my name is the about of people and i wore t. to. the city that the news live from berlin reuniting refugees with their families a change in the law here in germany means that as of today some refugees will be able to apply to bring their loved ones into the country but critics are calling the procedure a lottery. also coming up facebook says it has uncovered a new plan to influence u.s. mid-term elections in november and that the people behind it have gone to great

lengths to hide their identity. and as temperatures hit new highs in europe we find out what people are doing the cool down and we have this climate change is to blame for the extreme weather. i'm sorry so much common good to have you with us a change in germany's immigration law says set to take effect today starting today some refugees can apply to bring their immediate relatives to the country in two thousand and sixteen the german government suspended family reunification to slow down the number of migrants arriving here now it has lifted that cap we need a syrian refugee who hopes that the new ruling will reunite him with his wife and daughter. last look his wife and daughter in the eyes in august twenty fifth teen. allow our is a lawyer his name is on a syrian government blacklist he had no choice but to flee.

i know my daughter but she doesn't know me she calls me uncle obama's first name. his daughter was two months old when he fled back then they started not realize it would be the last time they were together for many years he wasn't able to take much with him when he left this precious photo with his daughter his wedding portrait a photo of his home village from syria he fled to turkey and from there he went by boat to greece then along the balkan route. in september twenty fifteen here in germany he has called his wife every day since they parted and every day she has sent him a picture of their daughter. he wants his wife and daughter to join him in germany but in march of twenty sixteen the german government stopped allowing refugees to bring their families into the country. it's hell

and it's hard to describe that your daughter is growing up without you. it's pretty painful. only those who've been through themselves know how bad it is people's families. and these are has long been waiting for the rules to change again he hopes his wife will be given an appointment at the german embassy in lebanon this month these are things that might help that he's attended all his german classes and integrated well. i have a great wife and my daughter can come. and that my daughter complained here. during the long waiting period i meet a great integrated here. i work for one year as a security guard and i believe that my family and i can become well integrated here

and these are our longs to see his family again but he's worried about how much longer it might take he's waited three years and it's still unclear when they'll be reunited. and we have our political correspondent kate brady with us to tell us more about this change hi kate thank you for joining us who is this going to apply to all largely this is going to affect many syrian refugees have basically they saying please anyone who has what in germany is described as subsidiary protection and that means basically anyone who for any asylum seekers who fall short of being granted full asylum so and in. indefinite stay in germany so usually this is asylum seekers who are fleeing civil war for example one of the this has caused so much controversy in germany well this was a huge sticking point earlier on in the year when the new government was trying to put together its new coalition and of course the conservatives were very much against kind of increasing any more numbers of refugees arriving in germany

and move quick between parties is still a few parts of issues of contention between the parties because this is going to really apply to people who can apply for it or be refugee spouses married minus parents of minors all of whom already have a a relative living in germany who is already being granted subsidiary protection but for the green party and the left for example they don't see this is going far enough for example the. exceptions that they don't include siblings so there are still some issues that have been decided upon between the parties are still going to become an issue it was not the only change in immigration rules to talk about kate because germany's also to open its first refugee holding facilities with several so-called anchor centers set to open in the state of bavaria this is part of the german interior minister horse a horse has disputed plans to reduce the number of migrants arriving here and these

anchor centers as they've been dubbed are designed to speed up asylum processing the aim is for each case to be decided within eighteen months asylum seekers who claims are rejected would then be deported from the centers and critics say concentrating so many asylum seekers in one place could hinder in hinder rather integration and lead to unrest. so how much of this is actually a change in the way germany is treating asylum seekers who arrive here well so far silent seekers who are arriving in germany would be dealt with on a local level between. local authorities and the idea is now at least the main aim is to use these so-called and centers to speed up that process so from now on in these seven centers which of opening today they can house up to fifteen hundred asylum seekers and the entire process will take place after that will be their application when they first arrive a decision as to whether or not they will be granted asylum and then if they fit in

