the high speed trains between cologne and frankfurt are operating this is happening after already last night a test drives were taking place we have not heard so far when the regional train services will be operating but we do believe that this is going to happen most likely during this morning again ok thanks very much for that from seeberg this morning. well staying in germany police say they are investigating some twenty people for child sexual abuse as a result of a conviction of a couple yesterday all that case are shocked the nation a boy was forced into prostitution and sold on the dark not by his own mother a court in the city of freiburg sentenced her to twelve and a half years in prison her partner to twelve years. this woman and her partner made her son suffer unbelievable atrocities rate severe sexual abuse forced prostitution all at the age of seven for that they'll spend hears behind bars. she'll be given a little more prison time than he will this is simply due to the fact that he provided us with comprehensive information to the court to the accountant that he still had

in cologne students are learning from home via video the concept is called flipped classroom. in these new video. funded. lectures on you tube martin bonnie is a professor at colognes technical university his area of expertise materials technology and synthetic he likes to use the summer break to carry on teaching. and it's just listening a sharing knowledge is something we can do elsewhere. so the time we actually have together here at the university can be used for interaction. the concept means that students can decide for themselves when and at what pace they learn from the first it's useful to be able to pause the. video exactly at the moment you don't understand something fully so you can wait and give it some thought is this it's. up to videos or at most fifteen minutes long research shows the brain can't process new information for longer than that best of all four students have been passing their exams since the lectures were put on line. so yeah a growing number of teachers are trying out the new format twelve year old sophia is watching a math video at home and the

defeat in victoria cologne three one. well we want to watch a sports now and this. one the rally of germany the thirteen year old had already started strong his toilet on thursday taking the lead in the quest for the magic to maintain that advantage staying ahead of his rivals in the four day race to seal a second consecutive victory in germany. and. impressed hundreds of spectators in crimea as they took part in the cliff diving world cup the black sea resort town of see my provided a stunning backdrop while the top competitors wow to the crowds lining the beach the divers launched themselves off a twenty seven. and the winner was a familiar face. great britain once again one first prize and two cold six. and here's a reminder of the top story we're following for. more powerful traumas have struck the indonesian island of the six point three magnitude quake caused panic. before a six point nine magnitude quake also shook the region and quickly two weeks ago killed nearly five hundred people. there watching to. get there in the meantime you can log onto our website.

round of the german cup continued on sunday and there were some big scorelines for the top clubs cologne beats their fourth division opponents f.c. dynamo nine one with. grabbing all goals and hand over six goals past. there was one upset however as fifth a fifth kenny scored a late winner to defeat against the two one rb lives meanwhile defeated victoria cologne three one. in motor sports. the rally of gemini the thirteen year old had already started strongly in his. state taking a bit in the first stage and then he managed to maintain that advantage staying ahead of his rivals on the four day race to see you a second consecutive victory in germany it was timex the win of the season up to the running of argentina and finland. it watching the news live from berlin telling the how he will be coming up with small at the top of the hour and pushing. mr. icon. to really. going to talk. to these moments in the life of a great. start sept. don't.

all about sitting in front of a screen we're at the world's biggest computer games convention in cologne germany and finding out that. course. is good to have you with us we begin with breaking news from the u.s. u.s. president former personal lawyer. has reached a plea bargain with federal prosecutors in new york cohen appeared before a judge a short while ago he has pleaded guilty to charges including campaign finance fraud bank fraud and tax evasion those charges are the result of a probe into whether cohen helped pay hush money to women claiming to have had affairs with u.s. president. henri for the latest on this story now is good our washington bureau chief alexandra phenomena she is on the story for us good evening to you alexandra so we're hearing about that plea bargain between michael cohen and u.s. federal prosecutors what do we know about the details that we know that michael cole is still in this courtroom on suing the judge's questions and we know that he has pleaded guilty as you said to. tax evasion to bank fraud and to companion finance violations in two cases and this i

