this is deja news coming to you live from berlin and the polls have closed in pakistan's divisive national election more than one hundred million people were registered to vote a suicide bomber struck at one polling station despite heavy military presence throughout the country we go live to islamabad for the very latest also coming up in the build up to sari must go to wal-mart. because it knocked on the parched to get out the bright. greece's prime minister

alexis seemed cross consoles a grieving nation after wildfires killed dozens risk yours are going door to door looking for survivors. in the next sixty minutes can a trade war be a volatile european commission president. is in washington to ease tensions between europe and the u.s. president trump has scored europe to follow when it comes to trade. and the pay dispute keep a dry net pilots and cabin crew go on strike as the budget carrier of warns of full good job cuts what will it mean for passenger jets. plague. cullen a very warm welcome to you i'm. boards have now close in pakistan's general

election voting was largely peaceful across the nation after a campaign fiercely contested by two leading candidates the cricket star turned politician imran khan is hoping to become prime minister for the first time ever and his party that they're in soft or justice ponty is fighting on an anti corruption platform his main rival is shahbaz sharif the pakistan muslim league n he's the brother of former prime minister nawaz sharif who is in prison convicted of corruption as voting began a suicide bomber killed at least thirty people outside a polling station in the south western city of the so-called islamic state came to sponsibility which is in baluchistan province also saw a deadly election violence meanwhile the military was out in force as millions of pakistanis voted. like these are some of the roughly three hundred

seventy thousand troops deployed across the country not only are they guarding polling centers but are also helping with general security duties. human rights groups are concerned they have already complained of the army's alleged interference in the electoral process. which is in this edition get it out and all the buchtel and the one fund that if it is it then there's one thing that we were hoping it as the end. of the intimidation of journalists is believed to have served the campaign of this man former cricket star in one count of the movement for justice party the sixty five year old has vowed to track down on corruption. what to study for we will deliver justice to the masses regardless of them being a hindu or christian or sikh regardless of the being poor all from different provinces all from coffee it is stunning soup

a little suspect who you know of his closest rival is shahbaz sharif brother of the ousted former prime minister novice or if currently in jail on corruption charges. but in the head to head race between khan and sharif this man could prove to be kingmaker below while both it's a diary of the left leaning pakistan people's party the son of slain prime minister benazir bhutto he is looking to revive the fortunes of his party. some observers have called this election the dirtiest in recent memory but for ordinary people on the street their hopes are far more grounded. more disruption the country is economically weak at the moment it is standing at the verge of bankruptcy one thing is sure that whichever government comes it will be faced with challenges but we hope whatever government comes it will recover pakistan from

a fall me they go back to the muslim holy. joining me now from the pakistani capital islamabad is do they have a correspondent now iommi conrad polling stations have now closed what was turnout like and you spoke to some voters what are their concerns. yes exactly polling stations closed an hour ago in about well the next couple of minutes the first results will start trickling in we'll get a better idea of what the voter turnout was like and so we should know pretty soon it seems clear that the big lot of quite i maybe didn't have too much of an impact but voter turnout went down for a while correspondents across the country told us but then resumed again in the afternoon so we'll find out soon the voters i talked to during the day were very much talking about economic concerns about poverty access to clean drinking water there's a huge economic huge electricity crisis here so it's very much the bread and butter issues that people care about and that they really want to see addressed and the

two candidates apparently are going head to head and it's too close to call this election how they're promising change for the country. well it's interesting that there's been a lot of talk about this standoff between iran khan's party and the sharif party and iran khan has been billing himself showing himself to be an anti corruption politician he's talking used talked about introducing an islamist welfare system but they haven't really talked about voters' concerns the ones i just talked about they haven't really talked about how they want to kick start the economy they haven't talked about foreign policy so the big issues that people care about haven't really acted in these elections and sharif has talked a lot about the army meddling in the elections he's kind of presented himself as the democratic candidates but when it comes to addressing voters' concerns they've left a lot of questions open now voting was overshadowed by some violence today despite

