ruling country of the ruling party of the country for a very long time the party that ruled the country for forty years he has been holding various ministers positions under former dictator mugabe and last year when god was forced to resign by the military he finally took over as the president and he changed his image completely he suddenly portrayed himself as the reformer he opened up the country to investors and he also allowed more freedom more freedom of speech and this electoral process for him was another sign that he wanted to give to the world that he s opening up the country he s been talking a lot about the electoral process that it s been free and fair and according to him also observers said so but the reality is not really like this yes there has been tremendous amount of improvement compared to previous elections in zimbabwe which were not free at all but also a lot of people say there was intimidation here and the process was not as fair as he thinks it was yeah the leader of the opposition called the selection fraudulent and illegal what evidence is there for that well that s exactly protest against the bombing of their school it s actually the link to the taliban and other religious militants who oppose education for girls no casualties were reported in the bombings. yemen may be on the brink of a new outbreak of cholera a warning coming from the world health organization widespread malnutrition and conflict could push up the death rate w.h.o. has called for a three day cease fire in the north of the country in order to carry out a vaccination program. well they ve been subjected to immense cruelty some seven thousand new cd women and girls in northern iraq were abducted tortured and sexually abused by the so-called islamic state this after militants overran iraq s northern district just across the border from syria four years ago now i ask has been driven out but some three thousand u.c.d. women are still missing many of them have been sold into slavery. met with two people who are working to rescue them. it breaks my heart she says. shareen chavan is showing us her hometown since the ruined city of the yazidi east. she s just come back from syria where many young is still being held as slaves who stop at her old school. oh is that a big time to one mother my best friend and i held hands around here. i took her and made her a slave. she killed herself while she was there prisoner. and i have other friends who are still in their hands it s difficult to cope. she s only twenty two but she van has dedicated herself to finding the kidnapped tell us about is strikes. we compare information to localise the people we re looking for other jobs and. they work with smugglers in syria to bring the former prisoners across the border they say they freed more than sixty people so far. mostly only works though when the families pay a ransom to the islamists or at least to middlemen who try to use. the families have to borrow the money. if they can t get enough we help them. i have friends in europe and america and they give us the money to buy the woman free. show her own russia early was held prisoner for four years her family paid for her release. that i m getting stuff she has got i saw her they killed my mother. it was awful. they tortured us and forced us to pray. they beat us and they put a price on our sense old us from one man to the next. she says she was on the brink of killing herself but then she came across a mobile phone she secretly sent her family photos and a video three months later she found and shingle found her her family paid thirteen thousand u.s. dollars to get her back. was the moment i want you to free all the prisoners from them they sell them to each other like sheep it s terrible. and they help themselves to ten year old girls get us back to the mosque . chavan also tries to help the women afterwards in the absence of psychological support she has organized a number of self-help groups today she s talking with women about suicide what are the signs that someone is in danger of hurting herself how can others help you have to support each other she tells them. as i don t know i know we have all faced death and that life now is hard but we ve survived you know we cannot give up and let them when. the sun is setting as we leave but she wants to go to mt singe or the years edis holy mountain to honor her friends who are buried here killed while fighting i.r.s. fish event it s a place where she connects with them where she gathers strength for what lies ahead . all right we ll have more on that piece including an interview with the author coming up in the next half hour but first it s time for some business news and hell of the service that changed the way we think about accommodation love it or hate it sara a b. and b. is turning ten years old the home sharing website has disrupted the travel industry like know about none of us having tenants and our telly is that resistance is growing in many places including in the german city of munich which is threatening to find the company for shaking things up a step too far. munich has the highest rents in all of germany it s also a major tourist destination some residents here good returns off the air b.n. b. apartments as these officials in the local authority know only too well meaning homeowners and tenants need a permit to rent out their apartments for more than eight weeks a year. the investigators suspect a tenant here of illegally renting out properties all year around. sutton just on and on for installs if sentiment is it started in twenty seventeen with this apartment he was a kind of big player few friends had lots of flags and then something i think that will be in be. on the biggest for me that the investigators pay a visit to the apartment and speak to vacationers i gather revenants. their landlord will receive a hefty fine potentially up to five hundred thousand euros it was a secret. from 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more than four times the original rent money going to be able now is to pay much higher rent elsewhere and is suing their b. and b. for tourists a cheaper option by holidays around the world but for residents looking for rentals it s a potential nightmare. donald trump s top economic adviser says the united states and china have been holding high level trade talks that two sides appear to have found little common ground larry kudlow described china s threat to impose another sixty billion dollars worth of tariffs on the u.s. this week and said the world s second biggest economy was quote in trouble the trumpet administration accuses china is stealing intellectual property and not playing by trade rules china denies those allegations and says u.s. protectionism is a threat to global trace as get more on this now with our financial correspondent so fish about new york sophie clearly the latest ratcheting up of trade tensions between the u.s. and china that how s that playing out a wall street. well the investors here have tend to downplay concerns about these trade conflicts for the longest time and have been focusing on fundamentals and earnings but when we look at the charts out the dollar jones for example and other indices we can see subtle signs of declining optimism was speed lost a few points on thursday on friday it did a little bit and little better again but it has gone all over that investors don t pay attention to terror threats at all the back and forth between china and the you as has turned into a downward spiral with neither of the two sides giving in so wall street is asking where is this going to end will trump be able to turn all of this into a win win situation or at least into america wins a situation all with china think he s taking it too far and retaliate even harder once american companies begin to suffer from protectionism enter a totally asian wall street cannot longer ignore the possibility of trans trade policy harming the kompany they are invested in in the long term at least but then again there are a lot of distractions at the moment like earnings like the new market cap record from apple and so the s. and p. five hundred and that out gold rolls on friday so if you ask you for us in new york thanks for that safety i was in founder jeff bezos could be falling behind in the private sector space race there are signs that his firm s heavy rocket set for liftoff in twenty twenty maybe forty behind schedule now his company blue origin faces stiff competition from none other than edo musk s space x. . just a month ago amazon founder jeff bezos is rocket company successfully pulled off its most important test to date. but reports are now saying the twenty twenty liftoff date may be moved back engineers are still finalizing details on the heavy launch rocket basis has frequently stressed that the timing depends on perfecting the vehicle safety. and such down this vehicle is going to carry humans we re going to make it is save his we can make it we re going to test it we re not going to take any short cuts so we ll put humans on this vehicle when we re ready and not a second sooner the reusable launch vehicle will be used to transport satellites it will also take tourists into space and bring them back to earth again. you know imagine how alan shepard must have felt. all those years ago most of them pretty cool space travel has come a long way since astronaut alan shepard historic journey in one thousand nine hundred sixty one now bases wants to expand the company by doubling its workforce over the next two or three years to around three thousand employees yours and others and to sarah now in the red hot summer well it just goes on there are no no end in sight helen of those of us in europe know it s been hot in europe is bracing for another weekend of scorching temperatures heat wave just rolls on in southern europe this time where the mercury looks set to spike the highest meteorologist there warning new records could be set around the mediterranean. this is heat you just can t beat but that doesn t stop people from trying. it s relentless. in portugal the mercury was well north of forty degrees across the country and it s set to get worse on saturday the country s c. and atmosphere institute has warned that red alert temperatures are not going to and anytime soon i mean we see this man it was probably the red alerts will be extended until next week in some inland regions but gradually the red alerts will end but. sweltering temperatures in neighboring spain as well at the height of the tourist season visitors to the royal palace in madrid didn t have fountains to cool themselves often so they made do with what they had. with you is that when it s very hot i ve been in valencia in barcelona and although it was hot there i think madrid is the hottest from four in the afternoon on wood so you need to be in the shade because it s impossible to handle the sun and you have to drink lots of water it s on much of what. some people can t get out of the sun and actually have to work in this heat. while the lucky ones have flocked to the coast where temperatures are lower and the ocean provides much needed relief. well german soccer fans will soon get a chance to forget their country s dreadful world cup campaign the bonus the usa isn t is just around the corner and munich once again favorites for the title with an ageing squad and little transfer activity this summer there are question marks