miss webster still. going. to teach on. this is news coming to you live from berlin more antigovernment protests in hong kong this time protests as occupy iraq to call at hong kong air force calling for democracy in the chinese 10 or 23 who would like to hong kong bring up to it also coming up a blistering heat wave in europe and record high temperatures as strong as experiences

a 4 time highs for a 2nd straight day and germany belgium the netherlands as rat patrol and jill many moves to ban gay conversion therapy we meet a man who says the practice left him intensely isolated that's as the capital gears up for a huge gay pride parade this weekend. cullen of a will welcome to you i'm. we start in hong kong where hundreds of protesters have gathered at hong kong's international airport in the latest anti-government protest demonstrators seen in dressed in black chanted slogans and held a banner as to what they call educate tourists and visitors about the mass demonstrations in the city hong kong has been experiencing the protests for weeks ever since. the chief executive introduced

a controversial extradition bill. for the very latest i'm joined by a chorus fun and much is belinda in hong kong look this what's the idea behind this latest test is a new strategy my book pro-democracy protest is. a strategy is a bit much i think this protest has been organized by unions of flight attendants and airport workers they are protesting last week's weiland where. criminal gangs have attacked people in the city's public transport system and many of them say they do not feel safe it's also as you said some. protests targeting tourists who arrive in this city because people protesters want to win a national solidarity protesters want to address the international community hoping

for support from people from other countries that's why they gathered at the airport today they are standing next to the exits the doors where the people come out and shouting. slogans at them and are also giving them leaflets and showing them videos of police brutality telling them they have in a arrived in a troubled city and one of the slogans at this shouting is fi hong kong and we were just looking at bridges a lot of them what what's accounting plaque oncet with their messages how have tourists and visitors been reacting to these demonstrators. well imagine you out off a flight maybe an intercontinental flight to the offense for several hours in a plane and then you arrive maybe you don't know what hop is happening so most. people are confused and looking at these people shouting slogans some of them when they understand they give them

a stumps up but most people just try to just pass as quickly as possible and then later some of them stop when they're out of this corridor where they arrive and they start discussing but but confusion is really the most predominant sentiment that you can see here and i guess also surprise when you look at the pitches and huge guns of people dressed in black going to addressing the visitors it must be a big surprise for them but perhaps the message is getting through but to me a much is a bought a car a tease how are they reacting to this protest and more demonstrations planned for tomorrow. well the author argues have not reacted to this protest authorities are rarely reacting to protest these days and this is one of the things that is fueling these protests because people want an answer from their government they're not getting any only when violence happens the government steps out and condemns the violence but the answer to the demands of the

protesters has been very weak the bill that was at the origin of these protests has been shelved but not withdrawn tomorrow there's go there are going to be more protests people are demanding investigations into what police operations within the last weeks but also into the were violent by these criminal gangs that protesters accuse the police of having let happen so that these protests are going to be at the area where this has happened tomorrow the police has not issued a letter of no objection so the protest is going to be legal which of cause. and heightens the potential for more violence tomorrow gas some of the gangs have also said they would show up so tomorrow is going to be a very dangerous day exactly can you see the atmosphere at the airport at the moment is very peacefully much is building at hong kong's international airport

observing demonstrations out there thank you very much for that live update. let me bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the palestinian president mahmoud abbas has said he would stop implementing agreements with israel it's the 1st time a bus has announced such a clear break in cooperation a sign of worsening relations between the 2 science earlier this week israel demolished palestinian apartment buildings killing security reasons abbas called the move a crime against humanity. the german chemicals company by a has been told a $2000000000.00 compensation payout of warded over its round up will be slashed by a subsidiary monsanto will now have to feed just under $87000000.00 through a california couple who claimed the product gave them can sell bias to plans to appeal against the original decision. russia's emergency ministry says more than

