this is live from berlin two leaders message france on germany make the case for globalization process president emanuel not crawl tells crowds that the world's economic zero four of a free trade has to work for everyone or just wish your prosperity protects democracy there i'm going to hold want against protectionism and call for every new european single market w.'s at hello i'm free how small. the michael mccaul and

double act in the european elite is used a speech at the world economic forum to call for the rebirth of multi-lateralism and a stronger europe and had an humphrey in davos and i'll have more coming up. also happening in this hour because incursion into syria i'm cursed steps up the pressure and it's five clear kurdish militias away from to its border with syria president heard about says he will extend the offensive. look at the human cost of jihad this daughter left home to join the islamic state you harvests for years on how mother in chechnya fears she'll never return. acute water a strong grip south africa's kc region has been no rain now for more than two years and none is forecast for months.

until go welcome to the program. europe has taken center stage at the swiss alps today with speeches from the continent's heavyweights as i went back and spoke earlier in the day but it was felt as emmanuel mark who had the headline slot it told the world economic forum the globalization how to ensure prosperity for all classes of society. to declaw that is the nation in general is going through a major crisis and this global challenge requires for sure a collective thought from international organizations states companies civil society in order to find and implement solutions and america meanwhile may be case for closer european ties as well as more free trade warning against rising economic nationalism came a day before u.s.

president donald trump is due to arrive in davos it was a welcome break for the chancellor amid political gridlock back home in berlin. the german chancellor speech marks her return to the world stage after months of political limbo at home in germany her address focused on europe and its future one of her key messages the world's problems will not be solved by only sin asian and protectionism instead she said nations must work together to face global challenges both economic and political. i will give the end of this. we know that there are international egotism we see nationalism on the rise and many states there's a polarizing atmosphere perhaps in many places people worry whether multilateralism can really solve people's problems. ellice fear of them isn't solution was. also stressed that europe must overcome challenges to better

implement digital technologies risk being left behind she said germany lags behind some less developed nations despite its reputation for technical innovation. the size that means the task for the next four years will be to bring digital technology into our education system the government has to be organized digitally. and a better environment for startups has to be created so that we can make further progress that we can remain a cradle of innovation the chancellor then turned her attention to defense she said europe should be more responsive to the problems of its immediate neighbors she called on european countries to cooperate more closely forging common security and foreign policies that. even if you look at europe's immediate neighborhood how

many global conflicts are playing out on our doorstep we experienced this in twenty fifteen when globalization came to europe in the form of people refugees home and when we hadn't done enough to counter the civil war in syria when we hadn't done enough to deal with so-called islamic state in iraq. the chancellor did not openly criticize u.s. president donald trump he will speak at the conference on friday but has strong warning against protectionism seem tailor made for washington's most recent global policies. let's go through those speeches and from europe big political bastes political correspondent sabra here with perspective and we have. brussels let's start with you max i want to direct president. to actually. typical micro speech in many ways very detailed especially when it comes to false friends

told the false about france talking about what should have been done in france in the past years what he's already achieved in france also talking about the state of the world talking about africa asia but his speech really was strongest fill when he laid out his vision for the future saying that cooperation and multiple lateral isn't needed to form the framework for a new world order and that there was a tremendous responsibility that actually the different countries already had the solutions for the problems of today so that the new frontier wasn't geographical as in the past or even technological as we have seen in the last decades but in the heads in the conscience and he said listen we have the solutions we just have to decide to do it now. who writes i feel like going out and doing something as we speak but i'll stay here is great the siren young. president. and the chancellor merkel are they in unison or course they very much ah they're not speaking in the

same language president macro notably held most of his speech in english as well as a bit in french of course who speaks german on these occasions you know it's a difference in style and i think it's a generational thing as well but in terms of substance as max says there you know there's lots of detail in what mccrone says and the american prefer to keep a broader line but you know talking about the global lines of protectionism multi-lateralism repeating really what we know about her view of how the world system ought to work but she said a lot of things here about how europe needs to get its act together and do more and that of course is exactly what president mccrone saying as well it's briefly what's what's behind this broader line issue if you keep me broad because germany doesn't have a government or is it does is that just what she does well that well it's partly what she does she doesn't tend to go into too much tricky detail in these

