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this is deja news live from berlin six hundred people evacuated due to a wildfire close to the german capital reports a new fires have broken out as firefighters battle a large blaze southwest of burning and adding to the danger of second world war munitions buried in the forest we go live to the scene also coming up. after a tilt in week in australian politics a new prime minister sworn in the sixth in a decade scott morrison takes over after a vicious leadership tussle. and pope francis brands to make the fullest papal
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visit to ireland in nearly forty years with more revelations of child sex abuse by priests and rocking the church when the pontiff respond to growing pressure to cooperate with investigators. plus the bundesliga football is back tonight the new season kicks off with buying taking on hoffenheim but german football has a lot to prove often accused of disappointing was. hello i'm done with that shima a very warm welcome to you. reports of new wife fires breaking out near the german capital and that is in addition to a major blaze that firefighters have been battling all day which is forced around six hundred people to evacuate. the homes that fire has taken hold of
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a large wooded area around fifty kilometers southwest of the city but it residents of woke to the smell of the smoke this morning hundreds of firefighters are working to contain the flames but their work has been hampered by munitions from the second world war buried in the forest we hear live update from the scene but first this report flames are ripping through this german forest the place has spread to an area the size of four hundred football field since it started on thursday. hundreds of firefighters have been working to contain the blaze and there's an added challenge. the area is littered with old munitions buried in the forests during world war two. so i have huge respect for the firefighters who are out there right now risking their lives we know there's i mean this and lying around in the forest residents said there were already some explosions. around six hundred people had to
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be evacuated some had to spend the night in local shelters. but my son was worried he said father come to me. and i live alone. i don't have a wife anymore. now i hope that nothing has happened to my house. on sunday you would on we can only think the authorities for what they've done for us. everything is fine is a list court. the mayor of one of the villagers says the situation is unprecedented . and i think we've already had some big fires here in the region so we do have a little experience but we've never seen wildfires in this dimension where they almost enter villages and i've never seen an evacuation on this scale before you know and a lot of us on the shop. germany has been suffering under a heat wave for weeks leaving many forests and fields extremely dry but it's still
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unclear how the fire started now reply to many is in the town of town bateson close to the fire many what progress has been made to contain the wildfire. well i'm rita has been some significant progress when it comes to trying to contain the major blaze that broke out yesterday but of course the situation is still very tense and far from resolved it's a major ferocious fire that people are here facing the firefighters and people living in the in the villages around it's been truly devastating for a lot of them three hundred fifty hectors are still on fire and if you look at the firefighters behind me there are so many of them been working throughout the entire night the entire day and still there is such a large area which is on fire and one of the firefighters under a lot of stress told me that now there are two major new fires that they have to
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battle we don't know how big and how dangerous those fires ah but whacking to confirm that for you on the ground but of course that also been some good news for some of the villages here today they were told people from one village that they are allowed to return back to the homes that three hundred eighty people the others do not know yet but the ones who were allowed to go home and find their houses. destroyed in a good state of course really happy that they can go and what about the old admonition better to in the forest is that posing a real danger to the firefighters. it is posing a real danger to the firefighters and of course the people around as well people told me this morning that they're really scared that yesterday they had seven eight explosions going off very near by the fire as well just one hundred meters away in the explosions seem to have been close to them too we do know that this area is
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problematic when it comes to ammunition in the ground it's where the major battles for berlin before during the second world war there is a lot of ammunition and the ground there were ammunition factories here before and mission they pose so that is a problem especially with the firefighters who cannot leave some of the roads they have to stay on the roads that have been cleared of the ammunition and congolese them so they have to work with helicopters with the army use that aerial support to put out the fire as they cannot reach it on the ground without being in a lot of danger and whether they you've been speaking to some of the people affected by the fires what have they been saying to you. well a lot of them got really heartbroken very emotional because it's been so stressful for them yesterday they were told within ten or thirty minutes you have to leave your houses grab anything that you can and then go go go and people were telling me that they didn't really have time to think about what to take they just took the insurance papers the papers for the houses in case the houses do get banned but
