this is due every news coming to lawyers from berlin zimbabwe prepares to go to the polls campaigning is winding down as the concert holds its first presidential election since the end of the mugabe era but will gold be free and fair will bring you the latest from harare also coming out forest fires raging across the northern hemisphere amid the record home summer in northern california firefighters are struggling to contain an inferno that single thing forest destroying homes and threatening lives. plus we'll have the latest from the tour de france where

a girl thomas is set to win his maiden title thomas will become the first welshman to win the tour and sunday's final stage will show you how he reached the pinnacle the cycling world. from sarah harman welcome to the show it's good to have you with us as people in zimbabwe prepare to head to the polls they'll be casting their vote for a leader not named robert mugabe for the first time in a generation is the first elections since the former president was ousted from power last year current president emerson mungo is running in a tight race against opposition leader nelson chamisa both sides are pushing for every vote before the polls open. asin barclay's presidential race enters the final days of both sides are turning out in force rallying and dancing in support of

their candidates the zanu p.f. the fancy footwork is all for this man and his and. was once mccarthy's right hand man with the ominous nickname of the crocodile he took over when mccarthy was forced to resign but has enthusiastic backers from his supporters who called him that's the capital easy i've come voluntarily to support my president. i want to assure him that i've got your vote come monday after my ex on eighty nine my president. may. e.d.'s author is simple revive the economy tackle unemployment and attract foreign investment and that seems enough to get the greens dancing on the pitch. but in the red corner the movement for democratic change is rallying its support and not just with that dance

moves there is a show of strength for the forty year old preacher nelson shimmies. we're thirty five here now. that we're going to gaze you out bank a plasma ya we don't care food people can't deny love going to israel because of mine or. everything kerry called for. on the campaign trail chemise have made a few rash promises like bringing the world cup and the olympics to the country and building a high speed train system to controversially chemise is already saying that he has won the election and any other result would prove the poll is rigged whatever his claims analysts say monday's vote will be a close run race with the possibility of a runoff later in september. also ethiopia now a country caught in a deadly cycle of famine and drought the united nations estimates that up to eight

million people are going hungry and that's despite there being no shortage of foreign land development workers from germany believe that they can help end this cycle by tapping into local know how and expertise. i leymah who grows wheat on his two hectares of land in northern ethiopia as a smallholder he uses the time on it met the developers and then ploughed and like many other farmers he closes the farai with the same plough just serving the seeds then he had an idea these old old closing. and. the new. oh a layman who invented a new device which is less damaging to the earth and the seeds since he started using it he has increased his crop by a third the german society for international cooperation supports innovations like

this development work a magnet it takes up the ideas of small holders like a lamer and helps to forge new ways of farming moves from. we need to stem the rural exodus but we also need to invest in the industrial parks where food and draw materials are produced and which have to be produced to quality and quantity so if you can only do that if you support the rural population. ethiopia is a prime example of the german government's marshall plan for africa if africa's second largest country can succeed in modernizing its agriculture that it's possible elsewhere says magnus schmidt ever since the new ethiopian government took office germany has been able to sell modern plows pass decides and seeds directly to farmers in so-called farmer service centers. if there are good seeds here if it's possible to increase production if there is good downstream processing and more jobs in the future then ethiopia will be

a region that won't have refugees making their way to europe really go through being in a hut you know. every year germany gives eighty million euros to ethiopia it's an investment that could grow alleged former bodyguard of osama bin ladin says he'll return to germany as soon as his passport is returned that's according to a statement from his lawyer the man known as sami a was deported recently but in german court was this deportation was unlawful in order to be returned to germany his passport is being held by tunisian authorities sami a is currently involvement is the most activity. here's a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world militants in afghanistan killed at least two people and injured five others in the soft on a training center for midwives nearly seventy people were inside the center enjoy a lot about when the extremists attacked witnesses for gunfire and several blasts

no group has claimed responsibility. tens of thousands of russians have protested planned hikes to the country's retirement age rallies organized by trade unions and the communist party mobilized people in over a dozen cities across the country many russians have voiced their anger over the fact that the newer tarmon age of sixty five is comparable with the life expectancy of russian men. pope francis has accepted the resignation of cardinal mccarrick one of the most prominent figures in the catholic church in the united states as follows allegations of sexual abuse including a case involving an eleven year old boy francis has ordered to remain in seclusion and in prayer until the church trials. extreme summer temperatures in many parts of the northern hemisphere have left firefighters battling massive blazes and united states two firefighters have now died after struggling to bring

an inferno in northern california under control dozens of homes in the city of reading of gone up in smoke and the blaze still has not been contained. in the area that border. you know. it's a vision of hell size swirling at high speed this is reading california at night wildfires raging through the forests and into the suburbs at incredible speeds. and this is what they left behind hundreds of homes tend to char and rubble devastation for homeowners. to find find says have already been killed while stuck in the flames in california it's an uphill battle. only five percent of the blaze is under control so far current conditions high temperatures and wind are going nowhere. so we need to experience more and more damaging wildfires more

