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 in stymieing africa to save lives. germany goes to ban gay conversion therapy we'll meet a man who says the practice left him isolated that says the capital cures are persecution gay pride parade this weekend. blistering heat wave in europe and

record high temperatures france experiences all time highs for a 2nd straight day and germany belgium and the netherlands as well. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us we start with a tragedy in the mediterranean more than 100 refugees are feared to have drowned after their boat sank off the coast of libya u.n. 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 in. these to 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 sense 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. they don't know how did anyone they sent me away and they told me and my children that we had to find our own way. i just want to go back to my home country of sudan to die but it is still no more people that live in atlanta my words. after what is probably the worst boat accident in the mediterranean this year the demands of u.n. organizations have become more insistent. urgent need now 1st of all to secure the release of people from inside the detention centers in libya but also it's a boost the search and rescue capacity we need more rescue boats on the mediterranean to prevent lives from being lost. at the moment there are no private rescue ships patrolling off the coast of libya it only wants to perch really prohibit their work by imposing heavy fines and there are still disagreement in the

e.u. over how rescued migrants should be distributed among member states. for more on this story we have phil invest 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 at the harbor where the survivors off this horrific incidents were received in libya and they looked after roughly $130.00 survivors or basically 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 problem is right now we don't know where these people will be to. next be extremely concerned that they will be taken back to

prisons to places of detention where they were held previously and where 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 2900 in the mediterranean alone what we're not seeing is europe with all its infrastructure or its means its boats and everything being out there to actually rescue these people from drowning instead unfortunately we've seen a number of countries which are actively prevented nongovernmental organizations and the 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 house of new 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 a hospital ward helping somebody who's at the risk of dying you don't screw these people off before you take that decision to help and this is a profoundly humanitarian or big ation 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 that use 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 maddest . no i mean the fact that private organizations have been always 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're 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 florian best well general director of doctors without borders here in germany thank you very much for joining us thank you now in the hong kong hundreds of protesters have gathered at the international airport in the latest anti-government protest demonstrators who you see dressed here in black chanted slogans and held up banners

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 her controversial extradition. here in germany the government is moving to ban the controversial practice of gay conversion therapy health minister yen spawn is calling for the practice to be abolished saying homosexuality is not a disease and a warning of dire consequences for people who carry out the so-called therapy did i met a man who 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. 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

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 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 the be a lot less of this nonsense. then proceed to money going to making a beanie when he's in trouble. 20 years on since his so-called therapy mike can now

look forward to his wedding putting the past behind him. nieman 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 change is on the way i think this is fast and gonna. for more on the story we can speak to graham reed in new york he's the director of the lesbian gay bisexual and transgender rights program at human rights watch graham thank you for joining us give us an idea what is that so-called conversion therapy what kinds of forms does this practice take there's if there is no religion that covers a lot of different things in medical savings what we have found out it is. shock therapy it cation to introduce noise the whole syrup be it also takes place in

religious states where there is here support for people who think that homosexuality is wrong and seek to change it and what is clear is that it's both ineffective and harmful and particularly for young people most vulnerable graham we saw the world health organization removed homosexuality from its list of mental disorders in 1902 so why is the so-called conversion therapy a still legal in so many countries around the world. yes and stance of the world health organization has been echoed by medical and psychiatric association through out the world from india to south africa but even still it or not and yet the practice does continue and as it is that it's about the age of us discrimination and stated math so often the creation suan to go conversion therapy especially for young people comes from parents and egypt community despite the calls of its various people to bring and institutes to bring this practice to in

ames graham we mentioned that germany is moving to ban this practice other countries are also considering such steps but do bans a work or will this just continue under different guise different countries have taken different approaches there are bands in place that you if states at state level. also within the e.u. if they have been sick safe little efforts to sue religious based organizations who claim. they're on the grounds that this is false advertising and fraudulent because it's ineffectual and it's harmful so that's been an effective just in state in the states where entities are afraid of people suit for offering of saul's. therapy and similarly in china and individual suit

a cynic that had the opposite kind of ocean therapy and that was it was successful . there's also regulation by medical authorities that would regulate and save many of the professional association and who they get from and to taking the comical therapy. and the white issue is that it's easy enough to regulate within the formal framework of. medical safety what's more difficult is it serves the religious community with this prayer. so example we do it with the hope that this. group if they were offering they should there be and yet they continue to grow up ok all right graham reed from human rights watch the king to us from new york thank you very much graham thank you.

