all that's on the program at the fringe festival in edinburgh. for three weeks performers from the world over turn scotland's capital into one big colorful state of. the world. sixty minutes on. climate change. waste. pollution. isn't it time for good. eco africa people and projects that are changing our fire meant for the better it's up to us to make a difference let's inspire each other. environment magazine. on d w. rock n roll. cut him up. sinful rhythms can tell by the church. and all that evil feeling that you feel when you think. jocasta. stoppable. no one is more popular than jesus oz book religious morality preachers or subversive. battle with some marketing potential by placing a warning label on music products. rock and religion a clash that brings many parallels. for the two really so irreconcilable. god the devil and rock n roll stones august nineteenth d.w. . hello and welcome to drive with a d.-w. motor magazine today you know electric s.u.v. from south korea hyundai kona electric. c i'm still vella big new mobility concepts at his

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and the edinburgh fringe festival of tranks community of artists some performers from around the globe the locals say it doesn't benefit them. welcome to the program we sort of got a star where there have been hours of fighting between taliban fighters and afghan forces in the central city. heavily armed men stormed the city attacking at several government buildings including police headquarters overnight now there are an unknown number fate tallaght he's dozens of people are believed to be injured. let's get the very latest to charleville us our correspondent who is live for us in the afghan capital and charlie let's just bring us up to speed on the situation as we know it right now. so we believe that there are at least fourteen people dead those people being police officers and more than sixty people wounded but it's such a fluid fluid situation it's so hard to get information out because cell phone towers are down cell phones are jammed the taliban is putting out one one story and the government is putting out a completely different story both with vastly vastly different numbers t

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security services have barred her from leaving the country she was due to appear at the edinburgh festival fringe already in full swing in scotland it is billed as the world's single biggest arts festival all of the city is the stage for thousands of performers competing for your attention. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program. australia's most populous state new south wales is gripped by its worst to trout in decades with pastors turning to dust a heat wave is scorching parts of asia including china and japan and wildfires are waging in portugal spain and the united states so what's behind the extreme weather in just a moment i'll put that to a climate policy analyst but first this report on the high temperatures and the fears that the earth's ecosystems could be irreversibly disrupted. it's been more than fifty years since the state of new south wales in australia has seen a drought like this farmers pray for rain as their crops and livestock die some are forced to shoot starving cattle well others face the prospect of having to simply abandon their land on the other side of the world a simil

the curtain at the edinburgh festival fringe anything go. to your house of horrors first walk on museum has opened in walsall. and the big trip to switzerland to home on the famous and. i borrow is in the festival fever at the moment among all of us the french festival is in full swing it would have started in nine hundred forty seven as an event for fringe groups of that time eight independent theater groups organized this unofficial event which took place alongside be established edinburgh festival but things changed today it's the largest cultural festival in the what artists from more than fifty countries take part but with such a varied program thousands of events it's not that easy for performance to get people to come to their show. every august musicians acrobats and theater groups converge on edinburgh scotland for the fringe festival and for more than three weeks the venerable. historical old town becomes a stage for performers from all over the world. thank. god they fell full time coming out saying that the sixty's time time to. s

all that some programs at the fringe festival in edinburgh. for three weeks performers from the world over turned scotland's counted all in one big colorful stage. next d w. c sarno just couldn't get this song out of his head. musicologist began searching for the source of these captivating sounds. and found them deep in the rain forest in central africa. the bike up equal. that hanging. books and the like to belittle is a biblical blessing and why anyone fit a. million legal costs he was so fascinated by their culture that he stayed. only a promise to his son was made son only in the jungle and returned to the concrete and glass trunk. the result reversed culture shock. way for us to realize how strange the artificial dollars really connected to life. the prize winning documentary from before asst starts aug ninth on d w. how to from great to have you here again from a famous festival to fantastic food this is what's coming up in today's show.

