this is a deluge lie from the macro and micro talk a you reform in the shadow of the migration crisis the leaders of france and germany call for unified european response but is emmanuel mccraw support enough to help on the macro at home she's under intense pressure within her coalition to find a solution to the refugee crisis by the end of the month also on the program record

numbers of people voting for their lives the un your refugee agency estimates sixty nine million people around the world are not displaced forced from their homes by war violence and persecution. children in cages the new reality of america's zero tolerance immigration policy outrage drops us president trump defends tearing families apart. and upsets the world cup in russia senegal put on the placing display against poland show you how that's turned out to us the rest of the day's action. on the brain are involved gary an artist christo unleashes his latest large scale sculpture of the british capital we'll ask our culture critic critic it's floating down the most votes just scraping about.

i'm still gail welcome to the program. germany's chancellor is sticking to her position on insisting on a unified european response to migration and women french president emmanuel mark cabinets met today to discuss euro zone before and solutions to europe's migration crisis chancellor merkel said europe should stand up for its democratic principles and call for greater e.u. solidarity in monitoring migration the first in that as any good we see this as a common challenge of you know one in which we have to look at how we can combat the causes of migration. so this means working for peace in conflict region such as syria also ukraine with a mental process but it also means development cooperation for the countries of africa and we are in favor of having a coordinated approach a european approach would be the best option but this seems to be quite difficult

this is why we can look at cooperating with individual countries a more remains a european response to the challenges facing us here. have also was only to. both countries happened at mays a book just outside berlin a simon young is a vet barbara vine is also joins us from brussels welcome both simon let's start with you chancellor merkel needs results on migration did she get any closer to work today. well maybe she inched forward a little bit phil of course it's helpful to her to have positive words and that's what she got from emmanuelle the french german relationship of course one of the key ones at the heart of the european union if these two countries don't agree then there's little hope of a european wide solution on any issue including migration but that's what these two leaders here today said that they want talking about beefing up europe's external borders with more money and funds and more effective next for frontex the european

border agency working more for instance with african countries to promote development to help them stand the causes of migration and so on and talking also about you know introducing these common asylum rules across the e.u. where all these phrases frankly we've heard them before and there wasn't really any indication today of how france and germany are going to go and persuade other countries to find a common solution and certainly not within the next couple of weeks which of course is when anglo american facing a crisis in but in berlin needs some results especially on the point with the vessel in brussels did you hear anything in today's the speeches from the president on the chancellor anything there that they can sell to the e.u. . not particularly in those speeches with regard to the refugee crisis because simon said all of these good words let's protect our borders better and so on and

so far as we've heard in the times before but if you look at the preparatory papers for this next summit there is something interesting there because obviously the e.u. now wants to push forward a solution that has been talked about for fifteen years in europe and all the sort of sore on to the side as unmanageable it talks about the preparations for the summit they talk about creating refugee centers in and also africa in countries outside of the e.u. or european union and particularly italy will jubilant the new right wing government there if they hear that proposal because it would mean that if they close their harbors for refugee boats they can do so and can just say oh you know why don't you straight go back straight to libya or whatever you came from and to me show so on and do you would be put in a camp there and they will look at your asylum rights and they will take care of you and so that seems to be the way the european union wants to go and that i think

it could be something that there would be great majority for very quickly. the other big topic of a discussed in the press conference afterwards was the eurozone the budget of baba faisal anything solid that. that is still relatively vague of course it's clear that berlin had to make some concessions to krung who wanted much more want to reformat off the eurozone and he's just going to get some steps but we have to take what's on the table and i'm going to market did speak about the eurozone budget something that. quite a while ago a little while ago in the end so now it seems that some money will be put into that some investment will be fostered for the european countries that economic economically weaker so there is some movement there but the two will have to do some convincing to do it during the summit because countries like france the netherlands are absolutely opposed to those ideas so they have they have pulled

