reverse swimming trend of the rhine in basel or father rhine as it's often called in german is the specially popular for urban swimming from its source high up in the swiss alps it flows through half of europe river swimming has a long tradition here but being more used to pools and lakes it's quite an adventure for me in this sweltering summer people are talking about the concept of urban swimming in fifty's all over europe and as a former swimmer myself of course i'm fascinated by this concept because i've never really done it. whereas here everyone seems to be doing it. fearlessly into the chilly 20 degree current even with kids in tow they kind of swim downstream to emerge from the water as if we born easy right and you shouldn't underestimate it isn't like a lake city when the current can be pretty scary especially the. how do you feel before your 1st run swim. excited yeah a little bit. i decided to take a quick detour to architecture museum to see swim city the 1st ever exhibition on urban swimming. as you can see basel has a lot of water all throughout the city and the swiss are very

take your marks get set go into the waters of the rhine. it takes about 25 minutes to swim and float the 3 kilometers downstream you can catch the current rather than the. urban swimming is part of everyday life in switzerland and it's a truly democratic activity the strong current is a challenge on the ghetto but an exhilarating one and quickly i meet 3 kindred spirits. tell me where you're from and is this your 1st time swimming in the right that is 1st time for all the states. california. people around here in. the city shimmering in the heat looks like a film from here and i'm feeling like one of the rhine maidens from. a romance environmentally friendly an age old tradition and. several trips down the river i am really grateful for this because i'm actually frozen stiff. i can hardly speak but it's an absolutely wonderful experience and i think i've been bitten by this going to have to check off all the other. swimmable rivers in switzerland and possibly everywhere else on the globe the sea state you know. it's not easy to leave the rh

it's not easy to leave the rhine in basel behind. you the easiest way where it's so easy to go with the flow and to sometimes simply leave the blur of the daily grind behind it's just. something new to kiss is just something to. eat. eat eat eat eat. eat eat. eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat. germany's oldest music festival since $876.00 it's been the dream of all wagner fans to visit the legendary hall greenhill. i've been coming here for 30 years and i'm still captivated by wagner's musical dramas this year my personal highlight was meeting the heroic tenor or helping terry ergo fellow stephen stephen gold he's one of the most sought after wagner singers in the world even after all these years by roy still remains a magical place for him. but gives me these magical moments when you discover something especially in wagner singing that you probably could never have discovered anywhere else. he. gave. this year he's singing a new production of time. i was a little skeptic sometimes when a new concept was presented to me but i w

taking the bridge was important but during my research some would argue we already crossed the rhinewhy drafted crossett at the north with montgomery? that's where you have to state - - take a step back for those overall strategies because while it was cross the rhine river it was conducive to a breakout they always plast to one - - plan to cross further north where the train was open to use their mobile warfare to circle the valley which is the industrial area and even the u-boats so it was helpful to varsity because there were reinforcements down to stem the tide. [applause] thank you again

we visited the north rhine-westphalia state archive and to a sport where a copy of the verdict is stored. unlike the regional court in bonn it considered it important to keep it. we weren't allowed to take pictures of the actual documents just the covers of the files but we were permitted to quote from the documents matins was acquitted because the weapons exports were approved by the b.m.d. and he was convinced they were legal because. the b.m.d. received requests from individual states and enabled contractual agreements. to b.m.d. took steps to provide financing options for merrick's eiji. the be a nice warm marriage representatives to secrecy. had to be in deep employer. it its own foreign policy agenda was it a state within a state a so-called deep state. used to refer sums up his findings. is trying to honor the go cart there was a very bureaucratic organization that operated but a great deal of vanity and weakness in highly complex circumstances and that is what the weapons deals were probably known to just a small group within the b.m.d. so i don't think it was a deep state system

