this is deja vu news live from berlin and a record drought turns vast areas of australia to dust it is the country's worst and dry spell in fifty years and across the globe raging wildfires and extreme heat have scientists raising the alarm they warn that rising temperatures could it reverse if we disrupt the earth's ecosystem. also coming up lawmakers in argentina are voting on whether abortion should become legal the issue has been highly controversial and divisive in the homeland of pope francis plus german ryanair

pilots who join a wave of strikes across europe on friday the budget carrier is expected to have to cancel about one in six of its flights. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program. australia's most populous state new south wales is gripped by its worst drought in decades with pastors turning to dust and heat waves scorching parts of asia including china and japan and wildfires are raging in portugal spain and the united states so what is behind this exchange weather in just a moment i will speak with environment editor but first this report on the high temperatures and fears that the earth's ecosystems could be reversible a disrupted. it's been more than fifty years since the state of new south wales in

australia has seen a drought like this farmers pray for rain as their crops and livestock die some are forced to shoot starving cattle while others face the prospect of having to simply abandon their land on the other side of the world a similar story the french are simply too dry about half of this farmer's corn crop has already died in the us record temperatures are fueling the worst wildfire in california history the twin blazes dubbed the mendo seen a complex have exploded to cover an area the size of los angeles in less than two weeks. seems like this are likely to become the new normal according to an international research team's latest study they call the trend hot house earth i said. when the climate is much of today three to four degrees.

four to five degrees warmer than in the pre-industrial climate. international climate targets aim to limit the earth's warming to two degrees celsius but scientists now think even that is too high setting in motion processes which could create a domino effect such as glacial melting researchers argue that without putting in place specific human made climate protections the seas could rise but up to sixty metres so how to curb greenhouse gas emissions scientists say we need to cut industrial carbon travel less by plane and car and eat less meat they say already the earth is on the brink of irreversible warming with severe effects like those in australia the government there has announced a multi-million dollar relief package for farmers but with dry conditions forecast to continue that may not be enough. and let's get more on this now we are joined by

sonia deen she is the team leader for g.w. environment and she joins us from our studios in bonn welcome to you sonia just heard there that one of the states in australia is in one hundred percent drought with one of the driest winters on record how dire is the situation. well droughts are common australia it is the driest continent on earth and it's been predicted that climate change would make australia hotter and drier so now we're seeing these predictions come true apparently climate change has altered the weather better and is causing the rain that would normally fall over new south wales to shift to southward so that rain is falling into the sea instead of over land over this land that is in such desperate need of that moisture you know and it's hot not only in australia we've also seen this around the world and here in berlin for example it's nearly forty degrees today can we attribute all of this to

climate change well he waves and drought are natural parts of the earth's climate excite cols but what we are seeing as a result of climate change is that the frequency and the intensity of these droughts and heat waves are increasing so for example this heat wave that we're currently experiencing in europe scientists recently determined that this was made twice as likely as a result of climate change. we heard in our piece there about this new study warning about what's called hot house earth is that the direction that we're heading and should we be scared. well it is alarming and just explain what those scientists did was examine various epics in the history of the earth they looked at our current climatic situation and they projected some possible scenarios and they found that even if we do manage to limit global warming to under two degrees celsius as is the goal under the paris agreement even this warming could trigger a cascade of feedback loops that could heat the earth forty five degrees above

pre-industrial times but to be clear this is not a sure thing it's just one possible scenario ok some alarming insights there and some new dean we thank you so much for joining us to share them. germany has wrapped up a deal that will send migrants who have been registered initially by spanish authorities back to spain the deal will come into force on saturday spain has become the main entrance point for refugees crossing the mediterranean sea more than twenty three thousand migrants entered spain and twenty eight thousand according to the un that's many more than italy or greece to deal with spain allows german authorities to project those refugees who have already been registered as asylum seekers in spain german chancellor angela merkel wants to reach similar agreements with austria italy and greece. argentina lawmakers are due to vote today to decide whether or not to legalize abortion it's

a controversial decision with fiercely polarized campaigners. who are full for and against the bill the powerful catholic church has been campaigning to get the upper house of congress to reject the measure but there has also been strong support for the pro-choice lobby especially among the younger generation in june congress's lower house passed the draft legislation by the narrowest of margins at this time it is widely expected to fall short of the votes necessary to pass into law. and our ethics and religion correspondent martin jack is following the abortion debate and that decision which is expected to be handed down today in argentina there and martin what do you think we're going to see well right now it looks like the know will actually take the day there are thirty eight bode's that had been sort of declared for the no again thirty first but we have to bear in mind that when it actually cleared the lower house in june the situation was very similar and they

