ambassador to morocco. i will say he is also backed up by a very large contingent of 17 members of the fischer family. and certainly great to have an opportunity to meet them before this hearing. david is a leader in the metro detroit business community. he built his family's auto dealership business into one of the largest dealer groups in the entire country. he and his wife, jennifer, are known for dedication to the community and charitable causes, particularly focused on efforts to fight cancer, help children, and improve schools. david and i have talked about the importance of vocational education and his company has invested in these programs at michigan schools, providing students with the skills training, meals, and for those who earn the required certifications a good-paying job in his company. david's company also recognizes local teachers who have earned the distinction of teacher of the year in their districts. and he allows them to pick a car to use for an entire year at no cost to them in honor

morocco's army, with the help of u.s. military aid, drove t the polilisario to wesestern sahar's eaststern sert.. momorocco then created t woror's longest m minefield and b builte secondnd-longest wall l on eart, with the h help of u.s. weapons companies northrup and westinghouse. the nearly 1700-mile wall divides sahrawis who remain under occupation from those who fled into exile. the moroccccan governmenent begn decades of torture disappearances, killings and repression against pro-independen s sahrawis livi in the occupd d terrory.y. in 1 1991, the u.n. sponsored a ceasefefire and prpromised sahas a referendum on self-determination, organized by its peacekeeping mission known as minurso. since then, morocco has blocked attetempts to organize the vote, and the un security council has refused to implemement its own referendum plan or allow minurso to monitor the human rights situation in the territory. today,y, no country y recognizes moroccan sovereignty over western saha, one of theost inaccessible places in the world.

morocco is teeming with police offices. all of my friends are left guinea with me made it to syria to see what am i supposed to do here i'll stay here until i can get in. their sense of desperation is what drives them. and his friends it's your rope or nothing. all over south reporting there and before i let you go remind her of our main story that we're tracking for you this hour u.s. president donald trump is under pressure is two of his former allies face jail over financial fraud in campaign along violations one of them is actually a michael cohen he admitted to an illegal hush money scheme aims and influencing the twenty sixteen election. and that does it for us so much about iraq and berlin on behalf of the entire news team thank you so much for spending this part of your day with us the news continues at the top of the hour stephen. why do we want. when do we want to know eighty percent of americans in some point in our lives will experience hardship. listening. to. the minds.

and his friends have to make their way to the high don't carefully that's in the mountains of morocco me of the border with you they say the police could show up at any time and destroy their camp. the group has thousands of kilometers behind them now just a few hundred meters separate them from europe that and so you just fence. this man from guinea shows as deep cuts there from his attempts to storm the border for. my father is dead my mother has nothing not even food i'm the oldest son and i want to try and make some money to help my mother that's why i left. i have been travelling for two years since leaving guinea nol they are stuck here with some fifty thousand others all hoping to make the journey from morocco to europe the fence is here to stop them it's eight kilometers long and fitted with razor wire along with the territory of this is the only other border in africa on the other side. from the spanish guardian it's his job to secure the border but lately that hasn't always been possible. over six hundred migrants managed to storm the fence at the end of july the police are

fifty thousand others all hoping to make the journey from morocco to europe. the fence is here to stop them it's eight kilometers long and fitted with razor wire along with the territory this is the only other border in africa on the other side is afonso crew sato from the spanish guardian it's his job to secure the border but lately that hasn't always been possible. over six hundred migrants managed to storm the fence at the end of july the police are helpless and talk of unprecedented levels of violence makeshift flame throwers quicklime and grappling hooks other migrants weapons of choice that i am we are going to they were very well prepared and organized. small they were so violent that we could not get to the fence. i mean they threw acid at us and did all they could to prevent us from closing the holes that they had cut into the fans. in morocco's mountains mu son and his friends are already preparing their next attempt they're tired of the brutality at the hands of the moroccan police they only find food at a nearby rubbish dump a soft drink a cucumber

morocco is teeming with police offices. all of my friends are left guinea with me made it to syria. what am i supposed to do here i'll stay here until i can get in. their sense of desperation is what drives them for moosa and his friends it's euro or nothing. you're watching the news live from berlin i'll be back at the top of the hour with more bold news followed by the day i hope to see you this. week okies in germany to learn german. polish in the cold why not learn with him online on the mobile and free to south from the w.b. learning course nikos speak.

