hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us in many places around the world the strains caused by a record number of people on the move are causing massive problems in different ways that dominates our program today we begin with a new report by the un refugee agency that says war and conflict have led to the biggest increase in refugees and displaced people since it started monitoring the situation in one thousand nine hundred fifty one its report says that since two thousand and sixteen the number of refugees has increased by three million to a total of sixty eight point five million people that's a new record roughly two thirds of them. are from these five countries syria afghanistan south sudan myanmar and somalia the agency says that resolving just one of these regional conflicts would have a major impact on the global refugee crisis well the united nations high commissioner for refugees has released its report with us here to talk about it is the u.n.h.c.r. representative in germany dominic botch thanks for being with us so the number of refugees has jumped to a new level wh

hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us all it took was his signature u.s. president donald trump had insisted he was powerless to stop the separation of immigration immigrant families at the country's southern border but he has now issued an executive order to reverse course trump's move means families entering the u.s. illegally will now be detained together it's a rare policy retreat for the u.s. president following days a public outrage you could have a lot of happy people. it was that easy president trump effectively reversing a policy that has separated thousands of children from their parents and kept them in conditions critics have called in to maine and even evil. this is trumps zero tolerance immigration policy in action. illegal immigrants are now being prosecuted as criminals and can be imprisoned for an indefinite amount of time the children that cross the border illegally however can only be detained for a maximum of twenty days under u.s. law the policy to separate children from parents was designed to get around that problem and critics argue

well i'm terry martin good to have you with us time is running out in the search for survivors of guatemala's bowl keno a fire with warnings of imminent new eruptions the death toll following sunday's eruption has risen to at least ninety nine now with close to two hundred people still missing criticism is melting that early warnings of the deadly eruption and offers of international aid were ignored meanwhile rescuers continue to scour the devastated towns and villages. clearing the rubble after disaster struck. the biggest priority for crews is to find and remove bodies buried under volcanic ash. it's a grim task and dangerous the boquet know could erupt again at any time. yes. we're motivated to do our job with everything we have been assuming that whatever it takes no matter how difficult the conditions even if it means risking our lives something we're very aware of. harms is on the scene and says there's growing anger as hopes diminish of finding survivors authorities say after seventy two hours and with the heat in the area it's almost impossible to find anyone alive anymore and the sm

hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us in guatemala fresh slows of superheated ashen mud from the bowl came to a fire have forced more people to flee their homes now officials now say at least seventy five people have been killed since the volcano began erupting at the weekend and almost two hundred more are still missing authorities have issued new evacuation orders and sparked panic among residents. fleeing the disaster zone. people left their homes as fast as they could taking with them only what they could carry on their own. many hoping for a quick escape or slowed down by clogged roads. authorities issued evacuation orders for half a dozen villages after increased volcanic activity on tuesday raising the threat of further lava flows and hot ash. there were reports of panic but others tried not to . the truth is you don't know what to do. i think what we have to do is to be calm and trade them i. want to feel those made homeless have been turning to emergency shelters there depending on authorities to take care of their immediate needs. it's a pity and we're hoping the go

below i'm terry martin good to have you with us a simmering conflict over migration could escalate today in germany there's concern it could put an end to uncle america's governing coalition interior minister hawse zia is meeting with the heads of his conservative c.s.u. party which traditionally dominates politics in bavaria c.s.u. leaders will decide today whether say who put should send migrants along germany's border back to the first european countries where they registered for asylum so you hope his party is under increasing pressure as far right politicians make gains in the run up to the berrien state election article is still seeking an e.u. wide co-operative approach if they hope it applies the chancellor it's possible that she'll sack him which could spell the end of math goals government. well here in berlin senior members of merkel c.d.u. party have been meeting today we asked one of them the premier of the state of has whether he thinks the coalition government will survive this dispute. since we both want the same which is to say the autumn migration i am confident that we

hello i'm terry martin thanks for joining us the struggle to defeat the so-called islamic state has been one of the most protected struggles of recent years the extremist militia captured swathes of syria and iraq and subjected them to a reign of terror while drawing international condemnation and repulsion the group also proved attractive to some a group of german women who joined islamic state were picked up last year by kurdish forces after the collapse of the fall of its defacto capital rocka they're being held by the kurds in northern syria ahead of their possible return. to germany we have this report. life under the so-called islamic state from twenty fourteen to twenty seventeen the jihadists imposed their ruthless moral codex on the city of raka torture beheadings public executions were daily occurrences and here is where attacks around the world were planned and managed. sandra moved to iraq in twenty fifteen she made her way there from munich be a turkey since the city was retaken from the islamic state last fall the thirty three year old has been living in a camp run by the k

