but denies it has staged a coup ninety three year old president robert mugabe and his wife are under house arrest but soldiers who seized control of the state broadcaster have said the couple is safe the military has also blockaded parliament and taken up positions around the capital in what it calls a process to restore democracy. over a dozen people have been killed by flash floods in greece following a night of heavy rain. the prime minister has declared a period of national mourning for the victims. a swiss aid worker who was kidnapped over a month ago in sudan's war torn region of darfur has been freed the local government has said she was rescued in an operation by security forces but has not named those responsible for the kidnapping. the german chancellor angela merkel is hoping her conservatives can strike a compromise with the free democrats and the greens before ending exploratory

coalition talks on thursday and moving on to formal negotiations. immigration has been one of the hot button issues with sides divided over whether to limit the number of migrants coming to germany. the biggest airplane deal in history has just been signed at the dubai airshow the lucky winner is european giant airbus and a group of low cost airlines which will receive four hundred thirty shiny new birds . also on the show russia and venezuela have signed a debt restructuring deal but will it help because as a third his country away from bankruptcy. and thailand's famous long tail motor boats might get quieter and environmentally friendly that's if a german company succeeds in selling the idea we'll have the details. it's time for

business on d.w.i. mho you get us thank you for joining us airbus has just struck its biggest deal ever in the wake of reports of weak sales of its a three eighty super jumbo it's now received a juicy order from u.s. private equity company indigo partners the order is a big one but for smaller planes though four hundred thirty single aisle planes of the a three twenty neo family for a whopping fifty billion u.s. dollars that would provide indigo with state of the art aircraft for several low cost carriers it owns in north and south america and here in europe it's not the only deal was sought today because venezuela is approaching bankruptcy and now the cash strapped country has signed a debt restructuring deal with russia it will ease the terms and conditions under which one us where law must repay some three billion dollars it owes moscow the deal comes just

a day after credit ratings agency standard and poor's and fitch declared the south american country to have partially defaulted on its debt. venezuela isn't paying its bills and is already in partial default now it's overdue a four hundred twenty million dollar interest payment the deal with russia will help fund that at least but the three billion dollar amount is nothing compared to the country's sixty billion in bond debt despite the rot in the domestic economy the country's central bank has been considered a reliable bond issuer always paying on time as recently as sunday president nicolas maduro said his country would never default his communications minister making clear where the government places the blame. for a year say need three financing for venezuela's foreign debt has begun in a coordinated manner. we are clearly overcoming the siege at the trumpet ministration national assembly president julio baugus and other representatives of

the right in venezuela are attempting in venezuela. the fabric of venezuelan society is beginning to tear a few months ago the u.s. imposed sanctions on venezuela the e.u. has followed suit with a weapons embargo and travel restrictions on some government officials desperation is mounting economists estimate venezuelan inflation is running as high as seven hundred percent food and medical supplies are scarce as the country scrambles to save money. five percent of its exports are crude oil imports an overwhelming majority of its food and so. things that are immediately when imports are slashed. investors are demanding a default declaration for the state oil company p d vs a to do to its own financial mismanagement a country practically swimming in oil is now drowning in debt. or at its

center matic situation there want to analyze with our financial correspondent at the new york stock exchange so fisherman hi sophie good to see you and this troubling time. well now as we just heard president nicolas maduro said that his country would never default and it is true that we've been talking about been a swell of being on the brink of bankruptcy many times for many months or even years and it hasn't happened so why would it be different this time. there were any of the thirteen we don't like the limited transparency that is going on right now but it is important here to say one thing venezuela really does not default on over a billion dollars in principal and interest payments but of course it is at risk on wednesday the minutes away and all the giant p.t.v. as they have that the coupon payments for its twenty nine thousand and twenty twenty seven maturing bonds were in the mail the government also says that the

coupon payment for the event to allow twenty nineteen and twenty twenty four months on that way so at this point bondholders have a not every to demand immediate payment principle that is the key thing to watch for i would say that the markets things i've been through a lot will eventually service that though of course the risks remain of course we will watching them closely now adding to the problems of an as well as certainly is the oil price which we saw drop today what is causing that drop. yeah well there are still a lot of concerns out there about the output and the mess it's all over supply caused by the united states for example the opec have been trying to cut production but the united states for example are not part of this organization so they keep drilling and fracking and flooding the market through reason weekly biggest show us pumping new all time high level so he has of rising us output

