this is news coming from deadly fire in greece at least sixty people have been killed by region quiet spreading rapidly athens the government has declared a state of emergency and is calling on the european union for help. here in germany the resignation of strong midfielder posy from the national team is still making

waves the german football association has rejected his claims of racism we take you to those whose home town of doesn't care to hear what people there are saying. plus a day before national elections in pakistan concerns of the country's military is using intimidation tactics to influence the outcome we take a look at how press freedom has been under attack the head of the vote. it's good to have your company we have more on the stories in just a moment but first this breaking the state media and laos says several people are dead and hundreds more missing after a hydroelectric dam collapsed in the country's southeast the dam was under construction in the province of but it could. lapsed late on monday when you think

five billion cubic meters of water many buildings were said to be over six thousand people are now reportedly homeless the dam was shed due to begin operating later this year. and we of course bring you more details on that story as they come in moving out it is on the top story greece has declared a state of emergency around the capital athens as wildfires rage through residential areas at least sixty people have been killed and more than one hundred and seventy injured strong winds are fanning multiple fires across the country we get a live update in just a moment but first this report. there the worst wildfires greases seen in a decade. moving quickly and taking many by surprise. several have died in their vehicles trying to flee. but. it's feared up to one hundred

homes have been destroyed in the coastal town of ruffing are. hundreds of firefighters and the army have been dispatched but they're struggling to control the flames. but we are going they must if it is to me we must all be in a constant state of alert we must be unified and make an effort to face an exceptionally difficult situation for our country. he had to call them. greasers declared a state of emergency in several regions surrounding athens. strong winds and temperatures of up to forty degrees continue to stoke the flames in coastal towns residents and holiday makers have been evacuated by boat summerfield missing at sea . it's only us jews are the large expanse the intensity and the dangers the fires pose the country has submitted a request through the european civil protection mechanism for international ground

and in assistance so you can see here spain is sending water carrying aircraft cyprus is dispatching fire crews they'll arrive too late for those who have already lost their lives and homes. more dark days lie ahead as greece counts the cost of the wildfires. joining me now is george vocal policy he's a journalist with the daily many in athens georgia you live very close to the fire where the fires have been raging bring us up to date with the latest situation there. the latest results although the fire has been contained. and. we see you know fresh flames around. still keeps rising the worry to that doesn't over people already and several people are missing some of them at the as they

try to if i went on to vote really. kind of three to a very. plain. currently being court i think london. is. going from house to house having to search after one thousand two hundred very house with. three hundred recruits for any survivors and just tell us how did this fire spread so quickly. there was a very strong southerly we just had a. sense this fund fire which started on the east coast of the capitol and apparently it was underestimated by the fire said if you to another fire on the west over the car because that was the

priority at the moment so destructive fire close to ophelia took about thirty minutes to. sweep across from the mountain on to the sea. creating havoc and to a so given the scale and the for all city of these blazes how are residents there coping. well it's very difficult for the fire service to cope. and our city over phenomenon great plains there wasn't a record of speaking over a. proportion of the. time of the fire so it. was extremely difficult for the fire service response. by the standards which is used well for. i think european union obviously especially has been we do hope that that head arrives in time to make a difference george

a joke apollo's thank you very much for that update from athens secu. let me now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the world several people are seriously injured after druggists were fired at afghanistan's capital kabul no one as it claimed responsibility for the attack it comes just two days after a suicide bomber blew himself up near kabul international airport killing at least twenty three people those attacks were claimed by the islamic state group. analysts in the u.s. north korea has begun taking down key facilities at a missile test site these satellite images reportedly show dismantling underway after saw his satellite launch station north korean leader kim jong un had promised to dismantle the site at a summit with the us president trump in june. japanese officials say an unprecedented heatwave us killed at least sixty five people in just one week more

