berlin. tonight, ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo. an international emergency is a third. the who chief says it's time for the world today notice after the disease spreads to the country's borders. we will askk the who what its emergency measures are and we will ask if they are enough. also coming up, after months of conflict the sudanese military

council and pro-democracy opposition signed a document that should be a major stride along the road to democracy. and the notorious drug lord known as el chapo is sentenced to life in prison by a new york court and he also faces a bill of more than $12 billion for the money that he made selling drugs. plus south africans are told a beloved and inspirational voice has fallen. ♪ >> johnny clegg, musician and anti-apartheid activist has died after a long battle with cancer. the grammy nominated singer crafted hits inspired by township harmonies. ♪

>> time rent golf. to our viewers around the world, welcome. tonight the world health organization has declared the ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo a public health emergency of international concern. that is a rare designation used only for the most serious epidemics. it comes after the virus spread to the eastern city of goma on the border with rwanda. it has killed more than 1600 people in the country since last august and the who decision followed a meeting of experts in geneva today. the who chief says that the international community should play a greater role in fighting the outbreak. >> now is the time for the international community to stand in solidarity with the people o the democratic republic of congo. not to impose punitive restrictions that will only

serve to isolate them. i stress this, the government of drc is doing everything it can. they need the support of the international community. >> for more now i'm joined by christian lindner meyer in geneva. good to have you on the program. tell me, what can the international community do right now? >> a couple of things. of course, one of the important measures right now is for the world to realize, for the international community to realize that funding and support for the country is needed heavily. the director said today in his statement that we need -- unless the international community steps up now and responds now, we will be paying for this outbreak in the future with a much higher price. so there is now a financial plan

for strategic response that is being prepared. we don't havee the exact number yet but it will run in the hundreds of millions. the funding and the monetary support, as well as political support. we need support from both to move ahead. >> the world remembers the last major ebola outbrbreak from 2014 and we know that the who was criticized than due to budgetary cuts at the time. promises were made back then to be better prepared the next time. do you feel you are better prepared this time? >> i think the whole world is better prepared this time. also, it was a fairly new situation than with ebola and since then we have had many more improvements. we have a vaccine. we know what to do and how to find people and how to train them. how to ring the vaccination around the people who have been infected.

how to talk to the community better. let's not forget, this is a disease that affects the community in an area where handling sick people is a task for the families of the loved ones in the community. so to go and tell such people and such a community to, too, to let foreigners, strangers tell them how to deal with their loved ones is a huge task. we know how to treat patients instead of having them in isolated tents they are intense with a common, clear plastic sheeting to see through for the loved ones outside the tent who can watch and communicate. i thinink the w wld is much betr prepared. but yes, it needs money and funding and it needs an effort of all of us together, with the ministry and the people on the ground, with the communities, the vast majority of the staff on the ground, dealing with this

outbreak, they are congolese. >> i think, too, mr. lynn meyer, people around the world might be puzzled a little bit that if there is a vaccine for the ebola virus, why is it still so difficult to control the spread? is it because as you were saying that the local traditions of how to treat and handle the sick and the dead, is that the biggest challenge? >> it is not the biggest challenge. it is actually something that the community understands very well and it's amazing if not surprising how well the community has handled this and how much they have repaired in most cases. the foreigners who are most of the time congolese, but not from their own area, these are not foreigners from outside, but they use congolese for this to tell them how to treat their loved ones. the biggest challenge is it's a volatile cocktail northeast of

the congo. let's not forget that when you're ago we had an outbreak in the western congo that i thinkk hardly abobody remembers. also, treatments were given, vaccine rings were made, contacts were found quickly and the situation was put under control. ese sa things we would like to do in the northeast congo, but we have a situation there were we have had years of conflict raging. people in the thousands on the move and migrating across borders running away from conflict, hiding and being fearful of anybody who is a ststranger coming up to the village or the area. it's a dangerous cocktail. >> all right, christian lindner meyer, we appreciate your time tonight. helping us to understand

breaking news situation with this ebola outbreak, thank you. in sudan, the pro-democracy movement and the country possibly military council have signed a document out lining a power-arg deal an impmportant step in the transition to civilian rule following the military overthrow of omar al-bashir. two things i working on a more contentious constitutional agreement that lays out the division of powers, but today there was time to stop and celebrate. >> these signatures marked the end of a bitter power struggle. the sudanese military and opposition have agreed to install an interim governmentt first to be headed by the military and then by the opposition. elections will be held in three years time. [applause] >> it's a historic moment in the painful history of the sudanesee people, marking the beginning of a new era in which the army and

armed units will work together with all civilians and with features of the opposition. flex such as for a new era -- >> a chance for a new era. omar al-bashir resigned at the beginning of april. first the military junta did not want to give up power. june 3, special forces brutally cld a protest camp. hundreds were injured. ininternational pressure led opposition back to the negotiating table. a basic agreement was reached. details were being hammered out into tuesday night. >> it's a preliminary breakthrough, an important step on the road to peace. it is by far not a alef for a permanent peace. >> with deep-seated mistrust on

