i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us we start with some breaking news just coming in from france one person has been killed two seriously wounded after a knife attack in the paris suburb of top french police say the attacker has been quote neutralized by security forces after trying to hide in a building let's go live now to lisa lois she's the the views correspondent in paris lisa what can you tell us right now. well for the time being we're just hearing news reports that the person has indeed been killed by police but the police have not confirmed that yet they're also reports that he was part of a database about twenty five thousand people in it with people who are not to be run flies again these are confirmed reports and the french media also reporting that he was yelling. so go to great when he was doing this attack. and that would obviously be an indication that this was a terrorist attack again all these reports have not been confirmed officially by the police the police has just said that they were doing a police operation there that something had happened but we'r

by brian thomas thanks so much for being with us around president hassan rouhani has lashed out at the renewed u.s. sanctions that took effect earlier today is accusing washington of launching psychological warfare and of trying to destabilize iran president donald trump has reimposed many of the sanctions that were in effect before the twenty fifty nuclear deal with iran now those sanctions will be affecting millions of iranians. these people will be hit hardest by the u.s. sanctions suspended in twenty fifteen after years of suffering by iranians now brought back by the trumpet ministration. the sanctions tunk of the iranian financial system including government purchases of u.s. dollars the trading of gold and not the precious metals and of industrial goods and soft ways to stop their washington hopes the sanctions will force tehran back to the negotiating table well they could take up the president's offer to negotiate with them to give up their ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs fully and really verifiably not under the onerous terms of the iran nuclear deal which real

i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show it was supposed to be a relaxed summer festival instead there were violence and protests on the streets of chemist's protests erupted in the city after a german man was stabbed to death in the early hours of sunday morning later in the day police say a crowd of about eight hundred far right demonstrators refused their order to disperse and march through the chemist city center. by right david street use. with police in kemet city center batons meeting bottles leading to more officers being drafted in from neighboring trees thin and light sick to cope oh god god god god god. god this is our city the chant in this video shared on twitter german media see some of those gathered were protesting against crimes committed by foreigners the un rest follows the death of a thirty five year old german man in the air the iris of sunday during the city's annual street festival he died from his injuries in hospital after being attacked with a knife two other men were seriously injured in what police described as an altar cation between people of differe

i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us about a thousand farai protesters have staged another demonstration in the eastern german city of candidates police say this rally was tense but not threatening or marked by violence like a protest earlier this week at a nearby venue politicians met with local residents with some of them saying officials are out of touch. get lost they chant. demonstrators are out in force again in ten minutes they're protesting against the town hall meeting with saxony state premier but some in this east german city want to engage with him. it's most important of all documents my i want to talk to him about my feeling that many politicians don't know anything about their citizens anymore and don't know what's going on i saw a report that he wished shocked by what's happening here but how can not be up if he is our state premier so management is the president for the man and. the fatal stabbing of a german citizen over the weekend sparked violent anti immigration protests and what appeared to be vigilante attacks on people believed to be foreigners the a

i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome australia has a new prime minister after his former leader malcolm turnbull was ousted by a majority in his own party the former finance minister stopped morrison has just been sworn in as the country's new prime minister morrison want to party ballot the feeding his closest rival by forty five votes to forty you will have to get to grips with an increasingly divided party that's desperate to stay in power and is grappling with poor results of the polls. a short while ago australia's new prime minister spoke to journalists and set out his government's top priorities. let me also tell you my media priorities in addition to of course our economic and national security. is the draft. i've already discussed this is just received with the lua national party the seizing of most birgitte and precinct lead right now and i'll be meeting with mind your general die as soon as possible to review our drought response plans morrison said another priority was to unify this party in the australian parliament following a bruising week in our politics in australia i a

brian: thomas payne, thomas jefferson, james monroe. they are in a room with you.u are trying to have a conversation with them. describe what they would be like. and paineg: jefferson would dominate the conversation. jefferson was described by people as someone who talked a great deal. i do not mean to suggest he did not listen. but he and paine were similar in a sense that they were only interested in meaningful conversations. if they were in a conversation with somebody who talked about the weather, they would have been turned off. brian: what is the difference in the ages of the three men? was six yearsaine older than jefferson. jefferson was 15 years older than monroe. brian: so what would monroe do in that conversation? mr. ferling: munro is the one i had the most difficulty figuring is the one i had the most difficulty figuring out. keeps moving into important positions that people looked upon as trustworthy individual. somebody who was competent. he certainly seems to have been a compassionate individual. when he liberates paine from the luxembourg prison in

