this is the news line from berlin more than three hundred people have been killed in a taliban attack on the key afghan city of grozny people fleeing save bodies are lining the streets in some residents have been without food or electricity for days why are the taliban attack in this city also coming up a seventeen year old on a public over it was arrested in russia for sending messages critical of the government on her smartphone why is president putin afraid of teenagers like her and why has he withdrawn funding from the human rights group that's trying to help her and others like her are good also coming up on the show the turkish lira under

pressure as the government and the central bank struggle to control a currency crisis. i'm sumi so much going to get to have you with us afghan officials say over one hundred security forces have been killed as they battle with the taliban for control of the city of grozny taliban forces launched a surprise attack last friday on the city which is just one hundred twenty kilometers from the capital couple afghan defense officials say seven hundred taliban fighters have been killed in the fighting hundreds of civilians have fled the city the u.s. is providing military support to afghan troops washington has denied reports that the city is on the verge of collapse. well let's get an update on the situation we have journalist to hearken dearie he joins us on the line from kabul he's been

following the situation in russian for us to hear what can you tell us about the latest that's happening in bosnia this morning. who to be honest a situation really looks bleak and the fighting has been going on since friday that people who are calling on the government and the college. years nearly three years nothing was ever their own when i was on on the ground all human syrian organizations activists who report back. here quite a lot of controversial and contradictory reports about what is up in there we hear that at least one hundred pounds who. says into a couple of hundred civilians of all been killed i've been talking to my friends in say that people are lying on the street yet the bodies and here is no one actually to collect them over the shops and everything to slow down the taliban of burning the schools government offices and government having anything to say. why is the city so important to the taliban. because because it's

a strategic place for the taliban it it actually flies on the kandahar called the highway in a couple of years kind of on a sometimes these are the cities because it's the international compact they carried across from the causeway only other than. the taliban because the. other provinces moving provinces where they have their optical view point people in the cockpit bases and then launched from looking at the government response the defense minister by romney announced yesterday he will make sure the situation will change within twenty four hours what is that mean what will the government do here. well the governments actually have the like a couple of thousand troops at least i want to. ride one thousand troops but the problem is normal use that is too late actually because the people in gaza dense and warning the government for a couple of days now

a day do claim on the accuse the government to impose a decision quite late so the afghan government says that even though they have been launching their operations back to what we hear from our two thousand they say that yes the app and government has been in for the problem is the taliban are already actually fighting if you have most of it for a few places so the afghan government down a couple calls a press conference for this problem that people say that that is not quite essential what we want is actually at this point to send supplies supplies because what people are suffering from is actually called a sin because you're not able to stop and everything else because you're in a very dramatic situation the journalists are here kaderi joining us on the line from couple thank you very much for your insight thank you. well despite that violence the german government says afghanistan is a safe country meaning rejected asylum seekers can be sent back there each month groups of afghans no longer have the right to stay in germany or deported if you

follow the fortunes of one asylum seeker who was sent back then seemed to disappear without a trace. he had fled to germany from afghanistan after his request for asylum was rejected in twenty seventeen he was deported back to kabul. everest i don't remember how but i remember the policeman saying if you want to kill yourself try anything else will drop you and still put you on the plane to afghanistan. shon says one of over two hundred thirty afghans who were deported from germany on charter flights between december twenty sixth teen and may twenty eighth. german doctors had attested to the young man's severe depression and acute risk of suicide he had no family or friends in kabul his only contact at the time was. who heads

a relief organization for deportees. i wasn't going to for a long time because of the support. from the network in germany and the madison who disappeared you know. at some point to blurred photo appeared on social media was shams living on the street chums left afghanistan is he like so many other deportees already on his way back to europe. and there was the german foreign office issued a new report on the situation in afghanistan to provide a basis for reassessment of deportation for seizures the publication coincided. with the first anniversary of the terrorist attack that killed and injured hundreds at the german embassy in kabul germany had temporarily halted the deportation flights after the attacks the new report paints

