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play. this is the news coming to you live from berlin and go honey faceoff over sanctions trunk's first breach of the day doing business with iran and you won't be doing business with the u.s. iran's president rouhani awards u.s. sanctions logically warfare we get the european perspective on this story also coming up the mother and
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a partner who sexually abused her son for years and made him available to peter fox online a german court we'll talk to a child about the case. and rescue a search for survivors still trapped in brother two days after indonesia's powerful earthquake that leaves at least one hundred and five people dead and thousands of tourists evacuated from cottage holiday island off the coast of lombok. glass in the next sixty minutes the tragedy of german a nation in the grip of famine and death now the situation could get even worse for the people of yemen as forces battle reports that's the main entry point for food aid. played. out of a warm welcome to you i'm a bit touchy. u.s.
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president daughter trump is warned other countries and businesses against being business with iran saying that doing so would remove any chance of trading with the united states now this comes off to reimpose many of the sanctions that went effect before the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal with iran in a tweet trump labeled the renewed sanctions as the most biting ever imposed he went on to say that anyone doing business with iran will not be doing business in the united states. and it seems that warning is being cut at least by some in germany common a factor a diamond says it is suspending its activities in iran until further notice. iranian president hassan rouhani has said crump is trying to destabilize this country and the sanctions will have effect on millions of iranians. these people will be hit hardest by the u.s. sanctions suspended in two thousand and fifteen after years of suffering by
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iranians now brought back by the trumpet ministration the sanctions target the iranian financial system including government purchases of us dollars the trading of gold and not the precious metals and of industrial goods and software to stop washington hopes the sanctions will force tehran back to the negotiating table they could take up the president's offer to negotiate with them to give up their ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs for you and really verifiably not under the onerous terms of the iran nuclear deal which really are not satisfactory but iran's president hassan rouhani says offering negotiations while at the same time imposing sanctions makes noise since. they want to launch psychological warfare against the iranian nation and create divisions among the people. not so called psychological warfare it seems to be having an effect. on the entire
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sanctions have definitely had an impact whether it's on the currency exchange rate all the price of gold they have resulted in the loss of many jobs because you know if the dollar goes up the price of everything will go up but in the end the people should have some patience and tolerance towards the sanctions. as you know that. if it continues like this we won't have a good life in the future. because it is on and he runs government he's acknowledging this to read through honey calling on iranians to unite in the face of the coming hardship. and for more on the story i'm joined by eric randolph the ted on correspondent for the i think we just saw what's at stake for iran what impact do you think these sanctions will actually have a countries like china india and even the e.u. say that essentially ignored them. well
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a lot of the damage had already been done trumps hot rhetoric because the run on the currency in the last few months that's been quote quite bad for one of them and the fact is that there were already u.s. actions in place all along that stopped a lot of foreign invader backs from doing any business and so iran and never touch hugely in the way that it hoped for the new could do. these actions on key sectors in the ones that really are the ones that come in november when iraq's oil sales are going to be affected and so obviously a lifeline for the country i take it that the u.s. is is that these sanctions would ring iran to its knees and make it open to negotiating is that likely. but it's a very difficult position for a leader is there is going to be economic pain and there already is economic trouble across the country seeing protests in the last few days and strikes. but
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the problem is that pride is at stake. as well find it very difficult to return to the negotiating table when trump has been attacking gress of the trying to undermine the system try to find their economy for so long. it is not the kind of country that takes that kind of thing lying down. having to swallow bits of the fast told. how some danis didn't quite just adopt stance of this is the united states he said the u.s. is internationally i summited it's sanctions but how much do these developments rican hasan rouhani he was a blunt point of view despite a reform line the country. you know. it is position is extremely weak now on his right flank the conservatives say he was naive to ever trusted the us and now he has egg on his face the reformist plaque see that down his is i
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did there you could at least build up the economy even that's not working and he hasn't shown any real progress on the political reforms that he promised the one saving grace might be that these sanctions to force the government to finally act. cleaning up again we've already seen some arrests for corruption some efforts to finally start bringing in some reform measures so we'll see whether the pressure actually brings some positive post events to the iranian people and then doff in the iranian capital tehran thank you very much. and i still get the european perspective with the band the good he's at our studios in brussels then as we had dinner says anyone who does business with iran on trade but the us yet that has said if you protect european companies doing what it calls legitimate business with the head on so what's the message it is that you standing up to trump or
