really disappointed on the national level so we will see a smaller group in september but it will take another year in july 2020 in fact until the presidential candidate of the democratic party will then be announced publicly all over thank you very much should be w.'s all of a sudden they're in washington. now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today north korea's official news agency says the country has tested a new multiple rocket launcher system capable of striking targets in south korea leader kim jong il supervised the test firing rates in germany and france have asked the u.n. security council to respond to north korea's latest missile launchers u.s. officials have told american media outlets that bin laden the son of slain al qaeda leader osama bin laden is dead so it was considered to be the successor to lead the terrorist group had repeatedly threatened to attack the u.s.

which had a $1000000.00 bounty on his head and the united states is impose sanctions on iran's foreign minister mohammad javad zarif the move comes amid escalating tensions between the 2 countries after attacks on oil tankers in the persian gulf the sanctions will freeze any u.s. assets and limits travel abilities iran's president hassan rouhani called the move childish and said u.s. was scared of story. the u.s. ambassador to germany has criticized government for refusing to join a naval mission in the gulf the u.s. has asked its allies to help protect bustles as they passed through the strait of hormuz a proposal the british government has agreed to but germany's foreign ministry has rejected their request saying that priority should be given to diplomatic efforts and to deescalating the situation. richard grinnell the u.s. ambassador said germany's economic strength brings with it responsibility to act

here's how germany's foreign minister heiko musts justified his visit from. the german government will not participate in the si mission proposed and planned by the united states we are in close agreement with our french partners in this regard we think a strategy of maximum pressure is wrong we do not want to military escalation we will continue to work with diplomacy marti's that's germany's foreign minister home us there rejecting a u.s. proposal for a joint maritime security mission near iran meanwhile germany's new defense minister and a great club has struck a different note saying no final decision has been made. we are considering this request in close consultation with the united kingdom and france. and we are doing this with particular consideration of our political and diplomatic goals and from this overall assessment

a decision will be made. well for more now i'm joined by g.w. security and international correspondent christiane. christiane we've got some sounds like differing views there the we've got the foreign minister saying no we're not going to help the u.s. in the gulf the defense minister saying maybe which is it it's become fusing and 1st of all it's a spotlight on how the drone coalition government works these days the john foreign minister mr moss is a social democrat and his party the s.p.d. in general is very reluctant when it comes to sending the german forces abroad military missions like that envisaged now and pushed forward by the us out of area missions are highly unpopular in germany and now we have to step back a moment and take a look at german interior politics the s.p.d. is not doing very well in the polls the party is ailing so this has to be taken

into account to understand why the s.p.d. is pushing forward here the ministry of defense is led by a high profile conservative politician the newly elected chairwoman is come cutting power and they say no we're still assessing all at all options now you could well chancellor merkel she's on her annual leave she's not in berlin but service you take it for granted that mrs merkel is backing the stance of her coalition partner and that means no john participation in such a u.s. mission so come. many think might succeed michael as the cd uses as the conservatives candidate in the next election she is try. leave all or options open anywhere still some confusion there that last week before boris johnson took over as prime minister in the u.k. the u.k. proposed a european naval mission to the gulf to help protect shipping in the strait of hormuz would germany bored me more amenable to

a european mission i personally think so such a mission under european flag german would probably find its role has been similar european missions in the past some of them quite successful and john vessels in that flight to the us for example that was one mission of off the coast of east africa an anti piracy mission but if you look at the john navy these days there are so many vessels under repair and undergoing an overhauling process so they're adalat if germany would or even could send ships into such a european mission so there is some speculation here in berlin the germany might take over the reconnaissance flights given given such a european mission will be mandated by the going to stock the u.s. is really upping the pressure on germany to dissipate in a naval mission there in the gulf the the u.s. ambassador to germany richard grinnell coming out very strongly in an editorial

saying germany needs to take on more international responsibility but germany's foreign minister says that diplomacy is is proper is a priority for this country and he doesn't want to jeopardize that how is this diplomatic track working out well it's not only germany it's germany together with france and the u.k. and these 3 european powers want to keep at any price the nuclear deal with iran the german government sees that as a huge political mistake that u.s. president trump has unilaterally pulled out of of that nuclear agreement so if the u.s. no asked to join a naval mission there are doubts there. questions raised here in germany to what end such a mission will be accomplished if germany perhaps might sleep walking into a wall with iran to jump deescalation and try to negotiate try to keep the

