odd. odd. i am i an idiot. this is it we knew it was live from berlin europe you know sigil strong by standing up to the united states over the iran nuclear deal evil leaders moved to ban european companies from complying with u.s. sanctions we'll get the latest from the leaders summit in the ball during capital sofia also coming up a controversial referendum in blue wounded people have been voting on whether to extend the president's term for up to sixteen more years as fears grow the poll could spark bloodshed we'll have analysis plus medical workers who raced to

conceive an outbreak of ebola in the democratic republic of congo after of course that the highly contagious virus has spread to a city that's home to more than a million people. also coming up heartbreak in gaza the relatives of palestinian victims killed in monday's protest mourn the loss of their loved ones to the news means a mother whose teenage daughter died when israeli troops opened fire on protesters her family inconsolable her community crushed by the decade long blockade. and a royal wedding fever her excitement builds ahead of this weekend's big day grade to make an markel confirms that her father will not be attending her wedding to prince harry so cool will walk her down the aisle. be a little odd backyard.

conway little rock thank you so much for your company everyone. we start our broadcast to with the growing transatlantic rift to europe is putting its entire weight behind the iran nuclear deal in an attempt to contain the fallout from u.s. president donald trump's decision to abandon it european commission president. and now usually i'm surveyed all the blocking statute same measure here i was used to more than the two decades ago to counter u.s. sanctions against cuba libya and iran the law makes it illegal for you companies to comply with american sanctions and shields those doing business with iran now a day after you council president donald to scott told off president trump he had this to say at the final press conference today. i think the real geo political problem is when you have. unpredictable opponent and i mean.

all the power the problem is if your closest friend is unpredictable. it's not the job crowd and it's because i think it's a. different problem today was i with friends on the other side of the atlantic. because i can agree with president obama where the. unpredictability can be a very useful tool in politics but all of our correspondents barbara they so is is sophia covering the e.u. summit there barbara so we're a europe united against trump what i wonder is how long can they keep up this united front. at the moment it looks as if they're really standing shoulder to shoulder because there is a very strong mix of emotion here even though we're talking about politics and

people like the german chancellor angela merkel are well known for being sort of low key but generally we've heard many words of frustration here and of downright anger was some particularly the french president. and it is a mix of anger on the one side and disappointment on the other because the europeans feel that donald trump is treating them like an enemy like somebody like an opponent to somebody that he can just run roughshod over and so totally disregard their political will and so they've really felt compelled to stand together and say we will not be treated like this how long this unity will hold is anybody's guess bought they know that the only chance they have against from is to stand united so they do but just brought strokes do you think that european businesses will also keep her and and risk being blacklisted by the united states.

not really and that's the problem with the signal it's a political signal but economic killie of course it's private companies that there will be making their own decisions and the european union can't really influence and force them it can probably offer compensation to some of the smaller ones but in detail it's really everybody's headquarter that will say do we risk this oh don't we risk that and so it's a limit as a response off the european union they know that they don't have the economic clout to really sort of stand up against washington because what they do not want to dare at this point is an all out trade war on all fronts against the united states so this is a first step we don't know how this will proceed and what we we will see which further steps but now brussels and the leaders here in sofia all still waiting for

a reaction from washington maybe a treat from the white house but have a small reporting from the bulgarian capital sofia thank you. and i would like to send you are to hell now who will be taking a look at how the e.u. plans to stem the tide of businesses potentially leaving iran thank you very much indeed well time is certainly of the essence because the iran sanctions are biting in america hasn't even introduced them yet the e.u. says it will take steps to protect european companies doing business in iran from the impact of u.s. measures now the summit in saw fia leaders agree they need to save the twenty fifty year plea deal with iran a week after the u.s. decided to pull out and they vowed to financially support deals in the country and crucially introduce a blocking statute. that means essentially that the e.u. is making it illegal to comply with u.s. sanctions on iran now it's only the second time that the e.u.

