league. players. play my. place. players. play. play. this is do you w. news lobby from berlin a divided u.s. congress after voters deliver their first nationwide verdict on the trunk presidency democrats when control of the house with their leader pledging changes in washington they want to talk about democrats and republicans it's about restoring the constitutional checks and balances to the trumpet.

voters also sending a record number of women to congress but republicans make significant gains in the senate so what does this mixed message mean for the second half of trump's presidency also coming up relief for families in cameroon dozens of kidnapped children who were held hostage have been freed by their captors look at the latest from our correspondent plus balun to islamists in pakistan a week after the country's highest court overturned her death sentence for blasphemy pakistani christian aussie a beekeeper brains behind bars we look at the prosecution the persecution excuse me faced by the religious minority. player. i'm sara kelly welcome to the program. the republican party's control of the u.s.

federal government is over in the first nationwide vote since president trumps election two years ago democrats have taken back the house of representatives but it's not quite the blue wave that they had hoped for republicans have actually expanded their majority in the senate and defeated strong democratic challengers in some key state governor races so mixed results how would it play out in a polarized nation let's have a look at the numbers here's where things stand at the moment and the house of representatives two hundred and eighteen seats are needed to take control and as you can see here democrats have already surpassed that goal with some races yet to be called meantime in the senate here's how things are looking the lighter shading representing the seats that were not up for election and on top of that you see the night's results republicans you see now at fifty one seats which means that they have defended their majority there on tuesday's voting was characterized by high

turnout in districts across the country it was billed as the most important midterm election in a generation with both sides democrats and republicans energized to cast ballots in support of their candidates. it may not have been a blue weave but democrats have sent a message to washington. their win in make cupola and suburban america has left the party in control of the house of representatives. jubilant democrat leaders said they will reign in the polarizing president. and syrians morrow will be a new day in america was. he nervous feeling you know the power to win was. his religion and there are chemicals of republicans it's of their restoring the

constitution's checks and balances to the champions i was. was but it didn't all go to democrats way from tennessee to texas republicans won increasing their control of the senate. one time presidential hopeful ted cruz was among those fending off challenges. as taxes will rise the president held the results in a tweet calling them a tremendous success. the changing face of u.s. politics the record number of women elected twenty one year old alexandria. becomes the youngest woman ever sent to congress dave holland in new mexico was one of two needs of americans to win election show reste david a lesbian was the other. however through movement and meanwhile to move woman

rasheeda to leave and omar broke the mold and their campaigns. the first woman of color to represent i stayed in congress. the first. limited to thank you john goodman. the first to refugee everything i like to congress. the bigger picture do is oh fraîche gridlock in washington music to the ears of democrats maybe but a headache for crumbs. from our let's bring in oliver salad in washington where there will now be a divided congress and a check on the president all over a day after what was dubbed the midterm vote of a generation one of the takeaways. well it's

a successful the democratic party who will was locked out of power for eight years and more are now able to don juan the majority in the house of representatives and that will certainly mean that it's going to be more complicated full donald trump to govern in the next two years to come certain policies can be blocked by the house of representatives and the democrats had also announce a dizzying amount. of investigations in fact over different allegations against donald trump but he in turn was able to win two seats in the senate so that also shows that he still has a lot of support in rural america predominantly by the white working class and that shows that america's still is divided now and that is represented and reflected in these opposite results here in the house of representatives and the senate oliver salat in washington thank you all of our. and for more now on the

midterm election results i'm joined here in the studio by nelson cunningham president of mclarty associates he's previously served as. as special adviser to president clinton on western hemisphere affairs and as a member of the obama biden transition team and as foreign policy and trade adviser to john kerry's presidential campaign welcome to what a pleasure to be here thank you for having me so you are all too familiar with the ads inflows in washington and therefore we'd like to get your perspective today because you know nancy pelosi for example she has dubbed this a new day for america is it or should we brace ourselves for more division and potentially some gridlock here in congress and it's certainly a new day in the house of representatives so do you we have to see this is a stigma repudiation to donald trump to lose the house we saw this with bill clinton we saw it with barack obama when they lost the house of representatives