situations but i think now particularly i mean for instance in the preliminary agreement between the coalition partners here in berlin as you know this deal is still being worked out they've got an agreement to do more on europe to reset the continent to drive the institutional development forward and so on but it's a very broad brush thing and of course the chance of that doesn't want to say anything at this stage that might it somehow upset how social democratic coalition partner perspective coalition thought let's hear from president macro he talked about the need to boost the your friendship economy here is. i'm my first missy he said france is back france is back at the core of for europe. if. because we will never have any forensics this is without a european success they do love him very don't max francis but that gets

a round of applause i'm not quite sure what there was to applaud in that but given the his focus on his home country was there perhaps a whiff of france first there. well i was more of a whiff of france failing in the past and trying to do it better now and we just heard the sound bite he mentioned europe in the same sentence as he did with france so he did insist though that they needed to be a change of mentality and trend saying that in the past you weren't allowed to fail in france and you weren't allowed to succeed either in france so he explained how he's going to change that he explained why he's staying the course and he seems utterly undeterred by criticism at home so staying the course he really does he's very different and because you're referring to america first so the strategy of don't trump and his administration is very different from that even if of course there is some measure of patriotism in what he says he laid out more lateral world a world of cooperation that is something we haven't heard from the trumpet ministration

some young. the chance to advocate a strong united europe in lots of different areas just focus for a few yeah i mean there was so many areas digital economy doing something to make sure that everyone around europe experiences the benefits of digital of the digital revolution that's happening she talked about climate change cooperation these are things we've had before as you mentioned brics it's of course and regretting that and saying on the other hand that europe of course must not blur its clear red line on the freedom of movement around europe but the big things common security policy and then she said that must include a common development policy in particular looking at africa developing the green shoots of economic prosperity in europe's neighboring continent and also a common foreign policy as well of course which is something president mccall again is very much hoping for in america who said it's important that europe has the

ability to speak with one voice in the world but securely towards countries like china so you know across the whole broad sweep europe must act in concert as we know and a metal and president mccrone both think that that is the way forward in that a real revolution of thinking is needed on a simon young thank you. brussels thank you to. now it's time to get you up to date with other business elements at davos designated day for europe as it comes at a time of economic trauma loyal and challenges within the e.u. but political leaders a president focused on positive developments king philippe the sixth of spain highlighted how his country to very recently a source of worry for the block has improved competitiveness to help drive growth in the e.u. italian prime minister paula gentility stress of finding the balance between

protecting domestic jobs and local sectors while engaging in free trade and mccall as we just heard focused on what he called disruptive innovation announcing a ten billion euro fund to finance research my colleague helena humphrey has been covering davos for us and just got out of the speech of minoan mccall helena hi it's good to see you know we already heard a few of the ideas that mccall presented there what reactions have you seen so far from there it went down very well indeed here with the devil salute have you who espouse many of the liberal business friendly ideas from president and manually makkal what he said in the congress will france ease back that was met with some strong approval was he at the world economic forum so that went down very well indeed essentially the french president took the idea from the

german chancellor angela merkel of multiculturalism and carried it forward his speech though rooted in the here and now it was energetic he caught cold for an adult god europe in terms of sunk countries running ahead in terms of reforms now my colleague cost of spoke to van ohio who's the president of the european investment bank just after that speech that secularism. the focus turned on to europe here in davos on day two of the world economic forum with the german chancellor angela merkel delivering an address here as well as the french president in manoa my call to make sense of it all i'm joined by van ohio he is the president of the european investment bank. we just heard the speech of a mano a mano call a very energetic appearance here by the by the french president what do you make of his appearance here i'm still more than impressed i know him and i call him from from a time long long before he was

