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to. mark the opening bell to georgia to start. this is the w. news line from berlin another shocking case of migrants drowning at sea and the european union's failure to agree to a joint policy of boats arrives at a spanish board carrying the bodies of two drowned migrants up to its end he refuses to get permission to dog this is the e.u. and its mediterranean mission in the fighting people smugglers also coming up.
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palestinians bury the militants killed in friday's clashes with israeli forces a mother says it's reached a tentative truce with israel in the gaza strip but will it last. and the battle against raging wildfires in sweden hundreds of volunteers continue to fight the flames as more than fifty fires torched forests in the country point national help is on the way but authorities have missed some places may be impossible to extinguish. i'm glad you could join us on n.-g. o. boats carrying the bodies of two drawn migrants and one survivor has docked at a spanish ports of to been denied entry and it's alien now it's an incident which again highlights the dangers facing migrants crossing the mediterranean sea and the failure of the european union to agree on joint policy. is on the issue this says
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it's this as it's in his stance forces brussels to suspend its mediterranean naval mission aimed at people smugglers. one of the last private rescue boats still patrolling the mediterranean as european countries continue to waiver over accepting asylum seekers on board a survivor and two bodies a woman and a child who died trying to cross from libya if you can even it's unbelievable we're not allowed to dock at a single port in motor italy we're treated like people smugglers or criminals you know it's not really google getting you know. only spain has recently given landing permission italy has announced it will not accept rescue boats even those from the european union's own trafficking operation now spain fears an influx of asylum seekers this week over eight hundred people have been rescued by the spanish coast guard in various operations since the beginning of the year more than eighteen
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thousand have arrived in spain more than twice as many as last year the majority of them are arriving from sub-saharan africa it's a quickly changing situation if you thought you understood how the migratory flows work three months ago it's already historic information receiving centers are overflowing and forty thousand asylum applications are under review new arrivals are registered in emergency accommodation then handed to the red cross. we try to tell a friend their families or friends in spain or across europe said that they can be reunited elsewhere but if not buses carry migrants further north to madrid barcelona or the french border few have official permission to remain the rest seek to get by without documentation. to the middle east now where hamas says it's reached an agreement with israel to end weeks of bloodshed in the gaza strip this
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comes a day off to 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 now israel has not commented on the ceasefire so far but the truce appears to be holding grief in the gaza strip hamas fighters gathered to mourn one of their own killed in an israeli strike. mohammad abouta was one of three militants who died on the group spices yes to 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 the palestinian territory seemed on the edge of war and only a un brokered cease fire deal prevented a further escalation. mouse and the rest of the palestinian resistance committed to
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maintaining calm and honoring this agreement. but whether this happens depends on what the israeli occupiers do in the coming days. israel launched the strikes after palestinian gunmen killed an israeli soldier it's believed i don't 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. we are trying to be balanced and responsible but hamas leaders are forcing it into a situation in which we have no choice but to embark on a broad and painful military operation so limited. and the spark of this sudden rest is still a blaze in 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
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israel wants palestinians to stop sending cots eyepatch to molotov cocktails over the border they've triggered fires in the country south with days issues on resolved this coming gaza remains on the. us president donald trump has hit against his former lawyer michael cohen after reports of a taped conversation between the two of a payments to a playboy model trump tweeted that cohen's actions in making the recording what you legal and unheard of u.s. media say f.b.i. agents found the tapes during a raid on cohen's office. a headline grabbing end to another headline grabbing week for the u.s. president as trump departed for a weekend of golf journalist shirzad questions about the tape now in the possession of the f.b.i. it was secretly recorded by his former lawyer michael cohen trump has now hit back on twitter saying it's inconceivable that a lawyer would tape
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a client totally unheard of and perhaps illegal the good news is that your favorite president did nothing wrong the taped conversation is said to relate to karen mcdougal and next playboy model who says she had a year long affair with the president over a decade ago. so we saw each other quite frequently so dozens of times you were to go a little dozens of times you were adamant yes. in the recording trump and cohen supposedly talk about a hush payment to mcdougal. the f.b.i. found the tape when it raided cohn's office in april he was known as trump's fixer for many years and it's not the only tape said to exist the tapes made by michael could be a gold mine for us because there are problems. and that is the most
