from berlin. tonight, night falls across iraq after another day of violence and death. at least 10 people are killed as security forces opened fire on crowds for testing corruption and the lack of jobs. dozens are dead after four days of unrest. a leading shiite cleric says enough is enough. also coming up tonight, fresh clashes erupted across hong kong as pro-democracy demonstrators

defied government efforts to end months of unrest with an emergency powers law. and with an increasing number of refugees arriving in greece through turkey, "dw news" reports from inside europe's biggest refugee camp where children are growing up in tense and inside shipping containers. i'm brent goff. to our viewers on pbs in the united states and all around the world, welcome. it has been another day of killing interact -- in iraq. the country facing its worst crisis since the defeat of so-called islamic state two years ago. security forces opened fire on protesters in baghdad as angry crowds again flooded the streets. 10 people were killed just today. the death toll in four days of unrest now stands at more than

60. >> protesters rushed to take one of their own to safety. then they flee as the sound of sniper fire ricochets through the streets. they are desperarate enough to risksk their lives becauause thy feel the state has failed them. >> we went out protesting because we are suffering. there's no electricity, no jobs. people are dying of starvation. it's a curse. >> unrest has spread rapidly across the country this week without any apparent leadership or connection to a political or sectarian movement. in response to the protest, the government has shut down the internet and imposed a round-the-clock curfew across the capital. the government says it is trying to improve iraqis' lives. despite sending snipers into the streets, the prime minister called for patients. >> the country is going through a sensitive time. i speak to you openly so that

the security situation does not lead to the destruction of the entire state. >> a spokesman f for the count's most influential she cleric urged the government to listen to the protesters' demands -- the country's most influential shia cleric. >> authorities are betting the protests would decrease, but they should know that reform is an inevitable necessity. even if protests decrease for the time being, they will return stronger than this. >> the iraqi government has barely held on through years of sectarian turmoil. the question now is if it can survive in uprising not based on religion or belief but deep dissatisfaction. brent: i'm joined now by my colleague, an iraqi journalist who has reported extensively from the country. it is good to see you again. i want to ask you -- the prime minister there, can his government survive what we just

saw happening on the streets? >> etiquettes difficult to say he is going to survive. it is a question of time. not only this week or a year, we are now facing a dark date in iraq history because people killing in the street just because they are calling for reduction in unemployment and fighting the corruption in iraq. iraq spends about 450 billion dollars from 2005 until now for infrastructure. nothing has happened. of course, people say enough is enough. brent: why is the government taking such a strong line here? they are using live ammunition and firing on protesters. we are not talking about months of unrest and violence. we are talking about something that has been going on for four days. >> the security service is quite

nervous because there is some information from some parties who believe that this could be a tool of some saudi influence or americans, something amiss. they become nervous and easy to shut down. it is really sad to see that development. brent: iraq is basically floating on oil. it has a, rich reserves of oil, and yet, you would not know it by looking at the streets of baghdad. why is this disconnect still there? >> corruption, and corruption, and again, corruption. when you put some programs in the paper and you want to see that, that plan on the ground and nothing has happened because the funds go in the pockets of polititicians, some people use o

win some politician influence, and nothing happened since 2005 until now. people still remember this time of saddam. although they hate him, they wish that time to come back because at least they have stability. at least they have somehow a public service, but now we don't have that level of that public service. brent: the protests have so far been limited to largely shieh-arab parts of the country. what about the sunnis and the kurds? why are they not joining in? >> the sunnis are tired of fighting islamic state. the majority are living in the tens, and also, they are afraid if they go to the street, the government could call them, that they would like to call back islamic state and supporters and so on. they have enough problems to do with that. they just want to survive.

brent: as always, we appreciate your insights. thank you. thousands of protesters have returned to hong kong streets, despite emergency powers invoked overnight by the government. many are still wearing face masks, despite a band that was imposed earlier today. protesters could face up to a year in prison if they are caught in public wearing even a partial facemask. >> it is the most prominent symbol of the protests. demonstrators have been wearing facemasks since the beginning of the pro-democracy movement in hong kong to avoid punishment by the governmement. masks like thehese are commonlny available at pharmacies. they are a rare defense against wiwidespread use of facial recognition software by the chinesese government, and that s a nuisance for the authories.

