this is g w news live from berlin the northern iraqi region and once ruled by the so-called islamic state is facing an uncertain future years after the group was driven out the strategic city was liberated three years ago but remains a ghost town we have an exclusive report from sin the capital of a young religious minority militants tried to annihilate. us president says he's willing to meet with the iranian president hassan rouhani the surprise offer comes a week after he warned him don't threaten us or you'll suffer a historic consequences counting is under way after

a strong turnout in zimbabwe's landmark election the bob hope the historic vote will are sure any real change after decades of corruption and neglect under former president mugabe is full of. plus forest green that world isn't just their name it's this football club when the british team went to green bay were the first to do so when organized sports now they're the first club to be certified as carbon neutral by the united nations. thank you for joining us we start in northern iraq which was liberated nearly three years ago from the so-called islamic state when it swept through the region i asked targeted minorities like the young who don't follow the islamic faith militants killed kidnapped and enslaved thousands of years the eighty's and even now the group is still recovering from the i asked genocide return. starting afresh is

a mammoth task very few people have tried to start a new life and the region and its capital singe are as it's known in kurdish did it was because travel there and brings us this exclusive report. the capital of the years you to slice in ruins devastated by invasion and the fight for liberation most people fled when so-called islamic state took the city and killed an enslaved thousands now that these limits have been expelled only a few residents have returned in many parts feels like a ghost town to end of years after liberation from my s. only three thousand families have returned to a city which once had more than eighty thousand inhabitants. there's still no sign of reconstruction there are no hospitals schools or functional administration he has e.d.s. living inching gun feel abandoned by their politicians. the head of we've got no

electricity and the water is bad. there are bombs and mines all over the place. they have to clear them. they'd never forgive us you just can't live here there's no work so people aren't coming back. because the situation doesn't improve soon then we who have returned will leave again very soon got enough. stephanie yes wants to stay no matter what the twenty four year old studied to be a teacher but there are no schools so he opened up a glass workshop with a friend the problem is that nothing is being rebuilt which means even his business is struggling. with that people won't come back as long as there are so many different political groups here working only for themselves there are thousand different groups and they're all only looking after their own interests.

he means the different militias that are still active in the city they run their own checkpoints and have their own agendas all parties want influence here in the singe amounts being close to the syrian border the region is strategically important to kurds to the central government and backed up to turkey and iran. she knows may or fatah middlemarch says the cities people are suffering from this clash of interests he is the yazidi put in office by the central government then left to fend for himself. is the isn't it that we are treated like a fourth or fifth class citizens let me give you an example i had to live in the mountains for three years and five months there were six thousand families in the mountains if we weren't yazidi easy they would have taken care of us like they did other people. and with my heart broken residents come to him every day asking for

money for reconstruction but he can't help them the government says it wants to press on with rebuilding but almost pessimistic after the latest protests he says he expects any available money to be spent elsewhere. on film that report with biggest social can she joins us in our studio to tell us more about this story good morning sandra thank you for joining us we should say that shingle is what the kurdish call singe are for some of our viewers who might not know that name why is the reconstruction of this place taking so long well it is still disputed territory first before plus it is the homeland of a minority and of course other parts of iraq like mosul have also been destroyed mosul being the second largest city so you know it's not that the iraqi government has a lot of money to throw around for reconstruction and. that it's also

a rather isolated area i think they don't really see the need to put money into an area which is really disputed between central government and the kurdish autonomous government and also other forces playing out there like you know you take a kurdish forces syria n y p g forces a shiite militia so you know it's really very congested up there real so heard one man say in your reports that you know you are like fifth class citizens did you see that as well they're well i mean if you see how people are treated there that they don't really receive any official aid for reconstruction you know for rebuilding their destroyed houses for road clear and for the clearance of booby traps unexploded devices remnants of war you must assume that yes they are treated as or a fifth class citizens they don't feel that they are taken care of and protection they lack a sense of security given all of that and the appalling crimes that they faced will feel safe enough to go back home i would say at the moment there is no real clear

indication why they should feel that you know they can retake their home and like this young men said. if nothing happens those people that they have to retune will rather leave again as we have shown in other reports there is the holy mountain off they use the beast not too far away. mount century you still have about ten thousand people living up there on the barren plateau in tents why do they choose to do that because they lack that sense of security and they don't really feel that their former capital is still their capital and thousands of women and girls were also captured by the islamic state in slave by bam what is being done to find them and free them i would say petty little it's not like official missions go out and try to search for them there is a missing people it's office but mainly you know it lice with a family stay contect smugness smugglers who know the routes between iraq and syria

