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this is detail big news coming to you live from berlin and the dangerous task of clearing land mines in ukraine countless explosive devices still infest the formal backing fields in the east of the country as a fragile peace takes hold d.w. joins the people were looking inch by inch to make the region safe again also coming up this risking life and limb on a trip across thousands of kids on the test has become what's causing the travelers in the human caravan sneaking towards the united states to feed their holdings in central america. and profits and germany's georgia banks take another tumble we are asking what that could mean for europe's largest economy.

i don't work i'm a man with that she there is no end to the conflict still simmering in eastern ukraine in the past four years the two thousand people have been killed by land mines nor knows how many mines were laid in the chaotic early stages of the conflict today the country sees more casualties from mines than almost anywhere else in the word it's a problem that's expected to get worse as displaced people slowly return to their homes archaea of correspondent nick connelly has been to meet the people behind the dangerous and painstaking efforts to clear those mines. it may look calm now but just a few years ago these fields so intense fighting between ukrainian government troops and russian backed separatists. over and over again the front line shifted

each time the retreating troops left mines and booby traps behind them. it's now up to civilians to pick up the pieces halo trust is an international ngo and the world's largest humanitarian mine clearance organization the challenges it faces in ukraine are unlike any other conflict zone. just what makes you crane different is that we have a real problem with tripwire traps our organization hasn't come across anything like them in other countries our experts have had to come up with new ways of dealing with them. it's back breaking work. a grenade and a trip wire that's all it takes a few summers after the traps were laid the weeds have grown tall making them almost impossible to spot clearing these traps because of pens on the vegetation. sometimes you'll manage twenty metres in a day sometimes it'll be just ten fifty years our priority and all of us. in the distance the shooting continues the current front line is just

a few kilometers away. these people are searching for anti tank mines the anti-personnel mines so characteristic of conflicts from yemen to mozambique a less widespread in ukraine. it takes one hundred fifty kilograms to set off this kind of anti tank mine so a person on foot wouldn't be enough. but a tractor very definitely would this maybe a war zone but the rhythms of the farming year continue this is all that's left of the tractor the bustle of was using to plough back in twenty fifteen soldiers had told him that the field was safe. i lost consciousness when i came around i saw that i was on fire so i tried to get out of the tractor but i couldn't they pulled me out through the back window and then put the fire out. almost. four

years when i woke up in hospital they told me that only one mine had gone off there were more of them underneath me and when they came to get me out of the tractor they had to drive over the mines to. seal sustained eighty percent burns on his legs three years and several operations later he's still in chronic pain it's not clear whether or not he'll ever be able to work again. at the site they found a grenade that's failed to go off n.g.o.s like halo trust on to law to dispose of ordinance themselves instead they must wait for the military to collect them and that can take weeks. ten twenty or sometimes just five meters a day the progress here is painstaking no one can say with any certainty how long it will take to find all the mines that were laid in the chaos of the early stages of the war but left untouched these mines have the potential to maim and kill the

people of this region for decades ago. thousands of central american migrants making their way to the united states have forced to rest and mourn after several died on the journey after almost two weeks on the move to a group of migrants is now in the town off in southern mexico that's more than a thousand kilometers from the u.s. border the u.n. estimates there are around seven thousand people in the group another group of approximately one thousand people is now on the move through guatemala and making its way towards the border with mexico the issue has become fiercely political in the united states with president donald trump promising to keep the migrants out of the country. but just why are they freed their homes here small. the road to a new life has few comforts and for this group of central american migrants a small ledge on a moving car brings much needed relief. the trip has also been long and

hot for this second group of migrants that's been walking since saturday their plan is to get to mexico across the gotta mountain border more than seven thousand people according to u.n. estimates are slowly advancing toward the united states a journey most wish they didn't have to make. you see this come straight hunger from the drug the way it's for the sheraton for a better life there's not a political battle i mean i mean one network political not political. and we are suffering for our families. for our children. the whole league and they force our children to work in gas fields and they killer care if we don't obey them most it's a bloody and brutal life they've left behind. in honduras gang violence is commonplace with kidnappings and extortions reported regularly. in el salvador

