play. play. play. play. play. this is you know we newsline from berlin and britain and the european union plan for life after brings it to be used chief negotiator michele dunne uses the two sides of irish an agreement on a two year transition period that will make life easier for citizens and businesses parliament correspondence has all the details also coming up turkey promises to push on with its offensive against the kurds in syria after is seized control of

the city of afi displacing around one hundred fifty thousand people plus the backlash against facebook after whistleblower hands over evidence of a huge data leak he says fifty million users had their profiles plundered to help create fake news put donald trump in the white house plus the fight against polluters in kenya one community goes to court to demand justice after a factory poisoned scores of people in the surrounding area we'll hear from our correspondent about their crusade against big business. plan. hello and welcome i'm les iraq it's great to have you along every one of britain on the european union have laid out plans. for

a two year transition period following brags that while the deal includes concessions from the u.k. which will allow it to stay in the single market and customs union for the duration while the question of the irish border remains unresolved while the deal is good news for businesses ordinary citizens. a rare sight the two chief negotiators were full of mutual compliments and even smiles while it might be too early to call their progress a breakthrough this deal will prevent a so-called hard breaded and allow for a transition period until the end of twenty twenty thanks to concessions from the british. during this transition period britain will no longer participate in e.u. decision making because it will no longer be a member of the e.u. as of march thirtieth twenty nineteen but it will continue to benefit from all of the advantages of the single market and the customs union. and it will abide

by all e.u. rules. unions and industrialists throughout europe had been sounding warnings about the impact of a hard brags that monday's deal provides for a twenty one month transition period when duties and export barriers will not be applied after britain leaves the e.u. next year businesses leave decisions all rushed through contingency plans based on this is about the future the. time is now less of a stress factor but important issues remain unresolved such as the border between ireland and e.u. member and northern ireland which belongs to the u.k. . all right let's find out now on how this news is being received in britain barbara is standing by in london good evening barbara explain the thinking behind this deal so the u.k. gets to follow and abide by your rules for an extra twenty one months but loses its voting rights some would call that a sellout by britain is it. you know there are of course some bricks

tears who are now jumping up and down screaming nigel for us for instance is one of them and he says prime minister to resign may should resign over this deal and some others of course are still in and please silent probably thinking about what the response could possibly be and how withering it can be however what the british government says of course is that this decision as we have heard gives certainty to british business they know that they are going to be able to play according to e.u. rules for another twenty months twenty one months after breaks it that means one we have one year from now so this is the main issue for the british government and of course to reserve may spokesman also says there are some positives for instance britain will be able to negotiate start negotiating trade deals even signed them

during the interim period it will be able to sort of leave certain foreign policy decisions and opt out of those so there are some good sides but in the end they say negotiations like these are always give and take and give and take and they might have to do some give and take on the issue of the irish border which is still a thorn in the side of a fully comprehensive or breaks a deal but now britain has agreed to a backstop what does that mean. the backs up means that if britain doesn't come up with a different solution to the fall of this year when the divorce agreement will have to be signed and the tradition is part of the divorce agreement so if britain hasn't found a solution that is practical and legally possible tool that date then the backstop that is the fallback option is that northern ireland will sort of largely continue

to remain under is a european rules that is part of the customs union and even part of the common market and so that in a way a virtual border between the european union and great britain would run through the irish sea something that of course as you mentioned treason they had said before had no british government could ever sign up to however needs must all right while the reference to a foreign minister may i mean just two weeks ago she was saying this was something no british prime minister would ever agree to what's behind this dramatic turnaround. basically she just needed absolutely needed this transition agreement and the european union had the upper hand here they were playing poker was the british government and saying all right if you want to transition you have to sort of offer us a deal on ireland something that leaves the borders open and so they were british

the side was really sort of under duress she could not leave the summit at the end of this week to resume a that is without coming back to her business representatives and say ok transition we don't have it so this was more important even than the northern ireland question and we can only say that european union seen from a british point of view has won this round in the negotiation game. of reporting from london thank you. aren't to tell you know about some of the other stories making news around the world. israel has charged a french consulate worker with arms smuggling and accused them of using an official car to transport guns from the gaza strip to the west bank israeli officials say they believe the employee of france's consulate in jerusalem was part of a palestinian smuggling ring and acted without his employer's knowledge. the