fires that ignite rapidly it's like throwing gas in. these type of fires they wrap them they spread so fast california is used to fires. but over in europe sweden isn't this summer huge blazes broke out even as far as the arctic north of thirty one conditions could get a lot worse in the. high winds may cause the fires to spread and the thunder is likely to start new fires so we're still on high alert and ready to fight for any new fires hawg home this could have for them to renew your bet on those. sweden's neighbors have been coming to the support sending people and planes planes sweden has never needed in the past but swedish officials say some of those international volunteers may have to be pulled out so great are the risks elsewhere in europe like california and europe is facing an unprecedented fire season and firefighters

are at their limits. well the tour de france is coming to a close and it appears we have a new winner here to tell us more about that is at the cambridge from good office for says ed good to have you in the studio we're still at a stage left to go but it looks like we are already know who's going to take it tell us what's going on so it was the second to last stage of course and a final opportunity today for the chasing pack to try and usurp the right thomas at the top of that leaderboard as any good at all family tell you it's customary at the top of france very strangely that the race leader is never challenged on the final day so all we have to do today was maintain his lead of a second place tom donilon and as we're about to see the welshman held his no. the moment go right thomas has dreamed of the tour de france title is as good as his thomas produced another excellent display in the penultimate stage finish the time trial in third place and crucially retained a lead of almost two minutes in the general classification. to do on the biggest

stage of all. over three weeks. since a. time trial world champions home to milan won the stage an outcome that keeps the dutchman in second place overall. he finished narrowly ahead of chris froome the four time tour de france champion has had a difficult few weeks but will at least end up on the podium in paris but barring a disaster it's his team sky colleague thomas who will take his crown as the holder of road cycling's most prestigious title. so thomas looking set for victory there he's competed before but we've never really heard his name in contention to win what do you do right this year where he's always been more of a supporting cyclist that's been his role the team's guys he's played an important role as chris froome has claimed tour de france titles over the past few years his highest ever finish in the past was fifteenth so for many it's a bit of

a shock that he's done so well this year but they were signs there for instance in last year's tour he was in second place before he fell off his bike broke his collarbone so although we didn't have the luck last year there was clearly pedigree there and some cycling fans could have expected a good performance from again this year and he also didn't take part in the chiro which is the big italians which happens just before the tour de france all the other cyclists chris froome for example and it takes a lot out of you. possibly a lot more fresh than the other competitors well and it went right for him and he had a great is a great run rest is important guys set for its six the win in seven years but they have a controversial tour haven't they have chris froome. the defending champion he's been spat he's been booed he's actually had physical altercations with fans on the mountainside a lot of people aren't happy with him taking part he was involved in a big doping allegation and obviously in the cycling is the last poll in which you want to be basically you know accused of doping so it's very bad on his record he

was cleared of the allegations but people still aren't happy to see him taking part now away from the cyclists the team manager dave brailsford he had to apologize as well for basically saying the spitting that was happening was all part of french culture so he was very happy of course i mean so it's a french people so a great victory again for skype but there have been a few setbacks along the way all right a bit of drama at the tour de france it wouldn't be the same without it that is ed thank you very much for being with us today and here in berlin thousands of people been taking part in city's annual christopher street day parade it's one of europe's biggest pride events but organizers say this is more than just a street party they call it a political demonstration for equal rights. but geyser has been in every bill in pride known as c.s.t. since it began the seventy three year old is one of the pioneers of the gay movement if you didn't do this i always as excited as i was the first time the excitement doesn't stop when you colgan was the first c.s.t.

in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine nearly five hundred people demonstrated in west berlin at the time public opinion was hostile towards people who didn't identify with the hetero normative mainstream. but then i found that we got some positive reaction that was very relieving for me that gave me courage. to use the is a big party but it's also a political demonstration here after germany legalized same sex marriage the fight for equal rights and acceptance continues accorded man of the movement at the moment is that sexual identity should be protected under germany's basic law there are also calls for better education in schools from a phobic slurs a still common. didn't have empathy we aren't finished there's still a lot of injustice we have to deal with and i think the c.s.d. is a wonderful tool it's good that in the belt we're part of this world it's public so people shouldn't hide it why this is about freedom and not having to hide anymore and it could be yourself that the crime statistics however show that identifying is

l g b t q i can be dangerous in berlin alone there were three hundred twenty four confirmed homophobic attacks last year according to victims of course and so they argue that the unreported number is significantly higher the motto today my body my identity my life. rested having news thanks for watching. sorry i just couldn't get this song out of his head. the musicologist began searching for the source of this captivating south. and central africa. to fight their culture the state.