there's a new sly from berlin suspicions of new nazis within the german police force any city offices are suspended for sharing images such as swastika us in chat groups and some not face criminal investigations also coming up we need to go faster and we need to do things better european commission president funny line sets out

her vision for the future of the e.u. and her 1st state of the union address. plus guilty of corruption the former head of world athletics is sentenced to 2 years in jail following a doping scandal his lawyers say the course has made him a scapegoat. i'm here for the most unwelcome we sat here in germany where police have launched raids against some of they call it officers suspected of trading new nazi images and private online chat groups 29 police officers in the german state of north rhine-westphalia has been suspended 11 now under criminal investigation images shared pictures of and nazi symbols such as swastika and this is not the 1st time germany security forces have been at the center of a scandal involving fall right extremism. by this grace and

a slap in the face for germany's police forces that's what the interior minister in north rhine-westphalia called the discovery of czech content in which 29 police officers shared right wing extremist material. including for example pictures of hitler of swastikas of imperial war flags but also many more horrible images like the fictional depiction of a refugee in the gas chamber of a concentration camp police officers from different cities and 34 police departments took part in the czech groups they were all suspended pending the results of the investigation they could face charges of inciting racial hatred a spokesman for the federal interior ministry said the reports are worrying. what we are hearing from north rhine-westphalia is very alarming. it is a disgrace for the police force there but of course it also has an effect on the

entire police profession throughout germany. it's not the 1st case of far right extremism spreading within germany's police and military forces in july a former police officer was arrested for threatening politicians across germany referencing a neo nazi cell in his e-mails and in june germany's defense minister disbanded part of the army's elite commando after allegations of far right extremism within its ranks. earlier we spoke to sociologist alexander yell and i asked him about the scale of the problem within the german police force problem we only know that there is a problem and it's not a minor problem you know it is problems with racism i think things as a man who was a real a police teller to release violence but with the this there's not much much research released and was solely in the ministry of interior i don't have a great interest in doing research on this. on this topic so we don't know

much about the expense or quite apparent reason in the police but we can what we can say is that there is a problem coincidence we know might mean willie is which we interview that they actually don't open with the police because they say hey there are police officers who are actually members or. so what you. and what we also. know years earlier. there are incidents like months which. you know so we only know. the extent we don't we know the president of the european commission has laid out her vision for the block to tackle the child crisis addressing the european parliament those left underlines wide ranging speech also called on china to improve its human rights records and made a not so veiled attack on member state poland for its asked you to what's gave

people and she urged member states to result the blocks for alice says on the issue of migration. also love underlying ahead of a 1st arab state of the union speech waiting to unveil more ambitious climate goals for the block we need to go faster and we need need to do things better the european commission is proposing to increase the 2030 targets for emission reduction to at least 55 percent catching emissions and becoming climate neutral by 20 to 50 are part of the european green deal one of funder line speed priorities a decision taken partly due to the mounting pressure of climate activists but ramping up that year's time at targets is not enough for some i expect on the lion to keep on working with her commissioners and really to put pressure on the council because we know that there are member states who are not willing to do what we need

to do when funder line took office late last year she presented a long list of projects by the code 19 pandemic slowed down many of them or brought them to hold she now said it's yours 1st priority to pull each other through this that you commission chief also put a focus on human rights not only calling out china's treatment of minorities but also criticizing your member said poland for introducing so-called free cell phones l g b t q i have free zones are sure manatee free zones funder line also said the e.u. finally has to decide on a solution on how to handle migration one of the most disputed topics among member states i expect that the member states will engage in the discussion so that we can really move forward and have a common plan to deal with that topic underlines commission will present

a long awaited proposal for a new impact on migration on september 23rd and its her who will be judged on its outcome. greek authorities have formally charged for african migrants with arson for their alleged involvement in the fires that destroyed the morea migrant camp on the island of lest the fire destroyed most of the camp and left thousands of people without shelter the greek army and international aid organizations have set up temporary cams but some migrants say they need a difference and use. row upon row of tents on the greek island of less boss have been set up for migrants displaced by the fires that gutted the morea camp but they're mostly empty. migrants are choosing to stay on the streets in squalid conditions many say they would rather remain here than run the risk of being detained for months in a completely new camp. some of even returned to what remains of moria.