substance used to poison a russian ex-pirate sergei screwball and his daughter yulia in the u.k. is due for testing an international team of weapons experts has arrived to test samples of the nerve agent used in the attack known as novacek while the u.k. alleges that russia is most likely behind the attack. german chancellor angela merkel has flown to poland to meet that country's that president and prime minister america also trigger comes with relations between germany and poland at a low point or sols been at odds with you over judicial reform criticized for endangering the independence of the judiciary. turkey's president a rich of tire air or air to one has vowed to expand an offensive by the country's army in syria bouts after turkish troops seized control of f. eighteen displacing at least one hundred fifty thousand people in the process while

turkey is fighting kurdish militants in the region along its border with syria a corridor or air to one says he now wants to entirely eliminate. this is what victory looks like turkish forces and turkish backed syrian fighters are swarming into africa and they're armed to the teeth according to ankara it won't be the end of the fighting. will go on to man beach and co bonnie we will continue until we completely clear this corridor of kurdish held areas. if necessary we will take permanent control of the terrorist camps in northern iraq we have told the iraqi government if you're going to do it do it and if you can't take care of it one night we might suddenly enter sin jar and clean out the kurdistan workers party you. can't pick up a whole lot of the time isn't. in after and they've already taken care of it this

statue in afrin city center is a symbol of kurdish resistance now it's gone along with the people's protection unit also known as y p g that turkish backed forces drove turkey sees the y.p. g. as a terrorist organization and a threat to its national security kurdish officials have repeatedly called on the international community for help with little success in the fight against nato second largest army the kurds remain defiant our forces in every area and afrin will be a nightmare for them. the resistance will continue until the liberation of every inch of afrin until the return of the residents into their villages and homes. what are what. this child is one of about one hundred fifty thousand refugees that have fled africa and the surrounding districts they are bearing the brunt of the suffering and with turkish forces set to turn east it doesn't look to end anytime soon. all right for more on these developments i'm now joined by simon maven who is

a mideast analyst and international relations lecturer at lancaster university in the u.k. good of you to spend time with us simon present everyone not mincing his words there says turkey has no intention of invading syria so what are they doing in syria what's the end game here. well i think it's interesting that he says they have no intention of invading because i think if you were to ask a lot of international experts and indeed many across syria that's exactly what they would say has been happening that the turkish forces have gone into sovereign syrian territory and indeed invaded because there weren't many people who were actually advocating for their presence so i think that it's interesting what he's saying obviously he's trying to frame things in a particular way but i think that his words and the ones words reveal a great deal not is that he's trying to strengthen turkey southern border and make

it far stronger as a state now as simon turkey has a voice said its flag in half a day in syrian territory why is the mask us letting this happen and you know let's also focus a bit on iraq will they just roll over well i'm not sure that the mosque is letting this happen i mean if you go back to before the arab uprisings you saw that damascus and they were they had positive relations i mean a sad and had one they used to go on holiday together but things very quickly soured now as for your question i think that it's more of more the issue that damascus can actually do anything about it i mean if britain is is right in the rebel controlled areas so damascus doesn't really have much influence in that part of syria now for a bug that i doubt that that would be would be particularly happy or receptive to turkish forces going into iraq so i think it will it will raise a lot of questions about the construction of security are us talk about the the

kurds they played a very pivotal role in the american led coalition that is fighting i-s. are any of their allies now likely going to come to their aid. well i guess that's the million dollar question and going back to my point by regional security you've got all these different groups each with a vested interest and these alliances that we've seen have often been quite fluid as the case we've seen with the with the kurds and the americans now what we'll see in the days to come is the extent to which that relationship is solid the extent to which the u.s. feels some kind of loyalty or has some kind of responsibility for the kurdish groups and and the type of answer that the u.s. gives will will really have an impact on turkey because if the u.s. decides to back the the kurdish groups in syria then we could very easily have to nato allies going head to head in a in

