player. play. this is it every news line from berlin legal jeopardy president trumps former lawyer is said to have damaging information about russian meddling in the twenty sixteen elections after implicating trump in campaign finance violations michael cohen is said to be ready to talk about a supposed russian conspiracy and former campaign manager paul amount of force is convicted of financial crimes what will these stunning legal developments mean for

the white house also coming up desperation along one of europe's most heavily fortified borders do you have you news goes to the spanish territory of suit in north africa following migrants determined to get across was a new satellite is about to be launched that will be a giant leap forward in forecasting the world's weather. also zimbabwe's constitutional court hears a challenge to president ga ga's election the opposition claims there was massive tempering with the coach. and the big business of high tech fun our border gets into the swing of things as the world's largest advance for computer games both wednesday here in germany we take a look at what's pushing people's buttons this year.

thanks for your company everyone. donald trump's former personal lawyer michael cohen has information of interest to the special counsel handling the russia probe well that's at least according to cohen's lawyer he says that information could include testimony that trump knew about russian meddling in the twenty sixteen election something trump has always denied on tuesday cohen pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations at the same time former campaign manager paul metaphor to was convicted of financial crimes by a jury in virginia. observers are calling it the darkest day so far in donald trump's turbulent presidency but the u.s. president at a rally in west virginia appeared unruffled. he's done time and again denied any

russian involvement that aided him during his electoral campaign. fake to the right here in which we got all big company. where is the closure you know they're still looking for collusion where is acknowledge it finds a loser we want to find the collusion. his comments came just hours after developments that mean two of his ex advisors are facing lengthy prison sentences michael cohen is trump's former personal lawyer and close friend he pleaded guilty to a range of charges including campaign finance violations cohen's attorney lanny davis seen here wearing glasses said his client was prepared to tell everything he knows about trump including prior knowledge of the hacking of democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton's computer and also

a meeting in twenty sixteen between trump campaign aides and a russian delegation underoath cohen who once said he would take a bullet for donald trump swore he paid hush money to trump's alleged mistresses including porn actress stormy daniels at the direction of who he referred to as the candidate it's widely understood that he's referring to the us president. to pay money to silence two women who had information that he believed would be detrimental to the two thousand and sixteen campaign and the campaign shortly afterwards a second court case delivered further drama mr trump's former campaign manager paul mana ford was convicted. on eight counts of financial crimes none of forte's trial is the first to emerge from special counsel robert miller's investigation into russian meddling in the twenty sixteen election none of ford faces a second trial next month on several charges including acting as an agent for

a foreign government in washington critics of donald trump staged at this protest they seem to have no doubt that he colluded with russia but it's likely to take some time before special counsel miller reaches any conclusion on that. and here to explore what it all means and what might happen next i'd like to turn to former he is a professor of politics at bard college berlin a very good evening mr foreman people are still digesting and coming to terms that what happened yesterday on tuesday how big of a political risk or a legal threat is what happened those legal developments for president trump currently well as you said i mean there's a lot going on there's a lot of speculation also what exactly it means to it's been described as a double blow we saw about metaphor and about cohen i think that metaphor is the less important case for the moment this is something that will become very important in the fall when there's a second trial which will be much more about the claim of collusion which would be

much more dangerous also for trying the cohen case is interesting right now because it's a really technical issue that puts him into danger which is the question of complaint finance and obviously cohen. was under oath when he when he said that he was acting and under the direction of trump and that's put him in into a lot of trouble. ok well let's continue with cohen because he's the man of the hour all eyes are on him as you alluded to president trump has ripped into his former confidant saying accusing him that he is just making up stories to reach a deal and i believe we have the tweet where he actually said how he felt about cohen. here it is actually a the president tweeting michael cohen plea pled guilty to two counts of campaign finance violations that are not a crime president obama had a big campaign finance violation and it was easily settled. let's forget that last

part about the obama i think is this something completely different but does he have some point there because. cohen is under duress i mean he has to make a deal i mean he's facing jail time any as a family could he be making up stuff too in the in the hope that he would get some leniency well i mean there's certainly a lot of pressure on him there's also a lot of pressure on metaphors but this is a boat quite specific details that can be researched and that have been researched for the trial so i don't see that that this extra pressure might be a particular reason to to make these kinds of allegations at the same time this is exactly what rudolph giuliani is also doing trump's personal lawyer now who's also trying to discredit the opponent and that's a strategy we've seen before not just with michael cohen but with other opponents of trumps what so surprisingly for observers you know especially from the outside is after that whiplash yesterday's witness that has been quite restrained reaction from the political establishment i do believe that some senators have reacted

