this is news coming to you live from a long ruling senate p.-a party triumphs in zimbabwe's parliamentary elections the country's army is out on the streets amid accusations of election fraud from the opposition you observers are also raising questions about the veracity of the vote also coming up. a new gateway to europe with all the routes cut all the refugees are crossing the straits of gibraltar to reach the continent and that's causing problems for spain. and in sports we look ahead to the asian games later this month

where an orphan boy born into poverty is seeking another gold after becoming a sprinting hero in his native indonesia. well i'm terry martin thanks for joining us two days after historic elections in zimbabwe the country's electoral commission says the ruling zana party has won the majority in parliament possibly as much as two thirds of the seats the winner of the presidential election has yet to be announced riot police dispersed a few hundred opposition protesters who attempted to enter the zimbabwe electoral commission has offices in the capital harare authorities also use water cannon and tear gas and one report says a man has been shot dead the main opposition party the movement for democratic change says it will dispute the official results if the rulings an appeal party

does win two thirds of the parliamentary seats it will be able to amend the country's constitution. our correspondent melanie corrida ball is in zimbabwe covering the elections for us now she joins us from the capital harare. we've seen some reports of clashes what do we know so for. the situation here in harare it is getting more and more tense it's incredible to see how many helicopters have to pass me they have been made to a major clashes between the m.d.c. and the police and the military just two hundred meters away from me off to scene five minute period tanks passing by and people running a ray from the city center from town they must be incredibly afraid we've been hearing gunshots they're supposed to be rubber bullets but as you've mentioned there is one report of one man having been killed as soon as we have more on better

we'll of course inform you now observers have been monitoring this election what have they been saying about it i've been speaking to the head of the e.u. observing commission here earlier today brooke let's have a listen to what he told me i am a broken you tell me what is your assessment of this election first of all it was. much better than any other election in this country before and it was freakin pain in creedmore for expression but a lot of shortcomings in favor of the ruling party financing state media intimidation and in the bribery specially in the countryside and such questions until suddenly of in transparency and printing to bellow cheats the voters rolls and all socialists. how grave was it what happened is it but if it was

not a fair election does the m.d.c. have grounds to challenge the result but if the result for the presidential election might be fifty point five to forty point four to nine point five and there's a lack of credibility especially not the possibility of. traceability of the voting pro-drug it's gone to the polling station but all the parties had signs the results and i think there is a lack of i expecting the presidential result to be considered different from the parliamentary one that the group be considered different because both the presidential elections as well as a two person race most of the parties didn't get a vote in the parliamentary elections so opposed to fall apart in many many different parties because you have here is indeed a system both for those processes to oppose you convene because forty percent of

the votes the vast majority of seats in parliament. so you're saying these elections i accept all of a cannot be accepted that we have to see impaired told his forthcoming has over all of the end of the day it's over have to move more to the case and especially we have to wait also for their credibility of the counting process at the end of the day. but anybody can say it was a huge progress compared to the two thousand and thirteen and two thousand and eight elections thank you so much emma brooke. so melanie we know that we're getting some results from the parliamentary election does that really tell us anything about what we can expect from the results of the presidential election. it could at least that's what people was saying this morning that it looks like there's an appeal of has won or different the senate has won the presidential election if you look at the parliamentary one they have so that's a at least what we can say what people here are afraid of when it comes to the

embassy supporters this is why they went on the street this morning that's why they went out yesterday and to me so has been saying on twitter that he still believes that he can claim the presidency and he is certainly watching his supporters going out on the streets today and demonstrating for him and if you look at the rallies how big they were in the lead up to this election we can expect people to keep on demonstrating and the clashes to continue throughout the night when they thank you very much for now in the core of the bowl there in harare now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today a battle in full face veils has come into force in denmark the government says face covering garments like the company burka prevent women from integrating into danish society several other european countries have instituted similar bans some danes are planning to define the noodle. authorities say all one hundred three passengers

aboard a plane that crashed in northern mexico on tuesday have survived the plane took off in stormy weather and reportedly went down after being hit by a strong gust of wind a crush left dozens injured but authorities said most people were not seriously hurt. forensic experts say dozens of caskets handed over by north korea are likely to contain the remains of american soldiers killed in the korean war north korea is click kim jong un and u.s. president donald trump agreed on the handover out there some and in june more than five thousand u.s. troops remain unaccounted for. migrants are increasingly using spain as a gateway to europe they're travelling the short distance by boat through the strait of gibraltar. the spanish coast guard rescued nearly a thousand migrants last weekend. refugees are choosing this route as other countries such as italy crackdown on arrivals correspondent marcus burnish