has threatened to use the so-called blocking statute the first time was back in one nine hundred ninety six as a response to u.s. sanctions against cuba but it was never introduced now as a see you of global firms announce they're pulling out of iran leaders are scrambling to stop european affirms from doing the same. the blocking statute is aimed at protecting the small and medium sized companies operating in the country it would also provide compensation for sanctions related losses although german politicians have said that can't be applied across the board the picture is much more complex for bigger european corporations with close financial and corporate ties to the u.s. the prospect of severe penalties over sanctions violations as well as the loss of financing from u.s. banks and other potential consequences already has some european businesses looking to exit draw on the world's biggest container ship or a mall or maersk has said it will wind down its iran operations germany's biggest

insurer its preparing to wrap up their two siemens has said there will be no new deals with iran and french oil and gas company to tal says it will pull out of a multi-billion gas project if it can't get an exemption to tells departure would be especially painful for iran the iranian government had hoped the scale of the project would embolden other international companies to invest there for many companies the e.u. blocking statute poses a dilemma they could either stay in iran and risk their u.s. operations and possibly financing or they could leave iran and face penalties under the blocking regulations. when at it we also financial find a frank financial correspondent daniel cope if the blocking a stash it will barely fit you companies. let me tell you that there are at the moment here among investors lots of question marks what is blocking the statute as a response to possible u.s. sanctions could mean it is very clear that you are one to show united message to

the u.s. that they don't allow them to dictate european companies who to do business with are not their goal of course is to guarantee iran within the sixty day deadline that trade and commerce relationships won't crash but the question is if the blocking statute is really the right response some here fear that this could even provoke u.s. president donald trump once more and that also basically means that the european union can now decide for companies if they stay in iran or not brussels also recognizes that that is so profound interference in interpersonal freedom even though the e.u. now could in theory compensate companies who then might have less trade volume with the u.s. also investors are telling me that this is an illusion to think that this would be to an extent of billions of euros all of this might help small or medium sized companies and of course it's a strong message to the united states but investors here don't think that now because of this big companies like total volkswagen p.s.a.

or preschool will reconsider will see how all of this really develops a financial correspondent there in frankfurt will initially she was anti-establishment party say they'll finalize their policy program for a new coalition government aid the coming hours leaked a document this week said markets into a panic but the parties say the final proposals will remove the threat to the to leave the year is they have now several bush would join a proposal to ask for a two hundred fifty billion euro debt write off from the european central bank but they are likely to agree on a fiscal plan which will increase spending on the poor while reducing income tax. one is able to lay low now is during the vote in a contentious referendum that could extend the president's term people are all. on edge in burundi because the incumbent. is already serving a controversial third term described as unconstitutional by as opponents his plans

to change the constitution could undermine years of peace building this tiny eastern african nation has had a very bloody history twelve year brutal civil war killed more than three hundred thousand people between nine hundred ninety three and two thousand and five in the year two thousand the so-called peace and reconciliation deal was signed helping to end the fighting five years later when years of relative peace followed but violence unfortunately flared up again in two thousand and fifteen when started his third term more than a thousand people were killed at that time with new reports now of voter intimidation there are new fears rwanda could see a return of the deadly violence recent years. in the small village of. bloodstains a straw mats where a family used to sleep pray for gruesome attack by neighbors assailants who murdered twenty six villages in their homes earlier this month with guns flames and

machetes. these killers attacked my family my family is dead and the army did nothing to save them and although they weren't far from here. no one noticed the sure of this attack was related to burundi's referendum but it gives a taste of the tense atmosphere in which the vote is taking place. the not always apparent burgundy is deeply divided over its president and his plan to amend the constitution to be able to extend his reign pm currencies are believes he has a god given right to rule and while not everyone agrees he has huge support in rural areas i am here before you turn arounds to all burundians that the election will go very well as god is my witness. the opposition says the president's planning a power grab and that its hemant to stop them. who are trying to

