this is d.w. news live from back counting the votes in pakistan after a violent election campaign it will be only the second civilian transfer of power in the country seventy one year history voting in most areas was peaceful but at least suicide bombing casts a shadow over the day we'll be live to istanbul also on the program but if you love is the sorry must not overwhelm us. if you have because it is now time to fight you know what it stand to get on the bright. greece's

prime minister alexis tsipras consoles a grieving nation after wildfire has killed at least eighty people rescue workers they're not going door to door searching for survivors. emergency supplies dogs to arrive for people made homeless by the last down collapse at least nineteen people are known to have died. also in the next sixty minutes the european union locks holds with us president trump on trade head of talks at the white house the e.u. commission president chokehold yoko described himself as being overly optimistic. leaders of the world's fastest elephant economies of meet in johannesburg so khan brics find fresh impetus with free trade under assault. i'm phil galois. into the program. vote counting has begun in pakistan's tense and

violent parliamentary elections results are not expected for several hours but the leading parties are said to be neck and neck the campaign saw hundreds of people killed in suicide bombings and attacks at rallies but the election day itself turned out to be largely peaceful although one suicide bombing took the lives of thirty one people. this is the aftermath of a bomb blast that killed dozens outside of a polling station in southwest pakistan. the so-called islamic state has taken responsibility for the alleged suicide attack that set a grim tone for today's elections across over eighty thousand voting stations pakistanis stream to the polls and what could be a historic election for the country and the stakes are high and. it is so many problems make basic problems a city and what we don't get especially the put people they don't even get clean

water main concern was toward for the right man against corruption against those people who are caught up wearing that see it so i did want to warn you somebody who is on it. that's why i want it for the right person and these two candidates are vying for that position to become the right person imran khan has taken on a populist stance against corruption and for an islamic well first state can said it was time to defeat parties which kept the country hostage for years his target and main opponent shahbaz sharif he is the brother of former prime minister nawaz sharif who was ousted from power last year and jailed for corruption sharif accuses khan of colluding with the military. seventy one year history has been flecked with a number of military coups the military has ruled pakistan for nearly half its

history cricket star or sharif dynasty the election is expected to be close with results likely to come early on thursday. straight to pakistan's capital islamabad where we find a w correspondent now because not welcome now let's talk about the importance of eight elections why are they so important. well the incredibly important for pakistan because what we're seeing is a radical change here we're seeing a change away from didn't last stick politics in the past these two big parties here the people's party and also show respotted the p.l.o. end up basically family affairs power here is given from one party member to the next but with imran khan we see a shift we see an outsider coming in so a radical change here we also have a couple of islamist parties who may become very important when it comes to forming a government and also these elections elections of course incredibly important for

the reach of pakistan lesion pakistan is a major player when it comes to india when it comes to afghanistan also relations to china so the west is going to be watching these elections and all the outcomes of these elections very closely. likely likely to become prime minister what have they been promising the. well the voters here want change i mean we've talked to a lot of voters today and they they talk a lot about bread and butter issues they want a better economy the economy here is on the brink of collapse they want food they want clean water they want jobs they want poverty alleviation and they want an end to corruption politicians here are traditionally incredibly corrupt a lot of politicians have had to leave office because they were indicted on corruption charges and so the voters want to try something else they don't really care it seems what imran khan stands for he just stands for change and change is what pakistani voters want. the elections themselves. as having been free and

fair. well that is an interesting question in the run up to the elections the whole campaign in process wasn't particularly free all fair there's been a lot of accusations of the army meddling in the elections we've talked to analysts we've talked to a lot of journalists who've received threatening calls. play it that they were not able to report on the campaign that certain parties had to be favored all they would receive these threatening phone calls the election themselves at least according to some of the election observers we were able to talk to seem to have been relatively fair but the whole process if you look at the whole process that was not fair and we also have to remember that pakistan is a different kind of democracy than the one we know that c.-o. a boat and so a lot of people basically vote for the party of the candidate that the village strongman tells them to vote for so in the western sense in the kind of democracy

