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the boat . this is news coming to you live from berlin more than half a 1000000 travelers around the world are stranded after thomas cook collapses with a travel fund grounded holidays are turning into a nightmare as for to tourists left adrift what is britain doing to help citizens get caught cold. coming up after the recent momentum created by the young on climate change the focus is now on world leaders summoned to the u.n. for an emergency climate summit. countries are trying to resolve who'll accept
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migrants rescued from the mediterranean leaders from germany italy and france are meeting today in more to find a solution to the ongoing crisis. plus the game of thrones rules once again. crowned the winner for best drama series we have a look at the windows and upsets on t.v.'s big night. out and welcome good to have you. the world's oldest travel company thomas cook has collapsed after failing to secure a last minute bailout more than half a 1000000 people worldwide are currently on holiday but the group the u.k. is civil aviation authority is beginning an operation to bring home some 150000 british customers stranded abroad the head of the civil aviation authority in
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britain tim johnson had this message for thomas cook customize if our customers passengers have a flight booked out from the u.k. today unfortunately your flight has been canceled supplies dugouts of the please don't go to the airports if you're overseas on a thomas cook our holiday then you can continue to enjoy your holiday at the cia it is launching a repub. this is the largest repression since the 2nd world war so passengers are now going to be brought back with a large repacked ration effort under way here's some reaction from u.k. travelers in spain that an airport in majorca. a nightmare they mistrust. not all wanted really to fall for the old. what can you do we want to show you the nearest thing to what's happening. so no one has told us no one has emailed back
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to find they just want more but i. thought they were flying once it's really now. not so if you're basically sound and style you know subtle it sounds like you know the way you see fit and that misandry london entity dobby's correspondent charlotte thoughts shawn it's a lot of uncertainty in exile as we heard how the hundreds of thousands of people who are stranded going to get a woman who's going to pay for that. well essentially the british government is going to pay for that they have chartered hundreds of flights around the world from as far as malaysia to get those travelers back home to the u.k. we know that planes will pick them up at some point in the advice there from the aviation authority is sit tight and joy your holiday and a plane will come to pick you up at some point check the web site the thomas cook website and they will let you know but of course there is also a much bigger story that is hundreds of thousands that have booked holidays with
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thomas cook that are coming out that are now not going to be able to take part and those are they going to be reimbursed some are of course and $20000.00 employees globally are losing or have lost their jobs last night with this bankruptcy for example those employees in the shop behind me this shop of course remains closed it's one of 600 shops that are still on high street in the u.k. and those will remain closed until thomas cook c.e.o. peta fine counsel has also made a statement 1st let's have a listen to what he had to say i would like to say. to all our customers those who are in holy though you with us now but those who have poked with us in the coming months it is deeply distressing to me that it has no to be impossible
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to say for all of the most loft grads in travel. social of the there was that was a thomas cook c.e.o. expressing his regret now why didn't his company get the financial lifeline it was desperately seeking. well it was quite an emotional statement from the c.e.o. and i think this news has hit the u.k. quite hard we know it's the oldest travel agency one of the world's largest so it's the news really has hit the u.k. and everybody basically in the u.k. has at some point traveled with thomas cocoa know somebody who has traveled with thomas koch so why the question did the u.k. government not to save the company basically they did the numbers and they said it wasn't profitable at all thomas cook has been in debt 1700000000 and when the u.k. government crunched the numbers they figured that it wouldn't be profitable in the long term that there was systemic problems and that it just wouldn't be worth
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saving and short the question which also needs to be did briggs's really ruin all of this. well it played at least some pod i think the u.k. government not saving thomas cook for example they didn't also want to set a precedent there are many companies at the moment currently with the uncertainty of brics that and the u.k. struggling and the u.k. government didn't want to say for comment thomas cook and set the precedent for other companies but on the other hand thomas cook struggled also because of bricks and because of that uncertainty a lot of travelers in the u.k. decided to cancel plans to travel abroad and that is why they had less bookings so that has certainly been one of the issues shown at bounce on the collapse of thomas coke thank you very much. let me now being young to date with some of the stories making news around the bond a school classroom has collapsed in the kenyan capital nairobi killing at least 7