$100.00 wildfires are raging across the siberian regions off it quits and. more than 23000 square kilometers are reported to be affected towns and villages in the region under the threat of heavy smoke while roads have been closed and flights canceled. millions of people here in europe have been sweltering in the summer a 2nd heat wave and across the continent records are being broken thursday in paris france and in france the french capital paris the mercury topped out at 42.6 degrees celsius shattering the old record by 2 degrees the extreme weather has left people scrambling to beat the heat. paris's top landmark doesn't offer much but at least has a chance to cool off in the truck with sarah fountain a welcome relief on paris's hottest day ever i mean i'm from indonesia so i know.

this is hard this is like. especially. since we're stationed there rory and i are corn nor air conditioner and also it's very hard it's not just a lack of acol and that's a problem on public transport across europe the heat has sent rail services into meltdown in the u.k. passengers in some areas have been advised not to travel at all as tracks and overhead wires struggle to cope with record temperatures. in belgium 2 the heat has sparked safety concerns for trucks even hotter than the outside temperature when it's like 40 degrees outside the temperature on the rail. mounts to 10 maybe 15 degrees hotter so we have measured it at $55.00 degrees celsius so that makes it more or less given or taking a few the hottest spot in belgium right now the hottest spot in germany on

wednesday was the western town of garland cation where the mercury hit 40.5 degrees celsius. 4 out of luck this might go on for another day it's supposed to stay hot here temperatures of over 40 degrees are being reported maybe we'll even break our own record. most of the locals though aren't fans of the hate and were relieved that by thursday the record breaking temperatures had moved on surpassing 42 degrees further north joining me now is fobbing schmidt from the science desk in bonn welcome 5 so 1st of all tell us how do you still keep waves that we've seen this summer linked to climate change. oh actually i think what we're witnessing here is really a case of climate change as a wife to in reality t.v. and people realizing that this is a case. a couple years ago probably about 10 years ago skeptics still were arguing

that maybe she's on insulin isolated incidents and i learned the fact that sometimes it can get hotter sometimes less hot but we're seeing a very clearly. increase in gentle events lives is whether events so yes weather as a result of climate but in this case it's clearly i think we are seeing the results of climate change and the data as much or tickle data over time i think confirms that so current government efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions tied to climate change are often centered on taxing carbon dioxide emissions like those created much air travel for example and let's take a look on this image we have for you receive a shop and crees in air travel it shows that or fry's that took off a one day this week for the 1st time the number of flights tracked exceeded 225-0018 single day so far but what reducing the number of

flights or a carbon dioxide tax have any impact on rising temperatures. i think one should be very cautious was saying that any kind of individual measure has an effect on the rising temperatures as such i think what we have to realize that air travel altogether makes about 2.5 maybe maximum 3 percent of all the carbon dioxide emissions as a real big polluters in the sense of brown coal oil and to some extent gas and when we're looking at the global industries who are seeing that basically the tendency is just continuing when we're looking at the figures of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere it's basically a linear. development and certainly every sing will help to reduce the carbon dioxide will be good and helpful to prevent or to

reduce the effects of climate change but i think we also have to be aware that there is a certain development and just by not taking the next flight is not going to change it but still one might to consider that also i think we have to consider that flying generally internationally is still tax free. train travel card travel as us other ways of travel text and this is an issue that for example in the you could be easily addressed by by making train travel airplane travel just as taxable as us read. this sign says thank you very much for that information. now in some parts of the world these temperatures are quite normal but many parts of europe simply not equipped for this kind of weather i'm not doing this to do but to make of it is welcome rebecca you've been tracking stuff on social media how the coping with the heat well i mean as you said other parts of the world are