we exist to you know these elections were neither free nor fair now because it's not about thank you and grace has become three days of national mourning for the victims of the country's worst fire disaster for a decade at least eighteen people have been confirmed dead a number that is expected to increase fires broke out on monday evening one near the town of connecticut around fifty kilometers west of athens and another to the east of the city in the coastal village of matty places swept through the areas in minutes taking a grim toll. only a few days ago glick areas 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 clear yeah her son in law and her grandson only survived thanks to her son he warned 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 were thought to have been burnt to death inside. the total death toll in march he still isn't known many people there are still missing many of those who escaped with their lives lost almost everything else. vassilis had been about to open his tavern but then it was destroyed 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 owe money and we are the taxpayers the government a must help us out all. the greek government has declared

a state of emergency and has vowed to deliver aid fast has also called for three days of national mourning the baby almost nothing sorry must not overwhelm us. because it is now time to fight you know it is to stand together and be brave. and above all to show solidarity. other european countries have also sent planes and personnel to help local fire companies control a number of fires and prevent people from losing property or their lives. let's go then to matti that small holiday you know resort to that's been so badly hit in the pell is that. what is it like. the first thing that really hits she feel as you drive into this town is the sheer scale if the tragedy absolutely everywhere you look in every direction you see

burned out houses the charred shells remains of cars it's really very shocking to see the smell as well as something that confronts you immediately as you walk around. trees burning it's the smell of the metal of cars that have melted and of course as we know. a lot of people were trying to use those cars to get out of this town and very many of the. local newspaper has called it the get in on that front page and that really is one that goes a long way to describing exactly what it feels like being here at the moment having said that people are now starting to come into this town trying to offer their help . driving cars as if we've been sitting here would seem dozens of cars filled with water with food with many of the survivors who is still here just trying to take stock of exactly what has happened. it's really very moving thing to say what are you hearing from rescue workers. yeah we've

been speaking to policeman fire services as well they say that the fires in there are largely their job now is to try and find survivors they're going from door to door to see if any people are still alive after this tragedy is also about excessive accessing how many people were killed it's feared that the death toll. could rise dramatically people that we've spoken to say that they don't know exactly how many people are still missing everyone that we've spoken to here whether it be local residents policeman fire workers all of them have grim stories to tell about what they found in the aftermath of this tragedy we spoke to one local shop owner who said that on the night of the fires he was going from car to pasta machine windows trying to break people free and lead them to the water where it's feared that they would it was hoped that they would find safety he said that he doesn't know what exactly happens to many of them could in fact be many days

before we truly see the scale of this tragedy and what's being said about the course of these fires. there have been since has been some speculation in the local press that austin may have been a factor in fact one of the local officials said that there were fifteen separate blazes. who lit up around the same time which which makes them suspicious having said that they fires are common in this region especially around this time of year and this region has seen extremely hot temperatures over the last few days so there's a lot of speculation i think the facts there that there was such strong winds on this dreadful evening would have played a big role in the tragedy here today paula chelsea though thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world the englishman who survived exposure to the deadly nerve agent no feature has been telling journalists

that he was disguised as a perfect child the role he said he bought the bottle in a sealed box for his girlfriend dawn sturgis who fell ill within fifteen minutes of spraying it on her wrists she later died in hospital. at least one hundred people have been killed in a suicide attack targeting syria's southern town of schwager the u.k. based syrian observatory for human rights says it was the deadliest attack by so-called islamic state of months. a senior journalist has been killed at a mexican at the mexican beach resort of playa del carmen ruben path was the second journalist from apply and used to be murdered within a month reported on crime in the city which is in an area with a soaring rate of violence due to the presence of drugs guys. taxi drivers in barcelona have taken to the streets to protest against the ride sharing company had previously been forced out of spain but it reappeared in boston on

tuesday after regulations limiting its operation were lifted the strike is planned to last forty eight hours. when the football team rescued from a flooded cave in thailand have been ordained as novice bodies monks they're honoring the memory of the navy diver who died while trying to save the boy's head was shaved for the occasion and used to live in the monastery for just over a week. in laos sorry emergency supplies have started to arrive for people made homeless by the collapse of a downer on monday at least nineteen people are not known to have died the death toll is likely to rise as rescuers searched for the search the flooded area for hundreds of missing religious values need shelter after floodwaters swept away their homes and submerged at least seven villages the dam was still under construction when it collapsed activists are calling for increased scrutiny of the government's plans for more hydroelectric projects. on journalist frederick's for

has been monitoring events from bangkok welcome frederick people entering the second night without food or clean water what's being done to help them well now it's already evening here in southeast asia it's dark but the rescue efforts still need to go on there are still thousands of people who need to be rescued there are still sitting on their roofs they are still on trees there are searched with boats and helicopters. the only international help arrives today is a type seem arrived three and he arrived so help was coming in but the scenes are still quite graphic and there are rescuers still concentrate on finding survivors instead of death defying the death rectums now what now seems to be a clear sort of sequence of events talk us through what happened from sunday evening when the dam was found to be damaged to where we are now. yeah.

