this is you know every news life from berlin a wildfire on the outskirts of the german capital forces six hundred people out of their homes evacuations comes after a blaze spread in a wooded area southwest of girl and crews frantically working to contain the flames face the added danger of world war two munitions buried in the forest or alive at the scene also coming up migration flashpoint protesters turn up at a sicilian port where migrants are being held on board a coast guard ship elite threatens to withhold its funding from the european union

if the situation is not resolved and zimbabwe's top court upholds prison guard was election victory but can the deeply divided nation means past use harsh crackdown on post-election protests were in harare. the rock is great to have you along everyone we start our broadcast with the wildfire raging near the german capital that has forced around six hundred people to evacuate their homes the blaze has taken hold of a large wooded area around fifty kilometers southwest of the city brylin residents woke to the smell of smoke this morning while hundreds of firefighters are battling the blaze but their work is being hampered by munitions from the second world war buried in the forest we will get a 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 fields since it started on thursday. hundreds of firefighters have been working to contain the blaze and fairs and to challenge the area is littered with munitions that were buried in the forests during world war two so i have future specs for the firefighters who are out there right now risking their lives we know there's i mean the lying around in the forest residents said there were already some explosions around six hundred villages had to 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 is happening to my house. and can be more

done we can only think the authorities for what they've done for us. everything is fine. the mayor of one of the villages says the situation is unprecedented. 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 job. germany has been suffering under a heat wave for weeks leaving many forests and fields extremely dry but it's still unclear how the fire started. and our reporter melanie current of all is in the town of torre and he's in close to where the fire broke out to melanie phillips and what's the latest is the situation under control. the situation is slowly

getting under control that has been some major progress made in containing the fire we have just learned that it's now under control or largely under control but of course the rest till six hundred to six hundred fifty firefighters and army personnel out the king to put out this unprecedented blaze here just fifty kilometers outside of berlin people have been incredibly scared to especially because they have been hearing that the firefight is a war and about the changing winds and there have been some new smaller fires starting but as i said a lot of the it seems that the situation is slowly getting better and under control there have been really good news for some people today three hundred eighty people from one village were told that they can go home the houses are still standing nothing happened so they are incredibly happy about that and then there are also two other villages that have been waiting to hear if they can finally go back but

we have just learned that they have one home between seven and eight to go back home to maybe grab some things but they won't be able to go home yet firefighters efforts to contain the blaze are severely hampered by old ammunition buried in the forest can you tell us more about that. yes that's correct this is one of the areas that was the battleground full bilin basically so the soil you can say is really scorched is full of ammunition that has been an issue for the firefighters and it's also scared the villages here have been telling me that they had seven eight explosions just yesterday and that has been just really really close to the house has been incredibly scary for them the firefighters themselves who are the ones to have to put out the fire need to remain on safe roads they conned go into the forest as deep as they need to to put out the fire so they have to rely on aerial support and helicopters to put out these unprecedented fires here

melanie occurred to bolla reporting thank you. all right let's bring you up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world. german chancellor angela merkel has landed in the armenian capital year of honest part of a three day tour of the caucasus america was greeted at the airport by the armenian prime minister nicola pasha on she flew in after visiting georgia and will end her tour tomorrow with a stop in azerbaijan hurricane lane is pounding hawaii with high winds and torrential rains as it moves across the pacific the storm has now been downgraded to category three but can still cause major damage with winds of up to two hundred kilometers an hour each stream downpours have triggered flash floods and landslides. space cabinet has put forward a law that would allow it to exuma the remains of francisco franco the former

dictator is buried in a national mausoleum leo socialist led government wants to relocate the grave to stop it becoming a fascist shrine franco's family and supporters oppose the move which still needs the approval of parliament. the e.u. has warned italy to refrain from making threats to withhold funding from the block over a migrant ship dispute crisis talks held in brussels have ended without a resolution about one hundred fifty migrants have been stuck on the beach at the vessel at the sicilian port of tinier since monday night italy's deputy prime minister says his government may stop paying part of its annual contribution if other european countries don't take in some of the refugees well the european commission spokesperson said the bloc quote operates on the basis of rules not threads. and to talk about the standoff brussels correspondent rikard riegert joins