reports from southern spain rescue teams have just pulled another twenty one people from the strait of gibraltar off southern spain they consider this a slow day compared to most but these twenty one arrivals present a problem for spain the maritime rescue service wants to take these migrants to the nearest port but the port refused permission a common occurrence. over the course of the entire past year sixteen thousand people but this year after just seven months the number has already climbed to twenty two thousand. for. the ship carrying the rescued migrants docked at the nearby port instead but the situation there is no better the migrants had been stuck on the ship for days now

they're on land looking for shady places to rest. a few kilometers away jose antonio gomez is waiting for the daily food delivery more than six hundred rescued people were brought to this gym over the weekend. they called us on saturday and then the people came they were simply too many of them. local authorities are responsible for looking after those arriving at the church has prepared food volunteers are helping out but people are getting impatient. we aren't eating well we don't have a proper place to sleep there aren't enough toilets and we can't call our families to reassure them that we're still alive. spanish authorities are overwhelmed after talking to migrants it's clear that the strait of gibraltar is gaining in

popularity as a crossing point. i was going from ivory coast to libya but they told me that morocco would be a better idea. refugees want to go to say now before they chose libya or italy. just thirteen kilometers lie between africa and europe that spain southern most tip the country once again has become the gateway to europe for thousands of migrants. now a change in the way that germany deals with asylum seekers the southern state of bavaria has open controversial rapid process in centers for migrants the so-called anchor centers are part of interior minister host of a whole for those disputed plans to reduce the number of migrants arriving in the country the government says the centers are designed to speed up asylum process saying the aim is for each case to be decided within eighteen months asylum seekers claims are rejected with them be deported from the centers critics say

concentrating so many asylum seekers in one place could hinder integration and lead to unrest. or political correspondent thomas sparrow is covering this story for us and he joins us now to tell us how much of a change do these processing centers represent in germany's treatment of asylum seekers well terry first and foremost it's important to say that this is only in bavaria so in other parts of germany you won't find these so-called sentence but they do in a way represent a change because the idea behind these i'm going to send this is to have the whole application process you know the words from beginning until there is a final decision in one specific place namely in this so-called assent as those who are in favor of these acts and does say that this will speed up cases that it will foster deportation in particular or was it for those who rejected that only offer would for those who can actually stay then they will move to other parts of aereo

the parts of the country those who are against the us and does say that it can isolate refugees that it can affect their capacity to to integrate and then they can also create social programs into place where they are located so that's why essentially this is a very controversial decision and one that only is happening in bavaria other places in germany haven't announced yet whether they're going to follow suit now as you say tell us these centers which are of the brainchild of interior minister whole say so far only been set up in his state of bavaria are we likely to see it any more of them being set up elsewhere. it is unlikely now this is only seen as a test phase and maybe after there are some results are the german states could announce whether they follow suit now it is unlikely but you're right terry this is something that was put on undeveloped by terry a minister who was a whole he's a politician who is seen as sort of law and order politician who has been trying to present a more restrictive policy in germany this also has to do with the fact that very

very important regional election coming up in october and a horse a hope for spotty the c.s.u. has been losing ground to for example the a d. the alternative for germany that party is also campaigning on a more restrictive platform of that's probably why horsy who has been presenting all these policies obviously now as interior minister and that's the reason white house initially happened then but the area now another major change comes into effect today told us concerning germany's migration system the country is resuming the practice of allowing some refugee families to reunite now that practice was suspended three years ago what makes it so controversial well essentially because there are different views on this issue those who want as we're describing it now this more restrictive policy on immigration would prefer these numbers to remain very narrow awful refugees not to be allowed to bring their relatives entirely on the other hand there are those who believe that this is actually

a rights that refugees how they can bring their closest family members to germany and that could help even in their integration process in the country so that's when you see two very clear different positions on this issue we're talking here only about certain refugees those who have this subsidiary protection status which falls short of full protection as a refugee and we're talking about a cap of one thousand month in germany so it's relatively no number but still a controversial issue but it's not only an issue that's important as far as politicians are concerned it's also something that obviously affects refugees themselves and we followed one refugee who was hoping to have his close relatives common join him in germany let's have a look at that story. needs not a lot more last look his wife and daughter in the mines 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 a lot more didn't realize it would be years before he would be able to see her again. and from there he went by boat to greece then along the balkan route. in september twenty fifth seen 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 what your daughter is growing up without you know. it's pretty painful. only those who've been through it themselves know how bad it is