actually that one company that was involved even says that some missed or some problems of a q it on friday another company said that the damage appeared on sunday so the breach happened on monday that means that at least twenty four hours where between the first appearance of damages and the actual catastrophe so and that rates of course a lot of question why so many people are in struggle now and fighting put to survive or already dead because you would expect that they would be a lot of time to recreate them the company say that they want the villagers the authorities there also say they want the villages but. as you see now so many people are in deep trouble and it's a because it confessed for you so obviously something went wrong maybe they didn't want them early enough maybe not serious enough so these are the questions that need to be answered in the next day but it will be tough to get the to get the two

thought of it because that law says they're coming to seek regime there is no freedom of press people cannot raise their voice they have limited rights so it will be very difficult to find. a responsible person and bring justice to that. and so how is this likely to affect the government's power strategy this desire to become the battery of asia. yeah well right now it doesn't seem that there would be a system that strategy and to be honest i mean it's that one of the strategic target of the of the lao government to make laos the battery of asia so there are so many projects planned right now there are around fifty damask by twenty ten feet there's all the one hundred there they capacity is supposed to triple so all over the country right now those dams are being built and it's kind of it's kind of

understandable on the other side those projects really need to be scrutinised now and even though they don't stop they need to be reviewed a good talking to for the ball and bag cox thank you so much this is dave doubly news that live from bowden still to come can the head of the german football federation withstand the pressure to resign as it was of course the country's football team and accused him of racism. a lot humphrey from a business that is here now in a difficult day for fear chrysler has right employees mourning the death of their long time c.e.o. said on a who's died at the age of sixty six all the complications from an operation now the charismatic former manager celebrated the saving both fit and cries that from bankruptcy mike yon had chief his last major goal just before his death cries len else to wednesday that it eliminated its day that said marchione also left more immediate concerns for the italian american carmakers posted

a thirty five percent dip in profit for the second quarter and scaled back its food here revenue projections. ryanair has wanted three hundred jobs for pilots in cabin crew could be set to go as the carious says it might cut its dublin a base defeat by twenty percent for the winter season that's off the recent strikes hurt bookings now the announcement comes as rawest often for european countries conduct a two day strike affecting thousands of holiday makers. this is what ryanair was hoping to avoid images of frustrated passengers waiting in line. intend the mosquitoes that's a minor we thought everyone whose flight was cancelled had been informed we never expected they'd tell us half an hour before we were supposed to fly that we weren't going anywhere and i know i shouldn't have said all of a cancer a flight to pisa we found out in the taxi on the way over here that she has a lot of. ryanair had tried to limit the disruption caused by the cabin crew strike

even pressured many of its employees to cross the picket lines. but company management failed to find common ground with union representatives. as. ryanair is a textbook example of what you shouldn't do be a worker relations union relations or management style they have used their workers they humiliate them in the striking workers want to draw public attention to what they call abuse with these water bottles they're required to buy their own water wall and duty just like passengers the strikes in belgium portugal and spain are centered on working conditions rather than money. there has been flying for ryan air for six years but despite the loyalty when he's sick he says he's on his own. if i get treatment here i have to foot the bill myself and hope that the irish insurance system pays me back we also can't get loans for a house t.v. or car because we earn our income abroad and foreign banks won't give loans in spain. given the. ryanair has published information

about its benefit packages and average wages much to the surprise of all sky he claims take home salaries are around twenty thousand euros instead of the thirty four thousand ryanair claims. ryanair is lying there trying to get the public on their side we were never interested in numbers or wages this is about our working conditions respect we don't want to be insulted or threatened we want to work without being afraid. and what have strikers achieved after the first day in spain at least not much the country's transport ministry said a minimum level of flights must take place hamstring the new numbers. off in iran i don't think there will be more protests we won't kowtow to ryanair we won't let them take advantage of their employees or let the authorities management or passengers laugh at them. things with anyone in the majority of running their

