"dw news >> this is"dw news -- this is "dw news" live from berlin. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] this was the scene on thursday. desperate migrants breaking through the croatian border. thousands on the way, on more on the way. and the u.s. federal reserve decides against interest rate hikes. we will go to new york to find out what fed boss janet yellen did and did not say. and a coup in burkina faso. the military has seized control,

sending the african country into yet more chaos and violence. i'm brent goff. it is good to have you with us. croatia says it has reached its limit. on thursday it estimated 8000 refugees crossed from serbia, that after hungary sealed its border. croatia has put the army on standby and vows to seal its order friday if the influx continues. we continue with the humanitarian disaster at europe's door. reporter: after waiting hours, hundreds of migrants crushed it through the croatian border.

many were stuck there after croatian officials said the country did not take more migrants. at the moment, croatia has reached its limits regarding its capacity. all of my talks with the representatives had the same reading -- the migration exceeds it croatia's ability. more than 7000 people have turned to croatia in recent days after hungary shut down its borders to serbia and used water get -- water cannons and tear gas to keep migrants away. following the chaos, many tried to board a train said to be headed north acros slovenia. earlier in the day, croatian authorities stressed they would not let migrants freely head to slovenia. the slovenian government says

they will protect that frontier. >> i want to stress that slovenia has an obligation to protect the outer border. as you know, we have to protect the border with our neighboring country croatia. slovenia is bound by the rules that we will fully honor that is our obligation. reporter: croatia has stressed it was to be constructive and cooperative regarding migrants, but as many keep coming, many will be left in limbo at yet another border. brent: going now to my colleague standing by at the serbian-croatian border, where those scenes to place earlier today. all of those people who rushed across the border, where are they tonight? reporter: they are on their way to a reception center. the police are trying to load them all on buses which is

difficult because these desperate people try to get on the buses and they have a very hard time to keep order. babies are crying, people are screaming. but now the town is emptying, bus by bus, so to say. there are still 100 people left. now the railway station is nearly empty, but the local authorities are afraid more people are to come because on the other side, there more people approaching. brent: we are getting reports that hungary has accused croatia of sending migrants back into its country. are you hearing that? can you confirm that? reporter: no, there are lots of rumors going on. finger-pointing is everywhere now in the european union. i cannot confirm that area -- i cannot confirm that.

we know the croatian approach is completely a different to the hungarian approach. there is no violence by the least. there's no violence used on the croatians. they at least try to treat these people humanely. brent: that is the good part of the story, but we also have reports croatia is threatening to seal its border if the flow of refugees does not stop. what is your assessment? is that even possible? reporter: it is very, very hard to seal this border, even if the army is standing by. they are all over the place because you can just walk through the trees in the bushes. it's nearly impossible to do that. it is a threat to the migrants may be to stay in serbia, but the biggest problem is the migrants do not know what is going to happen with them.

that is why they are so desperate to get somewhere. all of them hope to get slovenia or germany at one point, but this might not be fulfilled very soon. brent: you know, these pictures we saw from today, they look very miller to what we saw -- very similar to what we saw in hungary, but you save the authorities have a completely different approach to the migrants. do the migrants realize that? when the bus is voluntarily offered to them, do they get on, for example? reporter: this bus approaches, and then there is the panic, of course and police are trying to stop that. they are not using violence to read on the other hand, there is food handed out. even refugees are taking selfie pictures with the police smiling. this is a kind of cooperation here. brent: selfie pictures with the police. that's certainly a different

story than we had last week. ok, thank you very much. time now to throw to gerhart. all bets were on. a big tax -- not tax, but interest rate hike. >> but all of that is not now because the fed policy meeting has ended and they have decided not to raise interest rates citing local economic problems inflation. they left open the possibility of a modest increase later this year. the international economy has been braced. the fed spot -- the fired row interest rates have been near 0% for seven years. there is more. reporter: janet yellen and other fed members decided to hold off in light of recent events. the slowdown in china has

increased doubt and the low price of oil has kept inflation too low. the fed sees a danger that an entry's -- an increase in interest rates could only aggravate those problems. but yellen says u.s. fundamentals are solid and would justify a hike. janet yellen: we are getting closer. the labor market has improved. we do not want to wait until we have fully met both of our objectives to begin the process of tightening policy given the lags in the operation of monetary policy. reporter: unemployment is down to almost 5% and growth is accelerating. those facts alone could prompt a rate hike and janet yellen says that october is a possibility. if conditions continue to improve, it seems almost inevitable.

