and russian president vladimir putin heads to berlin to discuss a controversial gas pipeline which will bypass ukraine. turkey's credit rating has been lowered by two key agencies moody's and standard and poor's now say it's become more difficult for turkey to make payments on its debts the country's already being rocked by a financial crisis and sanctions from the united states are reports from new york. for the turkish lira it was a week that could not in soon enough he week that started with the lira sliding to a record low of seven point two against the us dollar the currency has lost nearly forty percent of its value against the dollar this year alone as a full fledged economic crisis continues to simmer the trump administration this

well i wonder to what extent those of us in berlin will be aware of that if you're in glasgow you for towns to go to several different sports but here i think the people are in berlin for the athletics and i think we won't be terribly aware of what's happening in school and of course this is a full program six days it's already started but from tomorrow morning it goes on until sunday evening and it really is full on so i think that will keep us entertained and you know because this is a team competition and the last four winners are being france germany poland and great britain and any of them could win it this time that will really energize the german crowd is their team is in the lead and of course all the others will be be trying to win as well. what can athletics do to make itself more appealing well i from where i sit athletics is alive and well. i live in the u.k. and we had the atlantic's world cup followed by the diamond league that was four days over two consecutive weekends and ninety thousand people bought tickets for that and you know the athletics world cup was eight cou

term we know germany says it wants to see a stable economy in turkey doesn't it cain has more from berlin. angela merkel's comments about the need for the turkish economy not to be destabilized basically they are explained by the importance that the turkish government plays these are very european politics but also middle eastern politics the fact that it acts almost as an anchor around which the european union is able to deal with a great deal of different policies specifically remember that the deal which the turks and the european union signed together regarding migration of that need to stay in place so when angela merkel sees the economy the currency of turkey plunge in value that raises jitters as it were not just among her government but also financially in the financial heart of europe in germany rather it frankfurt while there are many many traders would look at turkish debt right now and wonder whether it's time to to get rid of it to try to to shore themselves up because they fear what may happen in turkey one final point to make here as violent as this current fall in value fo

president donald trump has criticized berlin for cooperating with moscow on that project dominic cain following the story for us out of berlin and we heard them both speak right before they went into the meeting what did they say. well from the perspective two really important issues there and one as you say the north stream to gas pipeline the other syria the humanitarian situation in syria regarding the pipe. he said look this is an exclusively economic projects one which will link russia with germany through the baltic sea and allow gas to be transported that way remember one of the central problems from donald trump's perspective is the amount of energy that germany buys in from russia the other point to make is that the way that affects the ukraine crisis because the ukrainian government is very much opposed to nordstrom too so mr putin trying to poil on troubled waters saying that it's exclusively economic no strategic political aims. and for germany what is it went from russia. well the point here is this is the second time the tangle america would have meant to me a putin in t

and then why did them to call berlin run and accepted that the iranians have also sent a message that they want normalization in fact betterment of bilateral relationship between their two countries so there's a lot at stake external as well as internal challenges that enron will have to contend with come out i don't live in islamabad thank you. now the state funeral is underway in italy for some of the victims of tuesday's bridge collapse in genoa president said mathur dela is set to attend and it will be presided over by the archbishop of genoa bought some of the families a plane with government for the disaster and they're saying that they will stay away from the ceremony conducting their own private ceremony is in said at least thirty eight people were killed hundreds of others were injured in go live to that ceremony down our correspondent there is david chaytor and david so some of the people clearly not a tour happy by. what they see as a as negligence on the part of the government that has led to the death of their relatives and staying away from the state occasion. yes martin

