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this is deja vu news coming to you live from berlin europe's he tweeted stop screaming lives at least three people have died of heat stroke and speed as a concrete live under the intense heat the full cost is born in the next forty eight hours temperatures there and in portugal could reach the highest ever recorded on the continental shelf in the reporter in lisbon also coming up. no end in sight unseen bomb brazil lection standoff president and was among. the opposition to accept the results but off with this in leader nelson chamisa is
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still adamant that he won and that he would challenge the outcome. in peak oil version of woodstock but he said that the future of. one of russia's largest music festivals because the country's military has school so decided to take on. a warm welcome to you i'm on the thought she. temperatures in europe are forecast to do so the highest ever recorded on the continent this weekend eight places in portugal have already broken temperature records with some inland areas documented highs of forty five degrees on friday in spain at least three people have died from heat stroke. it's already been one of the hottest weeks on record in southern
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portugal the civil protection agency has issued its highest alert and warns that this weekend could be even worse. but it is the risk is expected to increase and spread to other regions of the country and specifically to the center and to the north central to go into the world. across europe the scorching temperatures are causing more than just over crowded coasts the heat has brought drought stoking wildfires from spain to sweden. the hot dry air has also reached havoc on europe's harvests in france the vineyards are withering. and in the u.k. grazing pastures for cows have very little green grass. the national farmers union has called a drought summit to address farmers worries i think we need to be concerned that when is are. always wide open about what's going on and where offered comes from
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spain is feeling heat nearly as fierce as that in portugal temperatures are expected to reach well past forty degrees celsius this weekend authorities are warning people to take precautions heatstroke has already claimed its first victims . and for more let's go to his then we're correspondent peter wise is out braving the midday portugese sun hi fi to tell us how hot it it is. it is indeed very hard to. but i've been waiting here in brasil square in central east but. the. temperature readout outside this pharmacy where i'm standing this this point in just a few minutes from thirty five to thirty seven degrees and that is expected to reach forty two to forty three degrees in this been today. that is very unusual for
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a city like we've been which is of course on the sea and but close to the big river . but of course across portugal there have been much higher temperatures so records have been falling on thursday those records fell again on friday and they're expected to fall again today i mean right here in dallas and i need is in north change it to hard to sound i speak in the this one has been very remarkable when you are give us a sense of what's it been like. yes as you say which was most strange was the hot summers but not on this on this scale oh really . you had to venture out in the direct sunlight it's very like stepping floats to a bonfire and you really feel the heat and of course we have tropical mites the temperatures are not fully fund still twenty five something like twenty five to
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thirty degrees throughout the night so people are finding very difficult to sleep. people are tending to gather. fountains of rivers where the where there's water i see people here spraying themselves with water people are gathering in the dark and dog shops where the sun. sets with there's some air conditioning but most homes in ports we don't have to be so people tend to stay at home keep the doors closed keep the windows closed and stay as cool as they can. ride to a p.c. a wise and listener and get out of the sun and into the shade thank you very much for that update from there. thank you. and it's not just europe that suffering from the heat japan has also been battling soaring temperatures for weeks now more than one hundred people died of heat stroke last month while tens of thousands of others were hospitalized in south korea record
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temperatures of up to forty degrees that left thirty people dead and across the border in north korea the government has warned the damage to crops means the heat wave is threatening a natural disaster. if we now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the wild the bodies of eleven people apparently modded were discovered in a house in the mexican town of quartus this comes just days before mexico's president elect manuel lopez obrador is shared you to visit the town to kick off a campaign against violence. u.s. secretary of state mike muth pressure should be applied to ensure north korea is sticking to its denuclearized pledge. met briefly with his north korean counterpart and a young fool at a security forum in singapore despite the smiles said the u.s.