together the little bit forwards but they're not there they're not at their common goal final brief word from you simon france and germany have a history of being the motor drive in europe but the merkel partnership is still largely untested. well yeah and you know when these meetings happen there's always a good atmosphere you know some people talk about mera crawl or m.n.a. may even as a kind of idea that these two leaders are totally in tandem i think right now merkel facing pressure from within their own party in berlin could really use even more support from the french leader the french leader of his own party's got a huge program of reforms that he'd like to put through across europe it's not just about monetary union strengthening the you're also about defense cooperation they

were talking about today where the two leaders have got some announcements so there's a lot of things that my crew would like to do and he needs mayor call for that if she wore balls then his plans may also fall so many young and mr burke bob are available in brussels talking about. now record numbers of people around the world are on the move the latest report from the un refugee agency says war and conflict have led to the largest increase in the number of refugees and displaced people since it started compiling the figures in one thousand nine hundred fifty one according to the report the number of refugees around the world is now sixty eight point five million that's up three million since twenty sixty roughly two thirds of those come from just five countries syria afghanistan south sudan somalia and me and most the u.n.h.c.r. says resolving any one of those regional conflicts would have a major impact on the global refugee crisis charlie yaxley speaks for the u.n.

h.c.r. i asked him what action the un is calling for. well this is a dire milestone that we haven't we've reached for the just for the fifth year in a row and you've wrecked chord. with the highest number of people displaced in any time since world war two and behind these figures we have to remember individual men women and children who through no fault of their own have been forced to leave everything they know behind last year people were forced to flee their homes a ray of. every two seconds and that's good creates to around forty four thousand four hundred people per day and the vast majority of those more than eighty five percent of being hosted in developing countries so what's needed now is for the international community to come together for there to be greater solidarity with the global south and for a greater share of responsibility to be taken so you talk about the international

community coming together your own parent organization the united nations was founded to resolve these conflicts why is it failing. well what we're seeing is war and violence taking place and it's displacing people faster rate than solutions are being found those solutions can include resettlement but really what we need is for an end to the violence we need to address the root causes of what's making people flee their homes and that involves those in the international community who have influence over warring parties it's key that influence is used to bring the warring parties to the table in dialogue and bring an end to the bloodshed i don't know got away you're going to have any but i just don't want to make your point very early ninety nations is there is that for them to do that so why is it failing to do it and why is it failing to move quickly

enough on these issues of these conflicts of political in nature and their solution is also political and that can be the only solution at the moment we continue to have military escalations in many parts of the world but really it's only through peacemaking and peacebuilding can the refugee issue be addressed and this peacemaking efforts have been in short supply in recent years so your u.n. high commissioner he says that the overall number of refugees is not unmanageable that was not unmanageable for rich countries but don't the facts on the ground tell a different story germany italy france all having problems not just coping with the processing applications but also managing integration. what this is a remains a question of political will last year at the un general assembly states came

together and agreed to develop the global compact on refugees and what this deal which remains in the pipeline involves is establishing a new and comprehensive approach to managing the refugee crisis that not only supports refugees but also supports host communities as well and when you give refugees the chance to integrate and the chance to make social and economic contributions to the new society we see a much more peaceful harmonious existence in currently as it stands countries are bearing it this proportion of responsibility for receiving new arrivals there needs to be of fairer and more equitable distribution of refugees which are the yaxley from the u.n.h.c.r. thank you. migration policies also dividing the united states president trump was elected on a promise to take action against illegal immigrants now he's having to defend his

administration's border protection policy in the face of growing outrage over the forced separation of migrant children from their parents he's called for tough action against illegal immigration and declared that the u.s. would not be a migrant camp the number of children separated from their parents has risen sharply since may leaving too many children being in sealed camps with little or no contact with their families. they are images which has shocked the world children detained in cages separated from their parents this is the trumpet ministry sions zero tolerance policy in action opponents have likened the practice to torture the american academy of pediatrics has warned of quote irreparable harm one critic says the policy has been poorly planned many parents have no contact with their children well the government is saying there's a hotline that you can call and find out where your child is our understanding is

