this is t w news coming to you live from berlin it's decision time in italy parties must reach agreement today to form a new governing coalition for the country will face a fresh election and polls say that could put western europe's 1st far right government in power also coming up. imagine your child and dying in front of your eyes in the condo anything one of those you can't carry her away countess fraud

what kind of feelings for. a new russian backed offensive in the syrian province of live is causing death and destruction and forcing thousands of civilians to flee to an uncertain future. plus he is a 102 years old and still teaching in the fool you'll meet. and find out why his life is still going so swimmingly at such an advanced. fellow i'm terry march and welcome to the program it's a make or break day in italian politics the country's president has told the main parties they must reach agreement today on forming a new governing coalition if they fail he will call new elections this after the

porridge interior minister matteo salvini triggered the collapse of the government by withdrawing his party's support. italy's presidential palace is a busy place these days negotiators for a new at talian government left talks on tuesday with no clear signal as to whether they've reached a final agreement on who is going to be at the least next prime minister. the previous officeholder giuseppi content resigned his post last week bringing italy's populist government to a swift end after just 14 months in power. context use his interior minister matteo 70 of wanting to rule by himself. we don't need men with absolute power. but people with a strong sense of responsibility. live with salvini the leader of italy's right wing likud party told senators he triggered the government

crisis because he wanted to bring about snap elections. before they. will do everything that i did all over again thank you. thank you. everything with a great strength of being a free man. it means i'm not afraid of being judged by the italian this was the. his supporters have been out in force chanting elections now elections now solving his bid for power comes amid high poll numbers reflecting widespread support for his tough stance on migration. if the 5 star movement is unable to secure a coalition deal italy's president is expected to call an early election for november. more now we're joined by journalist francesco bangarra who

is following developments for us in rome francesco today is the deadline for the governing 5 star movement to form a new coalition government how close are they to pining fresh partners good morning to you well as far as we know we should doubt the name by today the latest tomorrow. for the prime minister of italy the name should be one of those that because as you guys say before who resigned a few days ago and he should be confirmed leading that you call this we should leave the no to league out. of the government and gets replaced by the democratic party so there are negotiations negotiations going on that been going on all day yesterday and. today even during the consultation with the president of the republic so we should get the president to give us the name either tonight at the

end of the call to the station already tomorrow if i called the press and and it will be clear to me ok so we may or may not end up with a fresh coalition we do it don't we won't know until that announcement has been made but if pressure elections do become necessary what are beanies chances from the lead party of actually leading the next government. well according to the polls matthews of the nice quite strong polls given matt about the 35 percent which is really a high percentage these days with that in political parties so of course old interest to go back to the polls we don't think is going to make it even though you know days that. pose a possibility in the buff of condit to reach the prime ministership which is a resentment by the fact that the 5 star movement going to last their members to

give their opinion on that you go audition so we are to see which the outcome of this actually consultation is going to be ok we're so we're still waiting for that decision you say it could be today or tomorrow what is the italian media saying about this political crisis the press is very confused i mean this crisis was really unexpected it came out that most an expected moment which is 0 was when everyone in this country is on all of a and so i mean the press still doesn't understand why the crisis started and most of the press now blames the need for a leak for having opened a crisis they do believe that basically it was it realigns out doing jobs and it was not the right moment for italy to go to the polls so let's see what is going to happen is there any maneuvering behind the scenes by material being a who desperately wants to lead the country to make promises to some of the other

the other parties the smaller parties to maybe offer them something well that would stop them from forming a coalition with with the pie start. well he's been working behind the scenes for the 1st moment that the negotiation between the. democratic party and if i start movement started eat just with you once now through receipts again the relationship with the 5 stars but now i feigned having discovered and that when i often said the only chance he's got to go out to do but go back. to new elections but i don't think that this is going to be the case at least for a while as he has had thank you very much though as francesco boehner out there reporting from rome. turkish president. traveled to russia on tuesday to discuss the crisis in syria with president vladimir putin 2

