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this is due to be news live from berlin and for no the deadliest fires in california history are ripping across the northern part of the state leaving a trail of death and destruction emergency services are struggling to contain the flames that how destroyed the very heart of california's wine country and reduced into iron neighborhoods to ash also coming up the united states and israel are pulling out of the united nations cultural organization you know asco washington says any against israel and hasn't made sufficient reforms. plus president trump prepares to make a scathing critique of iran in the landmark nuclear deal in a long awaited speech outlying an aggressive new u.s. strategy. and. the female superheroes fighting child marriage in ethiopia creators of the to bad girls are breaking taboos by bringing her. topics right into the

classroom. thanks very much for your company we start in the u.s. where thirty one people are now confirmed dead in wildfires raging across northern california making the deadliest in the state's history and the death toll is sadly expected to rise even more with hundreds of people still missing the blazes have been burning since sunday in wine country north of san francisco firefighters have not succeeded in bringing the worst of them under control dry conditions and fierce winds hampering their efforts while evacuation orders have been issued with conditions forecast to get worse over the weekend. and earlier we had the opportunity to speak to my daughter who is a journalist with k.s.r. radio in sonoma county where the fires seem to have hit the hardest he took

a tour throughout his community and describe the situation for us take a listen to what he said ok i was able to take a tour of some of the most badly damaged areas of the city today for the first time with the highway patrol and i can tell you that witnessing the devastation in person is far more striking and dramatic than the pictures that you see on t.v. . the two neighborhoods copy park as a dense working class neighborhood leveled flat desolate it in any direction you look at just flat ground but the upscale found growth neighborhood has more of the look of a war zone please burned out vehicles piles of rubble where some of the city's most historic landmarks once stood i can say that the recovery here is going to take a very long time and then we then went on to ask micah to look ahead and tell us what the authorities and firefighters will be focusing on in the coming days. the focus is dealing with the wind heading into this weekend friday into saturday it's

going to be the turning point if there's if they can battle fend off the wind for this weekend if the effort turns to recovery if the winds get bad it could create some new problems for some of the more densely populated communities here and we've seen these problems all over again my deval there are journalists with case our radio in sonoma county california reporting for us on the california wildfires and a natural disaster is also proving deadly in vietnam where at least fifty four people have been killed in severe floods and landslides affecting central and northern regions key infrastructure has been destroyed making rescue efforts very very difficult more than thirty thousand homes are submerged and many communities have lost all their crops and livestock at some of the worst flooding to hit the country in years and forecasters are warning it's not over yet with a nother major storm on its way so. the united states and israel

announce they're pulling out of unesco the un cultural organization that has been co-founded by the u.s. more than seven decades ago washington says the organization is anti israel and has avoided reform and is too expensive well all of this comes at a time when u.s. go is holding a tense meeting to pick a new director general candidates from qatar and egypt among the leading contenders and organizations and next chief will have to cope with losing its biggest source of financing. paris's unesco headquarters the side of the latest spat between washington and the united nations the u.n. agencies official mission is providing education coach and human rights that includes keeping a list of world heritage sites but the u.s. government says unesco is too political we'd like to see the politics kept out of it and we see with this anti israel bias that's long documented on the part of you know asco that that needs to come to an end to the united states made the decision after a long deliberative process to pull out the u.s. is angry because u.s.

can recognize hebron is old city as a palestinian side even though the cities to me the patriarchs is also an important jewish holy land. it's also angry that syria was kept on the unesco human rights committee in spite of the country's ongoing civil war the us already are as us go hundreds of millions of dollars now it's laving us guy says by doing so it's betraying american values. united states is a founding member of going to school the whole idea that you can build peace through education science a couch or communication. is basically an american idea it's not the first time the u.s. has pulled out of unesco it quit in the one thousand nine hundred six crabbing unesco's anti western impro side view it a decision that took decades to reverse. and this time around washington is planning to leave the door open to return and maintain observer status it's

a business and it hopes to use to reform the un's cultural i gin scene and we can take you now to paris where the us co is headquartered correspondent jake. is there a j the u.s. has been unhappy with unesco for quite some time now why are we seeing washington make this move at this stage. that's right you know the u.s. start on the u.s. going to twenty eleven because of the we're gotten to t. year old clause that allow us to completely cut off funding to any u.n. agency that accepts callsigns full member obama tried and failed to reverse that restriction and then the u.s. lost its vote in two thousand and thirteen at unesco analysts say it's just yet another escalation by the u.s. and its criticism of u.n. bodies it's another way for u.s. president dong trump to make a statement on the international stage one of the official lines is that unesco is anti israel and so this declaration is also another way for the u.s. to double down on its pro israel policies and rhetoric now jake this all begs the

