go if needed she warned that foreign forces should stay out of the former soviet state. it is my hope that forces like tough will not speak deployed about the people who have bravely taken to the streets who have called types of uses i hope they can have all the freedoms that we take for granted the freedom to protest freedom of opinion. all these things must be fought for and bell rings and it's what the people want. they should be able to achieve independently without any external interference from any side. which let's get more on this now with my colleague and your. view of politics to see on what you make of the chancellor statement done belarus. i think it was a strong statement on belarus brian and at the same time it was a plea for restraint to repeat what the chancellor has said she said the

sovereignty of belarus should be respected and that she hoped that the forces we heard about the russian forces putin announced that they wouldn't be deployed she stressed that it is important that the people of belarus can protest can demonstrate s. they wish without any interference from any side asked by john list for the rather violent line of action from the security forces in belarus not only against demonstrators but also against drawing a list of said that this is not acceptable and she added i found that very interesting that she wanted to talk to alex hunter look at sankoh and try to reach him on the phone because it is important to keep up the dialogue but he declined to talk to her so far as this summer press conference then you will then join

a list international journalists as well asking the chancellor a range of questions one of them was about alexina vali the russian opposition leader currently being treated for suspected poisoning here in berlin let's take a listen to what he had to say about that it's been vehement we will do our best to find a small shop and those are our ability to do that here it's limited once we're clear about what actually happened like in the case of mr powell we will strive for a coordinated european response not just responses by individual states this is not just a german problem even though germany has taken in mr wagner. but also a much more cautious note there why isn't she taking a tougher stance on that of all the case. i think she has been pretty clear on the novel in the case and on russia's role there as well brian when when

mr novelli fell ill a few days ago she gave a joint statement with the german foreign minister and this in itself is already on usual america and the foreign minister they are pressing russia to investigate the case and full transparency and i'm accurate said she sees an obligation to clear up the case and right after the press conference germany's foreign minister said that there will be diplomatic consequences if it proves that it is indeed a state initiated murder attempt ok that investigation into whether this was a poisoning what happened exactly still on going on here thanks so much for that well in the last hour the european union has agreed to impose sanctions on senior belarussian officials accused of election fraud in cracking down on protesters that

decision was made by european foreign ministers meeting in berlin the talks also dominated by the brewing conflict between turkey and greece those 2 countries are in a bitter dispute over gas and oil exploration in the eastern mediterranean. the top diplomat says the bloc was working to bring in the belarus sanctions as quickly as possible there was a political agreement among ministers to dissing nate selected individuals responsible for different elections in their rooms and for the subsequent. under the existing sanctions regime. correspondent i was out of phenomena following this for us thank you all xandra what more can you tell us about the discussions today on belarus and the sanctions. hi brian a year so the sanctions are coming that it's clear and they're sad to be imposed

even earlier than expected that it's what d'you foreign ministers one say and it's quite interesting discussions that they were having on their list of the people who are included we didn't get the full list because it's still worked on but we know that where it appears to alexander will question it's not on this list for now but as the european union's chief diplomat heels of the said today in the press conference that could change if the situation in belarus is going to further terrio it and that means that those ministers got their way who were in favor of a gradual approach and able in the european union to increase the pressure on location if needed by adding more names to distinctions progressively

alexander also being discussed today these dangerous tensions we just mentioned in the mediterranean there are very real concerns about the possibility of fighting between turkish and greece for greek forces as anchor drills for oil and gas and disputed seabed so what's the position on this. well it's quite interesting that despite the different interest and positions ministers here have agreed to take a tougher stance on turkey. that there is a growing frustration in the face of turkey's actions in the eastern mediterranean sea and the european union of course wants to show solidarity with greece that is at loggerheads with turkey over and the g depose it's in their region so for now the european union is calling on all parties to get to the negotiating table

and to solve the problem in a diplomatic way but it's also threatening to impose sanctions on turkey or turkish citizens individuals who are involved in debt measure and this is a very standing development because it shows that the european union is giving diplomacy a chance for now but it's willing to toughen it stands on turkey despite its many concerns and this despite the fact that turkey is an important partner in the region and that makes this story so very important one will be continuing to track very closely xandra thanks very much for the. so what is the greek stance on the dispute with turkey in the mediterranean our brussels correspondent barbara vaizey put that question to the greek foreign minister nikos yes. miss that you had a foreign policy success at this miniseries meeting in berlin the e.u.

