a guest at frankfurt airport city managed by from. his a d w news life from a landmark ruling for gay rights in india. the country's top court strikes down a nineteenth century mall the criminalised de sac streaming home that india's algy bt communities can live from about without fear we'll bring you the latest from delhi also on the program the father in serious it lived profits prepares for the

worst by making gas masks for his children fearful residents can bury for more bloodshed a syrian russian forces threaten a final souls on the last rebel stronghold. on the rock star reception for as always father writes interior minister teo selby he helped to launch the country's populist coalition took power after nearly one hundred days in office depot people said how tough it is think the new government is doing that actually governing. also coming up eccentrics who finally gets some graphic they should take a look at this the world's oldest a trapeze artist of the jumping cult in the dock veges. i'm phil gale welcome to the program in a historic decision india's. supremes court has overturned

a nineteenth century law that made gay sex illegal co-chief not amisse decision triggered jubilant scenes the chief justice said the law had been used as a weapon for harvesting gay people introduced during colonial times section three seventy seven of the country's penal code gay sex punishable by up to ten years in jail in just l.g.b. two communities have been selling price. if you mean. if you have a smart move to get a very very fundamentally. not surprised that we didn't get a lot of support inside but finally the judgment came for our people and that's all we need as the youth to model we need to be who we are. are going to this is literally just the first exist decriminalisation so it's like he's mine is not going to change overnight i think this is if you're going to. need a lot of effort from us to get this mission of the spirit so we want to do advocacy

that is something that is going to continue to sexuality education from. school level to tell people that this is nothing different and that we are just like anybody. or if there is a gay rights activist from the uk now he's one of the petitioners who helped change this law he joins us from welcome to day doubly if you and your colleagues have been thrown into prison and torture because of section three seventy seven how will this decision change the way you live your life. the second hour of just can you can you can you hear me now it doesn't look like. can hear me we'll we'll move on him and see if we can go back to him later in the program let's turn now to some of the other stories making news around the world and japan at least nine people have died and hundreds have been injured after a powerful earthquake struck the island of hokkaido in the country's north the six

point seven magnitude event triggered landslides and knocked out power to the power plant which had been forced to which was forced to use backup generators. tile and the twelve quarries in the football coach who were trapped in a flooded cave for almost three weeks has attended an exhibition celebrating their dramatic rescue they climbed into a replica cave there which also display some of the equipment used to free. protests of munched in yemen demanding justice for the dozens of people many of them children who were killed in last month's asked on a school bus it comes as the u.n. says it is confident that delayed peace talks between governments government. would start on friday that. france is warning that it is prepared to strike targets in syria if the assad regime uses chemical weapons to retake italy province

it joins the list of countries trying to avert an expected assault by syrian and russian forces about three million people live in italy abyssinians last rebel stronghold without a break through any offensive there will likely be the final showdown of syria seven year war. with nowhere left to go civilians and struggling to find ways to keep their families safe having witnessed a massive military build up over the last week this father is preparing for the worst. making protective masks for my children and others in the area because people fear there will be a chemical attack. in this densely populated region others are seeking safety underground. most people in this village have a cave connected to their house. these caves were abandoned during the truce that

lasted six or seven months now people are again preparing for an offensive and stockpiling food inside an attack takes place we can go into the caves. fearful residents are bracing for bloodshed as the syrian government masses its troops on board as. the first strikes hit the rebel enclave on tuesday syria's ally russia released footage purporting to show russian warplanes attacking what it calls terrorist targets but human rights groups say several civilians were killed. international calls amounting to avoid an all out onslaught and an ensuing humanitarian catastrophe. germany's foreign minister has promised extra humanitarian assistance to countries that take. syrian refugees if there is a large scale government assault on is live it live heiko must made the comments

during a visit to turkey which already hosts more than three million refugees the foreign ministers visit is aimed at improving solid relations between the. masses attended the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the job. school in istanbul saying the school underscored the importance of germany to relations. with business leaders to discuss the implications of its economic slump. return to top story the landmark legal decision in india the supreme court has unanimously the supreme court's decision triggered jubilant scenes the chief justice said the low had been used as a weapon for harvesting gay people introduced during colonial times section three seventy seven countries people can make gay sex punishable by up to ten years in jail it is l g b t community has been celebrated.