is too right dominic thank you for that update from berlin let's now cross over to frankfurt and speak to your head stands. he's a chief market analyst at c.m.c. markets that's a brokerage house and just to pick up on the point that dominic was making about the comments made by german officials how jittery is the destabilization in turkey the economic situation right now making not only germany but other countries and the markets. you see the reaction in the euro to the versus the u.s. dollar and you saw the reaction in the dax index on friday both went down the you were just continues to fall right now so people really fear and investors fear that there could be some sort of contagion or at least there is a large amount of uncertainty right now and that's what markets don't like they don't like uncertainty and that's what we clearly have right now and what is it that needs to be done to contain this contagion. it would be very very important to safeguard the repayment of the debt that turkey has to to foreign investors it's primarily a debt that needs to be paid to spanish bangs to it

well let's bring in our panel now joining us from berlin as thoughts and bennett the director of the global public policy institute and harvard kathryn cleaver ashboro executive director of future of diplomacy project at harvard kennedy school and in brussels via skype is daniel grosse he's the director of the center for european policy studies a very warm welcome to all of you mr bennett let me start with you and learn and your foreign minister is op ed where he wrote making plans for a new world order i europe and the u.s. on a collision course here. not necessarily but in the course of readjustment we find ourselves in a fundamentally new situation with the us germany used to have the best deal of all us would take care of our security we can compete economically and to disagree politically now the trump administration has served us our vulnerability is on a silver platter the security guarantees are no longer secure and the u.s. is going against the very institutions it helped to create that are dear to germany and the atlantic alliance and they're also going against one of the b

some explosions have been heard more than five hundred people have been evacuated and residents of berlin have been told to close their windows to keep out the smoke. so a study has been found that there is no safe level of alcohol consumption the research spanning one hundred ninety five countries link two point eight million premises or deaths to alcohol it found that two drinks a day increases the risk of health problems by seven percent and an estimated two point four billion people consume alcohol worldwide it rises exponentially with consumption so we're very heavy drinker you'll see huge benefits by cutting down by a drink if you're still drinking one drink per day you'll see huge benefits if you are down as well she said ray not every year you have a seven out of one hundred chance of developing one is to decisions when we look at the global population that's an immense amount for the average male drinker it's now consuming around two drinks per day a lot of recommendations still say up to two drinks per day is good for your health want to counter that a bit by really looking at t

also against the euro really has plunged very markedly indeed matter explains why the concern here in berlin but as i say across that you now about what course turkey rotate in the days to come. down as military is sending reinforcements to help defend the embattled city of ghastly from a taliban attack all the three hundred people have died in four days of fighting the president called an emergency meeting with police and military chiefs while the u.s. says carried out air strikes on taliban. hundreds of people a fled the city gazan is just one hundred fifty kilometers south of kabul on the highway connection the capital and southern afghanistan child palace reports. the taliban has turned the ancient city of gosney into an urban battle field the assault is now in its fourth day with two hundred seventy thousand residents locked inside their homes casualties of the offensive lissa the streets. those that reach the hospital find it overwhelmed space and medicine rationed to twenty soldiers and civilians there's so many from our cases and too little capacity. with into order international hum

backed by germany which says it wants to see a stable economy in turkey dominic kane has more from berlin. angela merkel's comments about the need for the turkish economy not to be destabilized basically they are explained by the importance that the turkish government plays these are very european politics but also middle eastern politics the fact that it acts almost as an anchor around which the european union is able to deal with a great deal of different policies specifically remember that the deal which the turks and the european union signed together regarding migration of that needs to stay in place so when angola merkel sees the economy the currency of turkey plunge in value that raises jitters as it were not just among her government but also financially in the financial heart of europe in the of germany rather in frankfurt while there are many many traders who look at the turkish debt right now and wonder whether it's time to to get rid of it or try to to shore themselves up because they fear what may happen in turkey one final point to make here as viable as this current or in v