display as are the news devices to play them on don't it came with a report now from games com in cologne. if you like video games then this is the place for games com twenty eighteen a great game is going with each other in person and online and for some what counts of the sides and sans the virtual combat with people taking turns to fight in digital wars surrounded by remind us of bygone violence and of course all the major names and games ahead games come for us as an opportunity to reach more consumers in one place than really anything else we do all year three hundred fifty thousand gamers are here and so we're bringing all of our latest games our latest hard our latest track to let people experience the big games that are coming for this holiday and beyond. but what about the here and now in a whole lotta whole there are legions of enthusiastic didn't like their heroes drawn by the chance to play at games in person they normally do at home and often the interest level in a particular game is shown by the length of the queue to get here first which runs through labor in the forty's s

defeat to victoria cologne three one. in formula one motor racing ferrari sebastian vettel is trailing defending champion lewis hamilton in the driver standings but there's plenty of time left to bridge the gap the ferrari team is closer to the title this year than they have been for a long time. this year's ferrari is nothing if not fast be not told the new chief technical officer has overseen the creation of an innovative machine the early results were positive ferrari started the season with two. we have all the reasons to be confident i think all cars great stuff to come so plenty to look forward to but as of yet ferrari have failed to fully capitalise on their technical superiority sebastian vettel looks are usually vulnerable on four occasions mistakes have cost him the win like the german grand prix when federal threw away the lead with a steering error and crashed out of the race eleven years without a title have obviously ramped up the pressure at ferrari. this year is the first time in a long time that my sadie'

of firefighters were deployed to put out the blaze which broke out next to a key rail line between cologne and frankfurt it quickly spread into a residential neighborhood in the city of moore we have this report. drawing undergrowth burning like to end what began as a small fire me a train tracks in the western town of zeke will soon developed into a major blaze at least eight houses called finance somewhat by the flames emergency services evacuated an entire residential area with hundreds of residents affected dozens were injured. most of them were suffering from shock due to what's happened and the fires in the homes and gardens many were treated for circulates re problems we also have a few people who suffered burns some of them severe they had to be brought to local hospitals. in the course of the fire hasn't yet been determined or thoughts eason's equal can usually assumed a spark from a passing train had ignited drive vegetation but they later said on the courses were also being considered firefighters no say the blaze is under control but the important high speed rail link between c

our let's go back to games com because cologne is the place to be for gamers from around the world it is i mean there are hundreds of thousands of big believe in cologne who think they've they've gone to heaven all they arrived in the moment and there's something for all tastes as well for all ages and all tastes mazing great stuff and it goes on until sunday yeah all right great stuff thank you so much robyn on behalf of robin and myself a lot wrong thank you so much for spending this part of your day with us frank office up next my feet on. the stand once more in front of you know how. to visit her father's grave one small . window missteps. twenty five years in germany i mean the times he returns to the country in kazakhstan. we need to mind back to a distant land fifteen minutes fifty dollars. lehman brothers ten years on a story of ambition good money on. control the rich lots. of investment bankers who thought their car sales would never stop of a system that spun out of control. the level of the good of the crash the investment bank lehman brothers start september thirteenth on

in cologne students are learning from home via video the concept is called flipped classroom. in these new video. lectures on you tube watching barney is a professor at colognes technical university his area of expertise materials technology and synthetic he likes to use the summer break to carry on teaching in some kind of just listening or sharing knowledge is something we can do elsewhere. so the time we actually have together here at the university can be used for interaction. the concept means there's. students can decide for themselves when and at what pace they learn from the farm the first it's useful to be able to pause the video exactly at the moment you don't understand something fully so you can wait and give it some thought it's. the videos or at most fifteen minutes long research shows the brain can't process new information for longer than that best of all your students have been passing their exams since the lectures were put on life. so yeah a growing number of teachers are trying out the new format twelve year old sophia is watching a math video at home and b

