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biala guest. managed by for. this is deja vu news live from berlin europe's scorching summer continues is this the beginning of hothouse earth new research warns high temperatures and drought could become the new normal in the years ahead some parts of the world might become completely inhabitable also coming up. ten years after the bloody fighting between georgia and russia over breakaway provinces we find out what life
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is like on the borders of this frozen conflict. and heroes to some criminals to others pussy riot talk exclusively to dub you about their recent world cup protest and their latest event in jail. i'm brian thomas great to have you with us as europe's walters' through its hottest summer in decades a new international study paints a very bleak future and says that even if global warming is limited to a maximum of two degrees celsius that might not be enough to prevent widespread drought it adds that entire regions could become uninhabitable. central europe from space too hot and too dry business commander of the international space station alexander guest just had
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a chance to take my first photos of dried out central europe in germany since a few weeks and was shocked or should have been green is now all brown never seen it like this before. farmers across the continent are worried about crops the french version mountains a simply too dry about half of this pharmacy corn crop has already died. and rivers are also drawing up this is in brandenburg in northern germany shocking scenes like this are likely to become the new normal according to an international research teams latest study the name for this new normal hothouse earth i said what i said it is when the earth when the climate is much warmer than it is today three to four degrees warmer than it already is four to five degrees warmer than in the pre-industrial climate yankee. climate targets him to limit the earth's warming to two degrees celsius but scientists now think that that is even too high setting in motion processes that are both more extreme and irreversible such as glacial
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melting once they're gone the sun's heat stops getting reflected and starts getting absorbed speeding up global warming. the potsdam institute which specializes in climate research argues that without putting in place this afic human made climate protections the seas could rise by up to sixty meters. that's you know this is something long term but of course in the next few decades and by the end of the century these effects will have significantly negative impacts on cities which are often on the coastlines on. climate scientists say we need to address gly cut industrial greenhouse gas emissions traveling less by plane or by car and eating less meat as well. in the short term however both humans and animals are finding more immediate ways to cool down. well weeks of drought here in germany created tinder like conditions for a brush fire those burns numerous homes and injured at least thirty two people in
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the west of the country hundreds of firefighters were deployed to fight this blaze which broke out right next to that key rail line between cologne and frankfurt which was shut down it quickly spread into a residential neighborhood in the city of zeke blog we have this report. dry undergrowth burning like tinder what began as a small fire near train tracks in the western town of the book soon developed into a major blaze at least eight houses caught fire somewhere in the gulf by the flames emergency services evacuated an entire residential area with hundreds of residents affected dozens were injured the most of them were suffering from shock due to what's happened and the fires in the homes and gardens many were treated for circulate three problems we also have a few people who suffered burns some of them severe they had to be brought to local hospitals. and the cause of the fire hasn't yet been determined authorities and
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seek bog initially assumed a spark from a passing train had ignited drive vegetation but they later said other causes were also being considered firefighters now say the blaze is under control the important high speed rail link between cologne and frankfurt is now back in service although it's still unclear when local trains will resume. firefighters there are also saying this is one of the toughest blazes they've faced in a while for the very latest let's go straight to see bergen our correspondent there daniel cope daniel what's the latest where you are. you have the brian let me tell you that this is still a complete surreal environment here at the moment this is really a normal residential neighborhood and everything has changed here since yesterday at three pm when this fire here starting about one hundred people from this area have been evacuated some have been staying with friends others have been staying at
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the local elementary school and i was also talking to a firefighter yesterday at night and he was telling me that he has never seen anything like that in the past twenty five years off his career i want is helping a little bit here at the moment we have seen some rain happening overnight that is helping the firefighters here at the moment we have also seen last night here local residents coming to the houses seeing what is still left off their house and it is still not clear if they will be ever able to return to their house ok daniel the investigation into the cause of this fire is still ongoing but do we have any idea what might have sparked the blaze. well actually now we have not received any a confirmation or more details from authorities here in book indeed there was the speculation that maybe a spark from a train was hitting with the embarkment very close here to the houses then
