this is to give you news live from berlin from photo friend u.s. president donald trump and the european union hail a new partnership on trade trump had previously called the e.u. a fall when it comes to trade doctor talks with european commission president. says the two have agreed to work towards zero tariffs and zero subsidies also coming up former cricket star iran khan looks set to become pakistan's next prime minister of poland early results in talks on the election we'll go live to our correspondent on the ground for the latest. and several parts of the world are experiencing extreme

weather forest fires caused by high temperatures in the arctic circle severe storms in the u.s. we'll take a look at what's causing these bad weather conditions. i'm sorry so much going to have you with us u.s. president donald trump and european commission chief have reached a deal to calm the trade war both sides agreed to hold more talks to lower trade barriers and hold off on imposing tariffs on each other tensions between the u.s. and europe have been high over washington sufficient to set tariffs on european goods brussels responded with its own set of taxes on u.s. products. the mood at the white house rose garden was upbeat after the meeting it was a notable turnaround after the harsh rhetoric that the u.s. and the e.u. have exchanged in recent weeks u.s. president donald trump's comments to the press corps helped ease concerns of

a possible all out trade war between the two sides. already today the united states and the european union have a one trillion dollar bilateral trade relationship the largest economic relationship anywhere in the world we want to further strengthen this trade relationship to the benefit of all american and european citizens prior to the talks a new commission president jungle younker had been threatening you tried tariffs on the us but arriving at the white house you want to stress to reporters that the e.u. and the u.s. were allies and not enemies adding he was ready to negotiate some hours later the two leaders announced that they had agreed on a deal to work together towards quote zero tariffs zero non-tariff barriers and zero subsidies on non auto industrial goods you'll get said that's why you came to washington when i was invited to the president to divide toasts i had one in terms

i had the intention to make a deal today and we made a deal today. this is that deal means both sides will hold off on any further tariffs including potential u.s. trade barriers on cars and auto parts while trade talks continue europe also agreed to increase purchases of u.s. liquefied natural gas and lower trade barriers to american soybeans aiding u.s. farmers and the energy sector. let's get more on the story with thomas cleanable coffee is the vice president of the german marshall fund here in berlin he joins us in our studio good morning thomas thanks for being with us so trump that this is a new phase that the u.s. relationship with europe are you surprised by that well it changes that you're directory of where we're going that's the important piece and it's bought time which will include you incur and donald trump read on we're on a path on a glide path towards into a trade war now we're on past to do what sensible which is negotiating but i warn

it's just buying time nothing of substance that has been agreed ok you said to change the trajectory though what do you think actually changed in those discussions well. it seemed that we were on the path to a trade war in which escalating rounds of tariffs punitive terrorists would be imposed and nothing could change that to rector directory no we're back where we were a couple of years ago which is towards t. to apply to transatlantic trade and investment partnership let's recall let's rename it now let's call it trump to please the president with it well this is just the beginning as well because negotiations have to start we're talking about is there a tariff subsidies and non-tariff barriers what can get in the way of those negotiations during the obama administration is the negotiations took years to do this the this is sausage making this is very complicated stuff. subsidies

means that the u.s. would have to get rid of its. farm bill its farm subsidies same is true for the european union this is tough stuff so a lot of things could it could get in the way and it is completely possible that this president reverses course yet again as he has done last night and that is the trump factor if i may you know how many people here. in germany also in brussels are worried that we could see the u.s. president change his mind that's always a possibility as as we have seen but we've we've also seen and that's another message that we i think this result conveys donald trump and the united states are susceptible to pressure what we have seen here is pressure. the pressure of the u.s. auto industry the pressure of u.s. farmers the pressure of the republican party the pressure of the voter in the

coming election donald trump is afraid of losing an election and therefore he is bound to compromise that's why you know we've seen several blow through the trans-atlantic relationship not just on trade what do you think needs to be done to repair that relationship fundamentals are wrong pointing in the wrong direction defining the european union as a foe as a trade photo. redefining the the american national interest in which alliances are no longer a force multiplier. two to us but power and giving them legitimacy and extended reach in. that's a serious change of outlook of us of the us presidency that is something i would hope will change all right so we have to get back to the fundamentals thomas kline a block of the vice president of the german marshall fund term berlin thank you so