intimidate us claim that a new vote would push our country back to war this is terrorism let us say no. but saying no to pm isn't easy. when the indians took to the streets to protest his last controversial reelection demonstrations were crushed twelve hundred people died in the violence that followed and hundreds of thousands fled their homes many now live in refugee camps in neighboring countries such as this one in rwanda. those who stayed behind said they live in fear elena and her children watched as the husband and father was taken away in a raid. movie where i prayed we don't have a propagate we're trying to block the entrance to the yard with branches so we can hear the police and call for help then as now the president's ruling party was accused of using violence to stifle opposition the run up to the referendum has

been marred by hate speech and intimidation and reports suggest that people opposed to include have been arrested and beaten. on the country's on the international community is watching closely let's bring in fred a firmer do africa desk to provide us with some more insight to fred the president and of course he's a has been accused of widespread human rights abuses ahead of this referendum can you tell us more about that. thank you very much. against president putin cruz's stem from two thousand and fifteen when he decided to go for. which majority of opponents say it was against peace movement. and it is civil war in two thousand then before the votes to press in

two thousand and fifteen hundreds of people were accused of four hundred thousand. in neighboring countries you may also need to know. this. to dozens of people have been a kid and just last week twenty six people with a. new broom the. international media is also not allowed to report on the events taking place in broome the raising issue of knowing what extent crimes are committed in rwanda now despite these widespread human rights abuses fierce criticism interestingly he still enjoys huge support especially in the rural areas can you explain why. first of all it's really difficult to with these people that we see in the

campaigns. people have been intimidated people at this time in hebrew in the remembering their own people would die who perished three years ago so they are afraid they have no choice but to follow him but also on the other side ordinary bru india and see him as a humble man they see here often playing this soca prisons grues is also a christian who goes to church they go away he has also been visiting. different people visiting group. and so they see him. as a good person of course those who are not who are not part of the victim site talk to us a little bit about the opposition fred because they're calling corn season plans unconstitutional accusing basically planning a power grab. yeah yeah the opposition of course they started

before. two thousand and fifteen presidential vote trying to do to put pressure on him to quit after his but. president cruz is just hanging on to you today so and they're right to say that he actually went where from the peace movement you have to know that two of his previous says. if power they handed over power to hear him in two thousand and five but hume he decided to go on he went on for it and now he's maneuvering changing the constitution to stay on at least twenty thirty four and they were this is all happening at the time they were in negotiations trying to normalize the situation in a room in the for them i think at one extent they are right to say that he's.

actually trying to grab power to say you know freeze until twenty thirty four now we don't want to sound alarmist but a lot of people fear that grew and it could be close to a new civil war are those worries warrant it. yeah by all means that's what everyone is thinking the war started in two thousand and fifteen people who have been killed and wounded there are more than one thousand and maybe around one thousand and three hundred people have been killed so far and just one week as i have just mentioned twenty six people were just in one day so what is that it's a conflict and then you have to know that the international criminal court have opened their investigation in a broom the just to see if president loses are himself and people around him committed crimes so that also puts pressure on president and that makes him

actually want to stay in power because if weaves power he might be prosecuted fragments in effect did have used africa desk reporting on the tense situation in burundi as that country goes to the polls to vote in a controversial referendum thank you fred you're welcome. fears are growing that an al break of ebola in the democratic in the democratic republic of congo could become increasingly difficult to contain amid reports that the highly contagious virus has spread from the countryside to a major urban center around the million people live in the city. and by the latest alberich has already claimed twenty three lives medical teams are trying to get to track down anyone thought to have contact with infected people and are racing now to put an experimental vaccine to use. the first batch

of the ebola vaccine a rise in kinshasa the capital of the democratic republic of congo oath origins are rushing to stop the latest outbreak from spiraling out of control the vaccine itself is still on licensed but the world health organization says it's proved effective in human trials and it's the anything available that might help stop this deadly virus. our first priority with the vaccinations are the health workers and also those who have been in contact with the confirmed cases not just alerts or suspected cases. this is the ninth time it has been recorded in the d.n.c. and many hundreds of congolese have died it was hoped that this latest outbreak could be contained to more rural areas but with the case now confirmed in the city of baton dhaka this concern it will become more difficult to control the hope is that with the arrival of the trial vaccine some protection will be provided for

