this is the w. news live from berlin the long reign of japan's prime minister shinzo aviv is over he's announced that he's stepping down due to poor health it comes just days after became the longest serving holder off the office. also coming up donald trump takes aim at his democratic rival in a fiery acceptance speech. over merck

years old piers the destroyer of america's jobs and if given the chance he will be the destroyer of american greatness trump presents himself as the defender of law and order and calls november so both the most important election in u.s. history will do it for all fact check on trump's speech. and the embattled president of bill rood's turns to russia for help protests continue in the capital minsk despite a crackdown 20 journalists are among those detained including a d w reporter. a pianist in the ruins no longer we hear the story of my home off my flat syria and found sanctuary in germany 5 years.

welcome to the show japan's longest serving prime minister shinzo aba has announced his resignation because of health problems after serving for nearly 8 consecutive years of announced he had been diagnosed with a relapse of about disease that led him to resign during his 1st since in office in the mid to 2000 during his latest tenure he oversaw japan's recovery from an earthquake tsunami and nuclear disaster and pursued an ambitious economic program known as r.v. nomics. are because of the decision to leave before the end of his tenure got frenching. i don't know. if you know even though i have been but one year to go in my kenya from a domino effect and with. other challenges that have not been addressed

yet. amid the crown of our us outbreak. i decided to step down as the prime minister. i would like to was sent my apologies to the people who. are not joined by michael pena journalists in tokyo michael why exactly is obvious stepping down now. well to some extent we have to take him at his word that. the health problem has returned this condition that he has called all sorts of choli this is something which very much did force him to step down in 2007 at the end of his 1st premiership and i believe that probably with the addition of a lot of stress dealing with many many problems and his public opinion ratings very low and the covert 1000 crisis and many other things there seems to be

a re flare up in the condition and then he feels he can no longer carry on. is it clear yet who will succeed him as prime minister. it is not it's going to be a real race as we sit here at this moment 4 candidates have already raised their hands to say that they will be running in the race to succeed him these are all ruling party members and i think probably within a week or 2 there are those 4 will be joined by others so it's going to be quite an open race to see who who will become the next prime minister at this point not clear at all. motions japan's longest serving prime minister what sort of mach's has he left on his country. well he was as noted the person who served as prime minister longer than any other person in japanese history that goes back to the 19th century so he certainly will be known as someone

who. is known for a long stable premiership but on the other hand most of his positive achievements have been mostly swept away for example the economic growth which which often nomics produced and has mostly disappeared this year and in the year of covert 19 the tourism industry which i did very well under his leadership is also obviously gone right now many of the changes he made to the legal changes you wanted to make he was unable to achieve so in many ways much quite surprisingly his long term legacy may be less than people think. michael in tokyo thank you very much. thank you. to the us now where donald trump has accepted the republican party's nomination for his presidency his acceptance brought to a close the party's 4 day convention to a backdrop of simmering tension over police shooting and racism the republicans

pitched themselves as the party of law and order trumps at the stakes in november election have never been higher. per republican convention is seen as anything but conventional. never before has the white house been used as a backdrop for a presidential candidate's acceptance speech leading some to accuse trump of misusing the building as a political prop. but over the next hour trump showed he was determined to use all means at its disposal to make the case for his reelection starting by saying the stakes had never been higher. this is the most important election in the history of our country. at no time before have voters faced a clear choice between 2 parties 2 visions 2 philosophies or 2 agendas thank you set out an optimistic vision of the country's future under

a new trump victory. in a new term as president we will again build the greatest economy in history quickly returning to fall employment soaring incomes and record prosperity and despite the obvious flouting of his own administration's guidelines on the pandemic an event with few wearing masks and seats close together he promised to bring the coronavirus under control. we're delivering lifesaving therapies. and will produce a vaccine before the end of the year or maybe even sooner. but his main strategy was to attack his opponent joe biden who is leading in the polls. joe biden is not a savior of america years so he is the destroyer of america's jobs and if given the chance he will be the destroyer of american greatness

someone further present to fight as a radical and a danger to society also by making claims that have proven to be untrue. make no mistake if you give power to joe biden the radical left will defy police departments all across america they will pass federal legislation to reduce law enforcement nationwide they will make every city look like democrat run portland oregon. no one will be safe in biden's america. critics say times a mr stoke fan cast himself as the savior of the nation. for all his fiery triumphalism campaign is only now just beginning. well for a closer examination on what donald trump said in his acceptance speech let's bring in your survey but he's did a fact check about based in bonn yes i do you have a closer look to see if there were any factual distortions in trump's speech one of

the topics was the recent racial unrest let's 1st listen to what he said that. and i say very modestly that i have done more for the african-american community than any president since abraham lincoln our 1st republican president. ok is that true has donald trump done more than any other president for black people in the u.s. since lincoln. well you just have to see what is discussed right now on that on twitter a lot of people are very angry about this quote and they don't even understand how present trunk can say this they cues are not being responsible for the violence out there on the streets for many cases of police violence and racist behavior in this society and obviously there are a lot of other names of former president between lincoln and trump out there people mentioning for example president barack obama but another name is outstanding in my opinion lyndon b. johnson he did