after their first two years it effectively ended their ability to legislate meanwhile it is given nancy pelosi the gavel and subpoena power to be able to investigate the administration and hold them accountable she's going to use that power and donald trump is going to punch back so for the next two years watch out how the democrats figured out how to deal with a president trump because i mean we've seen for example when it comes just to the voting they seem to be winning overall in terms of numbers but losing seats for example in the senate we also saw hillary clinton losing you know also in the presidential race do they need to change their strategy. look we cannot take away the democrats electoral achievement in this sense for the last twelve months eighteen months we have seen a blue wave coming and it was as large and massive

a blue wave democrats raise money they found fantastic candidates you showed some of them on screen just a moment ago they got their voters out we had overwhelming numbers of voters out yesterday what happened is donald trump built to his red wall. and he got his voters out and so we had senator who we had exactly in both the house and the senate he limited democratic gains in the house not enough and in the senate he did reduce the democratic caucus in the senate both sides actually can claim a good day yesterday but only one of them lost power in the house and that was the republican these was quite open with calling this a referendum on his presidency from the very beginning in a way that i don't think we've seen recently from from another u.s. president does that worry you the fact that he didn't lose back or today. the geography in the senate was very bad remember only one third of the senators were up as you pointed out if one hundred percent of the senators had been up it would

have looked more like the house of representatives there would be clearly an overall shift in favor of democrats he had unusually good territory in the senate bright red states that voted for him but in two years it's going to be a lot of bright blue states that happen to have some republican senators and he's going to be defending those states it'll be a different scenario where the democrats need to focus now what you said because i mean we have so many crosscurrents right now in washington we have the lower investigation which is currently ongoing talks of impeachment perhaps of trying but you also have a very ambitious legislative agenda on the parts of the democrats who have issues like health care issues like immigration where do they need to go from here in the house in order to set them up for the prize possession in politics the presidency in two thousand and twenty the first thing they have to do is they have to stop the president's legislative forward march and they can do that they already have that they have the house they can stop him from passing in the legislation they wish to pass number one number two they need to keep him accountable. and that means

through the vest a geisha as you mentioned robert muller is a former prosecutor i follow mr miller's investigation very closely i think we may be we may be surprised at the impact that his findings will have when they're released in the coming weeks or months. democrats will hold them accountable with their investigations coming from the house of representatives. and so they will hold donald trump in terms of his legislative gains and they'll hold him accountable and the third thing they have to do is they have to sharpen their message so that going into two thousand and twenty it's a referendum yes on donald trump but it continues to be a referendum on the direction of the country we want to thank you very much for joining us this afternoon to share your perspective on this vote nelson cunningham as we mentioned president of mclarty associates we appreciate it thank you. well now we're turning to cameron where seventy nine boarding school students who were taken hostage by separatists have been released reports say that the kidnappers are

still holding three adults taken from the school the children aged between eleven and seventeen were seized early on monday morning in bomb end of the capital of the northwest region no single group has said that it carried out the kidnapping but separatist militias have been calling for a schoolboy caught and i spoke a short while ago with our west africa correspondent andrea creation lagos nigeria and i asked him for the latest. well both the church and the authorities confirmed that the children where released this night apparently they were taken by an identified gunman to a church nearby amend and then released their rights now we learn that the gifts of course are still in shock they're all between eleven and certain year seventeen years old and currently a team of the local governors talking to them later on the local governors also scheduled to address the press because up until now we don't have any information on the circumstances of their release. it's not the first time that pupils have

been kidnapped so why are the separatists targeting schools specifically. right most of the schools in the region have been closed for more than two years now after pressure from the separatists they've been trying to force schools and parents and kids not to go to school for two reasons one they want to force the government to get back to the negotiation table and the second point is they don't want the kids to go through the french speaking school system and that has led to a situation whereby for two years now most of the kids in the entire region haven't been able to go to school this actually shows that this separatist might be behind it to send a message to those remaining schools to close down but it is not clear because there's about ten separatist groups active in this region and none of them has declared responsibility and some of them even also said this is not right that this has happened so this has sparked a lot of debate in cameroon some people even argue that the governments might be