vast numbers of military being deployed didn't get the feeling and the army does these elections were fair and free. well i think we have to look at the bigger picture here we have to look at the run up to the elections in the run up to the elections journalists one table turned to journalists one table to report three levy they told me about intimidating phone calls about threats on social media if they gave too much airtime to reduce parties and i think we have to also look at the picture of pakistan pakistan is not a mature democracy votes are here bought and sold in the villages people vote for whoever the village strongman tells them to vote for so in the big picture and also in this particular election i would say you know that the elections were neither free or fair in our sense of democracy right as you said the results are going to start trickling in and you'll be keeping up to date with them now you me conrad in

islamabad thank you very much for that live update from the pakistani capital. and of course we have lots more in-depth coverage and analysis of pakistan's elections on our website w dot com turning now to syria at least one hundred people have been killed in a suicide attacks targeting the southern city of suede are a series of bombings hit the city's marketplace and other targets downtown the so-called islamic state who are battling government forces near the city has claimed responsibility for these cordon it attacks are the worst in recent months and come just a week into a russia backed government campaign to oust fighters from the country's south. greece has begun three days of mourning for the victims of the country's worst fire disaster in a decade at least eighty people are confirmed dead and that number is expected to rise the fires broke out monday evening one near the town of connla around fifty

kilometers west of the capital athens another to the city's east near the coastal village of marty the blazes through the areas in a matter of minutes leaving behind a grim tone. only a few days ago carious celebrated her son's wedding here now she finds herself standing amidst devastation her house her life as she knew it in just a few minutes fire destroyed it all it's only when she returned that the extent of the catastrophe became clear lake area her daughter in law and her grandson only survived thanks to her son he wants her the fire was bearing down on them let me go my son called me from work and told me run quickly to the harbor we ran to the harbor that's why we survived there's a large house knew they had a court fire and three or four people i thought were being burned to death inside. this family and the only victims so many in must see have lost everything and the

death toll is expected to rise many a still missing. have been about to open his top but then it was conceived by flames within minutes he accuses the authorities of failing his town now he doesn't even know where he'll sleep. they tell us all the hotels are full and that we should apply for a place in a container in athens a disaster what should we do we pay back the bank when we are money and we are the taxpayers the government must help us all. the greek government has declared a state of emergency three days of national mourning and his vow to deliver eight. sorry must. stand together.

and above all. of the european countries have also sent help in the form of planes and fire fighters hundreds of them still battling to control the flames the trying to stop bit more people losing their belongings or the. european commission president. is due to meet us present at the white house later today in a bid to head off a looming trans atlantic trade war washington is threatening to extend its status to cause off the slapping levies on steel an aluminum the e.u. has responded in kind did obvious gov motus has this look at what's at stake. it's a tweet that struck brussels like a thunderbolt trade wars are good and easy to win that's the message the american president sent over the atlantic on march first a week later came this announcement today i'm defending america's national security

by placing tariffs on foreign imports of steel and aluminum they you managed to get a temporary exemption but china was ready to retaliate. we don't want to trade war with the us or with any other country but if china's interests are damaged then we'll have to take measures to defend our interests. on april second china announced punitive tariffs on one hundred twenty eight u.s. products while the e.u. still try to convince trump to change its mind their position is and will decide we had an exchange of views on the current state of affairs of the negotiations. we have to deal with common global challenges regarding of trade regarding so important security issues it's impossible to make any trade war but it was all in vain on june first the u.s. also introduced tariffs on european steel and i mean you know the e.u.

