the defending champion karen thomas is the favorite to win this year's tour which started with a 194 kilometer stage that will likely favor the sprinters. you're watching news live from berlin coming up next for a force on location travels to a town in eastern germany that's trying to attract young residents by offering a free apartment and date at maybe one young. earth a home or city dream googling to those 2 stories of creative people into kind of aid of projects around the world or do those to protect the climate and boost green energy solutions for global warming to those being blue series of global 3 goals and on d w and on line. you'd have to get through the gloom to sneak a break without a football fix think again.

largely ceremonial stage at 22 years of age but now is the youngest winner of the 2 in 110 years karen thomas was 2nd and stephen christ. and now is a new hero in his native colombia is hometown as if akira fans have been celebrating his historic victory. 42 kilometers from the capital bogota is where you've got bernard grew up at an altitude of nearly 3000 meters it was the ideal training ground for the mountain specialist 1st coach didn't expect the youngster would win the tour de france this soon. is a no it's a big surprise what a gun by now has given colombian cycling. we have so many champions here in colombia. now we have a kid like an angel. he's only 22 years old. colombia has been gripped by cycling fever during this year's tour the entire nation has followed bernard's progress none more closely than his family. you might imagine how i'm feeling cheerful happy. full of joy pure happiness it's very hard to win the tour. the people here and across colombia are extremely proud of their new hero a guy just 22 years old has become a new motivation for colombians who are looking forward t

definitely going to be a fight between the team that was team sky that's now team in nails with karen thomas the defending champion who we heard in my report there but also his young team mate the colombian a gone again better not he is seen by many as somebody who's been waiting in the wings maybe this is his chance to shine but then also don't forget people like me from the spanish team team movie star they that team and make a line to have real ambitions and then there are a few wild cards as well they throw in a vague and the dutch cyclist one of a can he has a chance and then so far as today's stage is concerned the 1st stage it's a sprinter's stage many people saying they expect the man who's won the green jersey the sprinters jersey 6 times peter saigon many people say that he might well wind today stage. and we'll know in the course of the next 3 or 4 hours thank you dominic enjoy the start of the race. will host egypt go for a place in the quarter finals at the africa cup of nations on saturday when they take on south africa before that it's the standout tie of the last 16 between o