this is the deadly news live from berlin germany's new parliament opens with a new president both gun show that is likely to have to see some stormy debates in the new assembly and the right wing nationalist party joining proceedings for the

first time in decades also on the program. chinese president xi jinping increases his influence over his country and his party as delegates are becoming a spotty congress back his vision for china's future. young somalis say enough is enough a generation that has grown up with civil war is now organizing for peace after the deadliest bomb attack in the country's history and he will hear from a journalist who has been following the situation. in the last russian's us pursue to forbid love while putting he's thrown at risk the film matilda tells the story of sonic less three seconds effect with a ballerina called and said love and meryl tell us about the fondant reaction the film spot. i'm phil gayle welcome to the program. germany's newly elected parliament has

convened for the first time since last month's elections and with more parliamentary groups on the right wing and have tea party represented for the first time it will not be business as usual one of the of the stock's first tasks was to elect a new parliamentary president. it now falls to parliament's longest serving member to keep things under control with elected president of the understudy the politician from chancellor merkel's party called for calm proceedings amid debate and to play by the rules the obvious way we speak to one another can set an example for discourse throughout society. we are not here to beat each other up the new parliament has more members than ever and forty percent of them are newcomers the business friendly f.t.p. is back and the far right a.f.d. is in for the first time under old rules a member of the a.f.p. would have opened the first session as the oldest m.p. but this time that role went to a veteran f.t.p. lawmaker the rules on the matter were recently changed which the a.f.d.c.

as an affront. this rule student changed in one hundred fifty years of parliamentary history there's only one exception in one thousand nine hundred eighty three it was broken by him and gurgling because as a nazi he wanted to ostracize his political enemies. the first exchanges already proved fiery. if you are seriously comparing yourselves to victims of hermann goering then you've already done your own crudity. both the s.p.d. and the left party are rallying for more open confrontation with the chancellor. the parliament must resume its role as the main stage of political exchange and not t.v. talk shows or one on one interviews from reporters madam chancellor. i think that means that the parties especially the opposition parties can suggest topics here that the chancellor might find very unpleasant. but merkel's conservatives and her potential coalition partners rejected that

suggestion that the right to question must remain an instrument of parliamentary control and not a weapon for the opposition. you want to make a show of us with a history lesson today and we won't allow it. parliament is still voting on its six vice presidents although each party has a right to the post the far right a.f.d. candidate has already been rejected after stating islam is a political ideology and not a religion. let's get more from the deadly politics correspondent kate brady who is at the bundestag welcome ok let's start with this is a vote for vice president which is already causing such upset the bundestag has voted against the f.t.c. that countered that three times tell us more about why he's so controversial. well this is all of the back of a comment that was a made back in april when he says that islam that muslims should not have the

fundamental rights to the freedom of religion which of course is in the german constitution and all of the other m.p.'s belonging to the other parliamentary groups in the parliament set out right before today's parliamentary system that they were to not be voting for our pledge to glowers a to become one of the six vice presidents of course that's also important to remember that there are in fact six vice presidents in this parliament one from each parliamentary group and the other five were already voted through today in the first round obviously now after three rounds today. there was still unsuccessful and now the f.d.a. will be back to the drawing board for them before the next parliamentary sitting which will be in about four weeks from now so we'll have to see whether they'll put him forward as a nomination again or whether they'll bring a new candidate to the table so between they were compelled to say that over fifty

vice presidents and we saw and the report that the problems over being the first person to speak what why and so so much concern in parliament about the f.t. which is a julie elected and constituted political party. of course one of the bain issues at the moment is that there is this concern that we're going to see a shift to the right i'm in discussion and debates in the german parliament but at the same time many m.p.'s are also concerned about what the f.d.a. m.p.'s are going to say and how they're going to use their time that they could use that time that they're allowed to speak in parliament to spread any ideas of hate or any of the comments that we've heard before of course i'm just four weeks ago on this day were when we heard the election. alexander garland one of the co-leaders of the party said himself that the f.d.a. would hound the other m.p.'s and hound the government and so we'll have to see how