commission's response came swiftly this is a better day for the word twit and three unknowns in the next coming hours counterbalancing measures what they can do we are able to do exactly. the sale on june twenty second the e.u. put levies on jeans peanut butter whiskey and motorbikes trump in turn is now considering whether to impose have to levies on european vehicles so can the president of the european commission find an exit door from an all out trade war i asked and you expert i don't think the use of trying to go shoot with mr trump i don't think this is the right time for that and quite frankly i don't think that would help what is important is to follow the system and tools as they exist and try and point out the obvious namely the trade was a very very damaging you know concrete proposal to take to the u.s. its primary goal is to calm tensions with washington for the first time in decades global free trade looks like it's under serious threat it's unsettling unless of

course you are convinced that you will just win trade wars aren't so bad. now ahead of the talks that include here later today in washington donald trump renewed his call for a completely free trade and the us president fired off this treaty calling on both parties to quote drop all talents barriers and subsidies that would finally be court free market and free trade for that was done writing there on twitter let me now join a chorus on gov martin from brussels and d.d. obvious washington bureau chief alexander from naaman welcome to both a few dogs let me start with you trump has indicated he's determined to get the europeans are reduced what he says unfair tariffs and tariff barriers what can i do to persuade him not to impose more talents any of goods. three things a reader of the president of the european commission can now do first of all of

course improve relations that would already be a step forward secondly remind the us president that in his critique of the w t o he does not stand alone even before he started slapping tariffs on the e.u. goods the e.u. was also critical of the w t o as it is so there is room for reform in the w t o so that will be one of the messages and certainly we may be looking at a teacher blight if you want the free trade deal the e.u. and the us used to talk about about a before trump stop these talks so what we could see is the head of the european commission suggesting that maybe at least on industrial goods the tariffs could be cut down in a in a small three trade deal but all of that will only happen if trump takes spec those tariffs if he steps back from the brink alexander in washington want to the chances of that will trump be open to you at all. well i think

that the president certainly eager to listen to younger and to learn what he has to offer. when the leaders met at the g. seven summit in canada trying to destroy what described her as a brutal killer and ask about this comment the white house said explains that the president considers you incur tough negotiator so that's definitely a good starting point however that doesn't mean that we will see any progress on trade because we do not have any indication so far that the u.s. president is willing to compromise we even don't know what a compromise can look like from his perspective and many experts here say that the europeans and the you as have totally different approaches the bones to

the rules space international order which truong trump is trying to replace by he's a purely transactional approach so if there is no significant development out of today's meeting watch when the europeans do next well the u.s. already drawn up a list of goods worth twenty billion u.s. dollars including are recalled good but also in industrial goods so if those tar a car levies would come europe's way you would be ready to retaliate but in alexander the consequence titian is taking measures to protect sectors if its economy from tallis that shows us that retaliatory terrorist by the e.u. china mexico and canada i beginning to bite is that right. yes that's right the u.s. farmers are already suffering many of them say that stay fear that they cannot continue their businesses if they are going to see

a full blown trade war so the trump an administration now says that it is planning to use a great depression era program to pay up to twelve billion u s dollars to help the you ask farmers wherever a growing trade war however this move was already met with a lot of criticism one representative of a farmers association said that it's just going to be a band-aid on a broken black so long stick alexander from naaman bureau chief in washington and you of modest in brussels thank you both very much ok now joins me with some rather sad news from the car industry and sort of it all we have to begin with on a rather somber note that now that fears has announced the death of its former c.e.o. sergio marchione only days after he stepped down due to ill health marchione was credited with rescuing fear from bankruptcy in two thousand and four and one of the

all industries greatest turnarounds the news of marchione his death overshadows the publication of disappointing second quarter results though trading in few across the shares were suspended after they plunged more than ten percent the comic opposed to the fall and the profit of thirty five percent to seven hundred fifty four million euro's on revenues that were higher than last year the company which owns the jeep alfa romeo dogs and mother auntie brands also counts full year guidance for revenues. thrive there has won't be around three hundred job cuts for pilots and cabin crew as the carrier says it might cut its dublin based fleet by twenty percent for the winter season after season strikes ok's the announcement comes as ryan asked often for we were pm countries hold a two day strike affecting thousands of holidaymakers empty halls in madrid's but us international airport ryanair says it's contacted ninety percent of affected