both sides, the challenge for sudan now will be implementing the terms of the treaty. >> all right, here's some of the other stories making headlines around the world. authorities in pakistan have arrested the suspected mastermind of a series of attacks on the indian city of mumbai in 2008. he founded the islamists militant group that india and the united states blamed for the attacks. u.s. president donald trump has praised pakistan for his arrest. turkey has said that they will retaliate after a gunman shot dead one of its diplomatss in iraq. at least one other person was killed when an attacker open fire in a restaurant in the kurdish region of iraqi. there has been no claim of responsibility. internet ruins, families of those killed in the malaysia airline tragedy are marking five years s since the disastster. mostst of e victims were dutch. the plane was shot down in

eastern ukraine, killing all 298 people on board. three russians and a ukrainian are facicing chargrges for m mun connnnection withh it. german authorities havave handed down the first verdict in a child sex abuse scandal at a campsite in the western town of the guests -- western town. the accomplice was given a probation sentence. more than 40 children were abused at the cap site over several decades. ll, the politician that many see as the next german chancellor has taken of her first job in the governance cabinet. on a get crump helen bauer is the new defense minister. akaka -- akk, many believe, is being groomed to take over when

chancellor merkel steps down in 2021. >> there are worse ways to spend yo birir angela merkel was treated to flowers by her cabinet colleagues as she turned 65 and she treated herself to congratulating her now former defense minister on what is equally a victory. her election as new you commission president. a short wle later the german chancellor got to lift a second ally to a higher political level by appointing her successor at the cdu party as the new defense minister. quite the celebration. she delivered her first remarks as minister. flex you must never forget that men and women serve and fight abroad for us.

this is a great responsibility. i very much a forward to the task ahead. >> no questions allowed. but they will have some convincing to do. >> she will have to leadhe nato spearhead through 2023. >> at times akaka has struggled to shake off provincial leader perception. but now she will have to take her orders from the chancellor, trading some of her leaders as party leader. perhaps becoming chancellor herself. 7 critics -- >> critics a call them internal camps and concentration c cps that continue to be built.

in the chinese province, china claims they are aimed at fighting terrorism. is it? at least 37 countries have told the u.n. that they believe it is. >> this is what china wants people to o see, focusing outsie the largest mosque in the country, but lying the sinister reality of life for muslims, up to o million o whom are thought to be held inside reeducation centerers like this. part of a growing complex of secret of camps. for r urnalists s trying to gegt close t the prerent, plain clothed polis and run old-fashid interference. to stop them from happening --

finding a was happening inside. a former inmate described his earlier last year. >> they grabbed me and put me into a metal chair like device. you stand still and you can move . your arms are secured by the metal parts in your chest is exposed. after six hours, my entire body ached. the pain becomes unbearable. >> this ishy 1years ago the muslims riototed after two been muslims were killed. 200 people died in the clashes. fearful of a repeat, the crackdown continues to this day. independent analysis shows that in recent years the number of camps in the far western state has tripled. last month the government allowed rare controlled access to the canteen and dormitories at one facility.

access to o all areas it was no. downtown tells a very different story. but despite appearances here, this is still a province shrouded in secrecy. >> you are watching dw news live from bli still ahead, scientists sound of the summer of alarm in the arctic, they say that temperatures are r rising significantly and a land that is usually frozen all year round. that is coming up in just a few moments. the mexican drug lord known as a chapo has been sentenced to life behind b bars in the united states. the judge in brooklyn, new york today accused him of overwhelming evil and ordered him to forfeit more than $12 billion that he amassed in his drug empire. before today's sentencing he had denounced the trial and complained about the cdiss in solitary confinement.

>> outside the courthouse, u.s. authorities took no chances with the most the tory is drug lord in mexico, joachim guzman, known as a chapopo. >> we c cannot undo the violenc, missouri, , and devastation inflicted on countless individuals anand communities by the drugs that mr. guzman and his organization inflicteded on our country for more than twowo decades. but we can ensurehat hepepends every minute of every day of the rest of his life in a prison here in the united states. >> court sketches show him bidding fell where -- farewell to his wife. they are unlikely to be reunited . he was sentenced to life without parole, plus 30 years. his defense said that the trial was a miscarriage of justice.