is willing now to consider sanctions against turkey can you let us know the details well i would not consider a success for us we consider the success for a common european family the fact is that in the southeast the mediterranean we are facing their peace aggression turkey should begin to behave. behavior which goes against international law and international law of the sea so within our family we have agreed and that in case you take it does not come back to its senses does not come back to the process of dialogue and process according to have the respect of international law international law for she's paramount sanctions have to be the order of the day but these what has been agreed do you think that greece and maybe the european union should have intervened earlier is this something that you missed should things have been taking a bit harder early in the game when you have to say it's going towards the future

of this raid as they viewed some of the statements as you know we have an oxygen blast we can be jimmy's thanks to the couples of the 2 seeps and maybe the greek up to me but for this coalition has been avoided but i had to say that the problem is the turkey does not understand the limits and the remove the limits are open to the limits of all international law international of the sea and i have to say that if there is a mistake in the part of the union if there is a mistake in the body of the united states is that they have not spoken to turkey with the cleared enough language but i think after today's meeting these could be put to more time but before the meeting you know the john. and foreign minister michael moss that came with a rather softly softly approach we need to withdraw ships then no we need to talk and we need to have a dialogue with turkey this has failed so far should we just scrap that all what is the gate what is the go off the next steps will use the presidency of the european

union i mean some to spend the he has to take the softer of the options hoping for the better for results and nobody disagrees with that look of course we would all prefer to resolve our issues or problems through dialogue and that is greece's preferences world greece has always said that we are ready for dialogue and the last thing we would like is to use the options the option of the sanctions paper we don't want them we would love to avoid that but yet again clearly the lines have to be drawn and turkey has to understand there is no way that the country can exist by not respecting the international law and international law to see this problem i think not just for the region but for the whole world how scary is the situation how scared do you feel personally do you think or do and is willing to listen now if he gets a stronger message well i think it's not me you greece or anybody that we did to president obama what he has to do for the benefit of turkey of turkish people to society what i would say is that what i hope to see in the region is

a common understanding between countries and nations and greece is perfectly willing to do so it's for based on their door i'm to choose so what do you find anything should happen with greece you're willing to sit down at the negotiating table somewhere maybe in stockholm and talk to turkey was all parties involved 'd and figure out a solution figure out in agreement with everyone we can do that as well but we have to have terms of reference and what are the temporal preferences of discussion it's clear international law international rules of the sea and also if a maybe our respective. human rights because there's 3 issues and treaties about human rights but good again if there is we to come to a number standing with you you know we reach with cyprus we would be perfectly happy but if you miss that then yes thank you very thankful and thank you. let's

get you briefed on some of the other stories making the news at this hour a court here in berlin as overturned a city ban on upcoming demonstrations against coronavirus restrictions it said the protests could go ahead if organizers city here too strict agenda conditions city authorities tried to stop the events citing concerns about spreading the virus thousands of people ignored physical distancing rules of the similar protests earlier this month. japan's prime minister shinzo abbay has decided to step down due to health issues that according to local media this was weeks of speculation after he visited hospitals several times this month he is expected to announce his resignation later just days after he became japan's longest serving prime minister. a dutch man has died after a polar bear attacked a campsite in norway's all barred archipelago the bear was shot and killed shortly

after the incident drinking arctic ice is increasingly forcing polar bears on to land leading to more frequent encounters with humans. this is news still to come on our show. he's not playing in the rooms anymore we hear the story of a syrian who saw his piano burned by islamic state and who found asylum in germany 5 years ago. but 1st it's the u.s. where dollar trump has accepted the republican party's nomination for the presidency his acceptance brought to a close the party's 4 day convention with a backdrop of simmering tensions over police shootings president trump depicted his opponent joe biden as quote the destroyer of american greatness and that if elected the man who would oversee the dismantling of the united states. her 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 needing 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 that his disposal to make the case for his reelection starting by saying the stakes have 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. he 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 full employment soaring incomes and record prosperity and

despite the obvious flouting of his own administration's guidelines on the come to make 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 opponents and biden who is leading in the polls. joe biden is not a savior of america's soul he is the destroyer of america's jobs and if given the chance he will be the destroyer of american greatness someone further presented bite 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 chum's a mr stoke fan cast himself as the savior of the nation. the old his fiery triumphalism campaign is only now just beginning. from our u.s. election teams with us now for more and i see you will you know. when we look at this speech it comes as a new zogby poll from wednesday puts trump's approval rating at 52 percent is very surprising could this speech win over in light of that. undecided voters are new momentum here it is surprising and it should be said the zogby poll has a long history of being inaccurate and favoring republicans favoring trump it's a poll that trump actually likes to cite himself a lot. $5538.00 gives only a c.