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yeah it's been it's been really emotional for them they did tell me though that it's been lovely to see how many of other people's really involved and what's happened to them they opened up their houses so they didn't have to sleep in the town hall a few people did but a lot of really stayed with their neighbors and other villages and that has been truly inspiring and beautiful to see for them and of course the ones that are allowed to go home now are hoping that the two other villages that have been evacuated yesterday well get the same positive message we are actually waiting to find out about this in the next hour and i'll keep you updated on the ground here. thank you very much for that. update and some other stories making news around the wasn't hurricane lane is spawning hawaii with high winds and torrential rains as it moves across the pacific the storm has now been
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downgraded to category three but can still cause major damage with winds of up to two hundred kilometers an hour extreme downpours have triggered flash floods and landslides. spain's cabinet has put forward a law that could allow it to exist in the remains of francisco franco the former dictator is buried in a national museum the socialist said government wants to relocate the grave to stop it from becoming a fascist shrine franco's family and supporters oppose the move which still leaves the approval of parliament. and that is truly over to much as we can politics has ended with a prime minister ousted and a new one sworn in formal finance minister scott morrison won a ballot amongst the liberal party lawmakers off to his predecessor malcolm turnbull decided not to contest a straight there has had half a dozen prime ministers in the last decade or so due to the leadership challenges within the two main political parties. off to just under three years in office
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malcolm turnbull took his leave ousted by his own party to imagine that a government would be rocked by this sort of dysmorphia and deliberate. insurgency is the best buy to describe it he was stabbed in the back full stout by an increasingly divided party grappling with poor polling results and desperate to extend its time in power however this latest political infighting is only likely to alienate voters further. very much like by the very frustrated i think it ought to get six party just as dour for eleven years i don't think this baby time to develop real policy and it's a bit of a shambles racially and it really shows that politicians for the. have to say you know distrustful people are proud. but new prime minister scott morrison was keen
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to stress that he is that for his people. there's been a lot of talk this week. about who saw people around in this building. and what just annoyed me to tell you. as the new generation of liberal leadership is where on your side that's what matters will the new prime minister be able to win back voters trust after all they have been hot a dozen leaders in just over a decade. and none of them has served a full term markham to handle has said that he will resign his seat in parliament that would force a by election that could risk the government's one seat majority. so turnbull's ousting may leave australia's governing coalition in a more precarious position than ever. i'm joined now from sydney by journalist a roger mann others keeping track of those developments in russia as we heard scott
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morrison says he wants to unite the body but how difficult will it be as he said it's been a tough one a bruising and bad week for the party. well much to particular point he's absolutely right it's been a week about political chaos and whether or not that will end with the election of scott morrison remains to be seen he faces a big struggle to unite the liberal party which has been written you know by concerns or the energy prices and countless other issues in recent months and indeed the opinion polls were really done for the liberal party coalition government earlier this week and that's what in many ways prompted this leadership spill earlier on today. scott morrison tried to do his best to. inspire the of the nation and his press conference earlier on
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today he delivered a rallying call to the middle australia asking flog people to have their good one of the dignity of work and to build a stronger australia older exactly how he intends to i'm not quite sure and russia what do you imagine ten will have to say about these developments at this week it's been a bay difficult political week for him. or it's been a terrible week for him and he lost his job to heart and things went from bad to worse for monday almost he'd try to hang on but in the end today he had to give in to a leadership ballot and he said it wouldn't take part of the ballot leaving the contest open to three other people including scott morrison peter dunne who was his main rival and julie bishop who's the other foreign minister here now he was clearly very very hurt by what could have been done to him really through this leadership