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simply ignoring him. there you cannot afford just through ignore donald trump's threat and the sanctions because these sanctions actually very powerful aiming to cut off iran from the rest of the vote and they are aiming to do as much harm to european countries as they can in these kinds of sanctions are deemed illegal here in europe but standing up to donald trump is also very difficult because the sanctions are very powerful because america is very powerful on the economic stage the financial sector and also the energy markets dominated by the americans so they have a lot of influence and just to give you one example the european investment bank owned by the twenty eight member states also said they conned do business under these circumstances and if this topic entity doesn't do it how can you expect for example private banks to stand up to donald trump now that is foreign policy chief predicable going to the sister trade is integral to maintaining the iran nuclear
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agreement first let's take a listen bench to what she had to say we are doing our best to keep you know in that you see keep iran benefiting from diplomatic benefits that we meant brings to the people of iran because we believe that this is the security interests of not only our region but also of the what if there is one piece of international agreements on you can employ sedation that is delivering to be maintained. so that was a fit because green the e.u. foreign policy chief now bank she wants trade with iran to continue but really european companies really ignore the sanctions and risk losing access to the was biggest market place already today we heard jim these dima say it was suspending operations in iran. don is not the first one to do that to the many companies who have already announced that for example the french energy concern says they will
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not follow through with a big project this is very important for iran because all in gaza exports are its lifeline and the sanctions against that in the coming in november's a we are seeing that's the first steps here so listening to what a fed become a greenie had said good these sanctions and why didn't the divide even more between the u.s. and europe is western unity under threat my view of there is no best and unity in this case in many other cases the concept of the west is that with this trump ministration if you see the g. seven summit this year the nato summit all the nations of the allies and now this in the iran deal you can say the europe is now siding with russia and china and iran against the united states interesting then to get in brussels thank you. and we'll have more on the sanctions and business news with ben physical and they
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tend to have them. heading out to the news and here in germany a court has found a couple of guilty in a child abuse trial that shocked the nation for yes the couple sexually assaulted the woman's young son and made him available to paedophiles on the dock net in exchange for money the court sentenced the victim's mother to trevon a half years in prison and made aqua to try. twelve and a half years in prison for baron t. and twelve years plus subsequent preventive detention for clues john l. the court found both defendants guilty of repeatedly raping the woman's child and using the internet to advertise him for further abuse. what the boy had to go through here and. remains unimaginable more than two years of serious sexual crimes were committed against him plus forced prostitution in sixty cases according to the court the mother claimed her motive for allowing the abuse was initially to avoid
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losing her new partner later the motivating factor was money perpetrators from home and abroad paid several thousand euros to rape the boy today the child is ten years old and lives under state care. has represented the young boy in court he's talked to her about the horrible events but not about everything. for sure how difficult this is for him because he doesn't comment on it and because his mother played a role in the events he can tell me about what happened about all the perpetrators but not about them other. people are shocked that a mother could actively participate in the rape of her own child and that a convicted pedophile could become a perpetrator again the mother's partner had already been in prison for four years for child abuse critics say authorities either missed important information or failed to pass it on a crucial chance was lost to help a boy who had already been betrayed by those who should have been looking after him
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. joining me now is professor from the university hospital in the city and he is a child psychiatry professor figured welcome to this case sent isn't a young boy who suffered horrific abuse what are the chances that he will ever recover fully from the. he has good chances to recover because we have good psychotherapies for these children but he first needs a safe place to live and then when in science we talk about risk these are related relative risks so perhaps this child may have difficulties during puberty when he understands what really happened and we will follow this child during his face to grow up as an adult and i hope that in future we will he will be able to live a good life and that's good to hear that it's understood that the the young boy is
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only ten years old now hinted at some kind of abuse how does one encourage children to talk about such a tour so that action can be taken much sooner. yes usually we have to that phenomenon of leaking these children just get close to their friends in school to the teachers and then they have to tell about what is happening and that is very important that people. bystanders so-called bystanders who can accompany this child really listen and inform the agencies. now one of the most shocking botts of this case is that the young boy's own mother but dissipated in the abuse and even sanctioned it what would drive a mother to do something like this. yes the motive in part was just fear to lose
