what about the. plane. plane. this is deja vu news live from berlin tragedy strikes in the mediterranean once again more than 100 migrants are feared to have drowned off the coast of libya officials are calling it the deadliest shipwreck this year and a lack of political will is stymie efforts to save lives. more anti-government demonstrations in hong kong this time protesters occupying the arrival hall at hong kong airport calling for more democracy in the chinese territory we'll get a live update from the scene of the protests. and

a blistering heat wave in europe and record high temperatures france experiences all time highs for a 2nd straight day in germany belgium and the netherlands sweltering as well. i'm sumi so misconducts good to have you with us. we start with a tragedy in the mediterranean more than 100 refugees are feared drowned after their boat sank off the coast of libya un officials are calling it the worst shipwreck to take place in the mediterranean this year some 134 people were rescued in the accident but italy is refusing to allow them to dock until other e.u. countries agree to take them and. these exhausted migrants have been sent back to libya from where they had set off for europe right next to the survivors are those who did not make it. this woman says she lost her 7 year old son in the boat

accident she's grief stricken but also angry she says no one helped her and her family in libya oh malays they don't they held anyone they sent me away and they told me and my children that we have to find our own way. i just want to go back to my home country of sudan to die but at the. people that live again at the name i would. after what is probably the worst boat accident in the mediterranean this year the demands of u.n. organizations have become more insistent. as an urgent need now 1st of all to secure the release of people from inside the detention centers in libya but also to boost the search and rescue capacity we need more rescue boats on the mediterranean that's a proven lives from being lost. at the moment there are no private rescue ships patrolling off the coast of libya italy wants to virtually prohibit their work by

imposing heavy fines and they are still disagreement in the e.u. over how rescued migrants should be distributed among member states. for more on the story we have phil and best with us he is general director of medicine germany doctors without borders he joins us in our studio floyd thank you for being with us we heard the u.n. say this is the worst tragedy in the mediterranean so far this year and your organization doctors without borders is supporting. search and rescue operations that are currently taking place what is your organization witnessed so far and where are those being rescued being taken so we had colleagues who were at the harbor where the survivors of this horrific incidents were received in libya and they looked after roughly 150 survivors obviously all of them shocked and really traumatized by this near drowning incident and also told us that they had seen the bodies of the dead who told us about people who are missing suffering from hypothermia and other problems the problems right now we don't know where these

people will be taken next be extremely concerned that they will be taken back to prisons to places of detention where they were held previously and my conditions are totally unacceptable your organization is not mincing its words today saying these deaths and suffering are preventable you're blaming the e.u. for what you call a 2 year campaign to stop all humanitarian action at sea give us an idea of how your work has been affected by this well i think 1st of all the facts of it to see we've already seen something like 500 people have drowned in the 1st few months of 29000 in the mediterranean alone what we're not seeing is europe with all its infrastructure or its means its boots and everything being out there to actually rescue these people from drowning instead unfortunately we've seen in the number of countries which have actively prevented nongovernmental organizations and others from actually coming to the rescue of these people ourselves last year we had

a rescue ship together with another organization as u.s. military and the and at the end of the day we had to give up because thanks to pressure by european states our flag was withdrawn on a couple of occasions and could no longer continue the european union might have interest fracture and resources to help in this case but what if there is no political will on the behalf of e.u. governments to take migrants in but you see this is not a question of political will it's a bit like an emergency doctor on the agency. spittal ward helping somebody who is at the risk of dying you don't screw these people off before you take that decision to help them this is a profoundly humanitarian or big asian and every bit of international legislation and i would also say really coherent with this sort of idea of what europe says it stands for. given the inability so far to find a political consensus on where migrants should be taken where they should be hosted what do you think is the way forward should this be the purview of private rescue organizations or should this really be the european union saving people the

mediterranean you know i mean the fact that private organizations have been now is laudable but it's clearly not the solution and the only reasons we and other n.g.o.s are trying to rescue people in the mediterranean is because the governments are no longer doing it they used to do it they used to save thousands of people but they refused to do it now at the end of the day to save people's lives and this is what this is fundamentally about we do need european governments to come to the fore we need them to intervene in libya where up to 4000 people right now i immediately threatened by ongoing conflict in combat in tripoli the capital in the area and are detained as refugees they need to help these people to get out safely all right general director of doctors without borders here in germany thank you very much for joining us thank you. let's turn to hong kong now where hundreds of protesters have gathered at the international airport in the latest anti-government

protest demonstrators who you see here dressed in black and chanted slogans and held up batters 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. and let's go right to to our correspondent my chest but who is a covering the protests for us in hong kong how much yes tell us more about the strategy behind these airport protests. at these protests they have been organized by the flight attendants and the airport workers unions they are protesting last week's violence when. gangs of criminals attacked people in the in the cities transport system random people people they thought were coming back from another big demonstration that was happening that day and they said they don't feel safe at the same time these