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ballot and he couldn't resist delivering a parting shot to those who don't demand him over the past few weeks particularly peter duff who is he is basically is known as this mr turnbull branded him and honan's and the liberal party as wreckers who created absolute chaos and then you claim to be a determined insurgency it's a. brilliant not only his government but his prime ministership. right and right i mean out in sydney thank you very much i mean yes up to date on the political turmoil in australia thank you you're watching the devaney is coming up ahead i can't walk into a church today to get us a knot in my stomach. like sex abuse survivors talk of the long term damage caused by predatory priests has
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a special report from philadelphia. but first ben joins me with this is another bad day for business in iran been a very bad day read a german industrial giant zimmermann's is scaling back its operations in iran it's to avoid the impact of u.s. sanctions the latest in a string of european companies withdrawing from the country. have already said they're pulling out and airlines british airways and air force will no longer be flying to tehran in a tweet us ambassador to germany richard grinnell welcomes the news of siemens departure saying it was proof that sanctions are working. is that the case let's get the view from frankfurt our financial correspondent is standing by daniel cope daniel of the sanctions working i mean obviously this is hurting european companies in the business they were generating in iran so it's also hurting the iranian people but is it is meant to be about
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a nuclear deal bob and one thing is very clear this strong rhetoric that we heard for example from the u.s. president and also iran's legal challenge against the renewed sanctions go before the u. winds top court next week. while there is actually just very little hope that this court is going to help the situation because even if the u.n. would say well those sanctions are not drive the united states does not have to follow what the united nations tell them there have been already cases in the past were iran when should the united nations talking about those sanctions and the u.s. is actually known that even though you know the u.n. say well those sanctions are not right that you know them they would ignore this recommendation that you call for us in frankfurt the chamber of commerce and industry in berlin says an unofficial saudi boycott of german firms continues it all began a few months back after criticism of reid's human rights record canada also
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recently found itself in a diplomatic spat with riyadh over detained saudi activists. saudi crown prince mohammed bin salomon wants to modernize his country but he doesn't appear to take too well to criticism relations with germany have cooled off considerably since former german foreign minister. publicly expressed his thoughts on saudi foreign policy in nov twenty seventh teen referring to saudi arabia's foreign policy gabriele said europe has to give a united signal that we are no longer prepared to accept the adventurism which has spread there in recent months without saying anything. many german companies are now afraid that they'll lose business in saudi arabia in the gulf kingdom itself there's a sense of optimism the saudi government is implementing social reforms and there are large scale construction projects underway but nervousness is growing among german companies with concerns that saudi business tenders are not considering
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german firms up to now the oil rich desert monarchy has been an important trading partner in twenty seventeen germany exported goods worth more than six point five billion euros to saudi arabia. ryanair is to start charging passengers for taking hand luggage on board from will cost between six and eight euros to put a bag ok so about the ten kilograms in the overhead bin. comes as the irish bunch of headline faces increasing pressure of his conditions in response strikes across europe triggered the cancellation of thousands of flights ryan as is the new charges will prevent delays as fuel bags will have to be tagged during boarding. and firms can no longer charge customers for printing out their concert tickets at home in germany that's according to a ruling by the federal court of justice today operators like the largest ticket
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seller here which. fifty for printing the electronic version of the tickets it owns the company around a million euros a year it says that that only represents a sliver of sales its share price that plunged by ten percent on the. business for you soon first pope francis makes the first papal visit to ireland in nearly forty years this week it that's right then he's expected to draw a much smaller numbers than those who turned out to greet john paul the second decades ago and this as he struggles to reinvigorate confidence in the church. damning new revelations about current and past sex abuse in the u.s. chile and australia have called into question the leadership of bishops and cardinals accused of protecting tentative priests the vatican is facing growing pressure from catholics to cooperate with criminal investigative.
