this is d.w. news live from berlin tensions rise in zimbabwe are the country's leader robert mugabe and his wife grace heading for a showdown with the military reports say armored vehicles have been spotted outside the capital. also coming up oh. anguish in the

areas hit by sunday's earthquake in iran and iraq thousands of people have lost everything and are now facing a difficult future. plus exploiting the desperate right here in berlin asylum seekers male and female are being forced into prostitution by the very people who are supposed to be protecting them we have a special undercover report from the german capital also. coming your way soon climate change we look at some artistic responses to the threat of global warming. and for the first time in nearly sixty years italy failed to qualify for the world cup they are eliminated by sweden in the qualifying round .

i'm sumi so much scandal welcome to the show reports are coming in from zimbabwe that tanks are moving near the capital harare a video posted on social media appears to show armored personnel carriers in a convoy heading towards an army barracks just outside the city now this comes amid heightened tensions in zimbabwe over an open rift between the army and president robert mugabe last night the head of the army threatened the military could quote step in after mugabe sacked the country's vice president and other officials. well let's get the very latest on the story we have christine milne well with us here in the studio and on the line here from zimbabwe's capital harare we have privilege was fun here very good to have you both with us here now a privilege let's start with you what more can you tell us about these tank movements. yes there's been reports of them standing around about. i mean that we're seeing you know

in the west the capital and but. these very fight with. it was just routine really because. that section of the barracks where there. are a section of the army and this often. you know i'm not you cause and curious so you might even just routine movements and and nothing that has to be connected one to what you're going to put through this statement that was made by the generals yesterday ok so it's too soon to say what exactly is going on there but christine coming to you this does come at a time of sobering tension for the exactly same and i think that the reason why you know these tankers on this road are making headlines as they are the reason why we're having this conversation is because of where the country is right now it's

a week off to have president robert mugabe fired his deputy. who since has fled the country he wrote in a statement that he fled fearing for his life he also wrote that he would come back to rule zimbabwe so in the context of all of this this is why there is sort of panic and widespread speculation about a coup and a way in the country very pretty i want to come back to you to ask you more about the you know what role do you think the military is playing right now how has it been affecting of the country's politics. you might want to. say a long time now. president if you look at our use by. two rules about we only has one for you because it will hire. former liberation war fighters and they will. support the president and then if you look at. rico we.

would venture exactly expelled from zambia since two thousand and fourteen. which is the next. level we've killed. and we have seen this that was issued by the i mean is that the meaning that the army. has been something to see in the baltics of the nation. all right so there are questions being asked privileged about where the army's loyalty lies and christine that brings me back to you because the backdrop of all of this is as privilege said how robert mugabe survived and thrived but people are now looking at who could replace him he's ninety three he's ninety three semi and a succession debates has been raging in in the zanu p.f. party for the longest time now and they are two major factions in this party one of them was headed up by the now sect former vice president the ad that is being

headed up by the president's wife and all of this came down to who is going to take over from him when mugabe sacked last week his deputy speculation was rife that this was all to pave the way for the first lady grace mugabe to take over for him the party's having an extraordinary congress in about a month's time and it's widely expected that grace mobic mugabe would be announced as the deputy essentially saying that if he's just a facade she would take over as president of the country writes a very complicated political developments are privileged just briefly if you can what is the what are people saying on social media about these reports that tanks are approaching harare. you know. people are. you know zimbabwe it's never been known as a country where you have. a fleet that is going to see the military on the streets and. there are tensions in the air that. that is given

because if you look at today legal sunday if you should out strong statement against this statement that was issued by the army generals yesterday to say that they will stand by please them got it when time comes so people. that the sort of scene i mean and you know if it's got it into such a litter all right so the country is on edge and we'll of course be watching these latest developments are happening in harare at the moment a very closely i want to thank you both privilege was when harry in harare and christine were with us here in the studio thank you moving on to some other news now iran is scrambling to bring help to thousands of people left homeless by sunday's earthquake the country's state media had a previously reported more than five hundred killed in the quake but that figure

