a legend. simply a human being. was new armstrong starts july 20th on w. . this is deja vu news live from berlin finland assumes the e.u. presidency and says solving climate change should be europe's quote next heroic act the finnish prime minister says he's been listening to young people especially those taking part in friday's for future demonstrations across europe also coming up. a showdown in the gulf a british royal navy frigate drives off

a rainy and gun boats to try to intercept a british oil tanker but iran denies that any confrontation took place. and their sports dream lives on madagascar are in football fever as its national team prepares for the quarterfinals of the african cup of nations. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us for the next 6 months the european union will be putting climate change at the top of its political agenda finland has just assumed the block 6 month rotating presidency in the finnish prime minister says the e.u. should provide global leadership on climate change he says it's important to take seriously the demands of europe's young people. 16 year old

spent many fridays travelling 2 hours each way to protest at the finnish parliament holding signs pleading for climate action the climate itself wasn't too cooperative as he stood there through the winter it's really horrible in front of the it's always been the end it will be raining so snow or snow or ice and most of the politicians just go by and don't even look at us. or say hello and some even come to us but says it was all worth it as prime minister until recently has declared solving the climate crisis should be europe's next heroic act at the very least it's the top priority for the finnish e.u. presidency has credited the youth climate strikers for inspiration got to thank him in person and vice versa i really. have listened to their young evolution and i

need to listen more yeah but i for backup appointed green politician pick the harvester as foreign minister to press the message in the foreign policy arena already overflowing with wars nuclear threats and humanitarian disasters harvester knows it will be difficult. and it's a climate. that the silence around the table you can hear the silence in the way that it's so surprising but harvesters says it's the activists to whom he feels responsible. and they actually think the power. base is enough but i think it's good we need the civil society as opposed to politicians helsinki is determined not to be a hypocrite it's maximizing sustainability minimizing everything else meetings will all be held in the capital there will be no bottled water mostly plant based meal. and e.u. bureaucrats traveling to finish meetings will receive a unique gift half

a 1000000 euros worth of air emission offsets spent on projects in developing countries on your lycee head of the presidency secretariat says the finnish way is not to lecture but to lead by example we want to be practical and what we promise we want to keep it. says whatever finland achieves is great but it's so much more is needed he'll be protesting outside the e.u. meetings rain or shine or sleet or snow. ok we're happy to be joined now by todd your miller he's a long time climate expert the best an analyst for the rosa luxemburg foundation think thankless the german left party thanks for coming in tiger having me what do you expecting from the finnish presidency of the well 1st of all i'm expecting what has been the power for the course for europeans on a policy for the last several decades which is to talk

a good talk but fundamentally not deliver anything the really existing record of european policy is lousy arc central climate change policy trading has not delivered any actual emissions reductions while creating a new playground for financial criminals and that is the main time of policy in financial criminals but but but climate c o 2 carbon trading is going on there but it is not delivering any emissions reductions that's the central point if you look at the history of e.u. climate policy it hasn't done anything to actually reduce emissions and we're seeing a situation where. in late spring in northern germany there were forest fire is next and therefore already made to fulfill an already now we're living in a climate change if i have somebody saying we're going to climb a new to about 2050 that's about as relevant as telling me there's a man going to be on mars by 232030 years won't think ok well what you're saying the carbon trading is not working of france is proposing a flight on every plane takes off in france germany is looking at taxing carbon

consumption and energy more seriously is that the way forward townsite now is taxes the way forward on for consumers i do believe that a carbon tax would be a better and more efficient way to protect the climate than emissions trading however you need to look at fundamentals the only thing in the last 40 years that has measurably reduced global greenhouse gas emissions is reductions in economic growth when the eastern bloc collapsed in the early ninety's that led to global emissions reductions where are you saying we need less economic growth absolutely in fact economic growth the fact that we have. an economic system that perpetuates it to infinite growth on a finite planet is precisely the reason why we have not only the climate crisis but also the diet of biodiversity finds in others and the european union is fundamentally an economic growth project as a result i know that the european union will not deliver climate protection ok well climate activists have been targeting flying something it's true i mention this as a major environmental threat in the sweetest 16 year old data to bird of course has

been spearheading europe's anti flying movement that encourages people to stop flying by by air to lower carbon emissions but how much difference does it actually make to travel long distances by trains for example here's how it compares on a 600 kilometer journey from berlin to munich a train emits 34 kilograms of c o 2 per person with a typical car it moves up to 90 kilograms but flying pumps out a mass of 300 kilograms of c o 2 perhaps that's left many people thinking twice about how they travel on their vacations let's take a look at that now. it's summer break in germany temperatures have topped 30 degrees celsius around the country many germans are happy to take their vacation without getting on a plane martina flicka and michelle get a car among them they've shown trips abroad on budget airlines for years.