that turns out in the coming weeks and of course some of the concerns that they'll be more time spent dealing with the f.d.a. and than actually getting down to business in parliament train issues and a brief word about parliament new president both ganga showing blood what does he bring to this post which is essentially a speaker. well one of the main things of course his experience he's one of but he has decades of experience in german politics and he's currently the longest serving german m.p. and if we think back to that to the euro crisis i mean he was the now former german finance minister and he did make many enemies back then and took a very strong stance but at the same time he's also managed to retain respect and so that's something and i think you'll continue to push through with now that he is the bundestag president. at the bone to start thank you now to some of

the other stories making news around the world as expected austria's newly elected conservative leaders about in the courts announced that he will try to form a coalition government with the country's right wing freedom party was to court said the freedom party has shown what he called a will to bring about change in austria together. france's president emmanuel micro has hosted his egyptian counterpart abdel fattah el-sisi for talks in paris rights groups had urged the french president to address alleged human rights violations by egypt's security forces but at a joint press conference mr macro dick's clients to criticize the c.c. say he had no wish to hand out lessons that taking context into account. a gunman has shot and wounded a bodyguard to kenya's deputy chief justice in nairobi the judge for the mena and willow i was not in the car at the time but police are treating the incident as a robbery but an investigation is ongoing the incident comes two days before kenya

is due to hold a repeat presidential election. china's ruling communist party has confirmed presentation paying as its most powerful leader for decades by adding his name and ideology to the constitution at the end of the party's five year the congress delegates voted unanimously to include region pink thought as a guiding principle giving president xi the same level of prominence as party found about the dog and perhaps marking the start of a new era for the country. pulling ahead of the pack the chinese team leads the fleet at the world's most challenging ocean sailing event the volvo ocean race that's also where chinese leaders she seemed ping wants to see his country as a global leader it's among the goals outlined in president xi jinping is a broad vision now enshrined in the country's constitution to get there she has pledged to navigate china into a new era of global power and influence. and now please submit your

vote for those who agree raise your hand. more than twenty three hundred delegates voted unanimously to add she's name and ideology to the party's charter cementing his grip on power. since the people's republic of china was founded in one thousand nine hundred forty nine only one leader founder mao zedong himself has been honored in such a way while still alive deng xiaoping the architect of china's economic opening is the only other leader to be included in the party charter but that was only after his death in one thousand nine hundred seven she sees himself as the country's third transformational leader and by attaining the same rank is mao and doing any active opposing she becomes tantamount to an attack on the party itself. after consolidating his own power she is now seeking to reinforce the authority of the

communist party he's pledged to pull all aspects of the country's politics economy and society under the ruling communist party's control. we must lay a solid foundation for party building at the grassroots level as the saying goes without a solid foundation the earth will tremble and the mountains will sway. outside of the party she enjoys wine support from ordinary chinese people in particular for his vast anti corruption campaign and for pushing a nationalist agenda abroad bunchy is also known for his unprecedented crackdown on dissent targeting human rights activists the courts and restricting the free flow of information that get more than president grip power in china joshua where from the curve a foundation welcome to d.w. he was chairman of the communist party and president of the country so he was

already the most powerful man there so what difference is this change to the particle situation to make well as you just mentioned his thoughts she jumping thought. on socialism with china's correct receipts for the new era being in trying to into the party's constitution. really put them on par with mao and then shopping and with and mao was the only president so far to have been given this on a during his lifetime that makes him particularly powerful the other point that it's worth remembering yes well what i'm getting is he was already the most powerful man in the country so now he becomes the most powerful man in the country with his name on the constitution i don't understand what difference this makes to his position sure well the difference really lies in the fact that. the story. give me one second it's ok well let's talk about this idea of using ping

thought what is that well it's essentially a reform program setting out his thinking on socialism for the next five years and during his speech last wednesday which was quite long for three and a half hours he. outlined what policies he thought of which way china should take over the next five years and it's interesting to note that the most used word in his speech was reform. compared to other political reports such as hu jintao who mentioned democracy very often. now he didn't mention political reform which is interesting to note but. this emphasis on reform certainly acknowledges that the chinese part he will have to change its position views of the chinese society over the next five years. major part of his of his