the hotline isn't anything about hot it's not working it's in english people don't know how to access it when they call nobody's answering so there's really been no thought put into this new initiative about how to ensure that a very bare minimum at least a parent's aware of where their child is and they're allowed to communicate. despite bipartisan calls for an end to the policy the trump administration is not backing down the justice department says they are simply enforcing the law a law which they blame congress for enacting we do not want to separate parents from their children you can be sure of their if we build a wall we pass legislation we close the loopholes we will face these terrible choices the numbers will in. president donald trump has accused the democrats of refusing to come to the negotiating table to draft new laws yet at the zero tolerance policy that's forcing the separation of families was introduced under his

own republican administration. as each side blames the other the children in these detention centers are forced to cope with a new reality it could be months before they're reunited with their parents. meanwhile an old you know recording has emerged of what are said to be even cries a spanish speaking children being processed by u.s. u.s. immigration officials at one of those centers it's adding to the growing outrage of the trumpet ministrations of policy fredricka budget from days of loose social media to ask us well welcome federica let's let's start with this tape and it's caused quite a stir it has and it is quite disturbing it's nearly eight minute long audio clip reportedly leaked from inside a u.s. border protection detention facility investigative news outlets propound the guy has attained it and published it on monday and we're going to play

a small part of that recording and it does make for a difficult listening. so according to propose we're hearing here a group of children desperately begging for their parents they're believed to be aged between four and ten years old and they were reportedly just separated from their families at the beginning we could also hear a male a voice whispered public identified as

a border patrol agent who appears to be teasing the children saying they sounded like a crying arcus truck that has of course a cause of quite a few raised eyebrows. because. the clip from from a u.s. civil rights attorney jennifer harbury and she in her turn received it from a client inside the facility the whistleblower says they want to remain anonymous for fears of retaliation and. hasn't independently verified the audio so obviously well this terms of these phrases zero tolerance policy has been drawing condemnation from all sides as we've seen but this does seem to be taking the outrage to another level and many have been saying they'd be where they argue made them cry or they were barely able to to listen to it we have a tweet here from a democrat the senator tina smith she tweeted listen to these kids listen to the

sounds of their sobs and you will know why congress must act we must keep family. together yesterday the idea was also brought up at a press briefing by homeland security secretary kissinger and she said she hadn't heard the audio and she defended the conditions and standards of care in those facilities and there were there was pressure inside the room to play that audio and finally a reporter did play it from the back of the room and later she took to twitter and said she had to do it as officials failed to adequately and truthfully answer questions about the policy. some have questioned us and does a day of the suggesting for harbury the attorney who first got it and gave it to propose she might have had an agenda sharing this as she's been she's been defending the rights of immigrants for a long time what a mistake

a bull is that that was on that audiotape is the sound of highly distressed and frightened children for the budget. i was take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world flash floods in abidjan they've got a couple of ivory coast have left at least eighteen people dead and displaced hundreds more tourists to wrench already a washed away of homes while sinkholes formed on some roads causing chaos variance are expected to persist for several more days. the body admired to scale the power as apartment block to save a child has been hailed by a modest president abraham abraham who become. khaitan be congratulated mamadou sama especially in the mali and capital. was granted french presidency after his heroic act last month. it's of his new far right interior minister my tired self really says he will not back down from

a controversial proposal to conduct a census of his country's roma community the proposal has been sharply criticized with the current deputy premier and leader of the populist five star movement describing it as unconstitutional. business news without a shot now and reactions are the u.s. threat to impose tariffs on china is a local ng on phil thank you so much global stock indexes are forming as investors for e once again about the threat of a u.s. china trade war germany stocks is a moment of european jews there is down one point six percent a similar story in the u.s. the dallas stumbled by a similar amount earlier in tuesday's session it's six day of losses in a row the biggest dick was in shanghai the benchmark they are dropping three point eight percent big exporters in industrials and tack are bearing the brunt of the negative price action. meanwhile china accuses u.s.