people's families. allow or 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 a lot more thinks it might help that he's attended all his german classes and integrated well. i have a great wife and my daughter can come. on that my daughter complained here. during the long waiting period i made a great effort to become integrated here. i worked 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. 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 or 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 organizations creating networks of accounts to mislead others about who they are or what they're doing this was just part of facebook's statement as the company confirmed it had removed thirty two pages and accounts involved in coordinated in authentic behavior . the social media giant said it couldn't identify who was behind the pages but officials in washington are already pointing fingers at russia because the activity

reported merits russian influence campaigns on facebook during the twenty six u.s. presidential election. u.s. authorities are still investigating that impact on president trump's election win but vice president mike pence is adamant the government has no tolerance for election meddling. any attempt to interfere in our elections is an affront to our democracy 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 to face facts that the pages went to much greater lengths to conceal their origins that coordinated campaign of disinformation comes just months ahead of the u.s. midterm elections. president donald trump himself has said he is very concerned that russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the upcoming vote.

facebook admits the investigation is still in its early stages saying we don't have all the facts it said it may never be able to identify for sure who was behind these pages and accounts. i would've been the latest escalation in the trade standoff between washington and beijing yep this is bumping up a level you could say terry the united states considering a twenty five percent tariff on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese imports after initially setting them at ten percent the aim to increase pressure on beijing so that they return to the negotiating table and what sources have told bloomberg 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 terrifying could backfire and escalate the dispute between the world's two biggest economies. india central bank

has raised its key lending rate for the second time in two months to fight inflation and stem capital outflows the monetary policy committee raising the rate to six point five percent india like indonesia and the philippines is trying to prevent currency being taken out of the country triggered by us rates which are higher at the moment and a stronger dollar another aim of india's reserve bank is to cope with inflation high oil and food prices have hit many indian families hot. now what if you could buy find us in a supermarket something that's meant to be timeless in a place filled with consumables that's what british artist lucy sparwood temps with a new show in los angeles star much is a comment on the age old theme in the world the relationship between ott and the business of ott welcome to sparrow mart the fruit isn't so crisp here but the soft drinks are well especially soft. everything is handmade with felt in lucy's

sparrow's exhibition that opens today it's a playful commentary on consumer culture and the disposable nature of our everyday lives instead of scale ability and efficiency spero mart is about individuality and painstaking work there are more than thirty one thousand grocery items here each with a little soul as pharaoh says she's exploring art as a commodity it's not a consumer product every item is signed available for purchase. there's also an a.t.m. and checkout both covered and felt i think that is a huge amount of the art well that it's about money and that seems to be so much to to be subject with the you know it's got to have. obviously that's a huge all out that where people purely buy to collect and i think that's as much a part of the art world but don't mistake sparrow mart for a cynical cash grab the artist says it's about making art accessible it was always

very important to me that people could buy it people that wouldn't necessarily know many thought they could buy something for thirty dollars fifty pounds anything like that they could take it home with them my friend and i hope that for the rest of their life i don't think many galleries that you can come and do that and this is the last time i'm going to do that because it's essentially quite unsustainable in other words there's still a big difference between art and the supermarket candy aisle now as you have before us congressional candidates are gearing up for midterm elections terry has borne that. the u.s. congressional elections in november are less than one hundred days away now several states have already held some seminal primaries this year there's a record number of female contenders is claire richardson caught up with one of them deb holland native american running the u.s. can't run for u.s. congress in the state of new mexico. everyone she's

a single mother who once lived off food stamps now deb holland looks set to go from the banks of the rio grande day in new mexico to the halls of the house of representatives hollande is on course to become the first native american woman to serve in the u.s. congress after this year's elections and she wants to help others like her do the same as far as i'm concerned if i want native women or women of color to run to be willing to help them get out there a record number of both women and native americans are running for office across the country holland supporters want her to fight against the long history of persecution of american indians and the racism they still face today so it's a real thing it's not just a made up story it's happening all over our country as a member of the laguna pueblo tribe hollande hopes to set an example for future generations and to fight for more representation in u.s. politics when i think about you know our young native women these two beautiful