a minister and i must say the way he developed over a month from all of a sudden the french leader then a flick of a month the european leader and now he has brought himself in the position of the global leader it's amazing and it's very very encouraging for europe all in all this was a very good day for europe anyway we saw him on american all saying francis back he wanted to promote business obviously but he also wanted europe to move forward with a set of reforms which one was the most striking to you both i mean the announcement from his back was very credible but at the same time he could have said also europe is back because i go back to the last ten or so of devils meetings where the rest of the world looked a little bit of the sympathy on those poor europeans because they couldn't get their act together and this is the first time that we are here in davos and the europeans are really having a good show earlier today earlier on wednesday the german chancellor spoke as well calling for more multilateralism more called operation working together how does

this fit in with him on of them across the two european leaders that are being watched most in these days. that fits perfectly and that is necessary because we see that we are challenged by the big power poles of this world the united states and china and if the europeans do not respond to that with a common common voice then we will get lost in the globalization and this new approach towards an active globalization policy expressed both by america and by the monroe mccall was what we really need for a stronger europe is something that both merkel and mccall want where do we go from here davos is always the place where ideas kind of swirl around what need to be the next steps well we need to deliver no need to deliver on technology on already to towards education or attempts to secure and include everybody in europe this is a huge challenge in the years to come that requires instruments of the european

union we need further to further develop the european union and its creation process this will require new instruments or the further development of instruments but i believe with this ten years plan my call is talking about we are getting sort of a calendar note here in which we have to deliver of this message and president of the european investment bank thank you so much for your insight. so you're in the spotlight here at the world economic forum today that we also heard from the new zimbabwean president and a cinnamon gaggle and in around fifteen minutes time i'll be speaking to an expert about what needs to be done to revive into african trade here from davos have you back to you in that and look forward to that thank you very much helena humphrey from davus. that's all for business for now but of course welcome back later in the show now it's back to fill in the worsening situation in northern syria thank you thank you i have turkish president says he will expand the country's military

offensive in northern syria to take in the town of my beach moves in defiance of international concerns about his operation which is targeting kurdish groups that uncurl regards as terrorists or or a new front in this unrelenting war in turkey's decades long attempt to push kurdish militia out of the region ankara is aiming for a swift victory with operation olive branch turkish soldiers are optimistic i'm afraid it will take a freeman succeed in this operation within the next couple of days. but the kurdish y p g wants the world to know they are going to defend the enclave. to rebuild our system will not allow the enemy to invade or lower and the last drop of blood we have we will never retreat from here. now in the past kurdish fighters have relied on support from

a major player the united states everyone dismissed international criticism of the offensive and announced plans to expand the operation eastwards in charlotte god willing starting from on bridge we will continue to thwart these games along our borders and will completely wipe out this trouble from a region that will see that the moment there is. that the u.s. military has troops stationed there to fight this so-called islamic seat there are fears that the nato allies could become adversaries. and turkey's offensive in syria is having political repercussions here in berlin germany regularly sells weapons including tanks to its neighbor to its nato ally and those weapons are being used in the cross border offensive some german army is are calling illegal contracts to upgrade the tanks are being put on hold. the shelling is relentless turkish forces a stepping up their offensive in northwest syria they using german made tanks to

roll into afrin the german government had recently considered reinforcing these tanks against landmines at least until the turkish offensive began that upgrade now seems to be off the table. germany is following the reports about the turkish military intervention in northwestern syria with great concern. that's why the government is calling on all parties involved to end all military actions and is demanding an unconditional access for humanitarian help less than three weeks ago germany's foreign minister met with his turkish counterpart in a bid to improve relations the two also discussed the upgrade of german tanks in turkey that was before the military operation in syria began to cause president added one says it's justified but it's provoked outrage in germany. i think nato has to have a closer look at this. is not

