put big dreams on the big screen. movie magazine on the w. . this is d. w. news a blog from berlin another shocking case of migrants drowning at sea and the european union's failure to agree on a joint policy both arrived at a spanish court carrying the bodies of two hundred migrants up to italy refused permission to land the remains this as the e.u. and this mediterranean mission aimed at fighting people smugglers also coming up.

u.s. president donald trump hit out against his former lawyer reports say michael cohen recorded a conversation between the two of the payments to a playboy model plus. drowning in plastic we need people in the dominican republic fighting to save their coastline from this brutal sky. i'm egypt money thank you for your company and then geo boats carrying the bodies of two drowned migrants and once a five a has docked at a spanish fought off to italy refused to accept the bodies it's an incident which again highlights the dangers facing migrants crossing the mediterranean and the failure of the european union to agree on joint policies on the issue this as it's of these 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 malta or italy we're treated like people smugglers or criminals you know not to the google but even our. only spain has recently given landing permission italy has announced it will not accept rescue boats even those from the european union's own anti 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 thousand have arrived in spain more than twice as many as last year the majority of them are riving 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. that we try to tell a friend their families or friends in spain or across europe say that they can be reunited elsewhere but if enough 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. u.s. president donald trump has hit against his former lawyer michael cohen after reports of a taped conversation between the two over payments to a playboy model trump tweeted that cohen's actions in making the recording way legal and unheard of and 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 shouted 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 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 cite other quite frequently so dozens of times you were to go dozens of times you were intimate. in the recording trump and cohn 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. tapes made by michael could be a gold mine for us because they are. boys and that is the most powerful evidence in any trial. one of the president's one time closest aides could be his biggest liability. as now look at some of the other stories making news around the world hamas says it has reached an agreement with israel to end weeks of bloodshed in the gaza strip this comes a day after clashes that killed an israeli soldier and four palestinians three of them hamas fighters now israel hasn't commented on the cease fire but so far the truce appears to be holding. spain's conservative popular party has picked pablo

casado as its new leader he replaces former prime minister mariano rajoy who was ousted after a no confidence vote in june because others appointment represents a shift to the right for the party which is hoping for a comeback in time for general elections in twenty twenty. two months now the head of carmaker feared chrysler is stepping down due to ill health after fourteen years at the helm the sixty six year old will relinquish his duties at luxury carmaker ferrari where he was chief executive and to be replaced by mike manley head of the group's jeep grand. several japanese beaches have reopened for the first time since the earthquake and tsunami disaster of twenty leben locals held a ceremony to pray for safety before taking to the water fourteen beaches in total remain closed off after the fukushima nuclear accident and officials say some will

stay permanently close 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 the country has seen in decades firefighters have put out a number of smaller fires but the largest blazes will only go out if the weather changes help is on its way from you 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. flipped all of 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 on limiting the damage.

firefighters the army volunteers and teens from other countries with water bombing aircraft or working flat out by 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 a very serious situation and unfortunately it seems the weather won't change to improve things only temporarily in the north is sweden and then it will return to the same condition a 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.

for many tourists the dominican republic is a beach destination but its shores of being spoiled by plastic pollution there's been a lot of talk about how to tackle the problem but without global action the country's environment minister ones its islands are at risk of drowning in trash. 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. 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 i thought of again. the great quantity of toxic components

of plastic and metal components making splitting sick. it's really threatening species that are resistant to pollution. threatened by the verse and the health of all species and clued in the universe. by the last little that. we get. every minute of every day the equivalent of a garbage truck of plastic is dumped into the ocean and estimates suggest that there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish in terms of weight by twenty fifty a global problem affects dominican locally. it's taking a colossal effort to clear up this one beach but clearing up is the easy part. what's proving much harder is agreeing and in acting a global solution to plastic waste. psyching now where a late sprint from spiny had almost saw him when the fourteenth stage of the tour

de france a santa ride on friday was fastest on the one stretch to claim his first ever stage when britain's. thomas retained the yellow jersey as overall leader of the team sky rider could just get questions on the controversy created by doping allegations surrounding teammate chris froome. stage fourteen a one hundred and eighty eight kilometer route culminated in a difficult final climb in the town of mond and it was along that ascent that belgium's just for story even who had led for over thirty kilometers was finally caught by spain's. france's phillipe jumped ahead of story going into second but the spanish rider powered to victory with a late burst in the last climb price was overjoyed with his first ever toward a front stage when. they live i mean this is own real for me we dreamed of this victory worked very hard and finally we made it an incredible day of victory in the

tour i can't describe the feeling. the stage wasn't without controversy though team sky rider garron thomas who held on to the yellow jersey for another day brushed off suggestions of renewed protest from france over alleged doping in his team. and in london the latest edition of the i don't believe a dime when he saw some blistering performances with us of hate ronnie baker setting the pace in the men's one hundred meters and those local success to chairing the women's long jump let's take a look. in the men's one hundred meters at london stadium ronnie baker of the u.s. to top spot. he finished the race in nine point nine zero seconds ahead of second placed zano hughes of great britain. and in the men's four hundred meters qatar's abdullah haroon tore up the truck in the final stretch with an

impressive win over powering pulled the deal of the u.s. to qatar is time of forty four point zero seven seconds was a national record. and in pole vaulting american some kendricks got the best mark defeating closest rival renewal of year new all fronts and you can see the american truly is in the mood for a victory lap was in the women's long jump britain's share of proctor who has battled injuries in recent years to gold but the season's best leap of six point nine one metres. in the men's four hundred meter hurdles norway's cost involved who won gold at last year's world championships sprinted to victory forty seven point six five seconds. a french tightrope walker has completed a thrilling stunt high above one of the most iconic landmarks in paris we're talking about tatiana mostly obongo there she is and she crossed

a court suspended thirty five meters from the ground from a crane to the. silica. she stopped along the way a few times actually to add some acrobatic extras and all of this was being done without a safety net or harness has been preparing for this stunt for a year and she started tightrope walking when she was just eight. or you watching news live from berlin more coming of the top of the hour and in the meantime you can always check out our web site that's d.w. dot com but for now we leave you with a concert by german electronic music pioneers cuffed back with a special guest appearing live from the international space station german astronaut alexander guest.

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