>> it was a show tririal and how it ended is exactly perfect. all that mattered was the government's evivince, no matter how flawed it was and how many lunatics, sociopaths, and psychopaths it depended on. >> he has been held in solitary confinement at a high-security prison since he was extradited from mexico to the u.s. in 2017. security at his brooklyn trial was tight. he escaped twice frorom jail in mexico, most recently through a tunnel in july of 2015. a worldwide manhunt followed, but authorities only found him after he invited american actor sean penn and mexican tv star to interview him. u.s. prosecutors spent years building their case against him, detailing an empire of torture, contract killings, and bribes that went all the way to the former mexican president. el chapo may be behind bars, but

the cartel that he founded nearly 30 years ago is still powerful and he remains a hero among the poor communities of mexico that benefited from the profits of his crimes. >> well, if you sell it, you will find a buyer. police in brazil said they have shut down a clandestine factory that was producing fake member guineas. the cars were offered on social media for $45,000 to $60,000. a lot of money but a fraction of what the real thing would cost you. brazil is not the only place where you can buy your fake dream car. >> this engineer has stolen the show at this tech fair. but that's not all he has stolen. he spent four years building his dream car, a lamborghini. the economy of the islamic republic is plagued by shortages and imported luxury cars from abroad are out of the reach of nearly everyone. so, the next best thing is to build your own.

>> i apologize to lamborghini for copying their idea and their design, but really it is the italians own fault as they are the best. 40 years after the islamic, iran is as isolated as it has ever been. sanctions are hitting the economy hard and many in their own government, bogged down in expensive conflicts in yemen and syria. dissatisfaction is growing and the people are forced to find ways to make ends meet. the japanese engine in this vehicle has only half as much horsepower as the original, but the message is one the government would probably like. you can look powerful even if you are not really and you can do everything by yourself.

>> now to that heatwave in the arctic. scientists in canada say they have observed record temperatures this week at a weather station in the world's most permanently northern inhabited spot, a military base less than 600 miles from the north pole. >> t-shirt weather here? an alert, the northernmost permanent human settlement on the planet, where snow and frost last all year. temperatures hit a record high of 70 degreeees fahrenheheit or1 degrees'celsius. this summer r has wreakeked havn the arctic chill, bringing b bay weather r to a land nonot adapto deal w with it. a recent repeport showed thatt greenland's glaciers are receding faster than previously thought. this video from a greenland climate researcher went viral. sled dogs sloshing across the

melting ice of the fjord. an uncommon number of wiwildfirs like this one e in alaska have t up the art and subarctic regions this season. fires are not a herd of year but scientists say that this summer was an omen of global warming. >> or have been unprecedented wildfires in the arctic since the beginning of june according to the world meteorological association. over one hundred intense wildfires were recorded in the arctic circle. the northern part of the world is warming faster than the planet as a whole and it is drying out forests and making them more susceptible burn. in turn the spew more carbon into the atmosphere, increasing the effects of climate change. scientists warn that it is a vicious cycle that puts the future of the ice caps in doubt. >> now the story of a 14-year-old malaysian girl blazing a trail across the boundaries of religion, sport,

and entertainment. she is a pioneer in the strange and scripted world of pro wrestling as one of the few females to become a headline fighter. but phoenix, as she is known, she doesn't just pack a punch when she enters the ring, she carries a message for muslim girls try to break down b barris in sports. >> first comes the mirror check. then comes the show where she becomes phoenix. small in stature, barely over five feet tall, she wrestles men twice her size and gets thrown around the ring like a rag doll. phoenix rises from the alice -- from the ashes and gives as good as she gets. at 14 years old, she became obsessed with the art and the sport of wrestling, but refusing to do it without her hit job cause problems early on.

>t is the b beginning for me. you know, i get a a lot of peope saying i can't wrestle because i'm a muslim who wears a hit job. -- hijab. >> she is more than entertain, she serves a as motivation. >> i do b believe that she is a role model and inspiration to girls outt there. i i think all girls in general,s a whole. i think she kind of broke the barrier in just proved to them that if she can do it, they can do it. >> taking down the competition, she has gained a following on social media and hopes to encour more muim wom to be true to their faith and their dreams. 7 well, the president of south africa today led the morning for

--mourning for johnny clegg, who died at the age 6 cancer. the president told the nation that a beloved inspirational and heroic voice had fallen silent. he defied segregation laws and was one of the few white artist to openly criticize the apartheid government in the 1970's and 80's. >> they call him the white zulu. he was one of south africa's most celebrated musicians, mastering the language, culture, and high kicks of zulu dance. ♪ >> a white man in a mixed race band, he was the symbol of the e of postapartheid africa. ♪ >> i was always a bridge for white people into the possibility of connecting with,

you know, another culture. not in an academic way, but in a sensuous engagement and will -- motor sharing. >> he was a musical pioneer, blending zulu rhythms from his adopted south africa with western s styles, defying racial segregation, one of only a few white artists to openly criticize its the apartheid regime. it was more than mere entertainment, he famously uses music to campaign for the release of nelson mandela. many of his songs became anti--- anthems for the anti-apartheid struggle. career highlight in 1997, when mandela, than the president of south africa surprised him during a concert. the ultimate stage partner for a

lifetime musical campaigner. >> got bless you, thank you. do you want to say anything? do you want to say anything? >> a reminder of the top story we're following for you, the world health organization has declared the ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of the congo and i international emergency and the disease has spread to the borders of the country had as killed 1600 people so far. you are watching dw news and after a short break i will be back to take you through the day. stick around for that. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ ♪