president all tromped of flak mail and says it will again retaliate for the latest set of tariffs threatened by washington countering china's retaliation on the. first of all the fewest terrorists tropp is now targeting an additional two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese imports ten percent eleven brings the total amount of tariff strength to slap on chinese imports up to four hundred fifty billion u.s. dollars. shoppers in china might not be interested in every twist and turn of the trade dispute between their country and the united states but the tit for top spot could soon become apparent in their grocery bills these aren't jets imported from the us are among hundreds of goods beijing has bagged attacks in response to a fresh set of terrorist threats from washington. the move makes good on china's pledge to retaliate up to the united states imposed an initial set of tariffs on fifty billion dollars worth of chinese goods. but if you needed further proof that

china is no longer adopting a conciliatory tone in response to donald trump take a listen to this. from von maur you don't find china does not want to fight a trade war but it's not scared of one. you will continue to take effective steps to resolutely defend the country's interests of the people and to defend globalization and the multilateral trading regime. that defiance stance has also been reflected in the attitudes of some residents in hong kong. i don't think can win this trade war china is china has a really big economy they have other people who they trade with although u.s. might be one of the. largest countries that they do trade with most of their exports may go there boy. the u.s.

is also going to suffer from this maybe just as much or even more than china is suffering on both sides that is appears to be the. most likely outcome as the battle over tyrants threatens to explode into a full blown trade war. no fears about the facts of tit for tat terrorists are weighing on the german economy the munich based research group has don't graded its growth forecast for this year from two point six to one point eight percent this follows similar readjustments by other bodies including the german government other sources of concern include a shortage of skilled workers and italy's debt crisis i call the committee because jim was asked if president clinton's fused how the german economy is handling all these challenges. of the german economy is relatively solid this is mostly because the domestic economy is study the wages are growing and bond is growing so

consumption is strong and the construction sector is expanding so the do with domestic economies supporting growth but the export sector is a risk here. after yesterday's shock arrest of its c.e.o. crew perched all of the german luxury carmaker audi has announced the temporary replacement from short will take over watched all remains in custody under investigation for fraud shot he's a member of our days board of directors where he served as a had a marketing and sales to shake up started to run prosecutors arrested stalin are concerned he was attempting to influence witnesses in the criminal investigation into the diesel and missions scandal. now starved or has been employed by v.w. since the early ninety's onto the steering wheel at eleven years ago what sticks back from the c.e.o. at that's what we asked barres out the front for stock exchange the reason for. he

was perhaps the only man in the only board at the moment to seem suitable for the job to the people at the very top in the supervisory board especially the trade unions in lower saxony in the family's porsche and read a description of him he seems an empathetic man that is a people person listening to people and at the same time self-confident but not seeking the limelight those aren't the worst kind of qualities for a c.e.o. some would say unusual qualities of listening and not seeking the limelight but we'll see how it turns out he will probably be in that role until it's the cited that rupert stubler is out or he returns c o after perhaps the judiciary decides that he has one thing going for a member i'm sure he's only been with o.t. since last september so any wrongdoing that goes back years he would have nothing to do with it it's

a huge fine for apple and australian courts is fined apple six point seven million u.s. dollars for making false claims about consumer rights several hundred customers to the american tech giant after apple refused to p.r. their i phones apple claims to customers had their phones repaired by third party store business violating the warranty but the court ruled out will cannot force customers to use this repair service. founder evil must has warned staf that a former colleague a time to to sabotage the company in an e-mail the saudi unnamed an employee you conducted extensive and damaging sabotage reprogramming and factoring facilities and leaking leaking trade secrets is just the latest in a line of problems dogging the immobility pioneer a stuff that tends to expand production of a new model three. and that's what they from the business desk now more rolling

news with phil they found a. chinese president xi jinping has asked north korea's media kim jong un to follow through on the peace and stability program agreed at last week's summit meeting between camp and u.s. president donald trump president j. promised him support for economic reconstruction in north korea on spawn young ends its nuclear weapons program the north korean leader is on a two day visit to china isolated countries most important allies. this is d.w. news life from balad still to come sunday go face to poland the world cup in russia on with the latest team to show that football's premier tournament is always good for a surprise. it's made of seventy thousand five hundred boiled bottles of wine a six hundred and fifty tons will have more on christopher's lacey's to creation and the meaning behind. the world all will have felt all the rope world junior