which is right next door to singe our runs the main connection line between mosul and iraq of for example two four miles from holds so they try to use the established smuggling networks to try you know and find their loved ones who were so like cattle over the border from one jihadi group to another from your reporting what is your sense of how the u.c.d. feel about their sense of home does that still exist for them for some yes because they frankly tell you we only know this one home so we try to make it work but for most of them know those that we spoke to they all really want to leave iraq not just their homeland of iraq at all all right good at the center pages man bring us the very important reporting thank you so much sandra. but u.s. president onil trump says he is open to meeting with the leaders of iran any time they want this comes only a week after trump posted a tweet warning iran not to threaten the u.s. or quote suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever

suffered before trump made the offer after talks with italian prime minister giuseppe country and washington country is seen as trump's major ally in europe they share similar views on mentions. it was a meeting of my project both men were elected after a surge of populism both came to power in large part due to their migration pledges . i agree very much what you're doing with respect to migration and illegal immigration and even illegal immigration it has taken a very firm stance on the border. a stance a few countries have taken and frankly you're doing the right thing in my opinion. something trump me hope to replicate after he threatened to shut down the government if he didn't get backing for his proposed wall along the southern u.s. border with mexico the leaders also find common ground regarding moskos rule on the world stage. those who think russia can be excluded

well as president trump said if we want to solve problems we cannot choose our counterparts. we must accept things as they are and sit at the table with them and negotiate and have a dialogue with those who are our counterparts. the trump administration has more in common with conti's coalition government than it does with those of other european countries despite warm words for the french president and german chancellor jude in their visits to washington the us president recently described the e.u. as a foe to be may well be a welcome and useful friend at this meeting trump hinted at another one which may be on the cards so i believe in meeting i would certainly meet with the rent if they wanted to meet and i'm ready to meet anytime they want if we could work something out that's meaningful not the waste of paper that the other deal was i would certainly be willing to make this after trump who date of the iran nuclear

accords and warned its leaders against threatening the u.s. in the strongest of terror. if a meeting happens it would be the first between the u.s. and iranian presidents in nearly forty years and mark another foreign policy turnaround for this most unconventional of president. now to some other stories making headlines around the world north korea is reportedly working on new missiles officials say u.s. spy satellites have detected or new activity at a north korean site that has produced for missiles in the past this activity is the latest sign that north korea is continuing to develop its weapons program despite leader kim jong un promising at a meeting in june to work toward denuclearization. russian police have real rested for members of the pussy riot punk group moments after they were released they had spent fifteen days in prison for invading the pitch during the world cup final between france and croatia in moscow the group said in a tweet they could face another ten days behind bars russian authorities haven't

said why they were again detained. and hundreds of people have attended a vigil in the greek capital athens to remember the victims of the country's deadly wildfires one week on more than ninety people died and dozens more were injured when blazes tore through several towns east of happens less monday dozens more are still missing. votes are being counted in zimbabwe's landmark election it was the first time in nearly forty years that the name of former president robert mugabe wasn't on the ballot final results are due by saturday at the latest and they are expected to be close the two frontrunners are mugabe successor president from the party and opposition leader nelson chamisa turnout was high at around seventy five percent. the lines outside the polling stations have to be seen to be believed but that didn't deter zimbabweans from turning out to vote for the next president.

many hope this election will mark zimbabwe's transition to democracy after decades of poles that were anything but free and fair it's a special day because it's all of this time is a new generation to choose who aren't ever since we were born is never it's praised our choice everyone is able to put cheese forth freely not being intimidated intimidated by is just free so look if it is going to be just free and fake more than twenty candidates are running for president but the election is really a battle between two men incumbent m.s.n. money from zanu p.f. and opposition leader nelson chamisa from the movement for democratic change although many to want to win opinion poll shows finished the campaign strongly. after casting their ballots both candidates expressed their hopes for a democratic and peaceful election there's no doubt that if the ballot is an

