this is it of the news live from berlin firefighters battle wildfires on the edge of the german capital the flames have forced the evacuation of hundreds of people some to have now been able to return home crews are facing the added danger of world war two munitions buried in the forest where i am to see also coming up migration flashpoint protesters turn up at a sicilian port where migrants are being held on board he goes guard ship and leads right mr withhold its funding from the european union if the situation is not resolved and zimbabwe's top court upholds present magog was an election victory but in the deeply divided nation news plans to his harsh crackdown on post election

protests were in harare. plus one just like a soccer game is back the next thing new season kicks off when byron take it out often on a german soccer has been lots of proof after a disastrous world cup. where mark thanks for your company everyone well we begin this broadcast with a wildfire raging near the german capital that has forced around six hundred people to evacuate their homes the blaze has been has taken hold of a large wooded area around fifty kilometers southwest of the city berlin residents woke to the smell of smoke this morning well 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 an update from the scene but first this update. the driest summer in living memory has left the region around perlin vulnerable to the smallest spark the federal state of brandenburg has been on the highest level of alert for many weeks and now as feared the forests are in flames. and you know we've not seen a forest fire as big as this for many use. magazine about. it's a serious situation and presents a big danger because if you're i don't. fires are raging across an area the size of five hundred football pitches forcing the evacuation of three towns southwest of palin strong winds are fanning the flames more than six hundred firefighters backed by helicopters are battling the fires residents afraid to leave their homes say it's been a frightening experience. it was like

a horror film but we didn't have time to think about it. one complication is that the burning forests around berlin a littered with unexploded munitions are the leftover from the second world war or from military exercises in the communist former east germany that community we can't enter the zone there's been explosions. that means we need to fight the fires from the edges and try to extinguish them from the air. in there for him because. the authorities say they've made progress but it could take several days to put the fires out and our reporter melanie current of all is in the town of twenty's and 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 ill six hundred to six hundred fifty firefighters and army personnel out there was acting 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 as 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 they have been really good news for some people today three hundred eighty people from one village were told that they can go home their 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 for 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 skat 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 unsafe roads they can't 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. the e.u.

has warned italy to refrain from making threats to withhold funding from the block over migrant ship dispute cursus talks held in brussels have ended without a resolution about one hundred fifty migrants have been stuck on the ditch on the vessel at this is so important for a cup tanya since monday night well italy's deputy prime minister says his government may stopping part of its annual contribution that is if other european countries don't take in some of the refugees while the european commission's spokesperson set the blockquote operates on the basis of rules not threats. and to talk about the standoff brussels correspondent richard reid joins me now from brussels a parent of this faceoff between rome 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 member states who

were in brussels to talk about migration because this very unusual italian approach to say the least voids perceived as blackmail or populist brinkmanship and therefore rejected but that doesn't mean that there is no solution for the migrants inside we heard the student going on between the capitals and maybe that in the next hours or days a solution can be found but this is not sure not just for the purposes of this this question if the italian government were to carry out its threat what kind of impact with that have on the european commission. that the commission would have no other choice than take italy to cults because italy is obliged to pay its fees and use like in your normal private tennis a football club if you don't pay you can 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 so far nobody has ever

threatened not to pay so this is uncharted waters also for the e.u. commission and variance in conclusion what does this clash that we're seeing unfold right now tell us about the migration policy the migration policy doesn't work it's in chandos actually because none of the member states is not obliging to the rules . in the dublin regulations it's not managed case by case or shipped by ship you could say and the you need a long term solution a kind of a redistribution 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 bantry good reporting from brussels thank you. let's get you caught up now with some of the other stories making news around the world. german chancellor angela merkel is in the armenian

cavalier about it as part of a three day tour of the caucasus after meeting prime minister nicola question on america is it a memorial to armenians killed during the autumn an empire america also the atrocity should not be forgotten but stopped short of using the word genocide which was which has previously angered turkey. hurricane lane is pounding hole-y. with high winds and torrential rains as it moves across the pacific and storm has now been downgraded to category two and is removing away from the big island but it's still drop more rain there officials described flooding on parts of the island as catastrophic. space cabinet has put forward a law that would allow it to do the remains of francisco franco the former dictator is buried in a national mausoleum socialists and led the government wants to relocate the grave to stop it from becoming a fascist shrine franco's family and supporters oppose the move which still needs

to be approval of parliament. a powerful seven point one magnitude earthquake has struck along peru's border with brazil the quake hit in the early hours of friday at a depth of more than six hundred kilometers there were no immediate reports of damage great social media users say tremors were felt all across the country. ben's here with the business and a power struggle is unfolding between powell and the president yeah it's pretty amazing stuff i mean it's obvious who's job who's got which job and what their job entails but in this case it's murky borders it seems like they're both fighting for control of the u.s. federal reserve drawing powell is in charge but don't trump hasn't kept quiet as most presidents would about his distain for interest rate rises but balance and taking it lying down at an annual gathering of central bankers in jackson hole

wyoming the fed chief signaled that he expects to continue raising interest rates if the american economy remains robust that is powell also said that the fed needs to balance maximizing employment with keeping prices stable. let's bring in dana corp our financial correspondent in frankfurt it is very interesting watching these two having these indirect a very public squabble about how to run an economy especially when trump was the one who hadn't picked pal was an e. yeah exactly i mean when he decided to nominate powell and legend yet in the previous had to go donald trump could not praise his canada enough and now this what he said is really like an open criticism of his own candidate by the way powell was way more careful today he did not criticize the u.s. president openly trump is war you have to remember that that four interest rate hikes could harm the boom off the united states that we have seen lately and he won