matchday forty meters still goes final game as coach of cologne three points from their first fourteen games of the season an all time record low for the industry. success a step back and almost impossible task coach and players set about giving it their best shots over say. what it's. like to play but how much and suddenly their belief was back. needs a little on top of the funds and when a lot of these affect the finals and try to pull off a miracle into can it was a big ask to big it on the back of a historically bad start after a match day thirty two cologne where fishley down just as extreme bitter bitterly disappointing thing for me should never let this happen when also for frustration coach marcus allen funt has joined from kiel while stars like you and us hectare and team o. horner committed to operation founds back it's going to go as i noted and we're going down as a collective bridge of that's a huge part of why guys like marco her and myself are staying at zero. he did it again. the unrelatable coach this time in charge of both bugs and. they were in the playoffs for the s

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works at the restaurant in the fifteenth century let's spell consul west of cologne she became a chef almost by chance. yes but i used to go with my grandparents to nice hotels and i really liked it there so i did an internship at one i wasn't so keen on waiting tables and the girls were often catty but the kitchen was really cool i could try my hand it everything they liked to me i'd only been interested in food and whenever they sent me into the cold room i always came back with the right stuff it was fun that was possible my. last year out of the blue she was appointed head chef at liz felt she was recommended by her predecessor within her first year there she cooked away. to mission on florrie yet as is done with the first star was a huge surprise my biggest wish had come true since the day i started training i had been dreaming of that and working toward it always pushing myself has come back and when i heard the news it was like a huge weight off my shoulders. while i was teaching us for the first time in my life i couldn't say a word to him before people ask me how i felt not a

get club loyalty taken to another level hector the german national team's first choice left back a cologne player all his professional days and so it's set to remain relegation notwithstanding. and i'm pretty sure he was heard it would be great if we could keep most of the team together if it makes things simpler when there's less of a shake up with him on this and i thought also strange trip to the club keeper tina horne himself a son of cologne. huge of the top flight this season to be honest our house the bonus league is fast female referee with an assured performance on her premier setting return for the rest of the season. here's how i read the book who hit the bundesliga stage for months. to get his scimitar. to. read it back you pulled off the reserve team bus on its way to freiburg after receiving a shock on promotion to the scene yes and then a goal on his first league stopped one for the dream debut aakash. his mind colleague robin sentinel meanwhile now really afforded a bonus league a nightmare. culture. modern on off laughing at sam stark exist for an audience that. isn't abou

shake up on this and i thought also staying true to the club keep the team a horn himself a son of cologne. each of the top flight this season to be an ashton house the bonus league is fast female referee with an assured performance on her premier setting return for the rest of the season. here's how read le buckle hit the bundesliga stage for months took a look at the step as. soon. simply. if you. read the back you pulled off the result team bus on its way to try back after receiving a shock on promotion to the scene. and then to go on as fast leak stopped one for the dream debut card. his mind colleague robin sentinel meanwhile now really afforded up on his leg a nightmare. of. mine i'm not laughing at sam i started reading for adults and to listen to this is absolutely a bottomless owns well that ends well stopping this memorable mess up letting into the realm of tragic comedy on forgettable bundesliga moments but now it's time for some new ones. some legends resigned but new ones are created surely next season will bring new stuff. in by and limit title again with a new coach but hard

