where many expected it to be maybe a little lower so you can say it's victory all across the board they're probably not going to be able to fathom the necessary groups from the different countries to have the strongest group in the european parliament nevertheless you know they're clearly one of the winners of the evening with 2 real highlight wins for them and you mention them in france for example by the lipans. managed to beat out in monterrey mark hall's liberal party and in italy. party made significant gains that were around 30 percent i believe that the last european elections they had around 6 to 7 percent so that is a significant gain if you ask me. for the last most are happy as i said before that the total seems containable there is a clear majority an overwhelming majority for pro european parties in the european parliament even if it's got more complicated to sort of manufacture

a majority are in our brussels bureau chief max has been reporting for us thank you so much max. but here in germany it was not a very good night for the parties that make up the government conservatives and her coalition partners the social democrats together they lost almost 20 percent of their votes the biggest gainers where the german greens who doubled their showing a result that propels them into 2nd place the far right party also gained ground but lost support in comparison to the last national election. i sometimes reaction speak louder than words the german greens ecstatic as they watched their vote sarge this triumph belt off the back of young voters and the climate emergency a warning shots of the country's government was the signal used the signal today is that the german government has been voted down as

a result of its hesitation on climate protection and its failure to unify europe. up give years 4 years we are fighting for european solidarity and strong climate protection emotional. at the c.d.u. party they watched on in dread not exactly drowning their sorrows but these results down 7 percent make for sobering reading as the party grapples with the country's shifting demographics. so i retired several there's certainly we have not been dynamic a nothing government and we fail to give convincing answers the voters across germany have expected of us to indochina and. across town not their government coalition partners the s.p.d. it was a picture of fool frontal despair. they saw almost half their vote disappear 27

percent to 15 the party's leadership pleaded for members not to lose the faith. and. its minister i would like to ask all our s.p.d. members and supporters to take heart i'm still a confident me to the future even if today's results are painful they show us that we have a lot to do better than it is for the far right if t. it was more a night of shot and freude than success. the biggest cheer for the s.p.d. and c.d.u. losses. he had threatened an insurgency but in the end mustered 10 percent of the disappointment hard to hide. to repair the e.u. to reduce the e.u. to his schoolwork that is why we have been elected and that is what we are going to

do in brussels. these may have been european elections but the results may well she cut domestic politics to. talk about the results here in germany with our chief political editor who is with us thank you mr taylor so we saw the centrist party again losing support here in germany why is that. they're asking themselves out this evening actually i mean clearly ever since those past general elections and in autumn 2017 the far right if de call came on as a new kid on the block here really changing the political spectrum would be fragmenting the parliament and we seen this as a trend all across europe but then when you look more closely the conservative c.d.u. and the social democrats they failed to reach those young voters we already heard that the environment was a key issue here that's why the greens went so far ahead the big question is are the green so strong or was the social democrats so weak because they bled voters

did all sorts of the green party and the social democrats received yet another dressing down at the ballot box here in germany we're talking about the parties that make up the current coalition government and if they keep losing support can they continue to run a government together but for now they say yes i was at the seed you had course as a party where there was a clear message that they want to continue this coalition but we'll have to wait and see of the next couple of days whether the social democrats will once again get into that downward spiral of political and of us breakdown that we've seen so many times before and. usually ends in them changing their leadership but they really are running out of potential stuff at the top very fast you mentioned the greens coming in as the 2nd biggest party here in the syrian election vote for germany what has been the secret of their success well 1st of all i mean the environment was a big issue particular climate change issue that was completely missed by the other

major parties. at large at the same time they are living proof that to beat right wing populist parties like the if you can also be successful by portraying a positive kind of yes we can choose towards the future and that particular also resonates once again with younger voters let's talk about the right wing populist they came in at a little above 10 percent now at the last several elections here in germany they were close to around 13 percent and we saw them polling even above that for the past year or 2 so is this really the result that they wanted or have they really peaked. while that is that more complicated picture because we. today say that they really felt that they'd been punished more than the austrian f.p. for that tape scandal that we saw with the vice chancellor from their own right wing populist party in austria being caught on tape basically offering governmental

