this is news coming to you live from berlin emergency crews in greece make a desperate search for those missing in the country's deadly wildfires the flames killed dozens of people left many homeless we have a special report from greece where our correspondent is following risky crews helping survivors of the wildfires there. also coming up counting has been delayed in pockets songs general election still more crickets start in iran contra party is leading in early results and he could become prime minister but the opposition is

alleging that the vote was rigged. and we take a look at prep the pill that is helping stop the spread of. hello and welcome. greece is really in from the deadliest wildfires in the country in recent times more than eighty people are confirmed dead relatives and risky crews are searching frantically for those still missing our correspondent. sent us this report from the whilst affected coastal town of marty many residents and tourists fledge towards the sea to escape the flames. a steady stream of supplies greets those battling the oil water and smoke and ash to reach survivors it's a small token for a community that's lost so much from rescue teams who. all too well what they've

enjoyed for volunteers like these weak lifeguards it's been an unrelenting. when the fires broke out as 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 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 there are thing we find now it's only for shards and you know but it's good for the people to have very relieved that they found the people their beloved. yes at least. palest was among those who helped residents fleece the water before saving himself the horror of that night for ever in his mind me and with the other guys.

and it puts some. people some jitters out of the crowd. i see some years we want to go to work. because the fire but i can't because it's. very bad things 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 a tragedy the true scale of which is yet. now those deadly wildfires in greece are just one of the consequences of unusually high temperatures across much of the northern hemisphere now we have this map that shows just how intense and widespread the summer heat is this year doc red signifies temperatures around forty degrees celsius the wider area show temperatures of fifty degrees in many regions it's also the driest summer on record in fun this has been

a summer of extremes it's also seen very heavy rainfall and flooding in addition to 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 dealing with weeks of temperatures hovering around forty degrees celsius his splashing water part of the japanese summer tradition so far at least seventy people have died and tens of thousands are in hospital. 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 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 dealing with the questions long discussed by environmentalist's are now urgent is this the new normal and how do we deal with. them and to talk with on those issues the have with me in the studio dr fred hot a man from the potsdam institute for climate impact research let's come to how to

manage the scene in our report who have severe heat waves in some places flooding in others what lies behind this extreme weather we are already in the midst of climate change the global mean temperature has increased by one degree roughly and in germany for example by one point five four degrees and we have more energy in the system and that can be transformed into for example motion heavy storms that can be transformed into heat heat waves and another effect is that more it up with transportation more moisture in the atmosphere heavy a petition events and as a video as a scientist linking the severe weather to a to climate change by a definitive. it is not correct from a to come from an event to. a trend but it is really in line with what we are expecting on the climate change we had the hottest. warmest april in germany's years of warmest may and think that what we see now as a warm summer might be a push summer and two or three decades so we in your view seeing the extreme of the

doctors in jail maybe the rest of the world we have these wife eyes now we saw in greece in sweden you have flooding in the united states and part of southeast asia what can we do to deal with this kind of a weather pattern and have to adapt we have to avoid of course to mitigate that we have to take care that temperature increase is not beyond two degrees but we also have to adapt to what happens already now because as i said climate change is ongoing be cannot stop it now. be a further increase in temperature on this test if you have to take you have to. protect against floods you have to take about two heat waves we also have to take. proper harvest appears but it would we need him policies to deal with this kind of changes there are lots of countries summits being had to deal with climate change do you think they are on the right track they were on the right track so there was this the paris agreement and the decision was to keep the temperature increase by below two degrees but it seems to be that we are not at the right track when we are

looking at submissions so additional efforts have to be done to really be two degrees and the end and if you had one can really as individuals do anything of course everybody can do something safe and edgy take on so by the by the public transport for. smaller distances to save energy as such and also pushing put it to sions to do everything possible to really keep the two degree will of the united nations right dr fred how to month from the potsdam institute for climate in back to search thank you for sharing your thoughts with us thank you very much. now police in china say a man with a fire device set off a blast at the u.s. embassy in the capital beijing a video posted on social media shows smoke billowing from the huge embassy complex in the northeast of the city lost and loved and left on the pavement outside the

building chinese police say a twenty six year old man. known as the u.s. embassy described the device as a bomb. a correspondent. reporting us for us from the u.s. embassy in beijing. the blast in front of an american embassy for all be alone. be quick to cordon off the site. have witnessed an eyewitness being taken away and driven away in a black car now the american embassy has resumed its activities the people behind me over there they are standing on queuing up for an american visa there have been when the blast happened. now that was our correspondent in beijing telling dr pakistan the results of wednesday's automatically elections have been delayed after still counting the electoral commission is blaming computer glitches it says for results will be in later tonight the posher results show the body of