>> we should probably s see identification of the sususpect. many offenses such as criminal damages, riots, unlawful assembly, wounding of people. many of them would be able to avoid detection because they are wearing a thick mask. >> at midnight local time on friday, a ban on facial masks took effect in hong kong along with other emergency regulations. >> we believe the new law will create a deterrent effect against masked violent protesters and writers -- rioters and will assist police in law enforcement. >> protesters are so far unfazed by the new ban. >> it is plainly trying to get us to not come out and show our opinion. literarally, what else are we supposed to do?

>> today, you will hear the governmentnt use their power to stop us. what about tomorrow? they can use their power to do a range of things that deprives us of our rights. >> the anger among protesters has, if anything, only mounted. the weekend is likely to see new clashes and more violence. brent: our reporter from hong kong joins us now. she has been following these protests. this emergency powers law is left over from colonial times. how is it even possible to invoke it, and why are the protesters so fearful of it? >> you are right, this emergency regulation ordinance is a colonial era law introduced in 1922, and it has not been used for more than 50 years, but it also has not been reviewed or changed. it was always there.

now carrie lam is using it to enact the mask ban. basically, this law would give her the power to bypass legislative process to pass through any bill that she thinks is necessary, that she thinks the city is in a state of emergency, that she wants to pass a law. brent: this ban on facemasks, why has that created so much anger? >> scenes of protest started three months ago. protesters have been using facemasks to protect them selves, to stop themselves from being identified because they fear retaliation from hong kong government and from chinese government, especially because they know that the facial recognition technology is so powerful in china. they do not know what the government could do with the information of their faces. many of them also fear retaliation from their own companies because many companies in hong kong that have business

interests in china, and their employers give them a lot of pleasure -- a lot of pressure for speaking out and showing support for the protests. brent: there was an airline attendant who worked for cathay pacific who was fired because she supported the protests. these new laws, when you think about them and see the reaction, it looks like it has only made the situation worse. carrie lam, in her thinking, she thinks it should make the situation better in the long term. >> it's actually very ironic. when she made the announcement, she said that this is a way to de-escalate the situation, to stop the violence in the city, and then she would start talking to the people again. right after she made the announcement, you could see clashes in every part of the city. you could see protesters using more violence. you could see them setting up fires in buildings and shops.

it is really the opposite of what the government is striving to do. brent: people that you talk to back home, do they worry this will get much worse before it gets better? >> many people fear now this is the first time the government is using this emergency law, and that might be the start of using this law to pass other bills, so now they are fearing the government might eventually ban social media or telegrams or online forums they have been using to organize their demonstrations. brent: we have seen that t other places where there has been civil and social unrest. thank you. here are some of the other stories making headlines around the world. documents submitted to a british court show prime minister boris johnson will indeed try to delay the october 31 brexit deadline if no deal for leaving the eu is reached by october 19. that would put the government in compliance with a law that was

passed last month t to avert a o deal brexit. the papers were filed in response to a lawsuit by brexit opponents. text messages released overnight show more white house attempts to pressure the ukrainian president. the exchange between u.s. diplomats and his staff took place before that now famous july phone call in which trump asked him to investigate joe biden and biden's son hunter. congressional investigators obtained the messages from the menu see here, the former special envoy to ukraine. french anti-terrorism prosecutors have taken over the investigation of yesterday's knife attack at the paris police headquarters. officials have not established a motive for the rampage. a 45-year-old civilian police employee stabbed four of his colleagues with a kitchen knife before he was fatally shot by a rookie police officer.