young girls here who maybe in their lifetime will actually see a native woman in the congress whereas you know someone like me there was no one that i could. go to to say how did you do it and how you know how can we make this happen she's campaigning to help wrest power away from the republican controlled congress part of a wave of minority candidates who have felt insulted and marginalized by the u.s. president and who are seeking office in response number one question i get asked is . when you vote. i think. so i think if we win back the house we have an opportunity to hold the republicans feet to the fire right because we'll be in the majority. in a strongly democratic district holland is likely to beat out her challengers in november she already won her primary by running a progressive campaign focused on issues like renewable energy protections for immigrants and legalizing marijuana. in these trying times for democrats she's

hoping to make history and. an eighteen year old indonesian orphan has become a big can of hope for athletes in his homeland sprinter muhammad story went from virtual unknown to household name in little over a year after winning the one hundred metres pinal at the under twenty world championships in finland now with the confidence of a gold medal the gold medal brings is ory is gearing up for the asian games on home turf. while the. dedication to sprinting has earned him plenty of rewards already such as a handful of gold medals his latest success was at the world under twenty championships in finland he's the first indonesian ever to win any medal at the championships transforming him into a larger than life figure in the country. soon his new wooden house built by the

state will be finished to quite net grade from his childhood home that had a roof made of bamboo and sticks living below the poverty line is common place in his village. now that same house is a museum motivating a multitude of fellow athletes. stories victory has inspired others not only us who are here but other athletes across indonesia making us want to become champions to next up for indonesia's hope is the asian games starting mid august with another one hundred meter race to run. and i think the asian games will be tough because the competition is tight and i'm going against seniors who are more experienced and can finish the run under ten seconds off who will. win or lose he's already a living legend in indonesia loud who. has plenty of track to run.

german football club have broken the bundesliga mold by offering young fans free entry to almost all their home games this season how to play at berlin's seventy five thousand capacity olympic stadium but were the only club in the league last season not to sell out a single home game they're hoping this game open to under four teams will convince young fans they don't have to as their team but even they will have to pay to see how to take on germany's big to buy a new nick and. you're watching news still to come if you thought moving was difficult imagine moving this entire dining room piece by piece to a new home the creation by pop up artist victor a bus or early heads to frank state of museum for a special exhibition. and much more still to come

here on news. there is no stopping the chinese dragon. changing plans to retool the international economic and seize the investment initiatives china's goal is to develop a billion dollar trade may twenty between asia and europe. which is beijing and saying its hand still crude to prime time china's way to the top. forty five. and germany which. any time any place.

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make sense of these. items myself and i work at the w. . welcome back here at c w news i'm terry martin our top stories security forces in zimbabwe have deployed water cannon against protesters who are angry at the country's election results along ruling sandhu p.f. party won a majority in parliament but the opposition says the poll was marred by fraud and that it will challenge the result. and the german state of area has opened a controversial new centers for asylum seekers the aim is to keep migrants in the so-called anchor centers and process their claims within eighteen months those whose applications are unsuccessful will be deported. the heat wave

here in northern europe shows no sign of abating and in germany the hot weather is having a dramatic impact on agriculture farmers have to deal with a devastating effect on their crops and they're looking at possible a possible future when extreme weather becomes the norm. sad sight meets the eye across germany this year's old crop is only half the height it should be and we are everywhere. here in the district of brandenburg measuring stations on test fields show that there is not been this little rain since one thousand nine hundred six and once again farmers have to figure out how to deal with the unexpected extreme weather. center for agricultural landscape research. uses tried and tested methods to find answers to this question solution one city. before sowing the oats experiment manager.