of the fringe shaping the festivals future. out zero at imbra. put the minds of any of our top stories on al-jazeera at least one palestinians been killed after israeli warplanes carried out air strikes in gaza and ways to place after dozens of rockets were launched from the palestinian territory into an israeli time. well israel confirmed it's launch strikes targeting twelve hamas sites israel's military says it's intercepted most of the rockets launched from gaza and you're simmons has more basically. all started with rockets forward into israel through drop who's one of the targets we saw quite clearly the result. there was a coup people injured a number of other with perkins who holds who saw. whole week one from a rocket or from. the one who won't before we saw the reaction there was a very furious reaction a crew precision bombing it seems all the number of military targets will describe of them thought the u.s. says it will impose sanctions against russia because of an attack on expiring button earlier this year the stat

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on that sunday program at the fringe festival in edinburgh men. for three weeks performers from the world over turn scotland's capital into one big colorful stage. there were. thirty minutes on d w. europe. what unites. what divides. what it looks trudging. what binds the continent together. to answers and stories aplenty. spotlight on people. focus on girl on t w. yeah i do nashville and i think one day this war will be considered a cruel and unjust war of birth. and certainly all citizens of ukraine every man woman and child of money from their own land if the enemy invades they do benson no one wants russia here don't need to nuke which is the. rebel against the mighty global news that matters. d.w. made for mines women often fighting for the shades taken seriously in the world of what appears has come out women stronger tougher go to the super heroes smart smart talks smart stay in the gym for increasingly dangerous time putting double for my mum's reputation her mum arsonist little. tyrants. the roman emperor nero. to be just good bad press a

festival fever at the moment among all of us the french festival is in full swing it would have started a nine hundred forty seven as an event for fringe groups of that time eight independent theater groups organized based on officially banned which took place alongside the established edinburgh festival but thanks changed today it's the largest cultural festival in the what artists from more than fifty countries take part but with such a varied program thousands of events it's not that easy for perform us to get people to come to their show. every august musicians and theater groups converge scotland for the fringe festival and for more than three weeks the venerable. old town becomes a speech for performers from all over the world. god it's time we. well it would be excellent thing is unique. as far as i'm aware this police sales in the world where art just lives and breathes is overwhelming but i think that's the best part of fringe where you go you get pulled into one direction or another you know quite know what you're going to hear. most of the performers spend their day trying to get as many people as they can to come to the sho

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all that some programming at the fringe festival in edinburgh. for three weeks performers from the world over turn scotland's capital into one big colorful stage. there will be. sixty minutes on. earth. home to millions of species a home worth saving. and those are big changes and most start with small steps global ideas tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world like to use the term the climate boost to green energy solutions and reforestation. they create interactive content teaching the next generation about environmental protection and more determined to build something here for the next generation global ideas the multimedia environment series on d.w. . looking good but at what cost. this edition of made we look at the global beauty boom i've been fizzling thanks for joining me these days in hats in your appearance can be as easy as opening an app we tried it out on me have a look smooth the skin feel blemishes get rid of those duck rings bigger eyes perhaps.

a new play at camden fringe festival hopes to help men speak out about mental health.elp anybody with this sort of illness, any person, one person, that would be a big thing. tottenham will have to wait to play in its new 62,000 seater stadium. there are delays to it's completion because of issues with critical safety systems. premier league matches against liverpool in september and cardiff in october will be held at wembley. the club has asked supporters to remain patient until a new move—in date is set. let's have a look at the travel situation now. there's a good service on the tubes this morning. the a13 is down to one lane in limehouse because of an overturned car. that will add to the usual delays coming in to town the victoria embankment remains closed westbound from southwark bridge to westminster bridge for major works. in fulham: north end road remains closed southbound for repairs to a sink hole. let's have a check on the weather now with alina jenkins. good morning. a couple of days of dry and settled weather. there will be sunshine around today. it will b

