welcome to focus on europe i'm sumi so much going to it is great to have you with us europe is facing difficult times the independence movement in catalonia is picking up steam again nearly a year after the region how the.

welcome to focus on europe i'm sumi so much going to it is great to have you with us europe is facing difficult times the independence movement in catalonia is picking up steam again nearly a year after the region.

welcome to focus on europe i'm sumi so much going to it is great to have you with us europe is facing difficult times the independence movement in catalonia is picking up steam again nearly a year after the region held a referendum on breaking away from space this was the scene in barcelona a few weeks ago a pro independence rally drew nearly a million people they called.

welcome to focus on europe i'm sumi so much going to it is great to have you with us europe is facing difficult times the independence movement in catalonia is picking up steam again nearly a year after the region how the referendum on breaking away from the banks this was the scene in barcelona a few weeks ago a pro independence rally drew nearly a million people that.

welcome to focus on europe i'm sumi so much going to it is great to have you with us europe is facing difficult times the independence movement in catalonia is picking up steam again nearly a year after the region how the referendum on breaking away from spain this was the scene in barcelona a few weeks ago a pro independence rally drew nearly a million people they called on spending.

sumi as of right now the vote is still scheduled and is still going ahead you just start about twenty minutes half an hour there are several key senators to watch here senators who are from sort of mixed political states or who have indicated that they have not actually made up their minds but given yesterday's testimony it looks like you know republicans got what they wanted out of this which was a very defiant very angry very. very defensive nominee to the supreme court who affectively cleared his name in their eyes and so if there are republicans who are in very strongly red states states that still very much support president trump they are going to vote for this nominee and whether or not this if this gets past this judiciary committee it is more than likely that he will in fact be confirmed by the full senate my if there was so much emotion at this hearing it was very difficult to watch and there were protesters outside a yesterday as well how are people been reacting. it really depends on who you believe if you are a person who is very much against this nominee and you watch th

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i'm sumi so much going to get to have you with us it has been almost two weeks since protests broke out in the eastern city of chemists over a fatal life attack allegedly committed by asylum seekers but now the country's domestic intelligence chief has raised doubts about reports that far right mobs were chasing down and accosting for a nurse in chemist's in an interview with germany's build newspaper hung. mohsen said quote i share the skepticism about media reports on right wing extremists hunting down people and cabinets he went on to say quote the domestic intelligence agency has no where libel information about such hans taking place no video circulated after the clashes in chemistry appear to show demonstrators running after people judged to be non german a fatal life attack allegedly committed by asylum seekers through thousands of protestors onto the streets including far right groups and the own nazis. now mustn't remarks appeared it directly contradict german chancellor angela merkel who was spoken about targeted harassment and hate on the streets of kenneth here's what she sa

i'm sumi so much drama good to have you with us chancellor angela merkel said there is no excuse for using nazi slogans and attacking minorities in german society she was addressing parliament two weeks after demonstrations against migrants by right wing extremists turned violent in eastern germany the largest opposition party the far right a.s.d. accused of ignoring the concerns of people worried about migration one member of the government accused a.s.d. of using fascist language. as angela merkel arrived in parliament today it was already clear that this wouldn't be a normal address to the bundestag at the forefront was the recent far right violence in eastern germany she started her speech with a strong call for a common togetherness against exclusion and incitement is good and surely there's no excuse and justification for incitement partially use of violence nazi hatred hostility towards people who look to friend own a jewish restaurant attacks on police and conceptual arguments about whether it's hate or hunts really don't help us. if they think it's. the largest opposition pa

i'm sumi so much kind of thank you for joining us the united nations human rights chief has called on china to allow in monitors after allegations of large scale arbitrary detentions of muslim minorities michel battle that called the allegations deeply disturbing they appeared in a report published today by human rights watch it says more than a million muslims have been detained in so-called reeducation camps in china's northwestern jiang region details of the internment system are emerging only slowly because the chinese government tightly controls access to that region but much it's been a travelled to neighboring kazakhstan to speak to witnesses. hahn is a former inmate of a chinese reeducation camp he got out of the internment facility in march and is now in kazakhstan it is an important day for him he's meeting a team from amnesty international to speak out about his experiences. for me was sound and we had to sing for hours. songs like without the communist party there would be no new china. most of the songs praising mao tse tung. and were forced to repeat slogans about the gr

