this is news live from berlin from seoul to friend us president donald trump in the european union hail a new partnership on trade trump and previously called the e.u. a focus when it comes to trade after talks with european commission presidential guard troops now says the two have agreed to work towards zero and zero subsidies also coming up former cricket star iran khan looks set to become pakistan's next prime minister following the early results in the country's election we'll have the latest from our correspondent on the ground in islamabad. bone dry conditions are

threatening crops in northern and central europe farmers you say the livelihoods of their members are at risk. and we have a special report from greece where our correspondent is following the rescue crews helping survivors of the wildfires there. like these we cry because it's been an unrelenting few days was the day when the fires broke out states are also desperately searching for survivors then came the search for bodies released and sorrow as greece counts the toll of the deadly wildfires. i'm sumi so much going to good to have you with us we'll bring you our top stories in a moment but we start with some breaking news reports are coming in of an explosion outside the u.s. embassy in the chinese capital beijing emergency service vehicles have a surrounded by a huge building in the northeast of the. city the ruling communist party newspaper

the global times says a woman apparently sprayed gasoline on herself eyewitnesses reports smoke coming from the embassy compound the embassy says it is still gathering information. and let's go right to beijing where we can speak with our correspondent mathias bellinger he joins us on the line hi michel yes what are you hearing there. well or do we hear is that basically what go out and not much more of women seems to have moderated that's what to hear from the global times there was an explosion we have seen some short videos of the site covered in smoke the areas of course cordoned off so that is basically what we know but we don't have a lot of information yet have authorities confirmed any of this information with you. know so far neither the american embassy nor the chinese authorities have given them information on what has happened mathias to say this area is cordoned off tell us more about where the u.s.

embassy is in beijing. but it's a diplomatic our you know beijing we have a lot of i'm busy here it seems that the blast in front of the consulate action of the american embassy that would be when chinese nationals queue up in all or in order to obtain these though this is a highly guarded. diplomatic area. it is probably the one area that where it is it would be very difficult to plan a big attack or whatever be this is what you can see it's safer now already to these correspondent in beijing mathias bullinger thank you very much for that update mathias and we will of course bring you more details on that story as they come in to us. now to our top stories the 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 a tension between the u.s.

and europe has been high over washington the fission 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 and you commission president jungle younker had been threatening you tried tariffs on the us but arriving at the white house you want good 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 known or to industrial goods yoga said that's why you came to washington when i was invited to president to do our toes. in terms of the intention to make a deal today and we made a deal today. youngest says that deal means both sides will hold off on any further tariffs including potential u.s. trade barriers on cars and auto parts while tri talks continue you're opposed to agree to increase purchases of u.s. liquefied natural gas and lower trade barriers to american soybeans u.s. families and the energy sector. let's get more on the story with thomas klein a book coffee is the vice president of the german marshall fund here in berlin who

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 the trajectory of where we're going and 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 and now we're on pass to do what sensible which is negotiating but i warn it's just buying time nothing of substance 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 path to a trade war in which escalating rounds of tariffs of punitive terrorists would be imposed and nothing could change that to rector directory now 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 trying to please the president with it well this is just the beginning as well because negotiations have to start we're talking about there are tariffs subsidies and non-tariff barriers what can get in the way of those negotiations during the obama administration in the negotiations took years to do this the this is the sausage making this is very complicated stuff. subsidies means that the u.s. would have to get rid of its. farm bill it's 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 now seen several blow through the transatlantic 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 are no longer a force multiplier. two to us but power and giving them legitimacy and extend reach in. that's a serious change of outlook of u.s. of the u.s. 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 news around the world japan has executed the remaining members of a doomsday cult that carried out a deadly sarin gas attack on the tokyo subway in one thousand nine hundred five the six men were the last members of the only cold being held in prison the tokyo subway attack was the cult's most notorious crime thirteen people died and thousands. thousands of people remain stranded in laos after the collapse of a hydroelectric dam on monday authorities are investigating what caused the