to the saudis they were down to was it all of course i could say i'll take flight so i can have a vacation somewhere who cares. but that's so short sighted that it's a terrible legacy to leave the world for the next generation. so is it right to assume some people are taking a stand on the climate crisis by staying closer to home. you'll be a young people leading the climate protection movement giving us a lot to think about not thinking of infantry gets a bad conscience by going away on vacation especially by plane on long haul flights but what else can you do especially if you want to see more of the world after upset it was not tough enough as much as a recent event was in this travel agency and the city of friedrichs often is fielding questions by vacation planners are the climate protests having an impact it's off to the usually high prices or a pretty bit in fact a don't want to travel package or a feeling is cheap then other considerations go out the window used it to eat a nationwide travel agency says travel choices haven't changed that much long haul

trips are as popular as ever and booking numbers are increasing analysts say they don't expect that trend to change its we're not seeing any difference it's really hard to make total sense of these numbers because you have to factor in other things like weather and the political situation interest destinations but we can say that travelers are thinking twice about what. he says 3 times more people have registered with carbon offset organizations than this time last year the travel sector is counting on governments to take more action. thus almost ones . the transportation sector you have to remember that we're talking about very large investments for example in alternative energy in the air travel industry will require political support to supply and if the protests are encouraging that then we hope it's. also and. it remains unclear what political support should look like

usually it means taxpayers should help out but taxpayers still like to travel on oil burning cruise ships and budget airlines not make martina still couldn't they have taken the train to lake constance instead of their car no guilty conscience. and. yes guilt is a good thing people should question the rule the place i usually take the train to work instead of the coach. they say they're much more flexible with their car especially with all their baggage the protests it seems haven't yet made their mark on german vacations. so what should be happening here the climate change activists extinction rebellion recently announced plans to disrupt flights to and from london heathrow airport this holiday season by using drones is that the right way forward

well 1st of all the right way forward would be to change the incentives around this it would be to have political decisions whereby we tax app plane fuel or reduce value added tax on train tickets or do not cut back on regional train lines as been happening around him for example for many many years the point is that individual decisions about when and how to travel take place in a particular framework if the framework is airplane travel is dirt cheap. then i'll probably do app and travel because also it's faster than i my my my holidayed hours and days are getting cut back all the time ok so raising the price so what i'm saying is that not going to start raising the price would be one option the point is we need to make collective societal decisions about how we want to behave in this world now i do think that people asking themselves should i flounder should i not fly is a useful exercise it's useful exercise not in shaming oneself as as a sexual myself i don't think that shaming people into changing their behavior is going to be a very good effective way however we are solver an ethical individual act as we can

decide not to this on the other one example if your favorite luxury hotel and your latest nation were having its towels cleaned by it's actually exploited mine as i wouldn't want you to feel ashamed about going that hotel i would you want you to decide not to go to that hotel is so should be politics and not shaming presidents is the way forward todd your miller climate expert activist and expert at the rosa luxemburg foundation thanks very much thank you very much. well britain says at least 5 on draining speed boats tried to insist up british oil tanker near the persian gulf is also saying that they were driven off by a royal navy frigate escorting that tanker in the straits of hormuz the frigate seen here escorting other ships in discussions at the iranian boats as a warning but iran has denied that its vessels tried to stop tankers saying they were carrying out routine duties yesterday rain president hassan rouhani said iran