behind the direction to justify the force they're using against separatists and civilians in the region remember there's been a lot of reports on human rights abuses by the armed forces of cameroon in the past months but to be honest with you it's very difficult to find out the truth from this region it's not easy for journalists to get there i was there last month during the election right now the authorities don't give any cretaceous for international journalists to get there and local journalists are not free to report under a very repressive regime of what's been running the country for thirty six years now i dream create with the latest from thank you. we're turning now to our top stories and the midterm elections in the united states there's been some mixed market reaction and this one has that story exactly off the elections investors are bracing for a period of gridlock with neither party likely to enact sweeping legislation economists believe president may not be able to cut taxes further but it also means that his current tax cuts come back they believe the gridlock in washington will

keep a check on some of trump's more disruptive market measures like the trade war with china some point out that the u.s. economy often performs well when control of congress is split between republicans and democrats. i spoke earlier to frank sport a lhari the head of the american chamber of commerce in germany and asked for his views on the election and what it means for german american trade. we on the one hand have to fear that the democrats and the republicans will not be able to work together at all that would mean no legislation of any type being passed we also have to be a little bit concerned that the democrats might use some of the control they gain in the house to launch a lot of investigations which maybe may have merit in some way but which certainly would distract the country from what it needs to do. on the other hand president trump has shown that he is willing and able to use his executive authority to do things basically the trade actions that he's doing are based for the most part on

executive authority so i don't see least not initially a major shift in the trade situation unfortunately by the way after the european market reaction over to our financial correspondent in frankfurt call red bulls and german investors like the outcome of a case of shot in florida. well it's fair to say that trump is not particularly popular in germany not even among financial people but the positive reaction on the equity market on the stock markets here in france for today is not really shocking freude it's more that people in the markets are a bit more confident you know the chief of the german american chamber of commerce we just heard about the relationship between at least europe and the united states with the democrats coming to coming back into power in the house of representatives hopes are rising here that you know the tone between the americans and at least the

europeans might become a bit more conciliatory and also people here are continuously confident about the u.s. economy the democrats in the house will do nothing to really muffle or significantly slow down the economy in the u.s. on the contrary it's likely that they will seek some sort of cooperation with the trump administration at least in some fields like. infrastructure bill not a big one like trump has promised but at still something to keep the economy in the u.s. going what about u.s. government debt something the americans never seem worried about. that's true but people in the financial markets have been quite worried about reckless way that the administration has you know done policies likely to increase the budget deficit in the u.s. and here the markets or a majority of people i talked to are hopeful that the democrats in the house will

prevent the budget deficit in the u.s. to widen too much that's reflected for example on the bond markets today where the yield on the ten year government bond the u.s. treasury bond has come down somewhat and also the dollar is slightly weaker today already was with the market reaction on those mid-terms q three german council of economic experts. predicts the national economy to grow by only one point six percent this year that's down from a previous estimate of two point three percent they say the government has a number of problems to address because of the aging population the report suggests increasing the retirement age and lowering taxes the council also urges the government to take precautions against the ongoing trade war germany belies heavily on exports putting it in a protectionist position. alas fed is on that council of economic experts and joins us now just how much of an effect is that trade war having on germany. well it's great force actually not affecting german economic growth in the course of this

year that much we expected a little bit more of a negative effect next year what we see in this year is a special effect from automotive industries we have a negative third quarter economic growth which is just due to the gumption to the new emission control system in the automotive industry and poses a particular problem what is the in general is that the growth rates in germany are slowly adjusting to the cross rate of the capacity of the potential growth rate in the future. what about the u.s. needs how could they change how trump does trade really don't expect much of a change due to the midterms on the one side. president from conducts its trade policy meaning mainly with with his executive authority it's possible to do without