a political alliance that has to step in. certain things on the periphery of europe on its own account. germany's ambassador to iraq has now asked the turkish defense minister to explain the specifics of the military operation military hardware sales to turkey remain in the spotlight german military trucks have also been spotted on the syrian border. now to some of the other stories making news around the world the islamic state group has said that it was behind a deadly attack on the offices of the save the children aid agency in afghanistan security forces surrounded the building but the militants broke through killing four and injuring twenty eight britain based charity has suspended its operations in the country. the death toll from tuesday's twin car bombings at a mosque in the libyan city of baghdad has risen to thirty five the blasts minutes apos are believed to have targeted security officials who are amongst the

worshippers one of libya's most deadly attacks since it slid into turmoil in twenty . first of three brazilian judges considering form of president trees ignite in the last year to sell his appeal against his prison sentence as voted to uphold his corruption conviction the courts two of the judges must give their opinions for the sentence to be final and former president no lula relit his supporters ahead of the decision which could see him barred from running for office again. in two groups in india have stepped up their protests against the controversial films huge broken this week and make yourself. deny accusations that it distorts history betraying a muslim rule us love of a hindu queen police opened fire to disperse protesters after the supreme forecheck the go ahead for the film's release. disgraced

former u.s. gymnastics team doctor larry nassau has been sentenced to up to one hundred and seventy five years in prison more than one hundred women and girls including olympic gold medalists to describe suffering decades of sexual abuse at his hands is already serving a sixteen year sentence on child pornography charges. a recent months a so-called islamic state has been driven from much of the territory it once occupied in syria and iraq as defeat looms the families of young people who joined i.s.i. wondering what became of them under glass from chechnya a lot of the w.c. your english after has been on their trail and the second part of the series circular fear you spoke to the family of our young woman who took the children to syria to be with her husband who joined diana's.

in grozny a typical tatane suburb people know each other and help each other too despite the high fences there is one thing the neighbors don't discuss of though the missing children. is one of those who has kept her silence for a long time for years but now she's breaking her silence to talk to us about lina selena have beloved daughter hasn't been in her parents' house for four years sell enough for her husband who went to syria to fight with the so-called islamic state . he took celina together with their three children i know he will never come back because he was killed last march. we needed new. since then she says she hasn't heard from her daughter. is one of

hundreds of chechens who have left their homeland since of the beginning of the syrian war to join us. and the women mostly followed their husbands as is customary for chechen women to do. official figures put the number of tensions fighting for the terrorist militia at seven hundred almost all are listed as missing. some of the mothers gave us these photos desperate and hoping to get some sign of life from their children. back at pretty much house her son unsolder and grand daughter somalia and look at photos of celina we want to know if answer would allow himself to be recruited by terrorists and would go to syria as his sister did you. know i will not get recruited. after i have my own mind and i do not listen to the others. isn't giving up

hope of seeing her daughter again she even shows us children's things she has bought for her three grandchildren who are in syria now and then she shows us that they speak to her. i took the picture myself in syria. when we accompany her again on a trip from moscow to chechnya she reveals that she did once manage to see her daughter in the last fourteen years. middle men in turkey helped her to establish contact with selena in december twenty fourth team. he took her several weeks of traveling to reach of members in northern syria she says of the journey was fraught with uncertainty and she didn't know if she would ever arrive. islamic state members allowed her to stay with her daughter for four days she wanted to take her back to chechnya but sadly no wasn't allowed to leave internet her children.

now together with other mothers she has found at a support group that already has over eight hundred members. of the mother awful slan who took pretty much daughter to syria is also a member of the group. lander. her was always obedient she really trusted her husband and he ordered her to go with him to syria. he's. also to blame for your daughter's disappearance. no i swear because to be honest it all happened according to the higher will the will of allah what must be must be that's what i think. as we hear again and again while filming in chechnya strong religious believes are one of the reasons why young people are being recruited by us as the mother of missing children keep coming back to the airport in grozny in

the hope that their loved ones will one day return. i'm here very often but. i'm hardly at home why should i be at home when you know i have to look for my daughter. know that russia has declared to military victory over this so-called islamic state dozens of chechens are being transported back from syria and iraq every few weeks that gives. you hope that she might hold her daughter her arms again. if she is still alive. that was a second part of the miniseries on jihadism originating in russia and tomorrow's episode your. hardest to turn to russia after serving as an i ask god in syria he talks are his motivations of life as a militant and his escape. is. still to come in

