lol. play play play play. this is d w news live from berlin and virus mental activists faced off with police that protest that i'm lying here in germany thousands of people have turned out to call on the government to immediately end its reliance on tolt and. members of the german government to sound the alarm about the far right extremism weeks after the murder of a pro refugee politician shocked the country to ask just how being germany's neo nazi problem is also coming up.

after undergoing heart surgery rolling stones front man made jagger hit the stage again and the better in france launches its latest north america tour. player. play. on the welcome to the show. hundreds of climate activists have broken through a police line and stormed one of germany's biggest lignite coal mines several police officers have reportedly been injured it's the culmination of a mass protest organized by several environmentalist groups activists are demanding that germany take immediate action to phase out fossil fuel so as to limit global warming. ok. it's

a coordinated protest targeting several different locations slowly this group of demonstrators make their way towards their destination the cart's wyler coal mine. isn't metabolise and we're well distributed now the train tracks in front of the new coal power plant are occupied and over 1000 protesters are on their way to meet her arsenal this morning nearly 2000 activists from our camp set off towards the open pit here in chorus finally. hundreds of activists slept on the train tracks leading to the coal field power plant in north hot successfully blocking cold deliveries to the facility. and then the it was very quiet during the night but the mood was very positive it was the world very happy to be here. this has to be done i thought it would be much harder what's going on here is really impressive i have a good feeling that we can make things happen. by mid afternoon some activists managed to breach the police cordon and enter the open pit mine these people want

your money to immediately end its reliance on coal saying the environment can't wait for a gradual phase out. for more on this let's go to d.w. correspondent peter halo who is advocaat via lignite line for us peter welcome we are hearing reports about clashes between protesters and police how is the situation where you are. the situation is very tense here at the enormous open pit mine of got swallowed as you can see behind me about 1000 activists have that mine today in the afternoon and now it's a standoff between them and police down there in that mine they're hard to spot because this is an enormous pit that's about 66 square kilometers big but i just had to look through binoculars and there you can see really hundreds of policemen facing hundreds of protesters some of them have set up their tents so it's a very tense situation down there they got my late night line belongs to energy

giant of a conflict between the energy supplier and environmental is a new what's behind it well it's a conflict between and viral mentalists and the coal industry the environmentalists a protesters here say that. via the late night mining in this area is the main source of c o 2 emissions in europe they say and so they wanted to be shut down as soon as possible and the one running this mine and some power plants around here and other mines of course says no we need to burn that coal we need that energy from the ground here that germany has announced that it will stop using coal as an energy source by 2038 politicians are even talking about bringing the deadline forward to 2030 how far along is germany with the transition. well germany is not where it wants to be and the mining the brown coal mining in the country is one of the reasons for that because it is called. the worst.

production when it comes to c o 2 emissions as i said it's considered to be the main the biggest single source of c o 2 emissions in europe and that is a reason why germany won't meet its climate goals if these mines will keep running and the power plants in this region will keep running for another 20 years and that is why politicians are now discussing that they reached a compromise in phasing out brown coal mining until 2038 and they are now discussing new dates in order for germany to achieve its goals so how protests like this one here following there for us affected energy supplies at all no not at all not yet be energy supply here in the region of course they have stockpiles of coal not far from here i can see smoke coming from chimneys off their power plants so they are still running these power plants and even if some of these

power plants were to be shut down of course there's other sources of energy in the country so i don't expect that we will see any sort of power shortages in germany in the near future your correspondent peter hill thank you very much. the 2 contenders to be the next british prime minister are in the u.k. city of birmingham today in the 1st of 16 campaign events for the leadership of the conservative party front runner boris johnson when 1st laying out his vision for the future of the party and the bracks that process johnson refused to answer questions relating to a police incident at his home earlier this week as rival foreign secretary jeremy hunt also outlined his plans for the party the new leader is set to be elected in the 3rd week of july. here's what the 2 contenders had to say about their plans for brics it was the 1st thing we need to do you know what it is we need to get bricks it done this someone who campaigned for bread see. who they didn't

see. someone who was mid to. the brits that could bring your country the right man to unleash on that project but i'm also someone who has a bottom line knows not to blink and knows and this is the crucial thing in any negotiation exactly what it is what we need is something that allows us to leave the european union but does not propose to the customs union or the single markets indefinitely so we can only leave them at the whim of the. now to some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. president donald trump has said he will impose additional sanctions on iran in an attempt to werther hampering the country's nuclear program trump also said the pentagon was still considering military action against terror statements after trump called off a strike on a rainy and targets after the revolutionary guard shot down an american intelligence journal how to get things done. the people of istanbul are preparing