congress on the other side democrats in the past have not been that eager to. achieve free trade traditionally it has been the republicans that are pursuing free trade in the us not a democrat so i don't expect much of a change here ok here's something that is changing it's changing fast aging workers are we all going to have to work longer. we will have to work longer we will have the retirement age at sixty seven years until twenty twenty nine and there must be a further increase in the future very critical of. ideas to fix replacement to once the contribution rates on the other side beyond the year twenty twenty five because this would mean that. there must be increases in taxes in order to finance that so i am going to have to hang around here

a little longer work a little longer. you know we just i don't know how old you are but. what we were we were talking about is an increase in. the legal retirement age after twenty thirty going to what's twenty sixty and. of course also must be a further increase until twenty eight here according to the protections that we currently have thank you very much for joining us here on the dole we thank you for getting old sarah work than we got to work thank you so much so we're having now to some reports here in germany media reports saying that horst is a hall for the controversial leader of the varian sister party is preparing to step down from his post as party leader the german weekly says that they have plans to stay on as german interior minister say hoffer has come under pressure to resign after his c.s.u. party saw its support plummet in recent of their recent elections that pressure

increased further last week after chancellor angela merkel announced that she was stepping down as leader of her party. let's get more on this mahela cliff now our chief political editor is standing by in berlin so what's happening right now michelle i mean does it look like they offer will actually resign a c.s.u. party leader. well there are signs that something certainly is cooking there because he didn't show up for an interior committee meeting of the parliament today and his spokesman wouldn't completely deny that newspaper report saying that he hadn't decided on his future yet so it's neither here nor there we do know that committed himself only to really draw the line or any kind of conclusions once the new bavarian government is in place and that is coming monday so a big question mark it looks rather odd the big question is whether he will do america which would mean giving up the party leadership but insisting on his

government office here in berlin let's talk about doing america so to speak today we know that on a gret karen bar that she introduced herself as a new. leader following angela merkel that's what she wants to be at least and she is considered to be merkel's close confident how does that affect her chances would you say in succeeding americal as the new party leader. well first of all it gives her a power base within the party she spent the last eight months basically touring her own party across the country finding out where those pressure points are so arguably she's in the advantage at the same time now she has to show her own profile and there certainly were foreign policy is concerned we have not seen anything new all we did see the most criticism i've really heard from her so far criticizing the government of having been heavy as lead over the past six months basically being so busy with the infighting at the same time she appears to be

seeking harmony with the other two candidates in the race they're asking them to really bring in their expertise whatever happens but one thing is first saw her career as party secretary general most likely looks finished she says she wouldn't continue in that office once that vote is through in december and who will become the next party leader a fascinating and what do you make of them here let him in the fact that she really had nice words about her competitors in this race both of which which have positioned themselves as critics of merkel for example on the issue of refugee policy. you know i thought it was rather surprising that she would really reach out to them but she made quite clear that she does she wants to avoid any further divisions because that is also what has cost the conservatives internal and external support that this government led by uncle america and the c.d.u. appear to be more busy with itself she doesn't want that in this compound competition she's political editor of the here the coast and with the latest from

birdland thank you so much. sports news now and the champions league a limo tuckey from b.w. sports is here with us to take us through the best of last night's action and look ahead to tonight's game so let's start first with dortmund because this was a tough two nil defeat by a logical last night but well wrong would you say. first after months attack was missing in action and it led of course stingy defense didn't live up to expectation this time endorsement just struggle massively and at the end they lost control of the game when so us in the thirty minute he made it one nil that wasn't the end of it because then we also had in the second half ton greaseman double the lead in the eightieth minute and basically it led a comet or it ending months fifteen match unbeaten streak but let's be honest with ourselves if you have seventy percent possession and you only register

a single shot on net you do not deserve to win that's exactly what happened and i mean with the last storm and i'm sure they needed this death come down back to earth and but even the captain mockeries was quite unhappy with their performance yesterday let's take a look. i think the way the game panned out was quite bitter for us sure of the end of the ninety minutes you have to say they had the better chances and scored their goals so they deserved to win but the way we conceded the goals was completely unnecessary we controlled the game relatively well in the first twenty to twenty five minutes. or. so what other results because your interests i was a mixed bag yesterday but let's start off with barcelona all they needed was a draw against inter milan and let's take a look and that's exactly what the gods and they now the first team to qualify to the knock out and you know what they managed to do it without messi and on the other hand liverpool a shocking two nil last two red star belgrade with napoli and priest on german

