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big dreams on the big screen. the movie magazine on d.-day. this is deja vu news coming to you live from berlin europe's heatwaves john cleaning the guy at least three people have died of heat stroke in spain as the country believed was on the intense heat for coffins will be on in the next forty eight hours temperatures there and in portugal can reach the highest ever recorded on the continent region from a reporter in lisbon also coming up. this still no end in sight is involved with
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the election of standoff president the muslim money god what is urging the opposition to accept the results of the opposition be done that's in japanese or is still adamant that he won and that he would challenge the outcome. and it's been called moscow's version of woodstock but now several bands are refusing to who might want to russia's largest music festivals because the country's military has also decided to be there. hello and welcome i'm under cheema europe has been sizzling under a record breaking heat wave that's been leaving its mark in various ways up north in sweden aghasi a top copa cabana kids in mountain has meant. it's so much that it's no longer the
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country's tallest peak experts say the mountain has jumped by more than four meters in july alone meanwhile the bathers in the board take fear of being warned after thousands of jellyfish invaded the shorelines in recent days more than ninety people require treatment on one day at the resort of heiling and after receiving painful things from these creatures the research just say the warm weather has increased jelly fish populations in the area but the hottest place in europe right now is in the iberian peninsula in spain at least three people have died from heat stroke and this weekend portugal could break europe's wartime he trichords or 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. expected to
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increase and spread to other regions of the country specifically to the center and to the north. 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 wreaked 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 we need to have people 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
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warning people to take precautions heatstroke has already claimed its first victims . and for more let's go to his then where correspondent peter wise is out braving the midday portuguese sun hi fi to tell us how hot it it is. it is indeed very hard. so 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 a city like we've been though which is of course on the cd but most of the big river. but across across portugal there have been much higher temperatures so records of the falling on thursday those records fell again on friday and they're
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expected to fall again today. i'm viewing here interests and i need to north changes to hunt down my speaking to this one has been very remarkable when you are give us a sense of what it and 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 nights the temperatures are not fully bunch 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. down to the rivers where the worth of the water i see people here spraying themselves with water people are gathering in the dark
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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 get the dogs. those stories. right here winds in lisbon get out of the sun and into the shade thank you very much for that update from there. and it's not just europe that's suffering from the heats japan has been battling soaring temperatures for weeks now more than one hundred people died of heat stroke last month while tens of thousands of others will 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 has warned that damage to vital crops means the heat is threatening
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a natural disaster. let me bring you up to date with some of the stories making news around the world u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo says pressure should be applied to ensure north korea is sticking to its denuclearize ition pledge from bill makes briefing with his north korean counterpart. at a security forum in singapore despite the smiles from bill says the u.s. would take any violation of u.n. sanctions seriously new zealand's prime minister just into our turn has returned to work after six weeks of maternity leave she said i'm back in the capital of wellington along with her daughter needs now that there will be allowed to count in the parliamentary chamber and then is only the second world leader to have given birth while in office the other one was pakistan's been received. today not a zimbabwe where president. has called on the opposition to accept the results of
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the disputed election he said they would have a crucial role to play in shaping the country's future but the opposition leader nelson chamisa has repeated his claim that the elections were rigged. the main opposition party leader in zimbabwe tried to hold a press conference on friday in the capital. but it was disrupted by riot police who then cleared the area they were then in turn confronted by journalists. that that. was what was it eventually the police did allow the presser 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 one of the rulings on the p.f. was declared the winner with almost fifty one percent of the vote for the. first taken power in november after a brief military intervention which toppled robert mugabe after thirty seven years
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of iron fisted rule to me said didn't think much has changed since. we are both out sick and. they are. well good at sitting these days. we wallow in it for bodies of. this who told me this is illegal and goes just to make sure that for the kids it was worth it or was it that she did they equally won their us updates and you would want a long and will not 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 while held his own press conference where he called for an investigation into what happened and also called for unity. oath.
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to be the president's over all. and the president and all those that voted for me. more. who knows. who saw. what was resonant. meanwhile opposition leader chamisa has called for a day of mourning for democracy. in sport children football fans will soon have a chance to forget their country's dreadful campaign that's because a buddhist figure season is just around the corner and buying munich are once again favorites for the title but with an aging scrawny and little transfer activity this summer they are questions over the ability to win a seventh straight title and however the new coach watch believes the bavarians have what it takes. things have turned out well on by and pre-season tour led by
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coach nico kovacs the team has been enjoying his preparations for the new campaign . the atmosphere could hardly have been better on their tour of the u.s. . 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 for shit. things that define himself as a player he spent two seasons of bahrain as a battling midfielder and as a coach he proved his worth through his new employers by beating them in the german cup final in may. communication is key. but. 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
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a generational change in robin and frank real barrier in their mid thirty's but remain key players new players have arrived he has returned from a loan spell at hoffenheim gorecki has signed on a free transfer from shelf. if i've noticed that our training sessions have been longer than perhaps some of the players are used to. for the season a 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. russians would start the nationalists the festival in moscow the event draws tens of thousands of rock music listen dozens of bands for three days of music and revelry not in one aspect at least it's not at all like the peace and love of the nine hundred sixty nine new
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york festival now russia's military will be out in force and for the bands this has strong struck the wrong note. these guys are pretty big in moscow's punk rock scene the band is called 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 national the festival. this time around they were planning to debut the newest song. but they've 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 go 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. to go 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 this tempera 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 army advertising. 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. to. put it on the. business the band hopes that though again be invited to play in two thousand and nineteen they say they would definitely play provided the army stays away. that's it from me under touchy mom but helena humphrey will be with you from over the next couple of. news and information thank you very much for a company take it. take it personally. with all the wonderful people one story that makes the game so special. for all true fans. because more than football.
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