morocco is teeming with police offices. all of my friends who left guinea with me made it to syria to. what am i supposed to do here i'll stay here until i can get in. their sense of desperation is what drives them for salif and his friends it's europe or nothing. and we have much more on europe and migration our website e.w. dot com it's to the skies over lower austria now where was sometimes difficult to actually see the sky because of the world hot air ballooning championships one hundred fifty balloons involved in that week long event they've come from thirty eight countries now the blueness go up twice a day and the pilots compete in a number of events like flying their craft closest to certain targets or on thing a chase balloon this is the first time the by annual event has taken off. that's all we have time for our. entire team thanks so much for being with us and readers with you again at the top of the out. good. books do we really know about the man behind the. biggest moments in the life of a great designer. tha

morocco is teeming with police offices. all of my friends who left guinea with me made it to syria. what am i supposed to do here i'll stay here until i can get in. their sense of desperation is what drives them for moose friends it's euro or nothing. thousands of skilled workers to care for its elderly and sick so the government is actively recruiting fallenness including from tunisia as of this year. it's coffee time at this care home outside of munich this woman is being served her cake in liquid form most of the residents here are very old and many suffer from dementia they rely on help from foreign workers like mohammad ali nazi he moved here from tunisia a few months ago for a job as a care worker at this red cross run institution. and i feel accepted by the residents here. we chat to each other and exchange the news. or. enjoy ourselves. in the afternoon the team mates for a handover. mohamed whose nickname here is dolly learnt german when he was in tunisia the course was run and funded by the german government as part of a project called triple when it's a was to attract car

morocco is teeming with police offices. all of my friends who left guinea with me made it to syria to see what am i supposed to do here i'll stay here until i can get in. their sense of desperation is what drives them for salif and his friends it's europe or nothing. europe or nothing we're joined more to talk about this more now julian lehmann of the global public policy institute here in berlin good morning julian thanks for being with us what's your group's assessment of the situation in say you to right now so the situation has been stable over the past weeks there has been in the past years even always been groups of migrants scrambling in front of the camps and trying to take their turn to get in what has changed a little bit is that the border has somewhat before defied in that the owners have taken the razor wires that way and the migrants have also we've seen that a couple of weeks ago employed more violent means to get in but basically the situation is the same there is larger groups of migrants scrambling in fron

in morocco's mountains moosa and his friends are already preparing their next attempt they're tired of the brutality at the hands of the moroccan police they only find food at a nearby rubbish dump a soft drink a cucumber a moldy potato. life here is unbearable. morocco is teeming with police offices i mean all of my friends are left guinea with me made it to syria to see what am i supposed to do here stay here until i can get in. their sense of desperation is what drives them for moose friends it's euro or nothing. in sport we have some cricket news for you india have beaten england in the test the cup the deficit in the series they now created two one in the five test series. one it took

these are some of the thousands of african migrants now at the border between morocco and the spanish enclave of trying to get through the w. goes to europe's border in north africa to find out more. and the big business of high tech fontanel reporter gets into the swing of things as the world's biggest event for computer and video games opens here in germany we'll see what's pushing botanists this year. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us dramatic developments in the u.s. where two of the president'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 trump's former personal lawyer he pleaded guilty to multiple charges related to the twenty sixteen election campaign. or one of those charges stems from a hush money payment coleman cohen made to a former porn star who claims she had an affair 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 camp

