biala gassed at frankfurt airport city managed by for. this is g.w. news live from berlin a crime of attempted murder with a nerve agent the german chancellor angela merkel says there is no doubt prominent critic alexei novell me was poisoned russia's leading opposition figure remains in intensive care in a firm in hospital the german government says he was poisoned with a number chalked nerve agent in london and washington are all demanding answers

from moscow also coming up. the image that shocked the world 5 years ago with this picture of a syrian toddler drowns in the mediterranean sea while trying to reach europe to send shock waves from around the world we find out what happened to alan courteous fun. i'm fully as welcome to the program german chancellor angela merkel is demanding answers from moscow after the german government confirmed that russia's leading opposition figure was poisoned testing by a military in a bar 3 found alexina valmy was attacked with a chemical nerve agent from the deadly chalk group developed by the soviet military in the 1970 s. and eighty's not only has been fighting for his. in

a medically induced coma here in berlin after falling ill in siberia last month moscow has repeatedly disputed allegations that the valley was poisoned. for years alexei navalny has been fighting to rid russia of what he calls crooks and thieves . the united russia party has always won for 20 years and even if they lost using fraud they won anyway. the outspoken opposition figure has organized numerous anti kremlin protest has been arrested several times for civil disobedience and even attempted to get on the ballot to run for president and $28.00 his bid was blocked by the courts. but now lives in an induced coma at a berlin hospital clinging to life. german chancellor angela merkel calls the suspected poisoning attempted murder. scene of the next in of all me is the victim of a crime he was meant to be silenced and i condemn this in the sharpest possible manner

and the name of the entire german government schefter no volunteers when a president vladimir putin's fiercest critics drumming up a vocal and growing opposition against police 20 year grip on power one that nobody has suffered physical and verbal attacks in recent years the attorney an anti-corruption activist fell ill on a flight from the city of tomsk in siberia on his way to moscow last week it's believed someone poisoned his team before he boarded a plane the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing to save his life the german government says testing carried out by its military proves that the soviet era nerve agent nova chop was used without a doubt. we expect the russian government to explain itself over this incident these are very serious questions now that only the russian government can and must answer. went on for. russia is set to hold

regional elections next month devonian his allies had been campaigning to get their candidates elected but for now his family and friends are holding on to hope that not only pulls through. well let's cross over to our washington bureau for more on reaction from the u.s. and d.-w. correspondent. is joining us hi abbi we've seen and heard germany's response to the apparent poisoning of alexei navalny but what about the united states how has have the latest developments been received there. that's right pablo in that report there we heard strong condemnation from angle americal we've also heard strong remarks from boris johnson and other world leaders and we would certainly expect a similarly sharp reaction from a sitting u.s. president unfortunately we haven't heard that directly from donald trump as of right now a few hours ago though the national security council did tweet that the u.s. is deeply troubled and called the poisoning of

a completely reprehensible act they also say that the united states will work with its allies and the international community to hold those in russia accountable interestingly we also heard from former national security advisor john bolton who either quit or was fired depending on who you ask he tweeted that trump should demand answers from moscow and as you'll remember he was one of the hawkish figures in the trumpet ministration when dealing with the russians but again trump hasn't directly said anything yet and this lack of response may not be surprising given trump has been reluctant to criticize russia in the past but at the same time we have to remember that the u.s. did join an international effort in 2018 after the poisoning of former russian spy a survey screwball and his daughter washington did impose sanctions on moscow and expelled dozens of russian diplomats what about the democratic presidential candidate joe biden he was speaking earlier today in wilmington delaware what did

he have to say. that's right pablo biden did take questions actually from the press today and was mostly domestic issues however when deval need 1st fell ill biden was quick to slam trump for being weak on russia this has been a widely held belief by democrats throughout the trump presidency as we know and it started with the alleged russian interference in the $26000.00 election which trump continues to downplay and dismiss more recently the president brushed off reports that russia had placed bounties on u.s. soldiers in afghanistan and biden has repeatedly said that he would be much tougher on putin and other autocrats if he were the commander in chief that trump is more than happy to cozy up to offshore tarion leaders and pick fights with allies which has hurt america's standing in the world to be front and center on days like today pablo t w correspondent following this story for us from washington thanks for that.

all this week we're looking back to the summer of 2015 when an unprecedented wave of migrants fled war and poverty in their home countries heading for europe many never made it and one image in particular or caused a lot of that and i was at the syrian toddler island kurdish body which washed ashore in turkey thousands of others also lost their lives on the journey and the many perilous sea crossings are still claiming lives. the tragic exodus of the courty family ended at this beach near the turkish village of . the mother father and their 2 children were trying to reach the greek island of kos in a rubber boat but the boat capsized. little on his brother harley and their mother reihana drowned only up to look already survived.

