this is deja vu news live from berlin tensions over migration turned violent in the german city of cabinet's several people are injured after a second day of protests the german chancellor condemns the on rest and warns the government will not tolerate mob violence against foreigners also on the show. our killer robots the future of warfare experts from around the world are meeting in switzerland to discuss how to deal with weapons that can fight wars and kill humans

all on their own. and all eyes on canada as the u.s. and mexico seal a new trade deal the other partner in the deal formerly known as nafta is tight lipped about whether it will sign up. plus facebook bandsmen mars army leaders after a damning u.n. record use social media giant removes eighteen accounts link to me in mars military and admits it was too slow in the leading races and the written job posts. and when drinking tea is one of the few pleasures left in life we visit a family in iran already hard hit by a bad economy and now also by u.s. sanctions. i'm brian thomas. so much for being with us in the german city of camden police are

investigating a number of people after a night that saw several thousand taking to the streets to protest immigration they were met by about a thousand counter-demonstrators the two sides were kept apart by hundreds of riot police concerns over further violence has now prompted germany's interior minister to provide additional police support to the eastern state of saxony. violence again encampments on monday as far right demonstrators faced off with counter protesters. a call by a right wing group attracted as many as two thousand far right protesters and around one thousand counter-demonstrators leaving the police scrambling to keep the two sides apart like sunday's demonstration monday's protest was sparked by the death of early sunday morning of a thirty five year old man allegedly at the hands of two migrants from iraq in syria they have been arrested and are in police custody authorities have given

very little information on the altar cation that led to the stabbing but that doesn't stop the far right demonstrators from demanding retribution. auslander else foreigners get out of our city they chant. another video posted on social media appears to show vigilante attacks on migrants. amongst the demonstrators on monday citizens of chemists who declare they have nothing to do with neo nazis but is simply there to express their anger of the situation in their city. every evening this trouble encounters between groups i don't want to say it's only the foreigners there's plenty of troublemakers who will forgive you want to do well you can't go into the city without being scared of what might happen. i wouldn't call myself part of

a mob and i don't want anybody calling me just because i'm standing here. what happened in chemist's is being closely followed on a national level police and politicians are warning against vigilante justice after two days of violence and commits the city remains on edge. and. with a camera team. joining us now from there what's coming the day after. calm has returned to the streets of kenneth's the now but there is still an undercurrent of tension this really is a city divided that manifested itself last night and the day the four on the streets with rival groups of far right protesters and counter-demonstrators facing off on the street behind me now the killing of the thirty five year old german man over the weekend and allegedly by two men one iraqi national one syrian national

has really pushed some very. prevalent underlying issues here in this region to the fore these are tensions which aren't going to go away this simmering and have reached a boiling point over the last couple of days meanwhile and more is being learned about exactly what has taken place over the last two days in terms of some of the violence has been reported police have said that stones were thrown from both sides they've also set fire. and in the last couple of hours they've reported that they are opening criminal can proceedings against a number of people accused of having performed the nazi salute here yesterday evening which of course is to begin here in germany that's not all that the police are saying right now the head of the german police union is warning today about a rise of vigilantism in germany not just in the area where you are what's your impression has just come to that incumbents. that's right police have

warned citizens here and commits against taking justice into the area and hands out a warning that's also come from the german government it's directly criticize reports that people were on the streets of candidates in what they called mobs during the hunting down seeking out people who look like they had a migrant background that each of the anti it is indeed something that has been reported widely on social media this is a city that is deeply concerned many people about the influx of migrants into this region and having said that there are also a huge number of people who want to say that they are this is a city that is still a welcome to refugees for migrants that manifested itself last night in the hundreds of counter demonstrators who took to the street to commit ok sure what lies ahead for this city what lies ahead for come next is it likely that these types of clashes will continue. that work crews yesterday evening brian

for more protests to take place as something out there is going to keep a very close eye on because one thing that we have seen over the last couple of days is just how quickly huge numbers of people from both science can assemble for process and just how quickly things can escalate police have admitted in various reports to being surprised by the numbers of people who took to the streets and there's reports that they were overwhelmed as well by those numbers so authorities will have to keep an extremely close eye on what happens next over the coming days ok we'll definitely be doing that and keeping an eye on developments for us thanks so much for now. well government experts from around the world are meeting in geneva to discuss the future of killer robots these autonomous weapon systems can operate and kill without any human guidance critics are calling for the new generation of weaponry to be banned globally before it goes into mass production.

