this is deja vu news coming to you live from bahrain the final results in pakistan's election has been delayed and questions are being raised as to the votes limited to the. opposition parties to be election was rigged in favor of the former cricketer don khan partial results indicate in rome khan is on course to become pakistan's next prime minister also coming up we have a special report from greece where our correspondent is following the rescue crews helping survivors of the one fires there to volunteers like these it's been an

unrelenting day of the fires breakouts takes it looks is desperately searching for the bench that the body. relieved and sort of agrees constitute the deadly wildfires. and we take a look at kraft the pill that's helping to stop the spread of. my mom but that shima the former cricket star khan is edging closer to power in pakistan this content has been stood across the country by allegations of corruption and slow counting in the country's fundamental elections within the hof the votes counted in gone cons p.t.i. party is in the lead but looks unlikely to secure a majority in the national assembly the main. opposition leader shahbaz sharif

claims ballot printing is tipping the balance in favor of the p.d.i. the electoral commission is blaming computer glitches for the delay in the counting of votes. for the baileys i have our correspondent me only congress by 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 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 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 kind of 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 their 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 are incredibly corrupt they're known for bestselling 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 address. an interest in that in many parts of the world including pakistan's you know matter who wins is the army who calls the shots what do you make of this claim by army. yes there's a saying that goes in pakistan is pakistan is not a state with an army you've got 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 that they are not allowed to cover that are not allowed to talk about so 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 that is incredibly important in pakistan. the pakistani capital thank you. police in china see a man with a firework 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 glass and blood stains were left on the pavement outside the building chinese police say

a twenty six year old man injured himself in the blast no one else was hurt the u.s. embassy described the device as a bomb. our correspondent mathias dillinger was outside the u.s. embassy in beijing and sent us this update. the blast in front of an american embassy for all be alone. been quick to cordon off the site journalists. 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 as there have been when the blast happened. at risk. reporting from beijing let me now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the wild a mass funeral has taken place in serious trouble a day after a series of attacks killed more than two hundred people in the southwestern region

the so-called islamic state clean responsibility for the warden sorts with the group's deadliest attack in syria for years. japan has executed the remaining members of a doomsday cult that carried out a deadly sarin gas attack on the took us subway in one thousand nine hundred ninety five the six men were the last members of the. cult being held in prison in the tokyo subway attack was the group's most serious crime thirteen people died and thousands and. thousands of people remain stranded in southern laos after the collapse of a high. on monday a parties 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 damaged roads to remove dust of the region has the affected areas

as well as flash flooding. greece is reeling from the deadliest wildfires in the country in recent times more than eighty people are confirmed dead relatives and rescue crews are searching frantically for those still missing our correspondent. sent us a report from the worst affected coastal town marty thousands of volunteers have joined emergency crews as the nation pulls together. 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 endured for volunteers like these all week life has been an unrelenting hey when the fires broke out snakes are 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 are growing that many who sought refuge in the waters instead lost their lives we're 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 it's good for the people to have very pleased 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 with the other guys. and it puts some. people some jitters out of the crowd. i see some guys we want to get away. because the fire but that kind of cuts.

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. those deadly wildfires in greece on just one of the consequences of unusually high temperatures across much of the northern hemisphere this map shows us how intense and widespread the summer heat has been this year dark red signifies temperatures around forty degrees celsius the white areas show temperatures of fifty degrees in many regions it's also the driest summer on record in fact this has been a summer off extremes is also seen heavy rainfall and flooding along with 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 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 the 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 liked 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 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 to have a clean the studio dr fred hot a man from the parts institute for climate impact research that's come down to how to manage the seal in our report you have severe heat waves in some places flooding in others what lies behind this extreme weather the 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 on 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 and more if up with translation more moisture in the atmosphere heavy a prostitution events and as a deal as a scientist linking the severe weather due to climate change by definitively it is not correct from a to come from one event to. a trend that is really in line but we are expecting on a climate change we had the hottest. warmest april in germany's years of warmest may and the think that what we see now is warm summer my opinion of which summer and two or three decades so we in your view seeing this 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 weather pattern we have to that we have to avoid of course to mitigate that we have to take care that's. temperature increase is not