i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show a deadly earthquake has struck the indonesian islands of lombok and bali officials are confirming that ninety one people are now dead thousands have been evacuated the seven point zero magnitude quake struck in the north of long block sunday evening powerful tremors damaged buildings across both islands and authorities are now scrambling to help those hardest hit. injured people in hallways and i in the car park at this hospital in the resort island of bali medical teams are moving patients i cite fearing aftershocks. and i think. we are constructing emergency tents with the assistance from the disaster mitigation agency so that we can gather all patients out there. to visit them but we are also hoping that our medical teams and nurses can concentrate more on treating patients and. not only question it to. the peripheral seven point zero magnitude earthquake struck the indonesian island of lombok at a depth of just ten kilometers shaking nearby palli as well an initial tsunami warning was later withdrawn but authorities urged people to s

i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show thousands of people are paying homage today to india's former prime minister atal bihari vajpayee who died thursday at the age of ninety three he's being given full state honors at a funeral ceremony in delhi schools and colleges. are closed in the indian capital on the government has announced a seven day mourning period bars pay he was among india's most popular politicians and a founding leader of the governing hindu nationalist party he served three times as foreign minister. here's a look back at a man who oversaw india's growth into a regional powerhouse. he was a poet journalist and a moderate face of hindu nationalism to some former indian prime minister x. how bihari vachss pai is an icon to others a contradiction as a founding father of the ruling bharatiya janata party that paey was a key figure in india's growth as both a nuclear and economic power he was a risk taker and peace maker. in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight he carried out a series of underground nuclear tests alarming pakistan and the international community

i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show rescue teams in the italian city of genoa are still working to pull survivors and bodies from the rubble of a collapsed highway bridge at least thirty nine people were killed when a stretch of the brandy bridge caved in during busy midday traffic tuesday the italian government initially attributed part of the blame to the e.u. accusing it of limiting funding for infrastructure but the focus of criticism is now shifting to autostrada a that's the motorways operator locals say there's a long history of concerns about the bridges upkeep but autostrada insists its maintenance checks were up today the government has in the meantime declared a year long state of emergency for the region. charlotte show some pills on the ground for us in general good morning to you charlotte along with the grief for so many families today there's also apprehension at this hour about those still missing that's right there are number of people fit to still be missing and that is exactly what is motivating rescue teams on the ground here they've been working tir

i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us grief is turning to anger in italy as people seek answers as to how a motorway bridge in general could collapse without warning at least thirty people are now known to have died in the disaster rescuers still searching the rubble at this hour for any survivors italy's deputy prime minister says the company that runs the bridge should be held accountable. rescue efforts in general were this morning. firefighters and doctors worked throughout the night pulling survivors out of the rubble they're hopeful they'll find more. but there are also facing the grim reality recovering the dead. emergency workers say the most difficult part of the rescue effort is still to come . from this evening we'll start moving some of the biggest segments of concrete from the collapsed bridge. in order to create new spaces for teams to enter and check for other survivors. when they were in the motorway bridge collapsed dozens of vehicles plummeted to the ground killing and injuring many and leaving behind a huge gap in the city's bridge. after seeing the collapse b

i brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show in the german city of qom the police are investigating a number of people after a night that saw several thousand taking to the streets and anti immigration protests they were met by about a thousand counter-demonstrators the two sides kept apart by hundreds of riot police these protests were sparked by the killing of a german man over the weekend that was linked to migrants. clients are up today again on the streets of chemists on monday as far right demonstrators faced off with counter protesters. a call by a right wing group attracted as many as two thousand far right protesters and around one thousand counter-demonstrators leaving the police scrambling to keep the two sides apart the protests on monday and sunday were sparked by the death early sunday morning of a thirty five year old man allegedly at the hands of two migrants from iraq in syria they have been arrested and are in police custody. authorities have given very little information on the altar cation that led to the stabbing. but that doesn't stop the far right demonstrator

i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us temperature records are being smashed across the globe while fires are raging in portugal spain and the united states and there's a drought right now a severe one in australia and other countries as well so what's behind this unusually hot weather in a moment i'll be talking to a climatologist but first we have this report on the high temperatures that some experts fear could irreversibly disrupt earth's ecosystems. central europe from space too hot and too dry this is commander of the international space station alexander guest just had a chance to take my first photos of dried out central europe in germany since a few weeks and was shocked what should have been green is now brown never seen it like this before farmers across the continent are worried about crops the french version mountains a simply too dry about half of this farmers corn crop has already died. and rivers are also drawing up this is in brandenburg in northern germany shocking scenes like this are likely to become the new normal according to an international research tea