morocco is teeming with police offices. all of my friends are left guinea with me made it to syria to see what am i supposed to do here i'll stay here until i can get in. their sense of desperation is what drives them for moosa and his friends it's euro or nothing. well after sixteen years of intensive planning a new satellite is about to be launched that will be a giant leap forward for weather forecasting the satellite. named after the keeper of the winds of ancient greek mythology is scheduled to be sent into orbit in just a few minutes from the european space agency's south american launch pad in french guiana. this will be the first satellite to directly measure the earth's winds at all all to tubes from the surface up to thirty kilometers wind currents play a major role in distributing heat around the planet. the currents and the rotation of the earth greatly affect weather patterns and they're part of what makes the blue planet habitable the satellite is carrying what the european space agency calls one of the most s

dark and heads off towards the coast road that will take him first to the southwestern border of morocco. but how this could be it is not the strength he's accompanied in another truck by impact. and the two go follow one another for the full three thousand kilometers to dakar at the mall and then they all enough bodies are lost. and only she didn't need. them is the. last chance in the long run a lot of them say for it. it will look. like. a number. of those that she. has looked on. she. did. or didn't. she do was. talk to us. and hopkins could be to make their first stop before dawn to grab some fresh food from oslo all of them. in a lot of cloth a little. over near. me and if i'm having a. little bit. of his guts but i have to know. there will be times in the next few days when they will miss not only their families but also the simple comforts of even this modest roadside cafe. one of the characters. if you measure a kid in the uk. who saw it saw him. play. when it brought him in the hope that could be or set off they can't always tell their families how long they'll be away such is

morocco controls ninety percent of the territories including its three main town boats and insists its energy go part of the kingdom while polisario demands a referendum on self-determination through. the two drivers have now reached the southwestern corner of the disputed territory near a small town called gotta get outs where there is a un buffer zone but which is effectively the border crossing into mauritania. over one hundred eighty thousand travelers pass through here every year tourists visiting west africa and africans heading to morocco and europe. as a hotspot for smuggling and illegal immigration the wait here can be lengthy they claim to inspect over thirty thousand trucks and cars here every year. for a grapheme of that could be it or it's an unwelcome bottleneck and they have no idea how long the visa procedure vehicle inspection and people work will take hours days or even longer. the drivers are also concerned for their safety as there has been violence here in recent years. and i. have no alternative but to wait in a makeshift bedroom where there's no food and drink ot

morocco is teeming with police offices. all of my friends who left guinea with me made it to syria to see what am i supposed to do here i'll stay here until i can get in. their sense of desperation is what drives them for salif and his friends it's europe or nothing. now back to port a my do you ever thought of he now joins me in the studio and welcome on a very you know to or to raise some very difficult questions and not easy on says now you just got back what is the current situation would refugees and migrants from african countries trying to get on to spanish ten of the refugees on migrants that i met there in this region were in a very desperate situation and they fled for the most of the people there fled from guinea from a sub-saharan african country there they made some three thousand kilometers until they reached that border fence that is almost an invisibility right now and just a couple hundred meters away from that valley where they were hiding right now and they were fleeing from a lack of opportunities from c

their way them and their full amount of this wonderful morocco is teeming with cops all my friends who left me with me have made it as far as they want on me why should i stay morocco i'll stay until i eventually get in god willing to those guys here and. it can be hard to distinguish courage from desperation for salif and his friends it's europe or bust. or even after migrants to cross to europe they find there are no guarantees they'll be able to state that past a residency and eventually citizenship is long and arduous but there are some exceptions in france the government can grant legal status to migrants who perform exceptional services to the community in may a refugee from mali was awarded french citizenship after a daring rescue now a story was celebrated as an example but it was very much the exception not the rule for most other migrants like a military courage alone is not enough he still waiting for the government to acknowledge his brave act and hoping for a future in france. has been looking forward to a visit from his hero a man not troops. three years ago a man rescued