sharing the spoils that throws groups wide open but good news for the fans in group d. because they come away with a deserve to know victory over gala task and they well on their way to the last sixteen if they keep it up and turning to tonight buyer nick i mean do you have a game which on the face of it looks like it might be an easy win for them but nothing is really coming easily for this team lately surprisingly and that's exactly the big problem of buy on right now and i think the few factors missing i think the dominance of previous seasons is in fear and at one point they have bounced back bounced back but we saw on the weekend against firebrick in their one one draw that by and still have lapses in concentration they still have problems asserting themselves and of course everybody is now looking for a cause and that means more pressure is mounting on equal call of action but i'm sorry when some of your players are have lapses in concentration are firing blanks you know who is to who is to blame but there is talk of unrest in the change room

and luckily one of his players jumped to his defense let's take a listen. yes indeedy oh. we're the ones on the pitch we're responsible when i see a match like against freiburg where we were ahead in the seventy fifth minute at home you shouldn't give that results away and that's nothing to do with the coach it's us players who are on the pitch. i mean i thank you so much for bringing us up to date there we're taking a quick break i'm sorry kelly enver and then see again in a minute. these are very sincere russian artists from the middle of the nineteenth century whose highly susceptible and suggestible chick old school has a problem because he cannot tell he put able to symptoms of his music a life between forbidden passion and the façade of respectability. the tchaikovsky

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a tremendous success. well meantime let's turn to florida now where over one million people have just regained the right to vote civil rights activists in the state have been celebrating their victory after the passing of amendment four which restores the voting rights to felons who have completed their prison sentences six million people nationwide are unable to vote because of criminal records and florida has the largest number of those citizens. social media editor jared ray it is here to tell us a little bit more about the reaction that we're seeing to this landmark result but first we really have to understand what exactly amendment four is cherry red so this is a measure of the activists like the ones we just saw have been fighting for years and basically what this means it restores version rights to just under ten percent of florida's version i'd populations are quite a large number of people and these are people who have been convicted of what's called felony sentences not for all of them are really violent crimes but if they

could just have been convicted of something and had to go to jail for it it doesn't apply the. two murderers and two people convicted of sex crimes these could be people who've. had to serve time for traffic crimes or nonviolent offenses for example so they'll get their right to vote back in people who have have been celebrating on social media and posting about people like i. used his time in prison he writes writes it's historic the greatest voting expansion sixth since the twenty sixth amendment and the greatest in any state florida has gone from the leader in disenfranchisement to the leader and in franchise an overnight democracy won and if it's drag queens through this is latrice royal who is famous from ripples drug. addicted felon she rides thank you florida you did it i'll get my right to vote back a change is going to cause lots of happy people there not everyone supported it

though of course there was a group cold florida rights coalition basically they argued that giving felons back their right to vote today victims for example but it seems like didn't win out at the end it's interesting that this has all gone down in florida florida a swing state often deciding elections in a way that is contested in many cases. what effect could this have on future elections jared florida is notorious be giving us these real cliffhangers and basically what this would do is that will allow another one point four million people to cost their ballot in the presidential election in two years' time this could have a real significant effect and it's also important because people like black people latino's and poll people were disproportionately affected by this law and so big chunk of these demographics are going to get their right to vote back and not like us it is going to be interesting to see in two years time can twenty twenty from that presidential ticket jared rape thank you so much for bringing us up to date on

amendment four and what it means if we should. well pakistani christian. remains behind bars bars one week after the country's highest court ordered her release from death row the blasphemy case highlights the dangers faced by christians and their supporters in pakistan her lawyer has fled to europe saying that he feared for his life and baby's husband has appealed for the family to be granted asylum abroad hard line islamists have been out on the streets calling for his wife's execution since the verdict was announced. days of anger as islamist protesters demand the death penalty for this woman. bibi a member of pakistan's christian minority spent eight years on death row for allegedly insulting the prophet muhammad during an argument with her coworkers. she was eventually acquitted but remains in custody under police protection.