flights in and out of spain did take place on the first day of the strike passengers were informed on time but that could change as the strike continues. the trading relationship between the european union and morocco could be in stormy waters over the issue off the shaky after months of negotiations the sides of finally managed to reach a deal over how much more rocco will charge european boats for access to its waters but that's a catch. europe has an appetite to fish it can't satisfy in its own waters that's why the e.u. pays african governments for the right to fish and that comes to walters on tuesday . one such agreement with morocco but the deal has a flaw it ignores the european court of justice ruling from february which states that any agreement would be invalid if it includes the waters off western sahara a disputed region claimed by morocco and the breakaway independence movement had

meant that they that you could ship ship to study this article makes it clear that the fishing area should include the walter of moroccan so harra said it. was there this clearly reflects the morocco cannot sign any agreement unless it includes all of its territory which another in that is that sort of general the agreement seems to be a wind from iraq. now get fifty two million euros per year in exchange for one hundred twenty european vessels and moroccan walters. well if it looks like a kit captain tastes like a kit kats it might not be the european court of justice has ruled that nestle has no claim to the shape of the iconic chocolate bar so it can no longer trademark the shape of its forefinger wafer and chocolate snack meeting rivals can now use this same shape the case was brought by a norwegian maker of a similarly shaped chocolate bar so next time you fancy a break watch out for copycat kit kats now it's over to fill for you sporting

action thank your i have and will start with cycling colombia and neither can tana has won state seventeen of the tour de france he finished relatively the relatively short but arduous sixty five kilometer course twenty eight seconds ahead of alan's daniel martin and forty seven seconds ahead of overall leader going to thomas despite this bonus seconds for thomas mean the team sky rider has extended his lead at the top of the overall standings. serena williams has accused anti doping authors of discrimination a twenty three time grand slam champion suggested she was being unfairly targeted by random drug tests in a tweet posted on tuesday she questioned the randomness of the test and wrote out of all the players it's been proven i'm the one getting tested the most discrimination i think so at least i'll be keeping the sport clean in june it was revealed that up until that point in the year williams has been tested by the u.s. anti-doping agency more than twice as many times as any other female tennis player

in her twenty three year career she's never tested positive for any banned substance. now to some. pictures there from the world of surfing italian cause a lino a court to freak gusts of winds at this competition in spain this last this jump lasted an amazing fourteen seconds but he also managed to an even longer one playing to his board for an amazing nineteen seconds almost unheard of sadly for cause a leader he couldn't follow it up in later rounds and finished third. i can traverse city of a message ursula's resignation from germany's national football team continues to dominate the country's had lines when he resigned the weekend who has to his roots accused german football federation president right of racism the federation has since different itself but its president has said nothing 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 grendel is at the very heart of the mess it is a fair. yes 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 amateurs. grindle has been a lawyer and a journalist he also spent fourteen years in the german parliament for angela merkel's christian democrats and one said that multiculturalism was a myth comments that would come back to haunt him when ms it isn't jimmy teammate the one met turkish president richard tayyip erdogan. i believe that both are aware

that they have made a mistake i encourage everyone to go easy on them. but at the gym he crashed out of the world cup group stage grendel got tough demanding will issue a statement when it came to the queues drainville of outright racism grindle 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 now a team of international astronomers say they have found a massive underwater underground salt water lake on mars it's the largest body of liquid ever found on the red planet raises the possibility there may once have been life out there the lakes twenty kilometers wide and about one half kilometers of the planet's polar icecap. this is day w. news still to come a swedish student single handedly holds

a plane protesting against the four taishan of an afghan asylum seeker video has sparked a spirit alive debates that social media team has that story. so we'll have more of the day so world news and business and culture in just about. disappeared thousands of people kidnapped tortured and murdered until nine hundred ninety six. victims of the guatemalan military dictatorship. their loved ones are still fighting to get justice for them. in their film. against forgetting in forty five minutes on.

