on your mobile and free. music learning course speak german made easy. this is news live from berlin from photo friend the u.s. president donald trump and the european union hail a new partnership on train. former cricket start and run congress set to become pox on the next prime minister following early results in pakistan the election but the opposition has alleged that vote rigging has taken place. had previously called the

european union a phone when it comes to trade after talks with the european commission president. trump now says the two have agreed to work towards it is zero tariffs and zero subsidies. also coming up 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 might be behind these bad weather effects and we have a special report from greece where our correspondents following the rescue crews helping survivors of the wildfires there. like. that unrelenting three day yesterday when the fires broke out states are desperately searching for the then came the search for bodies. almost kind of thank you for joining us in pakistan 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 in by thursday . knight early results show the party of former cricket star imran khan is ahead to con had been a slight favorite ahead of the poll by his opposition is crying foul leadership us army says he will not accept the outcome alleging commission is rigging the result to benefit. let's get more on the story with pakistani political analyst assad leave from market in london also thank you for joining us now we were expecting results and they've been delayed what do you make of the opposition's claims that there has been fraud so serious party is principally concerned about a technical glitch with the election commission of pakistan's vote rigging voting process but actually the real driver of the of these allegations is really the mistrust between sharif's party and the military and of the two parties of the

military and the party have had a long running confrontation particularly since turning thirteen and there's a history between sharif's and the military. constant interventions in politics stemming from one thousand nine hundred in one thousand nine hundred and specifically. now the opposition as we're saying you know it's repeatedly claiming that the military is backing on and you say that the military has been accused of interference or how much influence does it really have been pakistan and why is that. so the military has a number of sources of influence of firstly it is remains very popular with the general population but secondarily it has shown in demonstrated its inclination for direct intervention so it really has the ability to remove any sitting government and the time it wants so that's it's not really in their stride you do that more recently as they prefer to pull the strings from outside of direct rule but you

know that x. is sitting over sitting governments all the time in box and i said why is it that they seem to favor khan in the selection. i think that's probably a slight misconception in the sense that the military is supporting con it's rather that the military is against the sharifs like i said they've had a long history of confrontation in the military i mean like i said it from the one thousand nine thousand and two and really what they're trying to do is remove undermine the sharifs influence over pakistani political landscape i think this question marks going forward about how well the pakistani military and iran will work together. in iran has become prime minister there's a lot of president pakistani history for the military to for example you know fall out with chosen or designated civilian leaders including sharif himself so there is you know there's a lot of question marks i think that the kind of thinking that the sure that the

military in iran who work excellently in power together i think that's that's really very presumptuous and they could be a lot of instability and the conflict between the civilian government and the military going down the line we're talking at the second time that pakistan has had a democratic transition of power where does the country's democracy stand after the violent campaign and now this vote controversy. so i think it's a mix of positives and negatives i mean the positives like you said this is this should be the second time civilian government has transferred power to another civilian government pakistan's history so that that is positive it creates a culture of or you know it really helps the pakistani electorate you know learn the system of kind of holding their leaders accountable voting them in or out of power during electoral time lines so that obviously is very positive for the democratic system but you know undermining all of this is really the military's continued interference and internal politics until i think domestically. political

titian's and the military in pakistan can kind of get together and somehow you know codify or formalize the military's you know which is so far in formal influence of domestic politics this is going to continue to undermine the overall democratic system inbox and you know it will remain quite far away from how western western perspectives of what a democracy should be all right i thought only from market in london thank you so much for sharing your insights with us this morning. now police in china say a man with what they call a firework device was behind a blast at the u.s. embassy in the capital beijing now a video posted on social media you see here it apparently shows smoke billowing from the embassy compound emergency services vehicles around the heart huge building in the northeast of the city and chinese police say a twenty six year old man injured himself in the blast in a separate statement the u.s. embassy described the device as

a bomb. let's get the very latest on this story we have our correspondent my ts bringing us standing by for a time it is good to see you know you are at the u.s. embassy what are you seeing and hearing there. where the u.s. embassy has resumed. people are queuing up again in the place where this blast happened there seem to be no casualties other than the man who exploded the device who injured himself this is at least what police as a few eyewitnesses have spoken here. they've described be a long one eyewitness who was taken photos has been taken away by the police so the government is obviously trying to keep the information under its control. now tell us more about what authorities have been saying if anything at all about the man they say is behind this blast. what we know his age he's twenty six