question and you've already alluded to it the u.s. hasn't been paying its due since two thousand and eleven so really how big of a blow is this move to unesco because were they really still counting on that money right well the u.s. currently has about five hundred fifty million dollars in finance it and the state department spokesman says look first it's human and it's also about whether the u.s. wants to pay that drug and spoken a lot about cutting government costs well back in two thousand and eleven when you up when the u.s. not only unesco it was paying about seventy million dollars a year to the organization now is about twenty two percent of the organizations annual budget time israel also said it would cut ties salutes funding mares well the decision to pull out of you know school is supposed to take effect at the end of twenty eight this decision is not exactly permanent the u.s. said it still wants to remain on board to get commentary back as a nonmember observer so it's not over quite yet not over yet but talk to us a little bit about the significance of unesco according to this current u.s.

administration but also the obama administration some of describe it as a talking shop is it just a talking shop or is or is there more to it. well you know it's clear its impact is not as immediate as relief agencies such as. the world program but still significant you know the scope of those wind it promotes peace and end of science education and most people know you know school at the roots world heritage site program clearly the situation has become a proxy for diplomacy middle east and particularly as it pertains to israel and palestine relations all right take a second air and paris thank you and here are some of the other stories making news around the world. in kenya police have used tear gas to shut down band opposition protests in three cities including the capital nairobi opposition leaders say they'll continue daily demonstrations to call for elevator were forms or peepers

eventually lection is set for later this month after the country's top court nullified the results of this election. ceremonies are being held in thailand marking one year since the death of king bhumibol that to a nation prepares to bid a final farewell to their beloved monarch in an elaborate five day funeral later this month the day of the death has now been declared a national holiday in thailand the. u.s. president donald trump has signed an executive order and as stripping back obamacare will make it easier for americans to buy cheaper health care plans with fewer benefits will critics say it could mean spiraling costs for people with existing health conditions a previous attempts by the trumpet ministration to repeal the affordable health care act half been blocked by congress. police in both new

york and london are looking into sexual assault allegations against hollywood film producer harvey weinstein all this says now a fourth woman accuses him of rape new york investigators are reviewing an assault case from two thousand and four and police in london meanwhile have received a new claim of assault dating back to the 1980's. is u.s. president trump about to abandon the iran nuclear deal it's a cause for concern for the countries who are helping to help negotiate it well other than the u.s. staying clued britain france russia and china the un's security council's permanent members plus germany will gather with you the group broke at the iran nuclear agreement in the summer of twenty fifteen in the accord iran promised that its nuclear program is strictly peaceful in practice that means you're a human richmond is limited and the country stockpile is capped at three hundred kilograms while the reactor in iraq will be reconfigured so it can't produce any

weapons grade plutonium and all this will be closely monitored by the international atomic energy agency well in return for it all economic sanctions on iran were left it let's talk a little bit more about this with scott lucas he is an american studies professor at the university of burnham and he joins right now yes there is that think so much of professor for joining us it's really really difficult to tell whether all the tough talk coming out of washington is real because on the one hand you've got president trump repeatedly saying that you know iran broke the deal the spirit of the deal but the i.a.e.a. says no they're complying and congress also agree with iran complying with the terms of agreement and then we've had today right before coming on air the new york times reporting that the u.s. will keep the deal so is this just all part of the art of the deal. ok well it's donald trump who wants to leave the deal getting to stage an appearance where he

waves his fist furiously but it's a very small stick because his top advisors are telling him that the u.s. needs to remain in the deal for the sake of relations with european partners like germany to prevent iran from having the excuse to quickly return to higher grade uranium twenty percent uranium and because the deal quite frankly has been successful in containing iranian programs so while trump may want to sabotage this mainly because president obama negotiated the deal this is actually just a step in a much longer maneuvering we have to see if congress will now reimposed sweeping sanctions against iran and if congress does so how the iranians react and talk to us a little bit about the u.s. u.s. is that credibility on the world stage how is china looking at this how are the europeans looking at this well i think there's a difference between truck credibility and u.s.

