[000:00:00;00] ah mm ah, ah ah, ah, this is dw news live from berlin, us president joe biden, hicks allen at his predecessor ahead of key mid term elections. donald trump and the micro republicans represented extremism that threatened the very foundations of

our republic. he calls on all americans to reject political violence and protect democracy. also un inspectors say they're worried about the safety of europe's the biggest nuclear power station. after recent shelly experts plan to stay permanently at the plant in russian occupied ukraine. and asylum seekers forced to sleep outside as daniel authorities failed to accommodate them. now the netherlands plans to house them on cruise ships, a correspondent meets people hoping for shelter. ah, i've been for solon welcome, united states president joe biden has given a speech on prime time television warning voters that former president, donald trump, and his supporters threatened their democracy. the midterm elections are in

a couple months el, determine who controls the house of repairs and it's, and senate in his address biden accused trump supporters of undermining the rule of law and rolling back the rights and freedoms of citizens by his democrats. her only narrowly ahead in opinion polls, issues like inflation and abortion have up ended. the political playing field is more from his speech. too much of what's happening in our country today is not normal. donald trump, in the magar republicans represented extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. miger republicans do not respect the constitution. they do not believe in the rule of law. they did not recognize the will of the people. they refused to accept the results of a free election and they're working right now, as i speak in state after state, to give power to decide elections in america,

the partisans and cronies, empowering election deniers undermined democracy itself. mag of forces are determined to take this country backwards, backwards to an america where there is no right to choose. no right to privacy? no, right to contraception. no right to marry who you love? dw washington corresponded michelle, a cousin that gave us her assessment of biden's speech. joe biden has done 2 things . first of all, he is quite clearly answer the question, who is the leader of the free and democratic world tonight? that certainly what he wants to be a to world, but also in what he has declared, which is a battle for the soul of the nation. and that's interesting because donald trump was once elected and continues on what he calls a battle to take america back to save the country. now joe biden has declared

another battle, which is the battle to save democracy in america, the very american values. he feels also republicans who don't do not belong to the market to them make america great. again, movement completely centered on donald trump and he calls on them to join him as well. so he's essentially trying to turn the midterm elections in november into a referendum on whether you are for or against democracy, calling on republicans also to vote democrat. let's take a look at some other stories making headlines. police have arrested a man for supposedly trying to assassinate argentina's, vice president put it shows him pulling had gotten on christina fernandez, but no shots were fired. the president. i'd bet fernandez who's unrelated called it the most serious events the country's been through since returning to democracy.

southern pakistan is bracing for even more flooding. as water from the north search is down, river. record floods have already affected more than a 3rd of the country killing over a 1000 people. millions more have been left in desperate need of humanitarian aid. you case conservatives are in the final stages of choosing then you leader and prime minister. today's the last day members consenting their ballots and choose between list trust and richie snack. the result will be announced on monday with the window replacing forest johnson and ship carrying ukrainian grain that ran aground in turkey's boss for straight has now been towed to anchorage and is double . the vessel was transporting, calling to italy, when it's something to run a failure, forcing the critical waterway to close. it's the 1st such incidents since exports from ukraine. restarted in july, un inspectors say ukraine separation nuclear power plant has been physically violated racing concerns about it safety. it's the independent experts 1st tour of

the russian occupied facility following near by shelling, both ukraine and roger, what use each other of attacking the plant? several members of the inspection team remain on site and plan to stay there permanently, despite the ongoing damage. experts from the international atomic energy agency being shown around the separation nuclear power plant by russian energy officials. on thursday they made a 1st tour of the key areas they wanted to see with ukraine and russia. blaming each other for shelling near the facility, the agencies had said the physical integrity of the plant had been violated. and he emphasized that their mission is far from over. we are not going anywhere the i e. busy is now there, he's at the plan and he's not moving. it's going to stay there. we're going to have a continued presence there at, at the plant with some of my experts. my still the head of the power company that

runs the plants and they are working to restart the reactor and expressed hope that the un mission could help would believe it would be like her, my in parenthesis mission for us is just to did militarize. the tutorials opposing clear power plant and surround and ira if is this mission helps to do that, then it will businesses in the short term the i. e. h plans to keep a group of experts at the plans for the next several days to continue their assessment. of the damage already done to the facility. a dangerous unprecedented mission in the midst of a war zone. of course, one of mathias boating a is in south parisha. clarify the un teams assessment of the state of the nuclear facility for us. look, the ha, part of the mission has stayed there and the other part left after a few hours. so they have not given