the number of refugees arriving in greece has risen sharply. the united nations refugee agency says or than 10,000 people, mostly afghans and syrians, landed on the greek islands in september alone by way of turkey. one woman was killed. 17 people were injured last weekend after a fire broke out at an overcrowded greek migrant center. that center on the island of les pose is designed for 3000 people, but it currently houses 13,000. two dw reporters are at that camp and pick up the story from there. >> this tent outside greece's largest refugee camp is home to four people. this man has been living here close to a month. the camp is four times over its capacity, so thousands are

forced to live in the surrounding olive grove. over a cup of tea, , he tells us what life in the camp is like -- crowded, dirty, dangerous. >> every day fight. that is normal now. you feel like fighting his life. that's normal. the way we came to hear to go out, we don't want fight. we don't want problem with anyone. >> a fire broke out at the end of september in the camp, and at least one person died. residents rioted in anger as firefighters put out the flame, and they broke into administrative offices. since that incident, he says trash has accumulated in heaps. he believes garbage collectors are too afraid now to come to the area. it is children who suffer most

from the dire conditionsns they live in. the aid organization doctors without borders runs a mobile clinic next to the camp. today, they will see about 100 children, a normal caseload. the most common ailments are fevers, lice, skin conditions, but psychological trauma is on the rise. the organization says many children in the camp have inflicted harm on themselves and have even attempted suicide. >> the cases we are seeing of children traumatized from their country of origins, from their completely difficult journey they took to reach europe, to reach less bows, and now they end up here in a camp, completely overcrowded without services, unsafe, unsecure -- the mental condition of these children are dead -- are degrading day by day. >> this is life inside a refugee camp packed with more than

10,000 people, a result of the resurgence in sea crossings to this post -- two les -- to l esbos. more migrants are making this journey than at any other point since 2016 when the european union signed a deal with turkey to prevent them from coming. with thousands waiting on this and other greek island asylum applications to go through, we're told the situation has become dangerous. a mayor of the small town next to the camp is worried. like many people living here, he feels lesbos is left to fend for itself. >> europe should show more solidarity and support greece with its problem. greece alone is not capable of dealing with this large number of refugees. eu never states have to help take in people and at the same time, increase pressure on turkey to stick to their side of the agreement.

>> back in the camp, he says he does not want to be a burden on anyone. all he wants is a safe place to live. he hopes to find this place before winter. brent: here's a look now at some of the other stories in brief. teenage climate activist greta thunberg joined a fridays for future demonstration in iowa. she is making her way through the americas to santiago, chile, where anonother conference wiwil take place in september -- in december. a climate change tracking survey confirmed last month was the hottest september evever record. hollywood actor james franco is facing civil lawsuits brought by two women who accuse him of running a bogus film school in which women were asked to do nude auditions or shoot explicit sex scenes. james franco faced similar allegations of sexual exportation just last year. the director of america's fbi

has warned facebook's plan to encrypt its popular messaging service could make it a platform for child sex abuse. they say encryption would be a dream come true for pedophiles. facebook says encryption would improve user privacy protection. it has been over 70 years since the soviet red army captured berlin, ending the nazi regime, but the fate of thousands of soldiers who lost their lives in the second world war remains unknown. one of the bloodiest battles for berlin took place along what is now the german-polish border. the red army fought a campaign to cross the river, as you see right there, and that allowed them to capture strategic high ground as they were making their way toward berlin. more than 40,000 soldiers on both sides died. there remains are thought to be scattered around places such as the village you see right there on the german side of the

border. a group of volunteers is now trying to locate those remains, german and soviet remains, so they can finally be buried. >> a swiss anthropologist and an italian student dig carefully around a skeleton. they are searching for bones and clues about the age and identity of the deceased, the second set of remains found at this excavation. they believed he was a soviet soldier. > the dead were left on the battlefield when the war ended because there were too many bodies to bury them all. they were often placed in military trenches or shallow pits, then covered with soil. >> east of berlin knew the river, heavy fighting in early 1945 claimed the lives of thousands of german and soviet soldiers. mamany of thwarr dead still lie herere.