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president has met with u.s. president to donald trump in washington to defuse a u. u.s. trade tensions in an interview ten days ago mr trump described the e.u. as a folk the u.s. has imposed punitive duties on steel and our men in imports from around the world the e.u. has responded with tariffs of its own on u.s. products both sides have filed complaints with the world trade organization amazing between the show and donald trump is aimed at averting an on large trade. it's a great honor to have president john edward younker from the european union he's a man that i've gotten to know very well he's a very smart man and a very tough man and he represents his people well and the country as well and we want to have a fair trade deal and we're looking to have a fair trade deal and hopefully we can work something out. over the years the united states has been losing hundreds of billions of dollars with the european union and we just wanted to be

a level playing field. let's bring in there be correspondents alexandra phenomena washington and really get in brussels welcome both with you you were there when the two presidents met in the oval office was it a warm welcome. well i would say it was a very friendly atmosphere in the oval office we just saw president trump calling her very smart and a very tough man and then he puts his hand on chris like it was meant and a very. friendly gesture and of course as a compliment however the both leaders appears to be quite tense during this meeting would say with their u.s. president complaining that the u.s. is losing money and the e.u. commission president stressed once again again that he thinks the u.s. and the you are close partners and snorts enemies at it was

a reference to this interview president trump gave a few weeks ago to go in which he called to the european union a so so this racing i believe has now finished and mr younger said yesterday that it could be that donald trump has something to offer us did anything materialize from this meeting. no it's yet and i would say that it was the u.s. presidents who is waiting for significant from the us peons and at the moment we don't have any indication that's trump is willing to compromise and he's european counterparts even complaining that they really don't know what the u.s. president expects from the europeans so really in brussels one wonders what the e.u. is expecting from this meeting today really expect tension to just through one meeting

. for the european union was not expecting to strike a deal today and they were hoping to find a better post no relationship this donna trying to mend some fences because present relationships are regarded t.-a in brussels as a way to get through to mr trump this highly irrational person who doesn't count about numbers of facts so he you have to talk to him is somehow sweet and drew him into this this is what was going to try today we don't know if he has succeeded but this was certainly not about an official offer to negotiate maybe you'll go off with him to reform the w t o the board trade organization together also complained mr trump often has made i was on the phenomenon american farmers and businesses have already suffered as a result of their own president's harsh trade policy is he likely to maintain his cause. you write that president trump is facing

a lot of criticism from within his republican party but also from manufacturers here in the u.s. and from the u.s. farmers who are really suffering they have lost about thirteen billion u.s. dollars so far because of the measures imposed by u.s. trade partners in response to you as tariffs and now the trump administration has announced that they are going to help these farmers with up to twelve billion dollars and that will see and hear as a clear signal that she is determined to stick with tariffs as he's favorite weapon and trade conflicts about really get if there's anything does not and with deescalation odd mr trump goes through with these threats to extend tires to european cars what's the use likely response. the european union is preparing the raj of terrors to count every measure that would come from washington

and turned up to fifty billion euros of counter-terrorism in the making targeting not only the car industry in the united states but also targeting promise you to go and chemical plants or businesses in the u.s. this is part of the strategy just to show some strength and strength and mr younger would certainly mention that in his talks with mr trump to show him that the europeans are prepared and on the other side showing that they are willing to compromise and hoping that this double headed strategy will somehow lead to a solution and to see you have any other weapons if i can put it that way besides retaliates retiree ifs. well of course there are other measures underway they are suing the united states in front of the w t o the board trade organization and if a real trade war breaks out then of course the you could also come up is more

a counter measures targeting for example the services industry in the united states the big internet giants like google opposed or amazon but this is still far away and the european union hopes to avoid that because this would really hurt european consumers of course and really get in brussels alexandra found naaman in washington thank you oh you know swedish student has become the face of the fight against europe's deportation of asylum seekers their attempt to stop a man being deported to to war torn afghanistan has gone viral social media have said this show has been tracking the story for us but welcome let's start at the beginning that what happened. to fill it all started when alien air saw on the swedish student and heard that an afghan was going to be deported so she decided to get

a plane ticket and get on the very same plane that this afghan was supposed to be on and when she got on board she staged her own kind of protest and she even filmed the whole thing and broadcast it live on facebook you can take a look at some of those clips. but imo 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 explained. that he and the pilot first right say that he is not allowed to be on the plane and as long as he is not on the base then i will comply with. so she says she'll continue sending out for meaning that the plane cannot take off and there were some passengers were asking how to stop the laying of the flight there were others who are joining her in the protests that are also standing up and saying ok we're going to stand with you and then after like ten minutes ago