much for joining us thank you. now to some other stories making headlines around the world the death toll in laos has climbed to at least twenty four after an unfinished hydroelectric dam collapsed in the country south on monday hundreds more are missing water from the dam have flooded at least seven villages and left thousands of people homeless. the british man who survived exposure to the deadly nerve agent has been telling journalists that the poison was designed as a perfume charlie raly said the bottle came in a sealed box but that he can't remember where it came from his girlfriend on sturgis fell ill within fifteen minutes of spring it on her wrist she later died in the hospital. a team of international astronomers say they found a massive underground lake on mars it is the largest body of liquid water ever found on the red planet and it raises the possibility that there may once have been life there. to pakistan now where the results of wednesday's parliamentary elections have been delayed after slow counting the electoral commission is blaming

computer glitches it says full results will be and by thursday night early results show the party of former cricket star imran khan is ahead khan had been a slight favorite ahead of the poll but the opposition is crying foul opposition leader shahbaz sharif says he won't accept the outcome alleging the commission is rigging the result to benefit. and let's go to conrad she is following this poll for us in pakistan and joins us we were expecting results by no why aren't they beriah. yes we were they were supposed to come in late last night we're still waiting it might still take quite a while the electoral commission says this is down to software problems they using new software that and it's also a question of getting the results in from the different polling stations we have more than eighty thousand polling stations all across pakistan the opposition is calling foul they say the devotes were rigged and that they do not want to accept

the results as they come trickling in the big question is what they will do with that they will mobilize. people they have the potential of mobilizing loads of people and whether they some might get turned violent but i really would prefer shahbaz sharif and the other opposition parties have that this vote has actually been rigged. so they're saying that the party officials were not allowed in when the votes were being current to they said this happened in quite a few million stations that would contravene election rules that would in fact be very difficult so we need to see what the e.u. election observers say there's a press conference tomorrow afternoon whether they indeed uphold these these allegations of breaking now this comes after of a violent and bitter campaign leading up to this vote where does this all leave pakistan's democracy. well indeed to undone those also a lot of intimidation and threats against journalists and the whole election campaign we've talked to journalists who off the record many of them did not want

to go on the record we're talking about threats and intimidation and that they were not allowed to report freely on the elections but we also have to have a look at the wider picture in pakistan this is not an established democracy votes here are all out and sold local villages vote according to whoever the village strongmen tells them to vote for so the general picture is not one of free and fair elections but we'll get the final results later on in the day maybe tomorrow that's also when we'll get the update from the election observers and that's when we'll have the full picture do they ever use not only conrad reporting for us from islamabad and we thank you very much. now emergency services in greece are continuing to search for the remains of victims of last monday's wildfires that killed at least eighty one people our correspondent charlayne. reports from the coastal town of. residents and went into the sea to escape the flames. a steady stream of supplies. to

reach the bible is a small token for a community so much from rescue teams who know all too well what they've endured. volunteers like these were. here when the fire broke out so they took to desperately searching for survivors then came the search for bodies now they're joining the many hundreds of volunteers handing out food and water to those in need . those still scouring the waters can do little but wait with dozens still missing fears a growing that many who sought refuge in the waters instead lost their lives where looking for the now if they are more in the water it is a difficult job these because we know that there are things we find. and but it's good for the people of very relief that they found. their beloved. at least. it was among those who helped residence fleece the water before saving

himself the horror of that night in his mind me and we'll see other guys. are at the border. and the police some. people or some to there is out of the car to go in the sea and. i see some guys we want to get away. dead because the fire that's a kind of cuts. vary but sinks you know. he's turned his bar into a makeshift food bank another beacon of hope for those in need this is a community whose resilience is breathtaking in the face of the tragedy the true scale of which is yet. those deadly wildfires in greece are just one of the consequences of unusually high temperatures across much of the northern hemisphere and we have a map here showing just how intense and widespread the summer heat is