over their ability to win a seventh straight title but their new coach believes the varians have just what it takes. things have turned out well on by and pre-season to lead by coach nico the team has been enjoying his preparations for the new campaign. the atmosphere could hardly have been better on the tour of the us. and now they re back in germany is turning his attention towards getting even better this season. we want to make each play it better i expect passion ambition and progress. things that defined himself as a player he spent two seasons of bahrain as a battling midfielder and as a coach he proved his worth through his new employers by beating them in the german cup final in my. having the coach communication is key. because. i think he still thinks like a player he s meticulous and he talks to us a lot. his main task will be to oversee a generational change in robin from korea barrier in their mid thirty s but remain key players a few new players have arrived so schnabel he has returned from a loan spell at hoffenheim gorecki has signed on a free transfer from shelf does things you know so you know if i ve noticed that our training sessions have been longer than perhaps some of the players are used to . for the season and clear it s the same every year here. that doesn t just mean a seventh bundesliga title in a rugby coach wants by and to be just as dominant in the german cup and the champions league. germany s voc in heavy metal festival has kicked off its music fans from around the world descending on the village near park topping the bill this year british rock legend judas priest and with the sun shining the music screeching and the beer flowing freely visitors seem to be having a great weekend here s a look. you know how to foster vulcan lives up to its most. seventy five thousand hard rock and metal fans from around the world have to send it on the small north german village. when i see it here because i love metal and this is the mecca of metal it s my third year here. and. i like every festival worth its salt camping out on a huge field this part of the vatican experience. i love it it s like coming home it s a feels like home every time i come it s nothing and i ll come back a million times. i love where from mexico. is their promise land. they keep the sure and it is nothing better than coming to vulcan once a year to let it all hang out with all to give yours a good blast and to enjoy life to give me some. of these days two hundred bands of performing on stage is. headlined by british metal legends judas priest. despite all the posturing fuckin actually has a reputation for being a very friendly festival there s hardly ever any trouble. that s because everyone here gets there at gresham out in the mosh pit. there s your minder of our top stories this hour on dave w in zimbabwe the opposition group. went for democratic change has rejected the results of the country s presidential election its leader nelson chamisa said his party would challenge the outcome in court president anderson my god called me while insisting he won a free and fair election. and that s already got me news more coming at the top of the hour in the meantime don t forget you can always find a way to stay on our web site w dot com i m sarah harmon in berlin thanks for watching have a great weekend. like we were. when we were. the first americans in some point in our lives will experience hardship listening. to. beyond the mouth of an inferno monkee in greece one week on from the devastating fires tons. villages are trying to guard what s left of their homes against looters while rescue teams search for bodies and survivors. people here have been left to fend for themselves with little support materializing from the state. in sixty minutes. russian political satire meets game design supplement next with the help of a game engine and modern digital technology to create. taking. satire goes russian on t.v. you. clever syrians courageous. shift in forty five minutes. iran. once again isolated theocracy and now a major power in the middle east. airlines influence continues to grow politically economically and above all militarily. does iran truly want peace. the countries of home sick of their doubts isolate.
say they also lost because its supporters suffered harassment and violence meanwhile president men on god while held his own press conference where he called for an investigation into what happened and also called for unity. to be the president s over all. it president and all those that voted for me and those who did more who knows and. i want to see. who saw road to believe in them but was present. meanwhile opposition leader chamisa has called for a day of mourning for democracy. more let s cross to our correspondent melanie. and whoring melanie let s begin with those incredible scenes of the opposition press conference what does this incident tell us about the ties between the police and the ruling party in zimbabwe. a really clever move on moment god was beehive saying that he will invite to some extent to me said to be part of the future of the country but of course it s really break what does the future mean is does that mean he s going to be part of the politics on not we don t know but we know that mom and dad was still has to smooth out relations internationally and nationally so it was probably clever of him to say something along those lines to try and unite the country as well as the politicians at work behind the scenes what is the situation in harare right now following these days of unrest. recently i seem to have lost you sara in just one of you can tell us what the situation is in harare following these days of unrest and uncertainty after zimbabwe s election while the situation still remains tense as i ve said before people on the streets still scared and they are scared of the future as well especially of the youth when it comes to the economic situation when it comes to what their future will look like if they have any prospects in this country in a state where maybe their voice doesn t count as much as they believed would so we ll really have to see what happens in the next week what the opposition does what mom and dad what does but it remains very very tense here in harare very tense in harare that s our reporter melanie corrida botha it s very much. well they have been subjected to an imaginable cruelty some seven thousand is the women and young girls in northern iraq were abducted tortured and sexually abused by the so-called islamic state this after the militant overran iraq s northern district just across the border from syria four years ago now i ask has been driven out but some three thousand years the women are still missing many of them were sold into slavery a reporter brigade to show that to people who are trying to find them. it breaks my heart she says. shareen sheeran is showing us her hometown since the ruined city of the yazidi says she s just come back from syria where many young is still being held as slaves who stop at her old school. on a big time to one mother my best friend and i held hands around here. i just took her and made her a slave. she killed herself while she was there prisoner. and i have other friends who are still in their hands. so it s difficult to cope. she s only twenty two but she has dedicated herself to finding the kidnapped women and children who she thinks are still in syria it s detailed detective work. she s helped by mahmoud a friend and former smuggler. oh sure but then you know sometimes my contacts in syria hear about people who ve been kidnapped from people who ve just been freed they might send me a photo of a kidnapped boy and ask if i know him can i ask around whether anyone is missing a boy if so we go rescue him not. ask me. sometimes the islamists allow their prisoners to cool their families and sometimes the families are asking for help she calls the kidnappers and fishes for information trying to find out where they are. i get them to trust me then i ask them things like what s happening where they are how many airstrikes have already hit what. mahmoud and i are in touch with the iraqi security forces and forces in syria to tell us about is strikes. we compare information to localise the people we re looking for other jobs and. they work with smugglers in syria to bring the former prisoners across the border they say they freed more than sixty people so far they mostly only works though when the families pay a ransom to the islamists or at least to middlemen who try to use. the families have to borrow the money. if they can t get enough to help them. buy have friends in europe and america and they give us the money to buy the woman free. sharon russia early was held prisoner for four years her family paid for her release. that on yes i saw her they killed my mother. it was awful. they tortured us and forced us to pray. they beat us and they put a price on us. since all of us from one man to the next. she says she was on the brink of killing herself but then she came across a mobile phone she secretly sent her family photos and a video three months later she found and shingle found her. her family paid thirteen thousand u.s. dollars to get her back. one thing i want i want you to feel all the prisoners from them they sell them to each other like sheep it s terrible. and they help themselves to ten year old girls and after the mass. she van also tries to help the women of two words in the absence of psychological support she has organized a number of self-help groups today she s talking with women about suicide what are the signs that someone is in danger of hurting herself how can others help you have to support each other she tells them. as i don t know i know we have all faced death and that life now is hard but we ve survived we cannot give up and let them when. the sun is setting as we leave but she wants to go to mt singe or the years edis holy mountain to honor her friends who are buried here killed while fighting i.r.s. for she found it s a place where she connects with them where she gathers strength for what lies ahead . with me in the studio is the reporter of that piece for the to show for good thanks for being with us heartbreaking stories really sometimes hard to watch and try to imagine what these women have been through eugenics reporting in the region how do you as a reporter balance the need to tell these stories with the risk of reach traumatizing women who have already experienced so much. it is often a little bit like walking a tightrope. you need a lot of time you have to sit down with who is a woman and you have to trust a little bit your gut feeling how far you can go i mean these women have gone through hell and back if we are talking about enslavement it s rape it s torture it s family split up so there are certainly traumatized and we tried to ask them questions without trying to prevent too to trigger the trauma so we sort of ask questions we didn t present them to to answer and sing and these questions gave them room to decide by themselves what they wanted to to to share with us which stories they wanted and with which they didn t want to share with us you showed in the piece the women trying to help each other with support groups is there any professional help available for these women there is some international programs help for a traumatized woman. where the the huge the refugee camps are bedsit interest must much more