to be good looking capsized after people stood up. by how my wife son and. we had life jackets and tried to keep our children out of the water but it didn't work holly died for us in our own home never forget her words when he said to me papa don't be afraid don't look at. the image of a little dead body made headlines around the world the refugees desperation and their fate now symbolized by a tiny corpse 4 years later we set out to make contact with his father. now lives in arabic in iraq's kurdish region we were unable to travel to iraq because of the coronavirus pandemic. kurdish television has also covered up do it according to state and has revealed some good news. he has once again become a father he remarried 3 years ago. oh yes.

i was very surprised when the new baby was born i couldn't believe it it was a shock. oh i didn't know if i should be happy or sad or if i should cry. i have no idea what happened to me. when you lose your own child on the hope it never happens to you. it's a strange feeling if you've already lost a child and then having your baby. thank god i'm doing better. i'm happy about this new child. the new baby is a great gift he has named him. well let's take a look now at some other stories making news around the world the trial has opened and pirates have 14 suspects accused of aiding the 2015 terror attack on the

satirical magazine sharlee abdo 3 assailants it's free assailants murdered 17 people before being shot dead by police the magazine that was targeted because it published cartoons of the prophet mohammed. emmanuel mccall says he'll support iraq in its fight against the so-called islamic states terror group the french president is the 1st foreign leader to visit baghdad since a new government took office in may. tesla c.e.o. elon musk met with german ministers in berlin to discuss the carmakers collaboration with a german biotech company is providing cured with some of the technology it needs to produce a potential covert 900 vaccine must also briefed politicians about progress on a giant tesla factory being built near berlin. well international soccer returns in europe this week for the 1st time this year after the coronavirus pandemic wiped

out previous fixtures fixtures the nations league kicks off with germany hosting spain in one of the standout games fans are still getting used to the relatively relatively new tournament and won't be allowed into the stadium because of the health crisis. its 10 long months since germany last played there was meant to have been a european championship in june but that will now take place next year because of the coronavirus germany can instead ease their way back in stock up against spain in the nation's league a tournament designed to give countries competitive football when otherwise they would be playing friendly's. obviously felt quite different to join up with the national team the last few months was strange for everyone in. the tournament is starting its 2nd edition with portugal the inaugural winners last year changes have

already been made to what many fans see as a complicated competition you a 1st glossy video does its best to explain the rules but it remains a 2nd tier tournament offering a back route into the 2022 world cup. the revamp is good news for germany they were supposed to have been relegated after poor nations league displays full of that 2018 world cup debacle demotions was scrapped and now germany are only up after easily qualifying for the euros fans enough allowed for the spain game but general manager all of a bill told the w. that germany could still put on a show. play was a little different. so hopefully through the. next coming we'll have. to reproduce. it with france which is the.

nucleus sooner and leroy's sunny there but by munich's all the germany stars are rested for the game after their champions league heroics the coronavirus destruction means the match is taking place before the new blunders league season starts the football world hopes normality can return soon. sports organizations around the world work out how to keep the show on the road in the midst of a pandemic organizers of diamond league athletics have taken their show to the streets and i mean literally by that the streets of laws and in switzerland was the makeshift venue for the world's best pole vaulters voltaire's on wednesday angelina bankston won the women's event after clearing 4.72 meters fellow swede mondo duplantis came out on top in a thrilling jewel with american world champion sam kendricks on the men's side carrying a personal best of 6.07 metres. manchester united have

signed netherlands midfielder danny vander back from. amsterdam on a 5 year contract financial details of the deal weren't disclosed for british media reported that united paint an initial fee of $44.00 and. nero's for the 23 year old having joined at the age of 11 the bacon scored 41 goals and provided 34 assists in 175 appearances in all competitions and helped them win a dutch the title. the 1st major film event to roll out the red carpet since the start of the pandemic is underway many stars will miss the venice film festival because of travel restrictions but there are still many big names in time british actor tilda swinton received a golden lion lifetime achievement award on the opening night she found organizers for making the festival possible with strict safety measures in place the jury is being headed by a stray and actor cate blanchett. it's. thanks

