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before you have to be a solution. because she's not. this is. from berlin tonight europe's heat wave is getting hotter france records its highest ever temperature and climate experts warn that this is just a taste of things to come up we'll bring you the latest from a sizzling southern france also coming up tonight chinese president xi jinping prepares to meet his u.s. counterpart for make or break trade talks at the g.
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20 summit in japan trump is threatening more tariffs on chinese goods if the 2 countries fail to reach a deal and a rescue ship laden with african migrants defies italy's orders to leave its waters country's interior minister calls the captain and who faces arrest and expulsion she tells him i have no time for you. i'm bored gov is good to have you with us it has never been this hot before in france today parts of france experienced their highest temperatures on record the mercury reaching in one place a whopping 45.9 degrees celsius an early summer heat wave has been scorching countries across southern and central europe the un's weather bureau says this is
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consistent with patterns expected as a result of climate change in france it has been taking extra precautions after thousands died in a similar heat wave more than a decade ago. a tale of 2 heat waves this was paris on friday temperatures in the mid thirty's plenty hot but people were beating the heat and enjoying it it was a different story in southern france where temperatures have hit the mid forty's in many towns silence deserted tourist attractions closed schools people staying off the streets and lying low to neighboring small towns competed for the dubious honor of setting france's temperature record tiny v.v. a was the 1st to breach the 45 degree mark but residents played it cool. with tissue yes it's very hot it's very hot but if you take the normal precautions and if you're sensible and get up early and you rest during the hottest moments it's
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somewhat bearable. but the town of galaad eventually hit 45.9 degrees the highest daily temperature ever recorded in france. it's a nice prize to have but we haven't done anything for it we just have to put up with it we have to put up with this climate and that's what the future holds for us don't forget the south of france is going to become tropical. across the border in geneva switzerland the world meteorological association said the european heat wave fits a recent pattern we're still only at the end of june but it seems like. it's set to experience its 5 wellness just on record so that's 2015 to $2900.00 inclusive and this year was still half way through but you know it seems that it's going to be hit having to be one of the woman stone on record back in the
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sweltering south of france there's just no way to beat this heat. and earlier i spoke to freelance journalist chris bachman in toulouse in southern france not far from where that record heat today was recorded i asked him how it felt to experience this record heat. horrible is probably the quick response if i go to my car right now which i really would not want to i keep being caught and tossed in 3 hours and there was 45 degrees today. it's a red alert the french weather service for a 1st time to put a red and straight sheet in front 7 and it's about it tomorrow as well so they're going to stop at the we're going to suffer here as well as 40 degrees tomorrow if you right now is what 9 o'clock it must be around 30 degrees right now is not a good place to be choosing wednesday i escaped to a river from 5 to 8 called if you want that was the place to be to sail started here in france on wednesday and so a lot of people based you in shopping balkans but mainly i think for
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a conditioning and air conditioning i mean are there places where you can go to escape the heat of being in southern france is not known for being a mecca for air conditioning. i mean to be honest i don't have a neither but more and more so i mean transport systems and take into account they have to have a commission just like you know into at last year was the 2nd process somma in southern france since 1900 so we're getting used to how this weather is really changing and last year was not good so for experiencing this it means that we're having to adapt to it and not for tired people who live in retirement homes that they've been forced to have a conditioning installed by the government schools are also having to change those that have been up to change or put in neck an issue and had to close today for example so that kids can go to school because they're just suffer too much exams for students have been put back a few days as well because the conditions of the students we've been pulling so you
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know unless you see decisions now but also say some systems are being made now for the future because basically it's getting hotter all the time. and that's it's a situation facing in his interest is that your impression that the authorities in france they are doing their best to stay ahead of this heat curve if you will to make sure that they're not always reacting to the weather situation. yeah let me give you if you go back a bit 2003 you may remember there was a really long way feared it wasn't just in france it's he was attacked as well shoot him out and tens of thousands of people died and what happened was that because of that the government told friendship please you have to work a day for free that money that will be get will get invested into retirement homes to help that out to put conditioning in and all the conditions and so that people can actually out of people kids actually get through these horrible conditions so they have actually been putting in a lot of these safeguards for the last decade or so already but there's no question