they've gone on the record let's take a listen then we'll continue our conversation at the other end of it. i think we need to remind ourselves that again when the president united states has essentially been named in an event a coconspirator and we are on the threshold of a cost crisis in this country the president personally tourney has pled guilty to wrongdoing involving the federal law we are having a constitutional crisis in our country is what the president describes as a which is actually our law enforcement agencies doing the job that they. have committed to do to protect and defend the constitution of the united states we have to look into this there's no question it's. a serious sort of problem so mainly a democratic senators and we saw the last reaction was from a prominent republican senator reacting that there's grab a towel but there is an outrage there is that i mean what's going on you you

suspect a stronger reaction well i guess that the democrats are still hesitant the congress congressional elections are coming up in movember they're not sure if if they should already go for impeachment or if that's something that might even mobilize the base of trump so they're a little hesitant also to see what comes out the next couple of days robert miller in particular will try to avoid the same kind of fate that james komi had two years back when he was seen to intervene in the lek troll process and so he's going to try and bring out the things that need to be named right now and i think the democrats are have hesitant to wait until that happens the republicans it's quite obvious obvious because they don't know how to react to this kind of situation with i only have ten seconds left is this a turning point it is thank you so very much a professor boris foreman with bard college for me and i greatly appreciated. for and with us midterms fast approaching tech companies are looking to root out doesn't for mission campaigns trying to influence the outcome facebook and twitter

have shut down hundreds of misleading a counseling to russia and iran cyber security from fire i tipped off the tech giants to suspicious account users and u.s. politicians are also raising concerns over separate revelations of alleged russian hacking social media giants acting this time before it's too late to go to prevent fake news and propaganda from influencing the upcoming us mid-term election facebook has removed more than six hundred fifty accounts pages and groups on his personal account facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg wrote that the company discovered networks of accounts that were misleading people about who they were and what they were doing. twitter also suspended over two hundred fifty accounts on the similar claims both companies say those uses were tied to russia's military intelligence services or iran state owned media. just

a day before the climbdown microsoft reported it seized control of six fake websites created by kremlin linked as the software company says the activities targeted u.s. conservatives moscow to the allegations that u.s. senate has convinced you're involved in politics in america at a high level especially if you have views of law but he doesn't like you should expect to be the target of a campaign to access your emails get into your systems divulge information or even falsify information against russian cyber attacks a big worry from the u.s. especially after more alleged meddling in the twenty six thousand election. facebook has been criticized for not doing enough to stop fake news. as new elections approach the company has to prove it could not make the same mistake twice. right now to other stories making news around the world. the afghan government has said it will not send a delegation to moscow for

a russian peace conference with the taliban next month a spokesman for the afghan government told you the news that it would only take part in talks initiated by itself the u.s. has also canceled its participation. hundreds of elderly koreans have sent their final emotional goodbyes to relatives at the end of a rare we union for families separated by the korean border the south koreans are heading home after a three day visit to the north the first reunion to take place three years. police in berlin have detained a thirty one year old russian man suspected of planning a terrorist attack authorities say he had a large quantity of explosives in his apartment it's alleged he was working with another suspect arrested in france but he's also found ling's to and he's angry who carried out the deadly christmas market truck attack back in two thousand and sixteen. but shops in england could soon be banned from selling puppies and

kittens the government is considering a law that would prevent shops from selling dogs and cats under six months old but lovers would have to buy directly from a breeder or adopt from an animal shelter. in recent months italy has tightened its border controls and that has meant that spain has become the main to sioux nation for african migrants trying to reach europe at one entry point in spain's north african enclave of ceuta hundreds of migrants have stormed fences in a bid to enter european territory at least one hundred fifty people managed to cross in a bid to hinder more from entering the territory of the eighty's have erected a six metre high fence along the eight kilometer long border with morocco but for those who make it through it's still no guarantee for a new easy passage to a new life for south follows

a group intent on making it to europe what ever it takes. new son and his friends have to make their way to the high don't carefully it's in the mountains of morocco near the border with. they say the police could show up at any time and destroy their camp. the group past thousands of kilometers behind them knowledge just a few hundred metres separate them from europe that and so you to this fence. this man from guinea shows as deep cuts there from his attempts to storm the border for. my father is dead my mother has nothing not even food i'm the oldest son and i want to try and make some money to help my mother that's why i left. i have been travelling for two years since leaving guinea nol they are stuck here with some fifty thousand others all hoping to make the journey from morocco to europe for the fence is to stop them it's eight