disaster the death toll has risen to twenty seven and more than one hundred people are still missing rescue efforts have been hampered by the remoteness of the affected areas and flash flooding. the british man who survived exposure to the deadly nerve agent know which has been telling journalists that the poison was disguised as perfume charlie were always at the bottle came in a sealed box but that he can't remember where it came from his girlfriend on searches fell ill within fifteen minutes of spring it on her wrists she later died in the hospital. and a team of international astronomers say they found a massive underground lake on mars it's 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 result of one that wednesday's parliamentary elections have been delayed after slow counting the electoral commission is blaming computer glitches its full results will be in by thursday night or early results show the party of former cricket star imran khan is ahead can have been the 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 count. and let's go to do conrad she is following this all for us in pakistan and joins us on me we were expecting results by now why aren't they the area. yes we were they were supposed to come in late last night we're still waiting it might still take quite a while electoral commission says this is down to software problems they're using new software that and it's also a question of getting all the 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 of 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 it they'll mobilize their people they have the potential of mobilizing blades of people and whether they some might get turned violent but i only want to 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 cut to they said this happened in quite a few million stations that would contravene the election rules which 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 and then there was also a lot of intimidation and threats against journalists in the whole election campaign we've talked to journalists who off the record many of them did not want to go on the record were 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 and pakistan this is not an established democracy votes here are all out and sold local villages vote according to whoever their 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 e.u. election observers and that's when we'll have the full picture do you ever use not only conrad reporting for us from islamabad naomi thank you very much. 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. report from the coastal town of marty where residents and vacationers went into the sea to escape the flames. a steady stream of supplies greets those battling the eye watering smoke and ash to reach survivors is a small token for a community that's lost so much from rescue teams who know all too well what

they've enjoyed the volunteers like these all week lifeguards it's been an unrelenting few days hey when the fires broke out they turned to the girl 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 of those still scouring the waters can do little but wait with dozens still missing fears are growing that many who sought refuge in the waters instead lost their lives we're looking for that but this now if they are more in the water it is a difficult job these because we know that there are things we find now it's only for shards and you know but it's good for the people who have very least of the found the people their beloved. yes at least palest was among those who helped residents fleece the war to the full saving himself the horror of that night the ever in his mind me and it was the other guys here i'm

going to read their boards and the books some. people or some to do this out of the car to go to sea and. i see some guys we want to go to work here because they're fired but that kind of cuts. vary but since you. 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 we have a map here of showing just how intense and widespread the summer heat is the dark red signifies temperatures around forty degrees celsius the white areas show temperatures of fifty degrees celsius in many ways it's also the driest summer on record the summer of extremes has also seen extraordinary heavy rainfall and

flooding along side the heat waves and the drought now in europe that hot dry weather is also causing a headache for farmers in germany crops are withering as the heat wave intensifies the problems of a summer with little rain the german farmers union is warning that many farmers could go out of business without government aid. for weeks nothing but sunny skies stefan using a farmer can't take it anymore he has to act fast if he wants to salvage what he can but the bone dry soil in his one hundred ten hector fields won't absorb much of anything he's been checking the grain content of his crop every day. ones each one on fossil you can see that this one is a third of the size it should be on and off without help there that's how my inventory looks right now here at the top there's no grain in there at all on top democrat if you squeeze it like this you'll see there's nothing on earth the summer barley is even worse off. what crunch is like twigs underfoot should be pulling in

one hundred eighty euros per time but there's nothing to harvest here. is feed on for half of it's missing and that means that i'm almost at the point of having to weigh up my options whether i should even bother with the harvest or not a lot of. new thing tried ping breeding to gain more self-sufficiency that way he wouldn't have to be so dependent on agriculture but the drought has been punishing on this front too he can't count on corn for pig feed now the damage is too great it hasn't rained here for eight weeks that's why the corn cobs are completely dried out unfair non-processed supports and. that means a sixty percent loss in revenue for me the rest of the nutrients are useful for bio gas plants but cows have to eat something so do pigs if there's nothing coming from this plant that means the number of livestock will have to be reduced in the short