former cricket star. has a commanding lead in iran khan had been the slight favorite ahead of the election but the main opposition leader shahbaz sharif is saying he will not accept the outcome here alleges ballot drinking in favor of khan's p.t.i. party. for the very latest i have our correspondent naomi conrad in islam but she's covering the pakistani elections for us the counting of votes as a result has been delayed is that a warning sign. i'm not entirely sure it's a worrying sign maybe it's just a sign of things not going quite as smoothly as they should be here the problem is that a server crashed it turns out that the electoral commission is using new software which it never actually tested before we were told so now they have to get the server back up and running so that of itself is not a sign of things going wrong i mean if you look at the white a bigger picture maybe but it looks as if we should get the results later on in the

day. and from current so far and there we can is leading what is in promising the country does he represent the gun and change the country wants and needs. so he's running on an anti corruption platform and that is definitely what the people i've been talking to is one they're sick of they're basically two main parties here in pakistan they're dynastic parties where offices are passed on from family member to family member over the years these two main parties own credibly corrupt they're known for their sibling funds and people want that to change they want a new start and they want someone who can address the issues they really care about which is the economy which is poverty alleviation which is electricity and water the incredible water shortages here electricity shortages and that's what the people want to addressed. others in the in many parts of the world including pakistan's in a matter who wins is the army who calls the shots what do you make of this claim my

army. yes there's a saying that pakistan is pakistan is not a state with an army but an army with the state it is clear and that's what everyone says that the army here is incredibly powerful it's run the country for hard more than half of its history and they do pull the strings journalists here talk of receiving and threatening phone calls when they give too much coverage to the wrong party a lot of red lines but they are not allowed to cover that are not allowed to talk about what the army is incredibly powerful but it's very difficult to say how powerful it's not as if we have proof and it's not as if the army would talk to us so it's a shadowy presence in the distance and it's incredibly important to talk to. the pakistani capital islamabad thank you. that you know some of the stories making news around the world japan is executed the remaining members of the doomsday cult that kind of

a deadly sarin gas attack on the took you somewhere in one thousand nine hundred five the six men were the last remaining members of. cults being held in prison the took a subway attack was the group's most well known crime thirteen people died and. thousands of people remain stranded in southern laos after the collapse of a hydroelectric dam on monday authorities i'm this to getting what caused the disaster the death toll has risen to twenty seven and more than one hundred people are still missing risk u.f.o.'s have been hampered by damaged roads rip off the affected areas and flash flooding. has taken place in syria. a day after a series of attacks killed more than two hundred people in the south western region the so-called islamic state claimed responsibility for the board in these sort it's the groups did this attack in syria for years as. u.s.

president donald trump and european commission chief. have reached a deal to calm their trade dispute now it sounds agreed to hold more talks to newer trade barriers and hold off on impose entire of the tension between the u.s. and europe has been high over washington's decision to set talents on new england's . responded with this 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 us 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 e.u. commission president john had been threatening new trade tariffs on the u.s. but arriving at the white house 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 do our toasts i had in terms i had the intention to make a deal today and we made

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 u.s. . a major international conference on preventing the spread of the virus which causes aids is taking place in amsterdam the netherlands rates of hiv infection are rising in some parts of the was just eastern europe and central asia public health but he stressed that using condoms can prevent hiv infections and there is also a medication known as prep that can stop people getting hiv virus. emanuel is a professional musician and he's hiv negative and that's how he wants it to stay that's why he relies on prep and antiviral medicine that fights intervene faction

he has to take the pill every day so that he's always protected. till about two years ago i just use condoms. is always risky situations and. i started to mistrust condoms then i had about prep and it really sounded like a savior. but. i know that's wrong. until recently the medicine cost as much as eight hundred euros per month in germany alternatively it could be ordered some illegally as a generic drug abroad recently the price of the medicine fell to fifty years the reason the manufacturers peyton will soon expire demand is high and no home full side effects are known. proper took my constant fear away nor only in the bedroom but in everyday life it helped me get emotionally intimate again. before it's every potential partner was also

a potential danger to get far. the combination of improved h.i.b. therapy and pressure has already produced positive results say supporters of the new treatment. yet. we are now certain that prep can definitely stop new infections in the u.k. new infections have dropped significantly and we can see the same thing in san francisco we can have these successes in germany as well. we can. but the before pill has also got its disadvantages doctors say especially if it leads to a decline in the use of condoms. for the i phone the prep protects against hiv but it doesn't protect against syphilis or gone arrear or other sexually transmitted diseases. views the most difficult to treat and the most severe of these sexually transmitted diseases that's what prep protects against the pap for