b.b.'s is not the first case of persecution against pakistan's christians less than two percent of the population christians have faced repeated attacks by islamist extremists in recent years. in april a gunman shot four people dead in this church in quetta. the worst attack in recent history occurred in the spring of two thousand and sixteen at an easter celebration on a playground in lahore a suicide bomber claimed the lives of seventy people and wounded over three hundred more. christians are legally permitted to practice their religion in pakistan but many feel they are at the mercy of the country's controversial blasphemy laws the punishment for insulting the prophet muhammad or mishandling the koran is dead so far no one has been executed under these laws. yet bibi's acquittal does not

mean she is safe to end the protests surrounding her case the government struck a deal with islamic groups bibi could now be barred from leaving the country where hardliners have vowed to take her life her family says she will never feel safe in pakistan. for more let's bring in john pontifex he is the spokesperson from the ngo aid to the church in need a catholic charity which supports christians who are being persecuted around the world including us and baby john thank you so much for speaking with us this afternoon it's been one week after the country's highest court ordered the peace release still she is not free we understand where she at the moment. she is still is. we are where you. are and for the time being. we know. about global image what do you think happens next when do you think she might

be released and will she be able to leave the country. this is the major question that we're facing at the moment we know that the p.l.p. the traffic the live eight party reached an agreement with the punjab government and the federal government in which they the government agreed that they would not resist any effort to hold a review of the decision reached by the supreme court and the second thing is that the government they've agreed but they would in fact start the process through. this late being placed on the exit control list which in turn would prevent her from leaving the country but as yet we've had no updates on that whether it's on the government on the acting on those two points still remains to be seen and at the moment the family is still very much hopeful that the original decision

announced last wednesday namely the acquittal will in fact her head and in fact that the. the the statement issuing the the request for her release i will go ahead sir give we're in a situation where we just don't quite know what's going to happen john given that given what you're saying do you know anything more about the security that might be being provided for her and also about her how her family is doing what does the future hold for them. well her family are very frightened that this is the most important talking point. they have reported. that scream and. heard and have been going from house to house asking people i haven't seen this person. to know what would happen if indeed this is going to get into the hands of the mob. for a given the report indicates that she. used it security in the britain where

she's being held and those are everything that somehow she will be bumped off will somehow be killed by god or some some kind of a current production of the state. and in the jail they will let her leave and this means that of course. we are very much hopeful that somehow the situation room be resolved well thank you very much for joining us to share that update john pontifex spokesperson for the ngo aid to the children in need a catholic charity which supports christians who are being persecuted around the world including us and maybe. for a full hour get frustrated about your mobile reception in germany or elsewhere perhaps and fizzle and has more of that i get frustrated every day my mobile reception in my apartment is holding their share with us we're talking about germany one of the most developed countries in the world and some people here still

struggle to get my ball forward session with the old three g. and four g. networks meanwhile the next generation is almost here. it's still a daily new since for many germans searching for good network coverage many find this unacceptable for a leading industrial nation. things haven't been up to scratch so far with the theater i'm just asking that we actually get what's promised at the spectrum auction this time. the federal network agency wants ninety eight percent of homes to have access to five g. but an estimated ten to twenty percent of the total land will still be under supplied especially in areas where few people live or where motorways all railways from three. the minister for digital infrastructure refuses to accept that considering the money involved. when we're talking billions will establish very

clear means of controlling and sanctioning so we get complete coverage because many . rural communities also want good reception and network operators fit the high cost of one hundred percent coverage no not yet but soon with ninety nine percent population coverage will cover about ninety percent of the london germany that's was in germany is thirty percent forest once and all survived and is a delegate dachas germany is heading for a digital world than the network needs to be available everywhere digitalisation everywhere regardless of whether you live in a city or in the countryside that often. industries like small manufacturing until thomas driving also pushing for the next generation of my coverage. b.m.w. profits plunged in the third quarter the german comic opposed to the twenty four percent decline in earnings to one point four billion dollars b.m.w. blamed a number of factors for the fall in profits including the u.s. china trade war and the extra cost of implementing tougher if you will mission standards the company also had to recall more than three hundred thousand cars in