a form of standoff all off the hops even conflict now i don't think that's particularly likely but i think that that it is a really important time right now to see how things will play forward and what the u.s. will do simon talk to us a little bit about the civilians that that the people the residents of what will happen to those who have been displaced by fighting. well we've heard rumors and and on it go to reports that around one hundred fifty thousand have been displaced from three and they're obviously going to struggle to find somewhere with with safety and shelter and protection from this fighting because we've also heard that the kurdish fighters aren't just going to give up after him without a fight and that whilst this is not necessarily going to be a conventional military battle it will involve. fighting and and more improvised insurgent tactics and they of course have how real humanitarian impacts

as well so in addition to the struggle for health for food for shelter then you'll also see increased violence as well so i think it's important and integrity that the u.n. and aid get into into northern syria and provide some type of humanitarian relief to these people that it once again being displaced from their homes and this of course all happening as syria enters its eighth year of war thank you so very much simon maven mideast analyst and international relations lecturer lecture at lang castor university for. thank you and your washington we news or so have a lot more to tell you about including this one a landslide victory in his bid for reelection but he's less popular abroad western leaders give their reaction to vladimir putin's fourth term in the kremlin. but first hug is here with facebook's latest data breach very serious one at that

very serious one and yet again we're seeing reactions that we've seen in the past you already know that facebook is all about sharing and now we are finding out the company has once again shared all your personal information for political purposes but it was not intended according to a former staff member of a british company called cambridge analytic or the personal data of about fifty million facebook users was misused by the firm during the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election or facebook has announced a thorough investigation of what went wrong c.e.o. mark zuckerberg is now facing some serious questions. facebook's mark zuckerberg enjoys the limelight as much as the next guy at least when the news is good but as far as the latest data scandal is concerned he's keeping a low profile more than two years ago his company discovered that cambridge analytical was using a data leak to spy on fifty million of facebook's uses but facebook failed to inform those affected cambridge analytical was simply told to delete the data which

according to media reports never happened instead facebook has opted to delete the accounts of those who brought the scandal to light people like chris wiley former research director at cambridge analytics he's described how the company was. imagine i go and ask you i say hey if i give you a dollar two dollars could you fill out the survey for me just do it on this op and you say fine right i don't just capture what your responses are i capture all of the information about you from facebook but also this opt in crawls through your social network and captures all about data also so by you filling out my survey i capture three hundred records the uses facebook friends was spied on without the consent of course the likes that gender sexual orientation and political leanings everything was gathered on friday facebook announced it had suspended cambridge

analytics but that's not enough for politicians in britain and the u.s. they now want to tackle the issue and confront those responsible from facebook. all right let's find out a little bit more about what is going on exactly for that i'm now joined by our social media editor jarrett reed tara good to have you with us now we already know that facebook has tons of data and that they use it for multiple purposes including advertising so how does this actually compare to what facebook does anyway well it's different because this would this data was given to third party so a client of facebook that developed an add on to facebook a personality quiz so as we heard if you downloaded this personality quiz you were giving the developers access to your personal profiles anything you might have a locked where you live where you work and as a consequence your friends list as well so as we just heard in that report anything that they had ever lived in with a works or all of their personal preferences and so this spiral to encompass

something like fifty million people all of this data ended up in this data services firm called cambridge analytical as we heard they worked for president donald trump's campaign and at the time the company was headed by steve benen who ended up working for donald trump as these top political advisor now according to a whistleblower the company harvested this dot and then created software to target voters with ads and stories what we don't know one of the many questions we don't know in this whole story is whether that had any effect on the election at all what we do know is that facebook is being heavily criticized for its reaction one of the main points is that they didn't tell the users that were affected that this happened but that really make that much of a difference will it should because facebook knew in twenty fifteen that it's dosh was being used in this way and all it did at the time was still the companies involved please delete the dot of didn't actually check up as to whether they were