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and for more on that story i'm joined by our religious affairs correspondent welcome martin on the pope's visit to ireland comes against the backdrop of new have lessons about boston present revelations of sexual abuse by priests given that what kind of reception do you expect him to get an island i mean there is quite a bit of excitement and this is still a catholic country you were you know even if major cities have progressive lisa killer iced in the mood has changed them over the religious demographics of ireland have changed you know by a larger and remains a catholic country and this is reflected in the fact that five hundred thousand people are expected for the sunday mass at the very same time given all the scandals that arlen has heard in ireland is one of the dissenters of sexual abuse and abuse more generally of priests on children in europe and probably in the
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western hemisphere there has been a systematic you know exit of irish people from the church or the east and saying and this is something that is reflected in the media and in the way that the pope is going to be received and of course a lot of people about asking of the for the vatican for to come up with concrete action but we spoke to one person an activist who belongs to an organization which is trying to put the spotlight on this issue off of bed to priests let's take a listen to what he had to say. the church is the largest global institution and i'm sad to say in having been brought up a catholic that it is to use a business term it's the market leader in criminality in this particular area and i think pope francis has never five years and it's time he did something concrete not just it's you mealy mouth apologies. so listen to that lot in very strong words that people want more than an apology they want action is it likely well it is not
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completely unlikely but there is no sign there's no concrete sign that there will be a change in policy the issue that we have is that you know the scandals came to light in the u.s. sixteen years ago ready this book has been in place for five almost six years and as afraid know there is still no concrete policy so i mean every time that there is an assertion from the vatican or a reaction most of all reactions to their new charges or new processes what do you hear is quite a bit a few logical language and language for guns in the asian and i think that you know it is becoming increasingly clear especially if there were pennsylvania that the the men now is for very concrete policy what is the vatican will do this on two questions on sexual abuse which is the obvious one but more important on the question of cover ups which is not only itself a crime but it's actually the one that is permitting the sexual abuse to proliferate and expand of course and the book is arriving in the country which is at the crossroads it's
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a catholic country but they've made huge social progress for example there was a vet that ended recently legalizing abortion they also recognize gay marriage in ireland how do you think the pope is going to navigate this i think that this is obviously that has been very good generally speaking a greeting the social political mood of the societies in which it operates and it has done at least the people that are around the spoke up and groups of bishops and cardinals associated or in line with this pope have really tried to mother nice the church following you know the intuitions of those groups that of course is something that is counterbalanced by very conservative forces across the board so in a sense this should not be understood as the church on the one hand and progressive force and other the church itself is going through a very very difficult and very conflictive changes which actually b.-d. different parts of the church within the church itself write
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a modern got religious affairs correspondent you very much for those sites on a very difficult issue. now it's been almost two weeks ago since a grand jury report in the us state of pennsylvania revealed that more than three hundred catholic priests across the state had sexually abused boys and girls over a period of seventy yes and the church had covered it all up elaborately and systematically investigators were able to identify around a thousand victims did of these stefan simons spoke to two of them. the cathedral basilica of st peter and paul the magnificent main church of the roman catholic archdiocese philadelphia we've come here to meet mike mcdonald i can't walk into a church to their biggest and not in my stomach. he has agreed to talk to us about what happened to him when he was just eleven years old
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a priest had invited him and a few other altar boys to spend the weekend at his cabin insisted that i'd sleep with him. so in the middle of the night i remember waking up. every part of my. and i pretended. it's. praying and hoping that it will stop soon. i would never be the same. said. more abuse followed but mike macdonald didn't tell anyone for decades shielding himself and what he calls his dark secret michael would go on to do crazy things. i've been through two marriages. i lied about truly who i was through those women. i was an authentic i represented something that i
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was. he turned to alcohol he says he was rotting away in sight in two thousand and three mike mcdonald took his story to the church in two thousand and twelve he went public by sharing it. exposing myself and letting you in on something dark secrets. but it does help it helps because it helps the survivors it helps current victims it helps at the kids who have been fighting alongside of us or a very long time. and it helps. it helps me. helping others is also vital importance to the man we meet here at the iconic hotel bethlehem the allentown pennsylvania john delaney one of the first catholic church sex abuse victims to come out publicly in the u.s. in two thousand and three historian kluges dozens of cases of abuse by priests
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drugs and alcohol addiction incarceration but something else troubles him most these days everybody does think priest abuse is strickly with boys but it's not and i fear that maybe there is a lot of female victims who have yet to come forward and speak out around four hundred more people have called the victim's hotline at the pennsylvania attorney general's office since the grand jury report was released. that report by our correspondent stefan c. bones. and to king a former guitarist for the u.s. rock band lynette skinhead and core writer of the hit song speed home alabama has died he fos to be in nashville tennessee at the age of sixty eight he's been battling cancer king had to create and then skin a spot for crippled get tossed trauma and on such rock classics as free bud.