those most at risk. and i want to bring up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world after the deaths in the march of the world's last mail norden right rhino there is new hope that the species can be saved researchers in san diego have announced that a southern white. is pregnant after artificial insemination is hoped that southern whites can one day service surrogate mothers for new and whites. images have emerged from the iranian city of cancer room where at least one person has died in clashes between protesters and police the violence erupted when protesters set fire to a police station people in cancer room have been protesting against decisions made by local government officials. huge clouds of ash are spewing from hawaii's pull away a volcano after an explosive eruption the wind civil defense agency said the ash

plume would cover the surrounding area some two thousand people have already been evacuated in authorities have urged people to take shelter and avoid driving. it's official u.s. actress megan merkel has confirmed that her father won't be attending her wedding to britain's prince harry if all those reports that thomas marco has undergone heart surgery the couple are due to marry at windsor castle on saturday and as final preparations are underway or no excitement is reaching fever pitch. with camping bed already in place this woman doesn't want to miss a thing and she's not alone among the police and security ardent fans of the british royal family have been descending on the town of windsor outside london for straight. to go really well read. the super is history the very. worst straight road.

crowds gathered in windsor have already had the chance to watch a military rehearsal of saturday's royal event with the pomp and circumstance fit for a prince and princess members of the army navy and air force have been precessing through the town. but while excitement is building ahead of the wedding between prince harry and meghan markle things haven't been so easy for the couple. the american actress has been forced to issue a statement confirming that her father will not be attending her big day because of his health thomas marco was jus to walk his daughter down the aisle but is reported to have undergone heart treatment. despite the difficult circumstances fans of the british royal family are still expecting saturday to be a fairytale wedding.

and speaking of fairy tales football fans turn their attention to the bonus league as a relegation playoff tonight and a chance for a fairy tale ascent into the top tier for a tiny hall stein teel who finished the season third in the second division they have a stadium so small they'll need a major upgrade should they make it to the first division the blue clad hall saying they killed must get passports worth over two legs of this playoff in order to move up the first match which kicks off in just a few minutes and bulls were the second on monday in the. all right joining me to talk about the relegation playoffs is our very own emily our shoots from to use force good to see you so will they make it happen first off let me just emphasize that this would actually be a great story just five years ago they were in the fourth division i was fought their way up to the third if not they're up to the second last season now that could march right through into the highest division of german football i mean that

would just be fantastic and they've actually just had a fantastic season overall this scored seventy one goals more than any other team in their league and their top scorer marvin bush is on fire he scored eighteen alone that's half as much as their opponents more than woods did as a team and what a false wolfsburg this you and me chances of just standing their ground i mean typically the discrepancy between the first in the second in this league is still quite big so they're on the better end of this right now they have the finances on their side as well they spent more than sixty million euros on their squad this season six oh yeah six so they have a lot of young great talent and on the books in the books they should just be the better squad i mean they tied in the first half of the season they tied the likes of my seat even by in munich but in the second half they really just kind of started stopping to play their their great game so the momentum is definitely on kill site now a lot of people aren't happy with the way that this whole valley. the system

operates talk to us about that yeah i mean if you think about it they can kill can play a great fantastic season against sides that are similarly equipped all season long you know they play they put in great performances and then at the end they have to play against a higher ranked team and then they could just not get rewarded after the end of the fantastic season because they have to play a team that has much more money a much higher budget and better players individual players in their squad so compromised to be if you look towards england where they do have playoffs but it's between the second league teams the third fourth fifth sixth team and they battle each other for the third spot to go up which is kind of exciting as well so you think that might actually happen i don't think they're going to. as always thank you so very much and italy's iconic goalkeeper john the easy before says he will play his last match for a club you ventus this weekend but put off retirement to consider offers to play overseas before is a wildly regarded as one of the best goalkeepers of all time and many were expecting

a retirement announcement in turin but the forty year also received exciting offers which have changed his mind about hanging up his gloves. all right you want to do with news we still have a lot more to tell you about including. heartbreak in gaza legally news meets a mother's news teenage daughter was killed when israeli troops opened fire on protesters . and there's no mistaking that music if you heard it for a game of pool or green of thrones fans now it's on tori concerts and our very own account stars will be talking to us about it all right thank you so very much don't forget you can always get the w. news on the go just download our out from google player from the apple store and that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as