something happened and she looked like she was getting successful. everybody. we're taking your bags out and i. just remember to thank the u.s. and i mean let me think that it's ok for you to go back to me but you. saw the afghan man that finally you got off the plane ellen also got off the plane and i tell you that the video has gone viral millions of people have already seen it so tell us about the reactions that are this protest. well we really see in the thousands of people applauding her saying she's very brave that she is a hero for what she did we can take

a look at some of those comments that we have come across so here is for example stephan seem an obvious he is from amnesty international and he says this is what a human rights defender looks like but then of course phil there is also a lot of criticism online some comments we even had to delete from our own facebook page also for example says the swedish woman held up 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 as you see the opinions they're very much divided and has been taking a little in terms of the story isn't quite as black and white as many would lead to believe. now that's true phil so first of all we reached out to ellen wanted to get her side of the story wanted her to tell us what really moved her to do that we got a statement from her so ellen tells d.w.

of this she say is 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 there is a twist to this story we have been getting more details as the day progresses and we actually found out that she was on the plane because she wanted to stop that you partition of a young afghan man called my old then it turned out that it's my law that even on the plane in fact we've talked to his cousin we are told that he is in kabul he has been deported but so when ellen got on the plane and she saw that is my wasn't there that was another afghan man we're told is about fifty so she said ok i'm going to continue with my protest and then we are told by an agency that deals with afghan refugees in sweden that this man a man who was on the plane that he was actually returning to afghanistan voluntarily so there's a lot of information that we're getting and we're still trying to verify more

details as we get them ok i think i understood the show thank you. this is day doubly news at live from that and still to come germany's i knew all of wagner festival and by reut has just opened for the premiere of a new production of the operatic go in the grip of in battle for a cause at asco half of all. the head of the humphrey had trade high on the agenda of the brick summit which has begun in johannesburg that's right yes indeed with the u.s. president trumps the threat of tit for tat measures when it comes to trade while the topic of terrorists is getting plenty of air time at the summit currently underway in south africa albeit from an entirely different perspective speaking with chinese president xi jinping cold on all brics nations to reject you know lateralus him she's also using the summit see further china's own trade agenda in africa. 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 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 the stablished order it is not as

strong as it used to be so it's time for the brics to reaffirm 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. and our correspondent and his hand-held is in a cape down we can speak to her now for the latest on the summit ellis the concept of free trade getting more positive at time at the bric summit than it has done in a long time surely yes no definitely and i've said in a report as well it's or is all because of trump politics china said that the world actually has reached a critical historic junks and another trade or should be rejected at all costs because there won't be any winners and it's not just china i'm dealing with with these tariffs it's also south africa south africa's

a minister of trade and industry has been in talks with the u.s. as well because the u.s. wants to impose terror alerts on vehicles and vehicle components so it's more multiple players here and this breaks some of that yet wants to want to tell the world and once you pledge that they are pro free trade telling the world pledging of course we know that will cast a fall at the talks there are often financial commitments being made at the summit . yes there are from commands yasiel mainly as well as foreign investments so even before the summit started she just heard says that africa already got fifteen billion dollars farm from china so that's a very good start for south africa china also gives that africa alone because south africa's states utility power company is struggling so they've got a couple of billion daire as well but it's not just south africa it's also other

african countries that china and india have been visiting several african countries they've given loans uganda given loans to one there so it's definitely a summit in south africa but wouldn't african slaves we also have heads of states here from uncle arthur mozambique from one so yeah all these people hope that mainly india and mainly china because of course they have the the biggest sum of money to basically hand out in the car and their confidence that they will keep on giving the coming days here at the summit a correspondent at. cape town good to talk to you thanks well the pulse now closed in pakistan's national election they'll be little time to celebrate for the winner after an election marred by serious violence and although the economy is growing much remains to be done when it comes to the issues of poverty and corruption pakistan has now turned to the chinese government for help but that comes at a price. just three weeks ago china loaned pakistan another one billion u.s.