has been revised down to four hundred thirty two eight thousand people were also injured in the region bordering iraq and when president hassan rouhani has been visiting one of the worst hit provinces emergency workers have ended efforts to rescue survivors saying there is no hope of finding anyone else alive. amid the rubble the frantic search for the living has turned into a recovery effort. as rescue workers retrieve the dead the bereaved are left to grapple with lives and homes ruined. among the worst hit places is the remote pull is a hub much of the town has been destroyed. we still have to pay off our debts on this house i was already jobless and couldn't pay them now it's totally destroyed in our furniture is gone. i want to take just

started collecting desperate when sick the months to clear rubble from a high rise how can i finish such a job in a time with thousands of people and families so quickly on. the iranian president hassan rouhani paid a visit to the region and promised the government would provide temporary shelters and money to help those affected and. i wish to assure all people who have suffered that the government will do everything in its power to resolve the problems in the shortest possible time. the disaster has left an estimated seventy thousand people homeless and battling the cold in the mountainous region as winter gets closer. you're watching news coming up in just a moment a new brags that battle begins the british m.p. start what is likely to be a showdown over the law that decides the country's withdrawal from the e.u.

. but first some other stories making headlines around the world the european union is facing fresh criticism over its policies on migrants from the united nations human rights chief he condemned the e.u. for helping libya's coast guard intercept people making it illegal crossings the migrants are then detained in libya where the human rights chief says they face quote on imaginable horse. former supporters of french president in my own mccall say they are leaving his own marsh party because it's become too authoritarian one hundred party members wrote a letter criticizing what they called the personality cult surrounding his party's going to hold its first conference this weekend amid falling approval ratings for michael. and thousands of women have protested in brazil over moves in parliament to criminalize abortions without exception terminations are currently allowed in limited cases including rape and life threatening pregnancies the proposed total ban would need a majority in both houses to become law. now

lawmakers in britain have begun debating the government's blueprint for brakes it is expected to be a major battle for prime minister theresa may increasing the risks for her minority government the bill is designed to ensure there's no legal vacuum when britain leaves the e.u. it largely transfers e.u. legislation one to one in two british law but critics say it also has a government wide ranging powers and cuts parliament out of some brags that planning for the government faces potential defeat on a number of key amendments today is the first of eight days set for debate on the bill. let's bring in. joins us from london hybrid what does this debate mean in terms of a weakened theresa may. well this is really about parliament trying to have its say there was so much talk about brics it is about giving power back to the u.k.

now parliament wants to have this power they want to have a say for example on the deal they don't want to be excluded from the government's negotiation with the e.u. they want to have a deal they want to have a say also on the x a day for example to say well if there is no deal in time then it must be possible for the government and for parliament to say no just negotiate a tiny bit longer so they really want to have the power to scrutinise the whole process as for two reasons may's government because there is quite a lot of consensus amongst a lot of m.p.'s who voted to remain and who were fighting for to remain in the they do want to take this power and they don't want to let the government get away they're effectively fighting against the bricks to tears and the government so if those people really club together and if they defeat the government in parts of this bill that obviously weakens to resume a further it's not a good position for her to be in the bronx or to go see asians meanwhile as this

debate is going on we do have to say that roughly half of the people of britain do still support the idea of bragg's and even though there are still so many questions on solved what benefits do they see. well a lot of british people just simply don't really want to hear much about bricks and they want the government to get on with it they said well i've made a decision we've made a decision now let's just get through with it and they don't follow the negotiations closely most people i would think then of course there are some hopes for example less immigration might also mean less pressure on wages especially on low income wages and lots of people have really different reasons why they voted for brits and why there are still four breaks it for example we went to hastings on the south coast of england and we spoke to some fisherman let's see what they have to say and why they really were fighting for britain to leave the e.u.