out of jafar is a gay rights activist from la now he's one of the petitioners who helped change the law he joins us from delhi welcome to the w. you and your colleagues have been thrown into prison and tortured because of section three seventy seven how will this decision now change the way you live your lives. well this is going to have a huge impact in our lives because. very critically said the government to make it just me and to get public you know above the judgment that this community is no morphine as criminal so yes it would it is a step towards acceptance from the society and. it's a different key key to all section in urban areas and make cities and of course real we can take it down to the smaller cities and rural medias too. so if you talk

about a step towards change there how do you go about now the law has changed how do you go about changing people's. do you think for instance that you and other gay people will be able to go i don't know well hold hands or case in in public. to be honest. our south asian culture is very different from this can culture or european culture there are two men holding hands is not seen as a homosexual behavior. if you're not kissing in public. then it is ok hold hands. quite normal but. if you are a visible population which is estimated behavior and. need to see that it is accepted psyche and then north korea be cool go to discriminate or

just be is on their visible. and what the society thinks about them so. this judgement has would make an impact. on these populations and it would be p.c. we can be sure that there would be threats from the police and police were gone that is them under the law or contact and just under the law so let's talk about visibility. public about homosexuality do you think will mount change. yes dr would definitely came because. it's the it's the can have a guy on the list you have a guy no i mean it is not going to understand. the population so.

it was. and. there was complete silence over the. piece that week and i didn't mean to stream society and. understand what doing the community is all about to talk with yourself for joining us out of your for i. think. it's a nice populist the government has been in power for nearly one hundred days now interior minister matter of salvia any leads the country's far right linked party and is behind the new policy of banning migrant rescue ships from italian ports but certainly pleased his supporters polls indicate that league support has doubled since the election in march skeptics however say the root of the country's problems is not migration and they fear the populists are ill equipped to navigate italy's troubled economic war says w correspondent max hoffman reports from the northern italian city of the gum. the site of the show

is about to start after hours of waiting such enthusiasm begs the question is this really the interior minister of italy or pop star. the little girl was found it close to where we are right now and it's been hosting this first of all many years so this is classic home turf for the uni and you can tell people here absolutely adore him. and his fans appear satisfied with what he's done in the first one hundred days in office especially on migration why why should be supportive he's trying to protect it at least try to give us a better part of the. park on before i need to get it. we don't even solve any and what he's doing it this can be a revolution for italy. but a lot of things are moving for i went and he's keeping his promises think it's.

even in today's time and. no surprise that his promises on migration are a big part of the show but outside the populist bubble many are getting nervous about what the new government is actually achieving especially the financial markets. there are people who are against us government is free and independent from the multinationals from big finance from the banking powers both international and european we have no fears the italian economy is sound in business is sound. and most economists disagree insisting that italy's in trouble but facts don't seem to get in the way of success. across the river from the festival people are trying to do something about that. political entity has organized a protest picnic they are sick of their new government claiming that migration is

response. double for everything. you got that would mean that you thought you didn't want in reality it has problems like elsewhere we have high youth unemployment and many other people have only temporary jobs there are very few young people who get permanent contracts. we have a high poverty rate in relative and absolute terms. it's no surprise that the event on this side of the river is the only one to host some migrants. on the other side show is drawing to a close the interior minister's folks and sometimes funny demeanor is one of the reasons why he's managed to govern and gain in popularity he admits though when pressed that it's not all been fun and games just. well it's not easy it's really is a big country we have important challenges but i was tired of being in the