presidency has been about starting out corruption this is often seen as code for getting rid of the political opposition how successful has to be that. it's a bit hard to tell from the distance but the anti-corruption campaign has been a major part of his rule over the past five years when he took over in twenty twelve the chinese party was in a very difficult stage with corruption being quite rampant the population being quite unhappy. since then literally hundreds of thousands of fishel is have. and have been indicted for corruption and removed. some lower middle ranking officials bird also some very high ranking officials beginning with bush a liar and twenty twelve who was arrested as one of the shipping first acts and then. imprisoned for life going to thirteen just sure from the killer

foundation thing. you so much. you're watching date over here said still to come and football round two of the german cup gets underway in about half an hour we look ahead a minute was marked about as they go up against the mighty dortmund. first have a home for a house your business update actually has good news if you want german and you have a job that's right phil thank you very much if you are going to small medium sized enterprise or job you know it's fairly safe for the time being germany's economy is always relied on highly specialized small and medium sized firms in fact they have long been referred to as the backbone of the german economy and now a study has confirmed that the role they play in the country's economic health is more vital and. a new study from the german development bank has shown that sales from german s.-a m.-e. companies like this manufacturer of specialized pumps rose steeply yet again in two thousand and sixteen they're up by nearly four percent to four and a half trillion euros that's the strongest growth for five years unlike in the past

however much of that growth is being powered by domestic demand rather than exports and in a kind of feedback loop domestic demand is in turn being driven by excellent employment figures as the middle east and companies hire more staff to cope with rising orders at the end of august germany's federal employment agency announced that only around two point five million people were currently looking for work pushing the unemployment rate to the lowest level since german reunification more than twenty five years ago. a court in frankfurt has rejected a deal to drop charges against the head of deutsche birth of the company that operates germany's biggest stock exchange in frankfurt kasten it can get is facing charges of insider trading after buying millions of euros worth of the deutscher shares that was before the merger plans with the london stock exchange were publicly announced sending those shares up in value now that settlement would have

seen can get to and the company combined eleven million euro fine but now it seems that the trial will go ahead. so earlier we asked our correspondent at the frankfurt stock exchange daniel corp how much can get or stood to profit from those shares if the merger had gone through well remember when the stock exchanges were flirting the franc or stock exchange in the long run stock exchange by that time he was buying shares worth of four point five million euros we know i am his marriage you know never happened if and what of if it would have happened he would have had made a lot of money and it's going to get even more difficult for him now his contract is due in in march two thousand and eighteen and we're hearing that maybe already by this week there could be a final decision about his future we are hearing from insiders that on thursday there is going to be a board meeting here apple stock exchange where there will be discussing the future

of casting can get and most likely deciding if there's going to be a contract for him in the future or not. don't you cope in frankfurt now that you're paying commission is recommending a shorter licensing period for that controversial weed canada life oh say european authorities now only want to renew the monsanto product for five to seven years that's instead of the original proposal of ten years of life estate is most frequently used is the most frequently used have the side rather on the continent and well in your thirties have deemed it safe for humans to conceive the world health organization says it could cause cancer a final decision on its status in europe is set to be made on wednesday. right a political spot stateside phil has more thank you yeah and guess who it involves a u.s. senator is accusing president trump of debasing the united states the attack is the latest round of a feud between the president and republican senator bob corker is accused mr trump

of bullying name calling and said that donald trump would leave behind a legacy of division the arguments began when a corker a lawmaker for the state of tennessee told n.b.c.'s today program the president should stay out of congress as well as it plans new tax reforms he said that that was the best way to have success but the president not known for taking criticism lying down get back on least favorite social media platform corker couldn't get elected dog catcher in tennessee he tweeted before going on to criticize the services role in the iran nuclear deal which the u.s. recently threatened to withdraw from the sun is a call to hit back describing the president is utterly untruthful and using the hash tag alert the daycare staff to imply childishness on the president's part but mr mr trump wanted the last word further into the senate a little bob corker he said that other countries had taken advantage of the united