a full assessment of the state. they have just said that they have seen that have been damaged on that. the integrity has been violated of the site. we've seen videos from russian media from their visit where they were walking amid military equipment on the side than there was shown that the damage that russia says had been done by ukrainian shelling ukraine is accusing rush of shelling the place. um, so they have gotten the 1st impression, but what is important now is the day it has all the damage that you might not see in the 1st, you know, on the 1st, on 1st regard because the weather, the systems are working, etc, needs more assessment, deeper assessment needs to stay there and i need to see how things are processing, whether maintenance work is done, etc, etc. and so obviously they need to stay a little longer to work out really what is going on there and what the safety

situation is that long term. what, what are their plans? so the i 8 wants to keep them there. i wouldn't say indefinitely, but as long as necessary. so for several weeks, months, whatever is the situation there and, and they would have to really be on site and monitor closely was happening there, assessing the damage to the systems, the functioning of all the security mechanisms, the working conditions, et cetera, et cetera. that's what the i a, a has said, we don't know. we have heard conflicting information that there was information that they would already leave to morrow. those will us who stayed behind. grossi has said he wants them to stay longer. russia hasn't principal agreed to a longer stay, but has also clarified all these things are very fluid. are very fluid, these the here and yeah, we don't know where that will work. but from a security point of view, they would have to stay there for quite some time,

but mathias for this to have to work. and if they're going to say they're long term, wouldn't the fighting. i need to stop the fighting nearby. i am right around this facility for anything to happen in a, in a positive way. the fighting would need to stop. i'm on the other hand, you would save the fighting continues. it's even more vital that they are there and assess the damage i i'm, i'm not sure the fighting needs to stop anyway. so. yeah. to have one to call that for sure. mathias bellinger in the city of separation covering that story for us on is so much at stake, not just the fighting, but also the effects there on that nuclear power plant, which is the biggest in europe. amsterdam has approved a plan to temporarily accommodate a 1000 migrants and a cruise ship mod in its port. the netherlands is trying to end an accommodation

crisis that seen hundreds of asylum seekers sleeping outside a reception center and yos, have criticised. the dutch government full failing to promptly care for people seeking shelter. a corresponding christina, one pa visited asylum seekers waiting for help in the village of tampa. close to the border with germany. this makeshift camp has sprung up outside a migrant reception center in the netherlands. these people are here to apply for asylum, but the facility which can accommodate up to 2000 people is to full to house them. so they are camping outside. this man recently arrived yet. he told me he is stranded. no, ma'am, do you, susan? susan, how long we are to we're known of nowhere to move. once asylum seekers are granted refugee status, many are unable to find

a place to live and have to stay in refugee centers. but these were intended only as temporary accommodation for people awaiting decisions on their asylum application. in late august, this place made headlines when it emerged set up to 700 people was sleeping outside in poor conditions. it prompted humanitarian groups to step in. we are here to help and her, her, we see that a lot of people can get the and medical attention they need. so we found our duty to come here and, and to help out. people are sometimes with more than $8000.00 people under one of the tents are laying a very close to each other using same blankets, et cetera. so all these skin diseases can go over from one to jada very easily. the dutch prime minister said he was ashamed of the situation here. his government

announced a raft of measures including tasking. the military with setting up a new camp to house asylum seekers. it's also rained in refugee family reunions and halted a deal with turkey to take in a 1000 migrants again, it's incredibly depressing and also shameful that in the netherlands, such a well organized, wealthy country ravages, have to, i'll be sleeping and living here in these conditions. this chaos here is the effect, not because there are too many refugees coming. it's because there was long time of budget cuts and scaling down capacity for refugee protection. we especially have to take care of that. across the netherlands. are all different municipalities really contribute to show solidarity by taking in refugees and at the moment in the netherlands, you see that some municipalities do a lot and other municipalities are well, they might take you crania refugees, but not people. for example, from syria of ganesh,

them this is one crisis in one country. but similar and even worse scenes, can be seen in other e u nations. the european union can't quite get a grip on how to deal with migration. and that's leaving people who are seeking refuge, vulnerable. finally, el salvador is festival of fire, bolts has returned. the pandemic had extinguished the traditional event for the past 2 years. local and tourist healthy child with type b rolled rags drenched and gasoline, participants, white gloves and mosques. and if not the safety police try to make sure no one takes part is intoxicated. bird local agent has it. event commemorates the eruption of a local volcano in the mid century. looks like fun or if it's crazy, sh, a reminder of the top story way. following voight,

the president of the united states, joe biden, as told old, warned voters that former president, donald trump, and his supporters threatened democracy in a speech ahead of crucial mid term elections. biden accused trump supporters of undermining the rule of law and rolling back rights coming up dw business with kate ferguson. the more of course you can head to our website g, w dot com. otherwise i'll be back in for sewland with your next news update. next our see event of ah people in trucks injured when trying to see the city center more and more refugees are being turned away. families theory for