germany's armed forces already make use of semi autonomous weapons base add offenses to can seek out targets on its own. for now soldiers still have to give the order to fire but fully autonomous weapons are being developed they can select and attack targets without humans at the controls. the highly controversial supporters say the new weapons are needed in modern warfare and will help people make ethically responsible decisions. warfare is becoming so fast right now that human beings are not capable of making intelligent informed decisions like they could in the past shouldn't have voiced concerns that autonomous weapons could diminish human responsibility in war we don't want to have happen is robotic system isn't out there causes some kind of mash casualty event and we know humans of all. these activists in berlin are protesting against autonomous weapons they want the

german government to campaign for them to be banned worldwide. desk a fairly what's dangerous about artificial intelligence and robotics is that they're altogether removed from human decision making about a good deal about what's useful for people and what's not about a concrete situation human intelligence is still required for that. an international ban on autonomous weapons systems would only be possible with the unanimous support of the united nations but with the u.s. and russia both opposed that's highly unlikely. for more on this marcel dicko from the german institute for international security affairs joins us now he's in geneva observing those discussions thanks for being with us the first question we have is have killer robots already been rolled out on the battlefields and what kind of threat level are we looking at right now. but off

on the land with autonomous weapons systems oh that's not what that's. actually at the border. feel into military stuff. there think that the israeli and poppy are. coming kept. for. and defend the nation. and it has a fully autonomous mode one activated select in the case target was not for the human intervention that actually actually is just addition of the us deal. with the us the. atomic weapons systems and others. are about to come don't even the german forces are interested in an extra. half more automated work. ok this is all moving very quickly right now what about the conference that you're following in geneva for a ban on these weapons the us china russia and they've indicated they're not going

to sign any banned so so will there be any progress at all in this direction. but it depends on how you define progress so a progress with the you have enough amending or next year to continue to to continue the discussion here and. also progress would be to morse specify what the mandate could look like so what would be the aim of the debate here what's the aim of the legal instrument that could be developed so become pain and others are in favor of can you cut a hole to this you see w as a commission on certain commissioner weapons and that would lead to a regulation or even a ban on it weapon is the question that is at the heart of the question if the question on human meaning for human control so what is the goal human in

operating and controlling this ok there's some larger questions out there to marcel is it even possible to ban this type of technology experts are already warning that we're close to saying every day consumer products like the drones my eight year old plays with being hooked up with cheap ai to make lethal weapons. well if states decide to ban these weapons it is possible oh it's certainly very difficult for people activists from the civil society or months actors to band this is this is something that. is in the hands of the state to do with a mess to create but when it comes to war and come to a party i think war it's certainly possible to ban if the states agree on a definition and then they can agree that in their political interest. it's ok muscle ditto for us from the german institute for international security affairs talk to us from geneva thanks very much thank you. yes i'm tired

for some of the other stories making the news right now the u.n. human rights council says all sides in the yemen conflict may have committed war crimes a report by three experts as children have been the most vulnerable in this conflict saudi arabia is supporting the yemeni government against with the rebels were backed by iran. the australian filmmaker james ricketson has appeared in a can both be in court for what is likely to be the final day of his trial he was charged with endangering national security after he flew a drone over an opposition political rally more than a year ago if found guilty he faces up to ten years in prison. thousands of fans are expected to line up in detroit over the next three days to pay their final respects to seoul legend aretha franklin singer's body is lying in state ahead of a private funeral on friday the seventy six year old died earlier this month from