a low i'm terry martin and welcome to the program emergency talks on migration are planned for sunday and italy has confirmed now that it will take part but only after german chancellor i'm going to michael agreed to scrap a prepared joint statement she hoped would clinch a swift deal and immigrant leaders from central europe meanwhile said they will not attend the summit in a sign of worsening divisions within europe. just two days to go before german chancellor angela merkel's mini migration summit invitations have gone out in the name of the european commission to ten countries including italy greece spain belgariad and austria merkel wants as many countries as possible to sign up to a deal whereby asylum seekers would be returned to the e.u. country in which they first registered a draft migration accord pointed to a tightening of the sign and policy the document proposed establishing migrant processing centers outside e.u. borders also a mechanism for deportations between e.u. countries cash and other welfare provisions would only be available in the countries migrants are regist

well i'm terry martin good to have you with us time is running out to find more survivors of guatemala's volcano a fire with warnings of imminent fresh eruptions the death toll following sunday's eruption has risen to at least ninety nine now with close to two hundred people still missing criticism is mounting the early warnings of the deadly eruption and offers of international aid were ignored meanwhile rescue crews continue to scour the devastated towns and villages. up above more ash and molten mud. or. down below the grim work of searching for survivors and trying to save anything worth saving time is running short for those who didn't make it out rescuers say the chances of finding anyone alive in this moonscape of obliterated villages and farms is slim to none and survivors have little to go back to once the work is done this man from the village of sami gadol slow tace says the town is done for. this is just going to be a cemetery because san miguel this is gone so those souls those victims stay right there they buried. as rescuers toiled they had a high profile visitor wata mali

hello i'm terry martin welcome to the program where we get in what were the death toll from sunday's def. volcano eruption has risen to sixty nine authorities warn that the number is likely to rise as rescue workers continue to search for survivors and bodies president jimmy morale this has declared a state of emergency and called for three days of mourning go out of all those deadliest volcanic eruption in more than four decades. old. dramatic deadly and fun vulcan diff way go all the volcano one final exploded finally sending a massive river of lava hurtling down its slopes. or an intrigue soon gave way to panic and scramble to get out of its deadly palm. it's baden ferocity many residents by surprise. but one grandchild fifteen and another eight year old. does what i can to see if i could rise up. oh some told us oh dear lord i have nothing i don't even have clothes to change and. the eruption sent black claims of smokin hot rock into the air quickly tending day into night. the. entire villages were blanketed in a thick layer of ash. a massive rescue effort is still underway with

hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us sixty eight point five million roughly the population of france that's how many people worldwide have been forced to flee their homes today on world refugee day the u.n. has called for global solidarity with refugees and the countries that take them in but here in germany there's growing pressure on chance for going to medical to reverse her open door policy to migrants and resume deportations for rejected asylum seekers people like the young men we meet in this report. i'm ahmed i'm almost twenty years old i was born in afghanistan but i was raised in iran and i'm training to be a hotel manager my. dad was only one year old when his parents decided to leave their home in afghanistan they fled because of the terror of the taliban. they said we were home one day and then suddenly the bomb hits there were shots everywhere they were really loud and we just ran away we didn't have time to take the passports we just run away from it given. the family found a new home in tirana where i grew up together with his two brothers. of course growing

oh i'm terry martin welcome to the program donald trump says he would consider inviting north korean leader kim jong un to the white house if next week's summit between the two leaders goes well trump also. said attitude is more important than preparation as he gets set to negotiate the denuclearization of the korean peninsula the u.s. president made the comments after a meeting at the white house with japan's prime minister part of a flurry of diplomatic activity in the run up to the sell it donald trump welcome should be to washington with the news that his own off relationship with north korea looks to be very much by cohen having canceled the singapore summit two weeks ago he appears now to believe that it could be the start of an unprecedented era of peace in northeast asia i hope the upcoming meeting in singapore represents the beginning of a bright new future for north korea and indeed a bright new future for the world the deed nuclearization of the korean peninsula would assure in a new era of prosperity security and peace for all koreans north and south and for people everyw

hello i'm terry martin thanks for joining us a simmering conflict over migration could escalate today here in germany there's concern it could put an end to governing coalition interior minister hosts a hope for his meeting with the heads of his conservative c.s.u. party they will decide whether they hope for it should seal germany's borders to migrants who entered germany other e.u. countries and registered they're still seeking an e.u. wide approach if the hope of defies the chancellor it's possible that she'll sack him and that could be the end of the government. let's bring in our correspondents here in berlin at the seaview headquarters is our is our chief political correspondent linda crane and munich at the c.s. you had quarters d.w. correspondent max million a caution well it will start with you the chancellor held a seven hour crisis meeting with her party colleagues last night here in berlin now they're meeting again what can we expect to come out of these meetings. well there are signs at least here in berlin coming from people in the inside circle. c.d.u. that a compromise

hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us a multinational crew of astronauts will blast off in a few hours time to spend six months on the international space station they'll lift off from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan the crew will conduct a host of experiments including some into the effects of stress on the human immune system that will be important for future missions to mars he. sent us this report from the law site. i mean by cornu we're at the world's largest spaceport cause more drama as it's called here in the middle of the. nowhere in the world launches as many spacecraft as of this place thus even as the russian cosmonaut human regarding the first human in space to kick off from here. there are just a few hours left until the law which. has special training brinks of the soyuz spacecraft to the ram. security is tight especially i was told because there is a danger of espionage and here comes the rocket via long shot at seven o'clock in the morning. right up until takeoff technicians work in the rocket and recheck everything meticulously because of the actual

all the latest news information around the clock on our web site that's a d w don't call time terry martin in berlin thanks for watching. the top. stories for the people of the world over information they provide the kenyans they want to express the d.w. on facebook and twitter up to date and in touch follow us. home. how could things have gotten this bad a year ago a tool box fell down himes foot it was just a small wound and downtime thought it wasn't anything to worry about but he didn't know that it dangerous multi resistant pathogen was in the wound. now anyone who wants to visit him has to follow strict safety procedures. at all cost the pathogen must not be transmitted to another person. so yes i mean you know i would go up to him to begin with i was too scared to look at it. but then they said to see what it looks like. my own foot it looked like a pizza margarita. yet a lot of the green red blue or blow. his foot had to be amputated. the doctors in thailand where he lived could not come to grips with the new super pathogen. for the better because until it's all gone and agent warn

oh i'm terry martin good to have you with us what to do with unwanted migrants german chancellor angela merkel and u.s. president donald trump have very different answers to that question and on monday trump took a shot at germany's migration policies in a tweet that's not likely to win him any points here in berlin here's what the president tweeted the people of germany are turning against their leadership. as migration is rocking the already tenuous berlin coalition crime in germany is way up big mistake made all over europe in allowing millions of people who in who have so strongly and by changed their culture. well for the record crime in germany is twenty five year low and germany's conservative coalition he referred to has had a close bond since world war two in light of misinformation we sent a reporter asked what people here in berlin think about his tweet. ok. yeah well can i say. what. i mean germany has been a partisan his ideology is exactly what we should be fighting against these i think his tweet represents the views of the minority in germany not the whole country. gener

oh i'm terry martin good to have you with us a simmering conflicts over migration could escalate today here in germany there's concern that it could usher in the end of government interior minister hall so they hope meets today with the heads of his conservative c.s.u. party they will decide whether they hold for should seal germany's borders to migrants who entered europe by other e.u. countries and registered their medical opposes unilateral action on migration conferring an e.u. wide approach it's a hope it defies the chancellor it's possible that she will sack him. that could be the end of michael's government. well here for some analysis we have d.w. political correspondent nina nina quite an important day ahead in germany a lot of people are watching what's happening in berlin the chancellor held a seven hour crisis meeting last night with her colleagues the government obviously in trouble what quake speck today i found it interesting that you said people are watching what's happening in berlin because today it's also about what's happening in munich more importantly so because s

hello i'm terry martin thanks for joining us a simmering dispute over migration could escalate today here in germany there is concern it could usher in the end of. government interior minister host z. hope meets today with the heads of his conservative c.s.u. party they will decide whether they hope for should seal germany's borders to migrants who entered europe by other e.u. countries and registered their medical opposes unilateral action on migration prefer an e.u. wide approach if say you hope it defies the chancellor it's possible that she will sack him something that could be the end of government. well here to put all this in perspective is t w political editor nina good to see you this morning nina very interesting developments saw the chancellor held a seven hour crisis meeting i understand with her party colleagues last night we don't know exactly what came out of that but her government is obviously in trouble what queen expect today well obviously it is a decisive day for the german government bill tabloids even called it the destiny day for. governments and the next few

cup terry tells iceland where in russia for the latest and problems get over the line to beat australia two one in their first match of the tournament. welcome to the program un special envoy martin griffiths has arrived in yemen for emergency talks on the situation in her data the yemeni government says its forces backed by the saudi amber of the coalition have captured the city's airport from who the rebels it's on the southeastern edge of the city taking the airport enables the coalition to resupply their military campaign but the most important goal is today the port which is still controlled by the who feeds the coalition accuses the rebels of using the port to smuggle in weapons from iran but aid agencies say the offensive threatens seventy percent of yemen see military and aid data is home to six hundred thousand people and the u.n. warns a quarter of a million people may be killed if the fighting enters the city laura burton manley has more. civilians injured in the battle for yemen's hard data port are being rushed to hospital as the offensive closes in on the rebel controlled city its people bracing for an all out war. one resident said his home south of the city was to