. i've never met official who wants to stay in the european union i've been detrimental to the english and british fleet. for me bracks it's about taking control of their mortars and getting their own fish back and having the rights of access to what is in their own abundant morton. and sixteen breaks. my name is paul joy i'm a fisherman from hastings i've been fishing here most of my life my family was fishing here in the ten hundred so we go back and found a new of them all. we're an island the surrounded by thing but we're losing the seafarers because we can't keep them and employment within the fishing industry. we're shadow of our former self we were forty four vessels of which now we're down to twenty odd the lack of quota driven many people into bankruptcy it's only

through their advent of going into the european union that we were given so little . we haven't a fair share of the fish in iran waters that's the problem under law we was exempt until two thousand and six any small boat under ten meters they changed the rules but didn't give us any quota to cover the shortfall. and in the southeast of england ninety two percent of the fleet of fishing vessels commercial are under ten metre so we have a situation where we've got a lot of fishermen but no quota what we're after really is just a fair share we don't want to over exploited fish stop what we do want is a fair share no one seems to worry no one seems to listen the only thing we could do is take back control of our territorial waters and shared

a fish proportionally between us and other member states that you. control that so this is very probably the first you must draw the line that if waters british fish . are hoping bracks it gives us the opportunity to take control of our waters and access to our own fish and our own waters once again. ft. bragg says is a long term goal. i think we've got to go a long way before we see gains we have in any sector of the industry but it's something we are quite happy to do so that we have a long term benefit of controlling our own seas and controlling our own destiny. ok so burger we just heard there in europe or at that u.k. fisherman think brags it is going to be good for business is it. well as most things connected with the end with the e.u. it's really complex so the u.k.

fisherman's problem started really in the seventy's when the government basically sold some of the fishing rights or gave them away to the you in in return for for other benefits that they had with the you for example in the agricultural sector and then that was exacerbated by you your regulation in two thousand and six that was. not good for small boats in the u.k. where they actively were losing a lot of their quotas that was exacerbated now they're really hoping for a shake up they say this is their only solution for them they need to go and the whole fishing rights everything needs to be renegotiated but is that really going to help them because of course fishing is one of the many business when many areas of the economy that the government needs to renegotiate with you and will they protect a small fish or it's fisherman it's just one of those questions it's one of the variables and a very complex in the area again so there's really no guarantee for the british

fisherman at all already davies burgomaster following the latest on briggs at the goshi ations for us thank you very good. and us staying in britain the u.k. is investigating reports that russia used social media sites to try to influence last year's brags that referendum meant to spread and time was limp propaganda well evidence of these types of attempts came to light during the u.s. investigation into alleged russian interference in its election last year and a date of use a social media editor jared reed has been taking a look at the story for us just bring us up to date will soon be at the moment the u.s. congress has three ongoing investigations into whether russia interfered with the us presidential election last year and because of that it's asking internet companies to submit datta to the investigations and so twitter has given congress lists of what it says russia based twitter accounts that it tried to interfere with the election but also were active here in europe and they had quite an impact i'm

going to tell you about one of the is right now back in march we had a terrorist attack on the westminster bridge in london in the aftermath this photo of a woman in a he jeab was tweeted incorrectly claiming that instead of helping she casually walked by dying victims while on her fire and that photo was shared very widely and was used by a far right activist to attack both islam and the woman who was left devastated by the uproar we can look at the account that tweeted this picture it's called south lone star can see him right here describes himself as a proud texan an american patriot with over ten thousand followers but this guy wasn't from texas at all twitter says it was a fake account based in russia the account also tweeted about the bricks of virgin i hope the u.k. will start to clean their land from a muslim invasion sumi we know that on the day of the e.u. referendum there were thousands of tweets in english that looked like they were

from genuine users about bricks that were in fact from russian boughts and so what twitter is done since then it shut down around two thousand seven hundred of these . accounts that it says tried to influence both u.s. politics and politics here in europe so for our viewers who are not familiar with them what is that bought and how would they know if they're dealing with one or both automated social media accounts that pose as real people and because they're automated they can do what's of things that you and i can't like tweet a lot more than normal people would they can influence debates and they can sway you know they can make one view more apparent than another it can be quite hard to verify sometimes what's real and what's not on social media but there are quite a few tips to help users one of them is to check when the twitter account actually came into existence because we know that after breaking news events twitter account spring up trying to lure a genuine users to read tweet false information another one we can do is to see if

