country's backing quotas. this is german chancellor angela merkel. >> there are countries which are interested in taking in refugees and which find it right will stop germany is among them and so is italy france, greece, sweden, and malta. so there's a large group of countries and then there are other countries which may be don't see this -- is this it is urgency, arguing for voluntary basis. but i'm convinced it will become clear that especially with the countries confronted with refugees from the mediterranean that there will be no alternative to european solidarity to get to a solution. amy: this comes as a report released today by amnesty international reveals how migrants are forced to flee libya because of "horrific abuse." the report is based on interviews with refugees and migrants across libya who face -- "rape, torture and abductions for ransom by traffickers and smugglers, as well as systematic exploitation by their employers, religious persecution and other abuses by armed groups and criminal gangs." it also finds conditions in libya migrant detention centers inhumane. a

conference later this year. at the meeting, angela merkel and french president francois hollande called on the world to stop using fossil fuels by the end of the century. environmentalists protesting depicted leaders of development in this super heroes. the world this really needs super heroes of it's going to reach his targets on curbing the warming of the planet. it has to end in paris. the finger-pointing must stop. every country has to do its homework into the run-up. they say germany has to do more. germany formulates its goal differently. it aims to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide by 40% from 1990 levels. at the meeting german chancellor angulo merkel and french president francois hollande spoke of their common goal of reaching a binding agreement at the u.n. climate change talks in paris in december. >> the challenges we face because of climate change would be much easier to overcome if we knew that our partners the world over were working towards the same goal. it is one of the reasons why we need an agreement.+ >> a comprehensive and binding agreement is only likely if develope

deal to fight global warming. angela merkel and francois hollande a with u.n. deal. paris will host a climate summit in december. over the past two days, informal talks have been held in berlin. the eu's biggest economies urging other countries to do their part. germany is europe's largest economy but also its biggest co2 emitter. no more military hardware for u.s. police barack obama has banned departments from using certain types of military gear. armored vehicles on tracks, camouflaged uniforms and grenade launchers will no longer be supplied. the move follows by american unrest over police brutality especially in minority communities. france 24 reports. >> restoring trust between the american police and local communities, that is barack obama's newest challenge. president obama: we are releasing new policies on the military style equipment at the federal government has in the past provided to state and local law enforcement agencies. it can alienate and intimidate residents and send the wrong message could we are going to prohibit some equipment made for the battlefield that is

chancellor angela merkel as well as the french president francois hollande. another was british prime minister david cameron. this was his first eu summit since his strong reelection showing, and a major issue for him is eu reform. christophe: absolutely, and the british prime minister has been playing hardball in recent weeks. he has a very strong mandate from the british voters to renegotiate the terms of britain's eu overshift and ultimately put the result to the british vote in and in and out referendum. i asked martin schultz how he feels about britain's demands. >> the united kingdom is a member of the european union. they want to discover necessary reforms within the european union to make it more effective or socially just, more competitive. i agree this is all feasible and without mutual provocation if this goes in the direction i'm with him. if it is about split in the european union to build a group of non--euro countries fighting against the euro countries to get an advantage within the common economic area my playing the non-euro countries against the euro country -- agai

reformed eu but only if demands are met. he is expect it to carry out a referendum in 2017. angela merkel seems confident they would find a deal by then. >> david cameron wanted support for his moves to put the brakes on eu integration so on the final german leg of his to her, the british prime minister may well have found it. >> we have states that have not opted out in certain areas. denmark in the u.k.. this is to speed -- this is a reality today. we do not want to exclude anyone. the people say i do not want to be a -- in on this project, it is possible. reporter: the united kingdom is facing a referendum over whether to pull out of the european union. seeking ammunition to use against his own parliamentary skeptics, cameron wanted a sign europe could be ready to meet his country halfway in reforming eu treaties. it would give national parliaments back a certain measure of sovereign powers. david cameron: it needs the flexibility of a network come and not the rigidity of a block. it should date different nationstates with different desires and beliefs and what the right outcome

angela merkel. on thursday, he will head to the netherlands and here to france, where he had dinner with the french president, francois hollande. we will bring you more on it as it comes in. the u.k. has opted out of a brussels plan to relocate asylum-seekers across the region. france is expected to take in some 9000 migrants. in paris, police say a makeshift migrant cap near one of the city's main train stations will be cleared. some of those in paris are living in very poor conditions as nick rushworth explains. that: they are just a stones throw -- nick: around 360 migrants from east africa have set up tents some just on mattresses. across the mediterranean from ethiopia, this man has been here for two weeks and says there is food and water but little else. >> we come here one or two times a day. there is no shower, no toilet here. nick: it is believed the camp will be closed due to health concerns. there is a fear of disease outbreak. the migrants will be relocated. >> there are few double -- there are suitable places for them. emergency facilities will be made available to them

