this is g.w. news live from her lead congress in zimbabwe killed at least three people following after the country's election and security forces clashed with protesters who say that the zanu p.f. parliamentary victory was tainted by fraud the country's opposition says the challenge the result will have the latest from harare. also coming up former warlord here ben buchler turned to the congo after a decade in jail the international criminal court cleared him of committing war

crimes and now he's running for president so we'll ask an expert what his comeback could mean for the volatile nation. plus here in germany a first state opens controversial new processing centers for asylum seekers it will fast track refugees out with haitians and deport those who are protected and critics say they will deal a blow to integration efforts and europe's heat wave decimates crops when the german farmers are preparing for a future of extreme weather plus the robbery that has left swedish police red faced thieves steal priceless crown jewels from a cathedral new york if you told their stock home and making a daring getaway across a nearby lake. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program reports of unrest in. zimbabwe after historic

elections police saying that at least three people have died in the capital harare as troops were deployed to quell the undressed riot police used water cannon and tear gas to disperse opposition supporters the main opposition party the movement for democratic change is disputing the official election results would give the ruling zanu p.f. party a majority of seats in parliament election observers from the european union and the united states have called for the results of the presidential election to be released as soon as possible to avoid further volatility. and our correspondent melanie current a ball is standing by in zimbabwe she's been covering the elections for us and she is joining us from harare so melanie we've heard here at least one military unit deployed to disperse these protesters what is the situation right now on the ground. right now the situation has calmed down

a bit the city center has been emptied by the military which has been driving people out of the city throughout the afternoon but i can tell you it was a very very tense and violent day there were helicopters everywhere i had gunshots one of the time military tanks were possible by and protesters were beaten down you can now see on social media the people who are moving pictures of people beaten down even if the dead are hearing online and they were not the only ones experiencing that kind of violence to journalists over here have also been attacked by the military cameras were destroyed rifles pointed at them freedom of speech and press was definitely on the mind today. we'll have to see how it develops in the next days especially if the presidential vote comes out we could be expecting move on and the opposition i mean they have addressed that delay in fact they say that it is you know the delay in releasing the results of the presidential election that

it is tantamount to fraud do we know anything else about those claims. are really. well what we do know is the so-called be eleven films which are the ones signed by the different polling stations eleven thousand in the entire country stating the results of the presidential vote they need to be brought to harare and the opposition didn't have the funds they didn't have the money to have polling agents present at the different polling stations so damn fear is that they missed out on checking whether they signed could. but the results of finding that on that transport. because we manipulated but we cannot confirm those claims yet the e.u. had observers on the ground and i know that you actually spoke with them what do they say about all of this. that's true i spoke to you broke the you know seven issue here. when he's telling me that on the one hand

there's been some progress made when it comes to the complaining and the election day itself having been very peaceful but he also voiced major concerns that there were some very big irregularities also mentioned by the m.d.c. when it came to drinking the kind of papers that says to the state media which really has been announced has to. close its status. but what he's been saying. and that was our melanie heard the ball as you can hear there we lost the audio on her feed there she was joining us from harare with the very latest and we're actually going to head back to zimbabwe now as you can see we're joined by eddie cross a member of zimbabwe's opposition party the movement for democratic change and we thank you so much for joining us to share your insight because we know that the opposition your party is claiming that the long delay in releasing the presidential

results is a sign of fraud and we'd like to know if you share those fears. well i think there are many issues which lead us to to consider the the conclusion that these elections are not free and fair and i think we've made our position very very clear to everybody including the international civil missions have i don't think that the election is going to be crudely rigged in the sense that they're trying to manipulate the final lick should this is been the most intensely observed election crisis in our history we had over forty six countries observing me and actions including the european union with the launch contingent and i simply do not think that it's possible for the government the ruling party to rig the election in the manner in which it's done and of aust i think they did it in various other ways and

which are very difficult to detect and so i find that claim right the rather. difficult to to to accept but the problem is that the my party issued a statement on tuesday morning at three o'clock in the morning saying that they had seen the results from ten thousand polling stations and could contribute that they had won the election that paid weekly was not true and the problem with that kind of statement it can be inflammatory and live to the right kind of situation we have there are you there and i want to talk a live in more about that situation because i mean just in looking at images there people on the streets we now have you know reports of several people dad after the military was deployed apparently they fired live ammunition it's been reported it was the government preparing for today's clashes today expect that's. no i didn't get it and i think the the big surprise to everybody was the reaction of the police