a dark red signifying temperatures around forty degrees celsius the white areas show temperatures of fifty degrees in many regions it's also the driest summer on record of the summer this is a summer of extremes and it's also seen extraordinary heavy rainfall and flooding alongside the heat waves and drought. this could be. but in fact it's finland. countries across the northern hemisphere like here in japan are experiencing record breaking weather only last month japan experienced historic floods people are now in dealing with weeks of temperatures hovering around forty degrees celsius here's splashing water part of a japanese summer tradition so far at least seventy people have died and tens of thousands are in hospital. with dry weather come wildfires california used to big fires is burning again after record breaking temperatures fires across the state

forced the iconic u. seventeen national park to close for the first time in nearly thirty years. meanwhile in colorado just two states away flooding. and severe health storms. even more alarmingly sweden has seen its extremely dry forests liked up. clouds of smoke rising even inside the arctic circle. the u.k. is known for its complaints about the rain but this summer it's dealing with fire what's unusual is that all of this is happening in so many places at the same time . the intergovernmental panel on climate change the body of experts who look at the evidence say that manmade climate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme weather events now many people around the world are dealing with the questions long discussed by environmentalists are now urgent is this the new normal and how do we deal with it. well let's put those questions to hunt linda holmes he's

a professor of climate science at gothenburg university in sweden he joins us on the line i. hope you can hear me here are these kind of weather phenomena what we can expect to see in the future. well yes that's exactly what we see from the climate model is that we will have more extreme events occurring throughout this year in the warmer climate so what is causing this weather you know why is it so extreme hot and dry in some places flooding in others. well this depends on to some degree on the jet stream so we have this really big high pressure centered over. central europe priestess and going into asia and then we have the jet stream but kind of goes above scandinavia and in the i mean it's rainy and steering away the present the taste in the. weather from central european regions so this means when when you have these very stable condition you

have this blocking conditions you have a high pressure being for a very long time they get this very dry and extremely warm temperatures in place but you can also get very wet conditions in other states just a hot dry spell that we've been having in europe how unusual is it how does that compare to other heat waves we've seen here in the past well i mean it's it's it's not unusual it's not possible yet to say that it's global warming because we do have variability from year to year what we see this kind of similar to to the really big siberian heat wave in two thousand and ten in terms of the third. and maybe through the to the european heatwave in two thousand and three so but we have to wait until it's over until we can say how to have the really has he's comparing to other that's how we talked about some of the consequences you know

heat waves fires in the arctic circle what are some of the other consequences that we can expect. well what we see if we don't know is this very very big problem in for the agriculture though the growth would be really bad but it also says that this is causing problems for for people that are sensitive to heat like children and especially in countries like sweden old people who can't really get out of the heat so we see many many different place. at the site and of course water shortage which will increase their water trees which crisis if we didn't fall so you can see many many different both near and long term effects of this kind of extremism all right hands in your home a professor of climate science at gothenburg university in sweden thank you very much for joining us on our program this morning thank you very much like now to

sports in the seventeenth stage of this year's tour de france on wednesday provided the backdrop to a cycling first instead of the usual flying start riders lined up on a formula one style grid positions were determined by the riders rankings in the overall standings meaning yellow jersey where thomas began on pole with three rough climbs the race the parent has offered plenty more opportunities for drama. never before have we seen a cycling race start like this but the image of team sky leading the pack ought to be familiar to all the more unusual these time around the stage of statistics just sixty five kilometers long but with more than half the distance uphill spread over three punishing climbs the two thousand two hundred metres above sea level the final summit called reporting is the highest point on this year's tour. the perfect backdrop then for a big performance from columbia night all can time the mountain specialist has won

plenty in his career but never until today a stage at the tour de france he finished with a lead of just over thirty seconds over the trailing group of favorites four time toward champion chris froome couldn't keep pace and ended up losing a lot of ground to his team sky colleague thomas the watchman meanwhile came in third at the end of today's stage boosting his lead in the overall studies. by time for some business news in monaco now in markets not just the e.u. and the us talking about trade you know the topic of trade and tariffs to me also has been getting plenty of time at the brics summit currently underway in south africa speaking at the summit to chinese president xi jinping called on all brics nations to reject you need lateralus and she's also using the summit to further china's own trade agenda in africa. with his opening remarks chinese premier she jean ping cast himself as the voice of global economic