kilometers long and fitted with razor wire along with the territory this is the only other e.u. border in africa on the other side. from the spanish guardian it's his job to secure the border but lately that hasn't always been possible. over six hundred migrants managed to storm the fence at the end of july the police are helpless and talk of unprecedented levels of violence makeshift flame throwers quicklime and grappling hooks other migrants weapons of choice. they were very well prepared and organized. small they were so violent that we could not get to the fence. i mean they threw acid at us and did all they could to prevent us from closing the holes that they had cut into the fans

. in morocco's mountains moosa and his friends are already preparing their next attempt they're tired of the brutality at the hands of the moroccan police they only find food at a nearby rubbish dump a soft drink a cucumber a moldy potato. life here is unbearable. morocco is teeming with police offices i mean all of my friends who left guinea with me made it to syria to. what am i supposed to do here i'll stay here until i can get in. their sense of desperation is what drives them for moosa and his friends it's euro or nothing. oversell reporting there and all over joins me now on the set were great to have

you back with us oliver you will port raises a lot of difficult questions and no easy answers talk just a little bit about the situation of these people that you've tracked for those couple of days well the people i met there were mostly young men under twenty old from sub-saharan african countries so that kind of stood out already in the first place then they all found themselves in a very desperate situation they accuse the moroccan police of her harassing them they say that every morning police officers will come to their height which is in a valley that we've just seen in the report and they destroy everything they could find and we see them ourselves when coming in climbing don't from a hill into that belly we saw a policeman rock and police approaching the value going up their way looking for these migrants and by the time we arrived there we saw the destruction so basically they were cardboard boxes where there were used to sleep on that were cut into pieces remainders of mattresses we've seen some of these images already but that

makes them. feel very much harassed and certainly raises pressure on them as well to climb the fence now talk just a little bit about you know you talk to those people right there and see it is of course very specific because it's in north africa it's a spanish enclave do they really expect that once they are in suits that they're still not on mainland spain so what's the next step for them to come to your have they thought about that but i do think and i have the impression that many of them have a quite naive take on what's next and what they're going to expect some actually even said you know i want to go to europe and become a football player we remember the french national team becoming world champions so all of these images they are all full of many players with a. african origin have have a certain effect again the people i met there were very young. and microphones that

were trying to get to europe also the chances of getting asylum granted are really next to non but they don't the people i spoke to at least they don't consider that so much their goal is to reach europe somehow whatever it takes make some money as we've also heard by one of the migrants in the report they need to help their families because the father died for example and that was the only source of income there so they delivered on that promise to their mother for instance to make it somehow to send some money back home and they have already crossed the sahara desert they have made it several thousand kilometers and they're giving up is simply no option one even told me that he would rather die than giving up on them what is this spanish government's policy when it comes to these cases well certainly the new pisot a socialist government that is in power since june has a more welcoming approach to refugees in comparison to the

last conservative p.p. government and that is also in contrast to many other e.u. countries we remember italy just closed its borders under the new populist government spain except several or accepted in the past several my brand bolds are landing on their shores so a rather well coming socialist policy refugee policy also the socialist party just the interior minister they are just cold for taking down the razor wire the razor wire all say you want to for example there is some internal debate on how to deal with the situation there in say you to but again it's a minority government so by its nature it's kind of fragile in itself. then also spend yards are used to migration. they have they have been migrants coming there for decades because of its geographical location so the question is right now how much more migrants others spend years willing to accept in the in the in the future

spain has become the number one destination for african migrants and the numbers have tripled since last year are there any. efforts in place at the moment to improve the situation in the home countries of these people who are undertaking this very peller perilous journey to reach europe well first of all i did not see any efforts in particular. to improve the situation of where they are stranded right now and that is a stark contrast to where you would find migrants stranded in europe where you would have n.g.o.s trying to supply water and food and those people are really left on their own there and that certainly raises the pressure on them again all over south thank you for your original reporting there greatly appreciate it and i'm going to hand you over to helena for the latest business headlines and this record summer that we're dealing with has dealt a blow to economies around the world how enough absolutely what we're seeing right