pancreatic cancer. while washington has told united nations judges that they have no jurisdiction to rule on american sanctions against iran the statement comes a day after hearings began at the international court of justice where iranian lawyers are demanding that the u.n. court lift the sanctions imposed by the u.s. washington argues that it has a sovereign right to protect its national security from what it describes as iran's nuclear threat. well meanwhile every day arraign ians are finding it difficult to cope with the worsening economic situation in their country not everyone blames the u.s. sanctions though many say iran's economic problems are homemade. when merriam who makes tea you couldn't tell that her family are really struggling. her husband does not earn enough to make ends meet. and they can't afford new clothes for their daughter or even enough food. so i am member to know if i have to go to bed hungry

so be it but not my child our situation is really tough in that respect we're lucky to have just one child i can't imagine how families with lots of children get by. we're already living on the edge has been standing idle for almost three months we're producing much less than we used to when customers would order ten thousand cartons we use this big machine now that they order five hundred we use the small machine over there. and. the workforce used to number forty and now just six. over the next few days i shall have to let two or three more go i'm already paying their wages out of my own pocket. of god says he needs waste paper to make cardboard but the government is now selling it to china in order to earn hard currency his life's work is at risk and he worries about his

staff. you know what about young workers what will become of them they have to earn a living the government should focus on them i'm old i'll get by somehow but these workers will soon be out of a job. all of them are fears he might be one of those about to be certain he doesn't blame his boss or the americans and their economic sanctions. the reason for our economic problems are to be found here in iran it's not foreign powers and i think ninety five percent of our problems are homemade. or you are the powers that be should come visit us and see how we live. it would bring tears to their eyes perhaps they would then make better decisions. moggi says that the underlying problems are mismanagement and corruption and that most people in iran would agree with him. while a new north american trade deals in the making but it still needs

a key player to get on board balik is following that today. indeed i am brian and we know that the u.s. and mexico have reached a preliminary deal to replace the north american free trade agreement nafta had drawn harsh criticism by u.s. president donna to trump who called it a job killer now with much of the detail still to be hammered out trump already promised that the new deal will help manufacturers and farm us on both sides of the third nafta partner canada has so far not responded to the bilateral deal trump is pressing also want to accept new terms on the automotive sector the three countries do more than one trillion dollars worth of trade with each other. while it's clearly it's a very busy u.s. president there especially when it comes to trade and where does that leave the u.s. economy that's something i would like to ask you frank. bought a tire the president of the american chamber of commerce here in germany as we know

it. is it i mean he's all about america. overhauling trade deals with with china with the e.u. nafta of course does america benefit from it well you pointed out a president is very focused on trade as really the centerpiece of most of what he's trying to accomplish he has some views on trade that are not necessarily shared by mainstream economists and. many other sectors of the business world however. certainly we welcome his initiatives to go and look at things that are thirty years old like nafta is and say let's modernize it's make sense for today's world one that treaty was signed back in believe one thousand nine hundred eighty four or whatever there was no internet to many of the things that we take for granted today don't exist so from their point of view the american chamber welcomes any efforts

that will strengthen trade between countries at the same time we firmly believe that no country nowadays can be strong on its own strength comes from him in alliances and free trade among countries that will benefit but it's like that they the only consistency there seems to be with a trump administration is that it is somewhat inconsistent which can throw traditional patmos like the e.u. like germany's somewhat off guard and we do have a trade dispute between the u.s. and the e.u. . how is that affecting the economy in america does it go stronger or do you see first signs of perhaps an impact that could be negative well you certainly have to depend on the sector right obviously farmers are suffering immensely and i believe i read this morning that there's going to be a farm aid package of over seven billion dollars given to them to help them for the losses there some very suffering due to the trade dispute with china. you have at

the same time and you have the enormous uplift of the tax reform so you have a lot of money that's come into the economy that's certainly positive i do believe though that if we continue down the path we're on we will see difficulties in many different industries and those will lead to problems economic problems that will dampen growth i because i believe i mean i'm a conducted a survey among as it was a german business and i think they're not so keen on investing in the us anymore that's a big piece of it as anyone who's in business knows that one of the key things you want is. plan ability you want to be able to seven minute build my plant here i'm going to run it for the next twenty years without major changes to my business model that's suffering right now and i was at the bunch after a conference this morning here in berlin and in preparation for that we did a survey of our members last week it shows very clearly our members want to love america it's the most important market for them but the german in the american