opposition and. in the opposition the answers to complex problems are often easier salvini has survived the first one hundred days in power unscathed but soon he will have to show if he can actually. see the past. has plenty to cheer about the u.s. tennis open. and she cory reached the semifinals of the women's and men's competitions trying to roll the sock a breeze through wednesday's match to set up a showdown with last year's ryder cup at madison keys it's a court battle through a five set thriller against a former champ and not in chile which the number twenty one seed now faces two times when i know that joke of it should be to australian john milton. germany's

national football team is preparing for its first outing since this summer's a stunning world cup exit the bad news is they have to play the new world champions france tonight in munich the showdown opens germany's campaign in the new nations' league competition. emerging from the shadow of disaster the german squad is now hoping to play like it's capable of playing. of course we're expected to create a positive atmosphere. the town is still there we just have to find the best way to bring it out in vegas even findus as with all those months he does it coach of the love has tried to move on from his team's early exit in the world cup he's added new faces but he's mostly focused on changing his team's play increasing positive movement when his guys have the ball and working more on defense and. it's of us you know if you can already begin to sense a bit of optimism but we're also not naive enough to believe that we can forget

everything that happened after a good match or to come in the. world champions france are short on confidence after their world cup despite that triumph there they should not be considered european favorites so says their own coach did eate a shop you'll be live says otherwise. they totally deserve to be world champions especially because they're so balanced strong in defense with lots of good tacklers that can win challenges and take possession and they have speedy players up top that can go deep when transitioning from the back. she looked he she needed. if they can manage it a strong showing against france would be a start in repairing germany's battered image after the world cup and since this is anything but a friendly munich could be in for a classic match. all to declare into pieces artist and a skipping dog. just to the record breaking stuff just to win a place in the latest book. which is published which is released today published

every year since nine hundred fifty five this british book celebrates the world's wacky strange antics stream so here's a look at some of the humans animals under a box of matey. betty go tart is not your average ought to generic and at eighty five she's become the world's oldest flying trapeze artist and it's a hobby she only took up in her seventy's many times been asked what is my secret about being you know eighty five and being able to do what i'm doing i think so much of it is that i'm doing things that i enjoy doing i'm hoping that i encourage people people will women to not think that when they hit the age of fifty five fifty five that they're old. betty isn't the only one reaching for the stars feather who was adopted from a rescue center has set

a new canine record for jumping at one hundred ninety one point seven centimeters that six foot three and sticking with man's best friend meet sharon m o p t just sold a few tricks on how to skate double dutch style. he deserves to meet irish butcher barry john crow barry is the guinness world record holder for producing the most sausages in a minute. then there's the man who has racked up the fastest speed in his jet propelled go cart. full how about the world's largest rideable hexapod robot. and if you're ever in danger of losing your knitting needles try these they measure four point four two meters that's fourteen feet and five inches possibly a little big to handle for most of us anyway. that we're going to she's missing

that's a goal for a new country is under pressure to improve quality but it looks like europeans have yet to fall in love with the electric car this year that's right they haven't we're taking a look at the latest numbers what kinds of calls people here in the european union are choosing to drive the cars that they have sold over the past quarter and according to the european automobile manufacturers association or ac a west fifty seven percent were petro over thirty six percent of the diesel and only one in sixty eight cars sold were actually an electric car for a long time talking about electric cars meant talking about a test that's changed baby is no longer the only vehicle in the race competitions revving up china's racing ahead and german car make it also want to get in on the action. mercedes hopes this s.u.v. will be its breakthrough into the electric car market a direct challenge to u.s. competitor tesla say he says it's like just model will cover over four hundred

kilometers on one charge it's the german car makers first purely electrically driven car nine further most a.d.c. models are expected to follow by twenty twenty two the companies investing over ten billion euros in them knowing it has a lot of catching up to do in the race. america's tesla holds first place among international each car makers with almost fifty two thousand cars sold across the world in the first half of this year germany's b.m.w. is close behind with over forty eight thousand and china's b y d with forty six thousand votes of eigen is in tenth position. audi and b.m.w. also unveiled their latest electric cars this month almost all german car manufacturers are pumping billions into research and development to make sure the country's champion industry stays in pole position on the markets. well here's