that case they are granted asylum then they will also be directly deported from the centers as well and again the opposition parties have been critical why is that exactly it's really this question of many people have dubbed these so called and has and has a sentence as being like a jail of course the people stay in that the asylum seekers are allowed to leave but they do have to live there and there are also concerns that this is really going to hinder integration of course in the meantime they can take up to eighteen months for an application to go through and then be granted and in the meantime of course there is that concern that these asylum seekers could have already being enrolled on a german course or kind of integration into local society and that's quite difficult when they're in these centers all right our political correspondent kate brady thank you for breaking down these changes to the immigration rules for us. moving on to some other news now and activists in denmark are planning to stage

protests today against a new law banning muslim face veil certainly cobs the government says nick cubs prevent women from integrating into danish society but critics say the law violates a woman's right to express her identity we met one woman who says the ban is taking away her choice. to man it's not just handing out flyers to fight for her faith twelve years ago she made the decision to bail her face but from now on she'll be breaking the law. i feel very disappointed i feel like i thought we lived in a free society where people can believe what they want and they can wear whatever they want as long as they don't hurt other people born in denmark and raised by turkish parents sarah and her fellow activists are complaining while they still can trying to win support for a demonstration and they're getting that support i think it's a violation of human rights just one other time when men are deciding what women

are supposed to be right i think you kind of pushing them more away from society where. you accept that there there's like a cultural difference in parliament sara has an appointment with one of the initiators of the ben metz for leader of the governing liberal party is convinced the niqab has to be prohibited even though fewer than two hundred women are affected they find no middle ground. you're very ignorant about anything sure we're all over the loss of this as i'm saying we don't why i'm saying we love it why we need to electroplate the values i'm saying we live in denmark it's very sad in denmark we have the freedom of religion. the discussion escalates into an argument formats the kneecaps stance for the oppression of women that's why he thinks it should be banned. because chop.

garments of that thought all instruments. to an end and that end is so for control of women and the not of occasion of the female gender and we want to fight that the ban on face coverings is one of several laws the government says it has introduced to integrate immigrants some critics say it will only divide society further and in the end to veils are rarely seen in the streets of denmark. sarah describes the makeup as a sign of religious humility but if she remains faithful to her believes she faces a difficult future in denmark her ideal of religious freedom could end in isolation within her own four walls. now to some other stories making headlines around the world symbolic ways electoral commission says the country's ruling zanu p.f. party has won the majority of seats in parliament partial results from monday's vote show the party has already picked up one hundred nine seats against forty one

for the opposition movement for democratic change the m.d.c. has accused of trying to rig the vote by delaying official results. and a passenger plane has crashed during takeoff in northern mexico authorities say all one hundred three people on board survived but dozens are injured some of them seriously local authorities say a gust of wind hit the aircraft as it took off during a heavy storm causing it to lose speed and hit the ground. facebook has uncovered what it says is a coordinated campaign to influence u.s. mid-term elections in november the company says it has removed more than thirty pages it says aimed to mislead users facebook stopped short of identifying the source of the misinformation in february the u.s. justice department indicted thirteen russian nationals for interfering in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election. we don't want people or organizations creating networks of a kind to mislead others about who they are or what they are doing that was just part

of facebook statement as the company confirmed it had removed thirty two pages and a kind involved and coordinated in the authentic behavior this social media giant said some of their activity was consistent with that of the russia based internet research agency a so-called true farm which managed many false accounts and reach more than one hundred twenty six million americans during the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election campaign the vice president is adamant that should not be repeated. any attempt to interfere in our elections is an affront to our democracy and it will not be allowed the united states of america will not tolerate any foreign interference in our elections from any nation state not from russia china iran north korea or anyone else this time around facebook said the fake pages went to much greater lengths to conceal their identities their coordinated campaign of

dissent from ation comes just months ahead of the u.s. military. president trump himself has said he is very concerned that russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the vote. facebook admits the investigation is still in its early stages going so far as to say. facts including on who may be behind this latest breach. now the northern hemisphere suffering through an extreme heat here in berlin temperatures hit thirty nine degrees celsius yesterday close to the german record forty point three degrees in many european countries the hot dry weather is causing wildfires and wreaking havoc for farmers. to cool down. for much of the country.