a man who and purposes already had success it finally means freedom from the once life threatening disease called h.l.v. . the seventeenth stage of this thought it falls on wednesday provided the backdrop to a cycling first instead of the usual flying start riders lined up on the formula one style grid positions are determined by the riders rankings in the overall standings meaning yellow jersey where given to thomas began with on board position with three of the off climbs the wrist through the bernese off with 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 this time around of the stage statistics just sixty five kilometers long but with more than half the distance uphill spread over three polishing climbs two thousand two hundred metres above sea level the final

summit cold deportation is the highest point in this year's tour the perfect backdrop then for a big performance from columbia narcan tata the mountain specialist has won plenty in his career but this was his first stage when it sort of fronts its twenty thirteen he finished with a lead of just over thirty seconds over the trailing group of favorites four times or champion chris froome couldn't keep pace and ended up losing a lot of ground to his team sky colleague gary thomas the welshman meanwhile came in third at the end of the stage thereby extending his lead in the overall standings with just four stages left to compete. at the head of the german football federation via not grendel has rejected allegations of racism by foreign nationals there. but in this first public statement since retired from the german national team during the admitted to making mistakes in his handling of the controversy over

photos with the turkish president. he said he should have done more to protect the midfielder from discriminatory abuse images of that meeting emerge in the run up to germany's world cup campaign. by munich have announced their first purchase of the season seventeen year old canadian alfonzo davis and the defending distinct champions call the window a big talent with a very promising future ahead of him davis been joined by nine in january after seeing the m.l.s. season with his current club vancouver whitecaps the transfer fee is reported to be around thirteen million here. and talking about millions joins me. not just the u.s. and the e.u. we're talking trade when the millions billions are at stake and rita everybody is interested in it and the topic of trade certainly and terrorism has been getting plenty of air time and the brics summit currently underway in south africa speaking

at the summit chinese president xi jinping called on all of bricks and nations to reject unilateralism she is also using the summit to promote china's own trade agenda in africa. with his opening remarks chinese president xi jinping cast himself as the voice of global economic order. cheaters i mean from we should be resolute in rejecting unilateralism and protection is 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 the 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 me 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. it's the earnings season and there's been a dramatic fall in profits at dima the german konica said second quarter revenues were down twenty nine percent on the year that's even though the maker of mercedes then sold more cars and trucks dima said trade tariffs were partly to blame for the profit shortfall and this comes after general motors also reported a big drop in profitability in europe is also dealing with a major recall of diesel comes. as a good moment for us to cross over to a man of the front good stock exchange daniel to give us an update on what the market sentiment is like right now especially also with people still digesting those talks between trump yesterday. monica given the fact that the initial expectations you know about this meeting were extremely low you can really feel

sort of a relief here among traders today at least for the moment because of course we know how unpredictable this us president is it would not be the first time that he changes his mind already within days so investors are not gets convents that a trade war is completely over but the blue chip index dax has performed very strong here today we are up more than one point three percent especially the shares of car makers are very much demand volkswagen with a big plus an even diameter hole reported you just mentioned of those rather lousy numbers is here in the green at the moment ok well then digesting yesterday's news is one thing looking forward to two today's to news you can central bank is meeting what can we expect. the expert exactly we're not expecting to be quite honest big surprises to be announced by mario draghi the head of the european central bank here in frankfurt of course there's always this question of when the policy of the super cheap money here in the euro zone so these zero percent interest rates are

going to change and it's almost certain that those won't be changed until earliest next year. but even though traders here on the floor they will still isn't very closely if we might get a hint or an indication of when we could see the change off the e.c.b. monetary policy drag you also shares general assessment how he sees the current inflation situation in the euro zone he always has this target that inflation rate needs to be always here at the level of about two per cent so yeah no big surprises are expected for still well we're listening very carefully you'll be there and you will bring us up to date no doubt than you quote in frankfurt thank you. and facebook shares took a beating after the social media giant reported that use the numbers under 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 that raising one hundred billion dollars in capital driving you was up forty two percent in the second quarter of

course 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 monthly users. and here's a reminder all the top stories we're following for you. rescue dozens of people missing in greece this deadly wildfire the highest killed at least eighty people and left many home next. results from the pakistan's parliamentary elections have been delayed off the slow counting officials are blaming a computer glitch partial results show former cricket star in iraq on this ahead opposition leader says he won't accept the outcome alleging vote rigging. it watching the daily news coming to you live from berlin well coming up off the top of the hour a c event. i'm

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