nuclear deal percent thank you so much. correspondent dealing with international and security affairs. the governor of the u.s. territory a predator rico ricard a reseller is due to resign tomorrow following massive protests as many as 500000 people are taking to the streets in recent weeks protesters were angry about corruption mismanagement of the economy and the response to recent hurricanes the final straw appears to have been a leaked chat laced with obscenity is about women gay people and victims of the hurricane. rather for naaman went to puerto rico to meet some of those who have been pushing for the governor to go. he's well known for his hard hitting political and. one of the artists we have conspired to approach just in puerto rico he says used to be a partial. act with this we wanted to

celebrate the fact that we kicked the government office in only 12 days but i also want to motivate people to continue to fight and to protest look how many came here today. were he words on his lyrics lyrics that have earned him a reputation as a verse a title artist p.j. since who else says he writes about what's happening and what affects him right now it's political crisis and the anger of the people caused by a corruption scandal and text message just in which goes on to say you know this parish ordinary citizens as well as political to. look at all the messages in the phone. when they came he made fun of. community he did so many things wrong and he was very easy for everybody to so to like get the message like this guy's wrong he's got to get out one of the people

targeted by the governor was joined almost. he tells me he was angry but not surprised to find his name in the leaked text message just because he's always been critical of the administration but he didn't anticipate the consequences. i'm very proud of what happened and really surprised by the extent of the civil commitment and here today to recurse for the most part or rather passive country. we did not take to the streets easily. and if we do the protests are small and you know we see the same people and groups you know i mean my persona is a party bundle. but also worry that real change that so many. which a region seemed to feel since governor rothsay you know announced it's he will step down that's why there are still protests taking place when you gather and there will soon be moving into this mention right behind but the political crisis in puerto rico is far from over in the streets of san juan protestants say they want

to continue their fight and they are hopeful that soon no later they will get the leaders they believe they deserve. the u.s. federal reserve has cut its wrist rates for the 1st time in over a decade fed chairman jerome powell says the quarter of a percent reduction was to protect against uncertainty in the global economy the president who wants bigger cuts says the fed is letting the u.s. stone. to re-impose delivery of the news was in line with the dry in fact will tell you and fed chairman have always displayed but it was an underlying note of caution as he explained the committee's decision to cut the benchmark rate well the 1st time in over a decade of a percentage point it is intended to insure against downside risks from weak global growth and trade policy uncertainty to help offset the effects these factors are currently having on the economy and to promote a faster return of inflation to our symmetric 2 percent objective that trade policy

uncertainty can be partly put down to the us president's own going fights with china the e.u. and even his north american neighbors there was no direct criticism of the president's policies from the chair of the independent federal reserve even if president trump has himself unrelentingly a tax the fed's policies demanding large rate cuts overarching the fed has left the door open for further reductions but jerome palace says this is not the start of a sustained program of cuts will street to pit unimpressed markets stuff at their biggest daily drops since may. well rob watts from d.w. business is here to help us understand this rate cut rob the seems a bit counter-intuitive the u.s. economy is doing really well yet the fed cut interest rates so why now this is the question that a lot of people are asking as you say the u.s. economy is in good health unemployment is at its lowest half

a century there appear to be any signs of any danger coming up and this is something that we would usually associate with tough economic times but want to ramp out is that is there are 3 reasons behind this cut firstly to insure against downside risk from using his words here from weak global growth and trade policy and says and say so what he's talking about there is the global economic situation we're seeing a slowdown in china we're seeing a slowdown in europe what he's hinting at is president from policies the us china trade war which is weighing on the global economy the 2nd reason he says is to help offset the effects of these factors on the u.s. economy and thirdly to promote faster return to inflation to ask symmetric 2 percent objective what he's saying there is they want to get inflation up to 2 percent at the moment it's $1.00 so they're hoping that this can sort of educate up but there's a distinct preemptive tone in what your own power is saying and that's not