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european union in brussels where you have twenty eight different realities and so i think people are really looking for any journalist they can trust for them to make sense of. in the back of my work at the w. . hotel be back with us you're watching the t.v. news out lay lahore rockridge here is army headline this hour european union leaders look likely to ban e.u. companies from complying with american sanctions against iran the move is part of the e.u.'s attempt to salvage the iran nuclear deal after the united states holdouts. all right there we shift our focus now to lebanon on the l g b t community has been dealt a heavy blow after authorities suspended

a pride in the capital beirut it comes as a somewhat of a surprise among arab nations lebanon stands out as being relatively gay friendly and that's a fact being highlighted. a new campaign promoting acceptance or social media editor for that. here want to talk about the campaign in just a moment but first off why was beirut pride counseled this year. gay pride actually began saturday was due to continue for the next nine days but monday night its organizer was arrested by the security services and he was forced to sign a document pledging to call off all the remaining events in other countries interior ministry has not yet released a statement and given he reasons as you mentioned lebanon lebanon has a reputation for being tolerant or more tolerant than other countries in the region and last year as you might remember they actually held

a gay pride and is the first the first arab country to to do so but in spite of that the community says they're still they're still being discriminated and harassed often by police and there is an article in lebanese law that still condemns what they what they call unnatural sexual behaviors or intercourse so there's still a lot of work that needs to be done in lebanon but in the in the meantime there's this campaign that's been launched just back and it's very interesting it was launched by a group called hélène lebanon it's a grassroots group that campaigns for greater social and legal acceptance of the community in the country and what they did they used actors and staged a homophobic situation in a beirut district and that was to see how everyday people would react and it was a way to encourage people to not to be passive and to stand up for other people's rights and they filmed the whole thing and they posted it to facebook so we can

take a look at that video. there it is you can see there's two women there holding hands as they went down the street and then they sit down at a cafe and they began being harassed. by a man now you have to remember these are actors and the two women in the man are actors and what happens in these things these creating the scene to see how people around them would react and what happens then is that a woman who's just a passer by an ordinary woman intervenes and she tries to send the harasser away and you know he just tells them to no stop her i think the women and if we continued watching the video we would see that many more people have actually also come up to to defend it from going and. it's really interesting how if people in general reacted to that video overwhelmingly positive and we spoke to the campaigns organizer who's called a dozen own to talk and he gave us his his view on it on this reaction and this is what he had to say. look people.

get it if you see. some people who defend us we get it back in the streets because we keep in constant fear of. its or aggression. in the same. expose that if you send a message. no you're saying in this don't just with this in just be sort of the above. so that was joseph own from the lebanon organization one of the many n.g.o.s that are working on the ground to try and make lebanon and freer somewhat safer space for a deal to be community and they are being successful in many ways i think of roger thank you so much as always. we're going to stay in the middle east the israeli military says it has carried out overnight air strikes in gaza in response to

machine gunfire from the area all this as tensions continue to run high after more than sixty palestinians were killed by israeli gunfire at the gaza border earlier this week several miners were among the casualties and cramer spoke to one family in gaza now mourning the death of their teenage daughter. a picture on a phone is all that is left fourteen year old west was killed on monday during the protests here and the al grace refugee camp a mother and sister struggle to cope with their loss. and the manner. prevented her from going i had locked the door the key and told her i didn't want her to go out that day she said i've been waiting so long for this day please let me go she kept crying. so i let her go. sometime after eleven i got the news that she was to make or bless her soul.