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yesterday we heard the german rail accompanied dog shabaan saying that this is actually not possible there's also the speculation that maybe a careless people were around and smoking and we have to remember that we have had this extremely dry period here in this area for days without rain so this has all said this could have also potentially cost the fire later this morning there's going to be a press conference here and will be awaiting for more information from the authorities well this key rail link between frankfurt and cologne is working again but what about other regional train services yeah the entire railway service yesterday was stopped because of this fire and d. the high speed trains between cologne and frankfurt are operating this is happening after already last night a test drives were taking place we have not heard so far when the regional train services will be operating but we do believe that this is going to happen most
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likely during this morning again ok thanks very much for that from seeberg this morning. well staying in germany police say they are investigating some twenty people for child sexual abuse as a result of a conviction of a couple yesterday all that case are shocked the nation a boy was forced into prostitution and sold on the dark not by his own mother a court in the city of freiburg sentenced her to twelve and a half years in prison her partner to twelve years. this woman and her partner made her son suffer unbelievable atrocities rate severe sexual abuse forced prostitution all at the age of seven for that they'll spend hears behind bars. she'll be given a little more prison time than he will this is simply due to the fact that he provided us with comprehensive information to the court to the accountant that he
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still had the severity of the mother's actions of course. put it into what has been called milk of. stuff and in southwestern germany was where the man and woman offered customers on the darknet the chance to rape her son at least six men travelled from germany switzerland and spain to take advantage of that offer touch of hodge's the boy's lawyer the boy is now ten and she says he's doing as well as can be expected under the circumstances he lives with a foster family. as picked and one positive is that his torture is over and he can see closure. live permanently where he is now but a possible negative his that we have to tell him that all contact with his mother is broken off going to see this jeff and he's also raises questions about the local youth welfare office family court and police they may have failed to pass on information that could have helped the boy earlier. now for
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a look at some of the other stories making the news at this hour in peru at least ten people have died after eating contaminated food at a funeral at a remote village in the andes dozens more who fell ill need to be airlifted to hospital health officials say the six orders may have consumed food poisoned by a pesticide. venezuelan president nicolas maduro has blamed an opposition leader for an apparent drone attack over the weekend and its televised address in the dora said investigation pointed to the involvement of julio borgia's an exiled lawmaker boars as call the attack a farce that was staged to allow a girl to crack down on the opposition. archaeologists in mexico have discovered human remains from the ancient mayan civilization that could be up to seven thousand years old the bones were on earth in a cave in talk a tall boat in the south of the country down display in mexico city the maya were one of central america's most dominant civilizations before mysteriously abandoning
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their cities around nine hundred a day well mine guatemalan children separated from their parents at the u.s. border have been flown home and reunited with their deported families they were rejected under president zero tolerance immigration policy now despite the dangers and uncertainty many guatemalans continue to try to reach the u.s. border in our next report we follow a guatemalan woman and her child trying to get to the united states with little hope of entering. miriam and karyn don't have much luggage they have little apart from their children they don't know what to expect but are well aware of all the possible perils. so much i'm a little furtive i'm putting her in danger in so many ways her health her life so much could happen on the journey. where she could be
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raped or something could happen to her in that way and. i'm risking a lot. not only my life but hers to get me but. this is the first talk meal that miriam and phyla to be eaten since they left honduras miriam decided to escape after injuring her partner's obese for too long she spent the little money they had as they were crossing guatemala. many more. years we escaped from having them but if he had known he would never have let us go . he'd have done everything to stop us. but it was unbearable. that the violence was having a clear impact on the little one. and also i mean that but because you look at them they're going to be cut i mean that's why i am risking everything now that the u.s. and process. i also know what on earth that is. said miriam also has an eight year old son whom she left behind. she doesn't know what
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the she'll ever see him again. the best felt that he received. what is going. it's very difficult to make such decisions. you know how but no woman deserves to go through got out about where to. put up the obvious everyone i have to be strong and fight for a better future for both my children. even if it hurts to walk is that what gets hard but i have to fight but aussie there are going to chat felt a little. better life in the us a life without violence a life with work. trying to get on freight trains in mexico then they travel thousands of kilometers. miriam and collect some money in order to buy a warm breakfast before the train arrives if they manage to get on they'll have to
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survive for hours without food miriam is worried that she might be separated from violet at the u.s. border like thousands of other parents and children. she thinks u.s. president donald trump is unfair. our children are very precious to us and then someone comes and says only because he has power in his country. but he's going to separate me from my daughter. and he has no right. finally the train arrives. this is the area where people get on the train and train. fifty mph one step aside it can mean the difference between.