i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us dramatic developments in the u.s. where two of president trump's closest associates have either pleaded guilty or been found guilty of criminal offenses the most potentially damaging for the president the statements of michael cohen president transformer personal lawyer he pleaded guilty to multiple charges related to the twenty sixteen election campaign . some of those charges stem from hush money schemes toing worked out with a porn star and a former playboy playmate the two women claimed they had affairs with the president . he worked to pay money to silence two women who had information that he believed would be detrimental to the two thousand and sixteen campaign and to the candidate and the campaign in addition mr cohen sought reimbursement for that money by submitting him for invoices to the candidates company which were untrue and faults they indicated that the reimbursement was for services rendered for the year two thousand and seventeen when in fact those invoices were a sham he provided no legal services f

this is the news live from berlin i'm brian thomas for the entire news team thanks so much for being with us. what we were. when we were. the first american to someplace in our lives really experience hardship.

i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us we start this program in india where the death toll from flooding in the state of carola has risen to seventy seven officials fear that number will increase further with more trench all rainfall expected carola on the southern tip of india is a tourist magnet known for its pristine beaches coffee and spices the state is hit by monsoons every year but this year's weather has been called the worst than a century. prime minister narendra modi has ordered the defense ministry to step up its relief operations. they've never seen flooding like this in carolina ten days of heavy rain combined with overflowing dams has and this state in water. in some cases homes have barely visible above the water line pretty steadily as all this looks most faiths hannity's have been caused by deborah for months lights. for those who survived the realisation they've lost everything. the last year has gotten to both floors of our high we went to her neighbor's place and stayed in the second floor of their house all those things have been destroyed by the water they

i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show we begin this program in india where officials say the death toll from flooding in the state of kerala as jumped to more than one hundred sixty. located on the southern tip of india is a tourist hot spot known for its beaches the state is hit by monsoons every year but this year's weather has been called the worst in a century hundreds of thousands of people have been left homeless by these ones are living in shelters right now. on your phone the cars following this story for us from delhi song there what's the latest that you're here well it remains a dire situation brian you know it's a catalogue remains on high of the earth in the last twenty four hours the state has seen really torrential rains large parts of the state remain underwater you know on social media up seen a few really heartbreaking videos of people really neck deep in water some in their own submerged homes you know appealing to the authorities for help so there are thousands of people who remain stranded in different parts off the state and there are entire districts th

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by brian thomas thanks so much for being with us a grief is turning to anger out this hour in italy as some people seek answers as to how a motorway bridge in general could collapse without warning at least thirty nine people now known to have died in this disaster rescuers still searching the rubble for any survivors italy's deputy prime minister says the company that runs the bridge should be held accountable. sheer devastation in genoa northern italy. firefighters and doctors have been working around the clock pulling survivors out of the rubble they're hopeful they'll show. and more. but the families of those killed are facing a grim reality. jim i started to call him forty times fifty times and then i started also to call his friend who was together with his wife and then i came to the hospital and they said that he was no more. some relatives are waiting at the hospital for news of loved ones. his name is not among the missing not among the hospitals patients we don't know anything i hope he's in this ambulance arriving now because i was just told that they found someone and he a

i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show we start this program in southern india where the death toll from catastrophic flooding has more than doubled the chief minister of the state of carola has announced that three hundred. before people have died in what he called the worst flood in one hundred years about a quarter of a million people have lost their homes they're living in relief camps right now carol is a popular tourism destination known for its pristine beaches the state has it by monsoons every year but this year's rains have been unusually heavy. on your falling cars following this story for us from delhi song there what's the latest that you're here. well it remains a dire situation and you know it's a cabin that remains on high alert in the last twenty four hours the state has seen really torrential rains large parts of the state remain underwater you know on social media of seen a few really heartbreaking videos of people really neck deep in water some they own submerged homes you know appealing to the authorities for help so that it causes the people who remain str