passengers who've been rescheduled on to other flights the strike in spain comes during peak travel season when families are taking advantage of the summer break from school travelers are in a holding pattern and unsure about when they'll fly as i need to. what they've told us we can expect any kind of surprises i hope there won't be any though. the strike follows disputes over working conditions and pay as living costs increase the large majority of cabin crew don't have a base salary they get paid per flight a situation that unions won't tolerate. we are demanding that spanish an e.u. legislations be respected and workers right we're not asking for money or any outlandish privileges just that the law be respected. the cabin crew walkouts come after ryanair pilot strikes earlier this month with the last one ending yesterday more delays will follow around sixty thousand ground staff in spain announced plans

for action in august ryanair is woes with workers are affecting its bottom line the airlines profits tumbled partly due to strikes by employees. for more on this story. from business department laws. what's the latest to do with development there has come out of ryanair i suppose the latest is really more trouble for ryan air because after two days of strike this week the pilots union has just announced that they are also going to strike on august third so there's more trouble on the horizon for next week impacting of course even more flights but this strike is not all about money is it no it's not it's of course partially about money but for a lot of people working at ryanair this is also about the environment they work in working conditions because they are apparently really bad at the ryan air which of course has to do with them being a low cost carrier they off course don't have much wiggle room in the margins they

have to just function for the cabin crews for the pilots that means that they have just bought the shorters brakes that even allowed by the law they have a very very tight schedule and that of course is more for corporate problem in general they are not getting a base salary but they're getting paid according to the individual flight schedules so they don't really have any certainty for the end of the month they don't know how much money they make any given month and that is just generally what they want to change. does that have safety implications as well use the shortest breaks in the industry like this the shortest breaks that are allowed by law means that it's probably still safe but the just being safe doesn't make for a friendly environment you might just need a rest every once in a while anyway and other airlines apparently give their flight crews a little bit more rest and i could imagine that if you're in that business for a long period of time that really makes a difference about how you feel how you perform and how happy you are with your job

if there were other airlines what it means for ryanair given the strong competition of a low cost carrier carer's briefly if you want it's just going to get even harder for them because they don't have as i said any wiggle room here if. they do end up paying their pilots and their cabin crew is more of that threatens their entire business model because they are cheap cheap cheap there's no margin so at some point their model is just not sustainable it is a dangerous business model indeed thank you very much facebook in setting up a subsidiary in china the internet giant finally obtained a license to do business in the country where its social media platform is actually blocked facebook says it's establishing a tech hub to support chinese developers and startups the company has created similar initiatives in other markets facebook's main business model has recently come under pressure due to concerns over privacy and data protection while its social media business won't be part of its presence in china the entry will allow

its to experiment in the world's biggest market. and that's a business for now i'm open is a bit later in the show but first of spectrum any time thank you get hard to laos in southeast asia where greece nine thousand people are known to have died after a hydroelectric dam collapsed on monday following heavy rains the number of deaths in iraq is as rescuers continue their search for hundreds of missing villages in the flooded area thousands need shelter after the floods swept away their homes at least seven villages were reportedly submerged the dam was still under construction when it collapsed activists are calling for renewed scrutiny of the government's plans for more hydroelectric projects. we're now joined by bangkok based correspondent fred explorer fredricka this is remote and there is a lot of hurdles to rescuing people such as to a web badly damaged infrastructure what is being done by the government to help the

stranded villages villages. well the government sent a lot of rescue personnel to that disaster area the army is operating our. buddies like firefighters and the police are helping of course and also state owned companies our advice to help us live just because the situation is very wary dangerous right now as you've already said thousands of them still need to be rescued they are sitting on the roofs they are sitting on the trees a lot of people you don't even know where they're actually are so a lot of work still needs to be done there are some other neighboring countries who offered to help for example vietnam and thailand they offered to send chapatis also south korea all helping this is because a south korean company has been involved in building the dam so there is international help is beginning and there are lots of issues for example food is