me now from brussels a parent of this face off between the room and brussels has ended in a no deal what does that mean. that means there was no appetite to give in to italian demands neither by the commission nor by the eleven other you member states who are in brussels to talk about migration because this is very unusual italian approach to say the least the boys perceived as blackmail or populist brinkmanship and therefore reject it but that doesn't mean that there is no solution for the migrants inside we heard that the student is going on between the capitals and maybe that in the next hours or days a solution can be found but this is not sure. just for the purposes of this is a question if the italian government were to carry out its threat what kind of impact with that have on the european commission. well the commission would have no

other choice than take italy to call it because italy is obliged to pay its fees and use your normal private tent as a football club if you don't pay you can't use the cotton this also applies for the european union of cause it is a tactic that never has been used by any member states of nobody has ever threatened not to pay so this is uncharted waters also for the u. commission and variants in conclusion what does this clash that we're seeing unfold right now tell us about the e.u. is migration policy the migration policy doesn't work it's in chandos actually because none of the member states is now obliging to the rules enshrined in the dublin regulations it's now managed case by case or ship by ship you could say and the you need a long term solution a kind of a redistribution and mechanism a relocation mechanism for margins and all of that on the backdrop that there is actually no crisis the numbers of arrivals the numbers of migrants coming to route

is far down eighty percent down compared to last year heart wrenching good reporting from brussels thank you sinbad let's talk court has rejected a challenge to president emerson god was narrow election victory judges were considering a case brought by the opposition party the movement for democratic change it allege that vote rigging took place during july's poll but in a unanimous decision the judges found the opposition had failed to present credible evidence while the ruling means effectively that emerson god can soon be inaugurated as president a symbolic way and our correspondents privileged. joins me now from zimbabwe's capital harare good to see you a privilege what's the latest on the verdict. yes the. highest courts the question

a court has just handed. a very very direct on the challenge on the july thirtieth election and like you rightly say they were unanimous to say that the opposition had no solid evidence to over ten their results of the july thirtieth elections some of the things that they conceded where they fixed that the opposition did not demand the opening of the ballot papers for a recount of their votes in forty eight hours soon after that is also we announced and then the other thing is that they also say that is most of the things that the opposition was bringing before the courts when not backed by evidence rather they were just it large that's in the language of the court and what else has been the reaction to this verdict so far.

we have we have spoken to both sides which is the opposition and the ruling party the opposition are saying that they accept the video of the court but still to this dispute over this election is not over they are saying that. they are going to pursue other avenues in tip two for them to resolve these issues some of the things that they are talking about is they could a demonstrate or the other thing they can also be a shoo in political dialogue route but this is only going to come after next wednesday when they see it as their national executive of their party to decide on which route to take and a privilege does that mean that now the matter is settled once and for all. constitutionally the matter is settled because the constitution constitutional

court is the highest court in the country there is no other court of appeal so what's the opposition is only going to do is probably to pursue dialogue in terms of resolves the resolving some of the issues they still have over this election but in terms of taking this election it's may we may safely say it's over in muslim and god well we have to be you know greeted in the next forty eight hours after these videotaped. privilege and with somebody reporting from zimbabwe's cop capital harare thank you for the continued coverage. and before i let you go and king a former guitarist from the u.s. rock band a literate skin heard a co-writer of the hit song sweet home alabama has died he passed away in nashville tennessee at the age of sixty eight he had been battling cancer and king helped

create leonard skinner it's a powerful triple guitar sound prominent on such rock classics as free bird. at king there and before i let you go reminder of our main headlines this hour. reports are coming in of new wildfires breaking out near the german capital berlin firefighters have already been battling the major blazes which has forced around six hundred people to evacuate their homes fire crews are being hampered by second world war munitions buried in the forest. a

mile of rock and roll in on behalf of the entire new scene thank you so much for spending this part of your day with us the news continues at the top of the hour. nico he's in germany to learn german. polish people why not learn with him online on hold while and free stuff from the w.c. learning course because for me.