a real and on top of that there comes an oversupply of the men so wall street just got it down the forecast for demand growth and some end of even say that minutes away last slow moving collapse should add on to that so fishman ski in new york thank you very much the european union parliament has overwhelmingly approved legislation to protect e.u. industries against excessively cheap imports from non e.u. countries it also allows investigators to consider environmental and labor standards and countries of origin when setting import tariffs the law is chiefly intended to offset the consequences of granting china market economy status which will make it more difficult to prove illegal trade practices by beijing china has been criticized for undermining global steel and solar panel markets. and we all hate traffic jams but if you think yours is annoying look at this one at

the mongolian chinese border. thousands of trucks lining up along the unserviced roads of the gobi desert coal is back in demand especially in china imports from the neighboring country of mongolia quadrupled in the past six months alone the borders of the haven't caught up with demand they're understaffed and drivers are waiting for up to week. i have nothing to do except to wait in line in my truck. i try to distract myself from getting bored i cook and so on it's very boring. a micro economy has popped up around the coal caravan meat cigarettes petrol hawkers are supplying the suffering drivers. the route through the desert is dangerous especially at night it's easy to accidentally steer off the road but often alcohol is the cause. of

this job is very risky of life threatening but we have no other choice we have nothing else to do. the once a booming state of mongolia has slipped into economic crisis the country stood on the brink of bankruptcy earlier this year that compounded the pressure to quickly process exports to china yet there's no improvement in sight in fact fear that smugglers will try and enter the country has led to even stricter checks and jews are dwindling finances the building of a rail route has now been put on ice it seems the only ones who can move on hinted around here are the camels. and why it's why there is other means of transportation like thailand's iconic longtail boats those might now get quieter and more environmentally friendly. they might be iconic but they can be quite a nuisance as well on bangkok's canals and floating markets longtail boats are not

only a familiar sight but a familiar sound as well. david hunter and his team want to change that today they're trying to convince the local authorities that going electric has many upsides brought one of their test motors along after all proof of the putting is in the eating. me most people's mind when they switch from a combustion to an electric is how long will my battery lasts. but i think for areas like this where. you don't go too fast an electric motor can go all day without recharging so i think once people get to understand it and feel that anxiety they had before or quickly be taken away. before they can go for a piece in the conventional motor needs to be removed then the much lighter talk kido engine is mounted to the boat you know only takes

a few flicks of the wrist. let's first mr true on the local boatman doesn't seem to trust the three horsepower drive . but the slim engine provides all the thrust he needs. at this now you have like ten kilometer range. but you got me all day long and if my daughter ever. after a few minutes initial skepticism gives way. like mine this motor definitely has enough power and it's so easy to use you just turn the handle. thailand's tourism authority is already on board. with the new technology. they don't have any noise pollution. environment pollution and also i think it's really good for the peoples around good to because

they quite happy about how the thing is more peaceful more calm and will be will be very high profit for thai tourism industry. provided the investors don't shy away from the costs of two thousand euros the retail price for this model is about ten times as much as a comparable combustion engine its peace and tranquility however is certainly priceless. that's all for. next time or any time. to buy.

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and if you are not humble enough you can forget it you can't say i'm the greatest i'll do what i want with it and humility is really a very very important is a bit shy and hides its victories. and. then when you go on stage you have to leave that humility in the dressing room. you can go out on stage thinking i don't deserve this get the fat you know. as soon as i agree to do a concert i have to feel i'm worth it that people pay money to come and hear me. that is anything bought humble. this is. march twenty seventeen it's one day before the opening of the pierre boulez the

concert hall in the burn bomb so you'd academy. the tension is palpable among the musicians and the man without whom all this wouldn't be happening daniel barenboim. a last look down into the foyer. then he and the musicians head off to the dress rehearsal in a spectacular concert hall. architect frank gehry designed it for his friend daniel barenboim it took just three and a half years to build from the initial idea until the opening. yet. every musician who has played there is fascinated. there is something really special about it. in part i think that it's an oval it's round. because in every concert hall from the worst to the best there are two communities

one is the community that is playing on the stage. and then there's the audience community that is listening if we don't hear there is no stage we play on the floor and it's all one round. so that means that before we start to play we are already in one community that is not sentimentality it's something totally direct and every musician who comes out of the hole so to speak that's what it looks like in the whole end to the whole is struck by this sense of one community. and again one thank you audience feels it immediately in the opening concert no other concert hall seats the listeners so close to the musicians and the music.