i'm sumi so much kind of welcome to the program german chancellor angela merkel is holding an emergency meeting with other key party leaders to discuss a dispute surrounding the head of the domestic intelligence service hans-georg mohsen america's junior coalition partners the social democrats are demanding that she fire bos'n after he question the authenticity of a video. showing migrants being chased by demonstrators in the eastern german city of chemists last week critics also accuse mohsen of passing sensitive information to the far right a f t v are you because. of both and let's bring in our political correspondent hans braun for more on this story hi hans yet another crisis meeting of germany's coalition leaders how serious is this. well it's the social democrats that have been escalating this situation as you have said that the interior domestic intelligence service. has been under a lot of criticism in recent weeks over discussions on demonstrations in kemet spy right wing us in the city of chemists and what in fact happened there is that he directly contradicted statements mad

you're watching news from berlin we have more for you from top of the next hour sumi will be with you then of course you can always get all the latest news and information around the clock on our web site. dot com thanks for. letting us we were wrong when we were. eighty percent of americans in some plane and i will experience hardship listen hard. times.

i'm sumi so much got the good to have you with us the leaders of iran russia and turkey are meeting out this hour to discuss the future of syria's last pocket a rebel resistance it live province iranian president hassan rouhani is hosting russia's president vladimir putin and turkey's head of state. in tehran aid agencies say it could turn out to be the greatest humanitarian catastrophe in syria's a seven year war. let's go right to our correspondent on szell bora she's following the story for us from beirut hi i'm chill is there any chance at all that diplomacy here can prevent all out military action in italy. well that's the hope the hope is that russia would listen to the voice of reason because russia wants the e.u. and the rest of the world the western world essentially to pay for the reconstruction in syria and say look we're not going to have an all out war we have a limited strike but even if it's going to be a limited strike there would still be many civilian casualties because if the problems has to be million people living there will be a lot of them there who can say is tha

i'm sumi so much common good to have you with us it may be the final showdown in the seven year war in syria the united nations is warning of a bloodbath if syrian and russian forces move in to take the last rebel held province of idlib which is home to around three million people many of them fled to from elsewhere in syria the first the big influx came in december twenty sixth teen after government forces took control of aleppo then twenty seven t. the last rebel fighters left the city of homes and in march of this year after fighting ended in eastern guta convoys also headed to its lip the u.n. has called for diplomacy between the major players to avoid a bloodbath the leaders of a wrong russia and turkey are set to meet on friday in tehran for a summit that could determine the course for an awful. dark clouds warn of an impending catastrophe the first strikes on its lib region were reported on tuesday these images posted by activists show bombings in villages close to ellipse city several civilians have reportedly been killed the syrian observatory for human rights says russian war

i'm sumi so much comic good to have you with us the catholic church in germany says it is distressed and ashamed by the findings of a new report into the sexual abuse of children by priests the report found that clergymen had abused or raped nearly four thousand children over a seventy year period starting at the end of the second world war most were boys under the age of thirteen one victim told about the violence he was forced to endure as a young choir boy. when he was eight years old or was one of the world renowned catholic choir boys in the southern german city of work he lived in a boarding school where he was sexually abused by priests for several years two years ago he shared the painful memories that still haunt him iranian's but of a consumer into the prefects room. down with my pajama bottoms. head into his lap. and he thrashed me and groaned loudly. out. i only realized later that he pleasured himself by rubbing his genitals on the back of my head. in the study the catholic church noted three thousand six hundred seventy seven victims of sexual violence over a period of

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welcome to focus on europe i'm sumi some of it is great to have you with us europe is facing difficult times the independence movement in catalonia is picking up steam again nearly a year after the region held a referendum on breaking away from spain this was the scene in barcelona a few weeks ago a pro independence rally drew nearly a million people they called on is as divided as ever and these yellow ribbons are proof separatists are putting them up in cities and towns across catalonia as a symbol of their drive for freedom for opponents the ribbons are a sign of the growing threat to spain's unity it is a conflict that spilled into the streets and both sides are seeing red. night has fallen and a small group is gathering to discuss tactics nobody wants to be identified the leader even asks us to distort his voice you never know. if it will be reversed we're going to stay in the cars and check things out well do our work as usual then the drivers will pick us up and we're out of here ok. you know i think they call themselves the cleaning brigade with trash bags and box cutters they

news coming to you live from berlin we have more coming up for you at the top of the next hour sumi will be with you then and get you get all the latest news information around the clock on our web site that's d.w. dot com thanks for the. letter we were. when you were. eighty percent of americans at some point in our lives will experience hardship listen. to some. minds. by a metric features like the ai research fingerprints are unique and cannot be changed so they're used to provide secure protection for passports mobile phones and bank accounts. but these features are easily accessible for example we leave fingerprints every time we touch something. or biometric features really secure after all they're often used to protect some of our most sensitive data. government. biometric data from cyber attacks by criminal. wrong hands. more and more people are using biometric data to access digital devices like mobile phones that data are easy to use and you can't forget them as you would a password but many people don't realize that when they access their devices they leave some data behind. t