years old and he's from a tone in among gold you know that's about all we said we have heard nothing about the motives or anything. or i did have used my ts a building standing by for us in beijing at the site of this blast thank you very much mathias whew. now to some other stories making news around the world thousands of people remain stranded in southern 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 hundred people are still missing rescue efforts have been hampered by damaged roads the remoteness of the affected areas and flash flooding. 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 oem seen rico cult being held in prison of the tokyo subway attack was the group's most notorious crime thirteen people died and thousands fell in with. a team of international stronger 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 out there. u.s. president donald trump and european commission she have reached a deal to calm the trade dispute both sides agreeing 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's decision 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 every one trillion dollar by lateral 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 e.u. commission president john called you had been threatening you trade tariffs on the u.s. but arriving at the white house you stressed 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 they had agreed on a deal trump agreed to refrain from car terrorists while the negotiations with the e.u. are ongoing the talks will also seeks result u.s. tariffs on steel and aluminum for its part the e.u. agreed to buy more u.s. liquefied natural gas and lower trade barriers for american soybeans. said he was satisfied with the results when i was invited to the

president to divide toasts i had one intention i had the intention to make a deal today and remade a deal today. at the end of the meeting trump and you also said they would cooperate to reform the rules of the world trade organization the trumpet ministration frequently criticizes the w t o for discriminating against the us. let's get more on the story with thomas klein of book 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 trying to this is a new phase of 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 what you want to hear incur and don't try to 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 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 no we're back where we were a couple of years ago which is towards tito apply to transatlantic trade and investment partnership let's recall let's rename it now let's call it trying to please the president whether it well this is just the beginning as well because the 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. the negotiations took years to do this 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 you know that is the trump factor if i may. 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 transatlantic relationship not just on trade what do you think needs to be done to repair that relationship fundamental so wrong pointing in the wrong direction defining the european union as a foe as a trade photo. redefining the american national interest in which alliances are no longer a force multiplier. two to us but power and giving it legitimacy and extend the 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 klein a bloc of the vice president of the german marshall fund term berlin thank you so

much for joining us thank you 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 charlotte tells them health sent us a report from the coastal town of monte 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 the five as it's a small token for a community that's lost so much from rescue teams who know all too well what they've enjoyed for volunteers like these all week lifeguards it's been an unrelenting day when the fires broke out so they take 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 a growing that many who sought refuge in the waters instead lost their lives were

looking for that by this now if they are more in the water it is a difficult job these because we know that everything we find now it's only for shards and you know but good for the people who have very relieved that they found the people their beloved. yes at least. palest la paz was among those who helped residents fleece the water before saving himself the horror of that night for ever in his mind me and it was the other guys yeah i'm going to read their boards and to pull some. people some to do this out of the car to go in the sea and. i see some guys we want to get away here because they're the fire but that kind of guts. maybe but sinks here. 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 increase or just one of the consequences of unusually high temperatures across much of the northern hemisphere this map here shows just how intense and widespread the summer heat is dark red signifies temperatures around forty degrees celsius the white areas should temperatures of fifty degrees now in many regions it's also the driest summer on record but some areas have also seen extraordinary heavy rainfall and flooding along side the heat waves and drought. this could be the yorker. 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 the 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. which even more alarmingly sweden has seen its extremely dry forests light up. clouds of smoke rising even inside the arctic circle. the u.k. is known for its complaints about the rain but the 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 at dealing with the questions long discussed by environmentalists are now urgent is this the new normal and how do we deal with it. now 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 and the overall standings meeting yellow jersey where to 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 these time around the stage is statistics just

sixty five kilometers long but with more than half the distance uphill spread over three punishing climbs two thousand two hundred metres above sea level the final summit called support is the highest point on this year's tour. the perfect backdrop then for a big performance from columbia entire 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 most meanwhile came in third at the end of today's stage boosting his lead in the overall start. to football now and byron york of announced their first purchase of the season seventeen year old canadian off on so davies the defending bundesliga champs call the winger a big talent with a very promising future ahead of him davies will join byron in january after seeing

out the m.l.s. season with his current club thank you for white caps the transfer fee is reported to be around thirteen million year olds. and andre surely has left dortmund for a newly promoted english premier league side full of want to two year loan deal the two thousand and fourteen germany world cup winner had failed to nail down a starting place at dortmund over the past two seasons having been their record by the much trouble chiller previously played in england for films west london rivals show. armonica is here with business in monaco is not just the e.u. and the us talking trade that's a global issue and certainly right now in south africa sumi because the topic of trade in tariffs has been getting plenty of air time the brics summit currently underway in south africa speaking out to the summit chinese president xi jinping called on all breaks nations to reject union lateralus and she also hear you saying the summit to further china's of trade agenda in africa. with his