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channel on you tube. the system being tarnished. by a scheme for jurors or dealing with any of that i killed many civilians. come including my father. says i was a student i wanted to build a life for myself. but suddenly life became mellish kind of. providing insights global news that matters d. w. made for mines. this is the duty of any is coming to live from but in. a great desert to have you with us. reports are coming in off new wildfires breaking out of the german capital by lynn firefighters have already been battling a major blaze which has forced around six hundred people to evacuate their homes
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fire crews are being hampered by the second world war munitions buried in the forest. and pope francis is preparing to visit island with sexual abuse of children by priests has rocked the church and damning new revelations in the united states chile and australia have plunged the church into wider credibility crisis he's. telling not in zimbabwe where the top coaches rejected a challenge to present and listen money god was narrow election. victory judges were considering a case brought by the opposition party the movement for democratic change it is less that vote rigging took place during the july code but in a unanimous decision the judges found the opposition had failed to present credible evidence the ruling means gaga shall still be inaugurated as president. and for the very latest on this court ruling our correspondent a provision was fun he joins me from the zimbabwean capital harare tell us
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provision was the court's reasoning behind this verdict. the constitutional court has just finished ending it down if the judgment of the major reasons for the judgment that has been passed coming from the fact that they are saying that their main application to the opposition leader nelson chamisa failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that there was really evidence of fraud and irregularities in the fifty election some of the reasons that the court has put forward is that he has for you to present before the courts solid evidence that. the election was stolen. ok now this must come as a huge disappointment for the m.d.c. the movement for democratic change and nelson chamisa is the matter now result all we see protests and people come out of the streets.
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speaking to. this secretary general of the movement for democratic change soon after the handing down of the judgment outside court you say is that they respect the judgment but they are going to other avenues to resolve this electoral challenge that you say that they will stay within their quest to show. the constitutionality. of the means of challenging the election one of which you say that they could to demonstrate but this is only going to come after they meet to next wednesday is the initial consul for the for their party to decide whether they are going to take our view in resolving the issue and if they've each other any ideas what those avenues can be because you say they want to kind of operate within the constitutional framework so what are the options as to how they can protest.
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what they say it is that. according to the. constitution of zimbabwe one is guaranteed a freedom of demonstrating but they are also going to pursue their political dialogue route to resolve whatever grievances these two have over thirty july election right provision a muslim here in it thank you very much for that live update from there. jim johnson the american has landed in the armenian capital get of on a spot of the treaty two of the caucuses make it was greeted at the airport by the armenian prime minister a nickel on the resource rich south caucasus is an economically important region for germany the trip is a political balancing act however. as russia still holds strong political influence
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in the former member states of the soviet union the german chancellor will enter a tour tomorrow with a stop in by john. the chief political editor is covering chancellor merkel's trip and she joins me now from the armenian capital. understand this leg of merkel strip includes a delicate delicate diplomatic balancing act tell us more about that. it's absolutely the capital euro bonds was once built on the floor of the chess audience something says on the chess board have strategic interest defensible see how to avoid a potential cliff which was see the flowers at the memorial of the armenian genocide which killed up to one point five million armenians which the german parliament recognized as a genocide just a couple of years ago that was a huge political story with turkey well she didn't really say much while she was on
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that brief ceremony so see if we did not take you there live for now but this trip is all about balancing the drive of these countries particularly on media to which i thought it was european union to listen to woods nato and at the same time balancing out with the key interest of the concept in this speech is now a mediocre so it's a particularly interesting time because just a couple of months ago we saw the so-called doll the person who's wishful new prime minister into office he was leader of the fishes and the big question now is how he will navigate this but he's already said that he would still keep those close ties with moscow but there's no doubt he really wants to hear from the charts what options there are shifting with europe to with the european you. got it mission to confirm that thank you very much for that update from yet of an intimate media i'm sort of you having a bit of trouble with that line so we'll have to leave it there thank you very much
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for that analysis. now this weekend moscow will host a huge festival to celebrate the ninetieth anniversary of goalkeeper named off the right in maxim goalkeeper it's one of the russian capital most iconic landmarks in recent years it's undergone a major facelift and won over a new generation of muscovites it seems specially those in love. for alexandra there's no better place in all of moscow even in the rain. gorky park is in the center of the russian capital and it's at the heart of countless stories this is not what you are proposed to here when we were skating for the gold oh that's right i forgot to look. up that. gorky central park of culture and leisure as it's officially known has just turned