they say the temporary tents are not enough they want long term solutions. going to look that comes through not that i want to build one when we want to free life we've come here to live we are human we are not animals. they put us in a place where there's no life and it's like a jungle. a human cannot live in such tents. so far only about 1200 of the roughly 13000 migrants rendered homeless by the fires have moved to the new temporary accommodation the u.n. refugee agency says there's a capacity for another i know isn't and is urging people to move it says it's the only way forward. people who have been in what we are can come to this camp and we encourage them to come there because it is from here that their process will

continue that their procedure will continue to do shoes can be found and that people can leave the island because the idea is not that people remain forever on the island of this war. but while several european states have offered to take in migrants from lesbos others say they will not they're offering to provide more and even more tense instead. let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world crashes involving boeing 77 max aircraft with a horrific culmination of design flaws and grossly insufficient oversight a u.s. congressional report says the investigation showed boeing's staff carrying out tasks meant to be done by regulators and all in all 346 people were killed in 2 plane crashes. tick-tock looks set to move the test borders to the u.s. according to reports that's as american taxpayer article becomes

a minority shareholder president has been demanding the sale of take talks american business citing security concerns he says a deal is close. the former head of well as les stakes has been found guilty of corruption and sentenced to 2 years in prison a french court found that a lot mean diac solicited bribes to totaling 3000000 europe's from russian assamese suspected of doping should he then use the money to help them compete in events like the 2012th london olympics. he was one of the most powerful men in sports during his tenure at the governing body of track and field the international association of athletics federations and a french court says he used that power to rake in piles of money. that included a scheme that allowed russian athletes who paid millions in hush money to keep competing when they should have been suspended for doping some of those athletes

went on to claim medals at the 2012 london olympics medals that should have gone to athletes who didn't cheat. runner crystal do and they said she was all smiles after the verdict says up on the warhead you can see the grin on my face with the mask i'm wearing but i'm very happy to have been recognized as a victim of the corruption by the i double f. leaders and i'm also happy for all the other athletes who were told he was. diac has long professed innocence in the scandal maintaining over 16 years he turned the track and field body into a much admired organization. now diac son. was given a 5 year sentence for illegally funneling out some $15000000.00 during his father's tenure but he spent a lengthy trial comfortably in his home country senegal which has refused extradition requests. you also on these accusations i can say that based on

everything i've read i'm not very reassured that the french justice system has no basis for condemning let me. get. to remains free for the time being as his lawyers appeal the verdict a verdict they say made their client a scapegoat that after the judge told the he had purely and simply violated the rules of the game i mean you know. our sports reporter max merrill has been following the corruption scandal at max so how know how is the corruption going on was believed that this really began a year before the london 2012 olympics and in fact the media friends prosecutors say he was a russian hotel meeting with senior officials from the country including president medvedev even so this goes really far up and not only with they doing him was he doing them favors but also the other way round it's believed that they helped his friend when in the twenty's 12 senegalese elections so this goes beyond sports and

let me direct really calling in favors at the top level. 5 years ago french police raided the d.x. compound and found e-mails between lamine and his his son. where they were discussing potentially getting caught and the risks of getting caught they even found a basically a price list of $23.00 athletes that of where it listed how much money they had paid between 100600000 euros and it's believed that actually funneled incredible $15000000.00 out of world athletics into his personal accounts wow the report mentions the assamese who basically bribed their way into a limp aches and so is actually stealing nettles from other essays has anything the done to remedy that situation well medals have been stripped and russia holds the record for that worldwide $51.00 medals in total in history they've been stripped