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of covert 1000 really. funds as frightening. hello i'm told me a live ball welcome to news africa we're glad you could join us majorette has suffered the effects of a decade logged insurgency by the boko haram jihadist group part of the government's response apart from a military operation has been to offer an amnesty to repent and militants these fighters of an rehabilitated and steered back into society except they sometimes end up living alongside the very victims of their attacks as correspondent find if a child has been finding out in the city of maiduguri in northeast nigeria. what come to my degree this sign existed long before the city gained negative notoriety for being the birthplace of boko haram in the past my degree was known as

a major trading up a decade into the hardest insurgency more than 2000000 people have been displaced some of them find refuge in this camp at 1st sight not much has changed since we visited last year but this time we need to form a book or a militants who have also been assigned to this camp like mari he learns how to repair shoes during the 2 years he was with boko haram he learned something else. they wanted us to be part of their insurgency and become people who are willing to attack and kill. we went through a training to be able to kill and kill. the 45 year old claims. considered him to all to be a move to rock. the camp he still stigmatised he says he was forced to join the group. when we came to the camp a lot of people accused us of so many things. but that doesn't bother us. we just

want to live in peace but if we did it. with we 1st judge doesn't live in the camp he's becoming a hairdresser and claims he repents his actions. those people i've killed whenever i think about it i have sleepless nights my other forgive me i want to get married go to school i want to be a very good person i think that if. i would you and i are both part of every government funded training program to help reintegrate militants that sounds like mockery to the victims here who fled their homes lost their relatives and face an uncertain future. she did it to 9 you know to 99 i don't know how my life and that of my children will look. why does that it's better to train our

children than them so many people here agree on this if they trained our children it would have more impact and we're angry that. victims and former militants living side by side preparing to gather for a entrance into society wants to respond that's the goal but outside of the camp life is anything but stable. the capital city of borno state was considered a relatively safe haven but just a few weeks ago several rocket propelled explosives landed here in this city allegedly fired by militants many here in my degree as the violence is far from being contained. in the wake of new attacks it is difficult to convince people here to reintegrate form. so many show that's very safe around them so just how fair is it to rehabilitate these people without doing the same for their victims for. the answer seems simple. it is

absolutely unfair. and it also encourages dog who have never joined the insurgency to also 'd i tempted because they are even more. victims he says rehabilitation why violence is still ongoing it's counterproductive but as other observers put it amnesty to acts militants though a bitter pill to swallow may be the only way to achieve peace once the war on terror is over. joining me now from cardinal in northern nigeria is pasta dr james and we hear from the interface mediations. and nongovernmental organization involved in the right a collaboration programs for form of boko haram members dr we thank you for joining us why is the reintegration of these sex militants so urgent when some people would

argue that they should be paying for their actions in prison. well it's always been because the more you keep them where are the more detention and the more you get more people who are for mass going to join their way out the program men if you put. fuse strongly dark draws for my us. how much even more privileges than the young people who did not participate in the violence and so if you want to reintegrate we feel that the government should take its time and the people involved like ourselves not morally just leaders should be recruited to go and deprogram the people in the fields and reprogram them to was integrated there now coming back to decide how art they need. empowerment

and you give this right you can't. want that life so nice that you balance this i want that will come back or receiving them when i will receive them with a more open minded and that also did not. mean to go and fight what you see if you know what i want to get i support so from you know we we have reached out to the nigerian government for comment so far but they haven't granted this as as you're saying shouldn't more attention be paid to the communities themselves which include the victims of these former militants actions. very well that is it otherwise. it will attract young joining that really turns nasty conduits and then. come back and people are still so that is the

need for the really just leaders to come together. to host the community. to give them a mood of liberation that i didn't dog who was deliberate to detect. light and it got me and most. this will. do what you know it will cost and deal with that because then you can cop this community. and very briefly surely there needs to be more effort also to explain to the communities why these acts militants and need to be real need to be ushered back into society. very well spoken that is that neat although i will leave public surely in exciting. time to keep people don't decide so you know that get them back they need to preach forgiveness . is important but it just don't. post community and

not only that got me thinking they might you want no can not like that ok apostle dr james move away here in nigeria thank you for your time thank you for having me . with over 600000 infections south africa has been the country worst hit by the coronavirus on the continent yet it appears its response has been plagued with corruption after public servants members of the ruling party a.n.c. and private companies were accused of looting from the country's relief fund president cyril ramaphosa called for an investigation now the auditor general has published his findings uncovering a major flaws and corruption. an opportunity. when

there are fewer. correspondent in south africa has been following the story for us good to see you is anyone in south africa surprised about the auditor general's findings in q tell us a bit more about them well not really because there were few indications in the past weeks actually a lot of them more and more reports coming out about corruption in relation to those 19. expenditures of the government's now the south african government if you recall spent about 25000000000 euros on its fiscal covered 9000 relief package that's one of the biggest packages on the continent and about 7500000000 euros of that is the money that was located to local governments and also on the federal level that was basically already spent and this is the amount of money that the