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a learning course. german made easy. you accidentally shared some music. truth. spending time to tell. how he would get it out. with him k l n series. this week on t.w. . this is d w news live from dan and i'm phil gallo our top stories at this hour germany's chancellor has been tell you her insistence on the need for a unified european proposals to migration and calls for greater in you solidarity on the issues that matter has been missing but if the french president emanuel macross to hammer out a huge reforms they also proposed a eurozone budget. here and says

a record number of people around the world are on the move in his latest report they hear your name see us as the number of refugees around the world is now sixty eight and a half million up by three million since twenty sixty. well cup updates a time which means it's time for chris harrison from my days of welcome thank you let's start with senegal beating poland to bomb was unexpected. that's a tough call it was really about which striker would do the best because this was byron munich's robert leventhal skeet cellar striker for poland up against liverpool may and this was a first matchup between the two it wasn't the most exciting match but synagog did you know come out on top and if we have some video we can take a look at it sunday typically scores goals aside he assisted term provider for you disregard a who needed the first goal shortly before the half but this one turned out to be

only go for the polish to. finnerty i go show nick who's deflection helped the ball into the net senegal second came after a terrible back pass and it just beat everyone to the punch he had no one to be but air basically you know poland could only manage a late consolation goal through jagers creed hole vs goal with a header or in a minute check that out but i was in the match you know paula look really dejected confused they were very upset they felt that you know since the senegalese are being too physical with the rubber they would also see a lot of jersey pully things of this nature but one thing poland is known for is bad defense then but in a world cup since two thousand and six and sinegal only their second world cup their first when they shocked everyone in two thousand and two and actually beat france reach the quarterfinals so they are about business when they are on the world cup pitch they made it to the world cup thanks to a playoff because there was a match fixing in south africa so they made it and they were about business they

were too much for poland very aerial fast in executed well another deserving well done said he will now be a much a japan beat colombia two one two one seems to be a running theme rather than their first victory over the south american side of the world cup this was a shocker you know how miss rodriguez and company easy all time goals scored in the world cup finals for colombia he didn't start and the game started off kind of badly they had a man short very early in the match five minutes didn't even go by before carlos sanchez got the first world cup the red card in the world cup there it is you see that being flashing that set up shinji kagawa from brucia dortmund point blank no doubt about it he converted that goal and sure is the end that even with the man down columbia was able to equalize thinks it can taro with the clever free kick but second half it was just too much i mean it's hard to compete when you have a man down how did found osaka who had it in japan's second goal and distrait just

think about this particular match up four years ago. colombia in japan were in the same group in colombia had no problem dominating japan not a team no with big superstars teamwork is what gets them through their best world cup as when they host it typically happens but you know this time they really took advantage of having one man down for colombia. to unexpected results out how do you see a group h. and you know that's a tough call because you know cliff the two losers were picked to advance to the knockout you know colombia and poland the next match is japan versus senegal and they are currently tied in the group right now and just watching senegal play how fast they were you know they could be defenders of the ball they can you know really find open space easily and they had a nice aerial game they were using a lot of headers just to jump over and beyond the polish defenders i think we'll see a lot of that against japan so i think senegal might repeat the history from two thousand and two i mean they look the best right now you know the other match poland in colombia you know this might be too late to motivate for both depending upon that