doing that and it seems like some of the dr according to reports is still available online now and importantly as you say facebook didn't tell any of its fifty million users. victor that this had happened facebook has released a statement has said a claim that this is a doctor bridge is completely false because as it goes on to say people knowingly provided their information and look that's true to a certain extent people did volunteer really provide their information by downloading these groups but it's really hard to argue that they would have voluntarily provided to friends information and that they would have done so had they known the data would be used for what it was used for it's sort of a case of facebook not really taking its own influence seriously enough it's quite slow to respond to claims like in the past for example that it's lax regulations led to middling on its own platform that could have influenced the u.s. election or breaks it for example and we found out here that it knew years ago that

this was happening and didn't really do that much about it you know many people want consequences out of this we know that the whole meddling problem is being discussed very what's happened in the past i guess facebook's influence sort of is declining a little bit generally compared to its heyday years ago but what we do know is that there are investigations underway so the massachusetts attorney general has said sure won't an investigation the e.u. is launching its own investigation and there are calls for mark zuckerberg to appear before the u.s. senate whether that happens is another thing of course these investigations type time and we just have to wait and see what consequences this will have for facebook if any will certainly keep following that story with you thank you very much read our social media editor for the analysis. now we do stay in the subject of big tech companies and it's time for some gossip apple is reported to be secretly developing its own micro l.e.d. displays at a plant in california that's according to the news service bloomberg the report says apple is investing heavily into the project micro screens are flat panel

displays that make gadgets thinner brighter and use less power compared to regular displays it could take up to three to five years before the swedes appear on the market so far apple only designs chips for its mobile devices. i'll be back with more business news later in the show until then it's back to lana because there's a familiar winner in russia's election. western leaders have given a lukewarm welcome to vladimir putin's reelection as russian president germany's i'm going marital said it was vital to maintain a dialogue with moscow france meanwhile wish putting luck in modernizing his country it's done little to dampen enthusiasm back home though for the man who swept to a record victory. greeted like a pop star the man who has dominated rush's political stage for years and who now

has the mandate to stay here for more. special imo sure thank you for your support . this victory demonstrates how much we've achieved in the last years under very difficult circumstances. fortune to a rather subdued audience the head of the russian election commission confirmed lot to me of putin's landslide victory he won almost seventy seven percent of the vote but that victory is overshadowed by allegations of election fraud cameras inside polling stations showed signs of forged ballots being submitted by the handful although russian authorities have denied widespread irregularities the reports concern of is germany was quick to voice its reservations about putin's win in the fear regarding the russian election we can't talk about a fair election as we know it he desired the servant to forgive us for that's why we assume russia will remain

a difficult partner but we need russia to solve the major international issues we are currently facing that's an awkward so we hope to maintain our dialogue. china though has welcome putin's latest success i'm sensing that we believe in the president putin's leadership russia will continue its stable development and play a bigger role in international affairs. see president putin has allowed himself some time to celebrate. yet again he's on the front pages and the top man in the russian federation. all right let's bring in the nicholai of petroff he is a professor in the social and political science faculty at the higher school of economics in a moscow are very good evening sir president putin has already announced a plans for changes in russia what are these changes. i would see is several major directions for these changes one is connected with the

fact that the pooch in the should start reshaping of the political system to enable himself not to become a lame duck and in my view it will look like transfer of power but not from the president through a president somebody else it will be rather transfer of power from function of the president to putin somebody else like national leader second the government was almost paralyzed in this sense that. pretty long gibbet when poland mantor and presidential elections it could not on duty a serious measures to improve the russian economy being afraid of negative impact and negative while eighty two it's of our important group of russian voters and now we media left their elections they can start this process

and finally have to look at the presidential address delivered recently not only there was an amy show connected with russian the weaponry but there was the first watt with the show's goals in social economic development which can model be realized with old software in relations with a way has then why i would wait for russian move since these direction as well all right well let's pick up on that point to mr petrel because on the international stage for his appearance relations with the west are at a low point but today he seems to be striking a more conciliatory tone let's take a listen and then we'll pick up from there. you seem to think that we have no intention of engaging in some kind of arms race it was just the opposite we will seek to develop constructive relations with other countries. we call on our partners to have a constructive dialogue but it would have been