leaders support opposing sides in the war but both said they wanted to defuse tensions in syria's northern province russian backed syrian forces have stepped up their campaign against rebels. due to meet with officials from another key player in the syrian conflict. next month. it is a province held by opposition forces where at least 50 combatants are reported to have been killed in recent clashes the new offensive has also caused a humanitarian crisis forcing thousands of civilians to flee. abdu nestles keep trying i mean family finally safe all 7 of them beneath the top poland in a big room in the extreme heat but anything is better than a life surrounded by falling bomb. the family fled to the north of syria from the south of. the house had collapsed in the attack at deuce leg was injured one of his daughters was killed. imagine your child dying in front of your eyes and you

can't do anything you can't carry her away describe what kind of feeling. since the syrian forces have bombed the south of italy government troops are also on the ground despite a ceasefire. the province lies in the north west of syria on the border of turkey it's the last rebel stronghold turkey sides with the rebels and has a rated observation post in italy. turkey already controls areas in neighboring provinces it's from here i wish to keep kiddish forces in the north east of syria in chik russia syria's closest ally is also involved in the offensive it has taken part in a rights and provided special forces. 400000. people who fled the fighting are now on the move north many are stranded in refugee centers like the camp in cramped

quarters and without knowing what comes next. i don't know as a kid and his family want to flee to turkey or to europe you know hope of a better future. they have a better life than the children go to school our children have nothing no proper food no clothes no school nothing at all. nothing. but the road to turkey is blocked like so many others across syria millions of people are trapped living in fear of yet more attacks from the year. now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today 2 explosions have ripped through separate police checkpoints in gaza city killing 3 policeman and wounding passers by the hamas controlled interior ministry there declared a state of emergency there is no claim of responsibility but the blasts were reminiscent of previous rounds of infighting between hamas and other businesses.

dozens of women who accuse jeffrey epstein of sexual abuse have been heard in a new york court the hearing was set to dismiss the sex trafficking case against the finance year following his death but the judge said he wanted to give the victims of chance to speak authorities say epstein committed suicide in jail while awaiting trial. for the 1st time a woman will leave the influential peacemaking group religions for peace that's from the n.g.o.s massive interfaith gathering that just happened here in germany more than a 1000 religious leaders from more than 100 countries gathered at the religions for peace world conference they elected former senior well still current senior u.n. advisor. as the new secretary general the group has been working to promote peace around the world for 50 years now it's been working especially hard to give women a greater role in peacemaking. fent

as a corrupt the newly elected secretary general of religious for peace is with me in the studio very good to have you with us spank you for having me 1st of all tell us a little more about your organization religions for peace it sounds like a noble call but all religions really making the world a more peaceful place well one religions come together in solidarity around a shared common principle in this case peace in its widest sense yes i think religions can actually transform plenty and if we believe that religions can be part of a problem then i. obviously they have to be a critical part of a solution so yes i think that that has happened over time i think what is new about religions for peace no in the sense of being almost 50 years old as the capacity to bring together religious leaders and religious institutions in platforms which we call the interlude just councils in over 70 countries so that is a critical space where all the religious institutions can actually come together on

a regular basis have their own identity and are therefore able to influence politically socially culturally financially you are the 1st woman to be appointed head of this organisation which as you say has been around for 50 years how significant is that that you as a woman has been elected to this position well i tend to think that my own accomplishments are actually nothing in relationship to the fact that a group of religious leaders and religious institutions from around the world agreed to elect a woman i think that in and of itself is actually the much more transformative in light main thing that is actually happening in many of these religions are male dominated they are all actually today it's male dominated that with the exception of a few movements but in principle these are the religious institutions of the world they are all male dominated and yet they all managed to come together and agree that it would be a woman who leads them so it is a testament to them far more than it is a testament to me your recognized expert on the muslim world what sort of challenge