festival fringe every year the arts event draws lots of visitors and performers to edinburgh. magical moments we visit a museum dedicated to the art of conjuring. and swiss so journalists with town of the congo and its annual film festival. we kicked off the program in edinburgh which is playing host to the biggest cultural event in europe the festival fringe started in one nine hundred forty seven as an event for fringe groups and it's since run into a giant venue for artists and performers from all over the world where this year artist from more than fifty countries are taking part so visitors certainly do have quite a selection to choose from for the performers competition is fierce for gathering an audience well we went there to find out more. every august musicians acrobats and theatre groups converge on edinburgh scotland for the fringe and for more than three weeks the venerable mile in the historical old town becomes a speech for performers from all over the world and. it was. time to come talk. to me as unique. as far as i'm aware this sails in the world where art jus

of the fringe the shaping the festivals future. the. edinburgh. and that's it from me nor a call for this news up i'm back in just a moment with more on that one as fact that killed forty people they said. it's a story of survival. it's a story about how people learned to live in such remote last bite pretty shocking to the way it would be to cheat and how that instinct help them recover from the financial crash i will continue as long as i can stand. this is a story about iceland. a jeep. on al-jazeera. al-jazeera follows the lives of people in the heart of immigrant communities. in six major cities across europe. the stories we don't often have told by the people who live them. a brand new documentary series this is year a coming soon on al-jazeera. a firebrand. and one of the talking about fasting for women's liberation. thing victory for anybody section of the self-confessed news an iconic feminist and seminal writer awaiting for solution yes we need to do some but won't from once on day of i'm not sure you thought matty has sa

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festival in one nine hundred forty seven but when dames good enough. so they decided to perform anyway and really that was the genesis of the fringe was this act of defiance. this is what the festival used to look like a few dozen acts a careful selection of big performances today there were more than three and a half thousand shows the struggle for space has led to rising rents and expensive performance licenses some performers believe the festivals become a victim of its own success. a growing number of artists want to recreate a sense of lost authenticity in small scale low budget experimental shows this performance space far from the noise and clamor of some of the biggest shows is about as intimate as it gets with room for only the tiniest of audiences on this occasion just me time to still the mind and go somewhere very very different. people describe it as the being on the fringe of the frames and a lot of people like to find than use like that because it reminds them of maybe what the fringe used to be like before it became more commercial elsewhere in the city a team of local performers has spent weeks carefully building a hundred seater amphithe

fringe aneta brust so special. every august musicians acrobats and theater troops converge on to edinburgh scotland for the edinburgh festivalfringe and for more than three weeks the venerable royal mile in the historical old town becomes a stage for performers from all over the world. thank. god we fell full time and we have to look at the sixty sometimes they say much is just a well of creativity is unique. as far as i'm aware there's police else in the world where art just lives and reads it's overwhelming but i think that's the best part of frames where you go you get pulled into one direction or another you know what know what you're going to be missed most of the former spend the day trying to convince as many people as they can to come to their show. details that you can just show you up side by side out. the shows on offer range from cabaret to stand up comedy to classical standards and musicals competitions is intense. it's sad it's very difficult where i'm from nine o'clock in the morning just straight away flyer and i were doing silly stuff like gibril pillars to try and just drop the charges because there's so ma

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of the fringe shaping the festivals future. the. edinburgh. via the harlem globetrotters have been entertaining basketball fans with trick shots for almost a century but for the first time and then ninety two year history they've taken their antics to new heights free to. play of trying to stop made the team's first ever trick shot from an airplane meaning out of the plane dropped the ball at a hip on a landing strip and got it in. this is all sarah these are our top stories dozens have been killed in the saudi embassy lead as strike which killed hit a school bus in the north killing mostly children it happened inside a province that's a stronghold north of the capital but cross says the bus came under attack as it was driving near a crowded market. house officials in gaza say they will not escalate the conflict any further and restoring calm is up to israel the message comes after as strikes and shelling killed three including a pregnant mother and her child funerals have been held in the past few hours in gaza israel hit more

