Opposition parties say antigovernment critics are being kept behind bars. Smugglgling women from nigeria o italy to work as sex slaves. Now a dw news investigation helped to bring those human traffickers to justice. Our viewers on pbs and the united states, and all around the world, welcome. We begin with a bleak forecast, the likes of which the world has not seen since the 1940s. The International Monetary fund says the Global Economy is on track this year for the kind of downturn since the great depression. It is written today with farreaching measures. Mid lockdowns, business shutdowns and travel restrictions due to the covid19 pandemic the outlook is bleak. Before the pandemic emerged as a grave threat to Public Health and economic activity, the organization was expecting 3 growth in 2020. The imfs chief Economist Says that the current measures to contain the pandemic make a severe slowdown unavoidable. This is a deep recession. It is a recession that involves solvency issues and u
Its definitely a unique and remarkable moment with respect to the fact that we havent seen large. Not large but widespread political protests in egypt in several years this is taking place in a number of cities it is a challenge to monitor the situation accurately because unfortunately there are a lot of fake videos that have also been circulating that is from 2013 protests that have been posted by people purporting to be protests today but as we try to work to verify the images it is clear that there are a number of protests taking place in a number of different provinces throughout egypt the size of the protests are still fairly small and a number of them are being dispersed but it still shows remarkable courage and while the numbers may not be very dramatic. You have to multiply those numbers by the extraordinary risk being taken by those who are being brave enough to go to the streets under such trying circumstances and in the in an atmosphere thats filled with violent repression r
Purchases we have just sanctioned the Arabian National bank that is their central Banking System and its going to be. At the highest level of sanctions we are continuing the maximum Pressure Campaign this is the last remaining source of funds so both the central bank of iran and israel well as the National Development fund which is their Sovereign Wealth Fund will be cut off from our Banking System so this will mean no more funds going to the r. G. C. Were to fund terror and this is on top of our Oil Sanctions and our Financial Institutions sanctions when a very major factor is what we do these are the highest sanctions ever imposed on a country weve never done it to this level. Well those measures just came just hours after the head of yemen to the rebels proposed an end to hostilities with saudi arabia he said his fighters would stop targeting saudi arabia with drones and other weapons but only if we are to cease its own fire all the routines are fighting the saudi amorality back for
That nothing comes out of it and then we need to continue no matter what because giving up cannot be an option that is citizens called leaders making new york will affect the future of these young people from within themselves it is a youth and pulled in by a desire to change and he would aljazeera in london across Africa Climate protest as a demanding mag governments acts now before its too late Nicholas Hawke is with demonstrators in the kenyan capital of nairobi oh these protests are not just taking place here in nairobi its across africa in johannesburg and cape town and go bowing to your seat in senegal and in loamy why because out of the 10 countries they will be most affected by Climate Change 7 of them are all the african continent and its already started with the hurricane sweeping through mozambique flash floods in south africa you see here a leo and droughts are due. Biting people in the sun how. To move hundreds are at risk of going something every day because of this and s
Politicians and citizens have been paying respects ahead of his funeral on saturday. And the Tour De France is back in germany for the first time in decades. The 104th version starting on saturday in the city of dusseldorf. We will get a preview from the sports desk. Sarah hello, welcome. Im sarah harman. Thank you for joining me. Gay couples can start planning their weddings in germany after parliament passed a bill giving samesex couples the right to marry. It has wide support across germany and there was instant reaction in berlin, where emotional scenes unfolded outside the bundestag and the office of chancellor merkel as people gathered to celebrate. [cheers] correspondent a moment some had waited a lifetime to see. In the corinne, supporters of gay marriage gathered outside of the office of chancellor merkel to cheer on the vote. It is not just about politics for many, the new law affects them and personal ways. With today we are parents like anybody else. We love you more than o