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a partner but the mother was quite dependent of that partner and she wanted to keep the partnership going but she had also sexual motives and she was very active in the abuse and i think we often ignored hers is a woman. ok this is interesting because this is one area which is not talked about and i think in this case we missed a lot of chances to help the child and i think this is an issue that has now to be dealt in politics we need better cooperation of the family courts of the use welfare offices and all the people in involved the w.h.o. the world health organization says that ninety percent of these cases. are passing undetected in the institutions that should take care for them so very important to learn lessons from this they distressing case professor york figure
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thank you very much for sharing your expertise with us as a child psychiatry just thank you. let me now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the world police in india have rescued stranded four girls who'd been forced into the sex trade the girls have been living in a cash register in the politically powerful stage of this campaign a safe sexual and physical abuse is rampant in such shelters where many children are defenseless and have no one to protect them from mistreatment. the son of a bahrain opposition leader has started a hunger strike outside the country's embassy in london. says his father's being denied vital medical care in of a javine seventy year old son was arrested in two thousand and eleven and sentenced to life in prison for his role in pro-democracy protests. normal
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operations are resuming at frankfurt airport after a security breach led to the evacuation of terminated one police say the lot was triggered by a french family of four who bypassed security checks to enter the boarding area dozens of flights were disrupted by the incident. then joins me now and we return to our top story and the danger of doing business with iran and european companies are affected indirectly in this case many of the multinational concerned business with both the u.s. and iran but president donald trump says it's either one or the other. team has spent the last two years trying to build up trade ties with iran his family owned company produces measuring devices that can be used to detect leaks in water and gas pipelines three hundred people depend on its worldwide exports including to iran it's something seventy mm does not want to give up he would like
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to continue trading with both the u.s. and iran. we are worried that our ability to do business with the u.s. will be restricted that could mean fines or even ending up on a blacklist so that we won't be able to export anything there many german companies have invested heavily in iran they had high hopes like here at the german iranian chamber of industry and commerce in tehran but all of a sudden that's come to an end. here it's not that are you on after three years it was time for companies to begin earning profits one spin is really began to flourish. but now the sanctions have come into force again and big german corporations are among those affected such as folks. at it's a rainy and commercial vehicle division order books for vans ambulances and taxis
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are full but the company is holding off on new investments. and mercedez maker dime learned on stern tuesday that it was putting its expansion plans for iran on hold. and he is a huge headline that shows you raise the ire of donald trump germany's trade surplus is that nine hundred billion euros despite exports increasing it has slightly narrowed as imports are at a record high still the criticism is growing and not just from mr trump international trading partners have long begrudged germany its trade balance the country sells much more than it buys engineering and technology among its top exports and the i.m.f. says that's helping to fuel global trade tensions it warns that surplus could hurt global financial stability in the long run today's figures from the german statistics bureau show that in june this year germany exported goods worth more than one hundred fifteen billion euros up nearly eight percent on june last year
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and imported around ninety four billion euros worth that's the highest monthly import value since foreign trade statistics were first published in one thousand nine hundred fifty and just over ten percent up year on year but ahead of these numbers the i.m.f. has been saying germany isn't doing enough to correct the imbalance its chief economist says it's nothing to be proud of in contrast to the common assumption a large trade surplus is not necessarily a sign of strength it can rather be seen as evidence of weak domestic investment. the i.m.f. and the european commission have long urged germany to boost domestic demand by lifting wages and investment to reduce what they call global economic imbalances us president ronald trump has also repeatedly criticized germany's export strength hope spilt and other economists say that countries in which the balance is too high like germany should increase government spending by investing in infrastructure or
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digitalized nation for example that would encourage companies to invest more domestically rather than looking abroad my colleague asked analyst to explain the widespread criticism of germany's trade. international monetary fund has a point and in this criticism donald trump also has a point and basically he has this criticism not only with the international monetary fund but also with the european central bank is the european commission and they are indeed right we are exporting much more than we importing which necessitates that the rest of the world does exactly the opposite them putting much more than they exporting and they basically finance this via debt so they increase their debts so we're living off our economic model is built on others increasing their debts and this is clearly not sustainable and this was also one like that don't we we like that because it's not us who make the debts it's the others but at some point they will have difficulties and we've reached this point already this