remote it s four to five hours by car to the syrian border so there s barely any help i mean there s no international relief organizations there there s no help with reconstruction and especially not psychological help so it s very hard for the women to get any help and that seems shocking to me to hear you say there is no international help there for them because this is been happening it s been for years now why isn t there more being done it is a disputed area it has been disputed between the central government in baghdad and the autonomous kurdish government there are a lot of militias there so there was longer fighting so the international organizations more focused on the. refugee camps in the hook and. i mean there were not such a lot of people who have come back there and some people never left the region some are still living on this monsoons or on this plateau it s about ten thousand people who are living there and they re there but they don t get barely any help no no nothing what do these women that you were speaking to do they see a future for themselves in iraq after they ve been rescued what s left for them we ve talked to too many women and most of them most of the families who are turkish who said we want to leave because they don t feel secure that they re still not they don t get any help and would was striking was that it was not only they said we don t we want to leave soon or no they want to leave iraq as a whole because. one mother of nine children who was two years in captivity she says she that said my life is over i don t care about my life but i want a better future for my children and their war get it here in iraq are breaking to hear our regular shocker thanks for bringing us these stories are important. india is being rocked by a wave of mob lynchings across the country in recent months more than twenty people have died after viral rumors about child kidnappers circulated the of the messaging service what s app the indian government has set up a committee to try and curb these sorts of incidents in some areas local law enforcement officials have started their own campaigns are india correspondent sonia fellow car travel to the western state of maharashtra to find out more. it isn t every day that this village sees gifts like these. on a special mission. dispelling vital rumors spread of water that it kills people across the country not the mark of a hunter who s also trained lawyer is the brains behind the campaign he appeals to the crowd to not be fooled by fake news of the internet and use their own mind to judge what s true or false. misleading videos like this one which claim to show corpses of children have gone vital voices peeves disguised as beggars harvested the organs all the harsh explains how the videos are doctored to create panic. another clip suggests this woman is an outsider and was trying to abduct children that s why she was beaten up fake news like this is spreading like wildfire in india it is a major problem because these are very close knit communities where almost everyone tends to know each other the spread and acceleration of this news can be very very quick but the fact that it is about child lifting is something for primal something so provocative that your child could be taken away from you i scarcely think there is a greater fear than that for any family or any parent. that it can precipitate violence very easily. that s what happened here in the neighboring district of totally about three hundred fifty kilometers from mumbai this heavy security in this remote village it only has women and children many of the men have fled ever since a lynching took place in this building. fake news is killing people in india right here in this village council office five people were beaten to death by a mob last month the police say the people were driven by videos on whatsapp claiming that kidnappers are on the loose the victims were beggars from the magic tripe. the lynchings here were particularly brutal the police of the wristed twenty eight people so far. cry to help the victims by locking them in here but the mob force they were lucky with their car care about the record of sharpton and thought about of course the people would stick with the drugs with stones even witches in the office the crowd was bloodthirsty i ve never seen anything like this there was a video on someone s own warning people to stay vigilant because gangs were kidnapping children and stealing their organs. in monaco police have tricking jail time if anyone forwards explosive messages that can cause public panic. it s part of the campaign to quash rumors before they boil over and lead to. the measure stick on an added urgency in monaco s melting pot into religious tensions are never far from the surface here. today offices are in the hindu temple it s part of the campaigns are preached and trenchant religious leaders the message is familial remain skeptical of what you read online and don t preside divides. the campaign continues a traffic junctions across the city leaflets with police helpline numbers are handed out. to raise awareness about the deadly consequences of fake news. or if you re watching us from europe you already know it s a little bit hot lately and i call it as bracing for another weekend of scorching temperatures but his way of showing no sign of letting up is southern europe where the mercury looks set despite the highest meteorologists there warning new records can be set a lot of china. this is heat you just can t beat but that doesn t stop people from trying. it s relentless. in portugal the mercury was well north of forty degrees across the country and it s set to get worse on saturday the country s c. and atmosphere institute has warned that red alert temperatures are not going to end anytime soon i mean we. always have probably the red alerts will be extended until next week in some inland regions but gradually the red alerts will end with. sweltering temperatures in neighboring spain as well at the height of the tourist season visitors to the royal palace in madrid didn t have fountains to cool themselves often so they made do with what they had. which is that what it s very hot i ve been in valencia in barcelona and although it was hot there i think madrid is the hottest from four in the afternoon on woods you need to be in the shade because it s impossible to handle the sun and you have to drink lots of water. some people can t get out of the sun and actually have to work in this heat. while the lucky ones have flocked to the coast where temperatures are lower and the ocean provides much needed relief. well the day is nearly done but as 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hit. injured people in hallways and i in the car park at this hospital in the resort island of bali medical teams are moving patients i cite fearing aftershocks. and i think. we are constructing emergency tents with the assistance from the disaster mitigation agency so that we can gather all patients out there. to visit them but we are also hoping that our medical teams and nurses can concentrate more on treating patients and. that without any question that. the parish will seven point zero magnitude earthquake struck the end uneasy an island of lombok at a depth of just ten kilometers shaking nearby palli as well an initial tsunami warning was later withdrawn but authorities urged people to stay away from the the last night it read. the length play. that now. to clean up the road now access to the location of the remote. shortly after arraf and we hear that the region where it was aaron we hear that the hospital have been evacuated how are people being helped medically now that the hospitals have been closed down. because. the dollar is still tough stuff so therefore they are the military certainly though it may be the last night. i work there and you learn you very first place the. politicians of leading the country into ruin with mismanagement and corruption. the misery is plain to see even among people who aren t marching his son is certain that his life won t get better anytime soon. jim and even then i don t know what the aim of the u.s. sanctions is shit. all i know is that for iranians everything is getting worse the sanctions just hit alternately people who are poor anyway like mean the rich once. food prices have risen by forty percent in just a few months few people can afford to buy meat even the price of bread has soared iran s currency has plunged in value since may when the united states pulled out of the nuclear deal and threatened iran with new sanctions. the reaal has lost seventy percent of its value against the euro with disastrous consequences for iranians. neighbors and things like tomatoes and bread they were foodstuffs we could still afford to buy i think that when you can t even pay for a kumba then that s really bad for it became too expensive long ago. and. deepening hostility between iran and the u.s. also has people worried many are concerned that conflict could break out in earnest . last month the war of words looks like it was spinning out of control. iran s president cautioned the u.s. that a war with iran could be the mother of all wars trump shot back with an all caps tweet warning tehran to never threaten the u.s. again. then last week president trump stirred the pot further with a surprising proposal. thank you very much thank you i would certainly make with iran if they wanted to meet i don t know that they re ready yet to have a hard time right now. but i ended the arendelle it was a ridiculous deal. tehran hasn t directly replied to trump suggestion. but some international media report a meeting might happen in new york at the next general assembly of the united nations. president hassan rouhani is expected to go on national television later today to give trump his answer. ok let s get some analysis now with correspondent eric randolph joining us from tehran eric good morning to you all what kind of response can we expect from iran when the new sanctions are announced later today well they ve been fairly cagey they don t want to give the impression that the sanctions are going to cause too much damage to the economy because they don t want to give protesters more reason to go out on the streets and they don t want to panic the other currencies already collapsed by more than. the last few months. there s a delicate balancing act that the government has to play between showing results showing how it s going to come to these measures and then has limited tools at its disposal to do that ok talking about limited tools. going to be looking at these sanctions and how they re going to be impacting the country s foreign trade internationally especially it s crucial oil sector what can we expect to happen there. the sanctions are coming back in two phases the first lawsuit coming back tomorrow that s going to hit things like cars some financial transactions and sales of carpets and things the really difficult ones are going to come in november when the u.s. is going to try and block oil sales now some countries like india and china have already said they re not going to cut or who sells from iran completely definitely that s going to be a major blow to iran s economy and that s where we re going to start to see potentially a real impact on the domestic economy with prices going up and things like that and all of this is coming at a time when we ve already seen days