tweets are appearing the basin elsewhere without being cited we can see two instances of what's believed to be fake accounts tweeting the same information on the right our tweets in german so this kind of stuff does also happen here in germany another big tip is to see how anonymous the information on the account is how much the information we're given because the more the less impersonal information the likelihood that it is you know more likely that it is fake ok something to keep a close eye on there jared read our social media editor thank you very much. time to bring you up to date with the latest business headlines we have a lot of economic data coming in today and we're going to start right here in germany because despite political uncertainty the german economy has proven to be quite resilient the interest rates are low the consumer confidence is at an all time high and the economy is growing steadily germany has grown for the past eight

years and this last quarter it grew even quicker let's take a look at those figures germany's economy grew by zero point eight percent in last quarter that's far more than what analysts had expected and that is thanks to booming exports which are at the core of the german economy that made in germany brand is popular worldwide and demand from european neighbors is also picking up again finally investments are also growing fast many experts have criticized germany for not investing enough but now the companies and the machine building industry is making games and has enough cash to spend on improving production that's increased optimism for germany's economy as a whole and with investment at least in theory comes further economic growth ok that's germany but economies across the eurozone are also doing better let's take a look at that already had germany with zero point eight percent and now spain has also grown at the exact same rate of zero point eight percent if we take a look at france and italy we see that the single currency area is doing better as

well france and italy are growing at zero point five percent which is let's say not so bad and overall the average rise in g.d.p. across the one nine hundred countries of the euro zone in the third quarter is a comfortable zero point six percent. now on to the complete opposite the economy in venezuela has been on the brink for years and now it seems it has finally collapsed standard and poor's has declared the country to be in selective default after it failed to come up with a two hundred million dollars in payments on global bots it's the first agency to do it this came after talks with international creditors in caracas failed to produce a plan to restructure but as well as a one hundred fifty billion dollar debt ahead of that meeting authoritarian president nicolas maduro said his country would avoid default hoping for deals with russia and china some corporate news now and fox lagging is hitting the headlines yet again but this time it's not about the diesel gate scandal it's far worse for

the image of germany's biggest company. is being accused of actively contributing to the military dictatorship in brazil where the carmaker has important operations and as usual the reaction at the v.w. headquarters is sights. brazilian federal prosecutors say german carmaker folks in work hand in hand with the country's military dictatorship they confirm horrendous accusations that v.w. helped suppress regime opponents and they say the company wasn't under duress government appointed investigated semen gardy summed up the damning testimony. it was active collaboration. b.t.w. supply details which they weren't asked for on its own initiative we w passed on documents about workers which the company considered to be subversive to receive god he went even further he says we double use brazil subsidiary also swap

blacklists of government opponents with other companies but it also bears responsibility for the arrests of political dissidents on fox premises the arrested workers were later tortured in jail by the military. and fox martin headquarters involves the company has so far not commented on the substance of the report but does say it's time for action within the timber we'll be holding an event in brazil in december where we'll approach the affected people they'll be a meeting with high ranking folks bargain representatives but we'll also be putting a package of sustainable measures into effect and those harmed by folks bargains actions can finally hope for compensation after forty years. or business later on back to you so we thank you have your u.s. president donald trump is on the way back to washington after a packed tour of asia took him to japan south korea china vietnam and the philippines the president said he had made progress with as an agenda on trade and he also claimed to have made friends at the highest level in the region. donald