something we get very often from the fed they tend to be a slave to the numbers but here they've looked at the broader global situation and they've come to the conclusion that a cuts need it ok well so our markets and all other you know people are involved there's a lot of businesses are dependent on u.s. interest rates not just in the u.s. what's reaction been markets have reacted in a very negative way they've had their worst daily they've had there was data results for 2 months in the united states the dow is down by more than a percent as is the s. and p. 500 also asian markets have had their way. stay for 6 weeks so they're reacting badly to face now we have to wonder why that is there perhaps an overreaction among investors who had been hoping that this would be a bigger cut maybe half a percentage point or they were expecting more cuts because duran powell did hint

that though this would not be of one and done cut as a lot of people have put it it's not the start of a cycle of cutting interest rates and investors were perhaps hoping that it might be very quickly i mean donald trump would like to see more rate cuts i think it will to more cuts be coming well it's entirely possible that what we might see them get like you say president trump is turning the screw he says that even with this cut that they're still letting people down. power said that this was a mid cycle adjustment which indicates that it's a bit of tinkering however as i say he did rule out the idea that it would be the only comes right thank you so much rob watch from v.w. business. now to the world of cricket where the sport's biggest rival raid the ashes is just hours away the best of 5 clash between england and australia begins in birmingham today captains joe root and tim payne fronted media with the coveted

prize the ashes urn head of the 1st test match england head into the series as favorites after winning the cricket world cup last month. are looking to win their 1st ashes contest on soil since 2001. you're watching news from berlin coming up next focus on europe looks at the dangerous folks homesick mining in spain and don't get me at all the latest news information around the clock on our website that's a t w dot com i'm terry morton let's watch.

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its huge appetite for electricity is increasingly shifting to renewable energy sources which in turn means that it needs more and more raw materials like copper electron mobility for instance is unthinkable without it and copper is in growing demand for solar wind and geothermal energy systems because of its excellent properties as an electrical conductor. all of which is good news for spain with its large copper reserves in the south western region of and alysia bant 2 decades ago a burst dam at a mine in the area triggered an environmental disaster now activists and go herders like leo moderato fear history could repeat itself. cannot let us go to graze anymore. in the flood plains of sun look at la york it's been prohibited for over 20 years. back then one of spain's biggest environmental

catastrophes happened in a copper mine just a few kilometers upstream. they're all going gone favorite or negative i came here and everything was black in the middle of the middle of black mud that i love you so much pain from up there you know where the mine is a all of this was flooded into the river and then type claim to envy or you thought ok well john i thought. people 25th 1908 and i snuck out and alysia the dam for the collecting basin breaks highly toxic mud a byproduct of copper production floods the valley for up to 60 kilometers threatening to destroy a nature reserve. cultivation has stopped here ever since and the pastor along the river has become a restricted area. if we're going to have it on you know. this homes as far as of

course. we live off our fields the cattle is not allowed up there anymore. so we need to buy fatah and confine the animals and i would like about. now ecologist saying the end of lucy and copper region is facing a new threat 60 kilometers to the north west sea daughter or other but they are expects the worst. i mean document there i mean unfortunately we have information from experts saying that the dems of the mine in rio tinto on safe he said no i'd say with you there's no safety there i mean everything but bormann. the open pit my going to be a dog is 10 times the size of the one in i think and it's run by an international corporate. seeking to increase production by 50 percent. were not allowed to film on site so easy dr i but they are shows us the reservoirs.

underneath a solid layer on the surface there is liquid mud. and i want to know what we want to hear some very acidic and there's been contaminated heavily that's really caught up production if the dams break then a much bigger catastrophe could happen then 20 years ago. in the village next door nobody wants to believe the scenario most families here lived off mining until the factory closed for 15 years mining has restarted 3 years ago and many are happy to just have their jobs back i love you know how my lives have been reinvigorated by the opening of the mine that i drew off a model with all its modern technology how could i not get that. one can i say in the ecologist simply keep pushing anything and everyone. the mayor defends the mine too she even downplayed the procedural error occurred during the reopening and it's been confirmed by a court. one the best in the whole thing with such