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news we have more coming up at the top of the hour my colleague sumi seles condit will be joining you that's it for me sara calley here in berlin thank you so much for tuning in don't forget in the meantime you can always get the very latest on our web site that's not com or you can follow me on social media have a great day. to. make your smart t.v. even smarter than. what you do when you want to. update. extraordinary. you decide what's on. sunday d w john moore. this is luanda angola the capital this city is a dangerous place to live especially for young people. radio journalist daniel fernandez first came to vienna a town located on the one does outskirts a year ago he was covering a story that still has people terrified part of a. group of people whose rowley's came here but they stood right here and started shooting. just like that just like that they fired and left the bodies of the people they shot lying in the square thinking how many people. at least seven people died from this neighborhood going to most people call this place the square of the dead that's what it is now the

backup generators landslides were triggered in dense forests on a mountainside off the rural town about sumi covering homes a relief and rescue command center has been set up. i've heard reports such as people having cardiac arrest landslides collapsed buildings and large scale blackouts saving people's lives is a priority while the government deals with the disaster relief we will deal with this crisis made by. the governments deployed thousands of troops to help with the rescue operation the quake also shut down all transportation services including the airport and hokkaido telephone lines and mobiles are down it's been a difficult week for japan on tuesday typhoon jobi the most powerful to hit japan in twenty five years killed at least ten people the largest airport had to be evacuated in the wake of the storm and millions lost power in various cities now people are left to deal with another natural disaster japan sits on the ring of fire volcanoes and oceanic trenches experiencing around twenty percent of the world's up quakes of magnitude six and higher japan's very well prepared for na

i'm sumi so much going to get to have you with us the leaders of the wrong russia and turkey are meeting at this hour to discuss the future of syria's last pocket a rebel resistance it live profits are ready and president hassan rouhani is hosting russia's president vladimir putin and turkey's head of state russia typer to walk in tehran the talks are focusing on the looming military assault on him. in northwestern syria damascus is determined to take it live province by force eight or ten seas agencies are urging world powers to avoid what they're saying could be the greatest humanitarian catastrophe in syria's seven year war. the northwestern province of idlib is syria's last rebel stronghold tens of thousands of people were bussed here when other anti-government areas fell around half of the estimated three million residents both civilians and rebel fighters have come in from other parts of the country. the first big influx came in december twenty sixth seen after government forces took control of aleppo then in twenty seventeen the last rebel fighters left the city of homs and in mar

i'm sumi so must go to thank you for joining us a young migrant from afghanistan has been sentenced to eight and a half years for killing his former teenage girlfriend here in germany he stabbed the fifteen year old to death in the western town of cundall in december last year the murderous fueled a heated debate here about crimes committed by migrants and also the rise of far right violence i put it to be and funded mark that it was unusual for such a case to make international headlines but that this story had shaken the country. that's true i mean when you look at the numbers two people a day are killed in germany the difference here is the perpetrator was a migrant from afghanistan and far right groups have used this case this individual case to highlight what they believe the criminal character of migrants to highlight the dangers of mass migration as they put it although the vast majority of all these murders in germany are committed by germans but this far right mobilization in candle has shifted the attention to the city many protests took place there people from all over germa

i'm sumi so much god it's good to have you with us turkish president. is in berlin as part of a three day bridge building visit he was welcomed by german president fine foster steinmeyer before heading to the chancellery he is now attending a working lunch with the chancellor angela merkel the two are hoping to mend their relationship which was fractured after turkey imprisoned thousands of people including german citizens following a failed coup attempt but michael's government is being criticized for rolling out the red carpet for at one just bite opposing his policies some politicians are even boycotting today's events and protests are taking place in the capital. let's start our coverage with our chief political editor michelle i couldna she's outside the chancery where president or everyone is holding those talks with chancellor merkel hi michelle good to see you so the turkish president the german chancellor there talking over lunch right now what is on the agenda what are they discussing. well most likely they will be talking about the turkish ec