earlier was all but senegal look the best in my opinion right now we like an underdog seven go well i money's on you the press has spoken crossfire and i did pick them today to win after that neither of us bowled billions of people around the world are expected to watch at least one of the world cup matches in russia for some it's not just about the spectacle of national pride the beauty of full game is also bringing rest five to one refugee camp in northern syria after seven years of civil war civil war. final preparations for an evening of world cup action a syrian charity is providing residents of the an isa refugee camp in northern syria with a brief respite from the harsh reality of life. they've been displaced because of the country's seven year war. it's a great initiative to allow people get away from the confined documents fear of the tents to have fun and watch world cup games there are

a lot of sports fans here. during the stifling heat of the day the games are shown inside for many it's the first time in several years they've been freely able to watch soccer matches or even play the game it's an activity many of the refugee camps residents have taken up again under the control of the so-called islamic state their love of the beautiful game could lead to jail. this year we have the chance to watch the world cup last year we were in areas controlled by us militants on television sports and communications were prohibited syria's national team failed to qualify for the world cup but for many it's not about who wins it's the taking part that counts. four months after they were kidnapped by boko haram and then released one hundred schoolgirls from the village of duchy in northern nigeria

a struggling to resume their lives they were lucky the islamist terrorists still hold scores of young women captured from four years ago. krishna's began to talk with the kidnap victims. fatima's friends listen in horror as the two students recount the worst days of their lives they were among one hundred schoolgirls kidnapped by the terrorist group boko haram in mid february . similar to nine of us try to run away. we were in the bush for a whole day. when the only way that some point we met a few women in a village when we told them so i guess is what they also swear we wanted to go and we said back to our parents please help us you know. his and i was i was but they just lost to us. they were the wives of the boko haram fighters he is

a common. the women told the fighters and the girls were rounded up again the girls say they were caned by their kidnappers the nigerian government managed to negotiate their freedom the school where they were kidnapped to since reopened and martha says she had no desire to return but her parents convinced her. to want to go to a new one my father said why did i spend so much money on your education if you just throw it all away with it and that will tell you this wasted all these yes. think about your future and how much we're helping you. he he wasn't getting as well so i decided to go back to school he. he let it go to. the. soldiers stand guard outside the school in-depth now and checkpoints have been set up. not all students have the same courage like fatima to go back to school and

even openly talk about it before the attack more than nine hundred students attended the girls' school now only one third continued many prefer to stay at home because they have freight. that zuma is too scared to go back to school she remembers bowker her arms threats. i won't go to school the boko haram fighters told us if we did they kidnap pos again and whatever happens after that is your fault i don't want to be in this school if i continue my education then i'll go to a different school. in fact zuma has been staying with her uncle's family since her father died they don't have enough money to send her to another school and they're disappointed with the government. did we ask them to put up a camera so we could see them coming and to install the barbed wire and the school

wall to make it more secure. but they refused. but there are a few of. the regional education ministry insists that it can guarantee the safety of the school girls still this. these insurgents have been fighting against education. for the parents not to send the girls to school means they have given in to the terrorists they. are calling on them not to give it ignorance should not prevail and education is the best thing for the girls that. will move. one step she parent has angry words for the authorities his daughter layer has not been freed. really is this we were good at least expressed sympathy for those that were released tell us what they're doing to get

our daughters back. but there is absolutely nothing is just not good enough. larry is a christian and refuses to abandon her religion many christians in nigeria see this as a heroic stance she's the only student who hasn't been freed from captivity. she believe is earth proud to be her personally lord and savior does. she hold strongly. she said she will never. denounce the use of christ what their wife should be because. that. and more than happy to. hope their last year in school passes quickly as possible then they'd like to get away from that cheat to continue their studies somewhere else. or business with