credibility i think no one actually thinks that the person to make the art of the deal with now is donald trump i think you have to go to his advisors defense secretary matters such as state tillerson but that said i think the u.s. is at risk of isolating itself it is quite clear that china and russia will support terror on because iran has been complying with the deal and britain germany and france are now caught in a very tough position they do not see trump as being reliable they do not think it is a good idea to threaten to abandon the deal but do they actually began to renew more trading relationships with terror on even if this upsets others in washington let's let's talk about iran for a second we've got about forty seconds left they said listen the negotiation stage is over we're not renegotiating so how are they taking all of this. all their talking loudly about how the deal must be adhered to and declaring that they have european support that means if the us does not leave the deal iran will

not retaliate on last and this is a big time loss washington adopt new sanctions against the revolutionary guards the leading military force in time all right scott lucas professor of american studies at the university of birmingham thank you thank you and we've got a whole lot more coming up but here's what's ahead. super girls to the rescue get ready to meet the cartoon characters on a mission to change attitudes toward girls and women in ethiopia. but first that lufthansa air berlin deal that is set to take off but not everybody is on board you know because that's a deal has really sparked controversy in the aviation sector a low cost carrier ryanair wants to take the deal to european competition authorities the german one all pally commission is looking at starting an antitrust investigation and evelyn's staff and customers while they are struggling to make

sense of it all. the employees at air berlin have questions lots of questions the future of most of the eight thousand two hundred employees is far from secure even after a deal with the photons the airline is purchasing most of the planes for two hundred ten million euros that's eighty one of the one hundred thirty aircraft but very few employees are being offered jobs at the tons of seventeen hundred of air berlin former employees are already working there they were lent out to live tonnes of subsidiary euro wings their only an additional thirteen hundred jobs to apply for i know against it hit us you know tons of the impression is that lufthansa snatching up the best parts of air berlin for its own business all from the employees are just an afterthought that's not permitted under european and german labor laws gotten into the whole passion about sports and status can't be left in the lurch like that but it's i don't think the employees will accept it.

but the financial pressure on every limb is immense it closes its doors at the end of the month and the unions can see it coming up with a better plan for the remaining six thousand employees. are afraid that everybody will lose their jobs and it's a very dramatic situation at the moment we don't know of any solutions whether easyjet is still in the game what's happening to air berlin sick with mint that will all be decided in the coming days but most of them will have to find new jobs or in. the tension is also growing as complaints over domestic monopoly could scupper the deal ryanair and other former bidders for ever then want to take their case to the european court they think look times are received an unfair advantage and clinching the deal now employees can only wait for answers that won't be in their favor. german chemicals joined by a sis it's going to sell parts of its actually chemical business to competition

competitive b.s.a. for five point nine billion euros the deal could help secure regulatory approval and finances for its much larger plan to take over u.s. may come on some two buyers make a takeover of months until which is under review as creative comes the merged company would dominate global food supplies. all right let's get some market reaction now and bring in john now to my loud and to the front with stock exchange and now how is this. deal if it goes ahead going down there. this cvs deal has fallen on fertile ground as it were monika would buy your shares off more than one percent and it's because the sale of these units could potentially satisfy regulators who are worried about handing buyer too much pricing power on the global market as it takes over monsanto remember that this is set to be the biggest merger deal in german history now the impact on b.a.'s. shares has been a bit more muted but analysts generally agree it's

a good move for them too since they have to get more competitive until now they've been pretty much shut out of this big move towards consolidation in the sector we've seen megamergers like dupont and dow chemicals and come china we will filthy fire in one santo and as such it makes sense to get bigger as well so what about this. box i.p.o. you told us earlier about it with champagne already sort of one handed out to the front of stock exchange how is that coming along. well they appear to have run out of the champagne to my dismay but top sentiment here still remains pretty frothy investors are of course well aware of how trying electoral mobility is and as a company that makes battery systems for electric commercial vehicles it appears that baltar boxes time has come the share price is now trading pretty close to thirty euros remember that the issuing price was only about twenty four year old so twenty five percent more and this is more than a decent showing for