appropriate one a genuine one and not a bus that dies or a fake one victory certain for the people there may be very. well the process will come really was this if it's important again is this if i removed out there in the presence of the. little persons who would imagine this is. why the elections under the old thora tarion rule of robert mugabe were off to modify violence and voter intimidation this time there were few reports of unrest. but observers world of other shortcomings. in some cases it works very small. but we see that it's still very disorganized and that people become people leaf if not for gold because of that school incidents obit over a decision. that mugabe was among those who voted this time his name is not on the

ballot paper many in zimbabwe that means real change could finally be coming. and for more on the zimbabwe election check out our africa website at www dot com slash africa and you can also follow us on twitter for the latest our handle their act. now saying in africa in a controversial new effort by the e.u. to intercept migrants before they attempt a perilous crossing to europe most migrants from sub-saharan africa pass through nice air on their journey to the mediterranean from the share they travel on to libya or many end up in camps with often appalling conditions beatings and rape are commonplace under the new e.u. program the most vulnerable of migrants are flown from libya back to new general where they are housed in shelters run by the united nations here migrants can apply it directly for asylum in europe and remain there while their claim is being processed but critics say thousands of people including children end up stranded in the camps with little hope of ever making it to europe did it is catherine martin's

travel to new jersey capital niamey for a firsthand look. she's a young lady is thirty and from somalia she doesn't want to show her face but she's committed to telling how she was driven from her home. after the pill was that my husband was killed and i was at home with my children masked men came into our house they raped me and beat me while i thought i still have the scars from my that's why i came here he did in kosovo who was then they would have peace is one of around fifteen hundred refugees evacuated by the united nations from libyan camps last autumn they have endured war and many of them sexual violence every one of these women was deemed especially vulnerable by u.n. staff who arranged for them to be flown out there now recovering in the shelter for women and children in need air before being flown to europe. funding for the

shelter comes from the e.u. it's a prime example of illegal migration without the pitfalls of a perilous mediterranean crossing once they're refugees arrive here from detention in libya we provide them with the media's assistance with protection we have a team of psychologists working with them so we have what we call a philosophy of care basically we provide them with recreational activities with counseling with their we provide them with language classes to prepare them for it was adamant he shares a former french colony and one of the poorest countries in the world it also has the world's highest birth rate on average women in the share has six children there's little infrastructure and economic output is low the west african nation is africa's main transit hub for refugees and people smuggling is big business the president of the european parliament has come to assess the situation first hand antonio tell yani says the e.u. aims to reverse the trend by providing shelters so refugees are not driven into the hands of smugglers and we have to stop these groups of profit from the lives of

africans who die in the desert and in this we have to stop them completely. in order to help me share support the refugees as they wait for resettlement in europe the e.u. is pumping money into the local economy most people like those here in the capital niamey live hand to mouth this woman sell snacks for about one cent each but not many people buy these men sell tea on the street sometimes it's enough to buy a phone card despite rampant poverty as president says his country is ready to help but long term it will need much more money from the e.u. . it's important that we wage a toddler survive against poverty. republic but through private investment. some of the refugees in the shelters here in the. people have been waiting more than a year to get to europe the un has been sharply critical of some countries that want

nothing to do with legal migration and refuse a refugee quota. to tell us if their process would move more quickly which would mean that we could save more lives we could bring more people from detention tunisia. she says one of the few who have made it this far and she at least will have an opportunity to start a new peaceful life in europe without having to put her fate in the hands of smugglers. now to what's perhaps the world's greenest football team britain's forest green rovers has become the world's first sports organization to be certified as carbon neutral by the united nations the club's chairman it's even banned meat from being served at the stadium making for sgrena first they got a football team as well here's a look at the march of the green army. home matches it forest green rovers on the surface appear just like any other football game players give their all on the

pitch and fans cheer them along but forest green known as the green army vastly differs firstly only begin food is served because of animal welfare and health reasons secondly this pichot forest green is organic and rainwater is recycled in fact the entire facility is powered by green energy and now the club has signed up for a united nations initiative called climate neutral now. so we become the first sports club in the world to be climate neutral according to the un which is quite exciting and. i'm sure he would do more with them i think we would because they're on the same page as we are sport looks to be a great vehicle to carry this insane ability messenger the united nations hopes that forest green becoming carbon neutral will set a precedent for others to follow where we're working on these sports for climate

