine italy is another major port for the cruise industry and as in japan it's been hard hit by the pen demick ships now stand like ghosts in the harbor but there's a glimmer of hope on the horizon. it can make you pause for thought the view across gender was harbor for decades there was constant traffic here now the calm is almost ghostly vast cruise ships and i deserted during the pandemic no one wants to travel in them. italy's most important port is clearly suffering right now. to the economy italy's economy has contract to buy an unbelievable 12 percent and we're seeing that reflected here in the amount of goods we're handling. the number of containers being shifted in genoa has dropped dramatically by around a quarter over the same period last year experts say it's a symptom of italy's wider economic situation many goods being handled here come

from the country's key economic regions milan cheer in and. genoa has been in the wider public eye in recent years almost 2 years ago exactly the city's marandi bridge collapsed killing 43 people. the bridge represented one of the city's main traffic arteries and its last made access to the port difficult trade started to suffer finally a few weeks ago a new bridge was opened symbolizing a new start for genoa and italy as a whole. the new bridge gives people here hope our city suffered a huge blow but has stood up again. our children and our grandchildren will be able to stay in genoa find work here build a future were generous woman and. yet the city's joy and pride over its new landmark have nonetheless been dampened the euro zone's 3rd largest economy has

been hit the hardest by the coronavirus g.d.p. has fallen to the level of the 1990 s. 600000 jobs have been lost all of which is very visible. in today's gateway to the wells. right now that's it for me and the d.w. business team here in berlin as always you can find out more about these and other business stories online at www dot com slash business to join us out on facebook and twitter i'm stephen there's a small of us here thanks for watching. how

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fighters are back africa's most successful radio drama series continues. this season the stories focus on hate speech prevention says. doing a big chocolate production. only preserves are available online and of course you can share and discuss on africa's facebook page and other social media platforms. crime fighters to mindanao. where i come from we have to fight for a free press i was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t.v. shadow and a few newspapers one official information as a journalist i have worked all over the streets of many characters and their problems are always the same forward to the social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press and. work on the 4th to stay silent when it

comes to the fans of the humans and see them live through fools who have decided to put their trust in us. my name is jenny harrison and weren't. a nobel prize winner is called in for questioning in belarus as the authoritarian regime continues its crackdown on protests challenging the reelection of alexandre to crush the country's long serving ruler will talk about literary voices as a moral authority and also coming up. 5 years after germany's welcome of over 1000000 refugees the syrian pianist is making a life for himself and his family. and ahead of the virtual ceremony for the

2020 good to medal awards we profile the 2nd of 3 laureates british novelist ian mckeown. oh back in 2015th deadline a aleksei of it won the nobel prize for literature for work as the jury remarked was a monument to suffering and courage in our time the writer is famous for chronicling her country's troubled history through carefully constructed 1st hand accounts well today she's one of the most outspoken voices of the coordination council that's a group that seeks new elections and talks with europe's last dictator. a nobel laureate in literature on her way to questioning the famous author took the opportunity to warn against a split in the nation pitting the lucan shanklin system against peaceful demonstrators. but. this year if we are set.