a lot hotter i'm a straight in for example so i'm absolutely loving this weather you're from india you know it gets much hotter there so some of us might be thinking what's the big deal why why we've been talking about you know sort of 35 degrees in europe but you know as you just mentioned europe really isn't equipped for this weather take exact for example air conditioning which is pretty commonplace in australia and india i'm sure but here it's hardly anyway we're lucky to have it here in the newsroom in the studio in here but you know i'm in most parts of the country and in fact across the continent is no air conditioning so some people something i found social media one person just opinions his name came up with an idea to set up a website that he created a map where the rich lists and locates the spots a grocery stores cafes. you know other department stores and stuff that have air con so that people who are out and about and finding it really struck struggling with the hate they can you know pop into an air conditioned place it's

a fantastic idea actually i was recently in bangkok and i found when it was all getting too hot i was popping into the department stores to come down so you know we got in touch with him and he said that in the last couple of days usage of the site is really spot so people are obviously using it but then as we had in the report infrastructure is also wonderfully unprepared for temperatures that europe spain receiving in the last couple of years. and we've seen train tracks melting and being completely unusable so in parts of australia they're actually trialing this thing with a pink the train tracks white to try and keep the temperatures down. on whether or not it's working but you know if you see people using these innovative ideas to try and combat this really unusually hot. well and also individuals are going around using they creative ways to stay cool absolutely i mean without air conditioning and all the other things that are in sort of warmer climates people taking extreme measures that are composite couple of things that we found in social media there's one guy in france that we can bring the hearing is he's taking quite extreme.

sitting under a fire hydrant now this is in the u.k. this gentleman is created his own little beach on the sidewalk to keep cool in amsterdam this cafe is trying to cater to its customers by providing public pools for people drinking coffee to warm welcome even though he was claiming in his breakfast campaign that millions of tax would end to britain if turkey joined the european union. but you have to say such things in the political arena in order to make political gains you know that as well as we do and all politicians know it too so do the people of his country in some other. form a man must is a strew politician himself calls obama lingo. in order for a town to develop we would like to benefit from people like boris johnson. under their leadership we would like investments for our town on the.

investment or not here in california there's a sense of pride that a man the local sea is one of their own is now the leader of the united kingdom. it's the gay pride season and this saturday thousands of people will watch and join in the parade through the streets of berlin as gay people celebrate their growing equality of rights cause a growing here in germany for a ban on so-called conversion therapy this controversial practice with claims to cure homosexuality is scattered around the world currently only 3 countries have nationwide bans that visit ecuador and mortar and a handful of other countries seen here have also set the ball rolling with local regulations and recommendations but they don't have explicit blissett nationwide bans jimmy wants to become the 2nd e.u. country to ban this practice didn't he spoke to a man who underwent conversion therapy here's his story it's clubbish

haven't i think i 1st became aware that something was different during kindergarten but of course i didn't know what it meant mike is just one of thousands of people in germany who have undergone a controversial therapy in an attempt to repress our homosexuality christianity shaped mike's life from an early age but as puberty hit he began to have sexual experiences with men. this published issue it was a nice time in life but then the conflict started to grow because at the same time i felt at home in christian circles where it was made very clear god doesn't want that you should lead another life. how can you stand before god this is a mortal sin. and other similar comments came from all sides. after voluntarily seeking out so-called conversion therapy might committed himself to ending all contact with homosexual friends and partners for

a decade he was abstinent the loneliness brought him to the brink of suicide. i reached the point where i couldn't go on anymore. but it was also because of my faith that i was too much of a coward to do it. because that i would have been granted eternal life today i can laugh about it how stupid that it was but i was actually the reason that kept me from ending my life god not practitioners in germany of the so-called homosexual conversion therapy currently face no consequences but german health minister is preparing to take drastic action. should conversion therapy in germany sexuality is not a disease and does not require treatment. the german health minister hopes to present a draft by the end of the year but like many other critics mike worries that the so-called therapy will be able to continue under a different guise but for him it's still a step in the right direction. i think it's important for example to