raising the health. maximum level. they can. to graze in some places well many appreciate the sunshine and the ever present. the current weather is also causing problems. that she. drowned. a record number of organic cattle have had to be slaughtered. fish suffocating in the water. have been burning in

sweden for weeks is the country experiences an unprecedented drought in greece more than ninety people lost their lives last week in the country's deadliest wildfire in decades. and debate has began on with that the extreme weather is normal many scientists agree on one thing manmade climate change has a role to play and such with could become more common in the future. let's get some perspective on the story now with meteorologist constantine defend he joins us from bonn hi constantine good morning to you why are we seeing such high temperatures in much of europe well we have a very unusual what's out there in europe and not only in europe and in the northern hemisphere are strong blocking and strong resistance high pressure areas that just stayed the same place for weeks and months we have this pattern not only

for a few weeks since late spring. on this right spread here. not only in europe also here. and in russia. but also. at the same time constantine in some parts of the world we're also seeing heavy rain falls flooding is there a correlation between these weather extremes. yes it's in fact the same thing we have this strong growing i pressure area and we have some no pressure and yes we go crashing out yes but these no christianity as well know where to go so they stay in the same area and that's the reason why in other areas you have. and. i'm storms in where i'm just the other things can this clearly link be linked to climate change and you think is going to become the new normal in summer for example. there's almost

a question we always had heat waves in warm summer as we will always have the last almost nothing uncommon what is uncommon in this year is that it's lasting just so we are seeing this since late spring is this then and this is a link to climate change that's extreme that's right and it's for the last longer and longer and will getting more often. so it is something we're going to have to get used to constantine and beyond the wildfires in the floods what are the consequences of such extremes. well the consequences are that. extreme there are. problems with wildfires in some areas also in some areas that's the world that have no experience or as dollar sweden for example in the summer. it's more a question of society americans a society is are not prepared for this kind of heat. all the elderly people who are

small children will get problems when this is going to get more common all right meteorologist concert scene thank you so much for joining us on our program this morning. and. now the heat wave is expected to continue in the coming days and as the temperature soars off the scale what happens if you have to carry on working in the world limitless heat didn't use on your shelf and water went to the streets of berlin for some advice. well it has been sweltering few weeks is that the moment it reaches record highs everyone here is looking to get the heat . it's thirty million degrees here now in these temperatures oh you want to do is find a way to cool down but what if you find a job that means you can escape the heat oh. we asked three people with the

hottest jobs in the capital. happy i just took the temperature here and it's off the scale how does it get here to stand here with no doubt as we get up two hundred eighty degrees and how do you survive as you just you are drinking a lot of thinking cool thoughts and you're just getting used to it. because of me. trying so changes how do you cope in these temperatures pacing to itself that it's minus twenty four degrees it's all in the head yeah it would lead absolutely definitely the man who do that so it's cool it's cool it's called. doesn't that what idea works for me and really this is these are not only with the book right now i'm at the north pole i'm delighted at the still want to use the current system as he'd say oh well look you can see if you would present.

thanks as a fun and you're used to high temperatures right but you still suffer in this heat . or in fire oh absolutely but without the fire department we're normally used to high temperatures for short periods of time when we battle a blaze that constantly having thirty seven degrees for several hours also affects us even when we wear these clothes which would normally protect us this can sometimes get on your nerves we sweat and we can only get our fluid levels back by regularly drinking a lot as well as getting some shade if we're in action outside and also regularly taking off our protective gear. and you want to able to find a cool place in the capital these days should come and sounds you know. right meanwhile the trade climate between berlin and beijing is getting rough out there it's for china has been investing in european companies for years and on

beijing shopping list high tech companies like german robotics make the cocoa but also machine tool manufacturers and energy supplies but not everyone and not every investment is welcomed just last week the german government block the sale of a stake in one of its grid operators to china side to national security concerns today the covenant umbrella and will discuss whether to block another chinese takeover. berlin will formally decide the fate of machine tool maker life l. metal spinning today it manufactures materials for the auto in aerospace industries and chinese investors want to purchase the company a veto of the deal is widely expected that was the recommendation of the german economy ministry following a months long review only last week the german government prevented china's state grid corp from taking a twenty percent holding in electricity grid operator fifty hertz the german state own k f w bank bought the stake instead berlin was uneasy about handing a major chinese investor some control over the country's power grid some analysts