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was a financial crisis of two thousand and nine and two thousand and ten the euro is the euro crisis. so this is not only some abstract danger that lurks in the future. if the point out there of course of the. not like that at all business is business news coming your way first to the latest that's right thank you very much ben now authorities in indonesia are stepping up the search for survivors on the island off the debt still stands at one hundred five but that's expected to rise risk a searching through the rubble of more than thirteen thousand houses that were damaged on the island powerful aftershocks as well as cuts to power and communications in some areas are hampering the search for the missing. this is a seed that few thought possible. three days after the earthquake struck
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a woman was pulled alive from the rubble of a building. rescues initially thought no one could have survived the collapse of the structure. but then they had a sound coming out of this hole. trying to open up an access a few times but a refrigerator was in the way and that made it difficult when we did manage to open access we then heard a voice. the victim wasn't pinned down by anything and there was a crawl space. for the rescue was a brief moment of joy. but the nightmare elsewhere he's far from over. in this village not a single building has remained intact the people here are among twenty thousand survivors now with nowhere to live and not enough to eat or drink one but he says he's afraid of what comes next. and i don't think it'll be easy
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to return to normal life because the trauma was extraordinarily bad we dare not sleep indoors what's our plan for the future we don't know. thousands of tourists will also caught up in the quake. hundreds are still said to be waiting to be transported by boat from three small islands off long buck. the authorities have organized extra flights emergency services also racing to get help to people stranded near the epicenter of the quake in the north and are appealing for doctors under nations to help the injured. and for the very nicely go live to genocide max want an end to the max as you've seen in the report one more person has been rescued from the rubble how likely is it that more people will be found alive well it's really hard to say. they should have said is the risk if it's continued it's likely that we'll see the death count rise. country director and yokota islamic
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relief said today it will be much higher the death toll it's expected in that same mosque where someone was rescued three dead bodies at least from the rubble. and describe for us how difficult is it to reach survive especially in remote and montanus areas and what do they need more list well certainly a lot of the roads through the jungle and bridges to the north and east parts of the island have been badly badly damaged. giardia of the northern part of the island remain without electricity even the disaster management agencies office in oman bought was totally destroyed by the earthquake. so certainly there are huge parts that is still inaccessible to rescuers and this search and rescue agency themselves said that they're still awaiting heavy equipment in certain areas and what kind of head is being
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a given to the thousands of people who've been left homeless by this quake. yes the indonesian government in partnership with a number of humanitarian agencies of course providing assistance in regards to shelter however there's still are thousands sleeping under the stars food and water in height in mind given that a lot of water sources and shops and restaurants of course have been destroyed as well so they people are going hungry and thirsty as well so they difficult situation for a lot of them are max walden thank you very much for that live update from the indonesian capital jakarta. you're watching the job news coming up ahead in bangladesh student protests as a turning to social media to make their voices heard amidst a brutal police crackdown. on have that and much more coming up shortly you're watching these obvious coming to you live from but in to stay with us a peek at.
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start september. double. you know what you need to have you need to come into line from. a pleasure to have your company on top stories you as president don't want other businesses from other countries against treating with iran washington dreamboat functions of the country trump said dream so would cut off access to free with the u.s. . and the court has delivered its verdict on that shocks a mother. had sexually abused her son and made him available to paedophiles on the dock next she's been jailed for twelve and a half years and i mean for twelve. turning now to tens of thousands of students have been demonstrating in the capital for ten days
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demanding better road safety the protests the triggered by the deaths of two pedestrians who were killed after they were hit by a speeding bus police have responded with tear gas and rubber bullets injuring hundreds of students students have been knocked turning to social media to make the international community aware of the brutal crackdown and for more let's draw in a social media editor elizabeth show. elizabeth great to see you know what rula has social media played in these protests first of all. well rita we're seeing the bangladeshi government trying to do everything to stop these protesters to silence them for example mobile internet services have been suspended for hours over the weekend we've seen activists being arrested journalists being arrested local media outlets have been told that they are not allowed to report on these protests and that is why young activists and young
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protesters are turning to social media to make their voices heard and really show the world what is happening in their country so they're posting pictures and videos on facebook on twitter this one here for example was posted on a facebook reportedly showing one of the young students who was protesting who had been reportedly attacked by pro government activists and we're also seeing a number of people in bangladesh reaching out to international media organizations asking them to report on what is happening in the country so that they can be and know what is happening there and that we're also seeing other people again the sharing videos on facebook doing that live in fact for example of this video here was also shared by a student protests or he was streaming this live on facebook it goes on for about an hour really showing the students there also the protests going on there the