in this field his goal was to buy nitrogen in the soil this resulted in the plants being more heat resistant which now benefits the crop. in principle we really do see the grains which in my opinion are relatively well developed at least considering the weather we've had this year. solution to. to prevent the soil of this mice field from drying out the scientists are experimenting with mulch to keep the dirt moist. we have a mulch cover here interspersed with organic matter mostly on the surface and that really protects against the bath aeration as little as possible in the soil through the use of tillage. solution three different varieties soybeans are not only heat resistant but also highly productive despite little

water yet they are still rarely cultivated in europe that will change soon if scientists have their way. plants and because temperatures have risen continuously in recent years it's quite lucrative especially for again because they can generate a high revenue per ton. the problem for farmers however is not just higher temperatures finding a simple solution is difficult because of the increasingly more extreme weather fluctuations. in recent years we've seen that the characteristics of the extreme situations different grades last year we were dealing with too much water this year we're dealing with too little water these have very different influences on the production systems. german farmers have to cope quickly with new situations every year but this summer all they can do is hope for a little rain. let's bring in sunny a dean from the environment sun you just saw how farms in germany are suffering

under the current heat wave is it fair to generalize and say that industrialised farming has a problem dealing with extreme weather. i think it is fair to say as a broad statement that modern industrial farming is not prepared to deal with drought in these kinds of extreme weather circumstances it's designed to maximize profits and if you want to shift the farming system be to become more resilient that's really a very basic change that would happen from the bottom up and we saw some examples in our report of how farmers can make their crops more resilient or there are other techniques that could help as well. well a big one could be better information so access to predictive systems that can help farmers to plan better for when they plant when they harvest anticipate these kinds of extreme weather situations but beyond that i think it's important to mention not

just adaptation but how farmers can also reduce their own carbon footprint through capturing carbon in soils through better managing animal waste through better use of fertilizers because reducing the climate reducing the temperature increase through climate change is a huge investment in the future in terms of reducing the impacts of climate change you know we're hearing a lot about global warming could drought become the new normal for many farmers. i posed the same question to the climate director of the f a o at the united nations food and agriculture organization and what he said is unfortunately variability is going to become the new normal so one year dryness and drought the next year heavy rainfall the next year health all or extremely cold temperatures and maybe the next year a really great harvest so if the temperature were just going to increase by two

degrees say and it were to become drier and hotter then farmers could prepare for that but it's really this unpredictability and variability that's going to hit them hard. what about the world's food supply if we're talking about industrial farming perhaps not being prepared to cope with these they stream weather events do we need to be worried about our food supply. well when you look into the longer term in the years to come the decades to come the answer is yes that famines and food shortages could result as a result of this climate change induced extreme weather now if that's going to hit us here in europe or in industrialized countries united states we're much better protected because of the kind of wealth that the countries have they're more resilient they can manage these changes better when you think about the impacts and where in the world is going to happen it's going to be in these more vulnerable

regions so areas that are already being hit by drought areas that are already marginal the hell parts of the middle east the horn of africa parts of asia those are really the areas that are at risk for food security as a result of climate change sunny thank you so much sunny doing there from d.w. environment she was talking to us from our bonn studios. here in berlin the temperature has been in the high thirty's for over a week people are doing all they can and cool off me included but what happens if you have to carry on working in the heat where it's really hot you know use on your shower for north went to find out. has been sweltering for weeks and split the moment she reaches record highs everyone here is looking to get the heat . inside team going to greece here

in these temperatures oh you want to do is find a way to cool down but what if you've got a job that means you've got to skate the heat oh. we are three people with the hottest jobs in the capital. happy i just took the temperature here and it's off the scale how does a guy who asked us that he would not only give up two hundred eighty degrees and how do you survive as he does here by drinking a lot of thinking cool thoughts and you're just getting used to it so it doesn't mean. i'm trying something just how do you cope in these temperatures pacing to yourself that it's minus twenty four degrees it's all in the head yeah it's all in the head absolutely right the manhunt you do that it's it's cold it's cold it's called.

doesn't that what idea works the mate really does are no no no right now i'm at the north pole the still want to eat car and says in this heat well look you can see it fizzle out. as it has a fun and you're used to high temperatures right but you still suffer in this heat . of the absolute a lot with the fire department we're normally used to high temperatures for short periods of time when we battle a blaze 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 an action outside and also regularly taking off our protective gear. inside and you want to able to find a cool place in the capital these days should come in sounds.