say that hindering outside acquisitions could backfire on germany whose companies want access to chinese markets. and if the delhi caves of the big good and the front our whole been through to chaos that our government is it to very responsible but at the same time respect that there is time. for having open markets and for having good relations to time. the government says it decides each takeover case on its own merits but it's chinese acquisitions that have received special scrutiny. well with me in the studio knowledge you're president of the international business school yes mt here in berlin welcome. do we really need to be bored about chinese investment in germany first of all and this should be really the focus it's very important to attract chinese investment as

important as it is to have german investment in china so therefore it's very important to foster the trade and investment relationship was china if at all it should be really on very unique very exclusive cases in which such measures are taken let's have a look at the last one but most berlin's thinking beyond blocking the fifty had to take over last week it's a grid operator is berlin worried that beijing will switch off the lights here it may look like but what is very important about this case is that it's actually not really the law that would prevent this take of us all the law would require a twenty five percent stake before actually the government can take any actions in this case it would have been only twenty percent so therefore some kind of a detour was taken by including the state owned case w. and it because it's a bank so therefore it's very important to keep it really keep clear rules and also apply clear rules because as i said it is it should be very unique and in those unique cases it also should be driven by rules rather than discretion what's more

of a concern here for the german government the drain of intellectual property all possible control over critical infrastructure it could be a combination of bowls even though from a legal perspective it can only say any intervention can only be justified based on security concerns not of intellectual property rights because obviously this could also go the other way around and it should be the case that there is exchange between both countries and also on those dimensions do you think i mean they the german government has taken this sort of circumspect road to to block the sale of fifty fifty heads that's a bit of an unfriendly act towards china isn't it and this is why it. needs to be taken so carefully i think it is so important to have clear rules and maybe we need to adjust the rules but everything we should do should always be based on rules rather than discretion and thus it's also important that the reciprocity that we rightly seoul expect from china is also actually take into account on the german

side. do is germany happy with the response to what you just said about german companies investing in china so germany has increasingly and consistently asked for reciprocity in china the chinese government actually has reacted to that not to the full extent but we see more and more of an opening for example b.m.w. or acquiring more of a stake in a corporation pop not be a s f actually investing in mess if on a massive scale in china so therefore they are signs which may also be reflecting the fact that china is on the pressure from the us to open up the market so therefore we should actually make sure that we won't become a tech about germany won't become attackable for being seen as discretionary. thank you very much for this inside thank you. companies listed in asia that supply parts to apple glowed in early trading after wednesday on wednesday after

the i phone maker smashed expectations with a seventeen percent year on year jump in revenues apple also helped to give a boost to the doubt just after the closing bell on tuesday apple reported third quarter results topping expectations with profits of eleven and a half billion dollars it sold fewer of its i phones than full cost box they were mostly the pricey aversions with an average selling price of over seven hundred dollars the world's most valuable tech company also forecast revenues of more than sixty billion dollars for its fourth quarter. the united states is considering a twenty five percent tariff on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese imports after initially setting a limit ten percent the aim is to increase pressure on beijing so that they would turn to the negotiating table sources told the bloomberg news agency the tax would apply to chinese products like clothes bicycles baseball gloves and furniture some

economists believe the cost increases will be passed on to american consumers critics fear the proposed tariff hikes could backfire and escalate the dispute between the world's two biggest economies. and that's all your business here's a reminder of the top stories we're following for you here t w news controversial new rules come into effect in germany today allowing certain groups of refugees to apply to bring their families into the country family reunifications have been suspended for two years in the midst of current new arrivals the issue has calls attention in the german government. that's it you're up to date you're watching good news live from berlin there's more news coming up at the top of the hour don't forget that always get all the latest news and information around the clock on our web site that's of course. you know dog call thank you very much for joining us today but i'm.

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