than twenty thousand have been hospitalized with heat related illnesses in the same period soaring temperatures have been blamed for at least eighty deaths since the start of july the country's where the agency is now classifying the heatwave as a natural disaster. italy has agreed to accept migrants and refugees rescued at sea and in the e.u. can decide on a strategy to accommodate them foreign minister. made the announcement after talks with german come his german counterpart heikal loss in berlin it's a reversal for italy's populist government which had said last week it was closing its ports to refugees rescued at sea. the german football association has hit back at accusations of racism made by football star. the organization says it supports diversity and it has worked on integration in germany for many years made the claim over the weekend when he also announced he'd quit the

german national team the midfielder is of. origin and he was spit should be turkey's president john back in may he said if it's resume and disrespect from the public and the media in the aftermath following the team's disappointing what performance he was also criticised by the german football association now his resignation from the german national side has also been hotly debated in his hometown of girls in geisha and in western germany which has a large turkish community people there feel that it was his decision highlights ongoing problems with integration in the country have a listen. this is where a young message often had a kick about a training ground in the german city of gas emission today an amateur team is playing here but the resignation of the german national player is on everyone's

mind. it's a brave move by him but as i see it he's only criticized others without accepting that he might have made an error in my view of his mistake was not to have spoken out earlier. as it's not all gone wrong by resigning it's made things with integration even worse for a while i had the feeling that we were all coming together and this is german turkish and spanish italian. it all began here at the club vest for as it was grandparents were coal miners who moved from the black sea coast to girls and kitchen he was the first footballer of turkish descent to play for germany after world cup marco langer used to play football with in his hometown. he was quite interested when we met his kids he was a very quiet boy always carrying a ball around always with his father never pitch. or. an example to

follow until recently ozil had been a proud poster boy for integration today many germans with turkish heritage can understand how one photo could change everything. he was by germany's own fans all because of a photo also took a photo with article americal it's his business takes a photo without a one the scope of it's a catastrophe how bad things have gone and because of one photo for me it's try to . turkish german or both integration research is from the essence center of the turkish studies say young people feel close to germany but also different from the non migrant population they say germans and german politics struggle with people who don't want to commit to just one nationality. research allow me a card or has called for a reasonable debate on identity she says the integration policy of the german football association has failed. we have a real racism problem in germany it's not something we can say is exclusively on

the far right racism has long existed at the center of this society because they're just on she says those who have the interests of both sides at heart have lost the winners of the debate nationalistic turks and the german far right. for more on this story i'm joined now by talking to me he's from did obvious sports desk welcome to this or is he is resignation has been arrested been in the country one of the biggest losers would be the sport itself german football have prided itself on its diversity where does italy visit left now well i mean it's a it's a great failure of diversity of integration is hard to see as anything other like you say. german football had parted itself on integration you know one of the stories that sports enjoyed telling about and so is that they can build bridges between communities they can bring people together they can foster immigration and in a lot of cases that's true and that has been true in german football. was as we heard

the poster boy for integration in german for boys of turkish extraction but a german citizen who has been one of the best players that germany have had over the past decade and the fact that his career has found such a bitter end is. you know an indictment really of german football and also german society as capacity to force the inspiration and you know as we heard the only people who really we now of this are those who seek to emphasize cultural differences and many will feel justifiably that it's a great shame the miss the miss it was in his statement said he talked about having two hots shortie that's quite common in international football with so many multi-cultural players in national teams certainly yeah of course i mean it's a come from all over europe and of course you know. football is a mirror of society and what's going on in society is common in football now. one of the one of the things that said in his state. when was that he feels he's treated as he celebrated as a german when he does well treated as an immigrant when he doesn't do so well that

is almost an exact mirror of something the belgian power play a roman to kake said before the world cup he said that when things go well he's belgian when they don't he's belgian but of congolese descent karim benzema said in a very similar thing a french player with our jury and heritage so this isn't a unique phenomenon to germany unfortunately and the german football association the d.s. be wrong because this criticism from missoula has also been echoed by some on the play as yeah that's true philip philip long the captain of the two thousand and fourteen world cup side has been critical of the day if the recently as has carl has reneged on one of the bosses by munich i think what's been perceived really as . a grave mistake and also an injustice that the f.b.i. you know perpetrated basically almost as it was the failure to protect him from racism from from racist attacks was a failure to come out in support of him now this debate over this again photo has