let's get a round of now some other stories making news around the world palestinian president mahmoud abbas has said he will stop the implementing agreements with israel it is the 1st time that abbas has announced a clear break in cooperation and a sign of worsening relations between the 2 sides earlier this week israel demolished 12 palestinian apartment buildings claiming security reasons abbas called the move a crime against humanity. the german chemicals company buyer has been told a $2000000000.00 compensation payout awarded over its weed killer roundup will be slashed buyers subsidiary monsanto will now have to pay just under $87000000.00 to a california couple who claim that the product gave them cancer fire still plans to appeal against the original decision. and the suspected nidia right has fallen to earth and landed in a rice field in mother bunny in northern india farmers who discovered it say it was a bit hot and formed a crater in the ground the 15 kilogram rock will be sent to

a laboratory to be examined by experts. the u.s. government will resume executions later this year the last time a prisoner was put to death in a federal u.s. prison was in 2003 since then an unofficial moratorium has been observed while a review was carried out the u.s. justice department says that review is now been completed and has cleared the way for executions to start again critics of the death penalty save the decision is politically motivated with the aim of bolstering support for president donald trump in next year's election. the execution chamber still frequently used in the united states but in recent years the death penalty has only been applied by state governments only 3 people have been executed at a national level in the past 3 decades now the attorney general william barr has authorized the resumption of capital punishment by the federal government so this is kind of

a new. surprising announcement there's no particular call for the death penalty at any federal level but there are people on the federal death row who have committed serious homicides and juries have found that they're subject to the death penalty so. there's nothing that really prevents the attorney or from doing this 61 people are on federal death row including the boston marathon bomber for now 5 men have been show jewel to die by lethal injection all convicted of murdering children some see it as an emotive decision these cases were not chosen because they justify the federal death penalty. they were chosen because they were designed to inflame the public and there's concern that nonwhite defendants will be disproportionately affected you're more likely to be sentenced to death and are more likely to be executed if you're

a defendant color. president donald trump has long been an outspoken supporter of the death penalty executions will restart in december as the u.s. prepares to enter an election year several of trump's democratic opponents are against it the issue could become part of the presidential race. now millions of people here in europe have been sweltering in this summer 2nd heat wave and the soaring mercury is causing travel chaos eurostar has advised against travel to or from paris today after a damaged power lines got to long caused severe delays train tracks risk buckling in the intense heat and roads are also affected in the netherlands one town has resorted to spreading salt on the roads in a bid to prevent them from melting. well we should say in some parts of the world these temperatures 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'm a straight am so from one of them help 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 temperature is 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 it's not such a big deal but you know the infrastructure here is not equipped so take for example air conditioning in many places there's hardly any places reveal i mean we're lucky here in the studios nicely air conditioned our office but you know many offices across northern europe really houses 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 nothing 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 pop

in to 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 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 they tend to try and keep them cool and now we don't have any data as to whether or not this these working but it is definitely a sort of 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 home people are taking some very creative solutions as you said so we've got to come home a couple of things from tweet to this gentleman. to the story in under a fire hydrant this guy's in the u.k. he's brought 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 the he's there for us ok did every reporter rebecca ritter thank you very much. and well france's careening from one to heat record to the next stage 19 of the tour de france had to be interrupted early after heavy hail caused dangerous conditions on the final downhill stretch rider times were instead taken from the summit of called the 740 kilometers before the plan to finish line a gun that was the biggest benefactor the colombian claimed the yellow jersey of the previous overall leader julia ioffe in ip look frustrated his title chances are fading banal is now the favorite to stand atop the podium in paris on sunday that was 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 cull fucked in junky province and people there are a buzz 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 ground 0 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 type johnson will return to discover his roots and meet his distant relatives. is my cousin and we want him to come here and visit his ancestral lands to meet us and honor us. the. villagers here have welcomed johnson's rise to become british prime minister. we were happy that boris won in fact we all gathered here and celebrated in front of my office we all applauded him. 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 he had 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 to the people in his country in some other. form a man must a file is a street politician himself. 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. 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.

germany's famous by white's festival is in full swing the event celebrates the work of composer back now and this year the festival fisher is a brand new production of his opera tunnel the drama tells the tale of a legendary singer caught between the heavens to goddess venus and the princess elizabeth the opera has long been seen as portraying the conflict between the spiritual and the carnal love but this latest production aims to go beyond the traditional. very. fun horse and the minstrel contest at the castle this is new production of record wagner's romantic opera takes a multimedia or crowd 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 tannoys are 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 directed to be a scratch that has also incorporated the by rote festival theatre itself into his production inside the singer's fight over love and lust while outside town has his weird artist friends set about occupying nevada in a temple proclaiming freedom of art in the good old atticus tradition. here 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 aesthetic 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 wrote time has run 1945 it was not yet clear whether he would go down in history as a revolutionary or 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 skeptical sometimes when a new concept is presented to me but i was forced 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 a lives out is 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 we were doing the staging but i needed to be frank. 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 and our christian group is i'm i'm i'm a cloud. i come out as a cloud. of you the by sending town wiser and venus together on a crazy road trip to be a scratch that has driven wagner has turned into the present oh. oh. erm i did off our top story here on d w he went officials say nearly 150 migrants have drowned after their boat sank off the libyan coast on thursday some 137 others were rescued and returned to libya the deadliest shipwreck in the mediterranean so far this year.

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