wessel was with other protesters not far from the border fence when she was shot in the head her mother says she couldn't stop a youngest daughter from going to the protests. was one of the fifty eight killed on monday by israeli sniper fire. the protests have calmed for now the fence has become a symbol of the tight restrictions on movement of people and goods that israel and egypt have imposed for a decade. terek has spent most days near the frontier the seventeen year old doesn't hide the slingshot he uses to launch stones over the fence he says he has no fear. i want my rights if there would only be work for the young people but there is no work. if there were work i would have gotten married yesterday but there is no money no will like tricity no water nothing the

blockade is suffocating us. at gaza city its biggest hospital rooms are crowded with injured patients from the protests nurses and doctors are working around the clock the already stretched health sector has reached its limits once again. to my g.'s it's busy treating a patient with a gunshot wound to his leg some of the injuries a so severe that the limbs have to be amputated. all of these patients will need long term treatment maybe a year or more they need different surgeries plastic surgery orthopedic surgery so a lot of things are waiting for them i'm back at the end of the. it's unclear whether the protests will continue people in gaza wonder if they'll actually bring change at the very least they drew the world's attention to gaza's misery for

a few days. and on a related note a leading german newspaper has apologized for publishing a controversial caricature of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu the torch it cites on has fired the cartoonist who drew the image which critics say is anti semitic the cartoon depicted a prime minister netanyahu as the euro vision song contest winner nets out with exaggerated ears and nose imagery anti semites often used to stereotype jewish people a cartoon prompted protests from israel a cartoonist denies an anti semitic intends but editors at the paper say it was a mistake to publish the cartoon. all right with me now in the studio is. she is vice director of the house of the sun's a conference and anti semitism expert a very good evening. there has been

a rave of criticism regarding the publication of this occur to many people believe a red line was crossed here can you explain well if you look at the physical aspect of natanya in this kind it reading really remembers the racist not see a newspaper the shoma with the exaggerated nose with exaggerated ears and lips and the star of david within the title your vision reminds of the conspiracy that the world judaism is dominating the whole world and there are several more aspects that we can be identified as anti-semitic now there. is a major major newspaper here in germany they reacted swiftly they fired their cartoonist was that the right course of action in your opinion well if it was that it was just one right action because it wasn't the first anti-semitic caricature in

this you touch it's not only has been some in the past and i think it would make sense that the newspaper as a whole should reflect possible anti-semitic. not edit units but you know aspects that are within the paper now the cartoonist in question is that refusing to apologize and i'm quoting now he told a german news organization r. and d. that i do not regret the cartoon i do not feel guilt he does regret that he doesn't have the opportunity to explain what was behind it. what i wonder is that because of germany's very very painful history when is it possible. to express anti israel criticism and when does it cross the line and become anti semitism i think it is possible and in some cases it's also necessary to criticize israeli politics

and it's possible as long as you criticize it like you criticize politics from other governments and the moment when you use images that have or reflect or or transformed anti-semitic images then it's a problem then it's not possible if or if for example you don't talk about anymore the israeli government and start talking about the juice and things like this there small aspects how you can recognize that criticism is not any more regular criticism but anti-semitic now of course there is a sense especially in recent months that there is a rise in anti use semitism of course we had that case of two young arabs are wearing a kippah that have been attacked do you share their concern is there a rise of anti-semitism in germany well i share the concerns what but what i think is problematic that right now the discussion on anti-semitism is focusing much too much on the muslim society and there is little reflection on anti-semitism within

the white german society and i think that is also a problem so if we talk about anti-semitism and it's not the numbers rising but people have less fear to say out loud their anti-semitic stereotypes if you feel that the taboo now who is living as much as they want it has gone and so i think yes i absolutely concerned but as i said we have to think about our own white german anti-semitism to the right. vice director of the house of the monday conference and anti-semitism expert thank you for weighing in i think you should thank you. and i would like to hand you over now to helen that will be taking a look at the changing face of south africa's capital they thank you. very much now john has bags in a city has changed a great deal since the end of apartheid going from a shopping district aimed at white clientele to a buzzing african trading hub hundreds of millions of euros worth of goods is sold