and the police have been under tremendous pressure since the coup in november last year because they were very much supporting the previous president robert mugabe and just some extent the police have been dissipated by the removal of hundreds of senior officers because they were seen as being loyal to to the old regime and i think to some extent the police are with really a headless chicken at the moment and because they did not intervene and vehicles were being burned property would being damaged the army came in i think that was a vent miscalculation because there was already gunfire and i've seen at least six bodies so i think that this was really not planned and i think every action but tonight the army have moved into blue have the second city my and my hometown and i think we've got to be apprehensive about tomorrow because the young people may not take this lying down and a government spokesperson actually blames the violence on your party calling it an

attempt to disrupt the electoral process why did we see the flare up and violence today and what would you encourage your party to jail going forward. my advice to zimbabweans is to stay calm. and to wait for the official results for the president surely action that is quite an extended priestess i don't don't believe that delayed is in will because you're going to bring all the eleven thousand forms for the presidential ballot. he's in got to reconcile them with twenty three chief election agents for each of the polling each of the presidential nominees and then you've got to tell you that and that takes some time so i would expect tomorrow that we will hear the results of the presidential ballot and i was in quite frankly the president will be sworn in shortly there on i'm not going to be tomorrow and i think then if we want to mount a challenge we have the legal right to do so i think we go to the courts and if we

can prove our case and invalidate the election then well and good but if we caught then i think we're just going to taint take our medicine and live with the outcome of the elections the next five years call for patience a call for order and across from the opposition movement for democratic change in zimbabwe thank you so much for joining us thank you. and alex get a quick check of some other stories making news around the world there's been an outbreak of the deadly disease of bola in the northern kivu province of the democratic republic of congo twenty six cases have been reported and of those twenty have died just a week ago an outbreak of ebola in another part of congo was declared over. a ban on full face veils has come into force in denmark the government says that face covering garments like the niqab in the burka prevent women from integrating into danish society several other european countries have instituted similar bans some

danes are planning to defy the new law. and blueprints for three d. guns will not be made available online in the united states that's after a u.s. judge blocked their publication in a last minute ruling the blueprints demonstrate how to make untraceable printed plastic guns the ruling versus a decision by the trump ministration that would have permitted their release. of a very a has become the first german state to open controversial new processing centers for refugees authorities want to hold asylum seekers there while their applications are processed which can take up to eighteen months they will support anyone has rejected critics say that the system will get a wise they were rivals. for many refugees arriving in germany in future this is what home will look like this reception facility in a former u.s. army barracks in the bavarian city of bam bag is the model for the new refugee centers to be known as centers the acronym stands for

a rival decision and return the key idea various departments which look at asylum applications will be together in one place migration agency labor office welfare all thora t. even the courts the claim is that will mean applications of more quickly. with these centers the migration agency will in most cases were able to issue documents in three or three and a half months whether people are to be granted refugee status rejected. this new approach is the latest chapter in germany's effort to deal with migration since the increase in the numbers fleeing to europe and the government's decision in twenty fifteen to open the borders the challenge of making migration on this scale work has become clear in many cases it has taken too long for people to find out whether they have a chance of staying in germany and that in turn has held up any chance of them finding a job or integrating into society. the residents of the anchor facilities will be

able to leave to go shopping or for other reasons despite that critics say they are tantamount to deportation centers. the plan is to open these facilities all across germany or in most parts of the country that will lead to a massive worsening of conditions for asylum seekers. currently holds around fourteen hundred migrants if things go smoothly similar centers may be opened in other parts of germany and our political correspondent thomas farrow is covering the story for us and joins us now from berlin and thomas you know these new processing centers they are controversial what are the critics saying. essentially the migrants would be isolated in these centers and that that would affect their capacity to integrate because essentially they will be kept in those centers for the whole length of the procedure since they apply for asylum in germany until

their decision is granted where they're allowed to stay in the country and then moved elsewhere where they have to be deported back to their countries of origin so that essentially what the critics are saying what those who are in favor of these measures are saying is that by speeding up these processes by making sure that all the different offices are in the same place and can deal with these applications that all this will become more efficient and that that could actually help refugees then to integrate into the country so there are two very clear different ways of approaching this issue which has turned into a very controversial one here in germany not only now but also as it was planned a few months ago and now these centers we know that they are the brainchild of the interior minister of course they offer so far they've only been set up in his state of bavaria how likely is it that we can see more of them elsewhere well for now it's not likely and there's a reason why they have been set up in