it is the muslim world facing in terms of achieving peace with itself and with other things so i think the muslim world is symptomatic of a great deal of the rest of the world it's the 2nd largest religion in the whole world it's spread all over the world there is no such thing as one part of the world it's only muslim in fact most muslim majority countries are just that muslim majority which means that there are plenty of other religions within them and i believe that what is transpiring in the broader realm of religion and religious engagement is. that one part of the world which is western europe tended to dominate and set the trend for how religions are perceived and what their role is and in fact western europe is quite secular perhaps the only secular part of the world or the world has continued to be religious in every sense of the world in the sense that we have 80 percent of the world's people claiming an ethically ation to a religion so i think if we look at it that way and we don't see islam as a unique species or

a unique phenomenon we'll be able to understand that we're talking about if you will many people reconnecting with their faith identity and that takes different forms in different shapes depending on the political and social and economic conditions and you look at the global landscape and you look at different religions in the tensions that are sometimes coming out of these different religions with one another what do you see as the main points of conflict as we move forward my personal perspective as a scholar is that once the religious and the political come a little bit too close together we tend to find plenty of challenges because political leadership and religious leadership have to be seen as unique and distinct when there is too much of an overlap between the political institutions and the religious institutions it doesn't become so much about faith anymore for the religious it becomes more about power politics and i believe that power politics are very critical and important but they need to be distinct from faith

and people's commitment to faith and what that means in people's lives so i think the greatest challenge facing us right now is a little bit too much of a confluence between that of the just in the political institutions are corrupt the incoming secretary general of religions for peace thank you very much for being with us thank you for having me. you're watching news still to come as an international convention on endangered species wraps up in geneva to explain why this culture could be at risk of becoming extinct partly because of social media. the 1st brazilian president says he will only accept an offer of aid from g 7 countries to fight fires raging in the us on if he gets an apology from the french president no matter what mccall . announced the g 7 sulpher of 18000000 euros but also noro says mccraw called him a liar and insists that he say sori well more than 80000 fires are burning in the

amazon many of them out of control. and remote areas in the state are brown donia the earth has been burnt to a cinder firefighters continue to arrive in an effort to quell the most persistent fire as picky as airplane to be employed around the clock to douse the flames they take off from port over who airport where the military is currently coordinating the firefighting effort there is little information on progress a part of heavy smoke coming over the nearby city of port of alayo for days mothers with sick children filled the local hospital. having difficulty breathing because of the smoke my 4 year old is suffering from the 2. brazilians are increasingly worried about the amazon. this year the fire's a worse it seems to be out of control. it's criminal because the farmers want to have more land. they abuse the dry period to grab more

if i ski my the premier. brazil's president also narrow promised time and again to open up the amazon to industry well thirty's now want to ascertain why so many fires are currently raging. representatives from more than 180 countries have been meeting in geneva to discuss how to protect endangered species they've been working to draw up rules on limiting the trade of animals and plants that are at risk of extinction. they may be really adorable they need cheeky little creatures are endangered conservationists oughta numbers are declining and the species could one day be extinct one of the main culprits social media images such as these that generate a demand for offices as pits. and acceptability of having a pet when someone creates a false narrative on their instagram accounts about how great it is to have

a pet by showing cute. cute photos. glamorizing what is one fact it's the animal suffering animals you might not even imagine could be endangered in fact giraffes for instance particularly in parts of waste central and east africa they threatened by habitat long drought and the tried in body pots for the 1st time countries have agreed to regulate the stright not ban it. all international trade in giraffes will now be regulated by the treaty to make sure any trade whether it's trophies or products is sustainable and legal but when it comes to elephant ivory and ron i horns global trying to drive the legal and it will stand out why some southern african nations had wanted to sell government aren't ivory stockpiles but others successfully argued that could fuel demand and illegal poaching the un has warned over