south africa there's been no significant rain in the region for more than two years and there's barely enough water to go around the government is imposing stricter water control. live to johannesburg more often during world news i'm sport and culture. the world's most powerful intelligence agencies. working together on climate research. the end of the cold war made that possible. the united states and russians seized the opportunity the former foes became collaborators even

batman day could feed the disasters to legions of qumran. to forty five minutes on the. hijacking the news. and more are going from the news it is being hijacked journalism it still has become a scripted reality show it's not just good versus evil us versus them black and white. in countries like russia china church people are told that it's that simple and if you're a journalist figure and you try to get beyond it you are facing scare tactics intimidation. and i wonder is that where we're headed as well. my responsibility as a journalist is to give me all of the smoke and mirrors is going just about being fair and balanced or being neutral it's about being truthful. when he was born golf and i were you know.

circle of fear. correspondent here in russia is in chechnya. islamic state has recruited more young people here than anywhere else. and more and more chinch and fighters are now returning home they're both respected and feared. here. are the leaders of europe's economy. stressed the need for free trade and to protection. despite calls for restraint by

the community. inside northern syria as it confronts groups that it accuses of terrors. of cape region of south africa. the longest in living memory since twenty fifteen the area has seen no substantial rainfall and none is expected before may or june water is already being rationed. and will have to cut off all supplies for non-essential use by april. a lack of rainfall in cape town is making south africans very nervous water in the city's main reservoir the teva kloof dam is down to thirty percent capacity the situation isn't much better in other reservoirs cape town has imposed a level six alert level six is the next step that we're taking it to. people most significantly. per person per day and anyone who

exceeds the amount of water permitted for each household faces severe penalties that's why a growing number of people are getting their water from public reservoirs so it doesn't change their water meter readings. i mean once a week. of twenty five liters. you get for drinking purposes i've seen some parts happening here and this is before day zero so i can imagine people get quite upset when there's no water. it seems like a paradox that the metropolis on the atlantic coast is slowly running out of water but cape town doesn't have a diesel anation plant tourists are being asked to save water too it's currently high season and public showers are being switched off at the beach apart from that there are no real restrictions for visitors. by contrast agriculture has been very hard hit the water shortage means many fields can no longer be cultivated the

latest alert means farmers must cut their water usage by sixty percent based on their consumption before the drought began johann esther he is a gross fruit in the western cape where he's had to cut down some trees in order to save the rest. on the right and saudis another. perfectly producing orchard that i decided. to operate. because of the water shortage and it's not that not an easy decision to mike there's no improvement in sight all eyes are on the to voters close damn if the water supply sinks below thirteen point five percent capacity cape town will be forced to turn off almost all its taps experts are dubbing it days year zero they warn it could happen by the end of april. we would only then supply water to

critical. places such as hospitals and was obviously also to what we've identified as pod sites places where people can come and collect water and there would be about two hundred of those scattered suitably around the greatest city. the military on guard at the water stations might seem like a surreal scene from an apocalypse movie but in cape town the fight for resources is very real. and if days zero does arrive every citizen will be limited to twenty five liters of water per day a reality no one wants to face. wow a reality none of the billionaire has a davos will be facing this mafia get this as the latest for sure they don't have to tackle that but they do have to come up with ideas to solve these types of problems economic development in the african continent is a set topic in the world economic forum and there's lots of challenges to tackle one of them is the weak trade between the african countries it's less than fourteen

percent of the continent's entire volume that means more than eighty percent of all the goods exported go to countries outside of africa and that's quite a lot now by comparison sixty percent of e.u. trade is done within the block in the u.s. it's forty percent there are many reasons for the weak intra african trade some of which include bad transportation infrastructure bureaucracy and high customs tariffs. and more than a dozen trade agreements between african countries haven't been able to improve those figures very much helen humphrey for us in davos good to see you again ok trade is a hot topic not only in the u.s. and europe but also of course in the african continent. that's right i have yeah and that is the sad reality that despite many trade deals it hasn't had a market effect on into african trade and there we did see the speech today from