put a ban in place especially for young people which makes it clear doctors and therapists are not allowed to carry out this so-called conversion therapy and then the be a lot less of this nonsense. 20 years on since his so-called therapy might can now look forward to his wedding putting the past behind him. better towards anyone neither the christian circles where i learned and heard everything nor the therapist. someone from my former parish actually reached out to me and said hats off to him and he was sorry for what happened so i can see something is happening change is on the way. now from the isolation of conversion therapy to the community of upcoming gay pride parade the outspoken and openly gay u.s. ambassador richard grinnell we've been attendance this weekend the trump loyalist

has hoisted the rainbow flag of gay pride at the u.s. embassy alongside the star spangled banner despite an order by the u.s. state department forbidding it. telling to hawaii and a place that offers an ideal setting to observe the universe from but plans to build a giant telescope and how wise tallest mountain have met with fierce resistance from protesters and locals this say the mountain is sacred. the construction of the 30 meter telescope on the u.s. state of hawaii's tallest mountain man who sparked outrage among locals the $1000000000.00 project is set to be a massive boost to wise economy which is heavily dependent on pain tourism jobs but protesters say the mountain is sacred and they're blocking access to the construction site. we're willing to clear out if that mare and the governor and the t.m.t. promises that they will not build on mona representatives of the 30 meter telescope

remain committed to the project you know we've been working in the community for over 10 years now and we have a lot of support here you know it may not seem like that sometimes and social media in the last couple weeks but we have people reaching out to us all the time who have been with us from the beginning of vising us and being partners and they're asking us to stay it is yet to be seen whether the protests of how the negative impact on the state's tourism product which brings in an estimated $16000000000.00 annually. heading out towards the green heads of bavaria where jimmy's famous by the white festival is in full swing they even celebrates the what's off. now and this is the festival features a brand new production of the opera. the tale of a legendary singer caught between the headedness to go goddess venus and the pill princess elizabeth it's long been seen and alegria between conflict between

spiritual and love but this latest production to prove that it's much more than that. convoys and the minstrel contest castle. is new production of record wagner's romantic opera takes a multimedia approach my videos open up a new perspective on the action. i'm going to fulfill our contest takes place on 2 levels you get closer to the characters for example when elizabeth and 10 voice reunite you see back stage the emotions this far for time horses opponents you see what effect these performances have you don't see the consequences but also a kind of emotional as well as a very concrete backstage story. of concrete objects that story directed to be

a strat so has also incorporated the by rote festival theatre itself into his production inside the scene his fight of a love and lust while outside town has this weird artist friends set about occupy nevada in a temple proclaiming freedom of art in the good old anarchist tradition. was. to get into serial killer it's not about 2 conflicting concepts of love and life but rather about 10 hoy's are reflecting on the role of art should the artist aim to please the satisfied of a close by submitting to a static rules or is art about something into twined with real life an artistic expression that really aims to change something in society that suspects that when wagner rotund was around 845 it was not yet clear whether he would go down in history as a revolutionary all as an established composer heroic tennis stephen gold has sung the role of tom who is a more than

a 100 times but it's his 1st time in pyrite with a new production. so i was a little skeptic sometimes when a new concept is presented to me but i was really. i have to say within just one day of being here i was totally convinced to be as proud. in crafts as production tom who is the lives out his supposed to total freedom with a group of outsiders transsexuals and little people until he realizes that this life too can be a type of prison it was clear right from the very beginning when you were doing for staging that i needed to rethink that and try to come up with something less. angry and completely defeated it's a way of looking up myself. as serious. part of this group is i'm old. i come old as

a cloud. by sending tong boys are in venus together on a crazy road trip to be as crops that has driven wagner. into the press and. finally has a recap of the top story the feel thousands of demonstrators have descended on hong kong's international airport a spot of ongoing toward democracy of protest trying to raise awareness of real potential erosion up their rights and freedoms by china. coming up next on news. the us china relationship is at its lowest point in the us can it be fixed. and propaganda for the people really look at how china is promoting its social credit system did you know which next year. coming up on the news for me on the thought she was

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