angela merkel are willing to reach out. what we said earlier's what we see in scotland where the scottish national party got an absolute landslide with 56 seats out of 59, and of that is of course going to pose a great challenge to mr. cameron. how do you keep the united kingdom united when you see that scotland is pushing for more devolution, more powers? molly: that is something we heard from the leader of the snp , nicola sturgeon, that this vote is for the snp and not for scottish independence. she looks like she is likely to try to get as much from westminster as possible. as we can see from the images, we do have labor leader ed miliband speaking. let's listen in. >> [cheers and applause] ed miliband: thank you for your kindness, friends. friends, this is not the speech i wanted to get today. i believe that britain needed a labour government. i still do, but the public voted otherwise last night. earlier today i rang david cameron to congratulate him. i take absolute and total response ability for the results and the defeat of this election. i am so sorry for all of those c

chancellor angela mark l -- uggla merkel -- angela merkel says a global pandemic response is the only way to beat such diseases. peter: the question is, what lessons have been learned? i put that to david rivera, the u.n.'s special envoy on ebola. david: when we were dealing with this outbreak in august and september, we saw a huge increase in the number of cases, but we could not at that time tell how they the outbreak was going to be. nor could we tell which countries it was going to spread too. all we could do was marshal every capacity available including fantastic support from germany and other nations to try to help the nation's contain it as much as they could. i do believe it was possible in this outbreak, when we were dealing with the most extreme situation to coordinate and organize the response in a reasonable way. and the ministers will be saying, ok, next time, how can we do it even better, even more efficiently, even more effectively. they will also be saying, how can we work with local communities so they are better able to take responsibilities for taking this kind of

future. >> but the german chancellor, angela merkel, stressed that the eastern partnership program is not a tool for eu enlargement. >> that meeting is taking place today and tomorrow, but heightened tensions over the crisis in ukraine and russia's role are causing some real tensions. >> the european union launched the eastern partnership in 2009. it aims to deepen cooperation between the eu and six former soviet states. ukraine, belarus georgia armenia, moldova, and azerbaijan . but the initiative has not gone as smoothly as planned. based last eastern partnership summit was held in 2013, and it triggered a political crisis in ukraine that remains unresolved today. that's down to one key player -- russia. and its efforts to hold on to influence in the post-soviet space. moscow has responded by putting together its own trade bloc -- the eurasian economic union. two members of the eastern partnership have joined so far -- belarus and armenia. ukraine has indicated its ambitions lie in the other direction along with georgia and moldova. all three states have signed association agreements wi

, where change came through a referendum. that's next to impossible in germany. chancellor angela merkel's conservatives see no need for full equality -- at least not yet. >> we need to take the public and the party with us on this to talk about these issues. a lot has changed in recent years, but we have not reached the end of the debate yet. >> but ireland's example has inspired many in germany, who say they are tired of waiting. >> that's the latest world news here on dw here in berlin. >> mourners at the top of the hour, and if you cannot wait, dw.de is there for you -- more news at the top of the hour. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] pital. headlines this hour. an iraqi back militia grouped launches an operation to drive the islamic state out of the province. it comes as allies are targeting fighters with another round. in the closed trial of a journalist accused of espionage gets underway in iran only to be adjourned hours later.

world's most powerful women, and for the fifth year in a row, angela merkel tops the ranking. >> that's right. her position us chancellor is uncontested. forbes cited her key role on issues ranging from greek finances to ukraine to climate change. >> all right, that's going to wrap it up. thanks for watching. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] fifa's investigations under way after the arrest of seven senior officials. they are among 14 individuals indicted by u.s. authorities on corruption charges and now face extradition to the u.s. reporter: they corrupted the worldwide business of soccer to serve their interest and used their positions of trust within their investigations to solicit bribes from sports marketers in exchange for the commercial rights to their soccer tournaments. loretta: they did this ov

history of football. switching here's now, here in germany chancellor angela merkel will work constructively with the u.k. as it seeks to renegotiate its eu membership. comments following talks with primary us or david cameron, who was visiting in berlin. >> cameron wants to renegotiate the terms before holding and out referendum in place 17. >> david cameron is keen to present the german chancellor with a british view of the eu with a stronger role for britain. preferably on completely new terms. the british -- the british prime minister has a means of exerting new pressure. cameron assured angela merkel he is keen for his country to stay in the european union. >> it needs to have the flexibility of a network, not the rigidity of a block. i think it started to find that flexibility, but we should encourage that, not be frightened by it. >> concerns about cameron's confrontational approach to the eu are mounting for brits living here in germany. dale carr has been running a shop in berlin that stocks everything british exports miss from home. if britain votes to leave the eu t

germany before angela merkel, the current leader, was a man named schroeder, and he was a member of the social democratic party in germany. the left wing under a very, very charismatic leader, which was important, a man named oskar lafontaine, withdrew from the socialist party in order--excuse me--to found this new party the die linke. the other part of the die linke is the party that used to be the dominant party in what was east germany. you know, the east german and west german separation ended, and the two countries were unified early in the 1990s. so there's now one germany again, there aren't two, but in the east, which was a communist part of the eastern european block, that party was called the socialist unity party, sed, sozialistische einheitspartei, and that party dissolved, but large numbers of it moved also into this linke. so it's a coalition. in the eastern part--this is something americans tend not to know for reasons having to do with our newspapers and our media--in eastern europe, in eastern germany the mass of people still vote for that party. so that party runs