the news involved in president and mrs munger gaga in which he declared that zimbabwe is once again open for trade now that was perhaps a very positive statement to make many people less aware well well aware of the fact that in order for that to happen the people to be confident of trading reforms need to take place and reforms to tackle corruption as well in zimbabwe need to take place so all of that as well succumb but just to come back to your point about into african trade we do now know that africa in trade between african countries accounts for less than fourteen percent of total trade on the continent as you mentioned those twelve into african trade deals have really not brought the desired growth on the continent many n.g.o.s here at the world economic forum have been looking at ways to cut the red tape in terms of bureaucracy in terms of expensive visas in terms of improving infrastructure as well just to make that all the more

possible so as you point out their trade is not just being discussed in terms of the united states and in terms of europe but on a global scale as well to make it something that can lift the global economy and lift people out of inequality that gap of course has only been growing according to the oxfam report eighty two percent of the wealth generated last year remains in the hands of the one percent that's a topic that comes up every year helena thank you very much for the analysis and we'll continue to talk about these issues once the huge shift of or the more important focus of the conference shifts to africa thank you very much on humphrey from davos. well and speaking of infrastructure one of the challenges you know the old problem with big projects like roads or train stations they're almost never finished on time here in berlin we've been waiting for an airport for twelve years well that doesn't happen in china apparently where

a rail track was built overnight take a look at this. at six thirty pm construction began. fifteen hundred twelve because with twenty three dick is what nonstop throughout the night laying tracks and installing signals. quickly divided the workers into units little seven groups worked on different tossed simle tiny asli until a section was complete in just less than nine hours it's part of a two hundred fifty kilometer greet that will connect the southeast of the country with central china it should be in operation by the end of the year. we continue with the coverage of the world economic forum in davos where of course it's also important to discuss the global economies most pressing problems and one of them is a view because we know that the future relies in the younger generation thirty years and younger and they are also invited to take place and to participate in

many of the discussions in the fore. a brief moment to enjoy the view and then she goes to the next appointment twenty four year old italian team is in doubles to take part in discussions as is. a twenty six year old tech entrepreneur from germany. thirty year old greek daisy is currently debating the rejuvenation of europe. i expect from you. a shared responsibility. to allow the youth. and think its future to hear the voice of. and to go through their election. for a better tomorrow for all of us more in the it more together and more creative all three passionate europeans. we have common values. that

me that we are unique a part of the french language or really. a place where. human rights are effective. but there could be a big a shared sense of europe. i believe we could have a stronger sense of belonging in europe like what you have in the us when i leave many people had a much stronger connection to their country and that's not something we have in europe even less so in germany i believe the sense of feeling european isn't really there. and the future of europe. hope that things are going to be more about i'm nothing from him that you know but i think. we do all of these movements we're going in the one direction we need to find

a place where the. almost two years to wait while we respect each other maybe different cultures should be taken more into account because greek has a specific substance history culture it's a different from the italians from the swedish people so. her cheer on the differences should be taken into account in decision making process is and should be respected. as a debate in europe goes on and these young people i hear to contribute to it. and for continuous coverage of the world economic forum in davos remember to stay tuned here at u.w. or log on to our website d w dot com that's all for business spec to fill now and the downsides of going viral. thank you so much yes a group of young russian cadets is in trouble taking a break from it davy jones they decided to lighten the mood by videoing themselves

gods and off make it to a fifteen year old club it's when the video went viral the government was a laughing. joins with the story of how could that's one of the bush's most prestigious aviation schools was brought down to earth with a bump what happened welcome by the way i feel we have to show that video first of all so that people can understand what we're talking about check it out. this. is. just. i was just. so i feel the students here are dancing to a two thousand and two club hit by v.j. ben bernanke see it go satisfactions and it's a parody of the original music video which instead of men features scantily clad women wielding construction tools and as soon as this hits a russian social media it went absolutely viral with millions of views but of course we are in a conservative country and this has not gone down well with everybody especially