a lot of them since the start of the millennium and what usually happens is an athlete is sanctioned stripped of a medal they've been appeal at the court of arbitration for sport and then the medals are retroactively awarded to the people who are basically behind them in the running or in the medals table as it were and last year at the doha welt athletics championships exactly that happened 15 medals were awarded but some athletes decided not to go like a german athlete not incline not who said she had better things to do this is just a gesture and she admitted basically she's already missed out on the big moment being on the steps being at a full stadium and getting cheered on for their achievement and also other athletes have mentioned they've missed out on sponsorship deals over the course of their careers because of this so it's really too little too late symbols members of the day x.m.a.s. still walking free can we expect any of them to surface at this well i don't really think so i mean the sun pop on assad is currently sort of safe in senegal as it

were doesn't look like he'll be extradited and he has a 5 year sentence and his father has. been in house arrest for years but i don't think you will be starting next meryl thank you so much. you're watching news live from berlin up next is africa i'm unique and i'm just trying thanks for watching. i'm not laughing at the germans because sometimes i am but nice and laughing with you but you haven't been thinking for general culture yet you don't seem to take that as grandma yeah you know it's all that. time rachel join me i need to get funky help host. sometimes.

what connects people is stronger than separates them. is so strong the big speech on down. we celebrated the 30th anniversary of free unification october 3rd on d w. this is the news africa coming up on the program nigeria says it's time to get back to the classroom but how to schools ready to see if we reopen the abdullah's just events many few they are just now well prepared enough to pull the cord on fire as prevention guidelines where they're often 60 students in a classroom. that had more classrooms then go north any need for them to have

got attendance we didn't want more than 2 things. also coming up on the program creek. just in south africa for testing against the government's handling of the industry many have been jobless for months during the cold 19 and make and seeding need help now. and you're welcome to the program it's time for students to return to school in nigeria now that should normally be good news right because children have been away for months and are virus and demick but it's a bit more complicated on but with insufficient funding of public schools for henson about how well the schools to fulfill the new crop of 19 prevention guidelines are correspondents on the far star reports on labor. normally martins

would be sitting in class right now studying math but nothing is normal for a 13 year old or for his siblings since march this is my reality. and. the rest of. us with every passing month he lacks food the behind the educational curriculum online classes exist but just like most of his peers in public schools martinez cannot participate i need a lot of boards i don't have because my parents don't have room to vote for. he's mom is the main breadwinner in the family she wants her children to have access to education but the prospect of schools reopening puts her on edge. am i set out by. a mix so that's because i use everything

she wants to monitor the situation for a week after schools reopen before she will allow her children to go back to school . we were approved for a rare visit to film inside this public school government funded institutions are aware of parents' worries soon this classroom will be full of life again full of students ready to learn but there's concern over whether the chronically underfunded public school system is also ready ready to prevent an outbreak of the virus. that could destroy all the progress that's been made here because the basics are in place water best since. but schools need more rooms too and here too social distancing rules 60 students in one classroom has been the norm here if you had more classrooms then there were not any for them. to have attendance

we didn't want more than 20 students in a class that means we need to split the class into 3 students will be requested to take turns receiving face to face teaching others who stay at home with the promise of classes the numbers that we receive in our schools. most. of the funding to accommodate everybody stretching the funding for public schools is nothing new getting an education to independent make will be even harder let alone keeping students safe. so what happens to our. industry has been shut down. that's been the case across the continent including in south africa. protesting against the government's lockdown. it's been locking down their business after several months of nowhere. there's been

a lockdown here in south africa for 6 months now but gradually the economy has been reopened in the past weeks and months but not all industries many. people are still suffering this is why artists came here to protest they say they haven't been able to perform for half a year not able to make an income and they want the government to consider them as well. my name is i mean i'm an artist i'm a performer it has been small town the music. performance in those to entertainment lots of small businesses attached to all those small businesses out there not just . you know. people sound it's a lot of levels that have been affected when they just pull the plug i've been just surviving via the grace of my god you know and my creator and my family people that