a disastrous picture of the situation in afghanistan but the deportation of afghans has been resumed it's a decision abdullah gul for can't understand given the frequency of attacks in kabul. and the recent one was on a police district thirteen which is this part of the right side of me so my perception of today's kabul is like. way wars than it was like in europe. but none of the afghans in this cafe wants to leave afghanistan even if everyone complains about the security situation madea's america who's with her mother samira has just returned from canada where she was trained as a pilot. people all around it will be doing that it's all about the war and fights and everything but it's not about that because we are humans like me like other people around the world they have cafes we have burst through we have like

waiting to have a gas and everything we have ever in to ten minutes i mean they're very good oh i'll come back to this i want to build my life here and i want to build afghanistan here. it's a different story for. he could not be traced for about two months then a message came from abdul got four who said he had contacted him ahmadi wanted to go to iran ga foresaid but was arrested and deported the story of shams ahmadi shows that many asylum seekers deported from europe leave home again as soon as they get the chance. now to some other stories making headlines around the world in india flash floods triggered by annual monsoon rains have left at least thirty nine people dead in the southern state of carolina more than thirty thousand people have been evacuated from villages in low lying areas the heavy rains have ravaged farmlands and are expected to continue for

the next two days an australian court has ordered a former catholic archbishop convicted of covering up child sex abuse to serve his one year sentence at home rather than in jail philip wilson the most senior catholic cleric to be convicted on such charges was spared jail time due to health problems. now the russian government has withdrawn funding from one of the country's most prominent human rights organizations the group for human rights led by activist. is now fighting to keep afloat among those most worried about the group's survival are the people it helps including teenagers arrested for criticizing the government and their distraught relatives. to this demonstrator fears the worst concern that more youth will be accused of what the government calls extremist activities the. protesters in moscow feel powerless in the face of . a growing number of russians are under legal pressure because of the legislation

against so-called extremism authorities are applying the law with broad interpretation sometimes merely expressing opposition to the kremlin online or meeting like minded people is enough to land in trouble the state has one of the demonstrators in its sights seventy six year old left to lead a human rights organization. there are lots of security staff police and secret service personnel there just trying to keep busy. in the end a distraught couple seeks advice about their children who've been found guilty of being so-called extremist they're accused of pursuing subversive activities for many in this position is their last hope his organisation had received financial support from abroad but gave the sub a few years ago and now relies soley on funding from russia's federal budget this is to avoid being labeled

a foreign agent in his own country but he may soon lose the support to. the don't give us any money we'll have to rely on funding from abroad and will be labelled a foreign agent. that will make our work extremely difficult we have to state on our letterhead and on our website that we are foreign agents. the officials won't have anything to do with. the consequences can be dire five months ago seventeen year old on the public over was arrested for having formed what authorities called an extremist organization with her friends. her mother's not having it she has no face and russians legal system. she's among those who fear what could happen if human rights activists like left don't draw attention to cases like this. then everything will be worse and it won't be reported.

the trials like these would take place behind closed doors and no one would try to help the bomb which there is in your view it is possible i think public pressure is the only thing that will help. there's been considerable interest in this trial it's standing room only in the courtroom and others can't get in. and his colleagues have mobilized as many people as they could. record so would we have to bring people together and put the pressure on the court within the legal framework of course. that's our specialty. is that. the court has been adjourned the trial will continue at a later date on the public is hoping the human rights activists can make a difference in her case. and for more of the story we can speak to survey markov in sochi he is a political scientist and journalist and he belongs to a group of advice as to president vladimir putin mr mark of good morning thank you

for joining us on our program i want to start with asking you about the woman we saw in our report on a public show has been detained for months for writing critical messages on her smartphone with other teenagers why is the russian government so afraid of her. seem kind of own it is a middle somebody to call good. as it is on the wire should have been arrested because it too plot. in new york precious to get his asians in all monks and you know for us as a lot of nice young pretty young people in every country is in every peter little sister here but would you encourage. others you could go a little for a very young couples and the russian government need a much counseling about the american what you carry because in ukraine will have such a q q so what it's going out alliance between you and not so on the one hand

and progress of riddles one another kind of banter is there at night it was about this specific case you know what added and is there that she is actually part of an extremist organization and not simply sending messages that were critical. noises that are evidence exists it would it have been baba to shari'a visit there's also. no personal sort of the musicians. there are some kind of not but it's a girl i experience it's not just ripples us to muck and social well so somebody else does inform you about was the salt this have. never not for items a problem is that a very young and and also program that he or she would be in some kind of. no victim approach perry kish because agent alpha is a or as is because i've been in the rule two souls situation but we've read