string instrument well today the orchestra travels the world and we took in their performance at the rhine golf festival in western germany. far away from home south africa's bunch of berlin string orchestra plays a piece of music called the nelson. program is a nod to nelson mandela to pieces by austrian composer yourself. and the performing it with a choir from hydrants from country for many it's a 1st visit to the continent of the music a stunning i love the way. european people are just. various they're very serious about the music and the beauty of music african music is. played it's fine as the rhythm with classical music is that you have to be in control of the piece in expressing their emotions even more when you're playing and when you're playing a piece and. you said for no reason or whatever. and then you play this little pieces and slow. so that it really brings out that frustration a lot of for me. before the concert it's rehearsals. also plays and singing south african pieces. concert is dedicated to their country's triumph over apartheid. eat. so. on a visit to south africa

richard if the 2 were greatest i'm against the president ready so it's possible the other side of the rhine could follow the same direction and started to add to our knowledge in a very briefly to have convicted of treason charges that he's also been accused of he and testify about as could face life imprisonment how optimistic is c. against these charges. he actually sounds strong regardless of the treason charges isn't much months and years to a. life in prison but only one that can even back up to 50 years very very clearly victories on many times been tweeting and posting facebook on facebook that he's only getting stronger is not worried because it sounds like she's sure to get off it ok. correspondents in kampala uganda many thanks for your time. the un has stepped up its imagine. warning that more than 5000000 people it's said of the population i'm desperate need of food aid i'm least half of them are on the brink of starvation. nothing to sell and even if there were a few people here i mean if money to buy food daily life has become a struggle for survival in zimbabwe people spent h

i just discovered what i think is the ultimate summer experience swimming down the mighty rhine in fact the switzerland certainly not on you steve.

the cooling tower at a former nuclear plant near the river rhine west of germany has been demolished after being out of use for more than 30 years and germany plans to abandon nuclear powered by 2022 because of safety concerns compounded by the fukushima disaster back in 2011. $450.00 student activists from the friday's for future movement have ended a 5 day conference in switzerland unanimously adopting what they've called the nose down climate declaration that includes a call for climate policy to be based on the best scientific research the movement was inspired by the 16 year old environmental campaigner granted to him burke who attended the conference and was a. young climate activists from the fridays for future movement are trying to send a message at the close of their 1st european conference. it's so great that we're all here together for the same cause and it sets and nice feeling to be surrounded by people that believe in the same as we do. but there has been quite a debate on how the student protest movement should present itself in the future some activists think the dis

we visited the north rhine-westphalia state archive and to a sport where a copy of the verdict is stored. unlike the regional court in bonn it considered it important to keep it. we weren't allowed to take pictures of the actual documents just the covers of the files but we were permitted to quote from the documents matins was acquitted because the weapons exports were approved by the b.m.d. and he was convinced they were legal because. the b. india received requests from individual states and enabled contractual agreements. to b.m.d. took steps to provide financing options for merrick's. the be a nice warm erik's representatives to secrecy. at the b.m.d. implemented its own foreign policy agenda was it a state within a state a so-called deep state. yours do for sums up his findings. new owners of your car there was a very bureaucratic organization that operated with a great deal of vanity and weakness in highly complex circumstances sleaze is what the weapons deals were probably known to just a small group within the b.m.d. so i don't think it was a deep state system as such but it had

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and i ended up choosing a place called kippenheim on the edge of the black forest just aacross the rhine river from alsas. which in a -- jews had been living in village for two, three hundred years in some cases. they were brought to the area by -- are or allowed to settle in the area but by the rulers of barden, one of the german principleties. and the purpose was to supply the armies of barden. germany didn't even exist at that time -- to supply the armies defends the holy roman emperor against the france across the rhine river. so these are three photographs illustrating jewish life in kippenheim between the years 1933 when hitler comes to power and 1938 crystal nacht. the first photograph in the top left-hand corner is a photograph of a wedding of a family called valfa. max valfa was cigarette, cigar manufacturer -- distributor, rather. this is his daughter escorted to the synagogue in kippenheim just a week or two weeks before hitler came to power in january of 1933. and you can see it's a perfectly normal scene, peaceful procession through the street. people are looking respectfull