been going on for a long time. and after the world cup all of a b. a half the team manager of the german international team. purported to ask himself what he'd done wrong the mistakes that he'd made in the planning and executing of germany's world cup and what he decided on that was that he shouldn't pick them as a bill and in doing that he reignited a debate in germany and he digit to much criticism which had already by that time deteriorated in tone had really become quite racist and has made some mistakes in this he's been naive i think he's yet to also examine himself critically but he like the feel that he's been mistreated by that the f.b.i. and it's it's been a rather sorry saga will absolutely be unfortunate a good life from a split says thank you very much for that assessment. well some more uplifting sports news now and a polish mountaineer has made history by becoming the first person to ski down the

key to its one of the world it's the world's second highest mountain and why do you recognize as the most difficult one to climb underage a buggy faced extremely difficult conditions in reaching the summit of the eight thousand six hundred eleven meter peak from there he put on his skis and made his fractured wrist descent the key to peace gap. you're watching the news coming up ahead. we'll be taking a look at some business news there one of the symbols of green energy been ridden turbines are anything but environmentally friendly and when it comes to disposing them we visit one of just one german company hoping to change that. but first let's take you to pakistan where journalists are facing an unprecedented crackdown by the country's sparkle army that as the country gears up for its national election tomorrow wednesday now they are concerns the military wants to boost the chances off its alleged favorite candidate former cricketer imran khan did you know me

conrad and asked him silly report that those who report on imran khan's main dr bill frist intimidation and worse. in pakistan second largest city hall election campaigning is in full swing but behind the scenes many fear strings are being called to favor one candidate iran called. his party p.t.i. is in a neck and neck race with the pakistani muslim league run by one of the country's most high profile politicians now watch sharif sharif angered the country's powerful military with his attempts to improve relations with pakistan's arch rival india and rein in the army support a visit midsts earlier this month he was jailed on corruption charges. and now journalists like sarita legal are bearing the brunt of the standoff those

who dare to openly criticize the p.t.i. or appear to support now while sharif risk the wrath of the security agencies. and the party of the talk about the pm alone if you speak for it in any way which you are supposed in a very balanced manner to speak for it there's going to be trouble brewing somewhere down the line previously like i said there were there were certain areas you can speak about but it was never about political parties not to do things stand you just kind of reporter the balance mother and here you're out there at it they're after you and this this was really startling to many of the editors but but then of carrying on some of us some of us are really really struggling. many of her colleagues have received intimidating calls and threats on social media and journalists know all too well which stories editors want to afraid to run but on the record few datapoint that think. i don't think.

well. i'll take the safest route out of this ok they're human rights international human rights organizations and the local human rights organizations have repeatedly called out the military for doing this and the military would mean the intelligence agencies that are associated with the military and. their feeling rights organizations and i'm quoting them i mean quoting them understand the fear the fear of too much power over the civil demat government the democratic government the democratic set up and the awful bill this power to get you know we. thing a thing that's surge i don't want to speak more about those. just to be on the safe so. in pakistan the generals have always pulled the political strings and dictated the red lines that journalists trust in peril but talk to human rights activists

and they agree that they did grieve meddling in this election is unprecedented the military has a record of in defeating and each and every election that has been held in pakistan they have part of. i really think. we wanted to confront the military with the accusations but our interview requests were turned down in the past the generals have denied any involvement in pakistani politics and with the p.t.i. india mélanie neck and neck the outcome of the elections is far from certain. and we have more on the upcoming pakistan in action throughout the day but now it's time for business is a slap is it a welcome on ika and is just one having problems paying its bills monica you must be an investor because investors of rita are asking exactly that question and