trump may have wrecked in the art of the deal but the art of diplomacy hasn't always come easy so this was going to be an ambitious too by any measure he was there to rally u.s. troops. if confront pyongyang's provocations. north korea is a worldwide threat that requires worldwide action and do some deals. drops of bed to shore up the pacific alliance began in japan where jack platic traits of subtlety and nuance were in short supply. not that his host prime minister shinzo minded very much. the reception was always going to be frosty here in south korea trump has accused all of weakness in the face of the north. yet trump speech to parliament ariens confounded his critics. if you want peace you

must stand strong at all times. at a big banquet the commander in chief had a diplomatic trick up his sleeve. videos of his granddaughter singing in mandarin a surefire way to please his hosts trump had cause to celebrate as he later claimed president xi would up the sanctions against north korea and move to allow foreign companies access to the country. it was a casual some see cozy encounter with vladimir putin at his next summit that threatened to derail the grand tour. trump was again dogged by questions of russian meddling in u.s. democracy. by the end of his odyssey he was getting used to the red carpet treatment even if it meant embracing filipino president rodriguez. a man accused of

mass extrajudicial killings. this was turn to be entertained. and three. at the end of the spinal summit is trump's relationship with new friends that may risk in saron among old allies. you're watching news still to come a disturbing report of prostitution among refugees in berlin with allegations that security guards are pushing young men to sell their bodies for sex. that's coming up in two minutes. his trademark passion. i don't i it's passed by. his a musical reconciliation. daniel barenboim.

one of the greatest musical personalities of our time in his turning seventy five. barenboim form the power of music. in forty five minutes on delivering. the finest my wasn't always successful i wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth i had to find for success you know how come. they're black and living in germany. she's reminded what that means on a daily basis presenter young up like this not being able to blend in and all this. group and being you know different than the way. she travelled across germany to meet other black people and to hear their stories. it's that. i grew up in a white family in a white neighborhood it was definitely

a challenge. she decided to put me up for adoption. so the main thing was to keep your head down and your mouth shut of course of the phrase like this i could never completely disappear if you see all of these stereotypes about africa it gets you. to do something for your country but you're still the black guy with a. fro germany starting december tenth w. . welcome back you're watching your news our top stories zimbabwean leader robert mugabe and his wife grace mugabe could be heading for a showdown with the military after tanks were seen moving near the capital harare it comes after the head of the armed forces said he would intervene in politics to

end a purge of army veterans by mugabe and lawmakers in the u.k. have begun debating a bill which will formally and the country's membership of the european union it is expected to be a fractious debate with the government of theresa may face a potential defeat on a number of amendments. now to a story that has provoked outrage here in germany one of the country's a public broadcaster c.d.f. says security workers at refugee shelters in berlin have set up prostitution rings that prey on asylum seekers the investigative report by the program the program for twenty one found guards were grooming young asylum seekers to become prostitutes earning a commission in the process we just want to warn you some reviewers i might find some of the content in this report disturbing zubar it's dusk into gotten berlin's biggest park. young men are sitting around

waiting to be approached by older german men. to learn more about this scene a pakistani reporter from a german television team enters with a hidden camera he makes contact with the young migrants without any difficulty. the limited white. fifty fifty year. this man says refugees are willing to do anything for money even underage girls and boys. he leads the reporter a few hundred metres further. want to do it while it is twenty and says he's from afghanistan he arrived in germany two years ago his asylum application was recently rejected he's turned to prostitution to survive four hundred sixty one under six francis fifty or so the fifty. year. old turned part of.

waleed follows the reporter to a hotel room. as he begins to undress the reporter stops him and reveals his identity. he asks waleed why he's working as a prostitute but wiley just runs. deanna hennig as works for a local aid organization she knows a lot of refugees including those working as prostitutes some of them stop by occasionally to pick up donated clothing or just to talk. many of them suffer from anxiety. the pressure comes from thinking my asylum claims been rejected how will i tell my parents i'm getting nowhere here i'm not allowed to work they have so little money and they want to do more for their families and this constant hopelessness and fear of an uncertain future in germany leads them to prostitution. thank you. back in the park