services for cash the far right if he still wants to continue working with the f.b.i. so. there was a feeling that they've been penalized for this but it also raises the question yes they potentially have maxed out we saw them actually pick up supporting comparison to the last european elections but it's you know significantly less than in the last general elections but when you look at eastern states we have communal elections here but also those european election results and places like tooling in those places that are going to regional. olson the autumn the f.t. managed to become the strongest force in 2 of the states so we'll be talking about the f.t. in a very different context and and and there will be a very different political picture coming from those particular strongholds of the if tea in a couple of months time most likely and that once again raised the question having maxed out if you look at the whole of the old building from certain areas so i

think that's still an open question but for now they stayed below expectations both for monks their own supporters but also their political opponents right our chief political editor mr cooper thank you so much for your analysis. and it's a similar picture in britain were nigel for rogers brags that party is on course to become the biggest party with about a 3rd of the vote it's been taking votes from the governing conservatives and center left labor but the results show the pro e.u. also show liberal democrat democrats surging into 2nd place they've also taken votes from both of the large parties the greens and other pro e.u. parties had called on voters to support them after prime minister theresa may fail to get her braids a deal approved and the u.k. had to take part in the european elections. right well let's take a look at what this popular search means for the european union we have with us now

from london our correspondent there barbara basal standing by for us and with us here in our studios a political analyst or less than good good to have you both with us barbara let's start with you there in london now this entire election has been overshadowed by prime minister teresa mayes failure to get breaks it through parliament so what does the result of this vote mean for that process. it means that the country is still deeply and totally polarized over breck's it and it also shows that what you needed in this european election was an unambiguous message so the 2 parties and the 2 sides that really came out was that the brics a party where the whole program is in the name we want breaks it we want it now did really really well and we have to remember when this party was founded just a couple of weeks ago by nigel frosh and he could just sort of siphon off all the bricks to cheers from the conservatives particularly and some from the labor party

which got punished for doing the opposite sitting on the fence and looking both ways looking to the remainders the pro europeans and looking to the. voters and trying to satisfy them both and that of course doesn't work so we see that what works well is that you have to have one message and you have to sell it clearly which is what the liberal democrats did their slogan was indeed bollocks to grex it and so that was really rewarded by voters which really flocked to the lib dems which had been half dead before they started again and this european election so that is the main message and it shows that the country is divided more or less through the middle you can't really make out where a majority lies it is just like 5057 how all of what do you make of that what we just heard from barbara and she's saying that the sense of the country is divided 6060 always saying

a real significant shift in the way that british politics has operated as we don't know unfortunately i think just the culpeper of the show we are observing for 2 years now and it's frustrating on the one hand because you see this big victory of the party and you have former interview with a representative of the brakes of party so who have to explain why he is now a member. of the european parliament it's an irony of history if you say so the entire situation is you have a country going for you dictions with the rest of europe while at the same time everyone expects the country to be out of the e.u. so but how do you explain the brakes of party doing so well the conservative party taking such a hit because it's a question of credibility of course so the tories and lib lost all their credibilities in the war as labor did that's that's the thing you can see it's not just not just the reason may in a government have been blame but also jeremy corbyn or

a couple of months ago was predicted as maybe the new head of government but then he fed into the same trap he did not where you take position and as you can see across europe all those party who did not take a clear position have not a clear voice out there had been bashed by voters and those no matter if they're right or left or green or whatever who had a clear message for the people actually had been rewarded as we just learned from the from the real rection all the of the lib dems in the u.k. nobody had bet a penny on them but they had a clear message and people rewarded them for the proper i want to ask you about what olaf has just said you know jeremy corbyn has been anything but clear about the labor party stance on bragg's that labor has done also particularly poorly here will this put more pressure on jeremy corbyn to back another referendum. yes because we have just heard to tom watson $101.00 no fees the vice

leaders of the labor party really call forward and say now we finally have to learn the lesson he all the time said we have to be clear we have to just say to people what we stand for and carbon couldn't decide and he sort of turned this way and that way and was completely ambiguous throughout and now the calls are getting louder of course bot. if the point is that political so much capital has been squandered how can they make good on that it is hardly conceivable how can they now all of a sudden change check again and tell people ok now we've made up our minds after the european election went so badly and now we tell you we're going to promise you a 2nd referendum who's going to believe them it is more or less ridiculous so they have really sort of wasted their relatively strong position after the last national elections and you can't really see them recover from that very quickly one question to going to put to both of you starting with you barbara just quickly more chaos in