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now miriam will hand over her daughter temporarily. miriam managed to get on the train and so. with violet. they will soon disappear from view bound for the u.s. full of fears and hopes at the same time. ten years ago today europe's first twenty. century war started between russia and georgia erupted over the russian backed breakaway provinces of south ossetia and concepts which most of the international community don't recognize as independent states the short lived conflict killed several hundred people displaced thousands of others the war lasted
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just a few days but ten years on locals on the boundary line still live in uncertainty our reporter emily sure went to the closer look in the georgian town of d.c. just over the administrative boundary line from south ossetia. better vashti's land falls on the fault lines of a frozen conflict some maps show the boundary line to the russian backed breakaway region of south a set running straight through his farm. signs in the distance reads state border a line most of the international community doesn't recognize says russian border guards patrol the end of his cornfield better shot them or. if you cross the line they can seize you find your put you in prison. they're here for animals across they take them. they walk around here and belongs where they walk around with dogs with weapons and they all go in
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a certain psychological state all the time. during the war several bombs fell on you know he has land his eighty four year old mother vonetta says she lost one of her three sons. in. that night i sometimes long sleep because i'm afraid for my son but tonight you still seemed afraid that they will come back. in august two thousand and eight tensions between russia and georgia escalated into a war over the breakaway regions of. georgia moved to take back control of. russia responded with tanks and air strikes it said it was defending russian citizens in the region. today there are russian bases in both breakaways including in south a city is de facto capital tskhinvali the e.u.
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monitoring mission acts as a mediator and it patrols the de facto border but the e.u. calls the administrative boundary line. the. big number of. relatively close to each other and the culture is something that you have to monitor closely especially where there's no common agreement on where the a.b.l. is running. carefully and that's why we are on the ground with two hundred monitors twenty four seven for russia and . this is a state border while for georgia this is a temporary occupation line but for the people who live here this is a source of uncertainty even ten years after the war here in many places the border simply. moving boundary line has swallowed some of the property in the past now he's determined to stand his ground this farm has been in his family for generations. i have nowhere else to go this is my part of georgia this is my.
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country i want to. draw one. for the younger generation living on the border the war is a distant memory but with the conflict still unresolved the threat of tensions boiling over again is an ever present reality. and staying in the region the russian protest group made an appearance during the football world cup last month one that got them through in jail. members of their group ran onto the pitch dressed as police officers interrupting the mass at their nemesis president vladimir putin was said to be watching the w. correspondent near drugs that the recently released political activists and sent us this exclusive report. they are heroes to some to others just criminals pussy riot or russia's most divisive group we meet in a traditional cold moscow apartment. in the police chief.
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on tuesday can political collective we don't have a fixed number of members of the different people come together from various factions you were just two actions like the recent protests at the football world cup final in moscow games to highlight police violence play stopped as pussy riot activists stormed the pitch wearing police uniforms they were arrested and sentenced to fifteen days in jail the protesters were freed only a few days ago. but. most people don't understand what we're about we have to explain it to them that's part of our job and we've seen day the system at the it's quite normal for people not to understand our artistic approach but they do get our political engagement. when pat you serve a joint pussy riot she lost her job as a bar manager for ronnie can because in a does modeling and wants to be an actress p.r.