protests are targeted as you said it educating those who arrive there showing for example videos of last week's clashes of this violence to people arriving here they want to raise awareness they did they tell people you are arriving in a deeply troubled city. so they're trying to send a message to tourists and visitors who are arriving there saying yes how have they been reacting to the demonstrators. well imagine you come out of off an airport maybe after a long flight and then you have people dressed in black standing there and shouting slogans that you don't understand if you're not from hong kong because they're mostly incontinence so most people are 1st of all very confused they just try to get away from these protesters and then when they have a little bit of a distance they start maybe meet maybe some of them take leaflets some of them who understand what's happening they give them a thumbs up or something. but most of them are just trying to make sense of it and

then some of them understand some of them say ok this has nothing to do with me i don't understand why they're targeting me there are all kinds of reactions no anger or aggressive reactions i at least have not witnessed that just people are trying to to to to position themselves or to make sense of what they're seeing you know which is the how congregants efforts to subdue these anti-government protests have not really worked they have continued so what are authorities saying now. while. i have not really worked as is really i under estimating what's really been happening the government has been basically. not doing anything they have been unable to react the only times when they came out was when the violence happened there too they condemned the violence they have not offered any strategy of getting out of this they have shelved this bill that was at

the beginning a bill that would allow extraditions to china but they're still refusing to withdraw it and kerry lamb the chief executive she comes out and she keeps saying always the same things she's saying that she's not intending to bring it back but refuses to explain why she's not withdrawing it. she is she's the judge she's not giving on the answers so this is why these protests continue because nobody really can make a clue of what's happening in the government. building a reporting of from those protests in hong kong for us thank you mathias. now to some other stories making headlines around the world palestinian president mahmoud abbas has said he will stop implementing agreements with israel it is the 1st time that abbas has announced that your clear break in cooperation it's a sign of worsening relations between the 2 sides earlier this week israel demolished 12 palestinian apartment buildings claiming security reasons call the

move a crime against humanity. the german chemicals company buyer has been told that a $2000000000.00 compensation payout awarded over its we kill around will be slashed by or subsidiary a month santa will now just have to pay under 87000000 dollars to a california couple who claim the product gave them cancer fire still plans to appeal against the original decision. and european union leaders have rejected a call by britain's new prime minister boris johnson to reopen talks on the country's departure from the blog from european commission president told johnson in a phone call that no renegotiation was possible. while his appointment as british prime minister has divided opinion in the u.k. but thousands of miles away in turkey residents of one small village are celebrating boris johnson's ascent to power the u.k. prime minister has traced his ancestry back to color and chunk of the province and people there are abuzz with excitement that a man they see as one of their own is now britain's new leader. it's

a far cry from the grand jury of westminster this is the house where boris johnson's great great grandfather was born more than 200 years ago now residents of the small turkish village of kufa to hope johnson will return to discover his roots and meet his distant relatives. my cousin we want him to come here and visit his ancestral lands to meet us and honor us. from the villages here have welcomed johnson's rise to become british prime minister. we were happy that boris was in fact we all gathered here and celebrated in front of my office we all applauded them. for man met johnson when he visited turkey as british foreign minister and 2016 back then johnson received a warm welcome even though he was claiming in his breakfast campaign that millions of turks would enter 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 in his country in some mobility do not form a man most a football is a street politician himself. in order for a town to develop we would like to benefit from people like boris johnson. who most of. them under their leadership we would like investments for our town. busy to make the about the. investment or not here in california there's a sense of pride that the local sea is one of their own is now the leader of the united kingdom. that millions of people here in europe have been sweltering in the summer 2nd heat wave and the soaring near mercury is causing travel chaos eurostar has advised against travel to or from paris today after a damaged power line it got to more cost severe delays train tracks brisk buckling

in the intense heat and roads are also affected in the netherlands $1.00 town has resorted to spreading salt on the roads in a bid to prevent them from melting. let's get more on the story with smith from d.w. science high 5 yet there temperatures have dropped slightly across europe but these heat waves they're happening more and more often and a lot of people are pointing to climate change what does the science show is there a clear link. yes the point is that the figures of temperature figures to measure old tickell data has clearly been going up not only not all but basically over the last 15 to 20 years is a constant noise in the temperatures it's the same time probably true that c o 2 level has been rising are you saying that most fiction as much as i don't service most of the scientists are really no in agreement that. these whether you went.