to ply the armies that were defending the holy roman emperor against france across the rhine river. so these are three photographs that illustrate jewish life in kip beheim between 1933 when hitler comes to power and 1938. the first photograph, the top left-hand corner is a photograph of a wedding of a family called valfa. max valfa was a cigarette, cigar manufacturer, distributor, rather. and this is his daughter who is being escorted to the synagogue in kippenheim. just a week or two weeks before hitler came to power in january of 1933. and you can see it's a perfectly normal scene. peaceful procession through the street. people are looking respectfully at this jewish wedding. there's even a german policeman who is keeping order in the village. just two years later, the photograph down below, the brown shirts have arrived in kippenheim. and holding demonstrations. in this case, with a -- the kip b kippenheim band. but you see them, they're looking through the window. so although there's menace in this photo, the jews who are living in the house, next to where the demonstration is

suspected of a crime even if it's not relevant to the case the interior minister of the state of north rhine-westphalia which includes the major cities of cologne and docile doff has said they've taken the decision to improve transparency we will name the nationalities of all suspects that we know for sure i'm convinced that this transparency is the best cure against political deception it may seem like a small thing and the policy of naming the nationality of a suspect varies from state to state but this has become sensitive subject following the migrant influx into germany the idea behind not travailing the nationality of someone when it isn't pertinent to the crime is to avoid discrimination against minorities by linking nationality to. this new initiative to set some alarm bells ringing for the u.c. feel it may have an impact upon suspects rights the defaults disclosure of nationalities in police press work is not consistent stating where someone is from even if it is irrelevant to the circumstances of the crime doesn't lead to greater transparency this measure is unconstitutional and it is certain

suspected of a crime even if it's not relevant to the case the interior minister of the state of north rhine-westphalia which includes the major cities of cologne and they'll hold off has said they've taken the decision to improve transparency we will name the nationalities of all suspects that we know for sure i'm convinced that this transparency is the best cure against political deception it may seem like a small thing and the policy of naming the nationality of a suspect varies from state to state but this has become sensitive subject following the migrant influx into germany there are all those that have accused the german media around authorities in the past of mixing the nationality of those involved in the case so as to not draw attention to crimes that have involved the migrants. so far we still don't have any suspects so we don't know who the culprits are. making this an issue by oversimplifications and connecting it to the refugee issue is nothing but a misuse of the discussion now it is about clearing the facts and drawing the necessary conclusions i would like to add that it is completely

two people have been killed after a stabbing at a railway station — in the city of iserlohn in north rhine—westphaliacials have issued a warrant to seize an iranian oil tanker and its cargo — a day after a judge in gibraltar granted the vessel's release. the ‘grace one' was stopped by royal marines last month — amid reports it was heading for syria, in breach of eu sanctions. tehran denies the claims — but the us department ofjustice has accused the tanker‘s operators of conducting "deceptive voyages". a group of 27 teenagers has been allowed to disembark on the italian island of lampedusa after more than 16 days at sea aboard the spanish rescue ship open arms. the italian coastguard took a rib out to the ship, to pick them up and take them ashore, but more than 100 migrants remain on board the vessel, which has been anchored off the coast for three days. the open arms crew had said the conditions on its ship were untenable, with so many migrants packed together on deck sharing very limited facilities. a massive fire has swept through a slum in the capital of bangladesh, dhaka, leaving 50,000 people

as the extremists seek to recruit new fighters for their cause well now the german state of north rhine-westphalia has launched a counter offensive of its own on you tube as it turns out let's begin till bowler who is g w editor now for more on this story so you basically have fighting islamists on you tube how exactly is this working in this case they flow to you tube channel want to recover and one with an educational approach so let's start with the fun part that's the satirical channel that's called jihadi fool. what clay on the top jihadi cool which islam is used to brand jihad as much as a fashionable lifestyle so now they use this to combat extremism and just poke make fun on radical islam and bending there is the educational channel which is called. which roughly translates ground ish which is used to. dissect that islamist propaganda and conduit with fact yes this is the right approach yes so going on you tube is definitely the right approach because scientific evidence as well as lots of personal columns show that this is the major online platform that form where radicalization happens.