members are very firm in that however they're very concerned about what's going on and a certain percentage of them have said we're holding back on investments in the u.s. until we get a little more clarity on what's happening that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy right people hold back that will lead to less construction jobs less other services be needed and that is very dangerous so the impact of the current policies trade policies conducted by the u.s. could be late franks spoke to larry the president here in germany thank you so much for your time it's a pleasure and tony get cuba now tourism industry there has taken a hit by travel restrictions now in force for american visitors so it needs all the publicity can get how about an event to make the world's largest cuba need bartenders from all over the america's got in on the act which kicked off this

week's pan american cocktail championships in atlanta. the recipe is pretty simple rum and this case twenty cases of have on the club and to pull a sold out well it used to be coke in the old day but cheaper at some ice and lemon and you have a fine but. it's the most important cocktail the cubans half is the drink that cannot be missed in any social event. it is a refreshing drink easy to make at home to share with friends. lots of friends in this case the glass is specially made for the event this two meters tall and holds one thousand leaders by the end of the night they will go on to the last drop.

in. that. drinking. hot sun and cool off oh. ok we stay in america but somewhat america farewell to one of its heroes to one of its big heroes in death senator john mccain has united democrats and republicans who've been eulogizing him as a statesman and a unifying politician mccain represented the state of arizona in the u.s. senate for thirty one years republican was known for his fierce independence and

for reaching across the aisle but with the vietnam war hero now gone arizona may soon be represented by a very different type of politician. a veteran stands watch at a local mortuary in phoenix where john mccain's body is being held before the public feeling on wednesday many our assignments have already visited this makeshift memorial to pay tribute to the late senator. but one of the things that i admired the most thing about him was his drive that people lived on something and it wasn't being done even though he got mad about it. he stood his ground pretty years stresses that he was easy to get along with says tommy espinosa. the latino advocate in the senate who were close friends for over thirty j. is obviously younger my so close that mccain asked espinosa to be a key player in his senatorial campaigns. john i said you know i'm

a democrat so i'm not sure it's going to get you any votes you know and he said i don't care you're my friend i want you to be my co-chair but i said well let me sleep on it because no i want to has sir yes or no. i say yes. and spinoza says he wants to attend every single ceremony in honor of the senator who will first lie in state at the arizona state capitol. arizona is honoring one of its most influential politicians on the national stage john mccain was one of the last republicans standing up to president trump he believed in bipartisanship at home and strong alliances overseas but it seems that the worth of mccain's death his brand of conservatism is losing out that republican party is increasingly taken over by the president's brand of divisiveness and isolationism

the one man who typifies that divisiveness is joe arpaio he's one of the three candidates running in the republican primary for arizona's second senate seat which will be up for grabs in the november midterm elections to form a share of the controversial immigration hardliners support strong one hundred percent a lot of people. maybe would never run for office or another controversial a lot of controversial want to go to war should help the president. we're before. standard politics as usual old republican candidates in arizona have embraced trump and distanced themselves from mccain his life will be. bought his party seems to have moved away from his ideals. we have some sports news now and in the world of paragliding out of spain wrapped up victory in the acro world tour finals for those flight high above lake geneva in

switzerland all of the paragliding aerobatics competitors performing some spectacular serial stunts but it was the thirty five year old impress the judges the most about thirty thousand spectators witnessed the grand finale of this year's world two. still to come on the show europe aims to ban plastic bags to find out what life could be like without plastic look at one place that's long since outlawed. and could cannabis cultivation be the answer for lebanon's struggling economy the lebanese government wants to legalize the country's flourishing production of the movie controversy. that more straight ahead here did of use.