eleven terrorists in new york now used to be released from a german prison and deported to his native morocco. and the biggest bond of college in dryness history leaves more than four hundred flights grounded during the peak holiday season more than seventy pounds and travelers are affected. hello and welcome. they're not in nations is calling for a prompt an independent investigation into an attack a game in which left at least twenty nine children dead the air strike by the saudi led military alliance hit a school bus apparently taken pupils to a summer camp saw the spokesman says that the spot of alleged military action in its battle against the who sees but this been strong international criticism of the attack. this is yemen doctors desperately fighting for the lives of children the school bus hit by an aerial strike. witnesses say that they were on their way to a school summer camp. the devastation of the blasts showing just how powerful the strike was awful a lot about what's the joke the attack happened in the middle of the market and was aimed at the bus full of children. and our sho

the young men in the mountains of morocco believe in strength in numbers. salif and his friends are already planning their next attempt to storm the fence that time of the brutality at the hands of the moroccan police. they only find food at a nearby rubbish dump a soft drink a cucumber a moldy potato and. life here is unbearable. and. morocco is teeming with police offices. all of my friends are left guinea with me made it to syria. what am i supposed to do here i'll stay here until i can get in. their sense of desperation is what drives them. just friends it's europe or nothing . now he's believed to have been the last no nazi collaborators still living in the united states but ninety five year old. is now in germany twenty five years after american efforts began to have him deported during world war two he worked in a nazi labor camp in poland where inmates were executed but it's not certain that he will be prosecuted here in germany we have this report now with exclusive images apologies deportation from a.b.c. news. to living quietly in new york for de

in morocco's mountains moosa and his friends are already preparing their next attempt. they're tired of the brutality at the hands of the moroccan police they only find food at a nearby rubbish dump a soft drink a cucumber a moldy potato. life here is unbearable. morocco is teeming with police offices i mean all of my friends are left guinea with me made it to syria from. what am i supposed to do here i'll stay here until i can get in on. their sense of desperation is what drives them for moosa and his friends it's euro or nothing. next to the story of the full time u.s. federal judge to several times a month indulges his passion for ice dancing at the age of get this ninety five he's been hitting the rink regularly ever since he received a pair of skates from his wife that was twenty years ago when he was a mere seventy five years the. normally he is a busy new york judge who is presiding over high profile cases involving the likes of facebook and harvey weinstein. but twice a week robert sweet takes on a very different challenge the ninety five year old heads to the r

dark and heads off towards the coast road that will take him first to the southwestern border of morocco. but to have this could be it is not. easy getting there struck by impact in public and the two go follow one another for the full three thousand kilometers to dakar for them all home are new and in the on off part is not a lost. art it's a policy issue and an ending she doesn't need then. than if the unless the women of afghanistan say for it. it will look. like telling which. of those that she. and women are going to. look for that she. had of elaine did she. get isn't it. a cultural veiny. i'll tell you didn't. she do was she. justice. ibrahim a hopped of k.b. to make their first stop before dawn to grab some fresh food from oslo for a look at a lot of cloth over the years. and even me you. see. me in the form of another. person. who has gets tourists. there will be times in the next few days when they will miss not only their families thoughts also the simple comforts of even this modest roadside cafe. in the fifty's. if you know if you are a kid you live with your luck. of course

i was going from ivory coast to libya but they told me that morocco would be a better idea. refugees want to go to spain before they chose libya or italy. just thirteen kilometers lie between africa and europe at spain's southernmost tip . spain once again has become the gateway to europe for many thousands of migrants it's not the first time and there are reasons it didn't have change much either i was morocco is busy dealing with domestic issues it can spare the energy to watch its borders it's time to make a deal again. larkspur was there reporting from southern spain now to a major change in germany's treatment of asylum seekers the southern state of bavaria has opened controversial rapid processing centers for migrants so-called anchor centers or part of interior minister hall so the hope is disputed plans to reduce the numbers of migrants arriving in the country the government says the centers are designed to speed up asylum process in the aim is for each case to be decided within eighteen months asylum seekers whose claims are rejected would then be deported from the