a constructive dialogue mr petro what can the world expect from vladimir putin's next term in office while the soften more of that tough rhetoric well i would say they have in his recent interview to end this see president putin several times claimed for negotiations with the united states and what is the hadley needed for russian economy not even to improve it but to keep it afloat is in the last months and technologists and these kill maad be. received without improving the relations with the west are i to professor nicholai petroff who is with the higher school of economics in moscow thank you sir for spending time with us. and you're watching the w. news or so have a lot more coming up including lives ruined by lead poisoning in kenya we meet the victims taking on big business and a battle for compensation and from

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and when to turn and to build something here for the next generation. global it's the multimedia environment series on d. w. . great to have you back with us you're watching it every news these are main headlines right now britain and the european union have reached an agreement on a two year transition phase following britain's were drawn from the block the agreement should provide clarity for businesses and citizens although there were main sticking points over the issue of the irish border. turkey has vowed to press on with its offensive in syria just one day after seizing control of the kurdish held city in offering could venture eastward all the way to iraq as it is to drive back kurdish militants from near its border and a western leaders have given

a guarded welcome to flattery putin's real action as russian president germany's foreign minister said he expected moscow would remain a quote difficult partner. all right and i want to hand you over to have your now because there is a scramble going on as we speak to avoid a full blown trade war that's right live and we know this is hard to to ation that is keeping everyone in the business world on edge the new tariffs on steel and aluminum announced by the u.s. are just around the corner and u.s. allies are trying to seek exemptions germany's economy minister is currently in washington for talks the e.u. trade commissioner will join tomorrow it's a race against time as the tariffs will enter into force this friday. the new tariffs come into force on friday and in some ways the german and european steel industries could simply sit back and relax after all steel and aluminum make up only a very small proportion of european exports to the us and yet the e.u.

will be the trading partner to be hit hardest by the new taxes the e.u. as a whole all twenty eight countries would have six point five billion dollars worth of steel and aluminum exports affected by the new tariffs it's followed by china with an export volume of around three billion dollars germany would pay taxes on a total of one point seven billion dollars worth of such exports each year that makes it the country most affected from within the e.u. . some experts warn that the new tariffs might herald the beginning of a cascade of others which will spread across further sectors and countries and the european still industry fears that europe may soon be flooded with cheap steel imports it being an alternative cheaper dumping ground. now arguably correspondent alexandre phenomenon is in washington following the statements by the german economy minister hi it's good to see you alexandra now as you saw the minister how optimistic was he is there us real possibility to avoid these tariffs.

well i asked peter over here is confident that a solution can be found before the charter of our going to be imposed on friday and he really dodged just saying that he cannot speculate on that because it is such an important matter but then he added that he is a little bit more optimistic that he was before after meeting his counterpart here you asked secretary of commerce ross and other members of the trump administration he didn't however tell us a want a possible solution could look like and watch the european union would be willing to offer there are rumors saying that you do you as may accept the european union from the terrorists but says that there could be tough conditions attached to that

condition such as caps on imported steel exports and an increase in defense spending but we have to say that we have to wait because there is a lot of diplomatic activity here so let's take a look at the bigger picture here because we know one thing for sure and it is that donald trump wants tariffs in general now what does the e.u. in this case want specifically is this about just avoiding these specific tariffs on steel and aluminum or talking to us out of terrorists altogether. i think that the europeans are more concerned about the measures that could come next and the more important question for them is wherever president will follow up on his repeated threats to slap the tariff on imported cars and that could really harm the economy in the european union and particularly of course in germany it's

one of the top car exporting nations worldwide it's you were talking about what comes next alexandra and now let's take a look at the scenario if donald trump doesn't give in could we see more tariffs also imposed by the e.u. or the european union was quite quick to say that it is going to fight back there was even a list published a list of you as product products that could be potentially targeted by the european union but we have to say that the european union is not interested in escalating this dispute and germany wants the european commission commission to tread cautiously i was on the phenomena following the story for us in washington thank you very much. folks shift our focus to south africa now where the country has to clear its current drought a national disaster water levels are so low people are only allowed minimal