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platform for africa charedi. welcome back you are to give you news live from our top stories right now the german government has condemned the violent far right protest in the eastern city of chemist's several people have been injured after an anti immigrant protesters clashed with police and counter protesters. and government experts from around the world are meeting in geneva to discuss the future of killer robots autonomous weapon. systems can operate and kill human beings without any human guidance critics are calling for a global ban. while facebook is taking action to try to quell the flood of hate speech on its platform and meehan maher the platform is banned a number of accounts including those of government officials accused of violating facebook's guidelines it comes on the heels of a u.n. report sharply criticizing facebook or its failure to tackle hate speech which it says helped him cite violence against the hinge of people do w.

social media editor call nasa has been following the story today carl first off you know strong words there from the united nations what exactly is facebook saying in response yeah i mean well this is kind of a little too little too late and very strong words from the u.n. but it's essentially confirming what many experts have been saying for months that facebook really did essentially nothing to stop the spread of hate speech in me in mar and that had real world consequences violence against the people yesterday as you mentioned facebook finally did take action they released a press release talking about essentially what they did in the company says it removed eighteen facebook accounts fifty two facebook pages and these were followed by almost twelve million people in the country interestingly including included in that list are government officials so that includes me in mars' powerful military chief and the military's own television network and these are really unprecedented

moves from facebook talking about wiping government officials from facebook's platform that's something we have not seen before facebook also admitting in its press release that it was just too slow to act and it's now developing some new tools new software to try to better identify hate speech in the country this is a first visit military official government officials have had their accounts scrubbed role did facebook play in the violence against their henge and how widespread was that it was really widespread i mean facebook in the. three was just filled with poisonous posts in fact there was a recent report by reuters that found more than one thousand of these hateful posts there are probably many more than that these are attacking the romans or people attacking muslim people in the country and they found a few examples i'm not sure if we have the video of those but they were posts saying things like made the terrorist dog fall fast and die horrible deaths is a typical slur that's used to attack muslims there something like that should have

been removed under facebook's guidelines but often those sorts of posts were left up for months on end even as the crisis was really escalating in the country facebook did not take those down the problem is also political so you mentioned the military officers being taken from the platform politicians in the country as well were constantly violating facebook's guidelines in fact we found one politician from the area where many row hinge of people came from he was posting constantly a hateful comments around ten percent fact of of one political party was found to have hateful content against their own people so and so really this coming from regular folks in the country as well as politicians ok this is a point where speech crosses over to incitement doesn't it why is hate facebook had such a hard time enforcing its own guidelines well it's really has to do with the country itself so apparently facebook moderators the people that are supposed to look at this content they struggled with the language with burmese there weren't enough

people that spoke that language in fact they had to rely on faulty translations maybe from google translate in fact there's still no office of facebook in the country itself and in myanmar facebook basically is the internet there's an eighteen million users and many people just go to facebook they don't know of many other science so it's a very very important website in the country you know these problems have been known for a long time and apparently took this united nations report to see some concrete action from facebook ok the first of its kind action to car last week from our social media desk thanks very much. eleven logs struggling to write its faltering economy years of regional turmoil including taking in some one and a half million syrian refugees have sent the arab nation on a downward spiral as the third highest level in the world and now is a way to bring in money the government in lebanon is considering legalizing cannabis cultivation for medical purposes it's currently illegal in lebanon but the industry is thought to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars annually did every

reporter i ever him visited a village in the bekaa valley were kind of us has been openly grown for decades for generations as a fact but as she discovered people there are skeptical of the government's intentions. the fields of his family's cannabis farm and have been inspected. he helps out here from time to time he's nineteen addy is not his real name he says cultivation cannabis isn't a choice for many of the famous here. they go into this line of business because the state hasn't provided them with jobs. to young men like me or any older farmer who wants to feed his children or any young man who has dreams he wants to build a house get married and start a family or there's nothing else a damn but plan cannabis and live off it. has you should we use it all of.