to finind them, members of the e grououp, the a association for e recoveve of f the fallelen in eastern europe, haveve b been excavatiting the old trenches, digging twice a year, they havee exhumed the remains of more than 200 soldiers so far. >> you are happy because you find them, but you immediately have a lot of problems. how do you take them out, right? is anything broken? there's excitement because you found them, but there's problems you have to solve as well. >> that's why 40 specialists from across europe -- historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists -- are collaborating on this project. they are doing so on a volunteer basis, using their vacation time to look for soldiers' mains. the association's chairman is an entrepreneur from hamburg. he has a personal motivation for his involvement. his grandfather was among the soldiers killed in world war ii. >> we are here because we want

to resolve the fates of these soldiers who senselessly lost their young lives and at least them back their names with dignity, a proper grave, and a name. >> in order to later identify the dead, the volunteers very carefully remove the remains from the ground. the greater the number of personal objects they find, the greater the chance of identifying them and notifying families about their missing relative. this rarely happens, but 23-year-olold daniel herrmann hs experienced it once. >> that was the moment when i realized that this is hugely important work. with our efforts and a few leftover papers that were lying around somewhere for more than 70 years, that person's fate could be revealed for the family. ♪ >> the next day at a military cemetery, the volunteers, together with local residents,

buried the recovered remains, 15 german soldiers, in a dignified ceremony. >> it is also the end of one year of research, so it is almost like i followed these dead all across their cycle from their emergence from the ground to their reburial. that is something quite powerful to behold. >> next spring, the volunteers hope to return and search for more fallen soldiers. thousands still remain undiscovered, and all those here know that only a small number of them will ever be recovered. brent: the dramatic rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a cave in thailand dominated headlines across the world last year. it was the stuff of hollywood movies. guess what? the first film premieres this weekend in south korea. director tom waller's "the

cave." >> thai authorities have called in cave rescue divers from the internatational community to hep with efforts to rescue the children. >> they are behind a wall of water. no rescue mission like this has ever been attempted. it is unprecedented. >> it is the first big-screen retelling of an astounding thai rescue operation. the boys were sedated, fitted with masks, and dragged to freedom through kilometers of narrow passageways. "the cave's" director says his film features some of the many ordinary people who gave up their time and helped to save the boys' lives. >> in the film, we see the story of some heroes. we see the history of the local people who came to the sitite to

help.. you will see divers traveling from across the planet to literally jump into a cave to go pull these kids out. >> four of the divers involved in the actual rescue are acting in the film under their real names. >> whatever happened inside the cave and feelings that i experienced, that others experienced, and the scenes we saw is something nobody has ever seen on screen or heard of. >> jim says the experience was terrifying but an important one to share at a time when many people's involvement with the natural world is confined to the indoors and two screens. >> am always afraid when i go cave diving, but i manage those fears and overcome those fears. that is something humanity really needs. >> after premiering at the

international film festival in south korea this weekend, the film will go on tour. it is set to come out in thailand in november. brent: thursday action in the world athletic championships. the women's race featured one of the fastest lapse of all time and joy for germany with a performance to save her from an exciting young talent. >> germany's 21 year old sensation stunned his field. nicholas cowell was world junior champion in the decathlon and on thursday became the youngest ever athlete to take the senior title. a french favorite had been forced out of the competition by injury, leaving the field wide open, and he stepped up to the plate to make the gold-medal his own. another 21-year-old became the first asian ever to win the women's 400 meters world title and did it at historic pace. he took just 48.14 seconds to claim gold, the third fastest

time ever. meanwhile, british athlete katerina thompson johnson produced her third and fourth personal best of these games in the javelin and then the 800 meters to defend her spot at the top of the field and claim her place on top of the podium. yet another maiden title to round off a day of insurgent success in doha. brent: you are watching "dw news." after a short break, i will be back to take you through "the day." we will be right back. ♪

. the bloody day at two am et. hello and welcome funds when he formed the london to suzanne will live from paris the headlines this hour. france's anti terror prosecutors take control of an investigation a day off a man stabbed his a full colleagues to death. at the police headquarters in paris. the white house says it's repairing a laxative formally object to house speaker nancy pelosi conducting an impeachment inquiry donald trump warning democrats that any effort to impeach him we'll have them paint at the polls. and several protesters shot dead by security forces in baghdadad thirty or today the sporadic demonstrations are the most a serious challenge facing authority since the defeat of isis in a row