in the us a judge has ordered a company to take down a post on how to make guns using a three d. printer so the first time the company called defense distributed has been blocked from publishing the blueprints and last month after a long legal battle the federal government gave the company the green light to distribute the schematics but us president donald trump has since waded into the debate i'm looking into three d. plastic guns being sold to the public trump said in a twitter post. if you have the design files it's relatively easy to print a plastic firearm using a three d. printer a small u.s. company called defense distributed plan to make such files downloadable on the website now they've been told they can't critics say why you made plastic comes pose many risks they're invisible to metal detectors and could fall into the wrong

hands downloadable firearms are available even to those who could not pass a background check it's the ultimate gun loophole why buy them if you can print them at home instead these firearms are also untraceable they will not have a serial number for law enforcement to reference publishing the three d. plans isn't about guns the company says it's about free speech. what they can't do is prohibit. me internet how to ask and a book or a bookstore about how to build a fire are you to say yes i feel you're wrong it's the same analysis here with the judge's stop of the three d. plans only temporary the legal wrangling of one hundred printed plastic weapons is expected to continue you're watching t.v. news still to come lithuania celebrates one hundred years of independence robert

merrill from our culture desk has more from a summer of partying and parades in the baltic nations. but first bands here with german concerns about chinese takeovers extremely contentious topic with two attempted takeover as in the past two weeks terry but in this case beijing budge before berlin could block it chinese investors dropping their bid to buy the german manufacturing or machine tool manufacturer rather life else who avoid have been hoping the german government is going on these year about chinese firms buying up german know how and sensitive technology. it was a clear signal from the german government a new law giving brought in the power to block the takeover of german companies by foreign firms if judged necessary as in the case of toolmaker life belt and chinese company yard tight tight high a sign of growing concern over the scale of chinese investment into europe's largest economy last week the german government prevented china's state grid corp

from taking a twenty percent holding in electricity grid operator fifty hertz but it was uneasy about handing a chinese state company some control over the country's power grid but chinese businesses feel singled out. and. the case shows a company from belgium and a non european one from australia bought stakes in the business but when a chinese company wants to invest it's being prevented for reasons of security. that helped. it some analysts argue such fears will backfire on german businesses which one greater access to chinese markets sensitive and delicate the top big. power hold but we do gas that our government is acting very responsible but at the same time respecting that there is a high need earth for having open market. for having good relations with china.

but not at any price the german government has decided for now. foreign investments in german utilities military and aerospace contractors as well as other strategic enterprises could prove difficult from now on let's get more on this for the economist at our chin to get another view on this very interesting story and it's certainly not black or white first tell us what your opinion is it a good move or a bad move here these developments. as you say it's not a black and or white story of course every country has the legitimate dry to protect its interests however on objective criteria so that challenge here is that politicizes have to avoid a special lax china i mean otherwise just to give you an example how can we explain for example dot russian companies are allowed to enter german gus networks invest

into networks coming from also other well developed market system so sooner or later this sort of specific china legislation is going to create tensions bilaterally with china on the investment but also on the trade side well on the trade side what what could be the consequences there how could it affect not only investment but trade as you put it. and that's a very important issue we don't talk on the about investment issues here one need to bear in mind that china has integrated itself very successfully into the global trading system since two thousand and one when it became a w two member and one side effect of this is of course the country has a cool aid over the last years massively capital foreign reserves and the logic of the global capital the system is that this capital has to be invested sooner or later in other countries so prohibiting investment means also sooner alright or

trade will be also a conflict thing as field so we need a deeper discussion about a level playing field i don't see here a real problem all security issues it's more about a level playing field that european companies also should receive an equal permission to invest in china well what should germany be doing how should european officials just in general be reacting to china to create a level playing field because it's the chinese up until now who have been so protection as this buyers investment in the other direction. absolutely and this is the quote this also creates mistrust that chinese china is investing in advanced technologies in european countries and there is indeed bait that does know how it's going to be stolen and relocate to china but i think this is not this is not the core problem the problem is once china opens up its market also foreigners too to

invest in the country so market forces will regulate again. the investment behavior at the moment there is china is an attractive place for westerners to invest but we are basically can't out by china and this is the core issue and we want to answer your your question straight bilateral investment treaties a deeper investment liberalization that has been on the agenda for example in europe but it has been on hold for a while it's a good time a good moment given this debate about protectionism to to advance and liberalized investment on the chinese side you heard it from a columnist at all and thank you very much thank you. terry now to both nations celebrating terry. that's right lithuania is celebrating one hundred years of independence throughout