a very obviously one reason is that of area really suffered most during the refugee crisis most refugees were coming in through through bavaria but obviously the other aspect is a political one bavaria will have its regional election in october and horse as a whole and his spotty the c.s.u. the bavarian sister party of angela merkel's see do you want to regain some of the votes that they that they think they will lose for example to the a.f.p. the alternative for germany that's also a party that has been campaigning there on a platform of a more restrictive migration policy and that's the reason why horse a who for now the interior minister has also been promoting this idea of a more restrictive migration policy in germany and that's the reason why you only see those on percent as for example now. in both area i want to talk a little bit more about another major change that also comes into effect today and this concerns germany's immigration system as well as the country apparently resuming the practice of allowing some refugee family members to join them in

germany that practice of course was suspended three years ago at the height of the refugee crisis thomas what are the new rules and what's the reaction been well essentially this affects those refugees that have been granted subsidiary protection that's a level under the full protection status that would allow refugee to stay indefinitely in germany we're talking here about a number around one thousand family members that will be allowed per month to end germany and reunite with family members that are already here and obviously this is also being extremely controversial on the one hand those who believe that this measure would mean more refugees coming to the country on the other hand those who say that that is actually a right that refugees have to be reunited with their closest family members and that that could help them in their integration process in germany so there are very different views regarding this controversial issue of family reunification but it's also something that obviously affects refugees themselves who are now hoping here

in germany that they can apply for some of their family members to come and join them in germany thomas sparrow in berlin thank you and one syrian refugee who hopes that the new ruling on family reunification will bring his wife and daughter back to him. a lot more last look his wife and daughter in the eyes in august twenty fifth teen allow our is a lawyer his name is on the syrian government blacklist he had no choice but to flee. if i know my daughter bush she doesn't know me she calls me uncle will buy first new music. 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 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 what your daughter is growing up you know it's pretty painful. only those who've been through it themselves know how. 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 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. migrants are increasingly using spain as a gateway to europe they're travelling the short distance by boat to the strait of gibraltar from morocco excuse me the spanish coast guard rescued nearly one thousand migrants last weekend alone the refugees are choosing this route as other

countries such as italy cracked down on arrivals and he doesn't use markers burnished 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. of all men are. over the course of the entire past year we've rescued sixteen thousand people but this year after just seven months the number has already climbed to twenty two thousand. metres. the ship carrying the rescued migrants docked at the nearby port of august the rest 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. well. we aren't eating well we don't have a proper place to sleep to aren't enough clothes 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 spain before they chose libya or italy but that is close i was just thirteen kilometers lie between africa and europe at spain southernmost tip the country once again has become the gateway to europe for thousands of migrants. it's over to helena humphrey now and we have news just in from the u.s. federal reserve the u.s. federal reserve leaving its key interest rates unchanged for now sarah after its regular policy meeting the fed was upbeat about the u.s. economy citing strong consumer spending and business investment a strong jobs market and inflation near that target over to the sense that probably puts the fed on course for a rate hike in september off its next meeting now fed chair during powell said at

the start of the year that interest rates would continue to be raised in small to moderate steps they now stand in a range of one point seven five to two percent off for a small hike in june u.s. president donald trump has warned against further hikes fearing it could slow economic growth. well today is the first of all it's earth overshoots day is the day that humanity has used up all natural resources that the earth could regenerate and provide sustainably for this year now from now on we're moving essentially in to deep debt current estimates suggest we would need one point seven earths to satisfy our needs for one year now in one nine hundred seventy well consumption matched the renewable resources actually available since then consumption has risen continuously consuming the equivalent of five earths worth of resources in one year the united states uses the lion's share germany uses

three planets worth a year and china uses two point two that's phenomenal when compared to a country with a population the size of india which only uses zero point six of a planet in the same period while the planet shri overload can only be slowed by a drastic cuts in consumption by rich countries when we're talking about energy food and other resources as well as a massive global increase in sustainable production and of course we all know a direct consequence of an over use of resources is global warming and europe's heat wave shows no sign of abating here in germany the hot weather is having a dramatic impact on agriculture farmers have to deal with the devastating effect on their crops in a looking at a possible future in which extreme weather is the norm.