beyond two degrees but we also have to adapt to what happens already now because as i said time change is ongoing be cannot stop now it will be a further increase in temperature and just as if you have to take you have to. protect against floods have to take care about. the odds have to take home poppy harvest or years but in we need impulses to deal with this kind of changes there are lots of gunfire 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 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 in the end and if you had one can we as individuals do anything of course everybody can do something safe and energy taken survived by public transport for. smaller

distances to save energy as such and also pushing politicians to do everything possible to really keep the two groups who will of the united nations. that was dr fred had him on from the potsdam institute for climate impact research now a major international conference on preventing the spread of the hiv virus which causes aids is underway in amsterdam in the netherlands this as each eye reinfection rates are rising in parts of the world such as eastern europe and central asia public health bodies stress of using condoms down prevent hiv infection and now there's also a medication known as prep that can significantly the chances of people contracting the infection. emmanuel is a professional musician and he's hiv negative to keep it that way he relies on prep a medicine that can stop people catching it he has to take the perfect day to stay

protected. for the. little about two years ago i just use condoms. is always risky situations for cause i started to mistrust condoms than i had about prep and it really sounded like a savior of. the club and i think this is the. i know that one. until recently the medicine cost as much as eight hundred euros per month in germany alternatively it could be ordered semi legally as a generic struct a broad recently the price of the medicine fell to fifty cures the reason the manufacturers peyton will soon expire demand is high. as had so few on going on prep took my constant fear away nor only in the bedroom but in everyday life it helped me get emotionally intimate again. before

a song every potential partner was also a potential danger apart and. the combination of improved hiv therapy and prep has already produced positive results say supporters of the new treatment. be hidden under the lens and we are now certain that prep can definitely stop new infections in the u.k. the new infections have dropped significantly and we can see the same thing in san francisco that we can have new successes in germany as well i know we can. but the before pill also has its disadvantages doctors say especially if it leads to a decline in the use of condoms the pap should for to have 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

emmanuelle means freedom freedom from the once life threatening disease called hiv aids. the head of the german football federation reinhard quintile has rejected allegations of racism by former national there. and his first public statement since retired from the german national squad admitted to making mistakes in his handling of the controversy over see this photo of the president at a time he said he should have done more to protect the midfielder from discriminatory abuse images of that meeting with the president emerged in the run up to germany's world cup campaign. by new nick kind of announced their first purchase of the season seventeen year old canadian davis the defending ministry got champions all the winger a big talent with a very promising future ahead of him davis were joined by an in january after

seeing the m.l.s. season with this current club vancouver whitecaps the transfer fee is reported to be around thirteen million here as. the seventeenth stage of this year's tour de france on wednesday provided the backdrop to 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 a good renter tomas began on a good position with three rough climbs the race through the pair needs 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 this time around other stages to sticks 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 call deportation is the highest point in this year's tour the perfect backdrop then for a big performance from columbia narcan tara the mountain specialist has won plenty in his career but this was his first stage when it sort of fronts its twenty thirteen to finish with a lead of just over thirty seconds over the trailing group of favorites. four time sore 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 live to compete. monica joins me now for business news and easing off tensions over earthquake dispute between the u.s. and europe exactly amrita huge sigh of relief i can tell you that much can be heard throughout europe and the u.s. on the brink of a trade war u.s. president donald trump and european commission president john clode younger said

that they want a trade agreement until that is in place they will hold off on imposing new tariffs on each other europe has also agreed to buy more liquefied natural gas and soybeans from the u.s. the latter being important for american farmers they have come under pressure lately after china targeted their crops with retaliatory tariffs responding to a terrorist trump card previously levied on chinese imports like electronics. and in the last few minutes the european central bank has announced it's leaving its key interest rate unchanged that keeps it at a record low often zero percent above the e.c.b. said it will be hovering its monthly bond to buyback program that's. about it was that dramatic and then we had a dramatic fall in profits at dime not because it's an ng season the german carmakers said second quarter revenues were down twenty nine percent on the year