a lot for black citizens of the us the civil rights act or the voting rights act are 2 examples we gave the black population constitutional equality and i think that is much more than trump did actually another topic in trump's speech was the corona virus pandemic and looking back how he has handled it so far let's listen in to what he had to say to that not a single american who has neither they ventilator has been denied a ventilator which is a miracle. what we think about this claim in particular if we think about the beginning of the corona virus outbreak in the us russia. well this is an astonishing claim we should all remember the 1st weeks of the outbreak of the corona virus in the u.s. the united states weren't really prepared for the virus such as other countries too but for example new york governor andrew cuomo was asking in march for health when the situation was getting worse and worse he asked 430000 ventilators and received

400 by the federal government so he said he won't be possible to decide who's going to die because there was a lack of these ventilators so the only miracle in my opinion is why i could present trump don't remember the situation in march and april it's more likely that trump wants once again distract us from his defeats in the management of this corona crisis so this claim is clearly false so let's look at uno. another factor on the virus deaths this is what trump had to say on that topic the united states is among the lowest case of a taliban rates of any major country anywhere in the world the european union's case to tell of the rate is the early 3 times higher than ours but you don't hear that they don't write about that they don't want to write about that they don't want you to know the oh are we going to talk about that yours or what are the actual numbers in the official statistics saying on this well besides the media

critics in this quote we have to see that president trump likes to stress the ratio between cover $1000.00 and the known cases so the case for tell it to rate but this isn't seen by public health experts as a reliable marker of success or failure of a country in the effort to to to fight against a coronavirus and to be correct the united states has the 51st ties observed case fatality rate out of $170.00 countries according to the johns hopkins university so we can't really say that this is a good position in which the united states are in and they have a relatively high death rate when coal collated as death per capita so i don't see that the us is are very good have a very good. so far violent in this in this case and on the other hand true the truth is that donald trump doesn't want to hear that the us have the most

casualties and the biggest numbers of cases right now all over the world so once again he's trying to escape the truth a bit. that's putting it mildly and let's also have a listen to how trump a truck attacked his democratic rival joe biden. during their convention joe biden and his supporters remained completely silent about the rioters and criminals spreading mayhem in democrat run cities they never even mentioned it during their entire convention never once mentioned. now they're starting to mention it because their poll numbers are going down like a rock in water. are they really one of those polls saying. no they clearly aren't actually it's the opposite trump is obsessed by polls and figures but only if they say that he is winning if he's not he invents a different reality we can say joe biden has been ahead of donald trump in national

polls for most of the year as hoovered around 50 percent in recent weeks and has had a temper percent lead or 10 point lead on occasions the latest poll i saw today is an 8 percent lead of joe biden so quite something and know the don't mix and democrats are not losing ground on trump so joe biden has at this point a quite a good lead on trump and perhaps president trump is just trying to mix the wish and reality here at this point or perhaps more likely he just ignores the facts once again to appear stronger than he is which is a well known strategy he uses and those are the facts for to us from by your show of a about the 2 w.'s ceefax thank you sean. he. and we stand the u.s. so a big cleanup is underway in the state of louisiana after it was hit by one of the most powerful storms in years hurricane laura that left at least 6 people dead

after smashing into the gulf coast with winds of up to 240 kilometers an hour meteorologists have now downgraded laura to a tropical storm but it still threatens to bring strong winds rain and tornadoes as it moves as it moves northeast. the seaside community of cameron was 1st and hardest hit as hurricane laura carved a path of death and destruction through the u.s. gulf coast. more than a 1000000 people fled their homes but many stayed behind to take their chances as the storm bore down it was well. ground water so that the when you could hear the neighbor's roof blew off the side of the house and this blew this. blue into the us. taking stock of the devastation all those described clinging on for dear life there is truth like it takes out her though in this cloud

of it we're on top of return just how many german occur i am laura wrought havoc with the areas industrial base causing a poisonous chlorine gas fire to break out this chemical plant officials have warned residents to stay indoors. despite the heat that they're experiencing it shuttered home under those circumstances means they need to be on the inside of their home with the doors and windows closed. sometimes in neighboring texas we're all so hit. surveying the damage it's governor says the got off lightly. when you consider the magnitude of the damage that could have occurred here we did dodge a bullet. they will need to keep getting lucky because as scientists point out hurricanes are growing in frequency and strength thanks in large part to unchecked manmade climate change. in the u.s.

state of wisconsin a teenager has been charged with killing 2 people and injuring fur during protests against the police shooting of a black man kyle rittenhouse who can be seen here faces 6 criminal charges including murder authorities believe the 17 year old was inspired by a self-styled militia groups on social media the protests began after jacob blake was shot and seriously injured by police in the city of. the shooting of blake has prompted professional sportsman to join protests against the police action 1st the milwaukee bucks wisconsin basketball team refused to play when the national basketball possible association postponed playoff series games president trump criticize the n.b.a. for becoming what he called a political organization. the national hockey league was criticized for not initially joining other sports leagues in the protests but now it's made a u.