of protests about the economy and about the government s handling of this crisis now i d like to pick up on that what about the iranian people eric how are they likely to take the increased hardships that will inevitably result from the new sanctions. obviously a lot of people do blame the u.s. but i would say most of the anger is directed against their own government. is have gotten used to hostility from americans that s been going on for forty years they expect that representatives to do something about it there was a lot of hope that the twenty fifty nuclear deal finally iran was coming out of that diplomatic isolation that we could see some profit connections with the outside weldon trade and foreign investment flooding in and a lot of people feel deeply disappointed that it hasn t managed just that and that s from the reform as conservatives say the government of the past. stupid to trust the americans that it s shown itself to be naive and now it s paying the price to pay well no more later today of course when we hear exactly what these sanctions are going to be for now though or ground all thanks very much for that from tehran. i ll take a look at some of the other stories making the news this hour south sudan s government and the country s main rebel group have signed a cease fire and power sharing agreement now this deal will lead to the formation of a unity government. has been torn by civil war since two thousand and thirteen previous attempts at a peace agreement have failed. police in switzerland are investigating the cause of a vintage plane crash that killed all twenty people on board the world war two propeller plane smashed into a mountain and this was helps a high speed police say they have not found any evidence of a distress call being made before that. the japanese city of herat is remembering the victims of the world s first atomic bomb attack seventy three years ago today. sex is commemorated globally with calls for peace and nuclear disarmament. a bomb dropped by an american more plane instantly killed eighty thousand people. in our religious leaders led prayers for peace on sunday as our country struggles to recover from weiland post-election clashes now that s especially difficult for those who are now burying their dead tensions between the victorious zano p.f. and the opposition are still high i. heard a ball and a dream krishna sent us this report on the bloody aftermath of zimbabwe s election . i ve. either friends and family paid their respects to susie on the fourth and final journey the mother of two was killed in zimbabwe s post-election violence last week she was on her way home when she got caught in the crossfire hit in the back by soldiers bullets it s the death of the brother joshua still can t be. sure that would be what she was the breadwinner in the family. when we would sit. up and. he says god and wednesday opposition m.d.c. supporters took to the streets and were met was brutal violence by zimbabwe s move through what they can and tear gas rubber bullets and life any mission to crackdown on opposition demonstrators. president elect emerson has promised consequences that was. easy to listen to the most lenders. institute and indeed ended. it with these fears of violence have been subsided the opposition is vowing to challenge the election results nelson chamisa insists the presidency is his. lucas oh this is just. to make sure that we. will split but so far has not provided any evidence to back up his claims and the tense situation life in harare is only slowly getting back to normal many people in the capital are still scabs scattered speak out scats to criticize the government or the security forces after last week s violent clashes many fear that the time of god will rule the country for thirty seven years with an iron fist might be gun but that his legacy of brutal repression still lives on. was. among those afraid stupid fingers over his sister is this i. i. you know you re. not i would think. for. once this little comfort in the fact that the deaths have sparked outrage since happiness across the country as they mourn they suspect the government is just hoping that the dust settles as quickly as possible. to venezuela now where an investigation is underway after an apparent assassination attempt on president nicolas maduro he survived what appeared to be a drone bomb attack saturday police have reportedly arrested a number of suspects. colombians or venezuelan exiles living in the u.s. state of florida were behind the incident which occurred during a military parade in the capital caracas. late afternoon and caracas. president nicolas maduro speech to soldiers is interrupted. it was a drone armed with a bomb it broke off and me right in front of me something flying exploded. it was a powerful explosion which. protects me. then a second explosion seven soldiers are wounded the duro accuses financial backers in the u.s. and colombia s president juan manuel santos of orchestrating the attack colombia rejects the charge calling it absurd washington also denies any responsibility well i can say unequivocally there was no u.s. government involved in this at all look i could be a lot of things from a pretext set up by the itself to something else. one venezuela journalist who broadcasts on the internet read a purported letter claiming responsibility by an unknown group now called them off the net that cannot tolerate that our people have nothing to eat and no medicine and that our money is worth something about nothing not a lot of. the government says it has already arrested several perpetrators but there appear to be contradictions some people have questions about the second explosion. i think the government staged the whole thing you don t. mention that the government was hurt itself. by the way this just pulls our country further down and many fear maduro may use the incident to justify more repression in his divided country while the european championships and laws ago there was more joy for team germany in the pool as florian belle ball took gold in the men s fifteen hundred meter freestyle the twenty year old clocked a national record of fourteen minutes thirty six point one five seconds to secure germany second swimming gold of the weekend after the surprise when in the freestyle mixed relay and there was more success for germany in the velodrome as well as cyclists dominate of einstein claimed gold in the individual four thousand meters he beat portugal s evil all of vera to win germany s eighth cycling medal of this championships. at football brasier dortmund have signed a belgian midfielder axel that s all the new coach lucien fabio wants improvement after the squad could only finish fourth in the bundesliga last season but still joins the german side from the chinese club challenge in kong s young belgian international starred as his country finished third at the summer s world cup dortmund triggered his twenty million euro release clause to sign him this will reportedly take a hefty pay cut after moving from the cash rich chinese super league. so over to our down tensions between the u.s. and turkey are putting some new pressure on the turkish currency that s right brian turkey s dispute with the united states over the fate of u.s. pastor andrew bronson is threatening to further destabilize the lira the u.s. had imposed further sanctions on two ministers and president. havenot after months of plunging exchange rates the turkish currency has now hit a fresh low against the dollar inflation also rose again in july nearly sixteen percent a fifteen year high increasing pressure on the central bank to hike interest rates . for days one issue has been dominating the front pages of turkey s newspapers. the country spak with the united states has fueled fears of full blown economic turmoil. at the center of the dispute is u.s. pastor andrew brunson s seen here in a white t. shirt turkey accuses him of helping to plot a failed military coup in twenty sixteen after spending twenty one months in jail he was transferred to house arrest at the end of july. that didn t go far enough for u.s. president donald trump who swiftly imposed sanctions on two senior turkish ministers . that in turn caused the lira to slide to a record low against the u.s. dollar continuing in a ready existing trends take a look at this. as you can see the number of turkish lira you need to buy a dollar has been rising since the beginning of the year but in august a record was set by turkish lira and now buying new just one u.s. dollar on surprisingly on the streets of istanbul the mood is far from offbeat. things aren t going in a good direction it s terrible that one u.s. dollar is now worth five yr are we ready have financial problems i don t approve of it things will get worse that s what we re expecting. turkey s dispute with washington isn t the only factor affecting its economic prospects concerns over the independence of the country s central bank president ed one s ability to tackle soaring inflation are among other issues weighing on investors minds. and this just goes beyond just this dispute between the us. professor of economics at the university. is the situation in turkey and how is everything. you know we need to see that these sanctions imposed by the u.s. are so cold smart sanctions and they aim on a very specific problem but at the same time they tried not to harm the whole economy so the direct effect of the sanctions i would not see a big one i would not expect a big one the reason why we have seen such a big reaction last week on the exchange rate originates from the general problematic economic conditions inflation has risen again current account deficit is increasing so the country is moving towards a serious financial crisis day by day a crucial question is the sanctions have a signal and the question is whether other countries will react in a similar way and their financial investors serving the reactions very clearly turkey s worship with europe is also on the rocks but what role can the e.u. play in this dispute. yeah exactly the question is the americans have reacted very clearly would cause a one single pass or there are thirty german citizens and there are increasing war says that europe should also take such strong steps but one need to bear in mind that turkey has different interests with the european union compared to the us or what s the worst that we have a migration deal as europeans with turkey we have also this financial integration a large extent of these loans in dollars and your terms for turkish companies are coming from italian banks or spanish banks so i m skeptical that europe can act as heavily as the u.s. with respect to sanctions and the question is also whether we should do need because a collapsing financial system in turkey will have had a cost also for europe just let s talk with more about that is a is a collapse really eminent and in which way would it be limited to turkey turkey or would it would it have further consequences. so it is no exaggeration that turkey is moving towards a financial collapse because it s a tragedy how can an economy stabilize the exchange rate and the current account by keeping this high growth rate so there is no signal that there is a political will to reduce this comes on certain based growth rates at the same time if this collapse comes of course we have a large amount of loans in italy and we know at the same time that italian