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news. this is video we're news live from berlin shaky cease fire hamas says it's reached a tentative truce with israel in the gaza strip and that's after a day of clashes that killed an israeli soldier and four palestinians along the fence that separates israel and gaza calm has now largely returned to the area but will it last. also coming up spain's conservative people's party is taking a swing to the right with the election of a new leader top of the sato looks to steer the p.p.p. back to power with elections due in twenty twenty at the latest and the sweden fights huge wildfires raging well above the arctic circle more help is on its way
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better stories admit some places may be impossible to extinguish. the book. while our thank you so much for your company everyone. we start in the mideast where hamas says it has reached an agreement with israel to end weeks of bloodshed in the gaza strip all this comes after a day of deadly clashes on friday sparked by the death of an israeli soldier from gunshot wounds sustained during protests along the fence that separates israel and gaza israel hasn't commented on the cease fire but so far the truce appears to be holding. greif in the gaza strip hamas fighters gathered to mourn one of their own killed in an israeli strike. mohammad abu dakar was one of three militants who died in air raids on the group spices yes to
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die to die his family led his funeral procession through the narrow streets of khan yunis. a saturday of defiance after another friday of chaos the victims of dozens of israeli raids were rushed to gaza city hospital again in the palestinian territory same down the edge of war and only a un brokered cease fire deal prevented a further escalation. of hamas and the rest of the palestinian resistance are committed to maintaining calm and on a ring of disagreement. but whether this happens depends on what the israeli occupies do in the coming days. israel launched the strikes after palestinian gunmen killed an israeli soldier its army believed they dealt a major blow to hamas but that doesn't mean the end of the conflict israeli leaders have repeatedly said they're in a war of attrition with hamas. when mr gloomily we are trying to be balanced and
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responsible but hamas as leaders are forcing it into a situation in which we have no choice but to embark on a broad and painful military operations. and the spock of this unrest is still a blazing gaza the palestinians want the border fence to come down more than one hundred forty of them have died in protest against it since march. and israel wants palestinians to stop sending cots attached to molotov cocktails of the border they've triggered fires in the country south with daisy she's on resolved this calm in gaza remains an easy. back here in europe spain's main opposition party has picked a new leader thirty seven year old pablo casado has been elected to lead the conservative popular party the former ruling party is trying to rebuild its image following a corruption scandal because side o.
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is known as a highly conservative politician who opposes abortion wants to lower taxes and takes a hard line against cadillac independence he replaces former prime minister marianna who was ousted after a no confidence vote back in june the subtle will now face off against spain's ruling socialist party. all right to talk more about this i'm now joined to from a dread by spanish journalist. a very good day to you who is a sideshow. well look at selo is a very very as you said very young and he was just a member of parliament until the end of the whole of the former prime minister decided to take him as the spokesperson of the party you know that you said and more. email shopify t. and this is what that's how the means he is young when he should draw any
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regeneration symbol of the peoples of the moment but he was also very very well known within the party because of these ideological convictions. for example the use leak and because he was very close to the former prime minister. plus in my d.f. not of which symbolizes the most conservative but at the same time the most successful period of people's party in the democratic era. so you see the savior that the p.p. party is looking for the man that will steer the spanish conservatives to victory in the upcoming elections. well i think that he has a lot of what he has and lots of the skills to maybe try to do this it in one hand he is very young he's not has not part of the former leadership. probably the image of that regeneration that the saudi society saskin. for
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the people's fire and also he is also very strong in their i.d.'s pushing for that traditional value of sort of people's party and ideas moment the people's party seen a retreat from the voters need to reassure the u.s. and compared to the progressive government of socially spend the sonship. what the voters are looking for it's a no position that he's very very opposed to the socialist new. government and brody is going to be very good for bob he's a know it was i knew it was the show for. us and yes i have thirty seconds left over what does this tell us is development about the political landscape in spain. only to go landscape you see more and more polarized
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the right is getting. more the right the right. is getting very strong and the left the left us with the socialist government. left. i think is very polarized the lives is going to be very good the probably not good for the liberal democrats. that they're finding themselves right in the meeting. last was reporting from the spanish capital madrid thank you for joining us. our want to get you caught up now on some of the other stories making news around the world the european union has temporarily suspended its naval operation in the mediterranean sea that's as italy refuses to accept migrants rescued by its vessels operation sofia was launched back in two thousand and fifteen to tackle migrant smugglers but it has increasingly found itself rescuing people at sea the
