as a special reports. starts august 19th on t.v. to. this is the w. news live from berlin warnings of a humanitarian catastrophe aboard a migrant ship. to conditions grow desperate aboard the open arms 2 weeks after italy refused to let it enter but an offer to dock in spain has also been rejected also coming up on kong streets filled

with protesters but not with tear gas massive rallies this weekend are relatively free of violence after a week marred by intense clashes today's turnout is being seen as a gauge of public sentiment after stern warnings from beijing. and the islamic state group says it carried out a deadly suicide bombing in the afghan capital kabul that killed dozens of people many of the victims are already being laid to rest. i'm calling osman welcome to the program desperation in the mediterranean as more than 100 migrants are still stranded aboard a rescue ship the migrant rescue vessel open arms has been waiting for days hoping to dock in italy but only unaccompanied minors have been allowed to disembark so far as conditions worsen a few migrants decided to go it alone jumping into the water and trying to swim

ashore now a spokesperson for the ngo operating the ship says it has refused an offer to dock in spain saying the 6 day journey would be impossible. drives some on the horizon safety on the italian island of lampedusa behind them chaos aboard a charity beso the migrant struggle through the water. on the to be brought back to the visibly overcrowded open arms and this is what they were turning to. the state of new mutiny aboard the ship the charities direct to sounding an s.o.s. about what might happen if they aren't allowed to dock you need by italy loves you know we're all here we've spent days waiting to find people in the water fights violence crises older time what more do you want deaths your mother has done with.

the magnificent out of work those. dice open arms has been mowed several 100 meters off lampedusa. these people are at the center of a judicial and political battle immediately the country's interior minister wants him to go elsewhere. you know do what i love you should tough guy wins in the end so i'm pleased to report that the migrants aboard the open arms have had the good news that the spanish government will open its ports to them most fun euro low for . dozens of young and frail people aboard open arms have already been allowed to shore neatly this weekend. but salvage the augustin take the obvious would send a wrong signal to the close up. it's a maritime standoff that's lasted for weeks now. at risk the safety of over 100 people aboard the spanish vessel. in another corner of the

mediterranean a 2nd rescue ship is seeking to enter port in malta so far authorities there ever fused a lot of docks saying that they are obliged to do so only for those picked up in the countries rescue zone around 350 migrants are on board the ocean viking far more than it was built to carry among them or 29 children the ship is operated by french charities s a west mediterranean and doctors without borders. they say good weather in coming weeks could encourage more migrants to try to sail to europe from libyan shores. people in hong kong have once again filled the streets in the 11th straight weekend of mass pro-democracy protests but this weekend's demonstrations were about what didn't happen little violence few clashes and no tear gas many in hong kong are holding their breath after a week of escalations marked by violence and 2 days of closures at hong kong's airport but today organizers say 1700000 people turned out peacefully to show their

movement still has momentum. oh my god. there are the still furious. on the other side of the barriers police protesters pick them out which is now iconic places but today it's been peaceful but even time for this. but it still deadly serious protest organizers on sunday focused on police violence over the last couple of months. the police today issued a statement about. target telling them in the theme of our family that is totally true we x.x. li targeting at the police because the police had shown to the world that they had appeals that power breaking down old rule belts. they started in victoria park they

got permission for this but the park was too small to contain them all. so they disregarded the rain the heat and the rules and they started to walk it turned into a march to chill for a cheesehead not sanctioned and numbers that completely dominate the city. like i said they prepared for tear gas the police seemed absent and there was no violence a victory for open eyes as they really are trying to counter this narrative that sprung up over the last few weeks and some of these protesters are extremely violent that something that wasn't happy with by scenes that we saw at the at this week which was brought on by chinese state media as proof that these protesters were violent and not sort of peaceful peaceful demonstrations like the ones we've seen today into the night protesters drew their frustration in light on the police headquarters. in afghanistan the so-called islamic state is claiming responsibility

for a deadly suicide attack on a wedding party in. capital kabul the attack left more than 60 people dead and dozens bore injured many of victims were women and children explosions of places more than a 1000 guests were celebrating a marriage in a shiite neighborhood of kabul i ask considers muslim shiites to be heretics and has target them targets of them in many attacks in the past. death amidst the splendor this wedding hole was the center of community life then dozens died here in the midst of a celebration the college all too apparent in the attacks to math. ambulance after ambulance brought victims to hospital and relatives desperately searched for their loved ones looking through lists to find out who's being killed or injured along the anticipated night turned to tragedy when the attacker blew