have helped and supported me they can because our industry was the 1st to be afflicted with it was the 1st to be knocked down shut down completely businesses have gone out of out of business. i many people are also complaining that the government has largely been ignoring the arts and entertaining industry for many years and even during the times of the pandemic some odyssey are complaining that they had no access to a covered 1000 emergency relief funds among the people protesting musicians seeing people playing in theaters most of the odds menus in capetown remain closed they are allowed to open but at limited capacity at the moment with a maximum of 50 people at one venue people here are saying this is not enough to survive to make a living and they're demanding for them to be allowed to operate at 70 percent capacity. west african leaders keeping up the pressure on mali and i was meeting in

our car so the modern believes region to block 18 month transitional period but insisted that both the president and the vice president must be civilians they also said that agenda must drop in the sea to the transitional government the west african group imposed economic sanctions on mali after the military coup that ousted president. on 18th of august. they got him president is that he had this to say about the immediate timetable we amended the government has put in place the sanctions of course is put him in this morning will be lifted he has written. to the sanctions on the people of money to. be the default because this is the. resistance a group of jonathan will be going to bomb a coup in

a week's time and hopefully between now and then these reasons would have been put into place so that he can report. and then go from there. stay in mali from our president. has died he was 83 the general seized power in the ninety's did see a military coup and remains that countries of the retiree annora for 23 yes but he also and praise for his that diplomacy in various african crisis in 1901 he was toppled by on sentenced to death after being pardoned the status of an elder statesman in the late yes almost all of his successors including the tyrants when he sought his advice. now if you love music with a pap clothes like i do then you allow the german nigerian singa as

a rights became known in germany because of mainly concepts in youth detention center just now if you want to use new music to give a voice to the voiceless on the help make the weald a better place. outside hamburg's university all is quiet but in the basement diana as a rex's band is making some noise that. diana as a rex is working on her debut album in a few weeks she'll be reporting in the studio. a form of i'm sure me of what the album that i'm currently working on can achieve so many people have put so much time energy heart and soul into it that they've helped compose to be big then. inspiring people to make the world a better place is what drives the 25 year old as her ex made headlines when she

gave over a dozen free concerts in juvenile detention centers in germany she raises her voice for the unheard not only within germany i think throughout the last time i heard about george floyd being killed and how it happened i burst into tears because it's so terrible that people treat each other like that when. you mention that the thought behind. how people interact is the focus of as rex's songs it's hard to make the dream of having an album a reality and that's mainly for financial reasons but through thinks about the most difficult thing about releasing a song or the sides having a good idea is finding the right producers and musicians and the music up the baton as are. it's the earnings from her live appearances into the production budget for her album she's also trying to get stage funding the 25 year old also studied education in order to work in human resources but her love of music was stronger

with music has always been a big part of my life sometimes i think about giving up because it's so much work but i can't imagine doing that it's a constant presence with me. she taught herself to play the piano both her german mother and nigerian father made music as you'd expect they encouraged her. actually feel very german in many ways my organization my structural thinking is very very german but a lot of my other personality traits come from my father. attributes

her penchant for thinking on a grand scale to her nigerian father this includes the dream of releasing her own album. that's just beautiful and that's all time well our sunday's show more of our stories go to. africa check out. on twitter pages now we leave you with the majors from nigeria's largest came out mendez in a maryland district of make us even use a local produce and send in shock and awe about household items or as one thriving spy of an economic downturn caused by the court of viruses and dubnyk take a look at this traditional nigerian craft see you next time i think i'll.

try to conflict with sarah palin for years for when foreign policy line has been dialogue 1st keep talking no matter what but a russian opposition leader alexina volney recovers in a berlin hospital after an apparent poisoning or limb is under increased pressure my guest this week is germany's deputy foreign minister and meals on the. food.