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right behind the houses there is a high-speed railway street between cologne and frankfurt.o thahat is one speculation. on the other hand we heard firefighters earlier sing the was the possibility -- saying there was the possibility that some people might have been smoking there. this could be another reason as well. we are hearing that tomorrow throughout the day there will be a press confnference taking plp. besidess firefighters, we have also seen speciaial memembers fm the police who are already at this moment trying t to find out what really happened. brent: all right, daniel koop tonight, thank you. here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world. turkish president recep tayyip erdogan is to make a two day state visit to g germany at thte end of s septeer. you will meet angela merkel -- he will meet with angela merkel after being received with military honors. people in the kenyan capital nairobi have been marking 20 years since the first major international attack by al qaeda jihadists. 258 people were killed when militants carried ou

thanks for that far and that's another kind of sports of sorts hundreds of thousands of people in cologne are revving up their engines firing tanks and smashing castle walls with super mario and others all in the virtual world of gaming the german cities hosting this year's games column that's europe's largest video game trade show and dominic cain was there. if you like video games then this is the place for you games com twenty eighteen where game is going with each other in person and online and for some what counts are the sights and sounds of virtual combat with people taking turns to fly to digital is surrounded by remind us to find comfort and of course all the major names and games here games come for us as an opportunity to reach more consumers in one place than really anything else we do all year three hundred fifty thousand gamers are here and so we're bringing all of our latest games our latest part of our latest track to let people experience the big games that are coming for this holiday and beyond. but what about the here and now in a whole lotta whole there are legions of

and still with sports of sorts hundreds of thousands of people have gone to the german city of cologne for europe's largest video games trade show all the latest games on display and of course the news devices to play them on don't tell and checked it out at home in cologne. if you like video games then this is the place for games com twenty eighteen a great game is going with each other in person and online and for some what counts of the sides and sounds of virtual combat with people taking turns to fight in digital wars surrounded by remind us of bygone violence and of course all the major names and games i hear games come for us as an opportunity to reach more consumers in one place than really anything else we do all year three hundred fifty thousand gamers are here and so we're bringing all of our latest games our latest card our latest track to let people experience the big games that are coming for this holiday and beyond. but what about the here and now in a whole lotta whole there are legions of enthusiastic kitted out like they're heroes drawn by the chance to play at games

about sitting in front of a screen we'll take you to the world's biggest computer games convention in cologne germany you'll find out that it's more like an assault course. i bring golf it's good to have you with us we begin tonight with breaking news from the u.s. u.s. president donald trump's former personal attorney michael cohen has reportedly agreed to plead guilty to federal fraud charges cohen is scheduled to appear shortly before a. your judge is expected to plead guilty to charges including campaign finance fraud bank fraud and tax evasion charges or the result of a probe into whether cohen helped pay hush money to women claiming to have had affairs with u.s. president donald trump. for more now we want to bring in our washington bureau chief alexander phenomena do you always wonder now according to some reports michael cohen has reached a plea bargain what do we know about the contents of this. what we know so far is that michael cohen has. turned himself in he is now in f.b.i. custody and he is expected still plead guilty to the charges relate to tax fraud bank fraud and come pain

and it's game time this week in the german city of cologne with hundreds of thousands of game is flocking to the walls largest event for computer and video games and. brits dhaif the into the crowd for us. to bring and you're inside the game not just on screen the reasons may guide for tonight breaks with tradition rather than playing the survival game games come visitors can test their real world skills playing as free anyway and has attracted one hundred twenty five million people in one year the community is why the game is those successful even little things like new emotes or new skins are very well received in that kind of explode within the community. and these features are what players pay for. others have reached a point where they can get paid for playing. hardcore gamers read the heart of games come when it started ten years ago and they still are but each sport has brought them from the basement to the stage. that. if you like the much someone pull them on most but we used to be happy to get a mouse pad or hardware or anything really now if you play in the national league it's

discuss this further with guy as he is an immigration expert at the german economic institute in cologne thank you very much for joining us and welcome to d w. i would like to start with a pretty simple question germany has had immigrant workers for decades now one things of the turkish workers that came in the sixty's for example was the existing legislation just outdated or is there a significant difference and what we're seeing well we have a significant change because of to change next you will have many people. growing out of the labor market because they become older and not enough people coming from the younger ages so we need much more focused in the past and that's the reason we need immigration law and i need this in kaufmann's however we do know that this problem is not new and politicians here frequently said the refugee crisis that brought about a million people from african and middle eastern countries into germany was a great opportunity to fill in the gaps with skilled workers we heard that many times and he was that insufficient or why the necessity to change the rules n