the summer there are various celebrations taking place or round the country robin merrill from our culture desk is here to tell us all about it robyn the celebrations the being called the centennial of the restored state of lithuania what's that about well i mean this being some sort of lithuania about for over a hundred years in fact i did discover one point in the forty's century it was the biggest country in europe had bits of better roost poland russia and ukraine but then the russian impossible swallowed it up in the nineteenth century then at the end of the first world war this is what this is about this is the act of independence was signed and laid the foundations for what we now know is the multi lithuania course it was an open saving after the polish forces every. village is just two years off the air to be independence and of course germany in the second world war and followed by russia off the wall the soviet union so they were under the hammer and sickle as it were but since. of course it's today

a very free and lovely country as we're about to see. one hundred years have passed since lithuania declared independence from russia the first time and laid the foundation of today's lithuanian republic. and this intent to read the letter wayne ian song festival is an emotional experience for many of the performers and visitors is what i'm here to i was three and all just really very sick feel part of it is very good we're all american lithuanian so we all came from around the globe to going to participate in it and asked us to also it's really bring us back to our roots which is quite special in the same way that you have nationalism which can be a negative thing these days with national pride to skate with around the song festival is itself a tradition that focuses heavily on tradition but today's lithuania is a very modern country and an innovator with information technology europe's largest

drop chain center opened here and twenty eighteen its engineers work on refining data encryption. and then his art scene is also fresh five grand and confident designers like you yanis give their work a uniquely politic touch their ideas reflect nature's influence patterns with drops of water and waves i was traveling or on baltic sea and i was trying to find out what is really baltic. and i think yes the lakes and moves it's truly baltic. even with modernization picking up the pace the song festival is a celebration of tradition. the. way me as a young old nation with something to celebrate on its centenary have

happened. well quite some celebration there like that choir there yeah they have a great tradition of music and particularly singing in old the baltic states actually scenes i mean speaking to people from lithuania that everybody sing. the song festival which we saw as the main control event it's held every year is every year now since two thousand and it's actually now a unesco intangible cultural heritage as they are and let's hear that huge choir again just for a few seconds. and it is a country that has this. history of being all comprised always proud almost which traditions we sort of traditional costumes there as well and a lot of this kwame music is based on old folklore to pass down of his sentries

indeed as lithuania was severing its ties with the soviet union at the end of the nineteen ninety s. and the beginning of the ninety's was actually referred to sometimes as the singing revolution because you see people used to go and sing patry how to solve time so intentional and tangible as it were the garlands in the hair yeah that's how i discovered goes back actually even further pre-christian it's a pagan ritual of having goblins in your head and the other interesting thing we do have some pictures they grow the hello god they have a competition for the longest in the country look at this. as. this is in the second city of lithuania encounters goals and women literally compete as to who has the longest had last years when i had one hundred sixty six centimeters the record is two hundred forty five centimeters which is tell of the

may and then some this hour and it's amazing amount of head anyway birthday to lithuania presumably years upon a lot more on our website absolutely d.w. dot com slash culture robin merrill from our culture that thanks so much. sticking with culture of dining room by the celebrated artist victoria boss already has been a fixture of germany's but most bank headquarters and pray for almost fifty years now the entire room is moving piece by piece through one of the city's art galleries to take center stage in an exhibition of. this dining room is in the process of being dismantled plates and cutlery have already gone now come the way the decor and the furniture. designed the room in warm colors yellow and tones and wall paneling made of aluminum and a carpet fleece the entire room the entire vasa really work of art is moving to the

museum in frankfurt. we're renovating our building and will be extending the room next year the shtetl heard about our situation we had talks and this is the result of a happy coincidence. his genre has been dubbed art an art form that is designed to be suitable for every day. this dining room design fits the definition of functional art perfectly. vasa really it was about bringing life in our together making art democratic and helping people be able to surround themselves with art by making art affordable so did his concept pan out yes the official title of this work is dining hall the panels from the wall are being thoroughly examined before they are relocated to the museum. right now i'm checking out all the circular plates to see whether they're damaged or not because we have to have a guarantee when the exhibit gets transported to

a new location and something happens we have to know did the damage happen there or did it exist previously. dining hall will be on show in frankfurt from the end of september and will move to paris next year in a few years when the renovation is. finished the bank will get its off our dining hall back. and so initial no just reminder of the top story we're following for you here on news day security forces in zimbabwe have deployed water cannon against protesters who are angry at the country's election results a long ruling center p.f. party won a two thirds majority in parliament but the opposition says the poll was fraudulent and will challenge the results. so you should know those are going to be with you in just a minute she's got another full round up she'll bring you up to date on what's happening in zimbabwe and much more all that just minutes.

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