quantities especially in big cities this doesn't only affect everyday lives but of course businesses south africa's wine industry one of the leading worldwide is among the hardest hit. if three year long drought in the wastes and capers caused the region's dams to reach critically low water levels prompting the government to declare a national disaster individuals are being limited to just fifty liters a day to proving to shut off water restrictions have not just hit families but businesses too including the region's waldron ound wine industry well there's just more to stop this because it. is it really actually improves quality to this is an extent but it's not resist. because the smaller it is healed so you have a smaller harvest house and when you have a small office yes it's more to sell in so that it's

a constant. wind production has slumped by about twenty percent over the last twelve months forcing winemakers like mad lease to consider vines that require less water. obviously looking into the cotton was consistent with the drought spanish cotton was. always at any halt in the last dozen years or so i think this will be a general shaft but it's very difficult because the market doesn't really know where is this wise. fruit growers are also feeling the brunt with industry bodies warning that thousands of jobs are on the line. situation like this these are very big focus on cutting costs as well. because you don't know what what next year will . be will be a negative impact on usage it seems the efforts have paid off with the estimate for the so-called days zero when taps run dry pushed back from next month to twenty

nineteen in the meantime so that because wine industry can only hope for a little rain to make up the shortfall. that's. why we do where we go we had to kenya actually because plaintiffs in a class action suit against the owners of a let's melting factory are due to give evidence today while the factory has closed but plaintiffs are seeking compensation and demanding a clean up of deadly pollution our correspondent catherine mando filed this report from the village outside mombasa affected by the deadly pollution. of. catching a home from another round of treatment she's taking part in a clinical trial to treat lead poisoning here in kenya the city doctors tried to clean her blood using dialysis the catheter is inserted in her right shoulder it could be her only chance to stay alive. lead poisoning has cost her two kidneys and

two children. until i started getting sick in two thousand and fifteen coughing my skin was a cheat and i couldn't walk. i had six children three of them lead poisoning two of them died. in two thousand and seven metal refinery opened a smelting plant bordering kathryn's neighborhood we know who. in the years that followed at least twenty factory workers in one hundred children died of lead poisoning the plant has closed in two thousand and fourteen but the aftermath is still coming to light we know who still has dangerously high levels of lead in both the water and soil. blood tests revealed that i mean a key has levels of lead more than eighty times the point considered

a health concern. she suffers from a swollen thyroid gland. and the liquid mom and my brother and father worked at the smelting company i would wash their clothes and handle the batteries and waste they would carry from the factory while cleaning the house that if the liquid would pour out of the batteries i would be the one to clean the mess when you know that i didn't know it would affect me because it wasn't good enough and as a subduing of the often. medical treatment is a luxury in all we know who many who live here struggle to put food on the table the nearest hospital that treats lead poisoning is in south africa catherine was fortunate to take part in a medical trial i really is still waiting for her health concerns to be addressed. but there may be a just end to this story and viral mental defender phyllis a maid who has launched a class action suit. victims are seeking compensation of thirteen

million euros as well as a cleanup of their contaminated land now phyllis is expecting at least ten witnesses to testify she hopes that this case will set a precedent on how to deal with social injustices and pollution in the country. all right and we can talk now to an environmental environmental activist phyllis meter who you saw in that report a very good evening phyllis you far to have to plant close down your longs launched this class action suit your baby fortune was also made sick by this plant i mean how was the day in court for you the victims of this lead poisoning. yet again today was a very disappointing day for us because or about the eighth time our case was that john. we had hoped that's today we're going to trial and the victims of lead