london what is this going to mean for europe. if for your it was going to mean that the brakes of party it was not good for are just going to go back to brussels trail infinitely bopped on the other hand nobody knows for how long 3 months 6 months 9 months it is completely open but awarded means for the new prime minister who's supposed to take office like image ally that he has really nowhere to turn if he drags the country out with the hard bricks and relatively quickly to satisfy the bricks of cheers he's not going to have a majority in parliament if he doesn't do it he's going to frustrate his voters even more so what to do he is sort of stuck in the middle it's an impossible task a lot here take on that quickly well brit's is kind of a virus you could say so it brought down an entire country and we all watched it with pain and now of course the question is will it affect the rest of the continent because the deadlines have been pushed far away due to the

demands of the reason may and the question is ok how long will the e.u. invest its credibility as a partner of the u.k. to play that game or maybe will they face the unfortunate 2 will really say ok we have a no deal scenario and we take it now because we conned foresee what the consequences will be if we just go on strike once again more questions than answers in this process well a phone call with us here in a studio in back of a cell for us in london thank you both very much. well that was the day as ever the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter either at w news or at some ugly ass and don't forget to use our hash tag the day.

eco india. from trash to tread. * textile waste from garment production is cluttering the environment. in india and

bangladesh. a fashion label from a stony op is doing something about it with well thought out up cycling. and action packed life. anything is possible as long as up the coffee and his friends can dream of his movie theater in kenya star dom refugee camp. his life story ran ground to a halt 27 years ago but there is no holding back his dreams. thank you for cinema to adopt a russian 45 minutes on d w for. their super sharp. rise themselves away super secretive

then you'll hear of a gene. like coins soon. definitely around 20000000000 more. i wouldn't germany's wealthiest people live why do they keep such a low profile. the right to catch a glimpse. of the top one. to destroy the super rich starts to tear. down. hello and welcome to equal we india this week we get you up close with the communities who are often the 1st responders to some of the biggest ecological and

social changes our planet is witnessing. coming to you from mumbai in india on the shore to be let's look at how traditional salt work was and was about out of acting to newer and cleaner technologies. how creating access to some tree napkins is slowly empowering girls in a public school in delhi and how a set of board games could potentially change workplace communication for the better. bot 1st lets me the community from the salt plains of such in the restaurant state of good to up as traditional sort minus a few generations back the community used to manually pump out briony water onto their fields as fast these old bombs were introduced increasing their carbon footprint creaky but for a few years now the harnessing the power of the sun. the

temperature has nearly reached a scorching 40 degree celsius in the little run of touch the eastern and of india's largest plane. some to bend has been working here ever since she can remember it is grueling work sold extraction this considered to be one of the toughest jobs in the world. can i get somebody it's too hot to stay in the salt and. some to bend belongs to the community of invest in india with 3 quarters of storage in india has harvested in the monsoon season from june to september the song planes are flooded with grainy water when the water recedes in october 35000 augury of families begin their

annual from villages across the state with a little right to spend the next 8 months making sort. of habitable. our job that have become with all the materials and build a small structure to live in 1st they start to make a veil that accumulates the briny then the men start digging and of women move the dirt to create a path. that will go as it were 6 by. the water from the brine venice into the pan once the want to start drying a layer of salt forms on the bottom which we have to keep breaking into small chunks with the whole every day this goes on for months and i can see it in them better counting fighting happen there. the pumps are kept running day and night to move the brine from the submerged areas into the flood

business for years the sole farmers have used diesel pumps which cost them 140000 rupees about $1800.00 euros to operate through the season it is a huge expense that leaves many families with no savings. in 2013 self employed women's association a trade union piloted the solar pump project done families participated from the start now $15000.00 augury of families have joined the labor organization in the region the concept involves using the heat of the sun as fuel during the daytime and switching to diesel pumps at night. but the rest of them out of a. amaze me up and buying a solar pond is a still an expensive proposition for the other areas the organizations banking

going helps the families with seasonal loans to be repaid week making months for the 1st time in years to soar farmers have a starter home money a savings. other get it me too but when i got it then that i got back during the monsoon for 4 months because of switching to solar the family is able to take home around 425-0000 rupees in savings when they use dealer bombs there were no savings they used a lot of money from windows for basics for the 4 months at home and they're just such a difference between using sewn up arms and using diesel pumps it has really transformed their lives. to see it want to see. using solar bombs in the stead of diesel bombs it's not only better for the health of the villain and their families but also for the in mind.