charging an entry fee as the first of all gross artists currently on the fringe of the fringe shaping the festivals future. the. edinburgh. taffeta take a look at the top stories here it out there this morning a pregnant mother and her toddler are among the three palestinians killed in an explosive exchange between israel and hamas the israeli military says seventy rockets were fired from gaza but that it intercepted most of them israel retaliated by targeting hamas sites in the territory with air strikes andrew symonds has more from gusta. the attacks may be more intermittent and less intense but the fighting is going on strikes some shelling from the sea from the israeli navy hitting panic in the streets and on the israeli side panic there too right across the southern communities of israel canada's prime minister just intrude insists his country will always speaks strongly in favor of human rights saudi arabia froze ties and brand new trade deals after canada urged the release of jailed political activists the saudi foreign minister says canada is to blame for the deceit. argentinians have been

festival in one nine hundred forty seven but when dames good enough. so they decided to perform anyway and really that was the genesis of the fringe was this act of defiance. this is what the festival used to look like a few dozen acts a careful selection of big performances today there were more than three and a half thousand shows the struggle for space has led to rising rents and expensive performance licenses some performers believe the festivals become a victim of its own success. a growing number of artists want to recreate a sense of lost authenticity in small scale low budget experimental shows this performance space far from the noise and clamor of some of the biggest shows is about as intimate as it gets with room for only the tiniest of audiences on this occasion just me time to still the mind and go somewhere very very different. people describe it as the being on the fringe of the frames and a lot of people like to find than use like that because it reminds them of maybe what the fringe used to be like before it became more commercial. elsewhere in the city a team of local performers who spent weeks carefully building a hundred seater empty t

diverse popular and entertaining edinburgh festival fringe does it prove your launchpad for many a performing artist hoping to be discovered but it's not easy to lure people into watching your show as there are so many actors competing for the audience's attention kirk not next time on your own. the to. blame. the mold. the be. rockin to. the bang bang the beat sinful rhythms contempt by the church. i know that. feeling that you feel when you think. the bus stop the bow on is more popular than jesus oz look at the religious morality preachers some verses. back with some more good potential by placing a warning label on music quite outside. rock religion. any. commitment. to the song irreconcilable. cause the devil and rock'n'roll. it's all these might change on d w. imagine being born with this. you're a liar a con prove it since you want to look the no school until. you want to be useful put on a lot of. when you're sick the doctor knows when you fall in love they won't. you don't have children for fear they'll be invisible to. you assure. you have no human rights. when you die there's no pr

diverse popular and entertaining edinburgh's festival fringe is a tribute launchpad for many a performingartist hoping to be discovered but it's not easy to lure people into watching your show as there are so many actors competing for the audience's attention kerk not next time on your own. the. clocks. call. for the new season kicks off look at the highlights from last season thanks al high in munich won the championship get a. culture shock turned into a top team. and my hammers relegated for the first tom. cole. come out and they will not succeed in defining the subtle not succeed in taking the people off the streets because we're tired of mistakes i shall be. taking the stand global news that matters. made from behind. these creations should this brand a mistake of all colors gushing because. of what do we. really know all about the man behind the dark shades what motivates him how does he think and feel good moments in the life of a great fashion designer. someone smokes and. starts september not w. sarno just couldn't get this song out of his head. ecologist began searching for the

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on the next edition of your own max flamboyant diverse popular and entertaining edinburgh festival fringeis a career launchpad for many a performing artist hoping to be discovered but it's not easy to lure people into watching your show as there are so many acts competing for the audience's attention kerk not next time going to europe. i'm going. to. go to. a. crowded beaches and feigning trauma. for many this is the perfect summer. but for others it's a nightmare. germany's facing poor harvests wildfires and the destruction of natural habitat but is this just the beginning of a summer of extremes. close up view of its own d.w. . the fast pace of life in the digital mobile shift as the lowdown on the way showing new developments and providing useful information on the way to use fines and interviews with the makers and users. in forty five minutes. or more. there's no doubt. that you're going to go to day nothing changes you know the banks pay you know your mind and so was the language of a bank. speaking the truth global news that matters g.w. made four minds lives reputation murderers l