me for maine said the dead have finally been repatriated that there has been no german apology from berlin dominic came reports this was a moment more than one hundred years in the making remembering one of the darkest crimes of the early twentieth century sent to stage with the last remains of proud people's imperial germany sought to exterminate on wednesday democratic germany expressed its remorse. in the greatest sadness i cannot undo the cessna's coolest but i beg from the bottom of my heart to accept my apologies. those terrible wrongs took place in southwestern africa in the one thousand nine hundred six when colonial german forces suppressed uprisings by the herero and the nama peoples those who survived the fighting worked to death in concentration camps it's thought eighty percent of the herero and fifty percent of the nama people perished today the collective memory of their ordeal motivates the communities to seek reparations something the federal republic of germany will not give which is why the namibian government is suing berlin in the us court. there. was. some people cann

belgium and the netherlands all walked off the job over pay and conditions dominic cain reports from berlin. sleeping on the airport floor rather than in the holiday hotel all because of the strike that's hit ryanair for these passengers their vacation is beginning with uncertainty and lots of tricky questions like this couple fresh in from the states when we landed here in berlin right yeah i mean really now they told us that the ryanair flight to athens that we had booked are being canceled because the. pilots on strike so we just went through a couple different ways of getting that the airline rebooked scaling up that's all we need tonight and then tomorrow morning bouncing from the salafis to athens so what's behind this industrial action ryanair employs about four hundred pilots here in germany they are members of the pilots union cockpit and for the union issue with ryanair is very clear they want improved terms and conditions and they say ryanair really needs to reform. does. is not about want to debate right now and it wouldn't be possible anyway against a transatlantic employer wha

with the forests and we are looking a forest fire is right now just about ninety kilometers south of berlin in germany and these fires have caused a lot of evacuation of people across the region about several hundred people needing to evacuate there or over the next few days though we are looking at some windy conditions that's all due to this frontal boundary that's pretty shooting through that's not going to help the fires but we are looking at some cooler conditions as well in terms of temperatures those temperatures are going to be into the high teens maybe twenty degrees for berlin but here on saturday we are looking at those winds to continue the rains are going to start to edge their way down here towards the southeast over the next day maybe a spotty shower making there were through but mostly it's going to be down here towards the south and the winds are going to start to ease as we go towards the beginning of the week down towards rome no more rain is coming into your forecast we do expect to see a temperature there about twenty six degrees while we are seeing those showers that w

hard and just try and go to be ready for the european athletics championships are up and running in berlin there's a difference this time though as this is the first edition of what is now a multi sports event seven existing championships being staged in the one you brand the scottish city of glasgow is hosting aquatics cycling gymnastics rowing transform and team golf events is set to take place every four years. well the athletics meet is lacking some star power for some a limpid gold medalist my family deciding not to compete two hundred meter women's world champion daphne skiff is one of the biggest names taking part in germany and organizers say they sold more than two hundred fifty thousand sick it's across six days of competition earlier on we spoke to journalist where he's covering the athletics in berlin he says the sport is maintaining its popularity well of course we are missing more. ball but i'm really looking forward to this weeks. and clearly the two hundred fifty thousand ticket buyers are as well you know i think the people want to excitement they want races which are comp

president donald trump he's criticized berlin for cooperating with moscow don it came as more from berlin this is the second time that these two leaders have met each other in the space of just three months basically demonstrating the importance of the relationship between these two governments the point to make here is that there is agreement and disagreement there are issues where they find themselves on the other side opposing each other specifically in ukraine regarding the cease fire the minsk agreement that was brokered between these two governments plus the french plus the ukrainian some time ago which the german government which the french government also believe that moscow really hasn't done enough to ensure implementation of that agreement ukraine matters also to these two leaders because of the nord stream to gas pipeline which is being built which is which is in the in the pipeline as it were which will lead to a changeover in the amount in the way that natural gas is pumped to germany that's important because at the moment lots of russia's gas is pumped into western europe t