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to fast enough is involved with independent websites together a breath of fresh air in russian politics even if not everyone approves of. most people don't like what we do. but that doesn't make any difference to us what you think it all starts texting radiator next to my daily papers claim that i'm not a model. they imply that i'm a prostitute but i don't care i know what i'm doing and. happy with it yes no stage oh yeah that there are states yelling at the russian pussy riot are aware of police surveillance and they don't expect fair treatment by the state controlled media i mean about the nasty attack us because they have to because pussy riot don't do what they want to me that's just the way it is the state media has always attack opposition groups and i think that by itself. i'm. pushing right won't
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let that spoil the party for them to struggle to resign. we have some sports now and at the european athletics championships tuesday was a big night for britain one hundred meters sprinters as they picked up two gold medals as arnold hughes came in first in the men's race this time of nine point nine five second set a new record for the european championships fellow brit rhys preston took silver and the golden girl of the night was the national smith she hurdle home in ten point eight five seconds that's was ahead of germany's gina look income for motor sports though and debt stricken formula one team force india has announced it will come out of administration after a group of investors agreed to rescue package the team went into administration in july with former co-owners v.j. malya under investigation for fraud in india now the deal means force india will be able to take to the greater the next grand prix of the season that's in belgian later this month. or controversial tesla chief
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mosque has sent the e-car maker stocks soaring again hard another unconventional idea for an oscar yes there are loads of those in this trading on tesla's stock was halted tuesday following a tweet by its c.e.o. you know musk wrote he plans to take the electric company private and has secured the funds to do it tesla served by eleven percent before trading was halted. it would be the largest leveraged buyout in history. musk tweeted on tuesday that he was considering taking tesla private at four hundred twenty dollars a share saying that he'd secured funding ideal at that price would represent a price tag of about seventy two billion dollars he didn't say where the funding was coming from shortly after his tweet musk published a letter to tesla employees on the company's blog where he said that going private
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would be the best path forward and would allow tesla to operate at its best free from distraction and short term thinking going private would also be one way to avoid close scrutiny by the public market has feuded publicly with regulators critics of short sellers and reporters some analysts believe he would prefer to have less transparency the company is still trying to overcome production challenges which have held up its new model three sedan on which just less profitability rests that hasn't stopped musk from announcing major projects like a multibillion dollar facilities in china and europe analysts have expressed skepticism at those plans must statements about taking the company private are facing similar doubts but if followed through this could be a make or break moment for the silicon valley company as competition from european automakers is poised to intensify with new electric vehicles from our d.
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and jag us with more rivals to follow suit next year. this coming friday ryanair will cancel one hundred forty six flights to destinations all over europe affecting more than twenty five thousand travelers the reason a strike by pilots from sweden belgium and ireland germany's four hundred ryanair pilots will announce today whether they'll join their colleagues for a europe wide strike on friday the pilots want a higher base salary there are other ways components are determined by aspects such as sick days and number of flight hours ryanair says pilot salaries are not. pilots old fighting the base transfers promotions annually. the trade war between the u.s. and china is set to enter a new round washington has announced further tariffs on of twenty five percent on sixteen billion dollars worth of chinese products that take effect in two weeks the new duties target industrial products like metals chemicals and electronics the
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trump administration already imposed tariffs on chinese imports last month but china's foreign trade has so far shrugged off the dispute exports showed a surprising growth in july more than twelve percent compared to the same period last year. doing business with iran just got tricky due to washington's new sanctions many multinationals do business with both the u.s. and iran but president donald trump says it's now either or that's something that has left european companies concerned and brussels isn't happy either it has responded with legislation. as european companies are in a tough bind washington says firms that do business with iran will be excluded from the u.s. market the e.u. has responded with legislation that bans european companies from complying with the sanctions brussels sent a clear signal. we believe that it is and it has to be to.
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be europeans in this case to the side with home to trade with major corporations like air bus. decided to quit operations in iran instead of risking sanctions themselves but medium sized companies cannot afford to give up the market and brussels is still hoping that washington won't proceed with sanctions on e.u. companies. money the hope is that americans want to sanction european companies or otherwise disadvantage them but the more they do that the more we have to protect our business with credit or investment guarantees of which. could it govern t.n.t. in its own scott and t.n. . provides recourse to any european companies hit by u.s. sanctions but even if they can claim compensation for any losses incurred many of them are still stuck between a rock and a hard place fans watching. she's
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