a 1000000 animal and plant species face extinction environmentalist believe much more needs to be dumb to stop a decline in biodiversity that they say is unprecedented. talk to. his the wildlife practiced policy manager for the world wide fund for nature and joins us from geneva thanks for being with us. first of all give us a sense of where things stand with respect to wildlife diversity how serious is the current decline. climate is really critical at this stage there's a multitude of factors that are playing there's climate change there's loss and degradation of habitat there's alien invasive species and then what's being talked about here in geneva the moment is over exploitation that's driven by international trade and demand in other countries they talk about international trade and demand

the measures are being greeted agreed upon there in geneva to protect wildlife species from those threats and others how effective do you think these measures that are being agreed on engine even now will be. it really depends on the country and under species and you mentioned authors for instance in your report that the trade and offers is already illegal in the countries where the poaching and a capture is happening so if these countries want this decision in geneva to be effective they would have to do more in and force mint and that's really the bottom line with all of these things it depends how well countries and for such consumer countries must enforce it to well how do you make that happen how do we get from where we are now to where you want to be with your organization wants to be in the future and all of us presumably who want to preserve the wildlife diversity how do you. do you get the sort of measures in place and cooperation enforcement that will

assure that those wildlife species do not continue to decline and. well i mentioned consumer countries and it's probably easier to start there in the case of species like the offer where there's an international ban will be in place after this conference those countries have to issue or permits for the exceptional cases where imports are allowed so that they already have a legal obligation but in many cases if there's really demand in the streets they would have to take measures with the downtown trade. to regulate our band. similarly in the source countries there has to be more tone of the ground we have to professionalize our ranger corps many rangers around the world are poorly paid not insured ill equipped that's something we have to fix it's something we've been working on and that there are many aspects to this and transit countries must shoulder responsibility to what's at stake here really why should we be worried

about the loss of wildlife to person. well because many of these species provide essential ecosystem services that keep that essential keep ecosystems going and provide us with clean air and clean water and with food and building materials and many other things that we need from the cultural point of view where the spiritual point of view if you will you think of places like the. are the rain forests of sumatra these are world heritage sites these are places that really make you gaff and yet they're being affected by particularly the rain forests of sumatra aren't race because of approaching and because of this poaching is driven by illegal trade so if we won't want to keep these really special places and these special species we all have to work together it's a responsibility that the world shares collina cried in with the world wildlife

fund for nature thank you so much. thank you. since the turn of the century the number of people over the age of 100 has risen markedly the un counts more than half a 1000000 at present but how do you get old and stay young berliner leopold kollek is $102.00 and still giving swimming lessons. the local find it maybe they won't sell the same teacher at the grand old age of 100 into his still given classes every week in the school in body. swimming is space. for head coach so maybe doing sports is one of the biggest joys in life. by. keeping fit has certainly helped to keep you know young. the full metal worker

who wanted to stay active when he retired 14 years ago. he qualified as a singing instructor and has been teaching children ever since. i was just nothing with the kids i do it all for free. tonight. more than a 1000 children have taken to the water the. kids age doesn't bother them. how old is leona. and how you didn't choose. but he's really helpful and very patient. if you leave it to the teachers thank. you. thank you my. teacher that.

little blue school x. are full of admiration. they were fearful it's all we're very proud to have him for he so fit i. he has a great sense of humor and is wonderful with children keeps him young and doesn't know. i'm not that young anymore. but. yes. i can do pretty much anything if i want to get a little bit older i'm not not just yet. and it's children expect to see him diving in every thursday. 3rd. now you come and. pick up a conduit. in the days i used to dive from the 5 makes a boat. goodbye.

and before we go just remind of the top story we're following for you on day 8 of the news italy's president has told the main parties they must reach agreement today on forming a new governing coalition if they fail he will call new elections the move comes after far right interior ministry material so many triggered the a collapse of the government by withdrawing its support. you're watching news coming up next close up and a look at the dark side of trendy food thanks will. i

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