turn and actual teams pause for what they called a moment of reflection for blake at the same time as the basketball protests took place but players then asked to be allowed to sit out the upcoming games the league has no supporters of their decision postpone playoff matches. yours in the new still to come. the pianist in the ruins no longer we hear the story of monks who found sanctuary in germany 5 years. russia's president vladimir putin has said he's formed a police force to support the embattled biller russian leader example. putin said he had acted in response to a request from. the force would only be used if events got out of control meanwhile

police in the pollution capital minsk have again arrested dozens of until government protesters number of journalists were also held a d w reporter was among them but was later released. day 19 of the protests against bella brissie and president alexander lukashenko saw dozens of women stand in a chain of solidarity to highlight another flash point of the police crackdown a peaceful and respectful showdown in the independence square in mint where tensions run high the night before security forces arrested around 50 people and when dozens of others sought refuge inside of the st simon and st helena church police 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 rounding words of unqualified support the deliberate dictator of 26 years was looking for. it will only be used when extremist elements using a political slogans as cover crossed. a certain boundary and start armed robbery start setting fire to cars houses banks russia trying to seize government buildings and administrative buildings. so mr luzhin goes regime remains isolated from europe and now waiting for russia who has yet is not willing to intervene while protest remained peaceful back in germany the chancellor angela merkel is holding her traditional some a press conference and berlin she is answering questions about current domestic and foreign policy topics the situation into the roofs. of all these suspected

poisoning michael kicked off the news conference by talking about the coronavirus pandemic she said we will have to live with a virus for a long time and the situation could become more difficult during winter. of 5 years ago at the beginning of the migration crisis in 2015 it was in that annual press conference that merkel said her now famous quote we can do this she was asked how she feels about that sentence now. you to please it with. every crisis and every challenge has its own language and i think we're all aware of this today i did mention migration policy as the big challenge for our current presidency for a reason. because there still is no coherent system when it comes to european migration policy there is still a lot to do but that can be done too if there is the well done a few. of us come on shuffle and the. german chancellor angela merkel speaking

there well this week we are looking back at events in the summer of 2015 when europe faced its biggest migration crisis since world war 2 hundreds of thousands of migrants fled their home countries in search of a better future on the continent most of them crossed from turkey to greece by boat often and flimsy rubber dinghies small than 750000 migrants landed on greek shores that you hear from there they took what became known as the balkan routes travelling north through macedonia and serbia into slovenia or hungry then on to austria other e.u. countries including germany. and america declared an open door policy for refugees from syria as a result of germany talking about a 1000000 migrants although not all of them were qualified to stay while those who did qualify was i have a lot here's a story. his

songs tell of pain and a lost homeland but also hope 5 years ago pianist a how mass murder fled syria specifically the yarmouk refugee camp for palestinians . back there he played music to counter the nightmare scene of bomb craters and ruined buildings and created beauty to fight despair. it was hungry or so and i don't can't feed my family but i was keeping playing piano we die anyway we will die from hunger in 56 days volume when i don't die play piano at least it's held me i don't think music it's feed people or help people really it's held the mentality to see at least to the whites why to place in the end all this got us to off in the other more calm. because a neighborhood of damascus it was under constant siege from i asked troops for

years people there had no electricity no food or medicine and a ham played music. in the images of him playing with fire when a ham fled to germany in 2015 he was already a minor celebrity and was quickly offered a public state but he felt uncomfortable with the attention. and said. i am here famous playing piano the pianist or feel more what we are a group of people i thought i took a bit in connection with him it's not easy and when somebody is still dying from hunger and you had to. him look we speak about you your job what it's done for me there you know this is this is not the easy here he is performing at a refugee shelter in berlin at a celebration marking 5 years since chancellor angela merkel's we can do it statement in the meantime ahab's wife and sons have joined him and he can work play

in concert people listen to him. i am not star in the liver liver feel i am a star i feel responsible to tell of this blah blah blah what i tell acknowledge it's important maybe it's not so important for people to hear it but at least i feel responsible to tell it and i use every mike every camera to tell that for people they have songs deal with what he's experienced and he's also written his autobiography which was published in germany last year in it he tells of his father who built musical instruments and of his own childhood in a still peaceful syria he tells of the children he watched die and of the moment when i asked fighters burned his piano but constantly retelling his story takes its toll. when i go on with this is story and remembering you're more cream i'm buying the war it's really too heavy and this is why i will stop the music because when i go on i just well will still the pianist and the trauma and all of that it's

image but the horrible images from a ham ass mads past won't stop so easily hopefully he won't give up music that helped him during his darkest times and it helps him now allowing him to make a living and a new life in germany. here's a reminder of our top stories japanese prime minister has announced his resignation comes just days after he became the longest serving holder of the office. is quitting because of health problems. donald trump has accepted the nomination of the republican party to run as its conduct in november's presidential election trump called it the most important election in u.s. history and attacked his democratic rival joe biden as a destroyer of american jobs. and that's it from me other news team from all stay

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