states caucus served as chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. is this just a spots or something more let's get more from but you don't live out washington correspondent counting to two more welcome tony. can present trump just brush this off or other likely to be political consequences well for a corker and this is also his an advantage because corker will retire from senate after two terms that means he's not going to run for the mid-term elections in november next year and this is precisely his advantage he can criticize us mattias he wants he has nothing to lose we haven't seen any reaction so far from other republicans either senators or congressmen but this is not new we know a similar situation from two weeks ago when corker described the white house as an adult a day care center the republicans it's not common then them corker swarth said they

are not going to do that now so they don't want to show the republican party is clearly divided in terms supporters and enemies no character yesterday the widow of a u.s. army sergeant who was killed in battle said the president had made her cry during the condolence call and now this from senator corker it does seem to be a couple of rocky couple of days for the president. yes definitely and this is not just war of warts but a civil war in politics specially within the republican party the republican party is more divided than ever on the one side we can see the national is a populist movement that supported trem because of his promises on the other hand we can see the traditional conservative republicans who might not be one hundred per cent trump supporters but they were hoping to get their agenda through with us president of the united states and i would trump's integrity has been attacked

again by what is new here is that this time it is a senator from his own party who attacks seem more personally experts have been also commenting here that there might be many other senators or congressman who think this way of trying the white house but they would not dare to say it out loud and it is very important also to point out that corker her was an important trump supporter during his campaign they even had a kind of political friendship that used to play golf together they talked frequently on the phone and called her was even considered as secretary of state at some point clearly the turmoil in washington thank you take a look at some sport the german company sells today with minnows mugdha burka looking to upset holders dortmund how to huge success in past decades the nineteen seventy four became only east german team to win a european trophy well recently however they have dropped down the leagues and

currently recovering in the division so dorman's visit will be a chance for them to relive the glory days. face is the game of his career his team welcomes dortmund and while the current legal lead is a clear favorite for the match pavel hopes the club can use their underdog status to spring a surprise element of the first front and nobody expects anything from us we can enjoy this game it's sold out the floodlights will be a little bit loud in the stadium and the fans will push us on we've got to take that energy and use it. was a footballing powerhouse back in the east german league but those days are long gone now the state of saxony and how it has no teams in the top two legs the game against dortmund is a red chance of footballing glory for the region the tradition started sensational that we've managed to get ourselves a game against dortmund we're really excited and there are plenty of other people in saxony and help her excited. there are last year's opponents aren't in the best

of form dormant of taking just one point from their last two league games and continue to disappoint in europe. coach peter bush is frustrated but sees the mark to bear game as a potential turning point in fung and how at the start of the season we scored every half chance now even obama is missing big chances the little things like that decide games. and i'm certain that if we can be back to back tomorrow it will help us in the bundesliga to. and wind from october could be their biggest since their victory over brian in the current in two thousand and provide the great underdog story of this season. let's get more about all the driver cut from our other movie from our sports desk you heard in that report welcome big night for mark de burgh their chances phil i'd love to be optimistic from our devoted night to be honest i think only the most hopeful diehard fans are actually expecting a victory for them tonight it would be an utter sensation you know as we heard

dortmund are the cup holders at the moment and in fact they've reached the final of the tournament each of the last four years so they're very difficult to beat in the cup. along with being first class side of course just generally in terms of the players they've got but it's a difficult situation is not a hopeless situation for months because they have been playing well so far this season the currently second in the german third division so they're in good form going into the game and that will give them confidence another thing that we're getting confidence is that they knocked out a bundle inside a first edition side in the first round they knocked out our book not quite on the same level as dortmund obviously but it's still something that they can build on is still something that they can use when they kick off in this match in a short time it's not impossible it is going to be very very difficult for them though and it's going to require a top performance from their players and a lot of heart as well to get anything from tonight dorma not invincible they have slipped lately in the bundesliga and the champions league so how important that win

for them it's very important that they win firstly to keep their hopes of retaining their camp alive but i keep thinking about it the other way around i keep thinking about just how bad a defeat would be for them you know we talked about a couple of disappointing performances that they've had but that can happen to anyone you know they played good teams in that spell defeat to mark de burgh would be another thing entirely it would be far more embarrassing it would outstrip the last three games that they've had. combined. they are the typos as i say and title holders and teams as good as that and quite frankly should not be going out to thirty opposition however well they play we had peter bosch as well in that report just there talking about how a win against martha burke could help his team in other competitions in the bundesliga could help in sort of rebound and get their confidence back just think about it the other way around how bad could the effect of a defeat be on and how much could that hurt their confidence going into the bundesliga this coming weekend and other games in the next few weeks that could be absolutely disastrous people would be talking about then getting stuck in