60 minutes. every journey begins with the 1st step and every language with the 1st word emerged from the group. the coaches in germany to learn german why not with simple online on your mobile and free shop d w z e learning course you can speak german to me to see. the federal reserve lets it hang the world's most powerful central bank says it's prepared to leave the interest rates close to 0 until 2023. and as the issues climate goals become more ambitious dialer unveils the hydrogen powered truck but is attacked ready to go. this is a

w business i'm joined now the milan in berlin thank you very much for joining us the u.s. federal reserve is keeping its benchmark interest rate close to 0 for the next few years as it tries to jumpstart the economy and drive down the unemployment rate the fed also says the rate will stay where it is until inflation exceeds above 2 percent and when the and woolly. in washington federal reserve chair jerome powell expressed concern about the economy. he cannot make activity has picked up from its depressed 2nd quarter level when much of the economy was shut down to stem the spread of the virus with the reopening of many businesses and factories and fewer people withdrawing from social interactions household spending looks so recovered about 3 quarters of its earlier decline. no less spending on services that typically require people to gather closely including travel and hospitality is

still quite weak here to help break this down for us is our u.s. correspondent. yes it's quite astonishing for the fed to adopt such a long term stance isn't it it really is and we live in strange times understand your own paul correctly to federal reserve is not planning to increase interest rates even until 2024 i don't know why the federal reserve is so sure about this because nobody can tell how actually things will change in 2 or 3 years so what the federal reserve is saying is that they can still help to stimulate the markets but yet it's definitely very unsure was still an unheard off that we have a long term projection and maybe one quick word this policy it also means that the federal reserve quite frankly does not really expect to for the economy to fully

recover any time soon. but in that case how much will the fed to be able to do in case economic recovery is hobbled by sustained pandemic. general poll made that pretty clear he said the federal reserve can help to lend money but that money has to be repaid at a certain point in the future they can hope that help to stimulate the economy and specially to the federal reserve can at have helped to. actually keep financial markets going but at the end of the day to really give the economy a big push especially when we might have their health situation under better control the government has to act congress has to act we need to in fiscal measures so that's what is your role might make clear quite frankly so yes the federal

reserve can help up to a certain point but in the end to really get the economy going you need to government you need congress and you need a fiscal measures federal reserve recognizing its limits thank you yes quarter there in new york for us. the e.u. has announced an even greener new deal to cut emissions accelerating a reckoning in the automotive sector that was already under way now german carmaker dialer has presented its 1st hydrogen powered semi truck but it's a long way from road ready and its environmental credentials are by no means assured. with a certain amount of pomp dimer unveiled its 1st hydrogen powered semi truck in berlin on wednesday but it's not going on sale any time soon the concept vehicle with a hydrogen fuel cell in the range of 1000 kilometers is perhaps an indication of where the company's development is headed that existed with that illinois that will

be models for customers to test if that will happen around 20232024 but if we're talking about serial production meeting in any desired quantity and variance that customers can order i expect that by 2027 today a hydrogen powered truck with such large fuel cells is 2 or 3 times as expensive as a diesel truck once it goes into serious production the technology will likely be cheaper but it may never outprice diesel and manufacturers are making clear demands of policymakers they want purchases of environmentally friendly hydrogen trucks to be rewarded with lower highway tolls for example germany's transport minister shares that view. but now we have to move toward the c o 2 road toll that way the topic of c o 2 emissions will play a role in the price the usage of rice and that way the difference between the different propulsion types will be reduced so an alternative drive that's currently more expensive can become more affordable and efficient or that it was the studio

version if you get of it to be quite. the attendees that the reveal event agree that such regulations only make sense for long haulage if they're in new wide and that the environment will only benefit if the trucks clean fuel is produced in a climate neutral way today's hydrogen fuel is still often generated using electricity from coal fired power plants. now to some of the other business stories making news. crashes involving boeing $737.00 max aircraft were the horrific culmination of the. flaws and grossly insufficient oversight that's what a u.s. congressional report says the investigation showed boeing staff carrying out tasks meant to be done by regulators in all $346.00 people were killed in 2 plane crashes . bill de blasio has put himself on furlough the mayor of new york city