plus this particular poll has a more at least a 5 point margin of error so we should take this this polling really any individual poll with a grain of salt going back to $538.00 that looks at lots of polls and weights them differently still has donald trump in the low forty's for his approval rating which has been holding about steady there for for months if not most of his term that said it's not unusual for candidates in this case the incumbent to come out of the convention and get a bump there's been days now of wall to wall wall to wall media coverage of the candidate of the campaign so we might see a bump indeed in the next couple of days from donald trump. but it's a long way to go in and convincing voters who to vote for yet is in decided for in the polls they have gotten so wrong in the electorate as well didn't they don't make a convincing case in his speech for handling the coronavirus convince a yes real not so much we should always be careful with super litigious for being

accurate donald trump loves to use a perla to vote and we should always be very skeptical whenever we hear about being the most the best the greatest of anything especially when it comes. we don't have time to fact check everything he said about his handling of corona virus just to give you one number if we compare the united states to here in germany the u.s. has had 9 times the number of cases per 1000000 people and it's had 5 times the number of deaths per 1000000 people you can say you contribute some of that to widespread testing yes but of course we know that germany has also done extensive testing and when it's come to testing when it when it's come to getting protective gear defer to front line workers when it comes to relying on science and not politicizing the science that's a very murky record for donald trump that said he's also poured billions as a ministration billions of dollars into what's called operation warp speed this way to find a very quickly a vaccine for the corona virus if that pays off he will be able to take credit for

that and we've heard that he's promising a vaccine by the end of the year which is maybe possible but it also doesn't matter so much because what happens before the end of the year the election so he can really live on this promise that a vaccine is coming you should vote for me and keep this momentum going towards a vaccine a vaccine is one of the many issues the president says he wants to debate joe biden yesterday joe biden said he's ready to debate the president in spite of the fact that nancy pelosi speaker of the house said don't do it that'll legitimize donald trump where is this headed are the democrats going to agree to a debate certainly would be i mean we already have debates on the schedule for months already i doubt that's going to change what pelosi suggests in a press conference is really a nonstarter it would just feed into the very narrative that donald trump is allies like to say which is the media is against me democrats are against me they're scared they're biased i'm ready to come out and debate the issues why aren't you you really it's a no win situation biden has got to go up there and debate him and they should not

underestimate donald trump we remember him in 2016 and the republicans have a long history for decades now whether it was reagan and carter bush dukakis george w. bush and john kerry a long record of just around saying democrats not necessarily in the facts but on passion on emotion and really getting people. side to their side of whatever their issue is whatever their their vision of their campaign is. did of use william glue croft there well this week we're looking back at events in the summer of 2015 when you're faced its biggest migration crisis since world war 2 more than 1000000 migrants for their own countries and search for a better life on the continent most of them cross from turkey to greece by boat more than 750000 migrants landing on great shores they are from there they took what became known as the balkan route traveling north through macedonia and serbia into slovenia or hungary then on to austria and other e.u.

countries especially germany. chancer machall declared an open door policy for refugees from syria and other countries and as a result germany took in about 1300000 migrants although not all of them a qualified to say one of those who did qualify was. here's his story. his songs tell of pain and a lost homeland but also of hope 5 years ago pianist 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 feed my family but i was keeping playing piano we die anyway we would

die from hunger and $56.00 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 helped people really it's helped the mentality to see at least so that whites white the place in the in all this got us that 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 when firing when a ham fled to germany in 2015 he was already a minor celebrity and was quickly offered a public stage but he felt uncomfortable with the attention. that. i am here famous playing piano the pianist of 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 tell him look we speak about you hear what it's done for me there you know all 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 its import a label 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 4 people a ham 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 yet more cream i'm buying the war it's really too heavy here and this is why i will stop the music because when i go on i just well will still the pianist and the trombone or that its image but the horrible images from a home past won't stop so easily hopefully he won't give up music it helped him during his darkest times and it helps him now allowing him to make a living and a new life in germany. that. if your minor of our top stories this hour the german chancellor has warned against foreign intervention in belarus the russian mind said russians for it have freedoms

other nations take. this is the interview news live from berlin i'm brian thomas with the entire news team thanks so much for being.

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