with authorities and the begin has been accused of being upset and what they didn't really didn't like was the fact that not only the guys are dancing half naked they're also wearing the official hats pilot hot so you officially uniform so this is also being accused of being in so i can insults towards the uniform. so they go a lot of backlash of these these these students nobody got the joke many people got the joke and a lot of people out there thought this was absolutely brilliant obviously because this has also sparked a wave of support and now actually the dance has become a mean and it's all over the internet and we're seeing that people from russia are posting their own videos their own satisfaction dances with that the hashtag satisfaction challenge those where there were. that group of actors this was a group of russian moms. is it one of them i inning we also have the female russian

national team and it has also spread across the border and we're seeing here the ukrainian swimming team they also posted their own satisfaction video and that's only in support of the students and now also state media in russia have showed the video have shown the video they've talked about it and this has all helped to soften in a way the position of local authorities in the beginning they said they might ask for the expulsion of the of the students from give you an academy but then they've they seem to have changed their minds and now they're saying ok we're not going to ask for them to be expelled but they will be punished somehow been not that harsh ali and that's actually this that has also sparked speculation that it could be because russia is slowly trying to change its image as the world cup is the football world cup is coming ahead so they're trying to you know make themselves look a little bit more open minded quickly yes or much for think about your thank you.

a second because of sport will start with tennis and despite a slow start roger federer has won his quarter final against thomas bad it's in straight sets enough acnc the south korean. jones amazing money now but continues as he saw for america in that sudden growth to reach his first ever grand slam semifinal germany's i'm delete caballe brushed aside madison keys to reach the last four of the australian open before but world number one is back to winning ways after a torrid twenty seventeen season keppel will face that women's top seed simona halep in the next round after the romanian one in straight sets a cut of the disco. now in football the u.a.e. for have drawn the groups for the inaugural nations league which will kick off in september of this year league a side germany of are drawn against france and the netherlands the walk. juicing count to see a face spain and portugal take on italy winners of the thought league

a group survives to a knockout stage which will decide the winner of the first you wait for nations li . is by their ban from the forthcoming i mean picks the russian olympic committee's official clothing supplier of l.b. athletes uniforms on monday the international olympic committee has left the door open for russian athletes with a clean doping history to complete and a live picture flag keeping with the status as neutrals the athletes will suit up in these predominantly grey uniforms and instead of distinctive russian insignia outfits will carry a logo with the words a limping athlete from russia. a passion for cycling has reunited a group of friends separated by the war in eritrea the african refugees cycling teams founded in neighboring ethiopia now they've received documents from the united nations refugee agency and they're hoping to raise the cash to allow them to take part in international competitions.

the love for cycling is in my blood. i've been cycling all my life if i had to quit it would be very sad. i'm very passionate about cycling i cannot put it in words but when i'm riding a bike it makes me happy and i feel relaxed. early morning on the outskirts of addis ababa ethiopia these men shared a love of cycling as well as a similar life story they've all fled their home country at a trailer where they could have faced compulsory military service under slave conditions anyone who resists risks their life. every day they spent hours in the saddle under the professional guidance of their coach to fight at a tree or to escape being drafted into the military. i'm very proud of the

refugee cycling team. i was a professional cyclist and had technical manager of the eritrea cycling foundation . once the training is over the team heads back to the city it's a tight squeeze in the car even though several team members aren't here today three are in uganda and others have left for europe. we don't have any money to pay them so they don't get a salary. i just think they might have gone to uganda to look for better clubs and earn some money. refugees are not allowed to work in ethiopia so they need to survive on money sent to them from relatives or friends in america and europe. but it's not always easy cycling can make you very hungry so things like. also need