that is even though the maker of mostly to spend sold cars and trucks dima said trade tariffs were partly to blame for the profit shortfall this comes after german motors also reported a big drop in profitability in europe dima is also dealing with a major recall of diesel cars. and facebook the shares took a beating after the social media giant reported the user numbers driven you 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 of address new 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 monthly users. all right and for more on that particular story i'm joined by last harter

from our business department last trump undrunk lot younger reaching some sort of an agreement certainly last night how big is the deal i don't think it's big at all it sounds big certainly monica if you just listen to the two gentlemen there if you listen to the wording specifically the words used by president trump he says we are entering a new era of friendship and trade will for the. kates we had an era of friendship and trade that basically trumped was destroyed a couple of months ago and now we're supposed to get there again and also there's very little detail now i am a little bit pessimistic about the whole thing others are not we have a tweet here reaction by the german minister for economic affairs. and he's as contracts to young trump breakthrough achieved that can avoid a trade war and save millions of jobs great for global economy so obviously that is

his job to be optimistic about it to sound like this is a big deal but i wouldn't i would take it with a grain of salt and that reaction i believe also came out very soon after that press conference yesterday to join press conference in the meantime everybody has slept over this and that the french finance minister there is somewhat less enthusiastic he didn't to eat but he stated that any trade deal between the e.u. and us must be based on resi prophecy that france expects a gesture of goodwill from the u.s. side especially an aluminum and steel tariffs is that on the cards well we have to really see what follows up on this because words are one thing but actions of course need to follow and we all know that you can unfortunately currently not trust the american president and take him for his word because it has happened pretty often recently that he has promised one big thing especially in international meetings with other world leaders and he might have taken it back five minutes later or five days later in another speech in

a tweet and it was as though we're dealing with something very complex it started yesterday with fireworks again and we'll see what i thought it was coming out of that right now let's just be optimistic for a change or let's see all of this is playing out i mean what sort of agreement can we look forward to what needs to be done or you might remember teacher of course of four years the e.u. and the united states have negotiated a trade agreement and we will if we do see a new agreement it might go that way but of. t. tip everybody knows how complex that was when dealing with regulations with dealing with subsidies i mean part of what they said yesterday is norm or subsidies or tell that to farmers in the e.u. or in the united states tell that to bolling tell that to the oil and chemical industry it's very easy to say such a thing but it's very very complex to actually put in place and if we remember tito which as i said might serve a little bit of a blueprint for what might come up to take light years to negotiate there may be

qualities of life but still that's going to be months or years of negotiation maybe protests and they will see what gets ratified and what not is there of course we now know certainly with president donald trump in place what the alternatives could look like your last heart are there from d.w. business thank you so much. and there's been a major development in our top story the elections in pakistan in the last few minutes for my pakistan cricket here imran khan has declared victory in the general election vote counting is still underway opposition parties have raced allegations that a vote of us rigged incomes favor and we'll have more on that story at the top of the hour first a story about what can happen when you're a victim of fake news ninjas are a big deal in japan and for the city of their 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 claimed that the city is looking for ninja performers for a new museum and for a huge salary it wasn't true but the damage was done. 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. i don't know. the know we've had emails before from foreign people who wanted to visit the city as tourists. and i. think 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 eagle 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. you're watching t w news coming up at the top of the hour.

from the. center of the conflict zone and confronting the powerful twenty years ago the good friday agreement paved the way for an end of two decades of the conflict in the law but the results have been mixed my guest this week here in dublin is. arash prime minister just how five job is the process not. a source of conflict so for the next couple of.

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police. the most traditional. any time. check in with a web special. take a tour of germany state by state on d. w. dot com. 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 for my irish prime minister and one of the co signatures of the agreement in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight just how fragile is the peace process now and what would it take to get it back on track.