order to general looked into with some frightening findings how he put it there's a lot of irregularities in the report mentioned and now these findings will be passed on to investigators there's a special investigative unit that will now look into this as well ok and see south africa's governing party has been blamed for corruption for such a long time to the extent that even within the party there is conflict edge and you spoke with the a and c. secretary of limpopo in south africa's north let's let's take a listen. to measure. things you have to. experience. very briefly is president obama doing enough to fight corruption when he took over as a president there was a glimmer of hope that he would do because that was his key argument he will really

fight corruption now and it was right after the term remember of jacob zuma the former president under his watch corruption was rampant at the time of state capture how it is called when corrupt individuals took over institutions in the country a mess of problem and still has supporters within the party and this is what some people say the reason why it has not been that effective in his fight against corruption but this weekend the leadership of the party heads a meeting and they supported president here's what the president said in a digital press conference afterwards. i am. going as asian. people. and decisive action. of action. and that person sacked. president. wrapping up that segment with the w.'s address

in south africa. that's where we'll leave it for today be sure to check out all those stories on. africa or not facebook and twitter now we leave you with pictures of health workers across the continent often putting their own lives at risk but working tirelessly to fight the cold in 1000 pandemic stay safe we'll see you soon bye from the. conflict zone these days america's religious rights are in the spotlight few worse groups are active in europe and elsewhere seeking to overturn the whole love to rule the legalized among other things abortion and gay lovers the world congress of some of those provides a platform platform for such groups from this week one of it's found those allen

calls joins me from rockford illinois. conflicts with. 60 minutes of w. how beaners feels for everyone schuman penises are very different from primates we have a totally ridiculous sized view of nature and their behaviors and this is climate change brags of sex how cute is improved books you get smarter for your books on. tech entrepreneurs they said germany top of his agenda scoping out the potential coronavirus vaccine also high on the list getting up to speed on the construction of a huge new electric car factory outside. cried hoping to catch a glimpse of the not for a 1000000000 there were left waiting in the rain also coming up new figures suggest

the u.s. economy may be recovering at a slower. than expected pace. while travel restrictions have devastated the aviation industry the rise in online shopping has driven up to mon for air cargo trumps force. this is deeply business i'm paid ferguson welcome to the show germany is playing host to an important and elusive visitor billionaire tech entrepreneur is in time to talk business to major projects are keeping him busy the search for a cope with $1000.00 vaccine for the construction of a huge electric car factory outside of berlin but he's kept a low profile throughout his visit and many of those hoping to cash a glimpse of him are left disappointed. during his german visit the law most made it clear where its priorities are right now the biotech company cure back which is trying to create a coronavirus vaccine on tuesday must visitor cure back into being and in the

country southwest the tycoon kept a low profile and his fans didn't get to see him because i'm waiting for the lawn musk is my great idol and i really want to see him. on wednesday he arrived in berlin where he met industry bosses and chancellor angela merkel. most praised the cooperation between cure of an tesla subsidiary grown automation and presented a new bio printing technology which could automate the production of covert $1000.00 vaccines. meanwhile tesla finds and grew hard to residents waited in vain in the pouring rain for hours the new test the factories being built quickly. opinions among the locals are mixed. up and we don't have a floater. for the past 2 years they've been telling us the best thing to do is to bury sprinkler loans not fill the swimming pools water is scarce or the

168000 people who live here but there's enough water for a factory like this explained up to me as i'm. turning years since the fall of the berlin wall there really hasn't been much development in terms of industry and jobs and that's why i'm very much in favor of it. the 1st vehicles are scheduled to roll off the assembly line next summer creating thousands of jobs. while most visits germany back in his home country of the united states one in 10 people are out of work and fresh figures suggest the pace of a recovery may be stalling and national employment report published by the a.d.p. research institute shows fewer than expected workers were hired in august large businesses accounted for most of the new recruits while small companies saw only a modest increase the u.s. has the world's highest number of coronavirus cases and lawmakers are still wrangling over the terms of

a new stimulus package. let's talk more about this with the financial correspondent in new york hi yes this big recovery has promised isn't really happening as. well i mean if you look at the months of 1st specially mayo and june for example we saw historic gains in the u.s. the labor force particularly that teflon after we had this historic drop in march that was really quite dramatic but what we're definitely experiencing right now is that the job growth seems to be slowing quite a big also we could see a 2nd wave of layoffs when it comes to fall in the retail industry and hospitality we just heard on wednesday that term for it is also planning to cut some a job service so clearly there is a lot of stress on the u.s. labor market and that will remain probably for quite some time. now i mean while lawmakers still can't agree on the next set of stimulus measures how badly is this