his hometown of muna is located in the impoverished baalbeck hemel district. for decades cannabis has been grown here illegally. lebanon is one of the world's top five producers of cannabis resin otherwise known as hashish. alley his arm to myself the cannabis trade has been to since the syrian war broke out in two thousand and eleven as lebanese authorities have shifted their attention to other security concerns and he's worried the military might suddenly show up again and destroy the crops something they did for decades. so i personally will take up arms if they want to fight my livelihood if they come here with takes to destroy the crops the people rise up with their weapons that's how they would react if i had to travel. the lebanese government is now looking to legalize cannabis growth for medical purposes in an effort to boost its cash strapped economy but not everyone

here supports those plans. and i'm against legalization if it means the state will be supervising the process and i don't want farmers to get their crops to the state and then the state to sell it on to manufacturing companies we are probably legalization only if the farmers have a direct relationship with the manufacturing companies. in twenty twelve authorities promised farmers here compensation for destroying their crops but sharif says the money never came. he says up to eighty percent of the people here depend on cannabis cultivation to survive without. planting cannabis now here is a constant. and not a direct action because the state neglected us and our area in general said most of the farmers resorted to cannabis because that was the only thing that guaranteed a return to them in the. farmers also say that cannabis is the only crop that can withstand the harsh climate of the bekaa valley. in

beirut we need to make a dollar is progressive socialist party is one of the supporters of legalization. he says the law would be a first step towards rebuilding the trust between pharmacy and the states know how would you know we're trying to create a public institution that would manage the other stream similar to how the tobacco industry has managed the phenomenon manufacturers and cultivates tobacco this has contributed to keeping a lot of people on their land and has provided them with a decent living. i should say you figure mint has not said when the law might come into force that back in your muna time is running out for allie. he's g.t. graduate from school soon and says he might become a full time cannabis fama if he can't find alternatives. and he. put that report together for us joins me now in the studio hello can you tell us how dangerous it is to go into the bekaa valley where you were filming is that very

dangerous or what's alive i mean of course you can really do a story like this unless you have a contact a local contact from a from the town which is which is. how we spend a lot of our research trying to find someone who is on the ground who's from the town that would guide is that that would that would let us in and i think once you have a local contact things become much easier i mean i never myself or my team i think at the time that we were there felt unsafe or threatened that doesn't however mean that the because itself is safe and it's very close to the syrian border a lot of over the years. over the years of the syrian conflict the infiltrations that have come into lebanon by isis have come through the because valley of course the fact that it's an area also known for its drug trade and clashes between drug trade and clans and authorities have gained some of these areas a reputation for being no no go no go zones i think while we were there there was a raid on a major house of

a major drug lord there and in july it people were killed in a town called brutal nearby also in clashes between drug lords and the state ok so you have drug lords you have close to the syrian border and nonetheless you were there filming for us that has to be appreciated certainly. you know the idea to to legalize a kind of us production in lebanon is a new idea but this time around it's been brought on the table by a very well known american corporate voice yes the lebanese government has a commission mckinsey and company to come up with economic recommendations to reform the lebanese economy and they came up with a one thousand page report that they presented to. to the powers that be in lebanon in july and one of the suggestions was legalizing the farming of cannabis for medical purposes however it is by no means a new idea some farmers told me that they've been asking for this for up to twenty years and in twenty four to in terms of politicians in twenty fourteen

a very well known drugs politician with blood had had tweeted in support in support of the idea of legalization because he believed that it would keep the people of this region on their land while the job of a very well known and powerful family an individual in lebanon is a quick quick fix or could this actually help the lebanese economy it can help the caretaker economy minister estimated that if legalized this industry could be worth around a billion u.s. dollars for the lebanese economy i'm not entirely sure just how quick it can be because lebanon the economy suffers from a host of structural issues that take time to fix corruption the fact that there is no government in place even though elections were already in may it's the third most indebted country in the world and economic growth has gone down to two percent from one percent. of the beginning of the of the syrian conflict of course the biggest question is how would this industry be regulated and there's