to go to the polls tomorrow in a rerun of the city's mayoral election that was an old in may polls show him of the ruling party again trailing ephram in my moment of the opposition c.h.p. . won the initial vote in march which was then scrapped following alleged irregularities. at least 7 people were killed in cambodia when a building under construction in the city of bill suddenly collapsed overnight it's feared more people could be burned in the rubble a local official said workers were using the unfinished structure as their sleeping quarters. leader is in germany are sounding the alarm about far right extremism after the killing of a member of chancellor merkel's conservative party the suspect has known links to the neo nazi scene he's accused of shooting violence a look in the city of earlier this month the 65 year old was

a vocal supporter of the refugees a number of politicians across the country say they have received death threats in recent days now foreign minister heiko has written an op ed for germany's biggest selling newspaper calling for more action against the far right it's called. a reporter hung spangly has been following the story for us what are politicians like congo saying about the rise of far right extremism in the country well the foreign minister. as you've said has written an article on the. paper today and in the article he wrote that the people really has used the term right wing terrorists to describe the crimes committed by the far right extremist because in most of the cases they were described as isolated incidents however they are actually linked so it is important to name them correctly and he also called for protests for example he said we have fridays for future and he says that it is also

important that we have things like thursday for democracy for example because he says that these kind of acts are endangering democracy and merkel chancellor german german chancellor angela merkel also says that the government is really serious about fighting this problem so how serious of a problem is this really how big is the neo nazi community here in germany while the case the killing of. her has shown that the problem of far right extremists is like is posing a threat to germany and in fact it has been reported that the alleged perpetrator actually participated in a neo nazi meeting back in march he met with a group called combat 18 it's terrorists and he went on to group in germany and they were known to be extremely dangerous and that's that's why that's super alarming and the last time such events happened it was in 22009 and now we have 2

in 2019 and also what's alarming is one other thing that's alarming is that a few politicians have received death threats after the death of a flush. in one of the letters let me read that to you it says the face of cleansing has started with watching lipka many more who follow him including you your life and in 2020 things like that like actually were submitted to politicians and also there are some official statistics stating that crimes related to. extremist far right extremist and has its own a rice and 2014 around 10000 cases were recorders and in 27000 the number rose 212700 so how do we explain this increased number of crimes committed by right wing extremists so expertly a pointing finger to the far right to parts political party will turn to for

germany or a.f.d. and saying that they spread to hatred and ceded to ground for more violence because of their stance but then we also have to note that the rights of f.t. of this party has something to do with the refugee crisis back in 2015 when a lot of migrants actually came in and church germany and in fact many of those crimes happened around the time $21516.00 were targeted and the refugees but then it broadens to target journalists and now there are targeting politicians as well worrying developments here in germany followed by reporter hugs from the thank you very much. to formula one now where lewis hamilton beat mercedes teammate military botanists to pole position and french grown pre-qualifying on saturday after a promising practice run a sloppy qualifying performance from bottas allowed hamilton to steal a march on his nearest rival he came home just over a quarter of

a 2nd faster than the finn and wilson will start sunday's grand prix a commanding 29 points clear of voters who needs a victory to keep his challenge on track. really months after undergoing heart surgery the rolling stones the legendary front man make jagger has returned to the stage the band kicked off its the late tour of north america by playing to a crowd of 60000 in chicago 17 concerts had to be rescheduled to allow for jagger's medical treatment but post operation jagger seems as energetic as ever. the rolling stones front man mick jagger is back. and with some swagger. the band opened their delayed tool in north america it was postponed for 3 months because jagger needed heart surgery but friends agree that you wouldn't have been able to tell he moves like he's 30 years old even always 74 or 75 whatever it is

he's fantastic he performed well i wish i had his surgeon. in the stones of my 3rd grade even though i'm young i still love his enjoyment of what i heard about the hope issues i was scared that i might it might not ever to see them so to see them play tonight was incredible it seems jagga the stones into you as do their friends devotion and of course their music. next the the latest edition of sift living in the digital age at this time with a look at how women around the world are using social media platforms to fight violence and discrimination and make sure to stay tuned for that i'll be back at the top of the hour with more headlines don't forget in the meantime you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our website at g.w.

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