a rut people would be talking maybe even about a crisis even though the top of the league is that's just how it works right and so they need to win this game just not to lose it basically just because the effects of losing it would be so drastic for them and what about the rest of the next couple of well we've got a few games that have already kicked off so the results of those are becoming in soon but for the the action still to come tonight what we all love is a giant killing right now where we're talking about against dortmund and on that front door not the only been is a good team who could be the victims of a giant killing tonight we've got frankfurt another bundesliga side another first vision side they're taking on foot might as well have not been in great form so far this season they take on host and keel so those are the matches that i'll be looking out for just for a great story because as i say what we all love as the magic of the cup is and yes it is i can i can absolutely confirm that all of a murder from the sports sports factor. this is day w still to come european leaders called for an end to international investigation into the night of

a multimedia journalist known for investigating government corruption but some are asking for that doc name karuna i get it c s murder will be investigated properly. and assigned for trade as a said it will take a look at why this love story about to russia's last saw has sparked a violent backlash. to how far those stories are more for days of world news in just a minute this is data. from the big easy to the big apple. by train from new orleans to new.

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the business and love our special focus on made in germany starting october twenty fourth on d w. it's all about them. it's all about the ins. it's all about george chance to discover the world from different perspectives. join us and inspired by distinctive instagram others. d.w. story topics each week on instagram. this is day eight of the news that live from then on phil gallo our top story at this hour germany's former finance minister. has been elected president of the book at the start used his first speech in the role to call on the new parliament to

engage in vigorous but civil debate. about course follows on the election campaign that focused heavily on germany's immigration policies since twenty fifteen more than a million migrants arrived in germany many flame war and terror others lured by false promises of prosperity from people smugglers now the german government has launched a new campaign aimed at dispelling misinformation about coming to the country and as of a show from t.w. social media team has more welcome at least tell us more about this new campaign. well phil the german foreign office has launched a new website and formats of a website called the rumors about germany of course they do not want to continue spreading those rumors about the of the german government actually wants to debunk the lies that are being told by people smugglers so they have information for people who want to leave their countries people who have already made their way to

germany and refugees who are in germany who wants to go back to their home countries everything is kept in very simple language you have this website in english in french and in arabic so you can take a look at some of the information that you will find there are here for example you have seven big lies told by people smugglers and let's just take a look at some of those here the german government trying to give correct information about that here for example there is a lie that is being circulated saying every refugee receives a welcome payment of two thousand euros and here the website clearly says that germany does not provide and welcome payment to asylum seekers other allies for example that germany grants a house to every a refugee that comes to germany the website also has very practical information for people that want asylum here in germany for example the things that they need to

consider if they want to apply for asylum here in the country now this isn't the first time that some people have tried to debunk this mess as it. that's absolutely ride the government actually conducted a similar campaign back in two thousand and fifteen and twenty sixteen it was targeted ads people who are in afghanistan and that campaign was carried out online with the hash tag rumors about germany but then also in afghanistan itself so you had messages from the german foreign office they were written on buses for example in the local languages dari and pashto asking people do you really want to leave afghanistan think about it before coming to germany and then again there are the hash tag rumors about germany you know people are really questioning how effective such campaigns are we've looked into the numbers from the german foreign office and they tell us that this campaign started twenty fifteen in that year thirty thousand

people from afghanistan applied for asylum here in germany but the number rose in twenty sixteen it was one hundred twenty a thousand people so if the aim is to deter people from coming to germany of the question is how effective that really is phil. thank you. father that's a d.-w. has partnered with other european media on a project also aimed at combating misinformation from human traffickers to the website info migrants dot net provides news and information to migrants who have traveled to europe and to those considering the journey for migrant start that is available in french arabic and english. now the head of the european parliament has called for an unnamed to national investigation into the matter of multiset john instead daphne. it comes as a parliament discuss the need to protect journalists and media freedom and they mediterranean a new member state i definitely cut any. i can it's his work i'm focused on