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ninety. one years but. the park has twenty six million visitors every year and has long become part of the fabric of people's lives here in moscow a. classic. it's not slate classic for a date to meet here for a look at the swans and imagine that everyone is as loyal as them is the move that they can see disappointed they aren't have a heart and go to sleep on your own words it's. just the smiley used when i was a kid i used to go through hoops here with my mother not only one but took a dip in the fountain we cut our feet in the water it was fun military salute the museum in the park shows how it all began in one nine hundred twenty eight gorky park quickly became known around the world as a symbol of socialism it was part of the soviet drive to create a new athletic ideal event a new man does most of the blue we did this when you go to the park was founded the park showed off the epitome of soviet lifestyle but most of this population of
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three million people lived in humble and sometimes difficult conditions at the time not in work and still much trees. but here there were sports grounds and clubs for popular soviet games like chess and checkers you could play volleyball basketball games all of. my sports and activities are still a big part of park life. but after a huge revamp in two thousand and eleven the park has also become a symbol of a transformed modern moscow. it was part of the soviet vision for a city of the future and ninety years later gorky park is still the part of the people. that support and when the shelling from moscow bureau and that is starting to feel uneasy about chinese money used to prop
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up watch again then from business ask with that story thank you amrita chinese investors have been very active in portugal in recent years but besides acquiring a stake in the economy they've also gained political influence the european union is watching the development with mixed feelings and is trying to keep beijing's reach within bounds. rodeo likes that asian touch in lisbon he looks up to chinese investors in portugal. the chinese have helped a lot because they've brought important revenue streams into the country which of the national debt problem portugal was able to pay its debts straight off. after years of stagnation the financial crisis of many unemployment poverty and austerity portugal's ten million citizens were kept solvent by the european stability mechanism but the country was forced to privatized state owned companies . then china came along on
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a shopping spree mainly chinese state owned companies bought into portuguese insurance companies banks real estate and in directly even into media as well. also into portugal's profitable state owned energy company and portugal u.d.p. . china's three gorges bought up twenty percent of it seven years ago now it wants to buy it up completely it's offering nine billion euros for the d.p. . the chinese government is behind what are ostensibly business deals does that make portugal vulnerable to political blackmail you know how. in a certain way we're already dependent but we've also got brazilians angolans other european countries here and not just china china found a welcoming climate in portugal. portugal was in my car for a long time so there was always a traditional connection and the biggest investments came during the crisis they
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were really important for us. to e.u. has seen the potential problem and is working on transparency regulations for certain foreign investments applied to the e.d.p. they would function like this portugal first screen to the chinese companies often . parallel to that lisbon informs the e.u. commission in brussels along with the other member states and screen the chinese bid themselves give their feedback. as the final decision on whether the deal goes ahead or not. getting free d.p. is still under way and it's still not clear how tight the new iraqi elections will be some countries want a minimum of outside interference including portugal hungary and greece. china now seems to have its own presence at the negotiating table along with the government heads of the european union. around two thousand chinese
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companies do business in africa materials are the main focus africa is a huge market for chinese products so creating the necessary infrastructure to mine resources also sets up the ideal supply network for selling to customers that the africans doing the hard work say. cruising through kenya at one hundred twenty kilometers an hour the new rail line between the port of mombasa and the capital nairobi went into service just about a year ago it took twenty five thousand kenyan workers some three years to build the initiative and finance behind the whole operation a chinese construction company local construction workers are working for chinese companies throughout africa but unions are becoming increasingly critical of the working conditions a large number of africans working for chinese companies have no legal contract. we jews are usually below the legal minimum and increasing number of workers complain
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about racial discrimination. kenyan rail workers are lucky the line is being extended from nairobi on to the ugandan border their union was able to fight for clear regulations working hours wages and holidays are all now written into their work contracts but work regulations for entire sectors or regions are still a distant prospect only very few african workers are as of yet organized in unions . how is your correspondent linda holmes joins us from singapore the how much is this a case of exploitation or just badly organized unions. well ben you know most african nations are i just at the start of the economic development and jobs already usually quite difficult to come by to load for us to fight forcing wages as well as good working conditions and they've been union usually it's a fall off to the engagement in which western doing us all with and businesses you