a fine for shock and looming economic uncertainty this time in turkey a lot is at stake fell for the turkish president. after sixteen years he is seeking reelection this week and many see him as the man who put the economy on the global map but times have changed the turkish lira has been tumbling for months and foreign investment is declining certainty is also prompting german businesses to pack their backs. fresh fruit and vegetables are the bedrock of maurits far vine's business four years ago the german entrepreneur started a small company in istanbul he made juice that he sold from a small shop but a year ago he had to close that shop down and many of his customers were foreigners who had left the country after the attempted coup you know sells mostly to hotels this is this is carrots apples and pepper. he and his american partner built a business up together but now they are looking to leave turkey there's more

driving their decision than a longing for home. life here has changed. and is free and open or as relaxed as it used to be. i think the main reason is that so many people are under pressure because of the economic situation. the turkish economy has kept growing since the coup thanks largely to government spending but the turkish currency the lira is under severe strain that means imports have become more expensive the weak currency is also fueling inflation increasing numbers of people are experiencing financial hardship add to that the political situation and many foreign investors are feeling spooked. a little to come out of some assaults the decisions are trying to make people believe that the poor exchange rate with the dollar well the fact investors are avoiding the country with high interest rates which it doesn't in taki everything is

connected the justice system education security uncertainty it's all tied to the economy money economy down bombs you know the economy. when involved and leaves the country his company will keep going under the management of a turkish business partner his investment was made in u.s. dollars and with the current exchange rate it wouldn't make sense to sell the company for now he will continue to monitor the developing situation in turkey from outside. now since time immemorial a crushing ocean have trouble on their way north and people having on the shoreline but now one community in the spanish basque country is showing that the power of the people we see can be harnessed and used as a source of clean green and. using electricity might not be the most environmentally friendly way to make coffee but at least this stove is

powered by green energy produced locally. and this is not for the longest only in the old days i don't really know where our electricity came from march when it came out of the socket and that was that but now it's a lot more natural and sustainable that's because we know that the electricity is produced by the power of the sea in our harbor yes and that is definitely cleaner and more ecological and i just like it better yes most of us the harbor belongs to the village of new tree crew in the spanish basque region. there are strong waves here and the seawall was built to protect retreating from them. but the utility company found another use for it. was approach simply turned a barrier that had already been built into a power plant so the force of the impacting waves generates electricity illiteracy

. the project has a limited scope so far still the sixteen turbines within the wall produce enough energy to power two hundred fifty homes and a chamber is located in the bottom part of each turbine the waves push the air upwards thereby propelling the turbine. the backflow water again sets the turbine in motion. pretty clever when you think that the wall was originally only meant to protect the harbor and the fishing boats within it. most all of this if you're into the native alfa harbor and that was important of the grovers now we are protected from the force of the waves. if it weren't for the wall we would never be able to topple all these boats. nor. the residents of matric who are happy but it might take a little more time to satisfy the investors. wave energy plans are still being

tested but their potential could be huge. arrived for a visit back to phil thanks so much for the german president. has been in the united states to open a new restored home of one of germany's gracie's literary icons thomas mann who lived in los angeles in exile during germany's nazi right and was outspoken in his condemnation of hitler's row his house had been too to be demolished two years ago but the german government bought it as a symbol of the country's continued support for democracy on both sides of the amount. this was thomas months california home his grandson freedom and took germany's president from their steinmeyer on a trip down memory lane sharing family moments from some seventy years ago. it would be face think if we celebrated holidays here we held discussions counted for christmas new year's eve our response my poems there was much going on here.

man lived ten years in exile here with his family during germany's nazi rain throughout that time he broadcast radio reports condemning hitler's rule written in his native german. germany's government bought the us property back in two thousand and sixteen and renovations began soon after the purchase was meant to reflect the european nations continued support for us democracy and thus a way to carry on months like a seal is now this was not only a family. not only thinking and writing. and sent. on the pacific. literature music. this was a white house and thomas mann study was in many ways the oval office of the emigre opposition to hitler's reign of terror. by its message there's more to german american relations than recent strain chives the thomas mann house hopes to be