government corruption a family accuses malta's prime minister of complicity in the killing of family members of daphne kerry wanted to leave in the public gallery of the european parliament. politicians turned and paid their respects. then the parliament observed a minute of silence for the murder journalist. for most parliamentarians though this is not enough. i have to state that many people in malta no longer trust their government to investigate this murder why we're calling for an international investigation cannot do this alone too much trust has been lost so we need to know who committed this murder and what that was

you can't we hadn't been a stick to him. there is a lot to investigate behind the picture postcard setting of malta. that's exactly what daphne kerry wanted to did. her research into corruption letter straight to the top of the government. among others she linked maltese prime minister joseph who scott and his wife to offshore companies and payments from the government of azerbaijan putting the scott front and center in a huge corruption scandal. some european parliamentarians are now not only calling for an investigation they see the rule of law threatened by mafia style practices and one far reaching consequences. personally i'm. and their request of the family that.

they say. too much adding to all the others. so far this has not been a resigning matter from scott but the murder of the investigative journalist won't be forgotten soon or at least not here at the european parliament. because this press room right here where we journalists work and question politicians is now named in her honor daphne carolina. it was the deadliest ball in somalia's history a blast and. this month left more than three hundred fifty people dead hundreds more wounded they struggled for to show scale of the destruction it was also a watershed moment for a generation of somalis who have grown up with civil war then are calling for somalis every way to work the pace. help your brother that's the message printed on

these red headbands. the red symbolizes blood we demand an end to somalian bloodshed it hurts us so much. these young somalis now live in the kenyan capital nairobi but they still feel close ties to their homeland their parents left to escape the civil war that's been raging for almost three decades. the young people here are collecting money for the victims of the massive truck attack over the years they've grown far too familiar with tactics . but their actions make people flee they're destroying their own country and they're making it on gov ball that's our problem. the attack in mogadishu on october fourteenth was the deadliest yet in somalia al-shabaab is widely believed to be behind it the terrorist group has been active for ten years most of their attacks are directed at security forces or the government so far has not

claimed this attack. and this is a must see been president a number of people who have died i think it would be foolish to comment on claimed responsibility for these a tug knowing well that almost one hundred percent of the casualties was civilian. and again there's huge huge. on the somali street the group's name translates to the youth but now somalia is real youth are channeling their anger into public protests in defiance of government orders. these young somalis are volunteering to coordinate care for people wounded by the bombing they also counsel victims' relatives and continue the search for those still missing. we're not all terrorists we're not the ones who kill people we're not indoctrinated. some take hope from the fact that so many are helping and protesting. i hope this tragedy will finally

unite us. but somalia is far from united and peace seems a distant dream it's a failed state where clans and warlords hold much of the power african union troops are supposed to guarantee security but that's hardly the case recently elected president mohammad mohammad is largely powerless it's still unclear if he can bring peace to a country that's riven by corruption and tribal conflicts well smaller journalist dean robel has been monitoring the situation and joins us on the line from the kenyan capital nairobi welcome to day w. somalia's civil war has raged for decades and its baffled governments and international efforts so how much difference is a group of angry youngsters likely to make. i think for the young somalis. in somalia.

it has been. most of time the ficta means. the somali government's when you look at most of those fighting for. the schools people young boys who have been in the school isn't in universities and trying to make some kind of their own future on the side of the government most of the most of the government soldiers. young people. and when you look at what happened. most of those sort of lost their lives were where the young people. has created a kind of unity among the u.s. but the problem is they can do so they can do little to what is happening in

somalia what has happened in his own mind is more like a political and security issues they know most of the country teachers are not youth or young. people there is no public platform where people try to make it jane just through a democratic means so the option is the young somalis have little or when you look at it how the situation are. ok we're going to leave it there that day in rubble joining us on a slightly dodgy line there from nairobi we thank you for you for your efforts to bring clarity that apologise to the viewers at home for the poor sound quality. our climate change is wreaking havoc on the economy in south africa in a sector that by the always spring to mind his health and that's why i feel we're taking a look at south africa's was south africa's blooming flower industry now it's currently spring there right now no maybe northern cape province is transformed as billions of colorful flowers bloom off to seasonal rains but the rains have not come this