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have seen walking to participate or let unions take off and china be part of a show well it doesn't even have to pay the labor unions in the country so this means that chinese pumps i'm really used to dealing with labor union labor rights and relations and this is perhaps why chinese firms operating in africa are often accused of violating international neighbor laws as well as national laws and the country's been so we going to start seeing the chinese pull out of africa if the unions get their act together. well in africa it's actually africa itself it's actually a very important part of the one belt one row initiative and this is a key geopolitical initiative announced by chinese president xi jinping in twenty thousand and this is actually the silk road economic belt and it seeks to be a platform into the national cooperation as well as to build more if we structure
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connecting geopolitical and global countries all together and it's very important important for africa's infrastructure as well as the construction and as pfizer estimated africa's infrastructure gap is the round ninety five billion dollars us annually so africa actually forbes quite a key part of this and china will likely have to work on it especially when it's looking to globalize and it seeks to work with more countries so rushing out its labor relations would likely be important as well as the other trade complaints that we've heard off so far so i want to do from both sides thank you linda. jo the average that's right and if you like to believe that's good news feel in the opening match of the fifty six been single season defending champions by minix will take on hoffenheim germany's embarrassing early exit from the was risk concerns over the competitiveness of the bundesliga but the pairs
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a pet appear vague to prove they have what it takes. the new bundesliga citizen is upon us ready to treat fans to another glut of emotions. germany's shocking world cup campaign however is still fresh in focus as well as the poor performance of bundesliga clubs in europe paying competition last term internationally german football is going through a blake period only by merely because stood out they made the semifinals of the champions league last season and of march to six consecutive bundesliga titles with little competition under new coach nico because that's the champions expect their writing to continue. and it's six months. by now six times champions in a row who want to make sure that we're champions again for a seventh time but we also know that the others will not make it easy. to try everything to take the crown offers
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a gotten by instalments is dangerous the title race can only be competitive if other clubs boost their spending but to the fifty plus one rule investors can't completely take over the bundesliga clubs massive transfer fees paid by sides in england spain or by french heavyweights paras such a man simply cannot be matched dawson to spend seventy three million euros on new players the most out of any bundesliga club after a turbulent twelve months there is hope of the revival is known as the talks or more the situation where a lot of questions have to be asked but i'm a long way from saying that everything was bad. but of course we know that we have to raise our performances so that we can once again treat our fans to proper football and. the bonus leaguers becoming a development and selling league bundesliga runners up shelters sold central defender tito care to pay its chief a thirty seven million euro's but they still want to challenge buy in for the
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championship. constant hi i'm also haven't invested heavily but their coach is upbeat in his final season of the club tell me that every team basically wants to be champion we're giving everything to have a successful season and then we'll see what comes at the end of the campaign a more exciting season that's what all german football fans are hoping for but there has been a supportive backlash as the bundesliga becomes increasingly commercialized yet without the increased cash flow the legal full further behind its rivals it's a balancing act that the bonus they can muster in the upcoming season. if you. were. here
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to make. sure. i think you should just come home with me. that's the only mistake was time of american film director tim burton and his firm edward scissorhands but sometimes sixty this weekend and is hollywood's most successful outside their weapons then wonderful fans and also we're not where they want to feel is often met. today welcome robin this little one quite like tim burton is that the respect i think he's has a vivid imagination to say the least and a rather dark vision you could say with these stylized worlds he creates in his films he says i'm ostrow sort of gothic horror and fantasy been a vase and he's known also for a ten great attention to every detail in every shot in his film he said in. in
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interviews that he was very lonely as a child and didn't speak a lot and instead of speaking hughes to draw all which was his sort of. and he created his own fancy fantasy worlds in his head i mean it's sort of been very good stead because this is a man who's made some of the most extraordinary films of all time. tim burton's trademark mccarver touch is immediately recognizable leaving his breakthrough he came in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight with a highly original between the haunted house tiled with an aunt an optimistic view of the afterlife. following the success of beetlejuice version went on to make batman in nine hundred eighty nine and was granted a total artistic reign for the sequel in ninety two the films would change the future of the superhero genre. three to be.