another attempt to talk with refugees. scattered among the bushes are condoms and paper tissues. the reporter meets this older man he says he's eighty five and a former police officer. he describes the prostitution scene here. good here i heard they're young refugees here and you can get anything you want many of them even do without condoms the boys don't know they can get sick like that i prefer the youngest ones i've even had sixteen year olds usually i have anal sex performed on me sometimes oral once when i tried to bargain down the price he said to me if i screw you i want twenty years i also have to eat. the man adds that he's disappointed because of bad weather only a few prostitutes are out in the park we want to know how refugees end up in

prostitution. this is a refugee center in berlin they missed off district. residents held protests accusing security personnel of abuse they appear to have an additional role here this syrian refugee says he's twenty and lives at the shelter for the last few months he too has been working as a prostitute he doesn't want to use his name. i am ashamed of what i'm doing but i have to earn money one day i was on the phone in front of the refugee center a security guard came up to me and asked if i wanted to do some business and earn some money i said sure i don't have anything he said if i have sex with a woman i get thirty year rose maybe forty what he didn't know at first was that most of the clients were going to be men he's not homosexual i can't let my family find out about this i know it's terrible but what can i do i don't have any

other option here. maria is a social worker at the very midst of center she's aware of what's happening she doesn't want to be identified she says she saw a security guard give money to one of the refugees. i took him aside and asked what they were doing why was he getting money from the security guard and he said i don't have enough food i don't have enough to drink my families back home and i've done bad things for money. he feels sad and ashamed. here too it's not just adults involved but also minors. this is a reality of berlin under-age refugees working as prostitutes security guards at refugee centers acting as pimps this man works in security at several berlin refugee centers he too wants to stay anonymous he's well aware of the prostitution scene here. usually it works like this guys from different companies set up the

contact someone approaches them and says we need two women they should be of this particular age and this pretty all they want boys the younger they are the more they cost. then the boys will say ok we'll have to give in and have sex with men or women by that point it doesn't matter as long as the price is right. and. then a tip off about another security guard at a berlin refugee shelter who allegedly works as a pimp when asked about it he admits it's true for every hook up i get twenty euros that's why i do this is there a prostitution network at the refugee shelter there are many the refugees need money to buy their minors working as prostitutes yes there are but not often in our shelter there are families where the father knows the son is gay sixteen years old they do it willingly but that can't be ignored if they're so desperate yeah life is

tough do you ever have a guilty conscience of course it's not really who i am that's why i'm talking to you about it i want to stop doing this. his security firm response to the pimping at the refugee center in writing. we hold regular meetings with the shelter residents committee to discuss any issues or problems these serious allegations have never come up. we confront the berlin senator responsible for refugees with our findings when the banks posted whenever i get information that forced prostitution is going on i will always take action against it you've just named a specific refugee shelter where this is taking place now the police and state prosecutors are in board it must be investigated but until now i've had no concrete information about specific refugee centers where this is going on you can believe

that. or listings for this. now it's up to authorities to take a much closer look one hundred six ounces of. very disturbing story then we have more of that on our website at www dot com. gave us his back because there we're looking now at a big project that's meant to lift south africa's economy that's right so we know as we know investments often help curve up the economy creating new projects and new jobs and south africa now has and bishop's plans to upgrade its infrastructure its eight hundred forty five billion rand or fifty two billion euros that have been budgeted to curve up the infrastructure in the coming years but the country doesn't have enough skilled workers to actually build the projects i'm estimated seventy thousand engineering positions are currently unfilled and south africa and just one thousand five hundred qualified engineers graduate from south african schools and

universities each year now private training centers and industry sponsored vocational schools are trying to fill the gap but the shoreditch is just too severe . these new homes are being built in south africa's eastern cape province but many residents have had to make do without electricity and running water the country desperately needs to improve its ailing infrastructure and that requires skilled workers engineers construction drafters electricians are all in short supply. the supervisors supervisors at the. those and wanted to the people. the problem is south africa's poor vocational training system the government is willing to pump billions into infrastructure projects but it has no satisfactory answer to the question of who can do the work. the chronic shortage of qualified workers and engineers is a huge problem for south african businesses. they've begun to sponsor training for