there's a reason for it it emerged that the american economy builder had made an unusual request to its suppliers it asked them for refunds on invoices it had already paid to help it to turn a profit. shares fell more than three percent on the news the company has been struggling with massive production problems with its lower priced model three tesla burned through one billion dollars in liquid assets in the first quarter alone leaving it with just three point two billion by the end of march tesla chief iran lask has said he's aiming for the company to turn a profit in the second half of this year. and french car produce p.s.a. bored to german car brand opel from general motors last year and now the acquisition is starting to pay off during the first half of twenty eighteen opel returned to the black after almost twenty years of losses with profits of more than five hundred million euros p s a's restructuring plan hopefully with shedding

a fifth of its former eighteen thousand staff a also owns a situation and it's a total half here profits were one point seven billion euros. all right two carmakers two interesting stories and let's talk about those with daniel corp our man in the front with stock exchange daniel lets out with tesla which used to be that shining beacon for electro mobility it's a rough waters know what's going wrong. well the big problem and we heard that in the report is that the model three this production of the car has been taking extremely long on the one hand and the production also has been getting way more expensive because of that we are seeing and that's what experts are actually calling in saying that tesla is really having a problem with their liquidity and also with their cash flow tesla by the way has defended themselves there so they were saying that they were indeed sending this

letter out to suppliers but they were only asking for a rather small amount of money and they're saying at least that something like this is completely normal in the business world but investors they are frustrated tesla has never reached that winning zone in the history of the company all right now let's take a look at opel in particular what's the word on p. as a result as germany's opel finally found a really good home to prosper. well back in the winning though this was really a surprise i can tell you given the fact that just some weeks ago we had the news that many experts and even were feeling that the homework set by appears to be profitable again by twenty twenty would be impossible well we have to keep one thing though in mind we're talking about the first six months now with opel being completely integrated into the p.s.a. families so we already thought that the results would be better but now the sales numbers actually went up forty percent to

a level of almost forty billion euros the question now is going to be what's going to happen with opel if for example now they can also enter markets that they were not allowed to do business with when they were still under the ownership offer general motors if that's the case and many feel that actually opel could be maybe in some years again a success story all right well i will be good news in frankfurt thank you so much. seven years into germany's green energy revolution which entails phasing out nuclear power and promoting renewable energy sources thousands of wind turbines are spread across the country but they need to be replaced after ten years disposing of old wind turbines is a big problem not only are they deeply embedded in the ground but getting rid of them releases dangerous dust and now a firm in germany has developed a way to recycle the rotor blades. these are sections of decommissioned

turbines as a wind park in northern germany. are now a group of local environmentalists aren't satisfied too much of the base is still in the ground they want the whole thing to be removed. the concrete bases can be crushed and used in road construction. but the rotor blades contain glass and carbon fiber is. burning them isn't a viable option. just think you've just on toxic gases. and it's difficult to dispose of them. just clogs the filters will stop. carbon fibers conduct electricity and they cause short circuits and fires in the filters that's why incinerators either won't accept them or they charge exorbitant prices to dispose of them. of the thirty thousand turbines in germany a very large number are due to be decommissioned over the next few years and replaced

by larger units. environmentally friendly disposal methods need to be developed before the weight of demolition gets under way. neo comp is a company that recycles modern composite materials and there are plenty of them about glass and carbon fiber reinforced plastic are used not only in brochures but also for example in airplane construction. but what can you do with them once they scrapped. and you can get back to. you when you think to cake there is no technology in the world that lets you separated back into eggs baking powder flour and milk to do the same applies to these materials g.r.p. n c r r p. there constituent parts are so tightly bound together that they can't really be separated and. the company has developed

a procedure to tackle the problem it shreds the material the resulting stuff is light and easy to humble and while it can be burned as a substitute for fossil fuels in the manufacture of cement it can also be mixed with paper production residue and turned into granny less. that granulation can be used as a component of cement as a substitute for sound. so a lot of disused brochures could well turn up in the cement in the foundations of the next generation of wind turbines. and here's a reminder of the top stories we're following for you. the collapse of a hydroelectric dam in the province of type who in southeast laos has left several people dead and hundreds missing the down still under construction released five billion cubic meters of water sweeping buildings away and leaving thousands homeless. watching t w news room bill and more coming up next out.

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