here every year by thousands of traders but he seemed to have noticed because this cash economy operate under the radar of all forty. over three thousand stalls run mostly by immigrants make this market complex in downtown johannesburg a lucrative pan-african trading hub. shoppers come from all over the continent to find good deals. i go for and when i come here to buy the gin. there is in my with a genius but he is a bit expensive the it is cheap and that's why we had a buy the gin. selling mostly chinese fashions out of the cupboard size shops an estimated seven hundred million euros in revenue is made here every year that's twice as much as in africa's largest shopping mall. but shop owners like sickly mchale are facing many challenges she arrived from ethiopia ten years ago and sells

clothing and bags. saif now. business used to be good because of the many customers coming from zimbabwe mozambique and other places now what is it now because of police raids and other criminal activities as our business is getting more quiet as if. at least once a week the shops are barricaded as police officers arrive to search for counterfeit goods and to weed out illegal immigrants or so they say. the biggest threat in this area is police cross with police confiscated goods from people and take those goods for resale to other people for the down the road this is a massive problem in the study forty percent shop people said that they were making that they had to bribe the police officers. the traders feel victimized by the

often brutal police action against them and they retaliate the situation regularly escalates into open street battles and manhunts shoppers and traders flee making any economic activity impossible for the rest of the day it's up to him is because not true a lot of the potential of the space as the divide of africa their approach is law enforcement it is not a development they have not provided to the infrastructure that is required to make this a shocking hope that it could be. on average cross border shoppers spend twelve hundred euros per shopping trip to johannesburg their goods are carried home in bags and in suitcases on board buses departing from backyard terminals fallon's of them arrive every day but they may stop coming if infrastructure doesn't improve and security remains fragile. now where would we be without they pollinate seventy of around a hundred cops that feed ninety percent of the world which is why this next piece

of news is good for all of us and e.u. cautious up held a ban on three kinds of insecticides which are thought to home base environmental groups are abuzz about the decision but the chemicals are made by some of the world's largest pharma companies and they're not happy. it's a good day to be at the in the european union from now on they'll be spared the threat of death from three types of chemicals known as nean nicotine oids. so nearly got the notes are some of the most toxic insect the cells that have ever been produced plan put into the market. very rare moment into their environment so we can use them one day and then for months they're going to be there they're water soluble so we cannot control where they go unsurprisingly the companies that make the insecticides don't agree they include pharmaceutical giants buyer to key to chemicals and syngenta they cues the european food and safety agency of using

excessively high doses in the bar tree tests but the court maintained that the original ban on the three new nicotine oids dating back to twenty thirteen should be upheld as a precautionary measure is enables authorities to take action to protect human health and the environment even in the case of scientific uncertainty. bees play a vital role in crop pollination but in recent years their numbers have dwindled dramatically something being blamed on the in the katyn oids. the losses have been so bad that the alarm has been raised over the potential impact on food supplies the matter isn't necessarily settled yet though companies have two months to decide whether to lodge an appeal if they do so it will be up to the e.u.'s highest court to decide whether the ban is to be or not to be. sometimes will businesses have to overcome unusual hurdles on their way to success and one restaurant in the

australian city of perth developed a novel solution to stop his business going to the birds quite literally waterfront dynas at a restaurant in perth were tired of being harassed by swooping seagulls the owner of the restaurant has now given his customers quarter pistols to keep the birds at bay the seagulls gather to scavenge the leftovers or wait for passions to throw them a bite now it seems the water pistols are not only a tool to keep diners on molested they are also attracting customers. many of you would recognize that cheering and yes die hard fans would know that's the main theme scored to game of thrones think it it's really a series that's been described as t.v.'s first global blockbuster at the moment

fantasy spectacle it's taken to the stage for the game of thrones concert experience and our very own karen house that from the every culture is here to tell us more this is a match made in marketing have yes you could call it that most definitely i mean the eighth and final season is in the works filming now but it doesn't air of course until next year so the fans are hungry and of course real diehard fans are going to take whatever they can get to stay close to the story as you can imagine addiction is pretty strong so listening to live renditions of some of the of some of the scores most epic soundtrack moments you know and all the while watching nice film tons of your favorite heroines and hair and heroes that is about as good as it gets which is why this idea of the composer. is to make it into a live concert experience is really nothing less than a stroke of genius so it took several years to put a show together of this magnitude it's certainly very often lent and it's currently