two people have been killed after a stabbing at a railway station — in the city of iserlohn in north rhine—westphalias officials have issued a warrant to seize an iranian oil tanker and its cargo — a day after a judge in gibraltar granted the vessel's release. the ‘grace one' was stopped by royal marines last month — amid reports it was heading for syria, in breach of eu sanctions. tehran denies the claims — but the us department ofjustice has accused the tanker‘s operators of conducting "deceptive voyages". the spanish sea rescue charity, ‘open arms‘, says 27 children are to be allowed off a migrant ship anchored off italy. 134 migrants picked up in the mediterranean off libya, have spent 16 days waiting for permission to come ashore. the italian interior minister blocked them disembarking in italy — and said the vessel could easily have got to spain in the time the stand—off has been going on. the hollywood star, peter fonda, has died at his home in los angeles at the age of 79. the actor was best known for the 1969 film, easy rider — which he co—wrote and produced. our correspondent, peter bowes,

cuyahoga river fire, but also the santa barbara oil spill -- there is a terrible pesticide spill on the rhine river a couple days after the fire in cleveland. all of these things begin to build up, these spectacular events, to remind people just how bad the urban environment, industrial environment had become. >> as you look at the river behind you, how does it look to you today? david: it's remarkable, the change that hs taken place here. it's twofold. it's difficult to tell exactly what is going on in the water itself because it's still the milky brown river that's flowing out of agricultural and forested land. it still has debris that floats downstream. but we see water fowl. we see something you would never have seen 50 years ago, which is people out kayaking and i saw people out in sculls this morning. the cuyahoga has once again become a much more complete river. it is an agricultural space. i am sorry, a recognize rakesal space. there are new parks, -- recreational space. there are new parks, along the river, for people in the whole region. this is something that goes well south of the

to flavour the dairy products, which are processed in the middle and on top, 32 native dutch meuse—rhine—isselo fed on grass trimmings from local football pitches, golf courses and parks. plus commercial food waste. we are told the brewers' grain is a particular favourite. these leftovers would otherwise be thrown away. the cows are milked by robot machines. their manure is collected by pooper—scooping robots. they are fed by robots to, although they are still perfect in this technology. the farmer lives nearby, but he can keep an eye on his herd remotely via apps on his mobile phone. the cows appear to be adjusting to this hands—free approach. modern methods, the owners hope, will help to convince younger people to consider a career in what is sometimes seen as an old—fashioned industry. and on the question of animal welfare... we try to make them happier on the floating farm than in a regular stable. this living lab will help to determine whether floating farms make enough environmental and commercial sense to expand and export them. in a moment we'll have all the business news, but first th

we visited the north rhine-westphalia state archive into a sport where a copy of the verdict is stored. unlike the regional court in bonn it considered it important to keep it. we weren't allowed to take pictures of the actual documents just the covers of the files but we were permitted to quote from the documents matins was acquitted because the weapons exports were approved by the b.m.d. and he was convinced they were legal because. the b. and d. received requests from individual states and enabled contractual agreements. to be indeed took steps to provide financing options for america e.g. . the be a nice warm erik's representatives to secrecy. at the b.m.d. implemented its own foreign policy agenda was it a state within a state a so-called deep state. used to for sums up his findings. is trying new and you're caught there was a very bureaucratic organization that operated with a great deal of vanity and weakness in highly complex circumstances and that is what the weapons deals were probably known to just a small group within the b.m.d. so i don't think it was a deep state system a

. >> but congressman time rhine pretty much hit the nail on the head with this. >> i really think the issue with trump is that he's coming unhinged because this looming recession we saw him go off the rails yesterday. now today it's this. it will be something tomorrow and the more the heat gets cranked up and the more this economy softens, the less he's going to be able to keep his stuff together. >> the president also today, and this is really incredible, claiming that the news media is trying to crash the economy. which i probably don't have to tell you, but i will, is not true. and nothing more that another blatant distraction. let's not lose sight of the fact that remember, facts first here, okay, that one big reason for fears about the economy is the president's own trade war with china, which has rattled the stock and bonds markets and sent out warning signs of a recession. and while the president is all too happy to jump feet first into international affairs in encouraging israel to bar two american congress about twomen, really doesn't seem to want to speak up by violent prote