to ms events that we are witnessing or p.v. related to climate change even so of course i always say that an individual was an infant you cannot directly linked to climate situation but the overall picture i think is pretty clear the sustained trend is pretty clear is what you're saying 5 and so a lot of the debate over governments taking more action on climate change it centers around taxing c o 2 emissions like those created by air travel and let's take a look at this image we can see the sharp increase in air travel it shows all his life that took off on one day this week and for the 1st time the number of flights tracked top to 225000 in a single day so what we're doing the number of flights or a c o 2 tax have any real impact on these rising temperatures. basically everything one does will have an effect eventually but one should not be mistaken no single thing what that you do can probably change the overall picture the curve of c o 2

is basically in a linear arrives and there's nothing really that changes it there have been lots of parameters have been taken but the for insulating houses for doing other things and that is not going to do it but the question of course we have to us ourselves is it really right not to text airplane travel as as us things are being taxed for example trains are being taxed and worldwide as tex exception for plane travel which probably isn't justified however plane travel only makes up less than 3 percent of the global c o 2 emissions so the big thing is coal fuel gas these are the real big polluters planes are to some extent but they're not the one big thing i've been just very briefly if you can if one step is not going to be enough so we're distance you know to what is going to work. basically i think

the issues everybody has to start with himself in doing something the the it's not going to be the big government program or the big thing but basically small steps in the community in business trying to get innovation. why is innovation which is really making a difference thought the internet from science thank you for sharing your analysis with us ok. well we should say in some parts of the world a separate years are normal but in a lot of parts of europe we're just not equipped for this kind of weather and rebecca ritter is been looking into this for us rebecca how are people coping with the heat well i was traded from one of the health of the world that is often gets high to hate so you're definitely not going to him a complaining about it but it's true that you know europe's not really equipped for temperatures such as we've been experiencing in the last few weeks some of our view

is as you mentioned probably come from much hotter climes and might be wondering what's the big deal 35 degrees and you know that's not such a big deal but you know the infrastructure here is not equipped so take for example air conditioning in many places that there's hardly any places really i mean we're lucky here in the studio is nice the air conditioned our office but you know many offices across northern europe really and houses and public transport in particular are not air conditioned so people really struggle that prompted one guy by the name of jesse pena to develop a website where it's for here in berlin but perhaps it'll it'll spread methane out all the places across the city that have air conditioning so people who are out and about and you know struggling to cope can sort of find some way on the map and help into some way that can help them cool down i just was recently in bangkok and i did just that so i can tell you it definitely helps but and as we heard you know there's also been instances where train tracks for instance across northern europe

have been buckling under this haze because they really made to withstand the extreme cold rather than the extreme hate so that's prompted some. cities sorry to the train tracks why didn't attempt to try and keep them cool and now we don't have any data as to whether or not this is working but it is definitely sort of an innovative idea and keep things cool so it looks like there are a few creative solutions out there to withstand this heat absolutely and that goes for people as well i mean obviously no air conditioning is really hot people are taking some very creative solutions as you said so we've. a come home a couple of things from tweet to this gentleman. to the story in under a fire hydrant this is life in the u.k. the beach right into the city to escape the cool and this is a cafe in amsterdam trying to give its clients a little bit of a cool down while they sleep on their ice lattes the lighter side of behavior such as ok reporter rebecca ritter thank you very much.

right here in germany the government is moving to ban the controversial practice of gay conversion therapy in an editorial today calling for the swift abolition of the practice health ministry and spawn wrote homosexuality is not a disease and warned of dire consequences for people who undergo the so-called therapy and our next report one man says the practice left him isolated depressed and with thoughts of suicide. 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 a 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 decades 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 then 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. not practitioners in germany of the so-called homosexual conversation therapy currently face no consequences but german health minister is preparing to take drastic action. we should ban 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. she finished. i think it's important for example to put a ban in place especially for young people which makes it clear that doctors and therapists are not allowed to carry out this so-called conversion therapy and then they'll be a lot less of this nonsense. they're going to make. 20 years on since his so-called therapy mike can now look forward to his wedding putting the past behind him. i'm not bitter 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 it changes on the way. now germany's famous by lloyd festival is in full swing the event celebrates the work of composer wagner and this year the festival features a brand new production of the opera the drama tells the tale of a legendary singer caught between the head in a stick goddess venus and the shore princess elizabeth it's long been seen as an allegory for the conflict between spiritual and carnal love but this latest production aims to prove that it is much more than that. and the minstrel contest proconsul sees new production of ricardo wagner's romantic

opera takes among team meteor approach to dios open up a new perspective on the action. i'm going to fulfill our contest takes place on 2 levels you get close to the characters for example when elizabeth and time voice to reunite you see backstage the emotions this box for time horses opponents you see what effect these performances have you don't only see the consequences but also a kind of emotional as well as a very concrete backstage story. of concrete objects that story director to be as a has also incorporated the by rote festival theatre itself into his production inside the scene his fight of a love and lost while outside tom has his weird artist friends set about occupy nevada in a temple proclaiming freedom of art in the good old atticus tradition. serial

killer it's not about 2 conflicting concepts of love and life but rather about time hoy's a reflection on the role of art should the artist produce the such as a close by submitting to a static rules or is all. about something into twined with real life an artistic expression that we aim to change something in society that suspects that when wagner wrote time has run 1945 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 just 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 outside as 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 the staging that i needed to reach out and try to come up with something less. angry and completely defeated it's a way of looking at myself. as serious and yet i part of my own our christian group is i'm i'm i'm a cloud. i come out as a cloud. by sending ton wiser and venus together on a crazy road trip to be a scratch that has driven wagner has turned into the present oh. oh. all right coming up next our

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