banks have been in troubles for months or just remember after the elections how critical the situation was in europe and if turkey the financial system collapse in turkey the central bank in europe has also again to bail out italian banks and that will trigger a political conflict again and europe so in this bigger picture destabilizing turkey is not in the interest of the european union. thank you very much for this analysis. thank you. china says it s prepared for a long trade war with the united states the statement comes in response to a series of tweets from u.s. president all trump praising the effects of trade tariffs that he has imposed this followed beijing s publication of a new list of retaliatory tariffs on u.s. products the family responds to washington starts to impose new duties on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese imports chinese state media lashed out at trump and described the new u.s. tariffs as quote extortion. case international trade secretary liam fox says the chance of a no deal breaker is growing he blamed what he called the european commission s intransigence in an interview with the sunday times newspaper fox said there was a sixty percent chance the e.u. k. and the e.u. would fail to reach an agreement talks of hit a rough patch as the use negotiators have said that britain has failed to make realistic proposals the british government has so far insisted it has drafted a mutually acceptable bags of plan promise of tourism a scab and harbor is split on how close the u.k. s economic relationship to the e.u. should be. and so your business and here s a reminder 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astronomy arguably the first science cultivated by humans is in some danger light pollution from cities obscures the stars. and if you go astronomers and astrophysicists were the first to identify the danger of losing the night sky society wasn t aware of the importance of preserving that sky people thought astronomers were the only ones interested for scientific or personal reasons the nine is the most with us as is the end though we may be witnessing the end of dark nights. in the cities are excessively illuminated where you both are not. the observatory is about to move farther and farther away to increasingly remote settings. with the most remote those. quality of the sky. if you discover in the middle of it some skies look beautiful what s that about the of but it s not guaranteed they ll stay that wife is the light and the starlight certifications ensure that there are regulations that will keep the skies so dark that people can enjoy the skies. the canary islands is the birthplace of european astro tourism other regions in the south of spain with significant attractions for visitors and a good infrastructure have added astronomy to their offerings. and after the war in the skies are clear day and night and illusia ideal for astro tourism when the sun shines tourists can enjoy the weather the beach bars and the visitors to spain are looking for these very dark very clear skies that have been lost in their own countries. spain s privilege situation did not go unnoticed by the great powers of the twentieth century who built their astronomical complexes here. these antennas played a central role in the moon landing nasa set them up in robledo d.h. of ala in the early one nine hundred sixty s. they re part of the u.s. agency satellite monitoring and space projects complex. in the one nine hundred seventy s. domes changed the landscape of sierra day last fall operation in our maria in southeastern spain at over two thousand meters altitude continental europe the largest observatory was built here the german spanish astronomical center minister a fully working carmen s. was an idea that arose at a scientific meeting in two thousand and eight where eleven international institutions agreed to create a device that could do what had never been possible in science before detect planets outside our solar system which like earth could potentially support life without our view that we don t of this. color alto is also exceptionally productive it s the european center that generates the highest number of scientific publications that s thanks to on again harle and her colleagues. from this room she monitors the telescopes in the center during the night they become the eyes of scientists all over the world. will begin in a thermal set of some astronomers come here themselves or we follow their detailed instructions and carry out the research for them they tell us what to observe how long which filter which entrance lit what spectrum and so on but the key thing they ask and we have serve at the end of the night we send them the data and then at their various research centers they examine the data and decide if we need to make changes or continue as is good it will yet to come off in the. at the control center we meet on a pasquali this italian astronomer has traveled from heidelberg university to supervise her observation hours tonight. let me reach chad guy my research focuses on the formation of galaxies and tad they change over time to get us. into the what i m doing now. studying these galaxies which we call essential galaxies that have the possibility of growing and merging with other galaxies are. increasing them must sundial you mention over time the zero mean the mass of the main sewer nicci at that time they pull it up with the car let out the fundament that. p.m.s. any is essential for this this is the only way we can understand how stars aborning galaxies at different stages of development in the universe see if they were that saw. the firmament is observed by brilliant scientists but also by thousands of amateur astronomers their contribution cannot be underestimated the performer. we professionals must form closer ties with amateur astronomers or tourist because i m convinced that they will contribute to the future of professional astronomy and second because a lot of science can be done with equipment that they already have. as a boy when the wisconsin his car bio dreamed of becoming an astronomer and yet his professional life took him down other roads so instead for almost thirty years he has spent all his free time on astronomy. as amateurs we can work intensively with professional astronomers it s very exciting because instead of storing our work on our own computers we added to databases that others can use. he is prolific he publishes books writes for scientific journals and does research with international groups in recent years he helped discover a supernova with an italian team. that s a bit of a health element of a supernova is the most cataclysmic phenomenon in the universe since the big bang seeing it live being part of the co discovery of a supernova justifies all those hours all the time devoted to it although that s not the only reason to do it you do it because it s fun and you enjoy it and the data you gather night after night can be useful for other people like an alternate to put it into the other person that s how he cultivates his hobby he spends hours and hours interpret ing data the times he used to sit outside and gaze into the night sky are long past. when you observe from a fixed spots like your house you have to have an observatory in place to avoid always setting it up and taking it down which is tedious. nowadays nonprofessional astronomers who are more serious about this can have equipment set up in a remote observatory and then they can work from home you know full well. amateur astronomers from other countries also choose to come to the iberian peninsula the one hundred and you have travelled from germany to fragonard sierra in the foothills of sierra madre now they ve come with a clear objective we will. set up our new telescope and where world test. automatic. breaking if only for so long before the craft there is one of the last telescopes set up here for hosting a special way of renting a private observatory they chose this location after analyzing other destinations on other continents. this is the best place for installing robot telescope because it s very dark here with the first point of the other part is a very good seeing here and you can reach but very fast especially from traveling the you just have to fly to you here very short so it s. a sound interrupts the interview the dome on the neighboring observatory starts moving the sun is setting and the building owner of this telescope wants to check today s sky conditions from the heart of europe he directs operations by remote control as he watches us through his camera in a few weeks these astronomers will be able to do the same thing from their homes in munich of the china while even remaking pictures of galaxies sometimes planetary nebula we are not really doing scientific stuff fly in russia man saw a light for supernova something like that that s only if we re not scientists in that way we re just doing our spare time we are you know amateur astronomers and just biking pretty pictures as you can see and we also have a look at the stars here to see because the charming it s not possible anymore it s pollution is too strong so we re going here to do. in germany alone there are thirty thousand amateur astronomers who have to travel outside their country to be able to enjoy their hobby the same thing happens in other countries some of these aficionados have come to this astronomical complex you mean it will come here for the climate in this colonies they mainly from northern europe we ve got people from various nations from russia great britain france and belgium the u.s. company in america came here to build a telescope with us i mean we re going to the new interest. the initial forecasts were soon surpassed and a business was born with a certain romantic touch that the images that are now going to this land some years ago an extra muddle and we realized the sky was of incredible quality we would come with a telescope to look at the stars and it was great we invited friends and since jose luis had good connections in the astronomy scene he knew there was big demand for places to put up telescopes so we thought maybe that was a good way to indulge our passion for astronomy and run a business at the same time i mean it and i don t want to feel. the hosting service has given them international prestige among astronomers the complex also offers accommodation and workshops. at night for the leading lights make their interests. between the gnarled oaks and the broad landscape the stars appear in dazzling brilliance. if they can go to the movies a wreck in this area but you can see about two thousand stars compared with a city where you can see only thirty or forty maybe fifty stars maximum you get. to learn more about stars we attend an astronomy session. or san luis can you honestly the soul of this project place is stars within the context of the universe . is that was me that is everything we re seeing here is expanding the universe is huge it s fourteen billion years old and still expanding to see if we live in a large super city in the milky way with over four hundred billion stars oh my that but that doesn t mean the us this day gets. the numbers are astonishing the explanations show how important astronomy has always been for humans. boners the thought what if i m going to be all our grandparents knew and identify the stars speak of the brightest star in the constellation