the dollar on a lower level now just some weeks before the midterm elections in november trump needs mostly one thing and that is good half line and trump might be a good deal maker or a good real estate guy but many economists actually say that a weaker dollar on the long term would not be even good for the economic growth and right now it's looking good in the united states unemployment in the u.s. at a record low of only three point nine percent just the inflation rate with one point nine percent is not making exactly the requirements of the federal reserve but the dow is also looking good today what else can we expect from jackson hole. well paying attention to the jackson hole to the meeting there has become a tradition for fed watchers lots of topics which have a big influence on the world markets are on the edge and they're from the dollars strength or weakness to tears and we have to remember paula sill relatively new in office even though he has been with the fast before still not many are sure what

exactly expect from this man so every comment off him will be analyzed in detail and certainly also from us ok expect the unexpected the new pope for us in frankfurt thank you. official figures out today show germany's governments from the national to the local level recorded a surplus of more than forty eight billion euros in the first half of the year that produced the surplus of two point nine percent it's also the country's biggest surplus ever recorded in a half year made of barry slight rise in spending but the why difference between income and spend is likely to lead to new calls for increased public investment in things like schools and infrastructure trading partners especially the u.s. has been critical of the german surplus saying low public spending keeps wages and prices down and makes german exports more competitive than others. chinese investors have been active in portugal in recent years 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 this 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 solve the national debt problem portugal was able to pay its debts straight off. after years of stagnation the financial crisis had meant 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 a shopping spree many 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 take us to portugal or e.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. well. you know sort of the 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 were really important for us. and. the 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 screens the chinese companies offer parallel to that lisbon informs the e.u. commission in brussels along with the other member states they then screen the chinese bid themselves and give their feedback portugal then has the final decision on whether the deal goes ahead or not. getting very deeply you still underway and it's still not clear how tight the new e.u. regulations 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. he's a good story for any european travelers ryanair is to start charging passengers for taking hand luggage on board. will cost between six and eight euros but a bag case about. ten kilograms in the overhead bin you know what comes as the

irish budget airline faces increasing pressure of workers conditions in recent months strikes across europe have triggered the cancellation of thousands of flights right is the new charges will prevent delays as fewer bags will have to be tagged during boarding. thing and running out of things. maybe going to the toilet or pace that might have been a you might be reporting on it. we're going to go to ben's homeland australia where a tomato us week in politics has ended with a prime minister al search and a new one sworn in former finance minister scott morrison won a ballot among liberal party lore makers after his predecessor malcolm turnbull decided not to contest australia has had half a dozen prime ministers in a decade due to leadership challenges within the pope political parties while morrison says he aims to unite the party behind him. off to just under

three years in office 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 way 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 a need likely to alienate voters further on very much like by the very frustrated they get out they get six party just as dowie for eleven years i did this baby todd to develop real policy and it's a bit of a shambles racially and it really shows that politicians for the. had to say you know distrustful people. but new prime minister scott morrison was keen to

stress that he is that for his people it's been a lot of talk this week. about who saw people around in this building. and what josh and i had 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 the just trust softer all they have been hoffa doesn't need as in just over a decade. and none of them has served a full term. 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 i don't sting may leave australia's governing coalition in a more precarious position than ever. zimbabwe's top 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 and allege that vote rigging took place during july as 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 of zimbabwe and our correspondents privileged savvy joins me now from zimbabwe's capital harare good to see you a privilege what's the latest on the verdict. yes. zimbabwe's 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 did they were unanimous to say that the opposition had no solid evidence to about 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 see 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 egypt to 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 pursue a 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. situated because of course the. constitutional court is the highest court in the country there's 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 me we may simply say it's over it must one of them got 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 of the new bonus league in season kicks off tonight here in germany and in the opening match defending champions by immune it will take on half an eye on germany's embarrassing early exit from the world cup has raised concerns over the competitiveness of the ball in this league up but the players appear ready to prove the doubters wrong. the new bundesliga season is upon us ready to treat fins 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 internationally german football is going through a bleak period only but merely because stuart 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. its 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. for them to try everything to take the crown office gotten clients dominance is dangerous the title race can only be competitive if other clubs boost their spending but you do 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 paris such a man simply cannot be matched dortmund 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 a top storm situation where a lot of questions have to be asked but i'm a long way from saying that everything was bad. of course we know that we have to raise our performances so that we can once again treat our fans to proper football . but. the business leaders becoming a development and selling league as they are runners up shelters sold central defender t.l.o. care to p.s.g. for thirty seven million euros but they still want to challenge by and for the championship. hoffenheim also haven't invested heavily but their coaches upbeats 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 old german football fans are hoping for but there has been a supporter 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 bundesliga must achieve in the upcoming season. and king a former guitarist for the us rock band leonard skinner and co-writer of the hit song sweet home alabama has died he passed away in nashville tennessee at the age of sixty eight had been battling cancer king helped create leonard skinner's powerful triple guitar sound prominent on such rock classics as free bird. the legendary king there and just

a reminder of the top stories that we're tracking for you this hour firefighters have been battling a major blaze on the outskirts of burlington which has forced around six hundred people to evacuate their homes some have now been able to return fire crews say the blaze is now largely contained but they're still being hampered by the second world war munitions buried in the forest and the e.u. has rebuked italy for its threats to withhold funds from the block where migrant ship dispute around one hundred fifty migrants have been held on a rescue ship in a sicilian port for over a week. and that does it for us we'll see you at the top of the hour.

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