a consort that he did i would say that this is a line between neo nazi and sort of liberals respect and then you clear and rich come you care it was a couple strokes now i'm now you're failing to do seven of them ok so it's a mark of you think there's evidence but it hasn't been published so we can't actually see it but i want to ask you about the other focus of our report which is n.g.o.s since two thousand and twelve when they receive money from abroad they have to label themselves foreign agents by laws and these are n.g.o.s that are politically active for example transparency international there are an agency battling battling rather corruption and crime why is that considered a foreign agent that is politically active. i see it easily you say fighting only just got out from them crime there will be a foolish support of butter russian book allision visuals a seems that it's denser seems a problem lisa says they're doing. it to bring some positive scenes and

another stanza doing this but digital activity i can't let it be the good. if i don't fit into your green. resample it was the fish before rumple it. is. a result of that. says if somebody somewhere information you can see it's in the media. as interventional her example obit interns or various an order. from bolivia go actions always opposition and i would say it good you create is a keyboard if you look what happened there also look like just no gum until the resistance was it was it your six by find that it is of cooled as it became zapped when it's no ice was not safe and was a at some poor quality exported to expose a government of charities and doctored by ukrainian illegal to preserve government

mr mock of unfortunately we have to leave it there sergey markov in sochi an advisor and to president vladimir putin a political analyst as well thank you very much for your insights. and we have a some breaking news that is coming in to us on our program now a british police have arrested a man in london after a car a crashed into barriers outside parliament you're looking at these pictures here at a number of pedestrians we understand have been injured and there are armed police officers at the scene you also see several emergency vehicles we're going to be tracking this story and get more into it as soon as those details come into us. for now though happier is here with some business news and heavier turkey's currency is still struggling to recover and that's almost putting it mildly sumi turkey is trying to avoid an economic collapse the government has reacted with investments threats and liquidity injections while president of the un continues to

assert the country is a victim of economic terrorism and yet despite a slight recovery the lira the country's currency remains under pressure last week the turkish currency hit a record low against the dollar it has more than lost forty percent of its value since the start of the year the fallout from delirious plunge sent the euro to a new thirteen month low and is hammering emerging market currencies as investors worry about contagion. ever since that failed coup attempt in twenty sixteen turkey's central bankers have resisted raising interest rates despite double digit inflation a problem that is now hitting the people in the streets where it hurts most. new stock at last for pharmacy owners who don't have to glue the relief among stuff is palpable the lure as loss in value against the dollar has made some products like this medication to fight high blood pressure hard to come by. the truckload was the

first sign that something was wrong was that we were no longer getting discounts on large orders right on our hour around one hundred types of medication you can no longer get the lira is plunging practically by the minute leaving the people of turkey to watch in despair as their currency nosedives president ret of tayyip erdogan holds the united states responsible his talk is of a trade war albeit one he says turkey will when the mood on the streets though is less defiant. share this in the ticket i need to find is my child's education i don't know how i'm supposed to manage my pension is worth one thousand five hundred lire that's around two hundred dollars. i think tick tick tick tick we don't own any property we live from our pensions and increasingly we're asking ourselves if we're going to have to go hungry god help us closed shops like this one have become common places across many parts of istanbul finding

a new tenant will not be easy despair is mounting as turks wait for their government to introduce confidence building measures and stabilise the currency in freefall rumors instead making the rounds that anchor i will put the brakes on currency exchanges of freeze private assets uncertainty looms over the streets here and panic is a so far away. economist mistah fossum as thinks the government should step in immediately and increase interest rates. the country has to pay two hundred thirty billion dollars in foreign debt over the next two months. he won't be able to raise this much money with low interest rates if anyone at all wants to invest in such a fragile system right now in the end turkey will have to look for help from the i.m.f. here. in the meantime things could get worse for people like