to be included in the budget. and. four of us live in this room and we pay a rent of three thousand beera per month. that's about one hundred fifteen us dollars. we share everything and all of us contribute to the bills. after the rent is paid each cyclist is left with around one hundred dollars a month this has to cover all other expenses including bicycle repairs and spear parts if you crash or damage your bicycle you can train for weeks. why not problem other tires. you have to change them frequently. if other bicycles part spray that is more problematic and even more expensive to buy. if all goes according to plan the team trains every day the hard work is already

paying off cycling has a long tradition in any country it's a remnant of the colonial era. i started from scratch with very limited resources but we compete with different teams from. all the dominated the outer suburb a championship we're very proud of the. big races like the two of the phones will probably remain a distant dream for the african refugee cycling team it is after all unlikely that countries will grant visas to these eritrean cyclists. it's breaking news to strangers here at brazilian court has upheld the conviction of a former president to lose in asio to sell them as lula on corruption charges all three judges and the court confirmed the conviction on the night of the hot prison

sentence he carries out rallies his supporters ahead of the decision which could see him barred from running for office again. now britain's exit from the european union may be looming but some british osas of decided that they won't be leaving the e.u. without a fight among some a group calling itself a bright city big bad. for the six musicians are touring europe to protest against the brackets and now the collaboration with offers from every e.u. member state. it limits for the culture desk is sat here with a welcome whose idea was this whose idea was this this is the latest baby of the british experimental musician matthew herbert and to give you a little bit of background about matthew herbert he uses a lot of natural sounds in his work he put together an eight minute track once

where the percussion was sounds of deaf or cations so he's got a lot of projects under his belt another album that he did in the past called one pig an entire album about the life of one pig he followed the pigs from birth to death through table so to speak and recorded all this natural sound and turned that into an album so i mean look at that think yeah that's the man must be mad but then people buy it people buy it and that year we've come back to the brags that the big band this is a different project it's got a different sound few more brass instruments than the def occasion track. and obviously it's a bit more political we can take another look now at the brags that big bands.

when broke to happen it was such a big shock and i felt i had to do some thing. just british musician matthew headbutt is to ring across europe with his brakes that big band on their way the band plans to collaborate with musicians from every e.u. country they want audiences to not just listen to their music but the political message behind it. there's no joy at all in the government that we have this got no imagination of them how can we make this world worse on her let's do this and then trying really hard to make it happen so and i don't want other people to think i will my friends in europe or strangers for that matter in your to think that's the only vision of

britain because britain is definitely like that but there's another bit as well which is not like that at all which is about tolerance and compassion and love and imagination. the drama of breaks it is a right subject for performance matthew habits of valving protest uses song electronic music and audience participation act so when we did the concert in london. got everyone to write a message for europe and make it into a paper airplane it's right at station. and now we've got those messages i will throw them back to you guys so you can and then you can write some messages to us and then throw them back so so that's one thing we have the message. i want these are mourning. the band is not about breaks it a reaction to it by reaching out across the continent to break the big band hopes to

bring out a message of friendship and joy. was pretty optimistic sounding stuff for a topic as serious as brags about matthew herbert says that a revolution he optimism. how have been responding to this well as you know probably most it's safe to say most of the artists in the u.k. are against it and one of the most famous is of course banksy he painted this mural in dover pro breaks a territory and shows a guy chipping out a star from the e.u. flag and another big name british artist mick jagger has said that his latest music is inspired by the anxiety of bragg's that elton john another big brags an opponent he's also been making headlines today i don't know if you've been hearing about this i have been hearing about this why don't you tell us about it in the thirty seconds we have left who all this sort of it is he pulled off a pretty cheeky p.r.

gag the whole world thought he was going to announce his retirement big live streamed event in the end he said he's not going to retire but he's going on another world tour for three years. so not exactly what i'd call retirement actually quite the opposite it's a very good retirement very clever trick that i was and john we thank you david levitz thank you as well thank you as well as how about secure up to date about golf we'll have all the top of the hour of the day. the be. the be. the be . the be. the be. the

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