penalty then it's ok and he has his own opinion but not calling it the not listening to the people in cologne i just simply think it was a very iffy decision. but in the world cup it worked as well. as you said and if the decision i don't think we're going to be hearing the last of this debate at any time soon it'll probably rumble on threat the season but of course there are you know plenty of other things to talk about now not of course forgetting about the other match which took place which is undoubtedly two of byron's fiercest rivals at dortmund and like think they battled it out on sunday so let's see how that match worked out for. a shock for the hosts after just thirty one seconds thanks again believed the bouncing ball fell to john. who bulldozed it past keeper roman burkey i put dortmund struck back in the twenty first minute. i myself meltzer's trust me by the acrobatic my little one off. then in the forty eighth minute to mark otoh it's free kick headed in by marcel's up its leipsic handing their opponents a gift and three minutes later a christian policy corner thomas delaney's h

string of events we saw a lot of crimes committed by migrants in two thousand and sixteen there was cologne incidents where groups of migrants committed crimes against young women especially answer every time this happens the debate changes we had a very open society the world looked at germany in the surprised way said this is an open minded country in twenty fifteen they're welcoming all the refugees who are looking for shelter but of course the public debate is beginning to shift america has to work really hard together with a cabinet to not lose the debate to the far right day of fifty ok a lot of work ahead for politicians here in germany and another protest planned for tomorrow in chemist's you know also thanks very much for that. now for some of the other stories making the news around the world the european commission will put forward a proposal that would abolish the switch between summer and winter time across the e.u. the decision comes after an online poll found that a majority of e.u. citizens wanted to get rid of one of the of the one hour change to winter time. and australian

round of the german cup continued on sunday and there were some big scorelines for the top clubs cologne beat their fourth division opponents a.f.c. dynamo nine one with a z one to go to grabbing four goals no less than one who put six goals. that was one upset that i was fit to side kemah like sake scored a late when it's a defeat aiken's book two one i'll be like that meanwhile defeated victoria three one. well i'm sure in football faces an uncertain future with fifa threatening to ban the country from international competition including upcoming african nations cup qualifiers football's governing body issued nigeria final warning sheet to allege state interference in the running of the nigerian football federation a cold case over the federation twenty four thousand presidential elections recently installed christie he was the organizations new nida fifty four rejected he was mandate who allegedly has the support of the nigerian government before said the nigerian f.a. must reinstall the previous president would you pin it by midday on monday or face punishment. europe states you seem

considered final fighters no say the blaze is under control but the important high speed rail link between cologne and frankfurt is still out of service officials say it's unclear when it will be reopened. and a quick reminder of that top story we're following for you a court has delivered its verdict in a trial that shot germany a mother and her partner and sexually abused her song and made them available to pedophiles on the dark net she's been jailed for twelve and a half years for male partner is going to prison for twelve years you're watching the news live from berlin for all of us here in berlin thanks for the company will be back at the top of the hour with more world. as long as. you know the banks. and so watch the language of the bank. speaking the truth global news that matters g.w. made for my.

can unite six a late win a to defeat against book two one ophiolite sic meanwhile defeated victoria cologne three one. nigeria football faces an uncertain future with fifa threatening to bound the country from international competition including upcoming african nations cup qualifies well football's governing body issued nigeria a final warning jew to allege state interference in the running of the nigerian football federation a court case over the federations twenty four team presidential elections recently installed christie was the organizations nearly but people rejected key was mandate were allegedly has the support of the nigerian government they said that the nigerian f.a. must reinstall the previous president i'm going to pin it by midday on monday or face punishment. you're watching the news from by lead x. your company. grade yourself. using your design channel on. sustainability. environmental write your.