order. chitter simming from we should be resolute in rejecting unilateralism and protectionism our promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation and jointly steer the global economy toward greater openness greater inclusiveness balance growth and win win outcomes for all. it's a statement that could have come from the g seven the group of mostly european and north american economies that generally sets the global economic agenda but these are normal times and that's giving new prominence to brics 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 distribution order it is not as strong as it used to be so it's time for the brics to clear for me its commitment

to the international order by doing so brics nations hope to bend that order more in their direction that means development models and funding mechanisms aligned to their needs instead of those of western nations. china in particular has good reason to prefer open trade its belt road initiative is connecting global markets the checkbook diplomacy behind it has been on full display in recent days. but before they can leave brics nations must protect themselves against global economic shifts with increasing u.s. protectionism india china and brazil will rely on each other more. the question than is whether this year's conference will really be about offering new vision or simply hanging together in tough times. and our correspondent alison gallagher is joining us now from capetown kind of tone will the summit strike today after that let's call it successful trade talks between john and donna trump last night

i think it will continue crapsey what he said yesterday we heard china yes you know it's like we. retreat against protectionist i'm just saying hand i think they might hope us well that maybe us will look kind of strike inside and then in future i mean when i look at south africa africa's going to serve trade industry is still negotiating with us on tariffs for vehicles of the go components so de de mind hope that you did this talk yesterday between averaging trump and your kind of risk here as well that they might emerge some terrified as well and we had this report that brics nations hope to bend to the global economy in their direction so that it fits their needs instead of those of western nations what are those needs exactly.

well there may need to know about it there's more. productive in the street also while part of the title of this summit is that they want to work for industrial revolution and of course also what kind of a you look. at africa as you very clearly state as well and they need investment in a productive six africa that is meaning explore term and this is brics brics partnerships so that's what they are be looking for and china in the report is full has his checkbook wide open it will of course also look for a. different paybacks i don't put it a coal maybe and then disappear to corporation in a long line in a small force looking extractive in south africa but also the rest of africa because china has been also courting our african countries on this tour to go to this. africa and it's also way now i think for china to kind of even take a tougher stance as the father of this is brics group and against the u.s.

and they're all right to their joining as from cape town talking about the brics summit currently underway in johannesburg thank you so much. some breaking news coming in just now there has been an apparent x a pillow shown close to the united states embassy building in beijing smoke has been seen rising above the area there is no indication yet as to what caused the blast details are still coming in and we will have more on that breaking news story in our next bulletin. but he has a story about what can happen when you're a victim of fake news needing jobs or a big deal in japan and for the city of iga they are a big money spinner tens of thousands of tourists flock to the city's ninja festival every year but then a report by an american radio station claim to the city is looking for a ninja performance for a new museum and the salary it would be

a staggering eighty five thousand u s dollars it was fake news but the want to be dangerous came nevertheless in droves authorities in city hall are still reeling from what happened the fake news stories went viral stating the city was urgently looking for ninja performers for an annual salary of eighty five thousand u.s. dollars e-mails faxes and letters arrived from all over the world as far as new york nepal and australia. and all of the know we've had emails before from foreign people who wanted to visit the city as tourists. but i was surprised to receive inquiries about working as ninjas. at least one hundred applications came in from fourteen different countries with more arriving every day. has now reacted and published

a correction online in five languages it says there are no job vacancies for ninja performers and definitely not for that money. and local ninjas are also keen to put the record straight. there isn't any shortage of ninjas and the money is just a rumor. i won't hire people who just want to make money only those who want to be dedicated professionals culture and tradition can only be passed to dedicated people. foreigners aren't allowed to be ninja performers but they're welcome in this japanese city of warriors more than thirty thousand tourists came here last year and after all this unforseen attention there might be even more this year. facebook shares took a beating after the social media giant reported that user numbers and revenue haven't been rising as quickly as expected shares fell more than twenty percent in

after hours trading and york following the news of raising one hundred billion dollars in capital after revenue was up forty two percent in the second quarter but costs continue to rise as facebook focuses on tightening security and improving content following a series of scandals the company says it has two point two billion active month news. and is a reminder off the top stories we're following from the u.s. on the ng you have agreed to work towards lowering trade barriers between each other the deal house to use true for the moment at least what threatened to become a full blown trade war between the two sides. you're watching news coming to you live from berlin and more coming up at the top of the hour to that.

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