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children dozens more have been injured the elementary school is located in a poor neighborhood off nairobi the collapse is being blamed on shoddy construction . iran says it will release a british flagged oil tanker seized in the strait of hormuz in july iranian authorities said the state imperio was free to leave after an investigation into alleged violations iran seized the ship 2 weeks after britain detained an iranian tanker off gibraltar in afghanistan at least 35 people attending a wedding party had been killed in a botched raid by government forces officials said the reading was taking place near the house used by militants in helmand province over 100 civilians have been killed in attacks in afghanistan in recent weeks spanish police have gathered downgrades and arrested 9 people suspected of plotting violent attacks they say the raid started an organization that supports independence police say they found
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materials that could be used to make explosives it comes ahead of a verdict in the trial of independence politicians. in mortal interior ministers from you countries including germany france and italy are meeting today to decide where to resettle refugees rescued in the mediterranean italy and more to have been preventing rescue ships from entering their ports mortared cephus in the shop increase in refugees over the sama former refugees among those trying to help them our correspondent. sent us this report. do some mama train 6 times a week in the hot maltese sun. he is a sprinter and his goal is to compete in the olympics. when he's not training dose of volunteers with spark 15 a nonprofit set up to help integrate the increasing number of asylum seekers on the
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island. there's a himself led ethiopia through libya and across the mediterranean 6 years ago he says his experience as a refugee allows him to connect with those who crossed the same waters. they did more open to talk to me what they want but you know. i'm not doing a big thing is for them what it's like for them is something something would. talk to me there's a story is a story of success but a recent surge in arrivals to europe's most densely populated island is testing the e.u. members asylum system in 201720 people arrive by boat to malta this year that number was 2260. this swell in arrivals is due in part to the former italian government's policy of refusing port to the rescue vessels that save migrants in the mediterranean this has made malta the closest safe harbor to the north african coast now other e.u. countries have been accepting
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a lot of these arrivals but only on an ad hoc basis this has left malta to shelter thousands in makeshift accommodations like these. there are over a 1000 people living in the whole far camp 8 people per container. the residents i spoke to had the same complaints long lines for the bathroom and only pasta to eat . they are worried that winter will be unbearable and we don't have any clothes we don't have good growth you know how much it is. we don't have anything if you said you see i think it's up. to me what i will how i would've been just cross because i don't have i see them when you don't understand and live by that because of the. but the worst part for some is not knowing how long they will have to wait to find out if they can stay in europe. over the weekend celebrated 55 years of independence from the united kingdom the
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nationalist party held a rally and party leader adrian spoke of economic success both major political parties advocate tolerance toward asylum seekers the nationalist party is proud of how the model has handled the influx of people fleeing war and persecution in africa. but says he wants the e.u. to create a system to automatically distribute those who arrive by boat. migration is not something which comes and goes. it's a. climate change. to be. sure the tackling this issue in knots season by season. there's a says he hopes he can serve as an inspiration to those who just arrived and those who are bound to come looking for a better life was miami is like looking for freedom. you know what you need your what you make it what freedom you want to make it. there's
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a feels he is where he wants to be now but he knows he is one of the lucky few. and the job he has been very good is at the migration summit in malta then of this summit is to look at the distribution of refugees but it seems only 5 countries are taking pot why is that the case. because the other tried to to a somewhat reluctant to agree on a relocation scheme for migrants and some of these countries poland hungary to name 2 actually refusing to take any migrants so this is a coalition of the willing meeting in malta basically the 3 big e.u. countries france germany and italy now about to agree on a fix quota system which is new in the u. and they hope that they can convince at least 10 or 12 more countries to join this team in october when germany has signaled that's willing to accept more refugees
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a spot off this initiative do you think that would head. well germany came out with 25 percent of migrants it would take from private rescue boats but also france is agreeing on 25 percent italy will take 10 and so the german interior minister. whom i talked to before this meeting is quite optimistic that something can be achieved today on malta let's listen in. for the face and. even the best planning can't guarantee a successful end result and i'm most interested in reaching a successful conclusion to such negotiations there are many points that must be reviewed that means ministers have to discuss things a 2nd time moment to consider our decision to solve a mission the minister know there are several such points to be reconsidered but overall the understanding between the ministers is good he's on this to sustain his new minister good one of the sticking points one of these brackets if you will is