a sales sales opportunity for those electric car makers from february next year a quarter of all vehicles carney driving around frankfurt will no longer be roadworthy a german course rule that the city must introduce a ban on diesel vehicles which do not meet a euro for mission that fills the aim is to ensure clean air for the city's citizens all the petrol cars will also be affected it's a cool found that the measures put in place so far to reduce pollution they haven't go far enough the case was brought by the environmental action in germany n.j. which is calling on twenty eight cities to reduce at pollution to levels below illegal maximum. and all financial correspondent out of a spot is in france where that ban will be implemented only how exactly will this ban work. nobody knows and that's the real news i think of this story it seems to be getting the people who are involved in

implementing it completely surprised this this court decision frankford almost everyone else and local regional or federal politics wanted to avoid such a ban on driving in cities and it seems as if in frankfurt it's going to be not just one street or two streets like in hamburg but a big area problem is no one knows how big the area is going to be which area it is exactly and how to check drivers driving in it to see whether they're there in the right place or not and what penalties will be levied there is so much up in the air and there are probably around eighty thousand cars affected with which are registered with an f for frankfurt but you know there are so many commuters who drive into the sea to see every day when i'm on my way and bicycle to work with different license plates so it's going to have heavy consequences absolutely call is king in front of you cyclists meanwhile we've also got key data on the german

economy out how's it looking. it's mixed information the incoming orders today's orders and tomorrow's business well that was the six of the seventh month in a row now and july that that number went down went down by zero point nine percent and the economists were expecting an improvement but. the economic institute which also puts out the business climate is forecasting better growth for germany this year and next year and basing this on its observance that the labor market is very very strong and that you have strong income rises in germany so optimism and at the same time sober naked economic data you can take your pick which which you want to look at more closely i'll take the optimist. about sam frank but thank you very much indeed made to. go to cuba now where off to you is it u.s. trade sanctions and an inefficient economy people have learned to live with very

limited resources responses what cubans proudly refer to as inventing substituting everyday items for things that are in short supply demonstrating for example that sometimes a little piece of rubber can go a long way. you don't have to look far in just about any aspect of cuban life to find something like this a condom doubling at this rally as a balloon. condoms are so cheap and plentiful in cuba that they end up in the most unusual of places fisherman use them as bobbers to float their hooks in the sea and every mechanic knows that a condom makes a terrific plug for a flat tire. the problem with all this repurchasing say health workers is that many people are liable to downplay the fact that condoms were actually invented for something completely different. than what they see the condom as

a tool to use for other things that they really were made for like fishing and all those other things this is it for fishing it's used to protect your life and the lives of other people and about a little bit head. up us all. cubans are natural born inventors it seems so it's no surprise that the stronger stretchy characteristics of the condom make it far more useful than its original brief of contraception and disease prevention. here or hobbyist has discovered the rubber has an excellent application in home winemaking he just covers a bottle of grape juice with a fresh condom and when the fermentation process is complete gas trapped in the balloon collapses signaling it's time for a drink. to say we have a teacher anything here on the well stocked has become a common sight around the world. over the last thirty years but it hasn't mentioned into the motherland to all this but i so on cappuccino until now that is the us co-feature innes just opened its first outlet it's really the milan stories aimed

at an upscale market starbucks is betting that premium call fees will waive. the cost of most aid in a country where the espresso is a quick and inexpensive daily routine becomes a starbucks plans to close one hundred fifty u.s. braunches in the coming year because of a slowing like that. and a break from wind in our top story. in a landmark decision in new supremes court has thrown out say colonial era norms banning gay sex there are still considered socially to be happy to punishable by up to ten years in jail. you're watching t w news strong ballet more coming up at the top of the hour the latest is always available around the cult on our web site that is when you don't call on her in a home frame by many thanks for watching and see very same.

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