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e.u. is now reviewing the mission. singapore's health system has been hit by the biggest breach of personal data in the country's history authorities say the hacker stole the health records of one point five billion million excuse me patients including singapore's prime minister the identity and motives of the attackers are still unclear. several japanese beaches have reopened for the first time since the earthquake and tsunami a disaster of twenty eleven the locals held a ceremony supreme for safety before taking to the water fourteen beaches remain off limits in the aftermath of the fukushima nuclear accident and officials say some will stay permanently closed to the public. sweden is grappling to contain wildfires raging across the country and in a dramatic development of just how bad things are the civil defense chief has come
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out and said the fight has been lost against some of the biggest wildfires the country has seen in decades adding that the largest blazes raging above the arctic circle will only go out if the weather changes firefighters have put out a number of smaller fires and more help is now on its way from e.u. countries including germany. it's terribly hot and terribly dry with hardly any rain for weeks across much of northern europe trees brush and grass tinder dry and sweden has been hard hit it struggling to contain dozens of forest fire as. firefighters the volunteers and teens from other countries with once a bombing at craft working flat out the helicopter pilot has told swedish media how difficult it was a bombing missions can be at low altitude with low visibility because of the smoke which can change direction fussed. nobody has been reported injured but many
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people have been evacuated from their homes many more told to stay indoors and try not to breathe the acrid smoke. meteorologists say it's rare for a heatwave to last so long they haven't said when they expected to end. next step the story of a small country facing an enormous problem plastic in the oceans for many tourists the dominican republic is a beach destination but its shores are being spoiled by plastic pollution and there's been a lot of talk about how to tackle the problem but without global action the country's environment minister warns us islands are at risk of drowning in trash. in. the caribbean sea but not as we know it this footage is of want to see no speech in the capital santa domingo posted online by conservationists group. shocking volunteers and local authorities into action.
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but there was a large quantity of solid waste being discharged from the osama river. it's the sixth day of the clean up and we have retrieved some sixty tons of waste. but there is still more work to be done to protect local marine life and the dominican who live there had ordered them to go see the great quantity of toxic components of plastic and metal components making space in sick. threatening species that are resistant to pollution. threatened by the verse and the health of all species and. units for. every minute of every day the equivalent of a garbage truck of plastic is dumped into the ocean and estimate suggests that there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish in terms of weight by twenty
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fifty a global problem effects dominican locally. it's taking a colossal effort to clear up this one beach but peering up is the easy part. what's proving much harder is agreeing and in acting a global solution to plastic waste. the german football federation known as the dia b. is facing allegations of mismanagement defending champions germany were dumped out at the a world cup group stages in the blame game since then has been intense the latest present of point a finger is a germany legend who also happens to be chairman barney a nick. it all looks so hopeful for team germany when they were at their training camp in preparation for the world cup they were on top of the world and had no idea they would quickly come crashing down former german international striker and byron unique chairman carl. had this to say about the d.f.t.
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. right now it seems to me that they don't have a clear cut professional way of dealing with crises and i'm not at all surprised because the d.f.t. is full of amateurs and i'm not at all convinced that at the end of the day the right solutions will be found with these people who are running things just like. the ball is now in the d.s.p. court should they choose to play one thing is certain germany can't afford another tournament disaster because then no one will be safe. we turn our attention now to the i.w.a. after the damage leagues the latest track and field meeting in monaco featured a new world record kenya. have coed ship produced the crowning performance of the season in the three thousand meter steeple chase and here's a look at her record breaking run and more. twenty seven year old beatrice chip koichi already had the fastest time this season in the three thousand meter
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steeplechase but here in monaco she found an extra gear in shape more than ten seconds off her personal best seventy the new world record of eight minutes forty four point three two seconds becoming the first kidney and woman to hold the record . again if they can make any less than fifty. of. the women's one hundred meter which of marie jo say to lou of the ivory coast she crossed the finish line at a blazing ten point eight nine seconds adding to her streak of success a dime in league and quickly becoming a fan favorite in the post poll at linux world american no liles retained his title in the two hundred meter of it and lowered his personal best had nineteen point six five seconds in the process he didn't leave without showing off a bit for the crowd. next stop for the diamond league is london's olympic stage.
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and that does it for us i love her rockin berlin on behalf of the entire new scene thank you so much for spending this part of your day with us and of course the news continues at the top of the hour. iran. wants an isolated shocker seen now a major power in the middle east. europeans influence continues to grow politically economically and above all.

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