i'm brian thomas. so much for being with us in the german city of camden police are investigating a number of people after a night that saw several thousand taking to the streets to protest immigration they were met by about a thousand counter-demonstrators the two sides were kept apart by hundreds of riot police concerns over further violence has now prompted germany's interior minister to provide additional police support to the eastern state of saxony. violence again encampments on monday as far right demonstrators faced off with counter protesters. a call by a right wing group attracted as many as two thousand far right protesters and around one thousand counter-demonstrators leaving the police scrambling to keep the two sides apart like sunday's demonstration monday's protest was sparked by the death of early sunday morning of a thirty five year old man allegedly at the hands of two migrants from iraq in syria they have been arrested and are in police custody authorities have given very little inf

are brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show iran's president hassan rouhani has lashed out at the renewed u.s. sanctions that took a fact just two hours ago he's accused washington of launching psychological warfare and of trying to destabilize iran present trump as reimposed many of the sanctions that were in effect before the twenty fifteen international nuclear deal with tehran the new sanctions will affect millions of iranians already hard pressed by skyrocketing inflation and unemployment. these people will be hit hardest by the u.s. sanctions measures suspended in two thousand and fifteen after years of suffering by the iranian population now brought back by the trumpet ministration. the sanctions target the iranian financial system including government purchases of u.s. dollars the trading of gold and other precious metals and of industrial goods and software. they hit at the sales of iranian real government bond sales and the automobile sector the iranian real went into freefall in anticipation of the sanctions coming into effect the currency slide has already been felt on

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i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us we begin with the case of the jailed ukrainian filmmaker and kremlin critic all that sends off now he's been on a hunger strike for three months in a russian prison and his gravely ill french president manuel mccrone set to discuss his case today with russia's vladimir putin back in two thousand and fifteen a russian core seven cents off. twenty years in a siberian penal colony and charges you plan terrorist attacks on the crimean peninsula russia of course annexed crimea and twenty four team sent off calls the charges against him and dozens of other ukrainian prisoners political social media posed by sense of family and lawyer quote the filmmakers saying the end is near let's get more now about all expense off and his imprisonment in russia from ukraine's capital kiev i'm joined by correspondent david stern and from moscow by your shadow good morning to both of you yuri if we could start with you what about sense of health there are conflicting reports that he could be close to death. well the last time although insults lawyer. met him was

i am brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show australia's prime minister's clinging to power as a leadership crisis cripples his government now who turnbull is fighting for his political life as senior ministers deserve him and contest his leadership a second leadership voters do friday the government has suspended parliament to try to resolve the crisis no australian prime minister has succeeded in serving a full three year term in over a decade. let's bring in australian journalist roger maynard for more on this good morning roger is all straley on the verge of getting a new prime minister. it certainly seems that way so it's very likely the australian will have the nearby minutes by tomorrow not one hundred percent certain depends on whether or not a motion for a spill succeeds tomorrow if that does happen then nothing because the prime minister has said he will resign and he will stand down and open the way for our here's a his nemesis peter dugan to a stand along with possibly two other candidates the treasurer scott morrison and possibly the foreign minister julie bishop so

i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show we begin in belarus where police have arrested a number of journalists on suspicion of illegally accessing information from the country's state run news agency local rights groups are saying the arrests are part of a government drive to muzzle independent media among those detained as d.w. freelance correspondent because. his apartment in minsk was searched for two hours by police. has launched a protest with some bouncer in berlin demanding because he's a media release now these arrests followed the police search of a number of private news outlets reporters without borders told you that quote the raids and the confiscation of computers and other devices suggests that these arrests are political. correspondent emily sure once following the story for us emily the german government has also protested these arrests what's the latest on the correspondent because he and his colleagues well brian a lot is still unclear at this point what we do know is that several journalists were detained as you said in the past few days in belarus and all of

i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show all just a few hours ago the u.s. slapped a twenty five percent tariff on sixteen billion dollars worth of imports from china now this is the second round of tariffs and response to what the trumpet ministration calls beijing's unfair trade practices. china responded immediately with its own high tariffs on over three hundred american products and that means tough times ahead for american reed and regions that export billions in products to china take the city of wichita according to the brookings institution no other metro area in the u.s. is being impacted more by the u.s. china trade dispute. visited wish to talk to find out what business people are saying they're. from handrails and alloys. and in rubber own two just the companies in which is that over a wide range of aluminum however should have been strong decision it's becoming more and more difficult for the brothers to calculate their contracts a big impact for a deal in about six months. if. we didn't affect our market but we had to be very careful and proje