>> what can you tell us about the markets in new york? reporter: it's interesting. we have to reactions. if you look at the stock market itself, first, there's not much going on in the dow jones at all until we are suddenly during janet yellen's press conference a spike for no account reason and it went away as fast as it'd come. an interesting reaction of traders on the floor when the decision came. there was quite astonishment here and were surprised. people were shocked. you can literally hear that on the floor. that was interesting because initially most evil and wall street had said that they were not expecting anything, but at the same time most people on wall street were hoping for the interest rate to be hiked. it seemed a little bit like we have some wishful thinking in the markets. apparently some people were hoping until the last minute.

>> janet yellen has hinted an interest rate hike might not be too far away, even this year. what do you think about that? reporter: she says specifically that is certainly an option in the october meeting which is just about five weeks from now. i do not know how credible that is given that we have heard before, too, the decision today was made 91. there was only one person dissenting. nine people agreed it is too early based on a lakh of development in the labor markets. something a lot of people on the floor actually dispute. it is very, very hard to see how this 91 will change in the next couple of weeks. chef but that is it for me. i will be back on a little bit later in the show. back to brent. brent: thank you very much. back to our top story, the scene on the of migrants coming into europe. the porous borders and the european union could as a result the come history.

hungary has sealed parts of his borders. bulgaria is moving troops to its frontier. austria has checks on its eastern and southern borders and germany has also introduced rigorous controls. in what authorities are finding is troubling. reporter: around 400 refugees are stuck here joined to cross the bridge. most want to go to germany. many have been waiting since yesterday. >> we don't shower for seven days. i need a shower. not just that i'm hungry. i need a toilet. there aren't any toilets. reporter: many of those waiting are women and children. police are attending to them first. still, there is little understanding here for controls. yesterday alone, 4600 refugees were registered and 18 people

smugglers taken into custody. authorities are concentrating on checking larger vehicles. >> during controls we often meet other types, too. we are not just catching smugglers. we are finding other criminals, if you will. will will will reporter: the only refugees who are not crossing the border are traveling in a bus from austria. they have already heard about strict controls of the border. >> they are helping us. reporter: it is a touch of humanity in a very distressing situation. brent: all right, and mid the massive influx of refugees in

europe, germany is looking to change its asylum laws, especially to more quickly press of cases and deport those who do not qualify. let's talk about that. we have our guest from the pro-human rights organization in frank for it. it's good to see you again. what do you think is going on? is germany getting ready to roll out the red carpet? has it realized that it's asylum laws -- that its asylum laws are too generous? guest: that is not the problem. and it's not a soon on me. half a million people will arrive in europe this year. they are in a desperate situation. most of them are refugees in a very narrow sense. the problem is, we have no common perception of the asylum system in europe. on paper, yes, but in reality, no. therefore we need germany,

sweden, u.k., france, and other very traditional asylum offering countries to create something like a coalition of the willing -- the u.k. is not part of the willing at the moment, but to create more reception, dignified reception conditions and we cannot stand this situation that people walk hundreds of kilometers across different borders in europe and are desperate, homeless, without protection. brent: let me ask you about the situation right now. we know there's a special him it on when -- a special summit on wednesday. do you think we will get a move on this reception centers you are talking about? the eu is divided on this issue. guest: i do not talk about the reception centers on these external borders. it is not mayor our approach, but we need reception centers everywhere, yes?

brent: we are going to have to starop there. i apologize for that. thank you for talking to us. guest: thank you. brent: all right, were going to take a break and be back with more news. stay with us.

brent: you are watching "dw news " life from berlin. our top stories right now. now it has become croatia's crisis. croatia is offering to close its border if the influx continues. hungary and slovenia have expressed anger at the handling of the crisis. fed bus janet yellen has decided against a fed rate hike for the time being, but has warned at least one rate hike will likely come to pass this year.

after weeks of diplomatic tension, the obama administration says it would be willing to operate with russia to address the fighting in syria. a white house spokesman says the white house is open to talks with moscow. this after washington warned russia about the military buildup in the country. moscow is also ready to work with washington and provide any information that it needs. all right, let's pull in our correspondent in washington, d.c., richard walker. richard, good afternoon to you. what do you make of the signs? are we talking about a behind the scenes breakthrough between russia and the u.s. on syria? richard: josh earnest was not

going anywhere near it in his press conference. he was being very careful in his language they were open to " tactical, practical discussions" focused on furthering the goal of the us-led coalition against the islamic state and secondly, as they put it, ensuring safe conduct of operations. basically making sure any u.s. and russian units operating do not come into any sort of accidental clashes. definitely trying to lower expectations, that i think it would be wrong to underestimate the importance of this. because the crisis in syria has been deadlocked for so long. partly because the u.s. and russia have been unable to agree on what they do, especially whether the aside regime should be able to -- the assad regime should be able to survive. brent: could there be greater