politicised is there. even when he's politically he's also private as a musician he's private and political he does everything passionately meticulously deliberately so it's not just the passion of the driven musician man politician but there's an incredible deliberation in everything he does a studying and listening having ideas for me it's phenomenal how everything comes together with him. and phenomenal so i list by him some income.

for states is a hope is but you know he's not playing a role because you always know where you stand with him or not this was over you know with him he doesn't hide anything and he doesn't hide what he's thinking he doesn't try to hide it so. this is an immense it's a personal friendship but also a musical one. i respect him that way too he's probably the greatest musician of

our times so there's no doubt about it. this is what he is one hundred percent involved and concentrated on what he's doing at that moment when or what he's planning on in whether it's a schubert sonata or finishing a concert hall or that. the fed thinking of course he has a lot of good people around him but he's the one who decides every day every hour. is by the spectrum forms and that they think it's a broad spectrum of his activities he's a pianist again he's a conductor he founded the divine orchestra. for me he's a huge already and a fantastic musician no need does he have such talent he's also

a wonderful manager and he can push through his ideas he can convince people that. goes and talks to them and gets what he wants not everyone can do that and the things he wants are very important us. birthday stuff and this is tell us they have a stick. in one nine hundred ninety nine weimar was a european capital of culture and barenboim was asked to come up with an idea for the music program for a long time he and his friend edward saeed had thought about an orchestra with young israeli and arab musicians barenboim seize the opportunity and the west eastern divan orchestra was born. oh yeah yeah yeah so. you.

value getting heavier and heavier and the whole thing you must keep going months beat of the. people call the west eastern divonne orchestra an orchestra for peace that's not what it is and look i've said that so many times an orchestra can't bring peace i want is peace justice for the palestinians and security for the israelis. an orchestra can't achieve that we know that was the focus. is. what the orchestra can show is that if a situation of a quality is a deceived everyone can work together eat together laugh together and crying together. well. the friendship between

edward saeed the palestinian american intellectual and daniel barenboim the argentinian israeli musician was the starting point for the project that led to the west eastern divonne orchestra. one of the reasons for our friendship i mean he's an israeli and i'm a palestinian but daniel is one of the as you all know he's a great musician i don't have to tell you this but one of the rare things about him is that he's a person who can understand and experience the suffering of others and is willing to. make the effort to do that it's very very hard to do especially if you feel as so many of us do vulnerable and defensive say well what about me what about myself i mean who is looking after me suffering is in my opinion the monopoly of no one but i think that experience would become would be incomplete without recognizing the trail. of hatred and hostility and sadness which

a place like. next to via mar has produced. environmental noisy and we are the. cultural environment in ninety nine or of us the entire orchestra eduard syeed and i went to the book involved concentration camps or with any group or from one to twenty i came out with my group of twenty twenty five people and there was a syrian girl who was very affected by it all. she said something incredible to me do you know what i've learned today there if we syrians or arabs in general had been here back then. we would also have ended up in the ovens that reaction means so much.

two thousand and five two years after saeed's death of leukemia saw a legendary concert by the west eastern divan orchestra in ramallah in the israeli occupied west bank. the arab and israeli musicians had to enter the territory separately first the arab members arrived via jordan. saudi. then under tight security the israelis who entered via jerusalem. would. see the impossible is much easier.

finally that evening they were all reunited on the stage an incredible moment for the orchestra and the audience.