a meeting place for intellectuals from both countries and a symbol of shared values. so we hate you are looking out to pictures of a floating sculpture on a lake in london made out of seven thousand five hundred barrels weighing six hundred and fifty tons this is the latest work by mr cristo now for producing environmental works of art on a grand scale on metal culture desk is here to tell us what he told me a bit. of thought provoking piece it is the deed i mean especially when you think this is seven thousand five hundred all barrels which you wouldn't imagine to be attractive some people say beautiful or indeed a work of a hot but it is cristo and as you said he's a specialist in art which can change environments that it's in which this does

and it's always by the way with him for a short specific amount of time this will be there until september the twenty third i beg your pardon when it will be then disappear and be completely recycled christo says and i quote the disappearance of the artworks is a part of the aesthetic concept that makes them deeply rooted in freedom this is a man who escaped from communism. communist ball garia when he was twenty two years old so he values his freedom it's also by the way incidentally the first work big work of art in britain which surprised me a little bit so let's have a look at it a bit more of it and other other works of his. paris is home the berlin sky start building and new york's central park over decades christo and his late wife john close conquered them all with their temporary installations this

time it's london the artist has all of butts. and it's not just a floating sculpture as always it's an event. of the wall so that to read this guy there many thing the humans around you know their work is not some of the things that we go the natural elements is enormous part of. the seven thousand five hundred barrel project in london's hyde park took two months to install. now it's up to the public to make sense of it but the eighty three year old artist isn't about to give any clear the vision is like the music. of the bach what is the meaning you need to do kate if you years. next to the serpentine lake the serpentine gallery gives a view into christers creative process the sculpture shape is inspired by ancient

egyptian tombs known as bus stop eyes. he means very interested in the way in which the angles on the star but once it's in those since one of his big scopes this is very unique and each point of the mist operates very different christo says the work has no meaning but the most star bus sure does have people talking. i don't know what he wants to tell me it makes me think for sure to have something like this in hyde park is a lot of thought thing gets people talking and engaging and i think this is a good thing. that must stop grace london's hyde park through to september. ok i suppose you have to be yes but you got to be there to get the full impact and clearly this is a man who enjoys working on a huge scale he does the works on

a vast time scale as well because of this this idea he had originally in the early nine hundred sixty s. with his partner janklow who who sadly died in two thousand and four but he continues with their work and his must stop but is meant to be actually a precursor. of a much bigger one eight times the size that he plans to build in abu dhabi as you can see here from the sketches it's going to be just make a project i mean this film is evan is the size of the spring so that was going to be much bigger this is another load of oil barrels back in one nine hundred ninety nine in oberhausen in western germany it was in a direction in a disused castleman said that yes he does stuff on a scale and incidentally he does fund all the work himself you sold those sketches that he sells all of those and there are a lot of them and he sells them for big prices he has no patronage he has no

government money and he has no sponsorship he does it all. over the years that this money is churned about he's prolific i think is there is a profit for it which which would make the biggest impact on you well good question because i was definitely a damaged some years ago or comes that i've really did like the one he did the last big one he did two years ago and here it is on lake is you know in northern italy these wonderful yellow floating pontoons around on a lake i wanted to go and i thought i'd get on a plow or go and see and i didn't go to the usual excuses i want to go to work and . i regret it greatly because what really affected me is. now i'm trying to think it's twenty three years ago here it is that he wraps of the rice the german government building here in berlin i went and took a three year old very small mcnamara with me. and there's a very

a younger version of me reporting from it actually i went as a skeptic i was completely blown away by you just it is you just have to be there it's one of those things with christos work i have to say it was an amazing experience to be there and i went there a number of times actually afterwards and yes that was actually the very first report i did on camera for dorchin found to have a yes yes. we still got you more on the website. slash culture robyn mary thank you perhaps we'll do this again in another twenty five years. as a thought let me remind you the top stories at this hour german chancellor has repeated her insistence on a unified european response to migration and calls for a new solidarity on the issue i'm going back who has been meeting with president emanuel back off france to hammer out

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