a big issue a lot of food supplies of the religious has been drowned or became wet so you need to bring a lot of supplies not to that area and this is difficult because it's very remote so clearly changing huge difficulties right now and should it be a given to people it's the damage appeared in the hydroelectric dam before the collapse of you know why villages downstream want to evacuate in time. well that's a very very big question right now and right now we have a different difficult. how how things evolve so for example one company that has a shareholder in the posts they said that the first problems appeared already on friday and another company says the problems appeared on sunday so the disaster happened on monday in both cases you would have a lot of time to want the women just to. the villages but somehow

a lot of willits us didn't couldn't believe they werent that we have to care that this is why they are in such a big trouble right now so of course it needs to be investigated why they haven't been enough maybe they haven't been won seriously enough and only sings need to be reviewed now unfortunately laos is a very strict regime it's a communist agreement where you don't have a free press the opposition is suppressed people have limited rights so that minds that we will choose in the future one day reports of projects full of thank you very much for that update. he was indeed of any use coming up ahead as free to ship students single handedly hold a plane in protest against the deportation of an asylum seeker the video has sparked the spirited debate a social media team has the full story. explosive bought no offer a festival in baidoa to stop him government from

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far would you go to save another person's life in sweden a student single handedly stopped a plane to prevent an afghan asylum seeker from being sent back to what she called hail video of the dramatic moment has gone viral touching off a spirited debate online liz show from our social media disk has been tracking that story closely for us and she joins me now live welcome back to the beginning what exactly happened. well i retired all started when a young swedish student called our son heard that an afghan was going to be deported so she bought a plane ticket for the flight that she believed that this afghan was going to be on she got on the plane and then she began her own form of protest and she filmed the whole thing and streamed it live on facebook we can show you parts of that video

but what i'm most saying is that i'm not going to sit down until this person is the player. because he would most likely get killed if he gets on this mean that you. know and the pilot has to right to say that he is not allowed to be on the plane and as long as he's not on the page then i will comply. so she's saying she is not sitting down she doesn't want to the plane to take off until the afghan has been allowed to get off the plane later we see a cabin crew asking her to please sit down she's not doing that we hear some passengers were saying that she's delaying the flight still she goes on with her protests and then later they even other passengers who are joining her also standing up and then after a few minutes there actually is some progress and she seems to be succeeding we can take a look here again. but. we're going to. they're

taking the lead service. has been cutting back to me let me say that is so good for you to do it better to me to thank you. thanks. and in fact after the man left the plane then ellen also got off the plane and the video since then has gone viral millions of people have already watched it gosh really a missile protest action what the reaction is to have protest is. already we have thousands of people really congratulating her applauding her for her courage for example here we have a somebody from amnesty international europe saying this is what a human rights defender looks like but then there are also lots of comments of

people saying that this was not the right thing for ellen to do for example this user in twitter saying the swedish woman held off the departure of a plane because someone from afghanistan was being sent home by the swedish government i'm sure he went through all the proper processes so she has no right to do this so this is basically people who are commenting really divided into those two camps and this it seems did have you has been digging a little deeper and it turns out that the story isn't white as black and white as many we're led to believe. yeah that's true there are some surprising twists to this story that we have just learned so first of all we reached out to ellen wanted to know more about what she had done she only agreed to send us a states man so this is why she's saying how she is the founding that action on the plane she told d.w. this she says it's my firm belief that no one should be deported to

a land at war and i chose to do what i could to stop his deportation and now i'm rita we talked to somebody the head actually coming that deals with afghan refugees and stockholm and he told us that when ellen got on the plane she wanted to protest the deportation of a young afghan man named michael now it turns out that wasn't even on the plane but there was another afghan on that plane where told that he was leaving of the country voluntarily voluntarily going back to afghanistan so she changed her plans then there on the plane and said ok i just want to this man who was on the plane to be allowed to say in a suite and so there are lots of questions that are still open and we're still following that story closely trying to get as many details as we can looking forward to hearing more from also should we do this thank you very much for that. it was indeed obvious coming up ahead controversy over racism in german football