poisoning would finally get the idea in court but unfortunately in the day been tuppence for us as the case was at johns adjoined again this time. do you feel that there is a lot of resistance a lot of opposition that you have to overcome yes remember with rahul petition in two thousand and sixteen this is two thousand and eighteen and we have granted one to trial they have been a joint pains and the germans and adjournments. a that by the states no ass or interested parties and so it's very unfortunate because there are a lot of people depending on the vibe but that of the court for them to be able to access justice in this case and postponing this case is just one post for me. the health and the rights of these people because children are still dying people

are still exposed people need medicine in the community and for us it's very sad that since twenty sixteen this is twenty eight hundred that they kiss us continue and be in and join and it looks like there are forces that i can tell you that the kids will not go to trial right now you've been called east africa's erin brockovich because you founded a group that tackles the environmental threats faced by residents who live near industrial areas in kenya explained to us at the scene for us how well it's widespread is this problem all right so i started working with their own rural community in two thousand and nine will realize that in mumbai there were three smell to us all and look at that in the same strategic locations all of them were indicated a hour slot in neighborhoods that those are very poor. neighborhoods on the

outskirts of mumbai star and so when we started this campaign and we ended up. getting a ban on export of lead to stalk the operations of this scale to us. in twenty fifteen we we saw shutting down of seven thousand smell test all around kenya or around the country which were doing similar what in similar occasions so it's a very widespread situation here in kenya and even though we have the and now all compressed capacities and in the media to know who we know that the other communities that are waiting for this to be a president for their own state to be able to access justice now phyllis i mean you're evidently very determined this is a case that touches you personally your family your community how confident are you that you will in the long run win this case. we have done a lot of work remember we started pushing for the closure of this matter in two

thousand and nine and to five this soon in twenty sixteen that is sitting at and within those seventy s. we did a lot of research we have done pretty well in studies we have done petitions to the king and put them in the can and senate we have asked them to do independent studies which have verified whatnots been saying all along we have we have very corporate evidence on the ground so we have very hopeful and very positive that we win the case if only realize out to go to the trial stage are right environmental of mental activist phyllis mito thank you for speaking to us. thank you. i do recognize that shaky unique exhibit has just opened and in these even here in germany telling the story of disco. night club culture that started to emerge about fifty years ago it's called as you can see there night fever designing club culture

it really all started in the one nine hundred sixty s. and a child of the sixty's is here with me now it is our very own robert marrow thank you so very much harm for being here so were you a dance fiend on the disco for in the sixty's after a bit stiff finish of lee not sure i was i was no good at the disco really but. i give my reasons as my best mate was better looking the mate don't special to me and he owned a call which was very impressive for the for the girls and i didn't own a car but i was very much second string also you you can forget any meaningful conversation in the disco it was impossible for me to chance to go out with my wonderful speak. yeah but i should say you had to go to the disco this was the place to go. to meet goes one thing but it was for young people this was the place and what was before it the sort of drive souls

of the nineteen fifties where people sort of seemed to just as they were dancing holding on to each other like this you know so it was a great time the nine hundred sixty six had this wonderful new pop music you know we had discovered lights strobe lights had never existed before there were many scots and all this new culture came together in one place and violence was the disco. discotheque at the detroit design museum. the show explores the emergence of new spaces for experimentation with interior design. and tentative lifestyles. in new york in the one nine hundred sixty s. there was dancing here plus happenings and concepts groundbreaking new bands like the velvet underground played here this was the start of the so-called modern nightclub. this is its european counterparts the space electronic

instruments it was a multifunction designed by the radical architects group. for the one nine hundred seventy saw the start of the disco movement and things became more professional. new york was a key part of all that in the late one nine hundred seventy s. and early eighty's new york was in bad shape financially. and property was cheap. the conditions were ideal for new shops like the legendary studio fifty four. from nine hundred seventy seven it was for the cities and went down in history as the first disco. recognizing. the dance floor as

a stage for individual and collective performance with club serving as a source of inspiration for fashion design is and is a space to move. to launch the careers of numerous. i think a lot of people are interested in the history of clubs just about everyone has gone out for a night on the town. if you are. present a time when young people get away from their parents and find their own identity. showcasing the relationship between music and design in cat culture the chair design museum succeeds in presenting the discotheque as an all encompassing. our i robot a night out on the town but we don't call it disco anymore no we don't it's strange because that's completely gone out of fashion but it's still the same idea isn't it