a company that's only about six years old has less fewer than one hundred employees and is only expected to turn a profit this year though it's certainly impressive version of in from food thank you so much for that well in the race to make the world less dependent on oil people are coming up with all sorts the whole turn it is to get our cost planes and machines moving in mexico a group of scientists claim to have created a biofuel revolution using a godly plans not the same ones used to produce to kill. it's hard work harvesting. but it's worth it now more than ever because this him our daughter not only supplies the local to kill a plant he also helps fuel cars in the region after the juice from the ferments and matures to become the country's national drink the pulp and their god beliefs go to this man leopoldo have yet rios consol this he came up with the refining process

for a gasoline additive. he is very similar to gasoline and can be even better if you find the ideal mix of gasoline and ethanol that's somewhere between ten and thirty percent. clinton vs trying to foresee and. it's a boon for drivers but also for farmers and distilleries who can sell their waste. one thing is very important to this new idea of using not only the court to produce tequila. but to also use the leaves and the bad guys to produce ethanol can be carried out on an industrial level. with us who will be in the. right now everything is still in a testing phase as scientists are comfortable pouring their product straight into their own gas tanks but other drivers might have to get used to it. but as we know

when they don't know it sounds like a good idea but i don't know what impact it will have on my car engine doesn't need to be a special engine nor can any engine use a gobby ethanol and then when you're having. apparently every engine can once the concept catches on the i gather a plant will be powering mexicans as well as their cars but hopefully not at the same time. yeah it's unless you're a supergirl then you probably can get away. and. an ethiopian access to education for girls is tough and girls are also subject to traditional practices like child marriage but one television producer wants to turn that around let's find out how an animated series works female superheroes on a mission to change attitudes and empower girls. captivation on their faces this school and. showing pupils the first episode of.

means wisdom and i'm herrick in the series three super heroines fight for the equality of girls and women. one out of. before age fifteen and most of them will need to go back to school. to succeed in life. wants to change this it's important to the program's creators that children can identify with the show so they organize screenings of the pilot episode at local schools to see if people like it. different question. so there are so many scrying they know what she's been through is something close to their heart something they know who they can connect with. after watching the show the children write down what they liked or didn't like and

which story lines they want to see continue. i thought it was great because it was about. i've never seen anything like it before. is the brainchild of. the trained nurse so she could no longer ignore the plight of young women in ethiopia. so i seen how can he saw this huge problem on his neck and in beauty and kindergarten everywhere so i start thinking how can a rich millions of children in my country with less course there was quality education. dr wade has already produced three successful t.v. and radio series which educate children across ethiopia in a fun way. she hopes to bad girls will become a success and help challenge taboos we're starting from hardcore sounds like make

it stop only married. the thing is you know that is why the part of my mission is very interesting because it is on a mission it is fiction and so people can pick a distance and. comfortable to talk about it and that's what we want the first step is talking about it. but it's not always easy. sometimes i get frustrated you know shouldn't be creepin years to get to this point and you know i should reach more kids than by now you know and all east africa it's so slow because of so many broke bureaucratic. procedures or not support or. just the d. today by years. distributing the programs is difficult and resources are scarce social entrepreneurship is not yet common in ethiopia their policies don't sup with us because we're still look as a business person so we've been passed past the same way where the meetings would

go where in the readers we are in smaller resorts we have to do a lot. but the team behind to pick up girls is strong and motivated and they won't give up in the face of these obstacles that's still negotiating with t.v. broadcasters. all right some soccer news now and in the bundesliga tonight stood guard host cologne a team that is at the bottom of the table despite a successful campaign last season it all means that the future of colognes coach may be on the line if they don't at least get a draw. to make it plain cologne stinks at the moment and is taking the heat for it he was the hero who brought the club back to the top flight a few years ago after winning the second division but that's in the past conceding fifteen so far and only managed to score two goals have left cologne dead last

still searching for a first team with. me i was making with my state of mind will get better with each defeat but it's my job i'm the one who's responsible my job. and i ask of my players that they face the challenge and move forward and make decisions to help us get past this situation when things are really bad i have to come up with solutions because you know they don't go in touched in oddly enough the cologne stuttgart fixture hasn't gone the home side way since two thousand there with a host stuttgart showing signs of a shaky defense cologne holds out hope for its maiden victory. all right her minor main headlines at this hour. thirty one people have been killed in wildfires raging across northern california making them the deadliest in the state's history hundreds of others are still missing. the u.s.

and israel have announced there were drawing from the u.n. cultural organization at unesco washington says it's anti israel and has avoided reform and it's too expensive. on behalf of all of us here in berlin thank you so much for your company on leyla iraq i'll see you again at the top of the hour.

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