was ready to retaliate after one of its oil tankers was seized last week by the british navy off the coast of the baltic. man being good you see on the end you great britain are the initiator of insecurity and you will realize the consequences later that the now you are so hopeless that when one of your tankers wants to move in the region you have to bring in your frigates to escort it because you're scared to need it but that's just because of it as times it's the radian president rouhani there will have much more on the story later now to some of the other stories making the news they are a ukraine as installed a giant metal cover over the destroyed nuclear reactor a turnover that structure is meant to contain radioactive dust from the reactor whose explosion 1906 was the world's worst nuclear disaster. supporters of the french quadriplegic patient consent have held a prayer vigil for him in paris is expected to die in the coming days after being

taken off life support against his parents wishes he spent more than a decade in a coma. police in spain and 3 other countries arrested 6 suspected members of a gang that trafficked women for sex they seized more than 3000000 euros of assets the women were mainly nigerian and worked as prostitutes in finland and sweden. she wants the top job in the european union and she is campaigning for it today in brussels germany's defense minister ursula on the line has been on a charm offensive there as part of her quest to become president of the e.u. commission on her agenda should she get the job fighting climate change and integrating europe's armed forces. i think this really is and it's fun to lyons 1st public appearance as nominee for the e.u. commission presidency the european union's top job her priority is to speak with

any peace 1st to clarify her position and gauge the mood she's meeting with european social democrats who are critical of fund a lion a conservative. i think she was specific on some issues but in other areas she stayed quite vague so that was definitely not the end of our discussions. from the lion needs 374 parliamentary votes to get the job it's not clear how much support she'll get from social democrats greens and business friendly parties she can rely on the 182 votes from her own group the e.p. p. and possibly the european conservatives and reformists or e.c. our critics are hinting their decision on her stance on climate policy rescues of migrants at sea and the parliament's rights of initiative. in the 800 i'm convinced she's a passionate european but in some of her statements she was still quite unclear she'll have to deliver more by next week and not the fun missing from the lie and

has little time to engage in further talks the outcome of the secret ballot is hard to predict. there are new concerns about the health of all of the machall after the german chancellor was seen trembling in public again it was the 3rd time he's been seen on camera in this condition in the past month the latest incident occurred as the chancellor said alongside finland's visiting prime minister until dinner while watching military honors to welcome his arrival. let's bring in our political correspondent linda train for more on this good morning melinda this is the 3rd shaking incident in public are there concerns that chancellor merkel might be battling an illness or or is 2nd. certainly there are concerns that this newest episode made headlines here in germany but the chance to herself and her spokespeople say no she is not ill after the 1st episode in mid

june she attributed the shaking to the heat it was in fact a very very hot day and she was she was standing outside during military honors for a state visitor and at that point she said well i drank a glass of water and then i was fine after the 2nd episode one of her spokespeople suggested that perhaps that 1st attack during on the hot day was so disturbing for her that she was now fighting hard to suppress renewed shaking in similar circumstances and that that very effort to suppress the shaking might in fact have provoked a 2nd episode that appeared to be the same theory that she herself voiced yesterday as she attempted to explain the 3rd the 3rd episode she basically said look 5 this is something i'm working on but i still need some time let's just listen to

what she did have to say. would help i'm fine i've recently said that i'm working through what happened during the military honors for the visit by the ukrainian president this process is clearly not finished yet but there is progress and i have to live with this for a while but i'm very well and you don't need to worry about me ok so that's what the chancellor is saying herself about what's happening but but will this be enough to convince the german public that all america is in fact healthy enough to continue governing this country. there is a tremendous respect here for the privacy of political leaders that goes back to germany's 20th century history to the intense surveillance that many germans experienced both in the nazi era and in east germany under the communist leadership there so that people are very very concerned about privacy even for their heads of

state helmut kohl for example battled with illness and it was kept quiet secret from the public and even from many members of his own party and here i think there is an intensely protective instinct that many germans feel also for merkel her constitution is known to be an absolutely iron one she herself has said i'm something of a camel when it comes to sleep i can go for days with little sleep and then just need to catch up on the weekend so that's the one side on the other hand we are now seeing some headlines in major german newspapers including the tabloid the biggest tabloid the billed newspaper saying why isn't the chancellor telling us what's going on maybe it's time for a doctor's check and publication of results so that is part of the debate but on in the end we'll have to see whether that strong trend toward privacy and and respect for privacy does continue to triumph in this case thanks so much for coming in