after many. put the national team canada ahead of the german football federation with the pressure to resign. and the. first test tube baby turns forty today we look back at the early days of indra but offensive line vision of once controversial commonplace. but first again hadn't leaders of the five brics nations that visited russia india china and south africa are gathering in johannesburg today for the annual summit that's rising trade entire of course on top of the agenda there with donald trump's continuous assault of free trade giving the loose block a fresh impetus the leader of the biggest brics economy is also using the summit to further its own trade agenda on the continent. the chinese president xi jinping is traveling through africa and he's bought china's checkbook with them he has

a little something for each country he visits on tuesday it was south africa's turn where she promised fifteen billion dollars in investments many companies are hoping they'll get a piece of the pie and that's boosting investor confidence. south african presidents a real ramaphosa has also been currying favor with investors since the swearing in in february. including china's pledge he secured thirty five billion dollars all together. the brics summit is ramaphosa his first appearance on the international stage he's joined by the leaders of china russia india and brazil in johannesburg at a time of international upheaval. after all we present forty one percent of the world's population twenty two percent of g.d.p. eighteen percent of trade at this point in time i think the international border is being challenged. the confidence in the order in disturbed order it is not as

strong as it used to be so it's time for the brics to fear for its commitment to the international order. it's the first brics meeting since u.s. president donald trump kicked off his trade conflicts trump has indicated south africa could soon face u.s. tariffs of its own all the more reason that the future of free trade tops the agenda in johannesburg. but organizations like brics are becoming more and more important it seems as the world is looking for alternatives to the u.s. market which is increasingly being sealed off by the u.s. president as brilliant ellis fungo those covering the summit in south africa for us and on a funny guy who joins us from delhi let's start with you it's not only the brics countries represented there many other countries have sent delegations turkey's president added one has come in person what does that mean. well this is a need the first high level conflict between turkey and brics aragon will attend a special session in his capacity as the chairman of the organization of islamic corp and they'll also sideline foreign will meet with russia over they've been

increasing their corporation but looking at africa part of turkey's it and that is expanding its presence on the african continent they want to establish a diplomatic missions in every african country they've said and they just want to explore trade on the continent and that's why we also see a lot of other players coming to the table now this brics summit. let's go come to you for a moment with all the on the rest of the world economy how important are the brics and how important is this summit for india in particular. well i think the breaks are important you know that analysts here who say that the block off as a multilateral platform for india to have a great to see in the world's financial affairs for instance you know india is keen on having a brics rating agency to rival moody's but even on other issues and other international issues i think brics offers new ways of engaging on topics such as regional security we heard prime minister narendra modi you know this week talk about how he

wants brics draw a counterterrorism strategy with some joint action on terror financing at the same time that of voices here in india who say that india does is in a bit of a tricky spot because it is deep in the germans with china and russia but also with the us and that complicates things quite a bit so i think india placed an interesting role in the block at this time of growing uncertainty and protectionism. you mentioned narendra modi he has also used the trip to visit several african countries before that and has done the say is there a sense of competition while china is barging in with a huge win for two infrastructure programs in africa does india fear to be left behind. when you do indeed officials have actually said this week that they're not in any race with china when it comes to getting access to african markets they point out that you know india's historical ties with africa would stretch back centuries but you know despite that talk there is no denying that india's attempts to expand its influence in africa is simply no match for china's

deep pockets and straight but you know we have india india africa trade currently stands at the little over fifty billion dollars and that builds in comparison to china's investments in africa which standard about one hundred seventy billion u.s. dollars. let's come back to you looking at south africa where you have not all is well in the biggest economy on the continent after years of stagnation and jacob zuma sarong opposer now is seen as a ray of hope is he really. yes he is yeah yeah he was always from the start when he took over john jay because some have said that he really is focusing on getting more foreign investment back into the contrie and to make sure the people are confident again in south africa and then this you just mentioned a record as well we've already seen now before the break summit that said that at least china said ok fifteen billion to goes to to south africa they also said that they grabbed so that's what got mills for struggling at power utility company eskom