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powerful evidence in any trial now one of the president's one time closest aides could be his biggest liability. time now for some of the other stories making news around the world spain's conservative popular party has picked who was its new leader he replaces former prime minister mariano rajoy who was ousted after a no confidence vote in june because of his appointment represents a shift to the right for the party which is hoping for a comeback in time for general elections in twenty twenty. the divine mercy of charge in nicaragua capital managua has reopened its doors with a mass for the church came under siege a week ago when critics of president or tega took refuge inside gunmen loyal to the president had started shooting at the opposition members and followed them into the church two people died in the siege. singapore's health system has been hit by the biggest breach of personal data in the country's history of origin
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say the hackers store the health records of one point five million patients including singapore's prime 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 disaster of twenty eleven locals held a ceremony to pray for safety before taking to the water fourteen beaches remain off limits in the aftermath of the fukushima nuclear accident and officials say that some will stay permanently closed to the public. sweden is grappling to contain wildfires that are spreading across the country in a sign of how bad things are the civil defense chief has come out and said the fight has been lost against some of the biggest wildfires in the country firefighters have put out a number of small fires but the largest blazes will only go out if the weather
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changes help is on its way from 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 are tinder dry and sweden has been hard hit it's struggling to contain dozens of forest fires. many of the fires cover several thousand hectors such large fires are usually very resource intensive the situation is very serious and we only focus ourselves are limiting the damage. firefighters the army volunteers and teams from other countries with water bombing aircraft working flat out the helicopter pilot has told swedish media how difficult water bombing missions can be at low altitude with low visibility because of the smoke which can change direction fast. this iraq city that it's
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a very serious situation and unfortunately it seems the weather won't change to improve things only temporarily in the north this weekend and then it will return to the same condition or worse the weather is not with us. nobody has been reported injured but many 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 heat wave to last so long they haven't said when they expected to end. the german grand prix is taking place this weekend in the south and town of hockenheim ferrari driver sebastian fettle on home turf is looking to stretch his lead at the top of the driver standings and he did delight locals in saturday's qualifying after a final push to curate him position the german will start alongside finnish driver
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valtteri bottas who came second quarter says fellow countryman like the men who will begin. closest rival for the championship lewis hamilton of mercedes could only host the fourteenth fastest time after i had drawn experience for him the mention of. an extra go to monaco where the idea of diamond leagues latest track and field meeting featured a new world record kenya's beatrice chupke which 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 steeplechase but here in monaco she found an extra gear and shaved 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
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. i didn't expect my end was good at eight fifty am. the women's one hundred meter went to marie to 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 they die mainly. and quickly becoming a fan favorite in the post poll that let its world american know alliance retained his title in the two hundred meter of it then lowered his personal best to nineteen point six five seconds in the process he didn't leave without showing off a bit for the crowd. next stop for the guy mainly is london's olympic stage. a french tightrope walker has completed a thrilling stunt high above one of the most iconic landmarks in paris tatiana. crossed a court suspended thirty five meters from the ground from
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a crane to the. well marked she stopped along the way for. some acrobatic extras and all of this was happening without a safety net or a harness. has been preparing for this stunt for a year but she's also been tightrope ing since she was just eighteen years old. incredible while you're watching the news from berlin wall coming of the top of the hour but we will leave you with a concert by german electronic music pioneers cuffe to be back with a special guest appearing live from the international space station german astronaut alexander. ok.
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listen. i. just couldn't get this song out of his head. the music ologist began searching for the sense of this captivating sound. deep in the rain forest in central africa.
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