a project one needs to stick to the deadline so that people can present their concerns. this deadline required by law it was not met. but no environmental laws were broken it's simply a procedural matter i mean they will. be and a lucy and regional government justifies its decision in the same manner and was not willing to be interviewed. meanwhile the mind keeps running in the eyes of a college just this is scandalous watching from a feel well to what it was the citizens went and form sufficiently and hardly had any time to object everyone once of the best technologies to be used for the construction of these reservoir as long as have. it's not completely legal the pitch would actually not be allowed to be run. but business is booming copper is increasingly in demand for crisis ridden spain a valuable resource is seen as

a chance in life with its contaminated soil mining exposed to recommit to. busy the goat herds downstream have the reservations concerning these developments . later moreno is happy to see employment return to the region but cannot comprehend how easily international corporations are allowed to exploit the earth. air command their own then it's money that runs the show and we must subordinate ourselves with that and that's all economy 1st then us in one of the bow they are going to mean. they are moreno and his colleagues know exactly what they're talking about. when it comes to safety they say no price is too high. a politician should learn from the disaster and prevent risking a new one. well

this is how europe looked 30 years ago the continent was divided down the middle into nato and the warsaw pact west and east germany and of course west indies but then people talk to the streets in a peaceful revolution and in our special summer series marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the iron curtain the spotlight this week is on germany 2 men who witnessed history unfolding from close up. this is all that's left of the infamous berlin wall some graffiti and neglected grass. these 2 men born in what was then east germany helped bring it down. well and yon on the left was extradited to west germany he helped get footage of the east german protests onto west german television and protested when doing so was still

extremely dangerous but the screen destroyed the fall of the berlin wall was not a gift it was something people achievement big top of the ship and can be proud of that the small challenges we face today are nothing compared to this. back to free . but disagrees fundamentally the let's say photographer documented the radical transformation of east germany his pictures show the effects of germany's rapid reunification and what was effectively east germany's submission to the west. germany insisted on its own way of doing things most east germans lost their jobs and the country they had lived in vanished. you know the work we lost all faith and everything to do with the east we thought west german milk and sugar was better than our own even their people were disappearing. many west germans wanted to profit for example those who judged one of east

germany's beauty pageants it was held in life 6 just 2 months after the berlin wall came down as adama. back then i was shocked by how these human bodies were suddenly being exploited for capitalist game. we need to know looking at these pictures today they seem like an allegory of east germany's demise. the ladies got dressed up as a given code gave it everything they had. and less fat stupid jersey god just sat there smoking cigars and grading them everything had begun so well crowd shouted we are the people i was. roland and joyous met an october 9th 1990 s. the most decisive rally at the time and just one month before the berlin wall came

down the. good bit of thing about this footage was shot by friends risking a lot of. cameras into eastern germany my friends took over the secret police and climbed the church tower and of the army had taken up positions in the side streets backed up by tanks east germany was on the verge of civil war. and i was open for some reason we were pushed to the front off to the front row. that hadn't been our plan. to begin that the in law to know when the protest march started we linked ours as we had seen people do in the movies. we thought that's just what you do but after a while we realized that the police and the army or not intervening they just let us march. oneself and us in the news to us the next day footage shot by roland's friends ended up on the west german news it became obvious east germany's

days were numbered. and i don't list well from reporting from leipsic protests us didn't know foreign reporters could capture this footage 70000 took to the streets and. one of the 1st east german leaders to fall was eric schmidt head of the secret police the. from his headquarters he had overseen a vast informers network never would he have imagined that his office would one day be a tourist attraction. he used this safe to store compromising documents on east german leader eric shiner. when caught here was standing in arish milkers former headquarters makes clear just what great symbolic meaning because we have visitors from 40 different countries who admired germany for having toppled the dictatorship and for being this brave it sends a strong thick no and creates hope. today

roland the un is in charge of east germany the files he shows us the cellar where there are endless rows of them germany was able to selvage most of them making them accessible to former victims of the east german regime. andreas are also depreciates this former east german communist party members informers were not treated with leniency after the fall of the wall. but he thinks other big mistakes were made to this day many east germans feel they are not treated equally and he says it was recognised too late that eastern germany has a problem with right wing extremism and xenophobia. to use the use of the for that 1st we chanted we are the people and. we are one people which is still acceptable but when this change into the belief that foreigners should leave germany something definitely went wrong. go.