a sad sight meets the eye across germany this year's crop is only half the height it should be and weeds are everywhere. here in the eastern state of brandenburg measuring stations on test fields show that there has not been this little rain since one thousand nine hundred seventy six and once again farmers have to figure out how to deal with the unexpected extreme weather the center for agricultural landscape research and been should bear hughes's tried and tested methods to find answers to this question solution one is diversity before sewing the experiment manager. planted the look human in this field his goal was to find nitrogen in the soil this resulted in the plants being more heat resistant which now benefits the old crop for. 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 less evaporation to prevent the soil of this masefield 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 ration we intervene as little as possible in the soil through the use of tillage. solution three different varieties soya beans are not only heat resistant but also highly productive despite little water yet they are still rarely cultivated in europe but that will change soon if scientists have their way. loving 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. but the problem for farmers is not just higher

temperatures finding a simple solution is difficult because of the increasingly extreme weather fluctuations. inlets in recent years we've seen that the characteristics of the extreme situations different grades early 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 so as to. german farmers have to cope quickly with new situations every year but this summer all they can do is hope for a little rain. as back over now to sarah palin i thank you so much. you're watching news still to come on the program the comeback in the congo former warlord jonkheer bemba returns to contrast to the presidency and his sights what will it mean for the future of the nation and a swedish police are on the hunt for thieves who stole the oil jewelry from

a cathedral near stock called the thieves allegedly escaped on jet skis. all that more in just a few minutes time helena and i will be right back keep it here you're rushing to get me. to talk. about it when you need to work you don't know if you'll come back soon remember then a swearing crisis could not stop assassinations robberies not mail he was my everything . for millions and it's no longer a sound making ends meet it's about survival. military going to where lives are dying of starvation. venezuela escaped from a failed state in forty five minutes on t.w. . stand for.

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a promise to. the jungle and return to the concrete and glass jungle. the result reverse culture shock. was the prize winning documentary from the forest starts aug ninth w. . welcome back you're with your news i'm sorry kelly in orlando our top stories at least three people have died in clashes between security forces and protesters followings a bob with the election a long grueling zanu p.f. party won a majority in parliament but the opposition says the poll was marred by fraud and that it will challenge the results. and the german state of a bit of bavaria has opened controversial new centers for asylum seekers the aim is to keep migrants in the so-called anchor centers and their process and process

their claims within eighteen months those whose applications are unsuccessful will be deported. when i'm going to head to the democratic republic of congo where large . crowds turned out to greet the former warlord john pierre bemba has returned home after a decade in jail now a surprise ruling in june by the international criminal court kwok his conviction for war crimes is a former vice president and his return shakes up the political landscape in one of africa's most turbulent countries he is expected to stand of the presidential election that is scheduled for december and he will pose a stiff challenge to the president joseph kabila who's been delaying the election for two years. and let's get some more on this now i am joined by very own wendy bashi wendy was born in the democratic republic of congo and can give us some more insight into the significance of or term welcome to you wendy and i'd like to

ask you why is such a popular figure in congo. good evening everyone i think is going to have him by is a very huge figure and very popular figure because the heaviest story we've the country we can remember that in two thousand and six there was election and kind of you know was claiming two windows election instead of pseudo was struggling and demonstration in the streets and people in kinshasa remember jumping from the form does time as a savior so today it's really normal what have been seen in the streets. and also we have to remember that people in and especially in the entire democratic republic of the congo are waiting for change and maybe for today. is the change they've been waiting for. now of course this isn't his first time in politics right and we know that he the last time around he was accused of war crimes so i mean surely he can't

be a credible presidential candidate kennie. actually for the moment there is a big debate in the democratic republic of the congo to know if you can actually run to be president of the country and from some experts who read the constitution of the cuomo someone who have been put in jail can't run to be president still we don't know exactly what will happen but for sure we know that dissuades when we go to deceive me the place where they will receive all their paper for people to run this will be the crucial moment to know if he can run or not for the moment we don't know we just all waiting to see if he can be president or not the city will be the one who will decide if he can or not do you think they control they represent the people of congo or is this simply a man hungry for more power. i don't know if he can really represent the people