now is your boss king it is hard to some a since one thousand nine hundred seventy six but of course there's one huge downside there's hardly any rain in the threatening the livelihoods of thousands of followers and in fact will drought is wreaking havoc around the world millions of as a forest have been lost to wildfires and some countries have had to declare a state of emergency. the drought has affected all of northern europe even north of the arctic circle temperatures rose above thirty degrees at times scandinavian farmers are expecting the worst harvest in a quarter of a century the governments of lots of lithuania have both declared a state of emergency farmers in poland and the czech republic watching their crops wilt and expect the damage to be long term experts say climate change is at least partly responsible for the drought and expect further problems around the globe or

climate models are seeing that the negative impacts of climate change are all made revolts or will be much more severe regions of so he's read africa and europe and that means the biggest. negative movie where people are already poor and that's something we need to take very seriously. africa for one has been hit by an unusual a severe drought this year cape town became the first metropolis to strictly ration water. for. farmers in australia ran out of water for their cattle drought there has even driven wild emo's into the cities searching for water . in north america droughts has sparked catastrophic wildfires along the western seaboard from california to the canadian province of british columbia millions of hectares of forest burned down the smoke creating

a major health scare. now the latest challenge of u.s. sanctions against russia come into effect today officials in moscow say they're bracing for lower growth in a weaker ruble is a direct result until now the kremlin had dismissed the big falls in the current say as market volatility not an email. what you know it's a lot this russian reporter is saying that the u.s. has now found exports of gas turbines to russia along with key items for the aviation industry like jet engines and electronics. until now the kremlin has been demonstrably on ruffled by u.s. sanctions especially since an earlier round had long reduced trade in military goods but the mere announcement of this list sent stocks in large state owned companies tumbling on the moscow stock exchange. flag carrier aeroflot slid twelve percent of the beginning of august when the sanctions were decided. on the ruble

exchange rate has dropped sharply in recent weeks foreign minister sergei lavrov has outraged simple you're close to all sorts of it's quite obvious that these sanctions have nothing to do with syria ukraine or crimea. they're being used to enforce unfair trading conditions or to hobble the russian economy to. a further round of sanctions lined up for november could target banks u.s. russian air links imports and exports and diplomatic relations. they would hit russia six largest state controlled banks as well as the country's entire oil and gas industry all of which would have dire effects on the russian economy. well as ai is no longer confined to saif i move east from small factories in which the machines communicate with each other to improve production to intelligence software that validates your insurance policy it is

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a russian conspiracy to influence the twenty sixteen election and with the u.s. midterm elections just three months away facebook and twitter have moved to stamp out just information campaigns launched from their platforms they shut down hundreds of misleading and counseling to russia and iran. the german government has earmarked three hundred forty million euros to help farmers hit by drought in parts of the eastern state of brandenburg there's been no rain says april and farmers have been calling for aid. zimbabwe's constitutional court has been hearing a challenge to president emerson ga ga's election victory the main opposition party the movement for democratic change claims there was what it called quote massive doctoring of last month's vote and that it should be overturned the president and the country's election commission deny fall play the court has said it will deliver its ruling on friday. amid tight security

zimbabwe's constitutional court has become the stage for the country's latest political showdown all eyes are on the nine judges who must decide whether to throw the case out declare a new presidential winner or order a fresh election the must do reads in good faith so that's everyone must visits florida after the ruling of the courts no matter which parts the zits or them it's always going to do does it. the opposition party is challenging president emerson wanting gant was election victory last month claiming it was rigged moron and gant want to replace him bob always veteran ruler robert mccarthy in november last year. the electoral commission said he won july's presidential election with just over fifty percent of the vote. i would like to guarantee you that we

have a very strong case and we are going to overturn this electoral fraud consistent with what we promised we are going to defend your voice our voice the people's what this involvement was. that. post-election clashes have already resulted in a number of people being killed including sylvia my foes a mother of two. although many zimbabweans are hopeful this case will put an end to the violence and uncertainty there's no guarantee that these judges will change anything. well let's get you the latest now or joining us from the court in zimbabwe's capital harare is our correspondent for which it was fun hearing privilege of very good evening to you after the vote six people were killed in the army a crackdown on opposition protest the president's inauguration has been postponed