the security situation is just as dire huge drug busts like this one are a common occurrence but it's the alleged collusion between government and organized gangs that has people leaving the country in droves. the un refugee agency is calling on the global community to pull its weight to address the issue and the responsibility is there all countries have along this route. is pretty certain individuals fleeing persecution and violence need to be given access to territory and to refugee status determination or procedures. but the reaction from the u.s. has been less than welcoming. i'm not letting them in and i coming in they're not coming in we're going to do whatever we have to they're not coming and the threats have done little to dissuade these migrants intent on getting to the us border for

many of them there is no choice i'm up on that and. we're going to do what we have to do because we have to cross. it's better to die here than to go back there. let me now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the wild hurricane wilma has been downgraded to a tropical depression after hitting mexico's pacific coast as a category three storm it struck a stretch of beach towns in a sin unto a state with winds reaching nearly two hundred kilometers per hour emergency officials say more than four thousand residents were evacuated ahead of the storm. at least twenty people many of them football fans have been hurt after an escalator on the wrong metro station collapsed italian police say most of the injured were c s k a moscow fans heading to their team's champions league game against its roma some eyewitnesses say people were seen jumping and dancing on the escalator before

it broke down. but his son has secured a bailout package worth more than five billion euros from saudi arabia to help cover its massive government debt the deal was signed after prime minister in don can spoke at the saudis international investment summit he was at the few world leaders to attend following outrage over the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi . meanwhile in the united states the government says it proved revoke or deny the visas of twenty one saudi nationals who it has linked to the killing of jamal khashoggi is a turnaround from washington earlier president trump was at pains to defend his key ally in the middle east but as turkey revealed more details about the model in istanbul the u.s. has been forced to modify its position. of jovial donald trump surrounded by lawmakers in the oval office about the killing of jamal khashoggi u.s. president. bill. somebody

really messed up. and they had the worst cover up ever. and word should have stopped is at the deal standpoint when they thought about it because whoever thought of that idea. i think is in big trouble. the u.s. says it's putting together its own intelligence about the killing and has identified some individuals behind it it's barring entry to twenty one suspects from the saudi government secret services and royal court but washington remains reluctant to get tough on a key ally and a major economic partner but in particular trump is worried about losing a saudi arms deal to competitors i will tell you that russia and china would love to have that military order i can see my democrat friends do they would love this is one hundred ten billion dollars worth of military. yet some are

taking a stand over his murder many western firms boycotted the kingdom's premier investment event which began on tuesday despite the brave face put on by crown prince mohammed bin salman these are difficult days for the saudis. we are going through. a crisis of short resulted for. a. very. active. incident that took place in turkey nobody in the kingdom. justified or explained. earlier saudi media released extraordinary images the crown prince and king solomon meeting face to face with brother and son independent sources say the same son has been barred from leaving the kingdom since last year as a result of his father's writing and money directly linking the crown prince with

the general staff. chief among the kingdom's critics the turkish president. he told parliament that turkey has strong evidence in the saudi consulate in istanbul was premeditated and savage he called for the highest ranking of those responsible to face justice. to tennis on defending champion caravan what's the hockey picked up a first win at the season ending w t a finals in singapore she overcame two thousand and eleven when a better fit over in three sets it was the first time she'd beaten the trick in four years and that victory also came in this event which features the top eight of the season. two former champions each with a different style of play patrick prince of iraq the top of the screen is

a hard hitter often going for broke her opponent caroline wozniacki takes a more patients approach that patients paid off as she got the crucial break on her way to winning the first set. the day needed treatment on her knee and the second sachem that allowed for its efforts to fight back daft backhand levelling things up or to set the pace. to the right. but despite was an iraqi is injuries she looked the fresher in the deciding set given chris about the run around. the match point soon arrived. was me actually back on track in singapore. nasser cameras flying over and talk to get discovered an unusual sight a perfectly rectangular iceberg is floating off the lawson sea ice shelf scientists

say the icebergs rare shape and shop angles show it is likely to have just broken of recently the last and sea ice shelf is one of several that stretch along the coast of antarctica both shelves and b. have disintegrated in recent decades likely due to rising temperatures scientists believe the on the shelves had been found for at least six at least the past ten thousand dia's. and don't forget you can always get details news on the gorgeous down from google play all from the apple store and let me give you all the access to the latest news from around the wild as well as push notifications for any breaking news you can also use the date of the app to send us photos and videos which you think might be of interest to us. here. the news coming to live from london stay with us been for that and we'll have the business headlines for you

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