this is d.w. news live from berlin britain's prime minister and france's president hold talks on bragg's this in paris boris johnson wants to renegotiate britain's withdrawal agreement and get rid of the irish backstop the president called says the backstop is indispensable so he is holding out hope that a deal can still be done. and brazil's rightly president jarrah bows and arrows 1st retracts and then repeats his accusation that environmental activists are behind the record number of fires consuming his country's amazon rain.

i'm sorry so much god that's great to have you with us we start with fresh efforts in paris today to break the brags that deadlock british prime minister boris johnson and french president in mamma in monaco have wrapped up a meeting aimed at jumpstarting negotiations over britain's departure from the european union talks had stalled over the so-called irish backstop which is the use current plan to avoid a hard border in ireland after britain leaves the bloc johnson wants to get rid of the backstop but mccall said the british prime minister has yet to present a better alternative. boris johnson striding towards what he hopes will be a new deal with the european union of a break that his meetings this week with french and german leaders left the british prime minister sounding optimistic. i think we can get

a deal and they could you know i was possibly encouraged by our conversations last night in berlin with on mutual friends johnson's key goal is to convince the e.u. to scrap the so-called backstop it's the fallback policy that would prevent a hard border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland following brags that. a day earlier johnson was in berlin where chancellor angela merkel told him the backstop wouldn't be necessary if britain could propose an alternative solution quickly. i admire that that can do spirit that she seems to have that i think she's right i think that the technical solutions are readily available you can have trusted traders schemes you can have electronic clearing of the goods moving across the border. to meetings main revelation a pledge that britain won't install controls on its border with ireland. but under no circumstances will the u.k.

government be instituting imposing checks or controls of any kind at that border and we think i understand your desire to protect the integrity of the of the single market but if you had hoped that concession might soften europe's stance macron had bad news the e.u. has neither time nor intention to reconsider the brig's of divorce deal. or been any good the e.u. has negotiated at length i withdraw all agreement with the united kingdom that i will not get into details and it's not for any member of the e.u. alone to negotiate or renegotiate this agreement leaving with nothing but a handshake if a hard break that happens this week's visit could be seen as johnson's way of showing he tried to avoid it and to lay the blame on europe. davies teri schultz is following this story for us from brussels hi terry good to see you after this flurry of activity what has actually changed about bread from

earlier this week. it doesn't seem like anything's changed despite boris johnson saying he's incredibly encouraged by his meetings with chancellor merkel and president mccaughan he didn't come with any new ideas and that's what the e.u. is really waiting to hear in fact there was was a briefing here in brussels today with e.u. sources saying the e.u. is in listening mode and without new ideas from johnson there's really no sense that there's going to be any movement on brussels sighed the french president maicon germany's chancellor merkel how well do these 2 actually represent the e.u. stance on back to negotiations. well they are the power brokers in the european union and and i'm sure that boris johnson thought if he were able to change their minds at all if if there were some opening where they said they're willing to renegotiate the withdrawal agreement perhaps the other $25.00 leaders would come

along with them but there's no chance of that neither america nor mcquillan gave any indication that they would be willing to renegotiate this withdrawal agreement that remember took 19 months to achieve and which the british parliament has rejected 3 times and the other thing to remember is that even if in some possible world you did get chancellor merkel and president mcclellan to provide an opening you've got the irish prime minister who says there's no way that we're going to let a hard border go up there's you know no way that we're going to reopen this withdrawal agreement and make things harder on ourselves so it's not just the top 2 leaders that johnson would have to convince he has to convince everybody else we did hear an important message from birth johnson saying britain under no circumstances would put checks on the border in ireland regardless of any deal being reached with brussels can the e.u. just brush that aside. well i don't think anybody wants to brush that aside but you know it's really not clear what johnson means by that what he's saying basically is

is that there won't be these sort of permanent structures put on on the u.k. side of the border and that's really important i just came back from northern ireland and everyone there says if such checkpoints if such physical checkpoints were to go back up on the border between ireland and northern ireland they would be a provocation they would they would draw new violence there but at the same time the european union will be forced to it to protect the single market as they're all talking about and that means that on the e.u. side you will have to have checks of some kind now that doesn't mean there's going to be border posts with with guards standing outside it there are other ways to provide checks as boris johnson mentioned himself technical you know high tech ways to check for customs you've got you can make deals with companies to make sure that they are carrying out their own customs obligations in some way you are going to have to have checks between the between the 2 countries but it's not clear what they mean by that exactly how those will be carried out all right good reporting