due to a court case set the scene for us if you will how are people feeling about what's happening and how tense are things in the capital. their mission is grieved and with that as they wait for the judgment that is supposed to be passed on friday in this central business district today particularly the government district where the president's office and the courts housed there was a heavy security today as their court proceedings were going on people we've glued to television and some following their life broadcast of the court proceedings via social media facebook live streaming this is the first time that we have had court proceedings being broadcast live in zimbabwe sure you find that the nation is

gripped with it at the moment as it waits for their judgment to be passed on friday and a tense situation indeed that you were portrayed there but they're willing parties on a preface just shrugging off they say you know the trial is a waste of time why are they so confident. they're buoyant with confidence because they see in their arguments that their opposition case is weak the evidence that they're presenting to court or they've presented to court day is best or politicking and hearsay more than solid evidence that they can prove for the courts to see that the election was rigged or the election had some fraudulent activities that influenced the fifty

point eight percent the elected president elect to. go it a privilege in conclusion is there any indication how the courts which way it might decide. right now it's now left to the courts to decide but judging just from the arguments that were in the courts today. their opposition lead but to prove their case and even to present the evidence that they say do they had all of the anomalies that where any during voting on the thirtieth of july. correspondent privilege it was funny eerie in harare thank you for your continued coverage and tell us back with more beers and could the u.s. be looking for east african trade partners well actually the kenyan president

kenyatta is off to washington he's got a meeting at the white house on monday and among trade and investment one topic high on the agenda will be the construction of a new highway spanning the country now an american company is eyeing the contract to build it but the project comes with a hefty price tag which has many kenyans all saying whether the development is really worth splashing so much cash. the proposed development is a six lane expressway that stretches. the capital nairobi the projected cost of three point eight billion dollars. american companies contract the promise as will give the economy that extra boost. however at that price some economists are not convinced. of my concern is really if i look at it if i look along the coast of africa east coast of africa. main advantage was really the

fact that we would the route to see the gateway for seventy countries not ourselves for imports into the region and for exports out what's changed i'll tell you there's been some dramatic changes we have a new prime minister ethiopia who's made friends in the space of a blink of an eye with eritrea to ports ready to go you've got you boutique you've got somalia so. i'm seeing a much more competitive space and i'm not convinced that our strategy is the right one. aside from east and central africa opening up kenya is already in the red the country's biggest project yet the standard gauge railway has cost taxpayers more than three billion dollars and it's only halfway done it will take about the same amount for the second fave that runs from nairobi to the kenya uganda border.

bechtel puts the cost of the new road at four point five billion dollars while price waterhouse coopers puts the cost to two point five billion the plan is to have a toll system to recover the costs i think we go to sequence better we've got to get better returns on investment and we've got to make sure our projects surprise correctly if you price a railway project at twice what it really should be priced that you never can recover your it's good to become a white elephant the margins you work with. all. as it stands kenya's total government debt is at fifty billion dollars up from five billion in one thousand nine hundred nine. good king at his meeting with donald trump on the twenty seventh could determine if kenyans should prepare to tighten their belts a little more. our correspondent catherine on wonderfalls that report and we can bring her in now good to see you catherine the project is expensive kenya is in the red we heard reservations from economists about it what's the general consensus

among kenyans about it well there is a growing concern as it stands the g.d.p. to death ratio stands at sixty percent and when you look at the plan kenyans will be paying about ten million dollars per kilometer for the stretch of about four hundred seventy seven kilometer road. is this comes just as the standard gauge railways in complete and once it's completed will cost the taxpayer eight billion dollars so there is concern why the project is coming so soon after the standard gauge railway and when you look at families families and now on a budget we've recently had a few hike in prices and now you know price of basic commodities have gone up so kenyans are concerned but they're also concerned that infrastructure is taking attention away from other sectors that are in dire need of attention and investment other sectors like the health sector and the education sector with all that in mind

what's the appeal because kenyan president her kenyatta touches down in washington on monday we have to wonder whether he might be about to sign on the dotted line for this project. well according to the state house spokeswoman she says that it's unlikely that this topic will come up during discussions between the two presidents but then treasury had proposed that kenya does take a loan of three billion dollars from the u.s. so given that this is a rare meeting between the two. we'll have to wait and see whether they actually put pen to paper. but could this be potentially the beginning of more u.s. projects in kenya and put it very bluntly could the royal really between the u.s. and china be set to play out now in east african soil well it seems so according to the overseas private investment corporation they said that they say