i mean it's still you know music. for a great sound system but if you say the disco you show your age it is definitely now collaborating and it's clubbing all right now this city berlin if it does one thing really well it is a clubbing talked a lot about it but yeah that's true i mean i think that to many reasons for this too particularly in late nineteen eighties beginning of the ninety's there was the techno boom but it was definitely one of the capitals of techno not the capital. you know mention detroit mention frank it was one of the great techno places also in ninety days you know and the wall came down and in the eastern part of the city there were all these vast empty sort of factories and buildings that were puffing like trees or came along the great sort of techno temple this was in. an old department store and trees all literally means bang. and then there you see

this old power station this is back on perhaps europe's most famous club to this day and it was incredibly difficult to get in because maybe because of this man spend caught he looks a bit vicious doesn't it and he's the doormen there and he really just doesn't let people in do you have to remember that there are always cues so he can do this you know and he mean it has this door policy of sort of no you can't yes you can and i sort of tweet the other day where somebody said. i've been turned away from. my cool now having queued for three hours this since it's a kind of rite of passage to get right so what do you need to do to get in. it's really difficult i mean it really is there is no rhyme nor reason why he let some people one thing you have to do is dress down not dress up one thing don't let it be known you're a journalist in any shape or form if they don't like pictures inside they don't like people taking photos film or anything in there is even a how to get into. so that's how. interested young people get in but as i

said he wouldn't have this door policy if you had to if you didn't have the long queues to get in and to this day it's still perhaps the biggest club in europe and there's always a velvet rope somewhere keeping people out i don't like it thank you so very much our i greatly appreciate it all right and. finally a shock result in the going to sleep this weekend that's as life they can not stay heart fought win over their runaway league leaders byron munich were unbeaten in eighteen games across all competitions going into sunday's clash but their much changed line up played into the hosts hands take a look. the start of this match was more notable for he was on the bench rather than the pitch top scorer robert live in dosti one of six rescued by by an all right hospital left out his captain incensed about really all been among another

six others like the coach may have been ruling that decision early on the home defense all it see sandri vaquero was the happy recipient. at the other end any heroics from strength ration the acrobatic meatless sooner we keeping by and ahead it was only a matter of time until right seat breakthrough be kate's block once but twice was the host with the momentum after a frantic first half was i mean pressed on in the second period he moved around a plate for one goal and the striker on a sub made no mistake comically ending his seven game goal drought in the been a sneaker. fan and then got greedy as he tried to see a light six win. but the visitors couldn't break through again buckner sending the last chance of the match high and white. and so another milestone in the light six story a banner inspired first of a victory over buying. well meanwhile cologne reignited their slim survival hopes

with a two meal win over local rivals byron leverkusen all remember cologne had made the worst ever been the sleekest start by any team but the victory saw them climb off the bottom of the table for the first time since matched a three. seldom has there been a favorite for the writing darby. highflying leyva couzin coming off the back of two wins would surely have the edge against rock bottom cologne who hadn't won at home for two months. but cologne clearly how to read the script there were just nine minutes gone when you gave them the lead was. couldn't get to grips with leonardo bits and his cross caused chaos in the live acoustic defense and bentley wouldn't cover himself in glory with his attempt to save was might have been a lucky goal but it was one that play had merits it. leave

a cruise mistakes went confined to their defense the video assistant referee summoned on field country part to the pitch site monitor where he saw what had happened behind his back was most julie sent lucas a lot he was packing for a flying was. i'm not wasn't leave a cousens last moment of madness in the darby. deep into the second tough charles inadvertently headed straight for cologne zeman solar heat gratefully accepted the chance to seal a shot to know when for the hosts five three big points for the billy goats suddenly have renewed hope of avoiding relegation. now or before we go a look at our main headline right now britain and the european union have reached an agreement on a two year transition phase following britain's were drawn from the block all the agreements should provide clarity for businesses as citizens although there do

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