to give. them. a lease customers have been looking for an important drug all morning we've been told it's not available because of the dollar exchange race and here they contact them i their. critical situation there now i spoke earlier with economist at the gene at the university of applied sciences in konstanz and asked him where he thought the story in turkey is heading. well there is a broad consensus that the country needs support either from an institution like the i.m.f. but there are also alternatives europe yesterday in contrast to the u.s. made clear statement that germany with as the strongest economy in the european union and america as the chancellor made a clear statement nobody has an interest in destabilizing turkey such erkki could also. receive help from the european union for example by

a coordinated central bank action from the european central bank and there's a good reasons because of the debt crisis is also linked with the european banks in the south spanish banks for example are heavily big creditors eighty billion euros italian banks and also french banks so i could go on to the question straight i expect that the problem of the crisis in turkey will not somehow mitigated if there is no support coming from outside the country. time to update you on other business stories south korea is set to impose a driving ban on twenty thousand recalled vehicles of german luxury brand b.m.w. authorities have urged the owners of effective models to get a safety check while warning that they pose a danger to the public there have been more than thirty cases of car fires which are thought to have been caused by engine problems b.m.w. is the second most popular foreign car brand after fellow german mercedes bentz no

injuries have been reported so far as a result of the car fires. found the austrian capital of vienna has been ranked by the economist as the world's most livable city it is the first time a european city has let the annual survey by the economist intelligence unit the n.s.a. cured an almost perfect score of ninety nine points or out of one hundred each year one hundred forty cities are ranked by living standards crime transport and stability this year's ranking sees melbourne and australia dropping to second place after being voted the most livable city for seven years in a row it's all for the business segment now expect to sue me and we go from one european capital to another that's right happy and we're talking about a poland of course and you might not know that rowing used to be a popular pastime in the polish capital but people stopped taking part in the activity after the second world war now however the sporting thing an unexpected revival. it's a long haul in the morning to the vistula river in warsaw for an international

rowing event it might not sound terribly special but it is to a lot of poles they treat the sport as something almost exotic. it was a divine a little bit more the second world war there are thirty rowing club some more so everyone was rowing now there are basically no opportunities for amateurs to take part and we want to change that in the young so it's simply impressive so many sites on the vistula that's the first time in my life i've seen that and i'm really happy that they're all here but you're pushing into. thirty teams are competing but not directly against each other they're fighting the clock and conditions are ideal the water is relatively calm and no transport ship traffic is allowed on this stretch of the river for some it's almost hard to imagine the you can row right in the middle of warsaw. sylvia competed for poland in the london summer

olympics she wants to boost the sport's popularity. numerous betting a bit of noise and i'm really proud and happy that rowing is catching people's attention in warsaw as the capital of poland and that's helping growing to get noticed just like in the good old days rowing has indeed been making waves on the vistula but it's not just about competitions like this one rowing is supposed to become a sport for the people and where else can you find so much nature right in the middle of a major city. now to tennis and a former world number one andy murray has been ousted from the first round of the cincinnati open as he continues says come back from hip surgery and the break is working to get back into top shape ahead of the u.s. open later this month on murray did put up a good fight after losing the first set to look at france you see murray in the white shirt there he found his composure and battled hard. to take the second step

but it wasn't enough we came up with some brilliant ground strokes to win the match six one one six six for the final score there. now to football another player from spain's golden generation has decided to retire from the squad midfielder david silva has joined on this iniesta and dr p.k. and stepping off the international pitch for good the thirty two year old mentioned city playmaker aspire to spain's dominant run winning the world cup in two thousand and ten and the european championships in two thousand and eight and two thousand and twelve he was once called spain's lionel messi by his former coach a civil scored thirty five goals and one hundred twenty five appearances for the national team over a twelve year career. ok we're going to return now to that breaking news story we brought you a little bit earlier in the program the british police have arrested a man in london after

a car crashed into barriers outside parliament you can see these pictures here at the scene a number of pedestrians have been injured and armed police officers are also on hand there police say they could not immediately say whether the incident is terrorism related we will be tracking that story for you bringing you all the latest details as they come in to us. let's get a reminder now of our top story that they were calling at this hour afghan officials say over one hundred security forces and two hundred taliban fighters have been killed in the battle for control of the city of. hundreds of civilians has fled the city. thank you for watching together we'll be back at the top of the hour. the truth. of. the law.

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