term at least in this region. a further danger lies in the grain harvest everything is so dry here that sparks flying from a harvesting machine could set the whole field aflame it happened before. i can grab it out between. i don't think i can make it through another slump. i seriously have to consider whether or not i can keep this business going in the future will be mine but we've been so called fight over time. or donations stephanie things daughter be able to would rather study at a university than following her father's footsteps so as the sun beats down on these parched fields this farm that dates back to the seventeenth century will cease to exist. the seventeenth stage of this year's tour de france on wednesday provided the backdrop backdrop to a cycling first instead of the usual flying start of riders lined up on

a formula one style grid positions were determined by the riders rankings and the overall standings meaning that yellow jersey where thomas began on pole with three rough climbs the race of 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 to be familiar to all the more unusual this time around the stage is statistics just sixty five kilometers long but with more than half the distance uphill spread over three punishing climbs at 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 nytol 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

tor champion chris froome couldn't keep pace and ended up losing a lot of ground to his team sky colleague thomas. meanwhile came in third at the end of today's stage boosting his lead in the overall studies. to football and byron munich of announced their first purchase of the season seventeen year old canadian alfonzo davies the defending bundesliga champs called the win winger a big talent with a very promising future ahead of them davies will join biron in january after seeing out the m.l.s. season with its current club vancouver whitecaps the transfer fee is reported to be around thirteen million euros. tennis star serena williams has accused anti-doping authorities of discrimination the twenty three time grand slam champion suggested she was being unfairly targeted by random drug tests in a tweet williams questioned the randomness of the tests 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 had 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 has never tested positive for any banned substance. rather has a left hand for newly promoted in english premier league side fullam on a two year loan deal the two thousand and fourteen germany world cup winner has failed to nail down a starting place in dortmund over the past two seasons having been there were record by the much trouble surely previously played in england for forms of west london rivals chelsea. ok monica joins us with some business news a market's not just the e.u. and the us talking trade note there are other big big nations also focusing on it the topic of trade in tears has been getting plenty of air time at the brics summit

currently underway in south africa speaking at the summit chinese president xi jinping called on all brakes nations to reject union last recession she is also using with so much to further china's own trade agenda in africa. with his opening remarks chinese president xi jinping cast himself as the voice of global economic order. shitters shimming 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 when outcomes for all it's a statement that could come from g seven the group of mostly european and north american economies that generally sets the global economic agenda but these aren't 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 its commitment to the international order by doing so brics nations hope to bend the global economy 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 it's belt and rolled initiative is connecting global markets the checkbook diplomacy behind it has been on food display in recent weeks but before they can lead brics nations must protect themselves against global economic shifts and domestic problems with increasing u.s. protectionism india china and brazil will rely on each other more the question then

is whether this year's conference will really be about offering new vision or simply hunting together in tough times. well here's a story about what can happen when you're a victim off fake news named to us are a big deal in japan and the city of their big money spent tens of thousands of tourists flock to the city's ninja festival every year but then the reports by an american radio station claimed that the city is looking for a ninja performance for a new museum and for a huge salary it wasn't true the want to be ninjas 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. all of that 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 there. at least one hundred applications came in from fourteen different countries with more arriving every day eager 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 an inch is and the money is just a rumor. we're going to move i mean 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 in new york following the news erasing one hundred billion dollars in capital i drive a new list after forty two percent of the second quarter costs continue to rise as facebook focuses on tightening security and to proving content following a series of scandals the company says it has two point two billion active monthly uses. and here's a reminder of the top stories we're following for you there has been an apparent explosion outside the u.s. embassy in the chinese capital beijing security officials have cordoned off the

area around the building. the u.s. and the e.u. have agreed to work towards lowering trade barriers between each other the deal has defused for the moment what threatens to become a full blown trade war between the two sides. and results from pakistan's parliamentary elections up until a doctor slow counting officials are blaming a computer glitch partial results show former cricket star. head opposition leader shahbaz sharif says he won't accept the outcome alleging vote rigging. and you're watching news coverage you live from berlin more coming up at the top of the hour in the meantime you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on a website that's d.w. dot com thanks for joining.

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