august in light of all that b.m.w. had already warned that earnings margins and profits would fall this year. frequent droughts and an exploding city population have made clean drinking water scarce in madagascar many people rely on water from swamps and self built wells which are often contaminated but one nonprofit organization has discovered that providing clean water doesn't have to cost a lot. a crew from madagascar is national water utility is repairing a broken pipe in one town and. about forty percent of the city's drinking water is lost jus to leaks like these repair teams are advised and trained on how to detect and fix such leaks by the ngo water and sanitation for the urban poor or up. on is the program officer. save the source doesn't need to be.

creating a new to it but. those source that have now. improve the service that they need to get. up is working to improve. water management the metropolitan areas population has doubled to some three million over the past twenty years. two thirds of the people have no access to clean drinking water according to what about one quarter of the deaths among children under the age of five here linked to water borne disease. and her team help provide basic infrastructure to prevent waste water from polluting the environment and improve access to clean water in partnership with the city the ngo has already built five hundred water kiosks that sell breaking water

they've also built laundry blocks across the city many locals still rely on contaminated surface water to meet their daily needs the river which passes through one town a river is the city's largest source of water local people fish and do they washing here but the water is contaminated by ror sewage only a part of our review is connected to the sewer system and none of the waste water is probably treated. the director of the municipal waste water facility worries that environmental pollution will soon make it impossible to provide local residents with safe drinking water. the problem. with respect to the quality of the drinking water is environmental degradation. our facilities have to operate full capacity just to meet the needs as best we can loss of this is not.

with what subsystems the city has drafted a proposal to expand its waste water treatment facilities these improvements in water management are urgently needed as. only to will otherwise the it will not be a source of life but a threat to the local environment and people. if a place in the world let's hope they can clean it up to sarah with more news thank you so much ben we're heading now back to the united states because a caravan of migrants which is headed toward the united states is now resting in the mexican capital immigration was a key issue of donald trump's campaigning in the midterm elections with the president of linking the migrants to crime he also ordered thousands of troops to the border some of the migrants are now considering whether to complete their journey or to seek asylum in mexico and our reporter. has been accompanying them

and sent us this report. gonzalo is from honduras there his life was dominated by violence and poverty he's gay and he's a strange from his family who refused to accept him. i suffered a lot of discrimination in my home country from within my family too because of who i am because i'm gay i was even physically attacked. gonzalo saw no alternative but to flee he's decided to stay here in mexico where he's applied for asylum. there are a lot of people like me there are people who don't want to go to the states and prefer to stay in mexico. n.g.o.s have set up an information center for migrants here housed in a tent u.n.h.c.r. says that the help provided here in mexico city for migrants making the trek to the

u.s. border has led many to change their plans even though i know that people are applying for asylum here in mexico city but to give you an idea of this chiapas has received around thirty two hundred applications in the past fifteen days. some aid organizations expect around twenty percent of those making the trek to the border to choose to stay in mexico ana from el salvador is one of those she's traveling with her eight year old son and knows what problems she could face this is the fourth time she's tried to make it to the u.s. . with. every. we reached mexico. because we have received help from the government here. they help people make a future for themselves. and that's why i'm staying here and the mexico city.

eight hundred kilometers to the north this is the most dangerous part of the journey volunteer helpers say there is little to no transport here and organized crime is rife. mexico city there are villages everywhere but in the north the distance between the settlements is bigger and it's called the climate is different there it's good that they have different options and the change of government in mexico means they are more open to their fellow central americans and management of many kinds president andres manuel lopez obrador has promised jobs for the migrants but many of them are suspicious of the pledge believing it to be an attempt to break up the caravan. they want to break us apart they offer us jobs and asylum but they've been making those promises for years and have never kept them and.