so he is off to a good starts this summer it's and that said as well he's also not just saying that he wants investment in south africa is also we saying that we actually want brics to invest in the rest of the continent and that's also while we have this summit to also see need us from one that from mongolia from mozambique so there's more of a table there for socialism of course and then just south africa if you were looking at this this additional interest that the brics is generating right now is there any chance of brics my my bro. well ed there is definitely many african countries that would like to i think if they can if part of breaks emerging economies so i think also some of that leaders there might lobby as well for their mad to to join brics and we also see that our leaders like from china are going to visit some other african countries us also i will just have to see if that it will get another letter to the brics acronyms.

over there in south africa for us and sign a phonic copy of delhi thank you very much for this inside and that's all the business spectrum written up thank you get hired. this isn't real and football is still causing controversy in germany with pressure growing on the president of the german football federation nine hundred to step down on germany's star football a message to see who has turkish roots accused him of racism when he quit the german national team at the weekend the federation has defended itself against this accusation of racism that grindle himself has stayed silent reinhart grendel was appointed the german football federation president in two thousand and sixteen brought in as a crisis manager to sort out the chaos left by allegations germany had bought votes to host the two thousand and six world cup but now another crisis is

a reason and this time grindle is at the very heart of the mess it is a fair. i just do not see a clear professional handling of the crisis at the moment it doesn't surprise me though because the german football federation is actually full of imus's. grindle has been a lawyer and a journalist he also spent fourteen years in the german parliament for angle americans christian democrats and once said that multiculturalism was a myth comments that would come back to haunt him when ms it isn't and jimmy teammate the one turkish president richard tayyip erdogan. i believe that both are aware that they have made a mistake i'm courage everyone to go easy on them. but at the gym he crashed out of the world cup group stage grindle got tough demanding issue a statement when it came to the queues dribble of outright racism pringle is now

under pressure ahead of september's vote between germany and turkey over the hosting of euro two thousand and twenty four germans are now wondering if grandel is heading for the exit. that is a very special birthday for one woman and for modern science forty years ago louise joy brown was born the first person ever conceived using in vitro fertilization she became known as the was a test tube baby she was born by syrian section in england on this day in one nine hundred seventy eight her mother had tried for years to become pregnant before finding success with the breakthrough procedure of artificial insemination his parents shied away from the public sensation of a birth yet the family spent loses twenty three hundred by one thousand other children who'd also been born through artificial insemination. now today in vitro

fertilization has become routine in germany alone it's kind out around fifty thousand times every year but back in the early eighty's germany's first i.b.s. baby sparked a huge debate on the ethics of creating life in a test tube we spoke to one of the pioneers of reproductive medicine. when talking on acne valda pulls out some of her own documents she's very quickly transported back to nine hundred eighty one she was part of a team of specialists at the university of alabama who successfully conducted research into artificial insemination and mice a short time later she used the technique on the egg cells of a woman for the first time. and then. in and then the patient became pregnant. this is good i still have that first image of the pregnancy of her womb and as i always carried it around with me back then i had the feeling

that heaven had opened up. oliver was born in april nine hundred eighty two the first artificially conceived baby in germany. to touch an acne vault was one of the first people to hold him. we have to say we celebrated the once in a lifetime birth of the first artificially conceived baby in germany quite simply at the laboratory as you can see it was just us and. there was a huge uproar when the clinic announced the. touch on occleve elton our colleagues were attacked and vilified by the media. baby. so the idea of baby makers was very unpleasant for some. but because we had such a positive atmosphere at the laboratory and because we were such a good team that all stayed outside the door and the three in.