started with no as initially ahead and then this of course churned their way so it's hard to say why is this such a polarizing issue especially in argentina i think it's a polarizing issue everywhere you look at sensually because there are of course religious intuitions but there are also moral intuitions i think that the particular already of the latin american case is that there are real really no defenders to be found of abortion i mean the discussion concerning the freedom of the woman to choose or the freedom of women to choose is really quite marginal most of the discussion has been centered around abortion is something that is already happening is something that we cannot really stop the question is what are the legal instruments that we're going to deploy the norther to more delayed it it is very very clear number one that criminalizing women has been nothing but a failure of a policy and this is throwed left in america the second brought them. to some degree abortion law to america something that is really at hand if you have enough

money so the problem this presents is that a lot of women that do not have access end up dying in dire situations or end up in hospitals this shows that there is a lack of equality in front of the law this is a very different picture for the debate and this is at this time what we're hearing in the senatorial debate which is what is that we're going to do about the things that are really here with us it's not whether we allow them or not it's what do we do with them and you know amid all of this we know that argentina of course this is the home of pope francis. for example on he's known as a relatively progressive pope when we compare him to popes of past times where does he come down on the issue and how is the catholic church influence in the vote the catholic church by and large an entire unit structure of course takes the position that the catholic church usually takes which is untie abortion but argentina let america by and large it's a very peculiar region so argentina has to group which is actually quite powerful has become quite purview over the last couple of years called women for choice or

for the right to choose this kind of things i mean catholics that stand in pro-abortion grounds or conservatives that are actually sort of siding with the pro-abortion forces whereas you have people on the list that actually take a much more cautious approach abortion is something that's so the figure of the pope is important they got to church is important but it should not be read as a sort of black or white game it most certainly is not martin jacques following the abortion decision in argentina for us it's going to be a close one and we thank you for putting an end to context for pleasure. and i'll get a quick check of some other stories making news around the world the democratic republic of congo's long standing president joseph kabila will not run in the upcoming election according to make government spokesman the announcement and months of speculation to be a list second term officially ended in twenty sixteen but he had refused to step down now he has chosen former interior minister emmanuel rama zani adare to

represent the ruling a.m.p. coalition in that vote. bob boies main opposition party says that it will formally challenge the results of the country's presidential election nelson chamisa and his m.d.c. party now really lost last week's poll to president emerson and zanu p.f. the result sparked protest that was met with deadly force by the military. electoral commission has just missed allegations of fraud and. police in the united states in the state of florida say that a herd of cows helped corner a fleeting suspect these pictures here show the bovine deputies pursuing a woman after she crashed and then allegedly stolen car the cows chased her to a nearby road where police were waiting to arrest her.

the european athletics championships is underway in berlin and on thursday germany's hopes rest on an athlete who overcame many odds to represent her country discus thrower club. was born shortly after her parents arrived in germany from angola and sought asylum now after a successful jane your career claudine is ready to prove she is among spece. claudine has medals in her sights she's already thrown her personal best this year sixty five point one five meters but now she heads into the qualifying round of the european championships in berlin ranked second this is how the moment. i was in the stands at the two thousand and nine well championships in berlin as a fan now i can hardly wait to experience it all down on the field as an athlete. it was born in one thousand nine hundred six in frankfurt oda near the polish

border have parents fled there from angola and spent many years in a home for asylum seekers they weren't easy times for the family but sports helped close to find a way in life and overcome plenty of obstacles including racial discrimination. doesn't matter what skin color you have just long as you stay true to your roots and your country and i'm so happy that i can represent jam he championships. claudine v.t. was already a force to be reckoned with youth level she grabbed gold at the under twenty and junior european championships and that's despite her rivals towering over one meta seventy nine feet is a good ten centimeters shorter than the competition in the discus. and. i may be smaller than the others but i have very long arms which gives me a wide radius when i say. i believe this morning you are the more nimble you

are in the circle. coach asked that combine those former olympic gold medal winner in shot put make the perfect duo ahead of the competition they're using every opportunity to make minor improvements maybe that'll be enough to help close bring home a european championship medal and now to another european championships because two of the world's best swimmers continued their dominance in the pool sarastro stroll retained her european title in the women's one hundred meter freestyle she has held the european crown in the event since twenty twelve and in the man's fifty metre breaststroke britain's adam peavy also retained his title it's his third gold medal of the championships. well now to some tragic news in athletics because the kenyan hurdler nicholas bat has died in a road accident at the age of twenty eight his greatest achievement came in the

twenty fifteen world championships in beijing where he won gold in the four hundred meter hurdle bet's vehicle hit bumps in the road and rolled into a ditch near kenya's high altitude training camp he had just returned from the african athletics championships in nigeria. and with that you're up to date now on news i'm sarah. thanks for watching. your sport t.v. even smarter d.w. for sure. what you watch when you want it up to date extraordinary. to decide yourself find out more. dot com smart t.v. . time for an upgrade. our furniture grows old boy.