i'm brian thomas great to have you with us as europe's walters' through its hottest summer in decades a new international study paints a very bleak future and says that even if global warming is limited to a maximum of two degrees celsius that might not be enough to prevent widespread drought it adds that entire regions could become uninhabitable. central europe from space too hot and too dry business commander of the international space station alexander guest just had a chance to take my first photos of dried out central europe in germany since a few weeks and was shocked or should have been green is now all brown never seen it like this before. farmers across the continent are worried about crops the french version mountains a simply too dry about half of this pharmacy corn crop has already died. and rivers are also drawing up this is in brandenburg in northern germany shocking scenes like this are likely to become the new normal according to an international research teams latest study the name for this new normal hothouse earth i said what i said it is when the earth when the cli

i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us we begin in spain where rescue ship with eighty seven migrants on board has docked after being turned away by italy in malta as our correspondent norman's three goal reports a spanish aid group picked up the migrants off the coast of libya for those on board the most hazardous port a part of their journey is over but as we'll hear a migrant fly from spain is often precarious. nothing is left of his heart it caught fire during the night just living. in twenty fourteen city became to spain from ivory coast to find work he ended up in this slum near the town of under lucio along with up to a thousand others fires occur frequently due to the flammable building materials gas canisters and forty degrees celsius heat. because. you know. many of you. know or be looking for a. dream of a better life in europe has become a nightmare he has no residence permit and now he has no home. he can only work illegally on one of the many fruit and vegetable plantations. you know you don't have no money. to see a doctor you need to be. you know you don't hav

i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us grief is turning to anger and italy as people seek answers as to how a motorway bridge in genoa could collapse at least thirty eight people are now known to have died in this disaster rescuers still searching for survivors italy's deputy prime minister and the far right politician the taro salvini has called on the company that runs the bridge to be held accountable is also implied the european union is to blame. rescue efforts in general this morning. firefighters and doctors worked throughout the night pulling survivors out of the rubble they're hopeful they'll find more but they're also facing the grim reality recovering the dead. emergency workers say the most difficult part of the rescue effort is still to come. and put together from this evening we will start moving some of the biggest segments of concrete from the collapsed bridge in order to create new spaces for our teams to enter and check for other survivors as well this is going to be gotten the question. of their persona. when there were any motorway bridge collapsed doze

i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us we'll have those stories for you in a moment but first we have this breaking news coming in mali's president him or him . has been officially re-elected kate has been declared the winner of the country's election having won sixty seven percent of the vote the opposition led by somalia sissay have already said they will reject the results of the presidential runoff this campaign was marred by accusations of fraud violence and low voter turnout. here's more on it for him abubakar and the challenges that await him. chaos on the streets of mali's capital bamako. mutinous soldiers locked up several ministers and took control of government buildings. the twenty twelve coup d'etat a dangerous turning point for the young democracy but for sixty six year old ibrahim. the coup represented an opportunity in twenty thirteen after a year and a half of upheaval new elections were held it. became for short had the support of both religious leaders and the army in part perhaps because he had never publicly criticized the coup leaders. on september fourth

i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show the united states a sitting russia with new sanctions and a connection with the poisoning of a former russian double agent and his daughter in britain the state department says it is convinced moscow was responsible the former russian spy service cripple and his daughter yulia are believed to have been sco exposed to nobody that's a powerful military grade nerve agent in the english town who sells for it they spend we. recovering in hospital from that attack back in march britain has accused russia of being behind the attack which the kremlin has vehemently denied. just last month two other people came across the container believed to have been used to transport the poison one of them died. more on this story i'm joined by our washington d.c. correspondent stefan seema good morning to you stefan why are these sanctions coming now has there been new evidence against russia as the evidence from dop against moscow for your question and the answer will might disappoint you because so far nobody has actually aware or state department white ho

i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show australia's prime minister is clinging to power as a leadership crisis. cripple says government malcolm turnbull is fighting for his political life as senior ministers deserve him and contest his leadership but he says he will quit politics if his liberal party no longer supports him in a second leadership vote on friday the government has suspended parliament to try to resolve this crisis no australian prime minister has succeeded in serving a full three year term in over a decade. let's bring in australian journalist roger maynard for more on this good morning roger is australia on the verge of getting a new prime minister it certainly seems that way it's very likely that australia will have the new i mean but tomorrow let alone one hundred percent. depends on whether a lot illusion for a spill succeeds tomorrow if that does happen then nothing to the prime minister said he will resign and he will stand down and open the way flora here's a is near misses to stand along with also be two other candidates the treasurer scott morrison and