from the congo as many as the politicians jumpier them but told the people from the congo that he's the one who will bring the change we have to know that in congo today people just want to go so anyone with sure we've power we've something credible for them we'll be the one who can be the president but we need to wait for the next days because as you know on thursday. to me also someone for a job position who was living in belgium he is coming back in congo and this case is more different because. when he will be back in congo he if he succeed to go back in the congo the justice of congo is waiting for him though this also is a big question we don't know exactly what will happen and we have to remember that until today was a fabulous didn't say if he will be the president or not we don't know if he will

run on not so there is many questions and the future there will be very decision for this country. did i ever use wendy bashi thank you thank you. now we're going to head over to helena humphrey who is back and berlin is putting the brakes on time use investment here we're talking about rather contentious topic a sarah with to attempt to take us in the past two weeks no less but in this case well beijing before could block it chinese investors dropping their bid to buy the machine a german machine to manufacture a lifeboat to avoid a veto from the german government now there's growing on these here in germany about chinese firms buying up german know how 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 to make a life on chinese company young 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 corporation 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. this concrete case shows that 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 some analysts argue such fears will backfire on german businesses which one great artist the chinese market sensitive and delicate topic. but our whole but we do guess that our government is

a very responsible but at the same time respecting that there is a high need to earth for having open markets and for having good relations to time . 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. tesla says it's turning a vest five billion dollars into a chinese gigafactory the first of its massive battery and car assembly plants to be built overseas the report by bloomberg who says tesla may raises some of its cash in china's unease comes just ahead of tests as quickly endings that report will be out later investors have criticized the california based economic burning through cash and missing production deadlines just yesterday their reports test

that was in talk with germinal forty's overbuilding a european gigafactory here as well. well chinese smartphone maker way has replaced apple as the number two small phone maker in the world last quarter huawei souls lightly over fifty four million devices in comparison apple sold forty one million units it's been of always long term goal to supply a link claiming the number two spot in smartphone sales samsung still holds the number one position selling a little more than seventy one million small things. now imagine going to the supermarkets to buy office that's the concept of a new show in los angeles commenting on the relationship between arts and the business of alt 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 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 in felt. i think that is a huge amount of the art world that is about money and that seems to be almost a to be subject with the art you know it's got to have the integrity but obviously there's a huge art market out there where people purely by to collect and i think that's as much a part the art world but don't mistake sparrow mark 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 and they were framed and they 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 was back over sarah now as facebook cracks down on a fake news and it all has to do with the elections in the united states we know that voters in several states have already chosen some candidates to run in the no november poll this year there is a record number of female contenders and claire richardson caught up with one of them a native american running for a seat in the state of new mexico. however 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. now swedish police are hunting the fiends who

stole priceless crown jewels in a daring daylight robbery the thieves took the jewelry from a cathedral near stockholm before making to get away on a lake supposedly either by motor boat or just skate police are appealing to the public for their help in reclaiming the precious. these are what the robbers got away with two crowns and an orb dating back to the seventeenth century during the rule of king karl the ninth and queen christina they were taken from the historic hilltop strong us cathedral around midday on tuesday where they had been on display that cathedral about an hour's drive from the capital stockholm was reportedly open to visitors at the time with an event being held in a site chapel the jewels were in a locked display cabinet connected to an alarm system reportedly the theft was only noticed after an eyewitness saw two suspects fleeing the scene and alerted authorities the robbers are suspected of fleeing on bicycles to the nearby dock of

lake malar and where they then use either a boat or water skis for their final getaway the bikes have since been recovered. reports say forensic technicians have completed their investigations police are now turning to the public for more leads a police spokesperson said the objects are national treasures and would probably be very difficult to sell interpol is also on the case. and the baltic country of lithuania is celebrating one hundred years of independence throughout the summer there are various celebrations taking place around the country and our very own robin merrill from our culture desk is here to tell us a little bit more about the celebrations because they're being called the centennial of the restored state of lithuania why is that well because the yabu has been a lithuania around for a lot longer actually almost eight hundred years in fact in the fourteenth century

i discovered it was said to be the biggest country in europe to have bits about a roost bits of russia bits of ukraine and poland as well then in the nineteenth century was followed by the russian empire then in one thousand nine hundred eighteen and this is the date we're talking about the end of the first world war the acts of independence laid the foundations for the. democratic country we know is live when you today meanwhile of course it wasn't plain sailing off of that i mean polish troops were in lithuania shortly after that german troops in the second well will follow by the russians and then of course they were under the soviet union under the hammer and sickle of the soviet union till the lauzon all scame along and then today it is 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.