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that if you cannot were you late june it gets hot out here his foot freeze every year but it could get hot for another 2 and a half months before the situation really comes down you know journalist chris martin today it definitely earning your money sweating in the heat there interludes in france chris thank you but here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the european peoples parties munford is out of the running to become e.u. commission president now that's according to the german newspaper developed arms on top of the decision to rule out they were was made by e.u. leaders at the g. 20 summit in osaka japan germany and france and previously clashed over the issue with paris and willing to back the little known german member of parliament the ethiopian government has arrested more than 250 people after what he described as
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an attempted coup detainees include the spokesman of a political party representing the m horror ethnic group 5 high ranking officials were killed and we could attacks in the capital addis ababa and in northern hora stick. turkey's constitutional court has ruled that the year long detention of turkish german journalist that is has or was illegal the judges found no grounds for a lower court's decision to jail him he writes for a german newspaper prosecutors had claimed that he was spreading propaganda for an illegal organization. well in just a few hours he was president on one trump is due to sit down for bilateral trade talks with chinese leader xi jinping on the sidelines of the g. 20 summit in japan the future of the world's largest trading relationship hangs in the balance with threatening to slap more tariffs on chinese goods if no deal is reached in osaka on day one of the gathering the us president struck
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a decidedly conciliatory tone with other world leaders. in the line of great britain. had to the relationship he wants that is the same man who usually bashes germany relentlessly well don't read too much into apple it's still double trouble who stands accused of undermining the multilateral trade system and its institutions like the world trade organization and this is still i get a makeover fighting to save it. towards the end of the year the dispute settlement mechanisms of the w t o won't work anymore because they won't be enough judges appointed that's why many here said it's important to advance the world trade organization. on being. of course we have a number of bilateral trade agreements and we hope that on the fringes of this
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summit the talks between china and the us are successful. so. good here and it appears that the multilateral lists are losing ground the g. 20 is starting to crumble at the edges. and that's because the us hasn't altered its position and is gaining more allies. one of them is joe you're both so now rolled the newly elected brazilian president he's developing a close relationship with his u.s. counterparts saying he has been the great admirer of trump for some time. that spells trouble not only for global trade but also the fight against climate change negotiators are reporting that in those areas of agreement for the final communique seems further away than ever take climate change in the past only the
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u.s. refused to honor the paris agreement that's supposed to keep global warming below 2 degrees and now the other countries like brazil are thinking about joining in. if there's no more consensus on important topics than the g 20 just might become obsolete. at least the e.u. is willing to put up a fight for the paris agreement and global trade in a multilateral framework but european leaders are on the sidelines while china and the us are heading towards a full blown trade war the trade relations between china and u.s. . difficult the. contributing to just load of the economy the world's problems are increasing and its main players are increasingly at odds but at least at the end of the 1st day it's about pictures of harmony and
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beauty g. 20 leaders dying to castle one of japan's most famous landmarks. those friendly pictures might soon be forgotten as early as saturday when the u.s. and china's xi jinping meet or if the g 20 as a whole fails to reach an agreement on trade and climate change. well the captain of a migrant rescue ship banned from docking in italy has dismissed threats by the country's interior minister to have her put in prison you tell your government which has closed its waters to rescue vessels says 5 other european countries have offered to except the. destination almost within their grasp but the standoff between the italian government and the german n.g.o.s that runs the sea watch 3 means another day of uncertainty. for some the all to see is taking its toll and the early hours of friday morning
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a young man was evacuated from the ship in severe pain is a live in your old brother was allowed to go with him because he was a minor yesterday we entered the italian territory. mission. we declared a state of necessitate because situation and the humanitarian condition has been worsening so much that i cannot guarantee the safety of the rescue people anymore on. a prosecutor on the southern italian island of sicily said rick had been put under investigation under recently bolstered laws that seek to prevent rescue ships from disembarking migrants in italy and there was little sympathy from the italian government for the migrants plight. crew and commander that must be stopped arrested and expelled. expect the european union to tell me where and when these 40 people will go and for me the question ends in 2 minutes. despite italian hostility the country's interior ministry
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announced that a deal was imminent with 5 countries germany france finland luxembourg and portugal having offered to share the hosting of the migrants see watch 3 and a ship run by the spanish in arms n g u n only to privately run vessels patrolling the mediterranean after the italian and maltese governments introduced strict immigration policies last year these n.g.o.s could be on a collision course with those governments which like its a lease refused to a low privately run rescue ships to dock but for the dozens of migrants still in barking on potentially deadly journeys across the mediterranean every day the ship's presence could prove the difference between life and death should a deal be struck the wait for a new life in europe will finally be over for those currently stranded on board. the united states. with.
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