in europe and we caught the show this week in berlin. the concerts are conducted by the series german iranian composer. hello everyone i'm romaine job but every. job that he brings the music from the series to the stage together with an eighty piece orchestra acquired a number a soloist the concert is accompanied by special effects and scenes from the fantasy epic the orchestra plays pieces from the seven seasons that have been a. game of thrones is set in the fictional seven kingdoms of west or zero sum the continent of essence here various families and peoples are vying to ascend the iron throne there's plenty of intrigue plot twists and complex characters who develop over the

course of the seasons and the music is key in helping to define the characters the music for a job but his music is so special because it reflects the entire range covered in the world of game of thrones and of it from game of thrones we have different climate zones different regions we have the southern elements of the region around as so sore how stark arion and on the other hand we have these celtic elements when the action moves to how stark the cage or when we go to the wall how stock it open vandy maughan. the different peoples have special instruments for instance the didgeridoo is used for the free fall or wild blanks from the north. and the armenian to joke in ancient what wind instrument stands for the no magic death rocky. who has never watched game of thrones because in. naturally hardly anyone here

this concert tour is all about getting to experience running java he and his game of thrones music lives in berlin some ten thousand people came to see the show the composer and his ensemble are touring europe until mid june then it's off to north america before. so apparently their tickets are pretty pricey leyla but apparently according to those they say it's worth every penny it's worth every penny oh helps that i go you know to tide over that whole period when they before the next season talk to us a little bit about the composer ok so how means of a he's. you've probably heard a number of other films where he's done the music because this guy is really in business so he did for instance he's behind the scores of pirates of the caribbean also as good as it gets clash of the titans or even that very popular series t.v. series west world and he's forty three born in germany and started making music when he was about four years old and very early on he was inspired by western films

and then later on by john williams star wars score and he decided ok he thinks that this is what he wants to be doing it's composing instrumental music so he moved to the u.s. any went to boston and studied at berklee college of music and it was on a chance connection after graduation from there the chance of a lifetime that he was basically funneled into a job at simmons company. play oscar winning lotto are lucky all the others were alive so he learned from the best and he has literally never looked back he's never a little rock and it's interesting that this music is not typical what we usually hear in these type of films exactly like it's interesting because obviously the set as we saw is very much the medieval realism going on but they made a very conscious choice not to go that route in fact when he had his first meeting with the producers of game of thrones they said literally no food you know we want to stay away from this kind of stereotypical typical celtic kind of thing. so it's

very multifaceted music and as we heard i mean definitely there are themes that have developed over the years the themes for each character and they and they are always expanding so this music is constantly expanding and yet it is so very striking so it's it's you know that main title theme was an instant hit and has been copied numerous times including for the u.s. t.v. series the simpsons maybe we can have a look at the pictures here. but. there it is and we do see the family come out of their homes but here. along with risk. it all in a medieval get out. there also been numerous cover versions and parody produced and posted on social media including this one for instance for the classic video games super mariel brothers. you know even the odd homemade country western style video using that main theme song so it's really something that has had quite an

impact on popular culture and a lot of fun and the other thing of course that might have helped is you know they've been filmed in so many different locations around the world amazing locations in countries like croatia notably malta spain and and a lot in northern ireland to the point that obviously it's made an incredible difference in tourism revenues as fans flocked to these places to sort of get a taste of them but social media has also played a huge role and apparently game of thrones is one of the most pirated series on the planet so you know when it's out there people are going to find it. if they think they can't get it in a legal way we can have a quick look at the trailer for season eight because of course that's what everyone is waiting impatiently for and in this one we will be headed back to northern ireland and in keeping with the very lavish style of the show it apparently contains one of the biggest and most expensive battles ever to be filmed for television the night of dragon.

musical. bringing that drama to an epic closure is just such a samenow piece of pop culture is just amazing round the. this is so very much greatly appreciated outside the moroccan berlin on behalf of all of us thank you so much for spending part of your day with us brenda face off next hour see you tomorrow.

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