on this and tenor of the lithuanian song festival is an emotional experience for many of the performers and visitors just want to hear it i was three and all just really very sick feel part of it is very good we're all american like playing it so we all came from around the globe to come to participate in it and that's the best of all sides 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 the world and 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. then yes i'd seen this 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 the most trying to find out what is really baltic. i think yes the lakes and moods it's truly baltic. even with modernization picking up the pace the song festival is a celebration of tradition. it's a way as a young old nation with something to celebrate on its centenary. and you can just see this as. it's quite a choir is that yeah i mean they have all the baltic states is a big music tradition especially a singing want to if you speak to people from lithuania you're fine that they say

everybody sings and that that festival we saw happens every four years and it's the main cultural event you know it's the sort of musical lympics for them and in two thousand and eight that she was actually made a unesco intangible cultural heritage search protected by unesco let's just hear some more of those massed singing for her. is a country that has despite its checkered history of being occupied always clung on to many of its traditions and much of the choir is much of the choir music is based on old folklore tunes passed down over the centuries indeed as lithuania was severing its time is with the soviet union the the time of glasnost at ninety nine nine hundred ninety it was sometimes called the singing reference revolution as

people would sort of express themselves by singing trail take song and we saw it there in the video we can also see it behind you robyn that the garlands that are in the hair that's the story that's actually been older it sort of pre-christian i said all pagan wrist ritual evidently for women's wear have a flower gardens in that and also i discover they grow their head long and there's even a long hair competition look. what it's for girls and women and it happens in this way in a second city columnists they literally compete to who has the longest lost is when a by the way had a head like the one hundred sixty six said today it is the longest ever was two hundred forty five centimeters which is why above my height i mean. driving along the floor great interesting tradition a lot of unemployed hairdressers i think of so fascinating stuff happy one hundred

one versatile is the way we have to say and we can find more on the website absolutely d.w. dot com slash culture robin merrill as always thank you. one hour a dining room designed by the celebrated hungary an artist victor vaso he has been a fixture of germany's bundesbank headquarters in frankfurt for almost fifty years now the entire room is moving piece by piece to one of the city's art galleries to take center stage as an exhibit of his work. this dining room is in the process of being dismantled plates and cutlery have already gone now come the the decor and the furniture. design the room in warm colors. and paneling made of aluminum and a car 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. 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 and 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. in frankfurt from the end of september and we'll move to paris next year in a few years when the renovation is finished the bundesbank will get its off our

dining hall back. the german football club hertz have berlin have broken the bundesliga mold by offering young fans three entry to almost all of their home games this season play at berlin's seventy five thousand capacity olympic stadium but they are the only club in the league last season not to sell out a single home game so they're hoping that the scheme which is open to people who are under fourteen years old will convince young fans to adopt their attack as their team but even they will have to pay to see her toes games against germany's big two those are of course byron munich and brasil darby. an eighteen year old indonesian orphan has become a beacon of hope for athletes in his homeland sprinter lauder muhammad went from virtual unknown to household name in a little over

a year after winning the one hundred meters final at the under twenty world championship in finland now with the confidence the gold medal brings he is gearing up for the asian games on home soil. 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 not great 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. but when i was henri's 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. oh and i think the asian games will be tough because the competition is tight and i'm going to give seniors who are more experienced and can finish the run under ten seconds who will. win or lose he's already a living legend in indonesia. george has plenty of track to run. best of luck to him a quick reminder of the top stories that we're following for you at least three people have died in clashes between security forces and protesters following zimbabwe's election a long grueling zanu p.f. party won a majority in parliament but the opposition says the poll was marred by fraud and

that it will challenge the results. former warlords jonkheer ben but has returned to the congo after a decade in jail the international criminal court cleared bamba of committing war crimes committing war crimes he now plans to contest the country's presidential election later this year and the state of bavaria in germany 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 with an eighteen month those whose applications are unsuccessful will be deported. and don't forget you can always get to that new news on the go with our apps you can get access to all of the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications on your phone for any breaking news you can use this after to send us photos and videos that you feel are news relevant just download the app from google play or from the apple

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