that's why so many migrants are determined to press on to the u.s. border they're regrouping in mexico city and gathering their strength for the reception president trump has warned they will receive there he's sending troops to stop them entering the u.s. . we are pressing ahead we are stronger together and we will do everything we can to get to the united states. but look at i want to go on it's too risky to stay here. i'm going to cross the border and if i have to break the law to do that but then i'm sorry but i have no other future you see. a future that most of the migrants in the caravan say they cannot see in mexico.

the deutsche grammophon company celebrated its one hundred twentieth anniversary last evening in the berlin philharmonic hall with a concert featuring two of the world's classical magus stars the german violinist you see her there on a sophie looked up she is in rehearsals there with the chinese pianist lang lang let's bring in our classical musical correspondent. who was actually there would have treat for you tell us how was the mood as you might expect with torture come of it was very formal very posh maybe symbolized by his floor length whites chiffon dress blues kind of a gasp in the audience when she came out under the feet of water and it went from there you know there was in the audience munford hornick conducted the berlin

struck a pillar with very soft very eruptive and both artists gave encores that's a nice note and both had a very personal style and somehow to me that you can have summed up just about everything that classical music is and can be. unassociated motel is considered one of the greatest violinists of all time she's been recording for di to become a phone for forty years one third of the company's history so what makes the label so special and her opinion. was this is a company which has a treasure chest of historic recordings and that is actually always the groundwork not only for music lovers in the audience but for young musicians they should go for oh check what early are. generations have have achieved

have done have been dreaming off as intellectual concepts of pieces. lang lang has also recorded for dacha gramophone at thirty six the chinese born musician represents a younger generation and has a strong appeal for young audiences he feels that classical music is still important in the modern age. classical really has been around for you know hundreds of years and been such. an inspirational. emotional moving enjoyable. part for and when you listen to classical music it makes all your sense senses are open you know and you know in that because we cannot just live in

a world on the surface. with artists like lang lang and and as a few motown touches come a phone is well positioned for the next one hundred twenty years. will pass and the next one hundred twenty years let's really dig into the last one . hundred and twenty years what did they mean in terms of deutsche grammophon history well you know sarah it's always technology and artistry at the same time because it's interesting that the inventor of the gramophone he was an american his name was in the building a born in hanover germany he invented the great the gramophone and the shellacked disc and he also founded the company. and in a couple of years we had people like him rico caruso within four years seeing into a horn and he became different world's first classical music star or any music star by that sense. then in a few years the company's factory in hanover had over one hundred record pressing machines it was an explosion and of this new form of mass media the company's

golden era came after world war two symbolized by the good habits of karri on a number to note here four hundred four four hundred four hours of music is what he recorded that's if you play it back to back seventeen days of music of course not the only artist not the only conductor but he symbolized torture gramophone over the decades technology and. artistry have continued to go hand in hand it was the first company to have magnetic tape recordings the first to have stereo recordings and now they're even they have their own region or lounge with an apple music it's a curated label and so in that sense. we are actually at the cusp of new technology and it's not even a record label anymore it's a multimedia enterprise it's a rich history thank you so much for taking us through it i have to just quickly turn back to one thing because i'm quite jealous that you got to go to this concert last night what stands out in memory you know she would have played

a big beethoven romance very communicative and she also played to pieces by the hollywood film composer john williams and she's a personal friend of his and he composed a piece extra especially for her it's an adaptation of some earlier star wars music and she delivered a person. message to him he could not be there for health reasons he had to stay home but he watched the live stream in los angeles and at the same time long long in an artistic sense he had a very very personal message to him he with all the perfection his playing is actually impeccable but also he has poetry and also he plays mozart as though every note counts so it was worth it if you can do that he is very folk are taking to through all of the details thank you so much if you. you're watching. a live from berlin i'm sorry kelly thank you so much for joining us this hour and

we will leave you now with some more sights and sounds from the performance namely mozart's piano concerto number twenty four thanks for watching have a great day. thank you.

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