himself up. yeah the explosion happened in the stage with the musicians everyone who was there including the young people and children were killed others were wounded and now they were in hospital. and this nearby facility was filled with the injured many were totally distraught is they relieved what happened on saturday night the bride and groom survived the loved ones died. i've lost hope. i lost my brother my friends who came to join my wedding party everyone celebrating our independent state today so i don't care whether they're going to light up the city and it doesn't matter anymore. it's a feeling that many a. big weddings are part of afghan culture despite the ongoing war they feel people with joy it's that feeling which this bombing targeting is the attack it

killed and maimed and left afghans even more fearful and insecurity. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world in the bangladeshi capital dhaka several 1000 people have been left homeless after a massive fires through a crowded slum many of the makeshift homes had plastic roofs pushed up the flames spread no deaths were reported although several people were injured. in iranian oil tanker caught in a standoff with the west has raised an iranian flag and been renamed adrian darya one the ship previously known as the grace one is due to set sail from to baltar after a court in the british territory released it weeks after it was seized on suspicion of smuggling. a spectacular controlled demolition look at that has been carried out in southern england 3 cooling towers at a decommissioned coal fired power station were brought down with explosives in did

caught the huge structures had dominated the skyline of the oxford shire town since the 1960 s. and they were once voted one of britain's ugliest sites. now what do you see behind me no longer exists it's iceland's 1st glacier loss to global warming today the country is marking its disappearance installing a memorial to the glacier close to the capital break you pick these satellite images you see here were taken in 1986 they show a large amounts of snow and ice around the awful kaino today there was almost nothing left. the glaciers of iceland are a spectacular sight from the air for years regular axel son has been photographing them among them this one called oak the country's 1st glacier to officially vanish . it lost its glacier status in 2014 and now

a plaque remembers it with a letter to the future. of the most schoolchildren who know the glaciers 9 to vanish or fix people in iceland both psychologically and emotionally a glycine many of knowing since childhood has ceased to exist. at a ceremony on sunday activists politicians and citizens bade farewell to auk but other clay shares are likely to follow like europe's largest fuck new york hoot iceland is losing more than $10000000.00 tonnes of glacier ice per year. and researchers agree the reason is climate change. never nice lens history of glaciers melt it is quickly is now everything points to the fact that this will continue in the future we have to suppose that in 200 years

almost lysias will advantaged. axelson flew over the glaciers again a few days ago capturing images of a landscape that may soon be gone for ever. representatives from 180 nations are in geneva are meeting to agree on protections for vulnerable species like elephants the trade in ivory has been banned worldwide for years but some african countries say the ban is now one necessary they want restrictions on elephants and ivory exports to be loose elephant tracks go straight across daniel jeremiah's field the small farmer lives in cousin on the edge of tobie national park the packet derms often enter his farm and eat or trample his crops you know i have been there come every day you can see. we have this. everything. they had already damaged. botswana

is home to africa's largest elephant population with around 150000 the number is growing in some areas there have been deadly encounters between humans and elephants in may but sworn to lifted a 5 year hunting ban now the country's going a step further by pushing for limited ivory trade at the world wildlife conference in geneva scientists fear that could also lead to more illegal trade in our every. we know that within africa we really struggle to control trade of products like wildlife and we struggle to sort of monitor it and regulate the legal side of things and we cannot pretend we're not stopping the illegal side of things i mean it's theoretically possible that poaching could get worse and of course the net that's a worse outcome for elephants effective controls are needed to ensure that only tusks from legal hunting are treated but countries with rampant corruption often lack such oversight and that could worsen the plight of elephants.

to football now and we're playing in their 1st ever bonus league a match but they were outclassed by rb leipzig the bulls scored 4 times against the bundesliga newcomers with the flashes coming from austrian forward marcel zapata when you and will be hoping for a change of fortunes in work next week the 1st match day of the season is done and dusted and here is a quick overview now of all the results frankfurt squeezed past hoffenheim on sunday dortmund set the tone with their massive win on saturday the other 2 promoted sides potter born in cologne were not so happy coming back to the bundesliga and the surprise of the week and of course the champions by munich dropping points against hearts of berlin in the curtain raiser on friday. and reminder now the top story that we're tracking for you at this hour the ngo that

operates the open arms migrant ship is warning of a potential humanitarian catastrophe on board it says conditions have become desperate to the weeks after italy refused to let the vessel dock but the group has refused an offer to dock in spain. you're watching news from berlin up next world stories the best of the week's reports i have more news of course at the top of the hour for you i'm karl nasa but things want. my 1st boss i was just sewing machines. where i come from them in their bones by this ocean for. something as simple as learning home to ride a bicycle isn't. since i was a little guy and i wanted to have advised title of my home and he took me as the been there. finally the game bob invented by.