it has a week left at the edinburgh fringe festival, then i am touring the country.e, affect northern and western areas. this weather front, we see moving from the atlantic, affect in northern ireland, central and southern scotland and western fringes of england and wales. patchy rain lasting for most of the day, especially around northern ireland, coastal areas of western england and wales, the hills. some showers across northern england, brightness towards the north of scotland, some brightness developing across central and eastern areas of england, temperatures getting up to 25—26d, particularly warm, further north and west, cloudy, some drizzle, temperatures between 17 and 20 degrees. tonight more cloud, misty and bradley conditions around the coast, warm and muggy night. 15—17 for many in england and wales, pressure the further north you are across scotland. on tuesday, high—pressure lingering around the south—west, this weather front making inroads across the far north—west of the uk. that‘s likely to bring cloud and outbreaks of rain eventually pushing into th

she is probably juggling harder than a street performer at the edinburgh fringe festival in pursuit ofequers last month has already been crit criticised by the eu side with the eu chief negotiator ruling out the uk collecting customs receipts on behalf of the european union. although they have seemed willing to give ground on other areas. the uk government is then proceeding direct talks with the european union leaders. that is why the prime minister cut short her a walking holiday to speak with the french president last week. this is her first appearance in the uk since the stocks. it is also her first appearance since the trade secretary suggested the chances of a no—deal brexit. now around 60% because of what he called the european union intransigence. here in scotland, nicola sturgeon once the prime minister to rule out a no—deal brexit. and to roll out what she is describing as a blind brexit. —— and to rule out a blind brexit. and enter a transition period but without there being an agreement on the broad shape of the future of trading relations. nicola sturgeon thinks that and i

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thousands of actors comedians dancers and musicians so flock to edinburgh for the annual fringe performing arts festival anyone can perform at the three week celebration in the scottish capital if barca met one group that's been drawing the crowds. it's one of the biggest festivals of its kind anywhere in the world bringing together thousands of performers and performances in hundreds of very unique locations from dozens of countries where the stars of the future shoulders with today's stars it's also a place to come and experiment just what this is all about it's called the piano drome and it's made from dozens of up cycle pianos some of them beautifully and here it's been turned into a one hundred seater auditorium deconstructing ideas of what the theater is and what it can be or this is my he's one of the brains behind it when people think theater they think four walls i think velvet seats they possibly even think popcorn during the intermission but what we have here is something completely new completely different is that what this festival was all about the evolution of theater you think yeah i mea

and why this performance space is called the piano drome we report from the edinburgh fringe festival. the welcome to the program iran is now officially back under u.s. sanctions and donald trump is warning the world not to the fire them by doing business with tehran president trump alle the sanctions as the toughest yet and said the second round which is due in november will only increase the pressure iran has this missed any talks with washington to try to resolve the crisis from tehran hears. the day after the united states reimposed nuclear sanctions against iran the foreign minister of another sanctioned country sat down with leaders into iran. north korea's foreign minister really young ho met iranian leaders in an effort to improve ties the timing of this visit is likely no coincidence iran wants america to know it has friends everywhere. in a televised interview on monday night iran's president admonished america praised his european allies and asked his people for a little more time to fix the country's economy. that if. we need more solidarity we should be more united i'm te

festival fringe every year the arts event draws lots of visitors and performers to every for a. pleasurable moments we visit a museum dedicated to the art of conjuring. and swiss so journalists was tone of the congo and its annual film festival. we kicked off the program in edinburgh which is playing host to the biggest cultural event in europe the festival fringe started in one thousand forty seven as an event for fringe groups and it's since grown into a giant venue for artists and performers from all over the world well this year artist from more than fifty countries are taking part so visitors certainly do have quite a selection to choose from for the performers competition is fierce for gathering an audience well we went there to find out more. every august musicians acrobats and theatre groups converge on edinburgh scotland for the fringe and for more than three weeks the venerable royal mile in the historical old town becomes a stage for performers from all over the world. it was. time. to time top. just. as unique. as far as i'm aware this police sales in the world where