year which means no flowers and no tourists to come and see them in fact not much is during a tour and sheep farm is a struggling to feed their flocks. this is how spring should look in the region of south africa but a long persistent drought means virtually no flowers grow here anymore. eugene merinos from the one time botanical garden has been driven to despair by the lack of rain. since one thousand nine hundred fifty seven this is the lowest for the first off of the year we usually get about by the end of august we have about three hundred millimeters this year we only had about eighty millimeters of rain so it's really very very bad. many tourists come here for the flowers and to the town of calvin ian visitor numbers have fallen over the last three years because the whole

community is dependent on tourism and farming and both of these are greatly affected there is the whole community must say they talk about a domino effect that this isn't a domino effect this is the tsunami that we experience that it's gone down from very busy to nothing the fresh water supplies in california will only last until the end of october everyone in the region is hoping for rain and a turnaround for the economy we're talking climate change we know that fighting it means we have to limit the amount of harmful emissions pumped into the atmosphere most cases that means looking to renewal energy instead the sometimes in an instance in industry there's no getting away from the fact that carbon dioxide does end up being produced so a company in the german city of dresden has come up with a way to turn that c o two into an eco friendly if you take a watch. steel plants amid huge quantities of carbon dioxide

but a new technique promises to turn the potential pollutant into a source of clean fuel. some fire a company in dresden has developed a way of using that otherwise harmful gas to produce an eco friendly fluid called blue crude. on its own it's already an alternative to fossil fuel. but a further steps can produce other products like diesel or aviation fuel. a day's will is a synthetic fuel which hardly has any emissions it's a groundbreaking but there are concerns a steep curve. and there are concerns from some quarters that approving our kind of fuel would hamper the development of immobility. we don't believe that we believe both can be used alongside each other. but as long as something one hampers the

other then it will be extremely difficult to succeed with this technology. none of the shaper to exclaim share your photos on. a process known as electrolysis allow surplus electricity from renewable sources to be transformed into a synthetic fuel. synthetic fuels like a diesel don't require new infrastructure tanks and gas stations and conventional internal combustion engines can continue to be used. albert alba's is doing research on the future of mobility at the karlsruhe institute of technology he says politicians are too quick to side with the electric mobility and declare the end of the combustion engine. he's calling for an open discussion that incorporates all kinds of technologies he believes blue crude which is based around hydrogen has a lot of potential. you know in and of us are still not

a sustainability built hydrogen economy requires a long and strategic approach but my view it's clearly the solution to hydrogen in its different forms refining to fuel combustion engines to generate mobility that's what these workers interest in are hoping someday to mass produce a diesel in places like norway such a breakthrough would take their electrolysis process into the real world. now the road to internet access in cuba has been slow and it's been expensive two years ago the socialist government hooked up a tiny share of private households in havana to the world wide web mostly academics scientists and journalists and rest and using wife i popped public areas that offer internet access there are over four hundred on the island but many cubans unhappy about it. writing messages and sending photos making phone calls or skype in with friends and relatives in all corners of the globe all of this is now possible in

cuba's wife i parks the prices have dropped from two u.s. dollars to one fifty per hour but that still represents five percent of the average monthly income of just thirty dollars but it's not just the high prices that disturb many cubans. i talk on the phone by internet with people about private things and all around people can listen and it would be nice if privacy could be protected but as long as it's not like that we have to live with what we have but i mean it didn't like everything in cuba a little surreal you can really experience the intimate lives of people someone pleading like when are you finally going to send me an invitation or another i miss you my son the whole of cuban life is being played out in this park the exodus of those far away that have left and those that stayed here the whole thing makes me say that you. yeah.