dollars a substantial part of the funds will go towards pakistan's infrastructure into the china pakistan economic corridor or the project as part of beijing's plans to create a new silk road trade route. a key factor is access to the indian ocean for china that means pakistani ports beijing plans to invest around sixty billion dollars building roads and railways modernizing power plants and stablish a special economic zones the deep sea port of water at one end of the economic corridor is now on a forty year lease to china. the details on the precise terms of the project remain unknown what is clear is that china will benefit from the new shorter maritime routes to africa western asia and europe pakistan is hoping the investments will translate into new jobs and economic growth while those dividends may take time to

materialise each new installment from china does mean new financial obligations and there are fears in some quarters that pakistan could in the long term be undermining its own sovereignty. and back it out till five. now by road and by right beg pardon in bavaria is home to the annual love by rote festival which is that dedicated to the operas of richard wagner as it was his hometown as we speak the the premiere of a new production of his opera lohengrin is underway in watched by the at the german chancellor angela merkel who had visits and every year. you can see her just arriving with with her husband well i mean i was. struck.

up in that the rock was perfectly natural for him to have been used to desk was not there but here and not dressed up quite as well as the chance of a welcome tell us what this all browsers considers were the best place to stage wagner just before i do i should say it's most probably not the best place today because as people die we're in the heat wave here in northern europe and we've been told it's forty degrees in the theater while the offer is for house long and they're all dressed in their great glad rags as we just saw so i hope they're going to survive the four hours of the theater so long. but when it was built in eighteen seventy six it broke with tradition of opera houses so it was because it specified by wagner and self watch how it would be and he has this big stage there

amphitheater which spreads out like a fan it's a very big old atoning for being wagner opera the main sponsor by the way was king ludovic the second more famous for noise feinstein castle down the road but as we saw all those pictures of fresh field house there it's built for purpose not as a fairy tale castle also another thing about this it's very specific. is the orchestra pit is hidden again wagner wanted that he wanted all the concentration on the stage it helps actually terrifically with the acoustics because wagner operas have orchestras that number up to one hundred thirty musicians and they would drown out the singers but because the orchestra concealed it suppresses the sound of the singers commits a roof over their forty degree heat yeah yeah exactly maybe there i wonder if we're still playing. yeah anyway let's have a look at more let's find out more about the festival of the deed about this

production new production of large green. it's by roy first of all time again. every year fans flock to the fresh peel house on the green helm to experience the music of the record under the best possible conditions. i. know england opens the festival this year immersed in melancholic blue turns and with much electrical paraphernalia evidence and going is not tonight's but the guy from the power company. the production design comes from leipzig school painter neil rowe and his wife rose a lawyer. the inspiration came from an unusual source. he says did. 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 so get. there the opera is directed by universal on the american with israeli roots tries to tell known as the emancipate true 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. as this officer gets. is often portrayed as wrecking everything because of her curiosity but this isn't about her failure it's lohengrin failure he expects the impossible from her to marry a man without knowing who he is the imam behind it and so on it's a vis invalid as it's. p.r. through her took on the title role just three weeks ahead of the premiere.

ah. so robin let's start with this this this this singer who just had three weeks to get ready what did happen to original ten well he actually three weeks before the start of a free weeks ago before the premier decided that he couldn't do it he said he said he was unable to sufficiently study the part due to a work overload while i was suffering. while a bit ahead of time that was roberto alagna actually has never sung wagner before in tennis do you have a problem with wagner because they're huge rolls and they go on for four hours these operas and he couldn't do it fortunately chris until

a man who's the music director of the festival and of the opera house in dresden he did this opera in dresden two years ago with the polish ten appear to. who played lohengrin and he came in the last moment and save the day i mean there's always controversy at the festival i mean the being booed and shouts at the end of performances in the past but so far that's the only controversy hopefully nobody faints on stage tonight would you to the heat specially those costumes a light roughhouse. when we saw the painter in the report that quite a coup to get said. yeah indeed because this man he sells his paintings for millions to collectors around the world he and his wife rosa lloyd were persuaded to design this production as we heard in the report he took his his inspiration from from the famous blue and white porcelain from delft in holland and they would

be interesting to see what the critics say about this because i think i personally think his painting kind of suits. no wagner is a very german composer near rock to my mind is very. pang so i think they actually can go quite well together be interesting to see what the critics say about that one. more on the website absolutely d.w. dot com slash culture i was just thinking about sitting in for security for four hours in a d.j. in a d.j. yet not my idea of a good night after but thank you just time to remind of our top stories of votes being counted after pakistan's divisive and violent election polling date self is largely peaceful although a suicide bomber struck at one polling station and more than one hundred million people were registered to vote. rescuers in greece are searching for survivors after a wildfire swept through residential areas near athens at least eighty people lost their lives and dozens are still accounted for. in situ up to date or more at the

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