knievel it was instrumental in the birth of many other babies. she became very close to one of them that chamakh nevel got to know the parents of this young girl during their treatment they became friends. their daughter carole has no problem with the way she was conceived to me the same acknowledge it is vice and that really does is of course i know that they wanted me and that it was a long hard struggle for my parents it was a path that was not always easy we have a very close relationship also when it comes to that but i feel quite normal. karo is about to get a ph d. in biology as a pioneer in the field of artificial insemination in germany that makes touch on a can leave out very happy indeed.

abidal it's in bavaria southern germany is the home of the annual biden festival which is solely dedicated to the operas of the wagner and this was his hometown right down the premier of a new production office opera low in green is on the way being watched by the joe lynch also i get a magnet resists every year job in measure from a disk is not in the audience with us but right now with this idea of i'm god but that doesn't mean what he says opera house considered the best place to stage the operas just before i tell you why it's evidently forty degrees in the opera house right now there's a hate wave as we know in germany and they're all in the evening so watch this for a long opera so i'm not chic ferry pleased to be in the studio with you operator but to tell you more about the why is the best place when it was built in one thousand nine hundred fifty six to wagner has put the ideas you know there was

a new order you say future like an amphitheater it's very sort of like a fine old use right side and also is very big deal dettori so the big sound of wagner i mean the main sponsor of the opera house was king big the second boat built noice ranch time but as we can see from the or perhaps it's built for a purpose it's not it's not some sort of like a fairy tale castle these are pictures by the way of productions we should have nicest hours but behind that you can see the orchestra pit that was the only thing wagner wanted he wanted it concealed so you could concentrate on the stage which is very good for the acoustics because the wagner orchestra sometimes one hundred thirty musicians they would drown out the singers but they don't in that particular or perhaps anyway look let's have a look at this production of london. it's by white festival time again every year fans flock to the fresh feel house on the green hill

to experience the music of richard wagner under the best possible conditions. i. know in going opens the festival this year immersed in melancholic blue turns and with much electrical paraphernalia in evidence there and when it's not a night's but the guy from the power company. the production design comes from leipsic school painter neo rope and his wife rose a lawyer the inspiration came from an unusual source. we have is. this was an idea that came to me when i looked into a porcelain plate the whole thing came from this event this evokes these images this blueness which then comes out on the stage ok.

there the opera is directed by you have our share on the american with israeli roots tries to tell known as the emancipate three story of a strong woman in the opening act and so is accused of murdering her brother and about to be burned at the stake. if this officer gets high it is often portrayed as wrecking everything because of her curiosity this isn't about her failure it's lohengrin failure he expects the impossible from how to marry a man without knowing who he is z. and man behind it and so on it's of disinvest it's. piotr. took on the title role just three weeks ahead of the premiere.

oh yeah i'm sure you. caught here we can see the blueness of the production they were talking about now it seems every is this some kind of controversy was the orishas tena sacked from the production just three weeks before that he was not exactly the french tenor roberto alagna was meant to be performing his first marian role now to sing wagner it's quite something to do three weeks ago he suddenly said saying quit saying he wasn't able to sufficiently study the part due to work overload well i'm going to love sympathy with that you need to work out you're. late in the day but fortunately kristen tillman who's the musical director of the dresser and the fresh fieldhouse imbibing right staged this all for a couple years ago with the potage ten a pure trouble we saw that playing longer and he stepped in last moment to save the

day let's hope that he is this year's controversy because the have been some of the been productions that have been booed at their premieres and things like that but i don't think this will be ok but required to a coup to get this famous painting the rock to do steeds design of this production deed i mean this is a man whose paintings sell for millions literally on the art market and he and his wife rose a lawyer were persuaded to design the production as we saw he took his. inspiration from the famous blue of michael's and from. i'll be interested to see what the critics say because i think he started painting is rather suited to wagner wagner is very much of an composer i find iraq a very german painter very german style of this is very interesting what the critics say it could be a real coup d'etat as they say. looks interesting more on your website absolutely d.w.

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