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would take any violation of u.n. sanctions seriously. the united nations reports suggest that north korea's continuing its nuclear and ballistic missile programs in violation of u.n. sanctions the report also said the country has given military aid to the syrian government and massively increased its culverts trade of petroleum products the report comes as russia and china urge the u.n. to ease sanctions on north korea. new zealand's prime minister just has returned to work off the six weeks of maternity leave she said i'm back in the captain of wellington along with a daughter needs to be out a hole the pat will be allowed to cuddle in the parliamentary chamber and on is only the second world leader to have given birth one in office the other one was pakistan's been his input. zimbabwean president. has called on the opposition and the country to accept the results of the disputed
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election he said the opposition would have a crucial route to play in shaping the country's future but the opposition leader nelson chamisa has repeated his claim that the elections were rigged we cross over to herat in a moment but first this report. the main opposition party leader in zimbabwe tried to hold a press conference on friday in the capital out of it but it was disrupted by riot police who then cleared the area they were then in turn confronted by journalists. eventually the police did allow the pressure to take place. there nelson chamisa of the movement for democratic change party or m.d.c. claimed the election on monday was rigged his party had taken just over forty four percent of the vote but emerson on god of the ruling zanu p.f. was declared the winner with almost fifty one percent of the vote. he had first
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taken power in november after a brief military intervention which toppled robert mugabe after thirty seven years of iron fisted rule jimmy said didn't think much has changed since. we had brought out six in. the. well looked at six in the streets. we was a chorus of do not. pull this super bowl business is ego and goes just to make sure that for the kids it was worth it or was it they cheated they equally whine their fates and we will walk along and will no doubt see demonstrations erupted shortly after the election result was announced with the military killing six protesters the m.d.c. say they also lost because its supporters suffered harassment and violence meanwhile president men on god why i held his own press conference where he called
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for an investigation into what happened and also called for unity. zero leads to be the president's all of them up. and imprisoned those that voted for me. and those who did more. who knows. who saw. what was risen. meanwhile opposition leader chamisa has called for a day of mourning for democracy. and more from zimbabwe in later bulletins turning out to some sport and german football fans will soon have a chance to forget their country's grit for the world cup campaign that's because the blues league season is just around the corner and buy in munich a once again favorites for the title with an aging squad and little transfer activity this summer there are questions over the inability to win
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a seventh straight title but the new coach nico kovacs believes the bavarians have what it takes. things have turned out well on by and pre-season tour led by coach nico kovacs the team has been enjoying his preparations for the new campaign . could hardly have been better on the tour of the u.s. . and now they're back in germany coach is turning his attention towards getting even better this season. we want to make each player better so i expect passion ambition and progress for shit. things that defined kovacs himself as a player he spent two seasons of bahrain as a battling midfielder and as a coach he proved his worth to his new employers by beating them in the german cup final in may. coming communication is key.
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i think he still thinks like a player he's meticulous and he talks to us a lot. his main task will be to oversee a generational change in robin and from korea barrier in their mid thirty's but remain key players if you need players have arrived gnabry has returned from a loan spell at hoffenheim gorecki has signed on a free transfer from shelf. so you know if i've noticed that our training sessions have been longer than perhaps some of the players are used to. for the season it clear it's the same every year here. that doesn't just mean a seven wonders league title in a rugby match once by and to be just as dominant in the german cup and the champions league. and it's been called russia's woodstock and the festival in moscow even draws tens of thousands of rock music lovers and dozens of bands for three days of music and revelry in one aspect at least it's not a tour about the peace and love nine hundred sixty nine new york the russian
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military will be out in force. these guys are pretty big in moscow's punk rock scene the band is called distemper they formed around the time the soviet union collapsed that recorded twenty one albums and toured extensively at home and abroad and they regularly play the nationalist free festival. this time around they were planning to debut the newest song. but that decided to pull out of the festival why they didn't like the fact that russia's military plans to exhibit weapons at the festival. people just want to relax at the festival it just can't be that military hardware be allowed to go on display that's simply propaganda for militarism a music festival should not become a place for state propaganda. bands
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that don't end up playing for the paycheck and the public city some two hundred thousand people attend the festival each year so it's no surprise that the army wants to do a bit of marketing. if you know what we've always been critical of the military people should be able to make a conscious decision before hand not after the fact they should be able to decide whether to go to the army or not. and distemper in north alone to spend yours were invited to play at the festival for the first time this year but they too decided to cancel along with six other bands all because of the advertising. guide you could if you go if a band cancels then a second cancels then a third fourth fifth and sixth with that at some point the audiences and the
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organizers will begin on it. but you know in the. business the band hopes that that will again be invited to play in two thousand and nineteen they say they would definitely play provided the army stays away. thank you anthony. earth block home to lose of species. a home worth saving. those are big changes and most start with small steps became global india's tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world body is the country's good news to green energy solutions and resources should. the current interest just come.

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