that the u.s. needs to be a bit more aggressive and more competitive when it comes to taking on investments in the region they say that they have critical investments and they can give you know a lot of value the u.s. can give a lot of value to the region and so we could see this playing out here but also it's an advantage for the east african region to not just put eggs their eggs in one basket and not just look to the east which is china and china has a majority of the infrastructure projects in this in this area so they could probably just you know look at old friends like the u.s. which could be an advantage to kenya and other countries our correspondent catherine on one day in nairobi thanks for your reporting catherine and it's back of announcing and helena after sixteen years of intensive planning testing and construction a new satellite is about to be launched that will be a giant leap forward for weather forecasting the satellite radio was named after

the keeper of the winds of ancient greek mythology is scheduled to be sent into orbit shortly from the european space agency's south america launch pad and french . b.o.'s will be the first satellite to directly measure the earth's wins at all al to church. when currents play a major role in distributing heat around the planet. the current send the rotation of the earth greatly affect weather patterns and they're part of what makes the blue planet habitable. the satellite is carrying what the european space agency calls one of the most sophisticated instruments ever to be put into orbit it consists of two powerful lasers a telescope and two receivers the illness will be hoisted to an orbit of three hundred twenty kilometers. from there it will measure global winds

by beaming short life pulses towards the earth some of that light will bounce off small particles like dust and droplets of water the satellite will collect and measure the light that's reflected. until now meteorologists have only been able to piece together when dr using sources like weather balloons there are regions where little data has been collected like the southern hemisphere. and that's because a lot of it is covered with oceans making it difficult to measure. the oldest mission aims to supply the missing down to. the satellite will complete an orbit around earth every ninety minutes and deliver its data to a site in norway the aim is to improve weather forecasts worldwide. scientists also hope to gain valuable insights about the climate from the data of the satellite sends back. complex weather patterns in the equitorial pacific will be one focus in particular the so-called el nino and la nina patterns phases of

a cycle that involves temperature fluctuations between the ocean and the atmosphere . they can cause droughts and crop failures and also affect the formation of hurricanes in central and north america. scientists hope the wind measurements from the iowans will help them better understand this climate phenomenon and its effects. the mission is shadow to last three years. all right let's take you to the space center in the cool french guyana where i'm joined by director of earth observation foregrounds at the european space agency mr joseph a very very good day mr this must be such an exciting time for you there at the space center just hours left until the launch now. yes it is very exciting moment. bob no we're for tired yesterday wants to launch

a satellite but strange enough for our satellite mission winds was delayed because of winds so we are having a second attempt tonight six twenty local time here in co who we all extremely excited said the light is all the way to do fly and way the wind of course may be the deciding factor at the end of the day where do we can lift off or not but we are quite hopeful and we are really looking forward to tonight exactly and as are we there's a slight delay there in that connection so my apologies to the viewers talk to us sir about the practical uses why is it important to measure the wind. when this actually one of the these parameters of mythology which are least observed is the largest state the gap which we have in our global observing system off of the various middle of the bomb but the pressure temperature humidity and wind there are some measurements of wind do they through radius on which are

launched into the atmosphere but they only at points were which are highly populated and over land masses mostly so therefore our this measurement network is very scour sunday is not providing sufficient information so the middle natural community middle bit of a logical organization the european center for me to move into a to forecast to do it should read that the instant other services have expressed that this is the parameter which is most needed in order to improve weather forecasting and weather models and also with the weather models also climate models so therefore we are measuring a parameter which is much needed. now ileus sixteen years to develop and will operate for just three years why they expire why the short lifespan. it is having a limited lifetime for several reasons because the. the technology itself is a very complicated technology and in fact the instrument onboard the laser is

probably the most sophisticated instrument ever flown in space so very delicate and very very complex in terms of operation on the way it is designed another leason of course is that the satellite is flying the lead of the filo for these satellites typically deflower i had eight hundred kilometers height this one that's three hundred twenty kilometers height and therefore you have to keep correcting the you all bit because at three hundred twenty kilometer you have some drag our that means the orbit will decrease and we have to be boosted again to divide albeit in order to to have the right position for the satellite for its mission and so therefore we need to fuel onboard and of course there's a limitation of the fuel that can be bought on board the satellite with its launch and this is also one of the limiting factors i should also say that is really a proof of concept because it is testing and developing this new technology which is groundbreaking and has never done before in any parts of the world and is really unique and are quite complex ideas a concept mission and therefore we also testing the satellite the technology and