opening remarks chinese president xi jinping cast himself as the voice of global economic order. cheaters immune from we should be resolute in rejecting unilateralism and protectionism are promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation and jointly steer the global economy toward greater openness greater inclusiveness balance growth and win went 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 the stablished order it is not as strong as it used to be so it's time for the brics to fear for its commitment to the international order 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 for 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. and there's been

a dramatic fall in profits at the diner the german carmakers that second quarter revenues were down twenty nine percent on the year and that's even though the maker of mercedes benz sold more cars and trucks. trade tariffs were partly to blame for the profit shortfall this comes after general motors also reported a big drop in profitability in europe is also dealing with a major recall of diesel cars. right there gives us something to talk about with our man at the front with stock exchange and that's done your core. the markets opened well a bit more than a half an hour ago or so or an hour ago actually what first reactions there to the trump young could deal last night. well i'm smiling monica and traders here are smiling this morning as well the atmosphere i can really tell you is really relaxed this morning at least for the moment we are more than one hundred

eighty points here in the green at the moment that x. even made a jump to try thousand seven hundred eighty point which is even more than two hundred points higher than we closed last night we are seeing also a big plus of almost three percent of the volkswagen shares this morning for them of course the business in the united states is extremely crucial and important and you mentioned a dime they released their quarterly numbers today and their earning report was rather lousy i would say so without the news about a possible deescalation in the trade conflict i guess the share price would have even for the war right now damn their shares are only down with zero point eight percent but let me tell you that investors are not sure that this is really going now to mean the end of a possible trade war we know we're dealing with a u.s. president who can reference the change his mind from one day to the next one exactly but just very briefly daniel because i should think that it's not all smiles when it comes to the tech sector is no longer bidding for rival x p.

and china has something to do with that. yes china is hitting back i mean we have to remember that since fall two thousand and sixteen that's possible exposition was ongoing and the only thing that was missing was the ok from chinese regulators and it seemed that also because of this harsh rhetoric between the two countries there were clearly not in a rush to give this ok so qualcomm now they were hoping until the very last minute even made a higher offer now they're saying that by the end of the day it will take their offer back all right daniel cope in frankfurt thank you so much. when there's more profits reporting facebook shares took a beating after the social media giant reported that user numbers and revenue haven't been rising as quickly as they expect. it shares fell more than twenty percent in after hours trading in new york following the news erasing one hundred billion dollars in capital after revenue was up forty two percent in the second quarter costs continue to rise as facebook focuses on tightening security and him

proving content following a series of scandals the company says it has two point two billion active monthly users. there's a reminder of the top stories we're following for you. results from pakistan's parliamentary elections have been delayed after a slow counting officials are blaming a computer glitch partial results show former cricket star in brown con is ahead opposition leader says he won't accept the outcome alleging vote rigging. and the. e.u. have agreed to work towards a lowering trade barriers between each other the deal hasa defused for the moment to watch britain to become a full blown trade war between the two sides. you're watching the news coming to you live from berlin wall coming up at the top of the hour in the meantime you can get all the latest news and information on our website that's the new doc to call them thanks for joining to the.

center of the conflict zone come from to the powerful twenty years ago the good friday agreement. of the way in two decades of the conflicts in the an island but the results have been mixed my guest this week here in dublin. for my prime minister just how fine job is the process now. so you can assist the

conflict so for. the first. they want silence in syria. and they won't be silent in exile. seven people who fled to europe from the brutal persecution in their homeland are filing criminal charges against the country's senior officials. testifying against assad seeking justice for syria. in forty five minutes. iran. wants an isolated theocracy now

a major power in the middle east. where bonds of influence continues to grow politically economically and above all militarily. does iran truly want peace. with the country's opponents have their doubts to isolate. iran from theocracy regional power starting august first on g.w. . twenty years ago the good friday agreement paved the way for an end to decades of bitter conflict in the of the novel and but the results have been mixed my guess this week here in dublin is. but he hung for my irish prime minister and one of the co signatories of the agreement in one nine hundred ninety eight just how fragile is the peace process now and what would it take to get it back on track.