action initiative where we hope all organizations will also step up but when terry action on climate and for his win wars will be different we have an example that we shared. their green credentials have also been matched by strong performances on the pitch forest green was recently promoted to the english football league for the first time in its history. right time for business with gary hart and some car news cast like a head is planning on building a huge manufacturing plant here in europe that's right according to media it was billed as having talks with two german states and more negotiations are also taking place in the netherlands the massive factual assemble batteries as well as being ordered to tesla they'll reach a decision about the location by the end of the year just recently tesla announced their plans to build a large factory in china as well how five million. calls will be produced there in cheer. taxi drivers in madrid and barcelona still striking today after

talks with spain's public works ministry broke down last night as the strikes began last week in protest of what the taxi drivers call unfair competition from riot hailing services like cabot five. monday night passed without a resolution between the drivers and government strike leaders said they'll go on. today's decision is that we continue hundreds of taxis have paralyzed barcelona and they're refusing to budge until they get results the strikes have since spread to madrid and smaller cities like never did it happen this is the first time the taxes have taken a decision where one hundred percent together on this. has to be thirty to one nothing else will do he means that in the future only one permit should be issued for every thirty normal taxi permits among those worst hit by the strike tourists

trying to get from barcelona as airport to the city center extra bus services have been put on but they're still packed full. we're trying with all there because the best way is for suitcases is very difficult for us honestly it's a tough day today especially with children six hours jet lag and then the airports are empty things are hard to get on his mobile murder nuber a cab if i if they're working here because this morning in barcelona they would jammed last option would be a train or think. thousands of taxi drivers across spain are now part of the strike they say ride sharing services like threaten their livelihoods as of now they continue to wait for a resolution. harley davidson the american brand known for its large loud chopper bikes will begin producing smaller motorcycles as well by twenty twenty as was concept based harley will launch a series of five hundred to twelve hundred fifty c.c.

middleweight bikes and even small over all the engine market also plans to introduce an electric motorcycle next year the move comes amid flagging u.s. sales and an effort to expand in asia counter-terrorist from the e.u. also threatening heart is bottom line. samsung missed its latest earnings projections due to lower demand for its flagship galaxy devices the latest sign of a slowdown for smartphones as a markets get saturated the south korean electronics heavyweight recorded a thirty five percent drop in operating profit and its smartphone division from year ago on the titian from chinese devise makers has grown in recent months even as consumer demand for new smart phones has fallen some some rival apple is due to release its latest figures today. online shopping has been booming for years but training for sales staff has remained fairly standard as one german media

retailer is launching a new education program for e-commerce. customers here are trying out a prototype virtual reality shopping assistant. most transactions still involve exchanging hard cold cash for goods the primary method for food shoppers. but that's slowly changing. and retail one in eight euros is now spent online and the trend is increasing alongside technological advances. that means businesses need to adapt specifically they need to rethink how they train their staff. that to me of course we urgently need experts to deal with these changes we traditionally hire college grads are people making career changes. but that won't be enough going forward it will be critical to train up a new generation of apprentices. these intrepid youngsters are part of media

marks new training efforts i like working on computers of course a broad based education is needed but i think the main thing is having good computer skills is in a few minutes we're involved in digitalization we can build things online shopping is constantly developing everyone shops online i hardly anyone goes to stores anymore that's why i'm doing this. the two are training to build and maintain online shops selling things online brings a new set of challenges discounting is a major subject along with data analysis it can pinpoint which sales pitches motivate which audiences. because in the. we can see who's clicking on our pages their age ranges and gender this makes it easier to tailor it for their needs on the services key easier the customer experience the better. so where does this leave maybe a marks brick and mortar stores they'll likely continue in combination with online shopping and where do our apprentices shop if it's on have to hide say it's fifty

fifty i mean. a bit more online but i still go into stores maybe mark says it will still need well trained staff in their stores as it pursues its two prong strategy shopping in person and online and at the test phase as a success shoppers may have a new employee to interact with as well the virtual sales assistant well it's not the. you're watching the news i live from berlin and there's more news coming up at the top of the odd don't forget you can get all the latest news never mentioned around the clock on our web site that's developing the dot com thank you very much for joining. us.

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conservation exploitation the quality. of human rights displacement. of the global income to a local action. three thousand and sixty minutes on. sorry joe just couldn't get this song out of his head. musicologist began searching for the source of this captivating sound. in the rain forest and central africa. to find their culture he stayed close only a promise to his son to leave the jungle and return to the concrete and glass jungle of new york. the result reverse culture shock.

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