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the question which kind of migrants should be taken in all migrants only those who have a chance to get asylum actually in the e.u. which are only 20 or 30 percent of the migrants with a broad which are which come from africa so far and rita and then what about italy under the previous hardline minister muttiah salvini italy had kills its ports to rescue vessels do you think this summit could lead to a change of that policy. yes the policy already has changed the new home secretary. is a totally different kind of politician she's not come painting on this issue she's not a right wing politician she's a civil servant if you will and she said she will open the hospice of italy again if there is a relocation scheme so salvini blockade actually failed. and then
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thousands of if it is that have died in the past few years in the mediterranean is there any india discussion there whether the e.u. could have done more to prevent those deaths. but the n.g.o.s the health organization of course maintain that you could have done more and save more lives but the you on the other hand says we cannot take every migrant and we cannot prevent migraines entering the boats if we say we take everybody even more people would come and more people drown so this discussion is still going on then get out and you migration and refugee conference in malta thank you very much for this update from that. the leaders are gathering today in new york for an emergency climate summit ahead at the general assembly which starts on tuesday the u.n. is calling it a race to limit climate change a race that the world says it can win but for those living on the frontline in the
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arctic circle for example there is a greater urgency the no reach an occupation or go off. is home to the world's northern most town people there are now experiencing various consequences of climate change for us 10 residences some lives have already been lost. the cracking sound of the carving place yet was never unusual here insolvent what is unusual is the frequency with which you hear it nowadays scientists say air and sea temperatures have risen significantly in the last 3 decades and it's changing the entire archipelago. we are losing the small bargain we are losing the arctic as we know it because of climate change the earth's temperature risen by almost 10 degrees in the past 30 years the ocean is warmer. there is no sea ice on the fjord so any more here on the west coast. that's not an isolated
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development sea ice cover on the arctic has shrunk to almost half its size and less than 40 years. in the nearby town of long a 1000000000 people say they can see the highest changing and they no longer feel safe. the summer of 2015. child died. but it was a whole apartment complex that. was like 50 apartments getting crushed. but it was the middle of the night and nobody knew was coming. since then landslides and avalanches have become more common leading the local vicar to paint a doomsday scenario because of climate change and the different fact makes through the soil the ground some of the grace we see behind us might actually end up sliding into the road
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a little valley. or the next thing we could see if it might all be covered in the next big landslide coming down from the hill after just one by a couple of feet last part. it's a grisly prospect and still a way off in the future but this reason to worry about the here and now raj and is eating away at the coastline forcing some to pack up and move here so this one sir very nice slopes towards the coast one day. 30 meters disappear just. one event and that's when we decided we have to move the cabin. and many others and are hoping world leaders will act fast to limit the effects of climate change else they fear their home in the arctic won't survive. and with me i have clear fice and she's a researcher at climate analytics
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a nonprofit organization that advises governments on climate negotiations welcome to you clear now we heard the people in the small town in norway are looking for swift decisive action from world leaders when they need for this urgent climate summit at the un what from your perspective are the most urgent priorities. well i think important to remember a few years ago governments agreed to limit woman talking point 5 degrees that's what the science tells us there's an important limit beyond which climate change impacts would really be devastating but if we look at where we're currently headed according to the pledges that governments have put forward that would take us to about 3 degrees by the end of the century which would really be far far too high so the hope is with this summit that governments will be pushed into more climate action now of course there are some governments that haven't taken on board this message yet so governments like the u.s. and brazil are still not responding to the urgency of our other governments that are making some progress but they're still not doing enough to limit woman to 1.5