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welcome to focus on europe i'm sumi some of it is great to have you with us europe is facing difficult times the independence movement in catalonia is picking up steam again nearly a year after the region how the referendum on breaking away from. this was the scene in barcelona a few weeks ago a pro independence rally drew nearly a million people they called on spanish officials to release jailed lawmakers who were put behind bars for holding the illegal referendum last october. well today catalonia is as divided as ever and these yellow ribbons are proof separatists are putting them up in cities and towns across catalonia as a symbol of their drive for freedom for opponents the ribbons are a sign of the growing threat to spain's unity it is a conflict that spilled into the streets and both sides are seeing red night has fallen and a small group is gathering to discuss tactics nobody wants to be identified or you know the leader even asks us to distort his voice you never know. the sort of a dramatic reversal we're going to stay in the cars and check things out well do i walk as usual

i'm joined by sumi terry. carol lee as well.to north korea. i want to see if we can hear what he is saying. can i see that? they are moving out of the camera view.Ñi there he is. it relates to this idea of america first, the president's posture on the world stage and c we have a long way to go. the goal is fádenuclearization. when p president and moon jay inmet with kim jong-un, they promised to do a number of things, if the corresponding measure, what is that? it's unclear. >> the president referenced setting up a meeting withw3 nor korea. it's unclear if he means this week. he doesn't. he means with mike pompeo,xd comingÑijf up. he talksorp!out a lot of correspondence. we know of some, but not a lot. do you think he's overstating it? >> he is. not only overstating the engagement with north korea sárp+e been playing games with d not responding in the way that the white house would like them to. there was the canceled trip by mike pompeo to pyongyang. you fáknow, there's that piece it. he's also painting a rosier picture on what

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sumi. the president control the army, congress doesn't control the army. at this point the case goes to the supreme court. there is no other alternative. what i argue is to avoid that kind of constitutional crisis congress to narrowly read the impeachment criteria so as not to create a conflict with the executive branch. of it does the legislative branch, the executive branch disagree, it will be up to the supreme court under marbury versus madison to decide who is right and two prior justices already said if this kind of conflict arises congress acts improperly the supreme court might will intervene and decide the case. i lay that out in the book as a possible scenario. i'm not advising donald trump if he were to be impeached and removed not to leave. i'm just saying that is a reasonable possibility when you have 3 branches of government and two disagree about interpretation of the constitution. that has to be decided by the supreme court. >> that would be unlikely to be a problem but an additional reason, as you know we need two thirds to convict in the

generators landslides were triggered in dense forests on the mountainside of the rural town about sumi covering homes a relief and rescue command center has been set up. i've heard reports such as people having cardiac arrests landslides collapsed buildings and large scale blackouts saving people's lives is a priority while the government deals with the disaster relief we will deal with this crisis made by. the government's deployed thousands of troops to help with the rescue operation the quake also shut down all transportation services including the airport and hokkaido telephone lines and mobiles a down it's been a difficult week for japan on tuesday typhoon gebbie the most powerful to hit japan in twenty five years killed at least ten people the largest airport had to be evacuated in the wake of the storm and millions lost power in various cities now people are left to deal with another natural disaster japan sits on the ring of fire volcanoes and oceanic trenches experiencing around twenty percent of the walls of quakes of magnitude six and higher japan's very well prepared for na

well sumi as you can see behind me this is part of downtown elizabeth city contains i'm told one of the best bars in the city and it's all boarded up now we arrived here just as they were finishing putting up the final boards to protect some of these houses here. around the state people are sort of starting to batten down the hatches they've been granted a bit of a reprieve because the storm has slowed and it was expected to hit today and now that's been delayed till tonight or possibly even tomorrow morning but that doesn't mean that people are taking this any less seriously even though the storm has lessened to a category two one hundred ten mile per hour winds are nothing to play around with and one of the big fears is because the storm is so slow moving that it could be even more damaging that it will stall out when it hits the coast and just dump all of its rain on land causing massive flooding we're standing just a block away from a river that opens up into the atlantic ocean and they're expecting a good three to eight feet rise in the water to overtake the land here what are auth

i'm sumi so much going to get to have you with us in an unprecedented move the european parliament has passed a motion to punish the government of hungry for undermining core in u. values lawmakers voted by a large margin to trigger the article seven process that could result in sanctions that would strip hungry of its you voting rights a recent report criticized prime minister viktor orban populist government for silencing the media dismissing independent judges and courage and graft now in an earlier speech to the parliament or been accused pro migrant forces in the eve you of threatening to blackmail hungrily. let's go right to due to abuse correspondent max hoffman who is standing by for us in strasburg following this debate for us hi max good to see you so the e.u. parliament voted today in favor of triggering article seven what does this mean for a hungry what happens next. well first of all this is largely symbolic obviously because it's never happened before now as to actual effects we will have to wait because this is just the first stage of a rather lengthy process where at s