the use of it state so one successful of course we would need to rethink how we continue from there to have an operational system from space winds exidy exciting times. director of earth observation programs at the european space agency we wish you all the best. the former head of the brazilian football federation joe say emery a marine has been sentenced to four years in prison by u.s. judge all this over his role in the global corruption scandal that rocked fee for the governing body of world football arena was convicted on charges of accepting bribes in exchange handing out broadcast and marketing rights. for major football tournament he was also a top official at the felt and was one of seven arrested in syria back in two

thousand and fifteen as part of an investigation by u.s. and swiss authorities marine was extradited to the u.s. for prosecution. third german city of cologne is currently hosting a games com which is said to be the biggest event for computer and video games in the world and romero for a cause of death is here to tell us what this is a huge industry it is massive i had no idea myself for over two billion gamers in the weald and the revenues from this industry is sort of one hundred billion dollars a year now if you compare that to other sides of the entertainment industry hollywood movies music industry put their revenues together you know getting anywhere close but this is kind of private entertainment isn't it you know it's not doesn't get the sort of. the publicity that the others do i mean this close to four hundred

thousand people visiting games calm in cologne in the next few days is now playing and to under a thousand square meters of games really exhibition space and when everybody's fingers and thumbs are exhausted there is light entertainment in the form of rock music and some things in the evening for them when they cannot play anymore not too shabby and there is a new german game i understand that's creating a lot of but yeah this is something called to go broke and in the past germans and germany did of being had a pretty sort of. bad press if you know what i mean there's lots of nazis always the there are always the baddies you know lots of war games the settings of devastated cities names but this is set in rural provincial germany where everything is cozy the countryside is beautiful as we know. bought it is a mystery thriller and it's all

a bit spooky and dark as well the game i mean it's that it started with a kickstarter campaign and also is supported by this notorious comedian young by. i'm a man who got into trouble a few years ago with a a all the heavy poem about his president and. exploring the limits of satire some say anyway this sort of interesting combination sounds sounds fascinating let's have a look at tuba broke. beverly . couldn't believe what a charming little place they sent me to. feel and chilled. this is tied up in thrilling mystery adventure game set in one thousand six hundred scold war germany it's the story of tannhauser an american physics student in his late twenty's who wins a trip to the remote village. things get strange when some documents disappear from

his room. this is puzzling who on earth would steal a paper on quantum physics it soon becomes very clear that he didn't win this trip by accident he's here to save the world but if you think. it's going to kind of twins pick twin peaks qualities that you think yeah let's talk about the law that we have here in this country that governs the use of nazi symbols that is currently being reinterpreted when it comes to its usage in games yeah that's right there is this very strict law here about the swastika basically i mean all the other symbols as well but the argument from the games side is that the games and there are a lot of war games out that can be more historically correct as they weren't allowed to use the swastika symbol in the past they are trying out on the games market now as you can imagine it's a big topic here lots of people don't like this many people are against the

decision and they also think it will be abused anyway is more about. your argument or your this footage from nineteenth century strange shows nazis burning books on the square at the state opera in berlin. and the same scene shown in a computer game on the left is a nazi doing a hitler salute. through the darkest of times is an historical strategy game the aim of the game is to build a resistance group to fight the nazis. but even in a game as clearly anti fascist as this up until now no swastikas or hitler salutes were allowed nazis were not allowed to look like nazis in an effort to stop propaganda theo friedrich a game developer from berlin the blanket rule limited artistic freedom. and we found this annoying because i thought no direct to working with this topic has to

deal with these questions we were not promoting naziism we were making an historical game resources. until now banned symbols in a game would prevent it from being considered for a compulsory age rating essentially banning it from being sold but recently things changed the board responsible for monitoring content now assesses games on an individual basis to see whether the symbols are used in a way that stained quote socially adequate sat in a socially adequate means the symbols must serve an artistic or scientific purpose will be used to represent a particular events in history like. this for example like with films such as schindler's list where you see swastikas or blockbusters with artistic content those elements are harder. but it remains to be seen particularly with blockbuster video games how wide reaching the new changes full day.

our let's go back to games com because cologne is the place to be for gamers from around the world it is i mean there are hundreds of thousands of big believe in cologne who think they've they've gone to heaven all they arrived in the moment and there's something for all tastes as well for all ages and all tastes mazing great stuff and it goes on until sunday yeah all right great stuff thank you so much robyn on behalf of robin and myself a lot wrong thank you so much for spending this part of your day with us frank office up next my feet on.

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