he whole thrilled to hear of no it's why those who've is it. the hope that we had back in two thousand and five is gone it that concert with the west east and yvonne orchestra in two thousand and five would be impossible today in twenty seventeen vygotsky they wouldn't allow us to come they wouldn't invite has because for part of the palestinian population that would be an act of normalization it was but then i have to explain that the everywhere in the world normalization is something positive right through your blood pressure is too high so you take medication which normalizes the blood pressure of a normal but normalization in the middle east means normalization of the status quo

normal easy and the status quo. normalization of the situation where the israelis are the occupiers and the palestinians the occupied. when the. the political situation began to turn before with that before and with died there was hope and there were many signs that things were going to improve when this happened the conservatory suspended their relationship with. and then made the s. movement while divestment and sanctions became began and they began to pressure people not to join the orchestra which was very very sad. daniel barenboim relationship with israel is complicated in two thousand and one he caused an uproar when at a concert by the berliner starts capella in jerusalem he conducted the live is told

from a shot wagner's tristan und isolde as an encore. he consulted the audience beforehand and a majority was in favor of it. but many left the hall in protest. since then barenboim's ties to israel the country he loved have gotten worse. he's pained by the political developments there. this is fear and from the wind just like an open wound for him to see the country moving in this direction to seize his occupation. to see this unbelievable deterioration of models there. which are getting worse and worse it went on that he really cannot stand it. he's been spat upon on the street and he's really hardest. might lose it sometimes even been dangerous but he has to have

a bodyguard in israel because it's going to task. even by two thousand and four the distance from his one time home land had grown large as seen when he was awarded the wolf prize in the knesset in jerusalem. in his acceptance speech he cited the israeli declaration of independence contrasting its words with today's reality and he hit a nerve. that this discord the state of israel will dedicate itself to the development of this country to the benefit of its people. it will be founded on the principles of liberty justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of israel regardless of differences of faith race or sex it will guarantee all its inhabitants equal social and political rights i mean.

let's be honest that is what bothers me the most is that so few israelis are able to see and say that the occupation might also be a reason for the violence coming from palestine i grew and give out the us but you know feel it is many people in israel think we have to occupy palestine because of the violence there. you know how they can't get it into their heads that the occupation might also be the reason why the only one i don't want to sugarcoat the other side is not all that of those this and that on both sides but israel has a bigger responsibility. israel is

a state israel is a strong state. the others are a people and they are occupied and the whole world has been talking for seventy years or maybe a little less about a two state solution. by. voice that's right where is that second state what does that mean to states i make a state accept palestine as a state and then they can negotiate as one state to another. through social dance of he used to be so proud of israel this fulfilled me when i met him he was the first man i knew who came from israel. i did have a few friends from there but otherwise and the way he talked about it and the way he explained it all to me and how the country created itself from nothing wonderful and then over the years one after another you can see how it went down like

a roller coaster. and midst of all i think it's not so much the situations themselves as the people more the way more out has gone has declined. the freethinking or differently minded people are no longer respected. to speak to it this is saturday is lack of respect and an exhaustion and passivity in political matters. dad's country can't be a political. and that's why it's optional tina he's returned to his routine and really feels at home here. when assad is was always special in the way that it's different cultures religions and nationalities lived peacefully side by side it made a deep impression on daniel barenboim.

is how do you get busy you know i lived here until i was nine years old and i have quite a few memories of it some of them very nice memories. funnily or maybe not so family not of school. but in the nine hundred forty s. argentina had the third largest jewish community in the world for your mind and because of all that the synagogues here were the center of social life for young people. with children on a plate and that has stayed very clearly in my mind.

i hope. is heaped. under law and. there is no other country where you can have several different identities as. you are argentinian first but not just with german or jewish or italian or whatever roots but really that. when there's a match should serve as a model for the whole world there are three million muslims here in argentina all of them argentinians all argentineans no violence no one minds and this acceptance of other people is what i learnt here. three years ago daniel byrne going gave a series of concerts in the cologne in win a saris together with martha argerich the great argentinian pianist. she has been

his friend since they were children. audiences throng to the concert to welcome the two national heroes together on the stage. because. i've been. here. on the sidelines of the rehearsals all the artists have known each other for years the atmosphere is friendly and relaxed. me and here were my month field as of the stand and said here i've only just told my husband much better through seeing him he has been since we've been coming here it's as if i know where his real mentality comes from is this is from here it's funny he was only here until he was nine years old and then he was gone but it's remained i think because his family continued to be

arjun tines at home in israel and wherever he lived they called george and cheney and they spoke spanish that he comes in they always dressed that way for the first time i understood why he was always dressed like that so elegantly. he always has the feeling that one must be properly dressed they're all like that here. it's here in venice have. missed so you better list all the rules and tons please where we used to go you used to go every week i don't know if it was wednesday or

thursday as a remember and play and.