a lot of room for disagreement as it was treated by the report there and if all of the stakeholders have to come together to agree on how this this could be regulated it might take time so it could be a fix but i think that the lebanese economy has much bigger problems to worry about and this will take a lot of discussion to get off the ground thanks so much for going into the bekaa valley for some for your interview with us today as well thanks. well a brazilian woman renowned for her photographs of the country's indigenous people is among the winners of this year's berta medals given for outstanding service to cultural relations. or one that later first is over the business of mark and britain is looking for new partners as dr brian britain has to look for new partners because with bracks it on the horizon britain is on the hunt for new markets outside of the e.u. including those in africa prime minister threesome may is on her first official visit to the continent in cape town and between some as you can see rhythmical

moves may said she wanted to britain to become the g. seven biggest in in africa overtaking the united states pledge around four and a half billion euros by the year twenty twenty two may also said britain would work with african nations to tackle insecurity and migration by creating jobs from south africa the prime minister will head to nigeria and to kenya. and we're heading to india now the southeast asian sub continent is expected to be the world's third largest aviation market by the year twenty twenty five on naturally it's a highly competitive market especially for domestic airlines the reasons are the indian rupee has declined around ten percent against the u.s. dollar since the beginning of the year at the same time fuel costs have been rising and also to stay competitive local budget carriers continue to slash air fares and as

a result many have posted losses this year. up to four hundred years that's how long it takes for an ordinary piece of plastic to decompose the amount of plastic waste particularly in our oceans is a growing problem many countries have been taking a stance against the use of plastic bags but few have been as rigorous as kenya as fishermen peeled plastic bags out of the nets and butchers found remains of plastic bottles in pigs and chickens the government reacted production import sale and use of plastic bags all is banned. the country market in western ny robie is a popular shopping venue it offers nearly everything but no plastic bags which were banned a year ago shoppers can buy colorful reusable bags at each stand instead but they're ten times as expensive about twenty cents each that's why many people bring their own bags along they've adapted to the change but not everybody agrees with the band

including martin indiana who sells yeah. it's. even the plan is to help the environment it's bad for my business. i used to sell my yams in plastic bags so they would stay fresh longer. now they dry out quickly like you know i get back get back lazy dog think it's day and yet. nearby there are piles of discarded plastic bags. people have simply toss them here illegally. nevertheless officials from kenya's environmental authorities say that bag ban has been a great success if your bags are being discarded in public places and fewer ending up in fisherman's nets. at the beginning it was a talent available to continue to pack things but we were able to demonstrate over time you know over the months that it is possible to carry on your own business and

activities without it and therefore change of behavior that really. that just means people have had to do. that has been positive. violators face a fine of thirty two thousand euros or up to four years in prison so far nobody has been jailed but around a hundred people have been fined. one of the most vocal critics of the ban is the kenya association of manufacturers chairman's one hundred good guys the head of a company that makes product labels for the african market he says one hundred seventy companies producing plastic have shut down triggering the last of sixty thousand chops the time frame given was of six months was too short to make investment decisions and for people to reallocate resources and you're not given time to plan investors face uncertainty and this

causes tremendous aftershocks for the manufacturers when a very short time span is given. despite the criticism then vironment management authority hopes that kenya sets an example for its neighbors as well as countries beyond africa. that we stay in africa and we ask with us could be a scarce resource in africa believe it or not monica it's looking that way sand dunes in the west african nation of senegal are disappearing and not because of climate change sand is one key component of concrete and the demand for this building material in fast growing cities around the world as led to a boom in illegal sand mining in senegal the country's environmental police are starting to fight back. a stretch of beach by the car the capital of set a goal we don't the road with the environmental police whose job it is to hunt don't sun feeds. then comes

a phone call someone needs to head to the beach the unit is on its way. there they find a horse and cart. under state but where is the owner. horse and cart are seized. they can be reclaimed for in seventy five euros a lot of money in a country in which more than a third of the population lives off less than one euro seventy per day. by the people here and the living by destroying the environment they don't think about that. it's our job to make them realize if they don't want to we arrest them to protect the environment but that's. the removal of sand in senegal has a consequence coastal erosion with the natural protective barrier go on the sea can destroy hoses. here in the northern town of sun louis hundreds of people of already