if he wants to be a comedian, he is a free agent, he can go to the edinburgh festival and appear on the fringe give him ideas. this is a really good subject for debate, isn't it? the original question was borisjohnson isn't it? the original question was boris johnson saying isn't it? the original question was borisjohnson saying i do not like the face veil and i do not like the burka and if a woman wearing one of those came into my surgery, i would ask her to remove them. you can argue they should be banned, some other countries, like denmark, have banned at. but the words he used in passing to describe women who wear burka, particularly saying that it made you look like a letterbox or like a made you look like a letterbox or likea bank made you look like a letterbox or like a bank robber, i do not know many bank robbers who have worn the burka. is it true that a lot of women who wear these phase of a doing so at the behest of their husbands? —— face veils. doing so at the behest of their husbands? -- face veils. there is more to it because 100 of these women have written to brendan lewis sayi

sanctions that moscow is slamming as illegal and how i don't bruise biggest festival isn't benefiting people on the city's fringes. hello there strong winds have been battering parts of western australia is over to this weather front here that's gradually edging its way eastwards we're seeing winds gusting over one hundred kilometers per hour in some places and it's gradually edging its way towards the east so it looks like south australia will see about wet weather and windy weather as we head through friday and then it will work its way across victoria and tasmania as well by saturday it was like most of us will be in the fresh air so it's going to be a cool one adelaide with a maximum just of eleven degrees and force in melbourne will only be at twelve.

sanctions that moscow is slamming as illegal and how i don't bruise biggest festival isn't benefiting people on the city's fringes. hello there strong winds have been battering parts of western australia is all of them to this weather front here that's gradually edging its way eastwards we've seen winds gusting over one hundred kilometers per hour in some places and it's gradually edging its way towards the east so it looks like south australia will see about wet weather and windy weather as we head through friday and then it will work its way across victoria and tasmania as well by saturday looks like most of us will be in the fresh air so it's going to be a cool one adelaide with a maximum just of eleven degrees and force in melbourne will only be at twelve as we head across towards new zealand we've got a fair amount of cloud as being piling its way into the western parts of the south island has also brought us a fair amount of rain they don't break so really there was we head into friday friday should be a mostly bright day for many of us eleven degrees the maximum in christchurch fifteen in all clones and ge

still ahead on the news how edinburgh festival isn't benefiting people on the city's fringes and. india battle each other as well as the weather on the cricket field peter will have the details and talk. from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. hello there we're looking at a wet couple of days for the southern parts of china if we look at the satellite picture we can see plenty of cloud to the south of us at the moment to this is a developing feature this whole area of cloud and rain is pushing its way northward for many of us in the southern parts of china and looks wet on friday and on saturday as well some of the downpours are likely to be very heavy it could cause us a problem with flooding as well and the rain does extend across hong kong too in fact even further south will see the rains enhanced across many parts of the philippines particularly in the western parts of luzon a bit further towards the south and you can see the showers that we've had recently luzon obviously plenty of them bad but also further west we're seeing quite a few showers some heavy

festivals as singular. but there are loads, from the fringe to the tattooed. charlie is there.s, i did two minutes at the royal albert hall couple of yea rs the royal albert hall couple of years ago and i did ten minutes at the comedy store and i suddenly thought, why not do a whole hour) seemed a distant speck on the horizon but now it has actually happened. —— whole hour? horizon but now it has actually happened. -- whole hour? seven years ago you were diagnosed. on the face of it, i know comedy comes from difficult rings and that, i guess, is where your comedy is coming from. i think it is so important. comedy is therapeutic. laughter is therapeutic, it makes us feel better and there are lots ofjokes that not only from my career, because i co—wrote the vicar of deadly with richard curtis, but also there was a lot of jokes to have richard curtis, but also there was a lot ofjokes to have with parkinson. my lot ofjokes to have with parkinson. my urologist is a wonderful woman called michelle who and to have a doctor who as your doctor is funny. this is presumably close to your