i get up to do either of them are going to go to bed late if you notice carefully the environment of the rapidly changing around us imagine how much pollution has been awarded by the more than 1100 sort of bombs already in use by the. yes all that you have bought at the alamo not quite so we are very happy about this but we want to go further and make sure that 15000 to go to your families used to stick knology 100 contribute to improving our environment of our mom but lousy uninvite them or large companies in the region don't seem to care about this but a system of a making show of the british and here is less then it was earlier rather enjoy it what they do mark are the ones i am their boats. today some 2 brand has 3 solar bombs and a family is

a lot better off than before she makes about 162 piece or 2 euro's done for a song she produces. on to the market price is much higher a study by self employed women's association shows that song farmers who have switched from diesel to solar powered bombs have seen their savings increase more than 150 percent. the union is now helping them improve the quality and quantity of the sword to produce so that they can negotiate a better price in the future for now to switch to a cleaner technology and access to micro kinetics is a huge step forward for the families. now salt is one of the most basic one of the most essential ingredients in any dish but what exactly is so. and where does it come from this explainer will take you back to a science class in school and tell you how. about

3.5 percent of sea water as weight comes from the soil dissolved in it that means if all the salt in the ocean will spread evenly over the earth and die a surface we would make the lair more than 500 feet thick that's the height of a 40 story building so what does the salt and how is it created a crystalline compound made of sodium chlorine and some impurities salt found dissolved in oceans and some lakes comes from the vetting of rocks on land. raindrops as they fall on land dissolve carbon dioxide from the environment and become acid dick the carbon dioxide plus water called carbonic acid erodes rocks and creates mental ions or electrically charged it or make particles. these particles are got it to seize and lakes by rivers and streams where they bond in a chemical reaction to form solved. this process has been happening since the

beginning of time making salt over 202300 1000000 years old. gum and salt as we know it is found mixed with other chemicals and bodies of water and has to be purified before we can use it. or industrial needs. one kind of salt rock salt or here light is simply crystallized salt chunks the deposits formed as ancient oceans evaporated. brine on the other hand is water containing a high concentration of sot up to 26 percent the most obvious source of brine is the ocean but it can also be obtained from salty leaks such as the dead sea i'm from underground pools of salt water. did you know that salt has even been found on mars leading to a tyranny that either must once had c or that something. might have just heard from outer space. shifting focus now only 12

percent of india's 355000000 menstruating women need to remap the rest to alternatives like unsanitized cloth or sand the goals of public school in new delhi are learning to manufacture their own sanitary napkins and help increase access in the slums in this neighborhood. many many flaws i shared my feelings from the 1st day of my period with my female cousins i shared it with my mother and my teacher as what happened. when they talked to my father his my it and encouraged me to be more my child and keep my head up out as he did for them and to. tell me i used quite a lot during my 1st period as i was on a bit about side it's a knack and i was not in this town back that it since i've been studying here i've

become much more familiar with centered in up in some of the my mothers do you think because she's from an older background you know if you've got the hair how might outweigh saddam and plenty of the a lot so for me it's related to napkins and menstruation you can't eat during a period because go to temple or go into the kitchen or rush out here and we shouldn't touch i mean friends and have to distance from them to do it and i think there are many templates like these that. try to school in delhi breaking the typo's 15 years ago they began teaching students of all their bodies or menstruation is a crucial part of the curriculum at this all go to school. some make sure the small factor teaches the menstrual hygiene tossers she wants a female students are still feeling ashamed about talking about the people sharing their person experiences part of the learning process. in our class the strengths

learn about the biological processes in their bodies and about them faulty so sometimes she only tell us and often just been and your son you tell us why the rest resort to alternatives such as unsanitized dogs ashes and rice us. and realize that this is the most sensitive issue and. in the girl's life and if i'm not going to talk about it definitely my next image is initially also not going to talk about menstruation with other people and other boys and girls. that's the thing that started lingering in my mind and i thought no i need to bring this up i mean this is the area where i need to go on talk to other men and other people in the community. and we should not teach is the growth not only about their bodies but also how to make funny didn't happen.