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video later was removed from facebook and in fact the act counts the facebook account this student has been deactivated so there are reports that facebook is also blocking critical content shed by the students can you confirm this this. yeah that is something that we have been told by a number of people in bangladesh they claim that facebook might actually be behind the censoring off some of the sensitive content of that they are sharing for example this user and he posted this on twitter here accusing facebook of really siding with the government in censoring that kind of information he even said that he was trying to send a friend on facebook a link in which it is an article that says the e.u. is condemning the action that has been taken against the protesters and when he tried to say and that's link then he was told that that action cannot be
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a calm pleaded to facebook asking for comment they have not gotten back to them they're also claims that twitter is hiding or is censoring trans or hashtags that have been used by protesters the hashtags that have been trending in bangladesh for example we demand justice or we want justice we also reached out to twitter the company told us that they do not suck but to government pressure and then they do not censor these kinds of the hashtags that are trending in different countries watch might be. at work here might be the i t arm of the government in bangladesh because that is very powerful and maybe they are the ones who are censoring this kind of sensitive content is the should of social media this very much for that information. turning now to yemen the united nations course if there was was
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a humanitarian crisis in yemen almost ten thousand people have been killed and some twenty million people depend on aid for this survival of a military alliance led by saudi arabia is trying to drive out iran backed hooty rebels and the fighting has left the population on the brink of famine now it's fear the situation get get russ because of an ongoing offensive against the port city of for data as a lifeline for aid supplies the u.n. force program has spent several days inside the besieged city in the province of saddam and next report shows what they witnessed. is only eleven months old. and starving. together with other children she's being treated at a makeshift medical center in rebel held sought a province. the lack of food to fix nearly every family here most parents can't
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even cover their children's most basic needs. and. once the breadbasket of the nation has become one of the most affected areas by the fighting. the saudi led coalition has destroyed marketplaces and infrastructure making food distribution much more difficult and dangerous. this used to be a family's home twenty three people were killed when it was hit by an airstrike the father was the only one who survived. people in saddam are living in constant fear of coming under attack. that the women are scared to death. that every hour we see a plane. the national airline soaks up. that is not an assault all i want we want is peace and safety. on to the let it run she said i was about
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to become a leak. in the port city of how data many have already given up more than half the population has lived here. hutu rebels are preparing for a possible coalition attack which could have a devastating knock on effects. here that yes it's a possible there's very good. data support is the country's main entry point for humanitarian aid ninety percent of food comes from abroad like this ship load of wheat from australia. by disrupted or close to or it would lead to even greater food insecurity it could ultimately cost famine as the conflict kicks up around the city the remaining residents of the data are growing increasingly worried. more than anything else the yemeni people now desperately need peace with peace and stability we can
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start to get people back on their feet start to rebuild their livelihoods. before it's too late the political solution is not in sight and with more than forty percent of the population under the age of fifteen the situation in yemen has now also turned into a children's emergency. he washing did have a news coming up ahead how an unusual mission is underway to reign over young people with classical music in a place and rarely gets to see sesh performances that is in death. and the look out no friend festival heads into total stretch the government or from a culture desk will be here to tell us what's next for the first movie event unique and what friends do look out for. but for us it's over to ben and you're. continues to bake and the kids men it sure does don't you feel sorry for all those people who
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have to wear suits them or you know. we do have a bit of air conditioning if it every now and then i do forget temperatures pushing through the forty degree mark in parts of the continent fama as a struggling through the vast majority here george irrigate they depend on rain for the hot summers come as a blessing for a bit as they're expecting an excellent vintage and have started harvesting way ahead of time. hot dry weather just right for grapes that's why this summer has been perfect to too much rain last year. due to the temperatures the grape harvest has already begun here in the famous run has some region for example . special is that production started about two weeks earlier this year. with harvesting at the beginning of august already. and be finishing today. and the young wine will be in the shops by friday. that's great
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the market is waiting for a. hundred other off. like many here the vols family near mines specialize in a partially fermented young wine called feet of ice because of the sun the grapes are especially sweet this year they yield a fruity wine with a high level of alcohol. german wine makers are expecting the twenty eighteen vintage to be exceptional they're among the few german businesses that might hope to profit from climate change. the average annual temperatures are getting higher we can see that. four feet to shout some forty years ago in one nine hundred seventy six we also had a very hot and dry year. bar so it doesn't mean that it's happening more and more often now. i mean it all for maybe next summer will be very cool and wet let's wait and see. if the climate is getting hotter and drier growing his'n vineyards plan to