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and the e.u. would be a good example there but there are reasons to be optimistic so several governments have already come forward and say that they will reduce emissions further than what they originally had pledged to do and i think if we look at market trends the rapid reduction in costs of renewable energy is actually more reason than ever before for governments to be able to put more climate change action plans into a progress the gym which also has come under some criticism here in germany that she hasn't delivered as a climate chancellor or she'll be presenting germany's proposals of the un what can we expect from her. so germany has a big historical contribution to climate change and they have a really strong moral obligation to do something. recent and over the last few days germany came forward with their climate package which unfortunately is really quite inadequate to tackle this problem so a number of climate unless it looked at best and said this is not responding in any
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degree with the agency that we need to do and so it'll be interesting to see what chancellor merkel says at this summit because of the moment germany is really crawling on time to a mission that should be sprinting at the same time you have some countries are not even digging bought in this summit the u.s. for example or brazil so how can one make progress on such an important issue when the world still remains divided on this on climate change it's a massive problem i think there is reason to hope to be hopeful because at the state level for example within the u.s. there is a lot of progress being made you have big states like california which itself is a massive economy making a lot of progress on reducing emissions so it's not just at the top level of government right cliff eisen of research at climate and that is thank you very much for sharing your expertise with us. now for some sport and for us in fed has taken the checkered flag at the singapore grand prix his victory marks a comeback its 1st win in over
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a year but ahead of the wrist it looked like teammate was set up to extend his line of victories for fogarty. the start of the singapore grand prix charlotte claire began in pole position aiming for a 3rd straight win. and starting from 4th on the grid ferrari teammates of us tim fattal 1st then for a pit stop in the clare followed and then hit the track again behind fassel. was it an error in ferrari's famous strategy ferrari held the top 2 spots for the rest of the race fettle even defended himself from the claire's efforts to pass him despite 3 states the car phases fireworks marked fatals 1st victory of the season as he took the checkered flag for the 1st time in over a year the clare placed 2nd and red bulls max 1st stop in a rounded out the podium. world champion lewis hamilton finished 4th the 3rd time
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since the summer break that he's failed to win but he still far ahead of mercedes teammate terry bought us in the overall rankings. away from sport in general bidding farewell to an aerospace pioneer sigmund yang the 1st gentleman in space has died at the age of 82 the east german cosmonauts trained in the soviet union in the 1970 s. he spent 8 days in space a short trip but one that made quite a statement at the height of the cold all. baikonur august 1988 a space flight that propelled a german into space for the 1st time and made sigmund a hero in communist east germany the socialist figurehead even learned by heart words the bullet bureau had given him. i imagine how i did it take my flight to the 30th anniversary of the founding of the german democratic republic of my socialist fatherland i thought about. 25 years later the physicist took
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a pragmatic view of his greeting from outer space. one of the voice of god. because if you're given a task like that you can't save them before take off i won't say that but otherwise you've misplayed it and besides that i was an officer we were raised that way it was all part of it today people talk differently. about whether that small almost is another matter. the east german government used the space flight for propaganda purposes and presented it as a victory over west germany. was revered as a hero while the west german press downplayed the achievement after the fall of the berlin wall in work for the european space agency organizing cooperation between western european and russian astronauts close ties to his hometown of morgan who took out and cons and northern germany home to the country's only space travel museum it was here that seek money and celebrated the 30th anniversary of his
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historic space flight. and to the emmy awards the t.v. hit series game of thrones went out on a high note winning the top emmy for best drama series but the night also made way for new stars to shine the dark british comedy fleabag was a big winner dominating the comedy prizes at the glitzy ceremony. which is the most decorated fictional show in the history of the emmys but the h.b.o. smash hit game of thrones which ended this year more with a whimper than a bang. it may have won the evening's biggest award for best drama series but it took home just one of the prices sunday night the best supporting actor in the drummer awards for peter dinklage. it was newcomers who up ended the night for the more established shows. dop which is comedy fleabag was
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the surprise big winner of the evening dominating the comedy prizes the show's creator and star phoebe will abridge won best leading comedy actress and also backed awards for best comedy writing and comedy series. i find acting really hard so i'm. going to. tell a british actress j.g. coma also overturned expectations to take home best actress in a drama for her as a psychopath and spiteful like killing eve and my mom and dad were in liverpool here we didn't fight because i didn't think this was going to be my time i. believe porter made history as the 1st openly gay black man to win best leading drama actor for his role in pose and it was a night of farewells to popular shows and surprises that kept us guessing until the
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