says a week's unpaid leave for him and his staff is unavoidable due to u.s. congress failing to come up with a fresh stimulus package the city's administration has lost $9000000000.00 in revenue due to the pandemic. airline alitalia is launching so-called free flights between groom and meal on the routes will only be open to passengers who have tested negative for the coronavirus a maximum of 72 hours before the flight. to talk looks to move its headquarters to the west according to reports that says american tax firm oracle becomes a minority shareholder president donald trump has been demanding the sale of take talks american business citing security concerns he says a deal is close. now most people look forward to retiring but there are pensioners who just can't let go they don't just work to live their lives to work

here's the story of one japanese senior citizen for whom retirement didn't quite work out. 77 year old cosa who she's i was getting his bike ready it's 830 time to head off to work the man has long been a pensioner but retirement is not for him mosque he got out of the semester well i like going to work it keeps me moving and that's good for my health and i still have plenty of time for private things. that. he lives in acosta an hour's drive south of tokyo if she's all one needs 15 minutes to get to work at a branch of electronics chain no jima. like many companies in rapidly aging japan the retailer is suffering from a shortage of staff. so now the business is betting on one jeopardy and allowing workers to stay on longer until they turn 80. 1 percent of the vulcan old age home

or kindergarten would you rather be they're here i'm together with younger people i get to experience new things and can learn something but i don't know if i'm very useful but i try are going to go up there. without yes the boss and say the senior citizen is great on the job thanks to his experience maturity and even temper lots of younger people lack that and issues i was still ambitious and quick maneuvers to he's even older than my father but he doesn't put on airs when you give him a task he takes care of it quickly and conscientiously and he always looks to see how he can make things easier for the salespeople he's a big help to the political body leaders on the. issues that will works in the stockroom years ago he was a technical director at a big railway company so logistics controlling checking off items are all quite familiar processes.

you know without him the stock room would be chaos and. far less efficient to work with colleagues in sales often overlook things but he always notices them so he's incredibly aware that you could. give us. the arrangement with senior workers is good for everyone says the company it gives firms more personnel the retirees pay and occupation and extra tax revenue for the state it's quite flexible issues are what works 36 hour days a week. for lunch eats his homemade only giri traditional roast balls more knowledgeable my wife doesn't say it but i think it's better when i'm out of the house a few times a week and not always sitting around at home i'm a moment ago. a good husband is healthy and absent sense

a japanese proverb and issues i wouldn't mind continuing until he's 80 at time he rides home for a bath and a cool beer surely at his age he's earned it. and finally belgians looking for an unusual calling area experience are once again able to it while suspended 50 metres above the ground brussels based dinner in the sky has been set up in 760 countries since its 2 $1006.00 launch well known chefs cook and serve from the center of the platform during the pandemic diners it will be socially distance with catering for up to $32.00 people seated together at 4 per cent private tables. gotta try that thanks for watching.

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see the screamer how can we protect habitats. what to do with all our waste. we can make a difference by choosing smart solutions overstrained said you know we're always. google ideas into a series of little 3000 g.w. and all. the world of literature as undergoing a massive shift the authors on this year's booker prize shortlist are more diverse and fresher than ever we'll meet one of the shortlisted authors sit sit down go around go in her home zimbabwe where she's awaiting trial later this week and also on the show what looks like spaghetti turns out to be a different food entirely some aspects of life in germany that are guaranteed to

surprise you and our series meet the germans welcome to arts and culture this year's booker prize shortlist is the most diverse ever and another 1st most of the nominees are debut authors now that doesn't include sit see him go she's nominated for her 3rd novel this more noble body it's about a woman's descent into poverty and post colonial zimbabwe zimbabwe an author talked to us about her recent arrest for protesting government corruption. award winning novelist and now booker prize shortlists nominates. at her home on fail within symbolic way it. is jew in court on september the 18th the oath was designed to staging a small protest part of the planned day of action on july 31st holding up a placard saying we want to reform our institutions we went. i

won't down the road at night because we've got friends and then we stopped i think .