virgo that means we spike them and when it appeared in the east they knew it was time to sew or harvest astronomy was essential for daily life but today environmentalists pollution and all our technology have completely disconnected us and for that they can put a damper. the stars have gone out in the eyes of many. who live in the developed world. this is what the planet looks like at night artificial light illuminates large surfaces of the northern hemisphere. is the largest dam in western europe the waters of the glory on a river serve as the boundary between spain and portugal. the portuguese were the pioneers in promoting astro tourism. the idea arose in two thousand and eight as part of creating a sustainable program for the al-qaeda region to offer something unique in terms of nature and resources for tourism we thought of something no one had considered before the sky. it s now a starlight tourist destination certified by the starlight foundation in two thousand and eleven we were the first destination in the world to obtain the certification. since then al-qaeda has become a must visit destination for astro truism this is fall into two groups. just wrong so essentially there is the amateur astronomers who love observing the sky and then there s a large increase in families many children hear about the night sky at school but they can t see the constellations in the cities where they live. so they come here with their parents to experience the dark skies together. even the show that s not . this megalithic monument the cromlech of chess was moved near months of us when the outcome of a dam was built it s the setting for summer star parties and the face of the familiar. with the it s a party for the whole family the activities are suitable for both children and adults you can observe the sun there s a workshop for adults and children about the solar system and right now we ve got a yoga session here behind us. the presence of hundreds of people lends a special symbolism to this place amid five thousand year old stones it s a unique place to connect with the universe. night force. and sheltered by the convent double router it s time to learn more about astronomy. we go claro the official astro photographer here shares his interest in the science of astronomy from a different perspective photographing space are standing firmly on the earth. was the intent clearly very we want space to be more than just the telescope photographs disseminated by nasa and the european southern observatory. the blizzard. of when people look at these images they can t identify with them because they have no point of reference to know where they are. mail us. the news so. this works so. we want them to be able to connect to the sky and the earth and find relevance and astronomy. then there is the richness of the landscape of all caver with a crime lab and other elements of what it has to offer. it s very important to relay this message to promote ourselves. in the. course and give the food the the season was far from it. at midnight it s time to contemplate the firmament some with the help of more or less advanced technology and many with the naked eye today with the new moon the universe looks blended. the milky way passes overhead. it s easy to identify constellations like the big dipper c.v.s. or cassiopeia. and stars that shine with their own name such as vega or dinner. the sky here affords excellent visibility and average of two hundred eighty six nights a year. the degree of darkness in the three thousand square kilometer region ranges from twenty one point two to twenty one point eight that s the equivalent of rural skies to true dark sky sites. and those dark skies attract thousands of people interested in astronomy. some areas offer multiple activities while others are specialized this is the case at the astronomy center in the province of via delete the only center in the world to be considered a star park. i care if it was the rest of us if we didn t do astrophysics here but that is done at la palma in the canary islands and more professional observatories but we do receive school visits in the winter months with them we get tourist families and what we do is open up a little window of knowledge about the sky to them so they learn a bit more about what is up there in the sky they can look through telescopes oh with the naked eye of a horse. after decades of experience publicizing information about astronomy young tales knows very well that this discipline requires scientific knowledge and something more. basic it is the rule out to talk about science you need a romantic view of the many of us there and you have. i got of those we wanted that if they were really lovely concepts in astronomy like that we come from the stars for example everything that exists that has substance comes from the stars with scientific concepts which are a bit inaccessible to many people it is important to present them with that sort of enticement as you share information. night phones everyone takes their position. the roof of the astronomy center slowly opens like a curtain at a theater and the star show begins. with a muslim feel about it though the rock constellations in the night sky that can be seen with the naked eye people really like discovering statutary since scorpio and the stories that go with the constellations. for example have a good look there s sci fi is king of ethiopia who married cassiopeia years ago. so that s greek mythology area it s a lovely way for people to understand and know more about the sky. they re going to tell me. for years the extremadura center for advanced technologies has been making films for planetaria. some are shown at the trujillo planetarium and others are distributed in spain and latin america. more than one hundred twenty thousand people have seen exploring the solar system a fascinating journey from the sun to mars. they put us in rituals a series of scenarios that had never been seen before. or both you know that s been equipped. with scientific advisors from the canary islands institute of astrophysics this film enables viewers to see and understand the dawn of a comet or an asteroid collision el mundo a meal or the ringworld is another of their films now that attempts are being made to find intelligent life on other planets this production aims to explain what such a place might be like. making astronomy attractive and establishing it as a tourist activity are matters that concern the entire sector. the hotel parador of credos in the province of ave law is hosting a course for astro to resume guides everyone is committed to defending the dark sky regardless of participants profiles or backgrounds. rango the truth of i m from toulouse in france i decided to take this course because i want to add it to my fifteen years of experience inter ism especially in eco tourism. and. in spain it is more developed than in france that we have techniques that could be developed but i know i m going to be one of the first to import his knowledge about astro tourism into france. but he made those import that is they could not see me and thought i thought where is my finance. professionals from the most renowned places also come here to specialize they all see astro two resume as an opportunity. that would be more going to the canary islands are considered the world leader in astro tourism and the truth is we re very lucky in the canary islands especially those of us born there we can t let this opportunity pass at the top of the river even for the experts practice makes perfect. i though for that matter because there are two courses that differ only in the number of class hours it s very intensive because we go for twelve hours a day so we have time to cover everything. we spend the whole day in class and at night we do astronomy practice sessions but we re all very excited about it i mean . at midday the garden turns into an observatory it s time to observe and learn about our star the sun. at the from the up with these are the first total telescopes that existed and the difference with this one is that it has a much higher resolution and this one has a point five bombs from filter which gives you lots more detail. and i don t look at. all the telescopes are pointed at the sun tourism professionals have a clear goal in mind. they are muslim and they think linus lifetime working for over twenty five. he is explaining the natural environment in the sierra what in madrid. we were doing night activities and started getting more and more interest in this going so we started learning more about it and this is the best opportunity to continue learning. astrophotography is also popular and tonio company us is one of the first astro photographers in spain. this is the hard point to now mature astronomy. you go from visual astronomy to looking through a telescope and end up doing photography. that possibly work leads you to do it is wanting to see more because observation through a telescope is very limited and. the scientific content complements the to restrict content pucca sanchez is the so-called father of the movement he was the first to bring astro to risen to the area. my wife and i built a hotel here in the sierra great oss in one thousand nine hundred four we are pioneers of what is called small hotels with charm and. sympathy there for me i ve always been an amateur astronomer then when i built the hotel one of the things i also did was set up a telescope in the hotel garden. the guests would come up and ask me can we have a look and so i explained what they were seeing in the sky. we built an extension and i built a dome on the roof more professional observatory look at the hotel guests will come up with me and i told them all about astronomy. and at one point i realized it was true that we are very privileged in the sky we have here and a salary or look we believe the phone or. nature. livestock the mountains and hunting with the attractions the sierra credos was known for then. sanchez dared to innovate. now it s the dark sky that draws tourists. the demand was surprising. the people came here and asked if i hear this is a very good place to see stars who can show them to me. you know and we realized there was nobody who could do it and i was the only one here because i had my observatory and my telescope. once the potential was recognized professional training picked up. el milano grey out was the first astronomical hotel in mainland spain astra tourism is already showing profits more of the line with that than that over half the nights of a year we ve got guests who come to observe the stars yeah what s more everyone leaves happy everyone says it s fantastic i ve got to come back again i m going to start reading about this stuff because it s really fascinating that isn t this. the have a lumber a astrophysical observateur is the most recent professional observatory built in western europe. here in the province of tehran they are working on an ambitious international project making a three dimensional detailed map of the cosmos. several kilometers away the same promoter the outer gone center for studies of the physics of the cosmos has built galactica a center for publicizing and practicing astronomy. this project designed exclusively to cater to astral tourism expects to receive twenty four thousand visitors a year. other sites offer more they open up the interior of their professional observatories to visitors in our