cooperation between the u.s. and russia on ukraine, for example? richard: that is -- richard: that is one of the big questions. there were questions whether a window of opportunity might be opening up to make progress on the syria crisis. that goes back to concern over the deal over iran's nuclear program, which put to one side uncertainty in the region over the nuclear program and was an example of the u.s. and russia being able to work -- brent: we apologize for that. we are having problems with her signal to washington. that was our correspondent richard walker there, reporting. richard was watching the debate last night. so was i, and now we're talking about the knives that are out for the man donald trump. the republican hopeful debate

took place but this time the other 10 candidates seemed determined to rein the trumpet in. reporter: rthe reblican debates and this time there was a dramatic a up ronald reagan's air force one framing the 11 candidates on age. center stage again, donald trump. what was different this time -- more rivals went on the attack. >> we do not need an apprentice in the white house. we have one right now. >> this visceral response to atck people on their appearance -- short, tall, fat, ugly. my goodness. that happened in junior high. are we not worried to have someone like that in charge of the nuclear arsenal? mr. bush: the one guy who tried to get me to change my views on something was donald trump. he wanted casino gambling in florida. yes, you did.

carly fiorina: why should we trust you? reporter: it means that trump was often on the defensive and outside his comfort zone, talking about issues he admits is not fully understand. at one time leaving like marco rubio was piling on the pressure. mr. rubio: you matter be able to leave the country on the first day. the president could very well confront a national security -- mr. trump: i will know more about the problems in this world. this world is a mess. reporter: there were humorous moments like when jeb bush was put on the spot about drugs. mr. bush: 40 years ago, i smoked marijuana. i admit it. my mom is not happy that i just did. reporter: and there were upward

moments between donald trump and his neighbors. but perhaps the most powerful low when carly -- blow when carly fiorina was asked to respond to donald trump's disparaging comments about her appearance. carly fiorina: i think women all over this country heard very clearly what mr. trump said. [applause] reporter: once again, the spotlight thrown on trump's attitude toward women. all eyes will be on opinion polls in the next two days. brent: what a debate. it was 3:00 in the morning here in europe and i could not go to sleep. were you watching? >> it was amazing. in other business news, american airlines says it has six a technical problem that was grounding flights to and from dallas, chicago, and miami

thursday, although it did not find the cost of the outage which lasted nearly two hours. this as the world to get airline plans to combine its reservation system with its u.s. airways subsidiary and retiring the u.s. airways subsidiary brand all together. there have been several outages at united after it merged with continental. last year, an investigation uncovered a large scale and systematic tax avoidance scheme implicating some of the world a guest -- the world's biggest companies. it referred to a time when jean-claude juncker was the prime minister of luxembourg. it caused huge embarrassment, but he is still under pressure to answer questions about his role in the affair. reporter: jean-claude juncker

was on the defensive. he denied establishing a massive tax avoidance system in his time as finance minister of his native luxembourg and he advocated closing tax loopholes for multinationals. for those wondering why he is still part of the discussion, he said -- >> i have always thought i had the duty because my country of origin is art of the investigation to not get involved. that i have the obligation to abstain because of professional ethics. reporter: the so-called luxembourg leaks revealed how 300 companies, including apple, amazon, ikea, and deutsche bank profited from specially arranged corporate structures. companies transferred their profits to luxembourg via shell companies, taking profits away from the countries -- country's

european neighbors. in some cases they paid less than 1% tax on their profits. the scandal has put juncker under pressure. embarrassment may be the only consequence. >> that it from me today. back to grants. brent: thank you very much. the people of burkina faso have been in a democracy for over a year. massive ain't -- sustained protests toppled the leader and the election scheduled for month away. all of that in vain. a veteran army general has taken power in a military coup during a curfew is in place and those long-awaited elections, well, they have been as boned indefinitely. -- they have been postponed indefinitely. >> an angry crowd. shots ring out. in the capital, there is

confusion and the situation is dangerous. the number of people killed is unclear as new casualties are rushed here to university hospital. >> we saw a military vehicle drive directly to the crowd. they started shooting and killing people. reporter: protesters are asking for the reinstatement of the acting president was arrested yesterday along with his entire cabinet. a spokesman for the presidential guard announced the changes. >> the following measures have been taken with immediate effect. first, the transitional president has been removed from office. secondly, the transitional government has been dissolved. reporter: the presidential guard is an elite unit that was loyal to the deposed leader, who fled the country last year after opponents stormed to the parliament building. they were protesting a

constitutional vote to allow him to run for another term in office. the election was set for october 11. the hot -- the head of the new ruling council, his ally, announced it was too soon for new elections. protesters fear the coup will derail their struggle for a return to democracy. brent: all right, you are watching "dw news" live from berlin. in brent goff. i will see you again at the top of the hour.

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