their employees that in turn has been a boon to private vocational schools like the artisan training institute in johannesburg instructors have to fill huge knowledge gaps in subjects such as mathematics because they didn't do it through that course but because of the way through they don't get much and this thing so we have to fix their toys. if it is for no notice that they're. going to learn. and a few years ago in the eastern cape one specialized secondary school was set up to offer a glimmer of hope. the mandela school of science and technology was built with support from the siemens foundation to provide young people in the underdeveloped region with skills like electrical technology yes you see you could. have learned so much today because i learnt how to connect this part of it and that's new so much

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now representatives from some two hundred nations are currently working out the details of the paris climate accord and un talks in bonn here in germany and one major issue on the agenda is climate insurance now here's why it's so important droughts and heavy rainfall are rising and the poor are often the hardest hit they may lose their property their livestock so their crops as a result an estimated twenty six million people fall into extreme poverty every year well countries in africa in the caribbean can now insure themselves against the consequences of weather extremes and in africa over thirty countries have joined together to form the african risk capacity that is a climate risk insurance scheme it uses of fixed criteria or parameters to decide if a weather event can be called extreme also each government must decide how to use the insurance payments before a disaster takes place the aim is to help affected people quickly and more effectively mauritania offered one example of just how this insurance can work now

in two thousand and fourteen the west african country here experienced its worst drought in over a decade and received insurance money just a year later the money was used to provide food for one point three million people and also it helped save half a million animals let's get more on this scheme with christopher spring gate he has been following the u.n. climate summit for us in bonn hi christopher good to see you so this is a new approach to dealing with the effects of climate change we understand the german government has now earmarked some more funding for this. that's right an additional one hundred twenty five million u.s. dollars that's what the german junior development minister announced earlier today that money going towards the idea of climate risk insurance it's going into a global scheme called the resilience global partnership that global partnership

now has just over seven hundred million us dollars available for the issue of climate insurance it's using it to provide technical support provide financial support for climate insurance and also support for the design and the implementation of insurance solutions for poor countries around the world that are affected by climate change let me just bring in a guest on this. from bread for the world the german charity you're a climate policy advisor at bread for the world you focus in your work a lot on something called climate justice is climate insurance one way of addressing climate justice yes it is indeed it is very helpful would that the climate was insurances that germany is supporting has a target to help the poorest people and have a good to get back on their feet after disasters happen so this is a very small step in the right direction but in fact it is

a trap and the ocean if you see like the huge amount of climate induced loss and damages that we have already now and that we were faced in the future if they hadn't told that if we did create more motherhood. ok so many things a step in the right direction but a very small step how effective in technical terms can climate risk insurance be so this is the reason why. we support it because it is highly effective for example after cycling winston ficci was not part of a solution and solution so they waited over a month until they got like two nations from the international donor community van wanted to was part of the insurance solution and they got funds was in forty eight hours so risen forty eight hours they received the funds and not begging for it not had a right to get it so that makes it so efficient and therefore you really support it

and what measures were you know i was saying just a minute ago this global partnership has seven hundred million u.s. dollars today for. climate risk insurance what sort of sums do you think are needed when we have a commitment from the rich countries to provide one hundred billion u.s. dollars for the mitigation of gases and for adaptation measures in developing countries from the year twenty twenty so would say if there is like five hundred billion u.s. dollars for mitigation five hundred billion dollars for adaptation program we're talking about five hundred billion u.s. dollars for loss and damage at least. three hundred billion dollars more than that so does the sums of you're talking about seven hundred million. u.s. dollars really nice to have but it is a very small amount it is a drop in the ocean so many are from bread for the world thank you very much back