the first round of the german cup continued on sunday there was a big score lines for the top clubs cologne beat their fourth division opponents b.s.c. dynamo nine one with seymour grabbing for goals had over six goals pos cows who were there was one upset that was fictitious side can unite six a late when it's a defeat against book two one ophiolite signee while defeated victoria cohn three one. nigerian football faces an uncertain future with fifa threatening to bound the country from international competition including upcoming african nations cup qualifying as well football's governing body issued nigeria a final warning jew to allege state interference in the running of the nigerian football federation a court case over the federations twenty four team presidential elections recently installed christie was the organizations nearly free for objective he was mandate were allegedly has the support of the nigerian government he said that the nigerian f.a. must reinstall the previous president i'm going to pin it by midday on monday or face punishment. you're watching the news from by lead

it but also i tell it just let me die out when i like a little more to get there you know monkey cologne on it over at us i thought i lost yes first i mean i wonder. if you can't wait to. put their stuff a lot of somebody you know that i want you. young count has increased to accumulate what i think we don't really hear since he says he. didn't don't just think it's going to go along with. those someone who wasn't there yes yes now i said there's no. more we were getting ready for our trip to metal and we were warned that it was a place where just a dollar might have anyone killed we couldn't help but ask a pro about today's going rates. villegas us going on what we are what i see of this like i mean at the. bay me no way am i thought of by listening but i mean a lot of us like about dollars but they come at us like this are going to literally . crappy the game which a point is yes even second to those as a. when we all still might tighten up as on and that's when i go in general in the under state control the the almost i don't bother go to you on this stuff going through my therapist a

trade show all of the games are on display the latest devices dominic kane reports from games come in cologne. if you like video games then this is the place for games com twenty eighteen a great game is going with each other in person and online and for some what counts of the sides and sounds of virtual combat with people taking turns to fight in digital wars surrounded by remind us of bygone violence and of course all the major names and games i hear games come for us as an opportunity to reach more consumers in one place than really anything else we do all year three hundred fifty thousand gamers are here and so we're bringing all of our latest games our latest hard our latest track to let people experience the big games that are coming for this holiday and beyond. but what about the here and now in a whole lotta whole there are legions of enthusiastic kitted out like they're heroes drawn by the chance to play at games in person they normally do at home and often the interest level in a particular game is shown by the length of the queue to get here not just insurance through labor in the

spread quickly because of dry conditions brought on by weeks of drought trains between frankfurt and cologne had to be rounded turkish president richard tell your peril one is to make a two day state visit to germany at the end of september he will meet chancellor angela merkel and germany's president after being received with military honors german turkish relations have reached a new lows in recent years over human rights and other issues. u.s. president donald trump has warned other countries and companies against doing business with iran that comes after he reimpose many of the same sions that were in effect before the twenty fifteen nuclear deal with iran in a tweet today trump labeled the renewed its ancients as the most biting ever imposed and he war that anyone doing business with iran will not be doing business in the united states our next report takes a look at the european union's response. made in europe iran has signed contracts the billions of dollars worth of aircraft from air bus now the u.s. sanctions mean most of these contracts unlikely to be ripped up it's a grim prospec

because of cologne it is always up for a challenge he wants to run only way to the top and less than five minutes a race against himself fetching floors one hundred twenty meters six hundred steps . and employee times him with a stopwatch. so. it's not a minute faster than the last time. i wish us well it was pretty perfect. but i could still do it better. now sure enough remembers it was no longer i can still remember back when i was finishing high school. close to government i watched bar specker winning wimbledon . and i thought this is just you wait it out is that i'll be right up there with you. you see no place. an apartment here will cost between five and ten thousand euros a square meter from opposite corner can look down on many of his construction projects . i'm working you can actually follow the trail of the last twenty years here in berlin of nearly four thousand apartments and another three thousand are under construction and we've played a big role in housing construction here and one of the stalls. this is going as headquarters in berlin every company like this is a r