impasse affecting americans young. well 1st of all what is really important is that we still need another age package so to keep an americans have float i just see it let's say i have a young couple living right next to me here only makes 40 percent of his original income she's an artist she doesn't make any money at all so they can't pay their full rent any longer so for now we don't see any evictions but that also might come at some point so at one point we definitely need another aid package for american send then once the economy gets going once we can deal with the pandemic a bit better then we probably will also need a stimulus a pick a chimp some lawmakers in washington are talking about possibly another trillion dollars a soul so yes more aid is needed and the longer it takes it the more people are suffering i'm standing here in times square and if you look around new york actually stands for about 8 percent of the g.d.p.

of the anti your nation and a lot of stores similar still closed and probably might stay closed for one a lot of people really experiencing a tough time against plata in new york thank you so much. 900 some of the other global business stories making news tick tocks potential buyers are trying to find ways of acquiring the company while complying with new to chinese rules on tech exports options include not including key software in the sale and seeking beijing's approval to share take talks algorithm without a sale the company could be banned in the u.s. by mid september. the russian ruble fell sharply on wednesday after the german government concluded kremlin critic alexina valley had been poisoned with a nerve agent the ruble lost more than 2 percent against the us dollar with $1.00 worth more than 75 balls. united airlines says it will

furlough more than 16000 employees in october the number is considerably lower than the expected 36000 layoffs but still one of the worst average days in u.s. airline history the carrier said it would postpone for lows if washington approved more funds to help airlines. saying on this topic the decline in global travel has of course catapulted the aviation industry into the biggest crisis of its history but there is one glimmer of hope the increase in online shopping has led to a big price in demand for air phrase that's kept logistics firms like d.h.l. very busy. g h o freighter arrives from nose to toe with express packages. manager of on seidler's in charge of unloading and rerouting them his plane has just arrived from zagreb the room team has only 30 minutes to offload it.

hear me out there are more and more night learning the numbers going up to $65.00 and sometimes there is 70 year craft. express delivery service do you chose international hope is located in the eastern german city of light city for years businesses continue to improve for what is the world's largest logistics company during the current demick it specialists have to seek out every centimeter of available space because as the coronavirus crisis broke global passenger flights screeched to a halt vastly slashing capacities for freight as well that's worked to d.h.l. as advantage. we've been experiencing growth for years. but especially now during the coronavirus crisis we've seen all the lines reduce their capacities. to a 1000000000 if you take into account that 60 to 70 percent of volume is

transported in the holds of passenger planes it's easy to imagine that if the airlines disappear if we lose that capacity then things are going to start piling up. tonight's assignment involves sorting 400000 express packages and bulky items. the packages are then loaded on to other planes for the next leg of their journey. 2000 employees work the night shift here . and people pay good money to have their delivery by 6 in the morning or by noon we're in charge of making sure everything moves this fast as possible and everybody's business. once cabin container loading has been completed its arms idle has to monitor the loading of the planes holds. this work is done by hand. and then you were loading so-called loose freight into

the belly here the same way passenger baggage is loaded in passenger planes because this plane only has 15 positions for securing large containers in the cabin. you know. after an hour the aircraft ready for takeoff and on its way to frankfurt just one of $65.00 landings and $65.00 takeoffs every night i'd like to get a court. german retail sales fell unexpectedly in july just spice a temporary cost in value added tax for the 2nd half of 2020 the cut from 19 to 16 percent was meant to give domestic demand a boost but poor retail sales figures for july and august have cost dives on the measure shoppers generally seem to be holding back and in some cases companies are not passing on the tax cut to consumers.

and finally prince harry and meghan markle have signed a deal with streaming giant netflix the couple who quit the royal family this year want to focus on stories and issues close to their hearts. special projects are already in development including a nature program and a series focused on inspirational women the california couple may even appear in a documentary themselves. watch the space that's all from me on the business team here in berlin for more go to our website d w dot com slash business you can also check us out on social media to drop us a line on facebook on twitter for me is the t.v. it's the buy and take care.

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comes to terms with the sexism important to her native cameroon by colonial powers through poetry and song. and in the germans my colleague rachel stewart gives us a quick tour of the fairy tale world of german castle. or in the venice film festival unveiled its official selection in late july the competition roster with over 40 percent of films directed by women was heralded as progress great progress in fact considering the event had come under fire in recent years for lack of gender parity with social distancing protocols firmly in place some 90 percent of this year's festival will go ahead in person a breath of fresh air for cinema despite the masks. to see if he'll fall.