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start growing new varieties of grapes the both family have set their eyes on red wines. if you have been to absa dam and tried driving through the city it's like a game of super mario brothers things jumping out at you left right and center constantly going to have one foot on the brake but there are all sorts of new digital solutions to ease the traffic. amsterdam is doing everything it can to prevent cars from driving into the city center but traffic is still a problem that's because it's not just cars filling up the streets as garbage collector robert slow but explains. the situation in amsterdam has just gotten worse with the increasing number of tourists you've got to be even more careful. with so many street cars taxis cyclists and pedestrians on the road it helps to keep the number of trash collecting trips to
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a minimum so these garbage trucks only go out as needed when the underground bins that store residents trash throughout the city are full but how do trash collectors like robert know when these bins need emptying. you can see it on his tablet it's link to sensors inside the trash bins and calculate the most efficient route before he sets out that it is all work has gotten a lot easier in the past ten years we used to collect garbage bags and throw them into the trucks now we operate a crane we don't get dirty and we're a lot more efficient. we were sure. this is still a pilot project but because it's so successful the plan is to use the system across amsterdam leonia viren from the city's public works department is now looking for a company to carry out the job which offers many benefits. and all the people and the amount of garbage varies. for example in the some of us less of it he
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says and we can also let our people take vacation careful planning is especially important since we don't have enough garbage truck drivers. the planner with. robert's work has been truly enhanced thanks to artificial intelligence. you know ten years ago i could never imagine that i one day look at a tablet to see how much garbage is in containers. and so today job that used to take ten people can be done by one person. but robert isn't worried about his own job as already mentioned there's a shortage of garbage truck drivers even in high tech amsterdam. to another great location for music music before we talk what music you have make a vase shop. keep it on a little bit of safety but the air conditioning music as they say music of music be
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the food a fluff play on of course music brightens our lives and that's the mission of a group of traveling musicians in tunisia they've hit the road staging classical concerts and some of the country's most remote schools eighty eight concerts offline and that's the number of keys on a piano but have they been hit with their teenage insists let's take a look. on the road in the desert and on an unusual mission. to win over students for bach or chopin and that in some rather far off places. the project's called tunisia eighty eight. founded by a. little bit absolutely but the air conditioning music as they say music of music be the food of fluff play on of course music brightens our lives and that's the mission of a group of traveling musicians in tunisia they've hit the road staging classical
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concerts in some of the country's most remote schools eighty eight concerts offline and that's the number of keys on a piano but have they been hit with their teenage insists let's take a look. on the road in the desert and on an unusual mission. to win over students for bach or chopin and that in some rather far off places. the project's called tunisia eighty eight. founded by american pianist kimball gallagher a piano of course has eighty eight keys. service yeah it's a music project but really beneath that it's a it's a whole transformational possible people can kind of realize and grow into their own potential on the edge of the sahara desert like the small town of thomas eek the venue for the next concert a seventeen year old maalik can hardly wait. because she loves music but because of
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constraints facilities are limited in a remote rural town like this. out. there have a very shallow i think it's grants that we can have this kind of a concept because there's bicycling nothing going on in the scale and can see it make it much of them but i think. and so maalik and her girlfriends are off to school. in the auditorium german old rich brown hooper is warming up on his saxophone. and whenever kimble gallagher plays the audience is very receptive. for many it's the first time they've seen a piano in person. and when the tunisian opera singer ben she caught performs a number from romeo and juliet the crowd is thrilled. music like this is
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highly unusual in southern tunisia an area still threatened by islamists and this concert certainly strikes a chord. on the law. you didn't. really ninety cents in the past five years i've been attending the school we've never had anything like i can't. for the school principal it's a big bonus when it got out of. our school lives far away in an insecure border area we lack everything teachers materials instruments we can't offer things like this to our students. thomas he can certainly seem better times tourists used to come here to experience the sahara but they don't come
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anymore because the area is just too dangerous very few people now visit the spectacular desert region and that leaves the locals counting the cost. extremists often exploit the lack of opportunities. the music project should counter that. it aims to make people interested in something that's foreign to them. show them in a fun way how you can master the cello. or you have students from a neighboring village show up and sing a song they've written. in tunisia eighty eight is more than just a concert afterwards young people set up a music club whoever wants to take charge has to make a speech because it was