we'll be reporting on a really great invention that's helping supply people in morocco and tanzania with clean water. we'll be visiting a couple of high schools in berlin students advice and ways of making the premises i want energy efficient. and with interviews you conservationist in cameroon was walking to protect. these from habitat and. some of our viewers might remember our report on the fog how the sting project cloud fish it's a quote unquote meds developed by a german engineer who walked with a moral come initiative that mimics the way a spider's web collects drops of water from mist the water collected supplies drought stricken areas off morocco this innovative technology has been successfully a child and the big cloud fisher is now timing fog into drinking water not only in the atlas mountains in southwest morocco. africa went to find out more. a little bit of the frame. mohammed and the others have quite a lot of experience building full catches. it's the mainstay of the village providing water. there's plenty of foreground moment. in southwest american. women like. will bene

it has been a disputed territory between morocco and what's called the police are your friends sinceone nine hundred seventy five. the un has maintained to peace keeping mission in western sahara a territory about the size of new zealand for twenty seven periods. u.n. experts have repeated the field to broker a settlement over the dispute. the territory which the polisario says the longs to the soft all the people. morocco controls ninety percent of the territories including its three main town offices and insists it's an integral part of getting them while polisario demands a referendum on self-determination through. the two drivers have now reached the southwestern corner of the disputed territory here a small town called good outs where there is a un buffer zone but which is effectively the border crossing into mauritania. over one hundred eighty thousand travelers pass through here every year tourists visiting west africa and africans heading to morocco and europe. as a hotspot for smuggling and illegal immigration the wait here can be lengthy they claim to inspect over thirty th

life here sunbearable -- is unbearable. >> morocco is teeming with police officers.ll of my friends who left guinea with me made it to ceuta. what am i supposed to do here? i'll stay here until i can get in. oliver: a sense of desperation drives them. for moussa and his friends, it's europe or nothing. brent: the u.s. has imposed new sanctions against russia today. helena has that story. it keeps coming. reporter: just keeps coming, the latest effort by the trump administration to ramp up pressure on the russian economy. officials in moscow say they're bracing for lower growth and weaker ruble as a direct result. until now, the kremlin dismissed falls in currency as market volatility. not anymore, though. reporter: this russian reporter is saying the u.s. has banned exports of gas turbines to russia. until now, the kremlin has been unrelfed by u.s. sanctions. but the mere announcement of this list sent stocks in large state owned companies tumbling on the moscow stock exchange. flight carrier aeroflot fell 12% and the ruble exchange rate has dropped sharply in recent

morocco controls ninety percent of the territories including its three main town buses and insists itsenergy go part of the kingdom while polisario demands a referendum on self-determination through. the two drivers have now reached the southwestern corner of the disputed territory here a small town called got outs where there is a un buffer zone but which is effectively the border crossing into mauritania. over one hundred eighty thousand travelers pass through here every year tourists visiting west africa and africans heading to morocco and europe. as a hotspot for smuggling and illegal immigration the wait here can be lengthy they can't inspect over thirty thousand trucks and cars here every year. for ibrahim of this could be it it's an unwelcome bottleneck and they have no idea how long the visa procedure vehicle inspection and people work will take hours days or even longer and. the drivers are also concerned for their safety as there has been violence here in recent years. brahim and i. have no alternative but to wait in a makeshift bedroom where there's no food and drink other t

the prime minister in talk with morocco to try and stop the smugglers.ntinue to strengthen our cooperation with morocco and into use our 30 million euros emergency plan. we have increased the number of places and a new co—ordination unit to help migrants. it has become more difficult for migrants to get here but those face an increasingly perilous journey. but those face an increasingly perilousjourney. thousands but those face an increasingly perilous journey. thousands more migrants in morocco are waiting to try and cross the water. as europe sweats its way through another heatwave, people in portugal and spain are bracing themselves for the continent's highest—ever temperatures. on friday thermometer readings nudged 46.1; degrees in el granado in southern spain, near the portugese border. but, forecasters say the current european record of 48 degrees could be broken in the coming days. sima kotecha reports from cordoba. a city exhausted by the heat. in monduro, there is little movement today. and the sweltering conditions are having an impact on the y