on this this morning. this is due to be news a lot from berlin still to come on the show a hero's welcome for the champions new york tells the u.s. women's football team after they win the women's world cup. all madagascar are also gripped by football fever after their national team defeated 3 time champions nigeria to top their group in the africa cup of nations they'll now face tunisia in the quarter finals it's a huge deal for this nation and the people of that aghast are say their team's success has already made their lives better. celebrating as if they were already well champions football fans on the streets of the capital singing for their national team. not against to have won 3 matches in a row and now they're just 2 wins away from the championship game. it's one of the

all time fairytale stories in africa cup of nations history and the whole nation is behind them. 24 year old to. sue is a huge fan he's been playing football most of his life but suddenly everything feels very different in a more pleased to be with the team success is so inspiring if they can be the successful it's proof that everyone can achieve their dreams. lots of children have now started playing football on the street it's fantastic every time madagascar when it makes me want to play more. i just want to play every day every day. not ask a doesn't even have a professional league but football helps people forget the challenges of everyday life about 3 quarters of the population live under the poverty line here but the

national football team's success is giving them a sense of hope babies are born during the africa cup of being named the team's nickname the official football jerseys are almost all sold out on the market traders are enjoying the profits. we are really selling a lot of jerseys probably about 1200 every day. even foreigners want them go but. to boris on ramadan too is sus and madagascar will win the africa cup but even if they don't the burress success has made a big impact on malagasy society. from the people to their success has really brought people closer together foreigners and now a gassier mingling more because we all watch the games together. it's a chance for the whole world to get to know madagascar's. this is about more than just spoiler some success the madagascar there is hope this will make the world sit

up and take note of what the country is all about. and staying with football the u.s. women's football team enjoyed a new york city parade as the country celebrated the team's 4th world cup victory they. have been also praised for pushing themselves and for making equal pay an issue. a heroine's welcome for the champions of the world fresh off to the historic title defense in a moment that was always going to be about more than just football. as evidenced by trump 2020 flags hanging above the crowd the larger part of which was here to dote on that darling megan rapinoe who have tussled with the president in recent weeks. it's our responsibility to make this world a better place i think this team does. an incredible job of taking that on our shoulders and understanding the position that we have in the platform that

we have in this world yes we play sports yes we play soccer yes or female athletes are so much more than. statements like that one of a large part of the reason that rypien 0 has become such an icon for her adoring fans. i honestly i couldn't bring knight in the game out after she came out and she was and she made a statement not just with her words but with her i'm just really bad that she was a great representative of our. refusal to meet president trump and the team's on going fight for parity of prize money with the american men have won her and her teammates plenty of admirers many hope that this team can provide an inspiration for the next generation we are so proud of this u.s. women's team they are so outspoken and they're so brave they're also just on the

leave a bull soccer players and experiencing it with my girls is really wonderful wearing the world champions crown is no novelty for the usa but this time they hope to build a legacy that will outlast their current moment in the sun. it's too heavily now and 18 people have been injured in a freak storm that blitzed the town with massive hail stones most of those hurt are treated in hospital for cuts and bruises that storm came during the peak tourist season. the east coast of italy during an aerial bombardment of ice. came down here and bowls the size of oranges. further inland streets were awash. people took refuge in doorways and whited 10 to 15 minutes until the deluge would past all along the edge radek coast people were surprised by the sudden onset of the storm. an

enormous cloud arrived there was an incredible downpour with wind rain a really big storm. the wave of bad weather also broke windows in windshields in the resort town of milan no matter team a about 200 century old pine trees were knocked down by a tornado. one woman was taken to hospital in a serious condition. the storm came at a bad time for tourists currently on the coast and it was devastating for many tourist operators there. was it was to eat them in all the things i patiently built up over the years have been ruined in just 2 minutes after the. heavy rain came after weeks of sweltering heat in italy and one day after authorities issued a yellow alert for rain and high winds in the north of the country. ok well next we have our delivery business and then to zoom in and we usually think of trade

tensions i mean there with china but there's some new ones between japan and south korea exactly it's not just china or the u.s. it's a new front that's opened up in this global trade war and this time south korea and japan are added the funny thing is is that south korea is going to the u.s. to get help about this and to the u.s. and great friends with she mr trump mr abi they're always taking off a gulf together i don't think jay and has a chance here find out where this is going coming up with our business news don't go away.

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