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a hot. and maalik isn't going to miss this chance not him and you get a promotion it's a grounding in basic democracy these young people are learning how to shape their own destinies through music. the facts like the music of the two for getting involved for getting connected to society to a club to city and the nation and it's a means of making change possible. tunisia eighty eight has already reached more than eight thousand young people and it looks like things are actually happening in thomas he mike has just been voted in as president of the new club. and. again we're going to try to get some musical instruments and create more opportunities for the you know we want to change the mentality here and i'm sure
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that we're going to have to do a dance. and i gear some instruments and above all some initiative. there are a great way to get people in tune with classical music no matter the distance. what a wonderful in this is irrelevant what music music is your yeah music wise going to music is the great leveler it's for everyone absolutely but even male is not if you talk music today he said it talks in the seventy first look at our new film festival is well underway on the banks of largo majority in switzerland here to tell us more is our culture editor robyn method so what films are making a buzz of this festival well it is so many to choose from such a wide variety of chosen three very different ones we've got ethan hawke's new
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film as a director which is called blaze ethan hawke is actually also to receive the excellence prize from this is for an actor or an actress who they think has made a unique contribution to cinema so there's that there's also a south african. film called siyabonga thankful that's creating quite a bobs but first a clip from a british film that's called great and blaze which is a first feature film for the photographic test richard bellingham and it's actually based on his childhood memories of growing up in poverty in a tower block in britain with rather strange parents it has to be set. up shut up shut up to. the i drink it was ushered out right you have. a voice it was raised on the same money and you want your touch in
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a drop of. tact here you think about it you keep. another film based on real events is we are thankful my south african director joshua mccord using both narrative and documentary techniques it tells the story of siyabonga who tries to get involved in a film being made nearby even conspiring to steal rich white people's why fight to send an email to the film's director. the wife. oh. ok i don't know who plays follies it's actually it's. blaze is the latest film directed by american actor and writer ethan hawke it's a biopic about the tragic short life of little known outlaw country artist plays
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foley who influenced such musical legends as willie nelson and merle haggard. stark has. interesting stuff look like a festival is called the sundance festival off europe why they are quite similar they promote both promote new talent and our cinema and indeed the two directors collar chetry and john cooper in sundogs actually may tell between the festival's and have a chat and see what do you want to do or what do you want to do so there is also not either of invite films to the festival to get stars on the red carpet you know which does happen however locarno. is different in that it winds really in the location it has
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a stunning old town complete with an ideal place. record to show great movies but have a look. no kano's piazzi grand day lies at the center of the medieval old town during the annual film festival the square becomes an open air cinema with seating for up to eight thousand people in the mornings the town is still quiet but one person is already working tirelessly danniella hass has to make sure that all the screenings go smoothly and safely no matter how unusual the location. because like i get to seal off the payouts are grown to complain when we have to make some compromises given the size they're really going to get you'll hardly find a satellite versity anywhere else it's one of a kind you have to see it for yourself. or. look on his old town is just a five minute walk from largo majority. the alleyways all around the sun to antonio
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about a parish church lead to the town's oldest restaurants. the movie stars can relax chat and eat like royalty in these establishment most of the film festival cinemas are also in the old town district. early evening on the piazza grand danniella hosp reefs his security team one last time. the eight thousand seats under the sky are gradually filling up this evening screening is the world premiere of the german film what doesn't kill us directors under the net or back gets ready for her walk down the red carpet but just as she and her actors stride through the closed entrance to the piazza grande day the first viewers slip out in a way soaking wet a sudden thunder storm has struck vengeful then i thought i really wish the rain would stop so everyone can watch the movie without getting soaked. but her please go and heat it all affecting the thing's going to audience members on this evening
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need some serious rain gear to properly enjoy nettled x. relationship drama. but the next. day the weather gods show mercy and once again audiences can experience the unique pleasure of watching movies on the ground day only for ten days as every year in august. and this preview of and this is obvious in direct to counter shots fans lost the qana festivities coming to bergen he's in day but not turn off the next festival which is in february that his data caustics last long shot trail will be here off and he won't have an opening cinema because it's in february in the winter it's fake oh and then you know the name from across the desk of this is to have you on the show. he was in the deputy is more news coming up in a few minutes to stay with us if you can about. crowded
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should. be five minutes to. living the fun beethoven and. his work goddess fortuna. the mushroom and fish. beethoven insist upon a twenty. just couldn't get this song out of his head. ecologist began searching for the source of these captivating sounds. and found that deep in the rain forest in central africa. the body aka. nothing else looks
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