maria the french association of color alto defends that view this organization was created in twenty thirteen during tough economic times you know if this if it more it would be after germany and spain signed the agreement for the observatory that they were just the cuts in budget which. initially there was talk that the observatory might disappear that it might close. to. or at first few people could imagine what the white domes and special sky conditions of colorado were good for scientific tourism is now an important asset. just as for august the reason it was that he was on your story we ve held three of these astra tourism meetings in recent years is more need to try to open up the market in this area because there wasn t much to offer. because we realized that when people came up to callout and set up amateur telescopes at night they were stunned they had no idea of the quality of the sky they had. you know who wore the german spanish astronomical center in collaboration with the astro tourism company as a moot has started to offer an exclusive astronomical experience it allows visitors to feel they are an astronomer for a night i think that at a present there is no professional observatory in europe where a person can look through a telescope more than a meter in diameter with an eyepiece this activity is exclusive to car our total people it s offered nowhere else in the world. and anyone who does it will have an experience that they ll remember for the rest of their life. out of whatever other things we have. once a month this telescope which is one point twenty three meters in diameter is available for scientific tourism activity. they said that is the name we have the ability to remove the scientific operators from the telescope and replace it with an eyepiece. that it would then our visitors can personally observe the marvels of the sky. seen from here in colorado. and feel like a lot of. our main activity is research for science so the number of nights we can devote to this activity is certainly limited but it s something we re committed to. we re going to keep it going and there are circumstances a lot will expand and enhance it. in the evening the experience begins. i want to see what you see through a telescope with a vast range of lenses you have i ve heard the resolution is so high you can see the moons of your anus that s what i want to see you know that all of. the special guests are invited into the scientists work spaces. and. we think this activity is more appropriate for people who have already had some previous experience with telescopes because if you have never looked through a telescope before and looked through this one for the first time call never want to look through any other want to know what i mean up in the lot. as darkness falls the dome opens. in one thousand nine hundred seventy five this telescope manufactured in germany was the first telescope to go operational that color until. tonight is one of the ten thousand nights it has been used to observe the firmament . it has two purposes. the scientific one which is usually operated from the control room in colorado or by remote control from grenada and germany. and the second one for astro to resume activities. on those occasions it s operated from the control desk. for the session leader adjusting the eyepiece is not always easy the eyepiece has to be at an accessible height. and depending on which celestial body the telescope is aimed at that can be difficult a movable platform helps. as some people take turns looking through the telescope others enjoy the spectacle offered by the sky as seen with the naked eye. for two hours observations are made from the planets in our solar system on out into deep space. that it. is and that they have faith in i know i ve been an amateur astronomer since i was fifteen or sixteen but the reflect all reflected telescopes i ve use do not have the resolution that this one has today i ve seen a planetary nebula is and that is far from what your average amateur astronomer can aspire to see a bit though he got the unique extraordinary experience it s really a privilege to be here. because of the height encourage everyone to come and see what kind of work they do here and what astronomy has to offer above all the top level science being done here is the best since that if you re into. the universe has existed far longer than we humans have and it will continue long after we disappear. many people don t give that a second thought still an increasing number are looking for a connection to something greater something that makes their own existence seem so small and yet at the same time makes them feel part of any ments vastness. it s enough to just look up this is our legacy. our infinite legacy. gathering is coming to life from fighting let s go right to our correspondent he is in general is done well and you have our political correspondents you re in the studio more on the story as it was just a minute but first this news just gets a hold up the perspective closer d.w. . how good. his creations good shifts his brand understandable carlock effect i can of the sanctions. look what do we really know coming from an unfree hundred darshini it s what motivates arabs how does he think and feel private lives in the life of a great fashion designers is going to sound smash shut up it starts september not just w.
a journalist in one of. the gee it s good to have you on the show i want you maybe to tell us a little bit about what has been the reaction there in the country now that we know that the senate voted not to decriminalize abortion. yes it s been a very emotional last few hours in argentina as you could see and they measure was the vote less hours at three am there were hundreds and thousands of people still on the streets waiting for the final decision on the blue side of the hour which is the pro-life side there was a lot of ecstasy there was a lot of happiness there were cement fireworks being thrown out but on the other side on the green side which is the pro-abortion side. it worked there was a lot of sadness even though it was widely expected that it wasn t going to pass. the situation that s where a young minister was very emotional people were crying and of course this emotion turned into some kind of violence from very small groups that were throwing out i mean it means that the women that are choosing to undergo this abortions the same conditions and the legal conditions are unfortunately still going to have to undergo this procedure is through in this situations every year again it s almost half a million women that undergo an abortion even though it s illegal even though it s penalize mormon goal up to four years in jail for having an abortion. and these women one have a choice but to continue doing it this way it s very interesting because abortion is also in argentina a class issue it s widely known that in private hospitals the procedure is all served. by a high speed people have to be a hifi but in the middle class and upper class are able to afford that whereas it is the poor women that these sites who undergo an abortion that are usually the ones that then as suffer the health consequences of doing it in a crime this thing clinic that it s not safe for them so what do we go from here we understand the grassroots organizations that want to decriminalize abortion they have veld to fight it to bring up another bill sooner rather than later and again force the parliament to vote i mean is that we re headed for another divisive moment. probably yes so this specific build won t be able to be debated again until the next legislative ear which is in march of twenty nineteen but next week actually the national government was planning to to push forward every form of the of the criminal penalty code and in it in one of the five hundred reforms that are included in that is a reform of the criminalization of abortion so basically this reform would say that woman quander the abortion shouldn t be tantalized that this shouldn t be put into jail but it still keeps abortion illegal so what from here on we just have to see what happens next week the women that are pushing for abortion are also overall very optimistic because so far even the fact that the bill was debated that there was so much discussion about it that the vote was fairly close ok it s a very big step forward compare what to what we had before. reporting tonight from want to start to see you thank you very much. and i m going to have to be taken now by our ethics and religion correspondent martin jacques martin good to see you again is it accurate to say that the senate vote the deciding factor last night was the pressure that came from the catholic church no i don t think i don t think that i mean most certainly there were a bunch of religious groups that were lining up in the no vote the catholic church certainly flex muscle but so did evan jellicoe organizations that were actually it s also just sheer conservatism in some sense these are provinces that are much more insular where the communities are much farther where the communities have themselves from build for much longer i mean these are very old very old you know funnily base communities and so one thing that is quite remarkably said many of these broken circles of brahmins is where the state is bought and clearly ups and so that goes to say you do not find infrastructure necessary education sexual education or indeed i mean that he s one of the places where people go but very. and there is really just nowhere to go quite honestly and that means that it is in those places where you will find most of these cases are a lot of these cases of women who end up you know in very very precarious situations trying to sort out what to do and what to do not you know commit a crime two months ago pope francis did now abortion calling it and i m quoting here a white glove to the eugenics program of the nazis was was that the pope openly campaigning for the anti-abortion i mean there is they have made up saluted no bones as for where they stand i think that what one has to keep in mind nonetheless is that in some sense disick special reflects the ferdi broad consensus as to how abortion is framed so i ve been saying this over the last couple of days i mean i think that by and large we have been thinking about abortion in the american frame of the problem which is so woman has a certain right to her body and then there is this and silly thing that she has decided on the position that america by and large would take a mean and this applies also to the south a few up to a large degree in countries by and large is that as a matter of fact we have two competing individuals now what we particularly made thing about were the fetus is an individual or not absolutely relevant in the social conception there is actually already an individual or social entity of some sort and this means that you know if you are involved in this this question you need to figure out a way to make this to set a fright somebody yeah i mean that i think is an excellent way of describing it and framing it. but the fact remains that to criminalizing abortion was to be debated for a long time last night and it was not defeated by a huge margin and. we ve heard the grassroots organizations say that when the next legislative period comes up they re going to put that bill up again do you think all of this all of this tell us that society in