two years ago the first private broadband network was laid in havana and promises have been made to hook up the entire island by the end of the year but repeated problems such a plan is something of a utopia and one many for now at least can still only dream of a. controversial film called matilda lost a russian. ballerina at its premiere in st petersburg last night but it's angered many russians out most of all think he's really god's son nicholas was a saint. so whether someone with robin merrill from culture desk robin there had been filing protests against this field did they plan to take place without incident thankfully it did i mean it was took place in st petersburg as you

said at the fabulous ski theatre which is home to the cure off which incidentally was the ballet where the ballerina matilda was back in the day and actually there was no film trailer there were no posters for the film there was really no indication that the premiere would take place there was an invited audience. and they were very careful by the way is interesting that the son nicholas is regarded as a kind of. saint in the eyes of the people because of course way back in nineteen eighteen he was brutally murdered with his entire family by his own countrymen so interesting that one anyway let's find out more about the premiere and the film itself matilda. tension was high and the premier one hundred police officers guarded a select audience implementing security measures more typical of an airport. many feared an attack since the film's director alexis tell had received multiple

threats but he remained defiant. not affright i had good sense triumphs and the process of sides with. the uproar mainly has to do with a few sexy that depict a week fruits are who's about to lose his job over a premarital affair with matilda a teenage ballerina. but that's too much for russia's powerful orthodox church which canonized sir nicholas the second in two thousand. portraying him this way offends the religious sensibilities of the faithful according to russia's parliament the duma. natalia. the duma lawmaker who started the campaign against matilda. and is installed saints who embody a healthy family a proper family relationship our family values. news in the order not to cause

offense one must be able to strike a balance between artistic freedom and the rights of our citizens to their religious feelings. some of the offended citizens have seemed inspired by his campaign here in the city of you catherine berg one activist drove a mini bus loaded with cans of gasoline into a cinema and two cars outside the offices of the director's noir were set on fire in moscow fears of further violence have prompted several cinemas and russia to cancel scheduled screenings of the film regardless of whether mattel there will be a financial success it has prompted a discussion about the limits of art and censorship. so we saw in the report that the film stars a german at. nicholas the second but he wasn't there at the premiere was a no you wasn't ideal is an extraordinary actor who he puts everything into

a performance one good on dad lee says the talk of actually opens himself up completely here risk anything and he has very much the courage of his convictions on stage he's basically known here in germany as the stage actor and he's done some menacing and full throttle throttle performances seeing some of them here known perhaps an international audience he was on s.s. to be on the b.b.c. that was. and last year more recently sorry this year he played in a hollywood movie with kristen stewart called personal shopper and he wrote a long letter to the director of matilda movie and also sent a video to the premiere at the same having received death threats in the south and having been defamed in the russian press and being called and i quote a gay porno actor he decided that he wouldn't travel to st petersburg. was pretty. brutal.

to us. so it looks like the film's going to have problems finding an audience in russia how about elsewhere well it's going to be released here in germany in a week's time and there's definitely an audience for it here i think the germans i think they're interested in the story that interested in the history the interest in the controversy and the interested in laws idea is pretty well known his so i think it will have an audience here incidentally i think it might have an audience also eventually russia a lot of people want to see it there might be scared to see it at the moment it might die down i mean we've seen what's happened in the report of cinema as being really badly threatened. is one to watch and there's more incidentally from yuri rachet our correspondent on the website w dot com flash culture rather narrow thank you. does not turn our attention to sports i'm starting with baseball

the sport's biggest showpiece the world series is about to stop me and i dodgers and houston astros lock holmes both aiming to end the long droughts in the major leagues fabled best of seven slugfest. that bats are ready for the fall classic the astros are seeking their first championship in franchise history well the dodgers are hoping to end a twenty nine year drought fans after l.a.'s seven in one record in the playoffs. i was twelve when they won it in eighty eight. the dodgers will be relying on pitcher clayton kershaw who's determined to claim his first world series ring. i didn't say we're going to the world series a pretty special thing and we've had a few days now to let that sink in and now we're you know we're not satisfied with that now we've got to celebrate and got to enjoy it and now now it's real you know now you've got to have an opponent we've got four more games to win astro's manager

a.j. pinches wary of kershaw but knows his team has what it takes to win the best of seven series there's a lot of things tilted in his favor but we're not going to back down we're not afraid of them we're not going to we're not going to concede anything because we've we got a pretty good team on our own side yeah fans may want to put on their latest gear with temperatures of thirty seven degrees celsius expected for tuesday's opening game. i said show up today and go off we'll have more for you at the top of the outlets in a couple of minutes if you go about long as always the website w dot com.

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