for us from brussels as always terry good to talk to you. that is mother stories making headlines around the world at least 5 people have died and over $100.00 have been injured in lightning strikes in southern poland and neighboring slovakia witnesses say the lightning hit during a thunderstorm that started suddenly it occurred in the tetra mountains an area that is popular with hikers and families and italy's president says he has agreed to requests by political leaders for more time to form a viable coalition government and he's given them until tuesday to do so at least populist governing coalition collapsed 2 days ago after the far right likud party withdrew its support. iranian president hassan rouhani has warned the united states that if it continues to try to stop its country from exporting oil then international waters will no longer be secure tehran has previously threatened to close the strategically important strait of hormuz which is used to transport much

of the world's oil supplies last month iran sees a british flag tanker in the strait. atop ascent this report from the island. it's early morning in the sun beating down on the island of relentless there's no natural water and few other resources for that matter despite that the island has been highly valued for centuries as a strategic location portugal for instance constructed this fortress spec in 1507 to control my routine traffic in the persian gulf today the strait of hormuz this once again witness to conflict as the standoff over british flecked tank seized by iranian authorities continues. a fisherman takes us out into the straight past the island of la rock the iranian military uses the island to monitor the area which includes the narrow passage all ships must pass through to reach the largest oil imports in the region. on. a quarter of the global.

making it a very strategic location for international trade and an important leveraging point for iran republican. international. but so far it hasn't done so but the detainment of the british tanker is already in the. trade in this area. currently very few international tankers use iranian waters to navigate the strait many fear being swept up in the conflict between washington and tehran. and they run in military is not alone as it petrols these waters the u.s. has also deployed ships into the persian gulf the u.s. wants to strengthen its presence here to guarantee the passage of international cargo ships which has angered the iranian government as well as the iranian people . and i don't think they would welcome any sort of you know military presence

from the region itself that's a part of iran's political culture not to you know ally with. you know non local actors in the region iran try to reach out to again to you know many countries in the region quiet. and they are open of course to the u.a.e. and i think saudi arabia as well to discuss these kind of issues. there's been no movement on the issue so far iran's neighbors seem unwilling to offer support. few people on the island of a movie seem interested in politics they're just hoping there will be a swift end to the regional standoff. bene's them and against the tensions are resolved the entire economy may improve and we're part of that. everyone is out of work here in hormuz i don't know what to do with my wife and kids we can't all live

on fishing alone. things would improve for tourism more tourists would pay a visit to this island and that way it could develop. more border. without stability turning homo's into a popular tourist destination remains a distant prospect. brazil's far right president says his country lacks the resources needed to fight the record number of fires that are now devouring the amazon rain forest he's also doubled down on unfounded allegations that environmental groups are behind the places the amazon rain forest produces 20 percent of the oxygen of the earth's atmosphere and for that it's often called the lungs of the world and the effects of the fires are being felt far from the site of the flames. half past 4 in the afternoon and the heavens a dark of a. smoke and clouds blot out the sun. everything went dark when i came out of the

bathroom and it was night unbelievable nights but not nighttime the government says it's just the weather but climate experts say the cause is 200 kilometers away where pristine forest is going up in flames as wildfires consume the natural world family blazes are burning then it's usually at the start of the dry season farmers are also suffering for a moment the busy resume is missing we planted man yolk and corn here it's all gone so banana. farmers may be the victims of the flames but some may also be the fire starters big agriculture is one of the few success stories in brazil it has an ally in right wing president. asked if farmers were responsible for the fires he blamed environmentalists again maybe the farmers everybody's a suspect but the biggest suspects are the ngos and the destruction is driving

environmentalists on to the streets and they're fearful and they're angry at the accusations leveled against them how far they are going to have gotten out a statement is responsible everyone knows that the environmental organizations are against climate change and for reforestation. brazil's forests a burning that's an unprecedented rate with unknown consequences day 10 tonight in sao paolo is only the beginning. the changing political climate in sudan has prompted plans to kick off the country's 1st ever women's football league it will include 18 clubs in the 1st match will be in september now under the rule of deposed president omar al bashir sudanese women's football was almost nonexistent but today some female athletes see change just ahead. a year ago the idea of a women's football league in sudan was far fetched females wanting to follow their football plain aspirations in the past were without hope.

before the revolution i could not have imagined myself being a player in a woman's football team or even expected myself to be able to play the sport i've loved there were many restrictions on sudanese women and it was not possible to play football must go to the lead. but now a joint military civilian sovereign council is in power and it's seen as a significant advance women are part of the ruling council in measures are being taken to further women's rights and promote sports and the arts. that if they could get in the past it was difficult for women to play football there were many complications that prevented them from participating in this activity but now everyone is looking forward to a new reality and has a new ambitions now society has become more receptive to this idea and more accepting of the participation of women and all the areas of life of the people in

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