i was going from ivory coast to libya but they told me that morocco would be a better idea. refugees want to go to spain before they chose libya or italy. just thirteen kilometers lie between africa and europe at spain's southernmost tip . spain once again has become the gateway to europe for many thousands of migrants it's not the first time and there are reasons it didn't have changed much either i was morocco is busy dealing with domestic issues it can spare the energy to watch its borders it's time to make a deal again. as markets burnish their reporting while marcus is now joining us live from the port of sirius in spain marcus here at the airport where the boat with refugees that we saw in your report finally came ashore what's the situation there now. well there still people arriving there still people rescued less than last week and. those who were behind me on a rescue ship accommodated almost three hundred that's the remaining amount of people on my back who are waiting to be reallocated to improvised facilities that are at least better than here at the port the we

salif and his friends cautiously make their way back to their hideout in morocco's hills near the spanish enclave silda they say the police could show up at any moment and dismantle it. each of them has traveled thousands of kilometers to come here now it's a few hundred meters to reach european territory on the other side of the sealed border fence. this young man from guinea shows us deep cuts he says he suffered during his attempts to scale the border fence. my father is dead my mother has nothing not even enough to eat i'm the oldest son and i'm going to try to do something to help her that's why i set out that. it's been two years since they left any knowledge they're stuck here among an estimated fifty thousand people waiting in morocco to cross into europe. has been looking for his chance for about half a year now living on almost nothing the fence is his last obstacle. i have many friends who have created to europe. many of them jump on the border just recently. and we trust in god that one day we'll make it to. build its border fence to stop them running eight kilometers it's top

pool america's only felicie morocco is teeming with police officers. all of my friends who left guinea with me made it to syria to see what i'm supposed to do here i'll stay here until i can get in. their sense of desperation is what drives them for salif and his friends it's europe or nothing. monaco joins me now and she's going to be looking at the impact of hot weather in many parts of the world including germany on agriculture money exactly i mean we just heard the sense of desperation that drives them a lot of that health course has to do with the drought in the countries they're living in and now for parts in europe it also has been the hottest summer since nine hundred seventy six on top of that there was hardly any rainfall heat and drought have been wreaking havoc around the world and to see just how dry it is take a look at these pictures from the international space station with no clouds inside europe is parts and that means water shortages crop losses and wildfires wide areas of australia are also stricken by drought the worst in decades f

and this is now the most popular route, between morocco and spain.angier and the reception centre at algeciras, just a few dozen kilometres. these migrants are being taken to reception centres. spain now setting up a central command unit to cope with the summer surge. prime minister pedro sanchez in talk with morocco to try to stop the smugglers. translation: we will continue to strengthen our cooperation with morocco and we will introduce a 30 million euros emergency plan, to increase the number of places in reception centres, and for a new central command unit to co—ordinate migrant arrivals. it has become more difficult for migrants to get to the north african coast, but those that do face an increasingly perilous journey, with 850 deaths estimated this summer so far and thousands more migrants in morocco waiting to try to cross the water. andrew plant, bbc news. more than 500 people have died in heavy rains in india so far this year, and there's still a month of the monsoon season to go. the north—eastern state of assam has been badly hit with mo

next morning and then have to get ready to collect a new boat of fresh produce to transport back to morocco. the shipping agent seems to have arranged for employ him and i have to be able to pick up a consignment of mangoes but the food isn't yet ready for collection. this is really a very circular for the a mock up offices. of one of the innocent into it with some words it would minimize risk reward system goodness of the type. that's where i guess it's not so it's all mopping or scandal issue at the moment get them walking molly but here's the same a bit of homework is what we're dealing with such as now this is a plot more like how this one was the first come off cho was told all. spokesmen to lie low you want to get the muscle docs you list likes to for have the . office. the next day the two drivers make their way to the warehouse where the mangoes are being packed and both get ready to load. for fresh produce like mangoes the trucks need to be refrigerated for the journey across the desert back to morocco. but today he has discovered there's a problem with the refrigeration on his tru