argentina is changing and will the next vote in front of the senate maybe in a year or two will it make abortion lee well i think that it s a perfectly good picture of where things stand i think that very often what we see these politicians with a very lazy approach to policy issues and then society comes in and says you know what gay rights are fine transsexual rights are fine abortion is fine etc so you know contraception is fine i mean usually sexual morality is a very good place to look at the indicators and then ten years later but all it takes in this sort of slow rolling think comes along and says i oh ok let s actually see if we can do that now i think the fact is that we have in argentina now a conservative party or a center right party that has actually gone along permitted to debate and essentially a president that standing very close to the church has said that he would not actually stop or veto disparate this project if it were actually to go through the senate and this is an enormous enormous each area is anything that s actually very good news i mean in many senses very good you know. our ethics and religion correspondent martin jacques martin as always we appreciate your insights into this it helps a lot thank you pleasure. well tonight the red cross says that fifty people most of them children under the age of fifteen have been killed in an airstrike that hit a bus in northern yemen the children were traveling through a crowded market in rebel held saw the problem is it s thought they were on their way to summer school and saudi led coalition that wants the attack said they were targeting hooty rebel positions and that it was a quote legitimate military action for the coalition is facing condemnation for these latest civilian deaths. and for more on this air strike i m joined now by the middle east analyst from the german institute for international affairs and security affairs good was good to see you again these are dramatic pictures the story is dramatic survivor saying that the rockets intended target was the bus that was filled with school children i mean are these children paying the price of a proxy war yes they are and it s not the first time that the saudis have hit civilian targets in recent months and years they have funerals markets and now a school bus it s nothing it s nothing new i believe the saudis that they wanted to hit rebel positions but i don t don t really understand why they hit a school bus in a market area how can that be explained to i mean we can t fathom that they would actually target a bus knowing that children are on board so what are we talking about bad equipment or you know in inept people who were operating the targeting devices i mean what could be behind it i believe it s it s in that people doing the targeting might be inept pilots the saudis have no no experience in waltham the last war. was in one nine hundred thirty four in yemen it s the first war that they are fighting for for decades for for nearly three generations and it is quite obvious that even the force that is still working is not really up to this to this job and that that is why we have seen so many civilian casualties is especially in recent months and part of the reason is that most military targets now better better hidden than in the past i mean are we talking about a war crime here if you know if it s alleged that civilian targets children were targeted and is it going to make a difference i mean are there any consequences no there won t be any consequence. as why because saudi arabia is a relatively important country and it has got next to unconditional support by the trump an administration we have seen that in recent days in their conflict with with canada this strike bonet have any consequences and i personally do not believe that it s a what was because i do not believe that the saudi government its military. and the pilots wanted to hit children the militarization of this proxy war through that huge arms sale from the us to saudi last year what impact is that having on this proxy war are we seeing it right now the fact that these types of accidents can happen in were more like this happen where it s it s very modern very lethal equipment american equipment that is used by non american pilots that s part of the reason why we see with the recipe for disaster that it is a recipe for disaster and saudi arabia. might be an important ally but still what i do what i don t don t really understand is why the united states is supporting this country unconditionally the united states would have the opportunity to end this war within one or two weeks by giving up maintenance supplies targeting they help with the targeting i hope they didn t have a hand in this action and even with aerial refueling and all these these kinds of things the saudis are not able to lead this war without the americans and that is why the american government is partly responsible for what is happening there right you know steinberg with germany to do for international insecurities fears you know as always we appreciate your analysis and your insights thank you. well the future of the u.s. military is in elder space and there is no way around that that was the message today from u.s. vice president mike pence at a meeting with leaders from all branches of the armed forces spencer said that president trump wants a new branch to be established with the name space force now on twitter the vice president tweeted this gif announcing the first step towards establishing the department of space force which would be the u.s. military six branch plans also include the creation of an elite space operations force and a space development agency here as part of what fans told the secretary of defense and other top military brass today at the pentagon the space environment has fundamentally changed in the last generation what was once peaceful and uncontested is now crowded and adversarial today other nations are seeking to disrupt our space based systems and challenge american supremacy in space as never before america will always seek peace in space as on the earth but history proves that peace only comes through strength in the realm of outer space the united states space force will be that strength in the years ahead . as president trump has said in his words it is not enough to merely have an american presence in space. we must have american dominance in space and so we really. well it is important to note that the international community agreed decades ago that albert space is no place for the military in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven the us signed what is known as the outer space treaty which prohibits weapons of mass destruction in outer space and limits the use of the moon and other planets to peaceful purposes only well that makes one of my pins is tweets from earlier today disconcerting to say the least the vice president tweeted that the president trump is committed to preparing for the next battlefield where america s best and bravest will be called to deter and defeat a new generation of threats to our people and our nation the time has come to establish the united states space force. well the family separation crisis at the us mexico border well it was supposed to end last month when a federal judge ordered the trumpet ministration to reunite all families of a deadline to reunite was july twenty sixth and majority of the two thousand families have been reunited but some remain apart and this story it got the attention of an unlikely group grannies respond to a group of grandmothers are upset and they re doing something about it last week of grandmothers from across the u.s. to set out on the weeklong caravan journey traveling from all over the country down to macallan texas where one of the largest immigration facilities of the in the countries located now along the way they stopped at various ice or these are immigration authorities facilities where they held rallies and comforted detained until yesterday they reached their final destination the u.s. missed the border which they marked for the twenty four hour protest. we called up with one of these grannies were few jones who told us what inspired her to take the journey take a listen children can t even sleep at night without seeing their mother or their father and here we are taking them into a strange place which change people not knowing the language and certainly not knowing anyone except the people that they are with and to separate them is just a bad ugly history raising its head again there have been people in my ancestry who were separated from their children and i could not do anything about that then but now i have an opportunity and if i don t speak up now when what i do it shame on me. that was grandmother a few jones there speaking with us early on how important is family well just ask claudine vito she was born shortly after her parents arrived here in germany as asylum seekers now they supported claudine in her pursuit of athletics and after a successful junior career in discus she is now germany s hope in discus at the european championships. claudina beach has medals her sights she s already thrown have personal best this year sixty five point one five meters and now she heads into the final of the european athletics championships in fairly in the ranks second this is how the moment. that i was in the stands at the two thousand and nine well championships in berlin as a fan now i can hardly wait to experience it all down on the field as an athlete. in. v.t. i was born in one thousand nine hundred ninety six in frankfurt oda near the polish border have parents fled there from angola and spent many years in a home for asylum seekers they weren t easy times of the family but sports helped close diem to find a way in life and overcome plenty of obstacles including racial discrimination. doesn t matter what skin color you have as long as you stay true to your roots and your country so i m so happy that i can represent jim he championships. claudine beats it was already a force to be reckoned with youth level she grabbed gold at the under twenty and junior european championships and that s despite her rivals towering over one meta seventy nine feet is a good ten centimeters shorter than the competition in the discus circle. i may be smaller than the others but i have very long arms which gives me a wide radius when i say. i believe the smaller you are the more nimble you are in the circle. and her coach asked could combine a former olympic gold medal winner in shot put make the perfect duel ahead of the competition they re using every opportunity to make minor improvements maybe that ll be enough to help claudine v.t. bring home a european championship medal. and the european championships are under way we understand it called in will compete on this coming saturday we certainly wish her all the best are the day is nearly done but as ever the conversation continues online to find us on twitter in the news or you can write directly to me at t.v. don t forget to use that hash tag the day and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day you ll see that everybody. from. to the stars. finals in performances. they sing about more than. five students do their own take on the noise of the past. the power metal band. good. w. . rock and. simple little gems of the church and all the evil feeling that you feel when you find. something to. stop