to you in berlin sumi. christopher spring a reporting there from the city of boston stay with climate change a look now at artistic efforts that highlight global warming and we have our culture editor robin merrill here with us in studio hi robin so last friday the former u.s. vice president al gore was actually at this conference yeah yeah he was he's of course well known for his views on global warming the very different to the current american president's views but yes as you said al gore visited bone. on friday to support the conference and of course the follow up to his oscar winning documentary an inconvenient truth is on general release as well his pictures from it is called an inconvenient sequel and it's basically more shocking news about our planet and what we are still doing to it unfortunately also. another great famous person on the straw and i was at a conference to giving a speech and taking part in panel discussions about global warming the former

governor of california of course also a big campaign and of course of the paris conference two years ago everybody was celebrating. because you know an accord was made good because since then well as we all know america is pulling out of ok but we're talking about artistic efforts to highlight global warming and al gore is not really an artist is he he's not a film is an artistic endeavor he's you're right he's a former politician and now activist let's have a look at some of the artistic endeavors then beginning with two fictional films recently being released six in the future where the world is very different because of global warming. to shut the system just visions of the future due to climate change are nothing new at the movies that i just hollywood offering geo storm imagines a world protected from extreme weather by

a network of satellites but is this technology vulnerable to attack. this wasn't so it was intentional. killing your has been having this debate and then going you want to go on. in the danish threat alert the situation is so bleak the powers that be are considering travelling back in time to change the mistakes of the past. the. visual artists have also tackled climate change in this work the sun looks on helplessly at the human folly accelerating environmental collapse it's by berlin based and yes. has just been awarded germany's national gallery prize. are constructed like.

i'm off a popular thing on. earth. of an individual. coming german artist you just found bismarck is some think of a catastrophe chaser. this is his precise one to one recreate of the waves that hit island joining the recent ophelia storm. he was also in miami when a hit. icelandic danish artist all or for some is perhaps the most prominent artist campaigner for the environment. for an earlier climate conference he transported from. to paris as a reminder of climate change. it's a very interesting works of art there but you have a favorite endeavor i do this is something that happened last year greenpeace did

this they took a grand piano and put it on a platform in the arctic and they had to put it on a platform because the odds would have melted and then violated the pinnace ludovico i now day here it is and it's called energy for the take a very simple idea and easy to execute but let's have a listen and watch what happens behind him as he's trying to really. does it for me it really is up setting actually just released and it really points out the danger we're all in of what's happening in our world right important artistic endeavor is there to highlight a woman running merrill our culture editor thank you very much switching gears

to a sports now and in football it was italy's worst nightmare not qualifying for next year's world cup and it happened italy failed to beat sweden in a playoff and they were out of the world cup leaving the nation stunned and disappoint. a talian football's worst nightmare has come true a lack of firepower against sweden leaves gigi buffon and company missing out on only the third world cup in the team's history the a series fans were understandably dejected afterwards and blaming everyone for the defeat. but that this is everyone's fault not just the fault of the coach as federation president to vecchio fault is the federations felt the match mirror as a country which is falling apart like you italy is still trying to accept their earth shattering loss to sweden. doing the. show that. we're all in tears because we did our best but this will haunt us forever. it's

a huge disappointment that we struggle to comprehend. it's a tearful farewell for gigi buffon his tenure between the posts in one match shy of becoming the only goalkeeper to play in six world cups the dominant defender defined italy's on field persona for two decades without him italy's football future is in question. and just bit of tennis now at the a.t.p. world tour finals in london jack sock has upset world number five marin challenge in three dramatic sets in the round robin group stage making his debut in the tournament the top ranked american man in tennis took two hours and thirty seven minutes to dispatch his croatian chronicle soccer came back down by keeping as cool even when going for two down in the tie break the result put so much on life support soccer has a good chance of advancing to the semifinals and he will face alex said on thursday

. our minds are not our top story at this hour zimbabwe and leader robert mugabe and his wife grace mugabe could be heading for a showdown with the military after tanks were seen moving near the capital harare it comes after the head of the armed forces said he would intervene in politics to end a purge of the army veterans by robert mugabe. thanks for watching di that you broke off will have your latest news update right here at the news desk in just a few minutes stay with us.

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