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willing to leave. her few bright stars or nine hundred ninety four soar tim burton make ed wood a black and white biopic about a hollywood oddball heartbreaking romance three robbers robbers but in the hope certain films often have recurring scenes and some say recurring characters. you know in your mind make it whether it's. original or taishan it's all you. in two thousand and five burton released his dark and it's tragic into charlie and the chocolate factory in the world in twenty ten he went full throttle with alice in wonderland. to keep burton's work visually exuberant and dr lee comic is rooted in his lifelong
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affection for misfits the way i grew up was very like fifty's sixty's bland suburbia so i was felt like out of place i think that's why i was always drawn to monsters because i felt like i didn't feel that they were bad i just felt like creatures that are so. sleazy with a career that spans over thirty five years tim burton is. and he take his creative dockside has certainly paid off. in this league zubrin what lies beyond describing it in this michelin starred lends itself well to animation yes it does we saw a very brief bit of animation there but i mean as a child actually the very first films he made in his backyard as a child with short animation films that we've never seen of course very crude ones but. he then his best job in the business was book is an animation of disney and then his first full length length feature film was in fact corpse bride and me of
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animators of the worked on the film but the characters rule based on original drawings from. and also more recently frankenweenie which was a remake of a short film he made back in one thousand nine hundred eighty four and it's about the family dog he had as a child is from the pew joke but. cute dog but isn't so cute ready as you can imagine there's quite a bit a horror of that comes into it as well and everything negatively gets out of hand as they always do it but. you know he's also known as the working with a certain set of his favorite characters as an act yeah i mean famously johnny depp who is a close friend of his and as godfather to his two children he's done eight films with him as has had been a bottom caught it was his partner for many years and. is the mother of his two children also christopher levy was in five his films the great man christopher
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lane and apart from the actors he works a lot with the same crew and especially the composer danny elfman who actually does does the music from most of his movies ok so he has a very loyal and dedicated team what next for tim well the next next film is a dumbo of the fly. element flight element flying lessons i'm sorry i'm trouble with my speech today. which has eva green in it who's fost becoming a regular in films and also has his latest girlfriend past due out next year and tim button fans the big news is that there is said to be a sequel to the great movie beetlejuice and michael keaton and we're not a ride or in the original have said they want to be in it as well so that's coming up and meanwhile we wish them a very happy sixtieth birthday and we should mention this is a man who's created
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a word in the dick dictionary but that's a nest that's in the works is that if something is doesn't ask it's in the style of to read it a day said robin bell thank you very much showing us all of that and wish you a happy weekend because my weekend has just started great to have your company i'm on with that change in the news team thanks for the company and also buy from robin marin.
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new version of duck didn't sell it into modern day slavery because the russians are being enslaved by from the russians that's not happening anywhere else in europe. from some. tracks down the victims. and attempts to free them
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lynch i was afraid they'd kill me if i ran away. forced workers in russia in fifteen minutes on d w. o. m a nine hundred sixty eight and all crying and going around the world. young people against their crimes generation is if it wasn't on salute and dusty full of stupidity and since. they demanded nothing less than a home society the one maelstrom of concern beyond tons. go to those who remember them the most and for the first time i had a feeling of the compass some of the. seeds of civil rights. peace moves. to. nineteen sixty eight. the
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global middle starts september first on g.w. . humans love interaction sometimes you don't have a hero bought will provide it that's great they're going to replace it what manufacturing. they're going to replace doctors and lawyers they're going to replace people in jobs you wouldn't think but now if all the work is being done by machines what are you going through the way trying to keep getting better and better education and taking more and more advanced jobs or do they end up doing other things making art having social interactions with each other are we going to have enough humanity to make it possible for everyone or some people going to say i want everything i'm rusty goes up to the poor and die it allows individuals to discover their humanity they have to learn a new meaning for life and new things to do that's a social revolution that hopefully we can move through slowly.
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and. be an education and. this is you know every news live from berlin a wildfire on the outskirts of the german capital forces six hundred people out of their homes evacuations comparably spread in a wooded area southwest of berlin crews frantically working to contain the flames face the out in danger of world war two munitions buried in the forests were alive at the scene also coming up migration flashpoint protesters turn up at
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a sicilian point where migrants are being held on board a coast guard ship in late three.

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