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this is news coming to you live from berlin europe's heatwaves top kidney lie at least three people have died of heat stroke in spain as a country leavers under the intense heat can cost as one of the next forty eight hours temperatures there and unfortunately can reach the highest ever recorded on the continent we hear from our reporter in lisbon also coming up. a big deal no end in sight shooting down with the election sound off the president's remarks in one god what is own genes in opposition to accept the results of that opposition leader
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nelson chamisa is still adamant that he won and that he will challenge the outcome . and it's been calling moscow's version of woodstock but now several bands are refusing to perform at one of russia's largest music festivals because the country's military has also decided to take a hard. part of a woman's continue on the thought she europe has been fizzling under a record breaking heat wave that's been leaving its mark in various ways up north in sweden a glass in a top cave in a car as a mountain has melted so much that it no longer is the country's tourist speak experts say the mountain has shrunk by more than for me to this in. july alone
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meanwhile breeders on the board dixie have been wound up because of the jellyfish invaded shorelines in recent days more than ninety feet for quite treatment on one day at the result of hollinger after receiving bin for things from this creature has no research to say the warm weather has increased in jellyfish populations in the area but the hottest place in europe right now is the iberian peninsula in spain at least three people have died from heat stroke and this week in portugal can break europe's or time record heat record of forty eight degrees. it's already been one of the hottest weeks on record in southern portugal the civil protection agency has issued its highest alert and warns that this weekend could be even worse. but it is risky thanks becky to increase and spread to other regions of the country of them and specifically to the center and to the north sent for to go into the lot. across europe the scorching temperatures are
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causing more than just over crowded coasts the heat has brought drought stoking wildfires from spain to sweden. the hot dry air has also retired take on europe's harvests and 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 offer comes from 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 where cars find peter wise is out braving the
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midday portuguese sun hi fi to tell us how hot it it is. it is indeed very hard to as i've been waiting here in brasil square in central east but. the. temperature readout outside this pharmacy where i'm standing this has pointed 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 a city like we've been which is of course on the sea and but close to the big river . but across 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 bearly here interests and i need
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to know stranger to hard to sound i speak in the this one has been very remarkable way you are give us a sense of what's it like. yes as you say which was most strange is the whole some most but not on this on this scale no really. you want to venture out in the direct sunlight it's very like stepping floats to a bonfire you really feel the heat and of course we have tropical nights the temperatures are not fully fronts below twenty five something like twenty five to thirty degrees throughout the night so people at one very difficult to sleep. people are tending to gather. fountains of rivers where the word of the water i see people here spraying themselves with water people are gathering in the dark. dog shops but there's some. sense with there's some air conditioning but most homes
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in total don't have to be so people tend to stay at home keep the dogs. those stories. right here wise in lisbon get out of the sun and into the sea thank you very much for that update from there. thank you. on his thoughts here of death suffering from the heat in japan has been battling soaring temperatures for weeks now more than one hundred people died of peeps job last month while tens of thousands of others were hospitalized in south korea record temperatures of up to forty degrees have left thirty people dead and across the border in north korea the government is warning that damage to vital crops means the heatwave is threatening a natural disaster. now let's take a look at some other stories making news around the the u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo says pressure should be applied to ensure north
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korea is sticking to its denuclearize the pledge met briefly with his north korean counterpart. at a security forum in singapore despite the smiles says the u.s. would take any violation of u.n. sanctions seriously. museums prime minister just in the end her has returned to work after six weeks of maternity leave she has arrived back in the captain valentyn along with her daughter. pair will be allowed to come in the parliamentary chamber on ten is only the second world leader to give birth while in office up to pakistan's been put to. getting on his in bombay with president emerson mungana has called on the opposition to accept the results of the disputed election he said they would have a crucial role to play in shaping the country's future. opposition leader nelson chamisa has repeated his claim that the elections were rigged. the main opposition
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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 and they were then in turn confronted by journalists oh. goody what was 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 minon god of the ruling zanu p.f. was declared the winner with almost fifty one percent of the vote. he had first taken power in november after a brief military intervention which toppled robert mugabe after thirty seven years of iron fisted rule to me said didn't think much has changed since. we are both out
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sick and. they are. well good at sitting this if. we want to put these of you below. this who told me this is ego and was just too vigilant for the kids it was part of it or was it it is they equally won they also face and we will walk along and will notice the. 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 while held his own press conference where he called for an investigation into what happened and also called for unity. zero. to be the president's all of them. and the president and all those
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that voted for me. and those would be more. who knows. who saw. what was risen. meanwhile opposition leader chamisa has called for a day of mourning for democracy. for some sport now and german football fans will soon have a chance to forget their country's dreadful was cup campaign that's because the bundesliga season is just around the corner and buy in munich are once again favorites for the titan but with an aging squad and little transfer activity the some of the questions over the military to win a seventh street titan but the new coach nico kulacz believes the bavarians have what it takes. things have turned out well on by its pre-season tour led by coach nico kovacs the team has been enjoying his preparations for the new campaign. could
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hardly have been better on the tour of the us. and now they're back in germany is turning his attention towards getting even better this season. we want to make each player better i expect passion ambition and progress. things that defined himself as a player he spent two seasons at 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. the covert communication is key. i think it was 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 so has returned from
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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 hundred league title in a rugby match once by and to be just as dominant in the german cup and the champions league. russia's woodstock the nashville festival in moscow the evening draws tens of thousands of rock music lovers and dozens of bands for three days of music and revelry but in one aspect at least it's not a tour like the peace and love of one nine hundred sixty nine new york russia's the military will be out in force and to some bands this has struck the wrong you know . these guys are pretty big in moscow's punk rock scene their band is called
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distemper and 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 fifty first of all. 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. there's a lot of the. bands that don't end up playing for go the paycheck and the public to be some two hundred thousand people attend
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the festival each year so it's no surprise that the army wants to do a bit of marketing. 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. if you're treating you. and distemper in north alone this band and 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 i mean advertising. guide you could if you go if a band cancels then a second cancels then a third fourth fifth and sixth for that at some point the audiences and the organizers will begin to reflect on it. but if you don't 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. that's it for me i'm
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