lost their homes. that's why the environmental police are on patrol on the other car this time. then someone spots the thief. let's go. there he is there he is quickly quickly. he will be taken to the police station and could be hit with a heavy fighting might not be enough to keep him from trying to eke out a living beach. it's something that the police have to live with you says she believes that things will change in the long term. change of pace now and the berlin wall is to be partially reconstructed that's the surprising news from a press conference earlier today as part of a huge project an art project that will take place here in berlin in paris and

london robin merrill from the culture desk is here to talk about us to tell us about this right yeah this is it's a project based around the french phrase the liberty a fraternity which is the liberty equality for. but the liberty bit hence the reconstruction of the wall and there's all sorts of artistic endeavors taking place but they are going to build along the main drag just see behind is the then and then the long lodge mini city with a wall running through it now quite a few posts in this is pressure all too sure about this they sort of. not very comfortable about this because this still memories of the wall it wasn't a great thing to have through the middle the city especially for the old generation anyway thomas and is a leading cultural manager here by then and he told us what he hopes this project with achieve. and then. you learn how great utopias

can change into repressive experience yes but you also learn about solidarity creativity an incredible intelligence a willingness for self-sacrifice you learn what history does to the individual but also how individuals sometimes make history and so that much emotional so a lot of questions still open about that one but it's going to start on top of news wealth and they're actually going to ted down the wall on the anniversary of the actual tearing down vote on november the ok so we'll be hearing more about it in the months ahead you know meanwhile could just hours ago this year's very prestigious our go to medals were awarded are given out for cultural wards to non german artists what can you tell us about that yeah the go to institute is germany's cultural institute with offices all around the world it promotes the german language and cultural exchange generally and these medals are awarded annually to people who they the ensuite feels have made great contributions to

cultural relations over over a period of years kind of a lifetime achievement one and the ceremony takes place in weimar which is where good germany's greatest writer arguably spent most of his life and all the prize winners have used their art to highlight injustices for instance the brazilian photographer cloudy and has used the photos to fight for the rights of the me that's the biggest indigenous tribe in brazil is more about and another prize winner of the hung garion compose a bush. this woman knows what it's like to be driven from your home born in one thousand nine hundred thirty one in switzerland as claudine haas she lost many of her family members in the holocaust. she was able to escape and since the one nine hundred fifty s. she's lived in brazil where she goes by the name claudia under. while travelling around her new home she met members of the yellow mommy tribe and took more than

sixty thousand photos documenting their lives and she was moved by their struggle for their rights. openside oh you wanted to save people there because. part of me to. part of my story they became my family her efforts on behalf of the tribe helped lead to the creation of the ya know mommy indigenous territory in one nine hundred ninety two claudia under sharia as one of south america's most important documentary photographers. also honored with a go to medal this year is hungary and composer and conductor peter at that she has unique compositions ask existential questions in two thousand and three he wrote a work about the u.s.

space shuttle columbia disaster and in twenty sixteen one about the refugee crisis titled to the nameless victims. he's also committed to supporting young musicians and composers. i consider it my duty to pass on knowledge that's why i set up a foundation many years ago for because it's very important to me that. if you stiff. peter atrocious considered one of contemporary music's most significant composers. and there was another winner as well rob and yes there are normally. actually two winners because they wanted to give of their siblings and role of. the new stop the theater collective in columbia very experimental one it's called the art row and they're very much involved in regional political and social issues their headquarters incidentally which we've seen here is

a lovely old building in bogota that was going to be. demolished and there was some huge thing going to be built instead they save it for the nation by having the headquarters that as i say very experimental things were but meanwhile they performed around the world and brought recognition to various problems in colombia and more on this on our website absolutely lots more slash culture meryl thanks rob merrill for us with also desk thanks very much from. where mine are of our top story at this hour the german government has condemned violent far right protests in the eastern city of several people been injured after protesters clashed with police and counter protesters. this is live from i'm brian thomas for the entire team thanks so much for being with us sorry i will do with you again at the top of the out of.

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