seventy five firefighters in germany are battling a major forest fire fifty kilometers southwest of berlin with the added hazard of exploding ammunition the forest is scattered with shells and bombs believed to date back to soviet live fire exercises in the former east germany and some explosions have been heard more than five hundred people have been evacuated and berlin residents have been told to close their windows to keep out the smoke. it is friday night here in london and many people will be reaching for a glass or glasses of wine or beer to kick off the weekend but there is bad news from researchers they say the only way to avoid health risks associated the alcohol is just to stop drinking it all together here are some facts around the globe one in three people that's two point four billion people drink alcohol but a new study by the university of washington says even the occasional drink can cause problems alcohol led to two point eight million premise for deaths worldwide and twenty sixteen the study says an average of two drinks per day causes seven percent rise in disease and i

well let's bring in our panel now joining us from berlin as the last and bennett the director of the global public policy institute and harvard katherine cleaver ashboro executive director of future of diplomacy project at harvard kennedy school and in brussels via skype is daniel grosse he's the director of the center for european policy studies a very warm welcome to all of you mr bennett let me start with you and berlin and your foreign minister is all paid away here vote making plans for a new world order i europe and the u.s. on a collision course here. not necessarily but in the course of readjustment we find ourselves in a fundamentally new situation with the us germany used to have the best deal of all us would take care of our security we can compete economically and to disagree politically now the trump administration has served us our vulnerability is on a silver platter the security guarantees are no longer secure and the u.s. is going against the very institutions it helped to create that are dear to germany and the atlantic alliance and they're also going against one of

localized flooding as that water starts to really start to come up there across the area up towards berlin a nice day for you at twenty five degrees in london is looking quite nice as well we expect to see partly cloudy conditions with a temperature of twenty four well here across much of the northern part of africa world via temperatures here into the thirty's to tunis about thirty four that's a little bit higher than what we've seen over the last few days clouds across algeria those are gone we're seeing better conditions in terms of the sun there but otoh it's been gazi winds out of the north temperature for you at about twenty nine not changing too much as we go towards sunday with cairo seeing about thirty eight well we did have one big tropical wave make its way out of senegal that system is now making its way towards the cape verde islands but we are looking at a lot of tropical moisture here across much of the coast lagos is going to be rated if you are twenty seven in accra at twenty six degrees there. a journey booth done. there's a very forever there's a lot of the rocks and bea

and address in a better way this crisis well actually it is this is not on ecuadorian we shall and or berlin situation this is a regional to play front and there its needs to the needs of the original clucks run and our regional plans call. for contraception and she had to coordinate actions to get a better response to parties humanitarian crisis given the following the best risk the crisis very closely now for four months if not years what do you think these people need the most at this point well. i think the people need information i jane need to know they need they need to know what's worth what every country needs to require her to answer each and also our son instead. aren't we are providing a legal leg to stand and counsel about it thank you very much for being with us now we shall this is the situation here back to border between colombe and whether. we have seen a reduction in the number of people that are severe but more barra arriving and we can expect now that through the center of the crisis will be the border between ecuador and through in the coming hours and especially after

think there's a great deal of frustration certainly in london and also with brussels and paris and berlin at the just the slow pace at which the diplomatic community appears to be moving nato cannot as a member of knights how can it as a member of nafta at least lots of things i just wondering about such alliances and whether in this day and age in twenty itanium how much or how much notice we have to pace them because as you say donald trump and the united states for example a much heavier to align themselves with an ally like saudi arabia rather than an actual you know treaty pot not like canada. i think we had an interesting debate in the website about dulce the election of donald trump does the rise of populism in the way that signal a a substantial change in these international alliances and i think some people were reluctant to believe that rhetorical would manifest in action i think what we've seen in this case is that actually that role that this rhetorical of shifting international alliances away from the traditional nato partnerships is actually real and the trump dots you busin

also against the euro really has plunged very markedly indeed matter explains why the concern here in berlin but as i say across that you now about what course turkey will take in the days to come. huge crowds have gathered in northern yemen for the funerals of some of those who died in a saudi u.a.e. led coalition air strike that killed more than fifty people in northern side a province forty of them were children many of whom were killed on board a school bus authorities are still struggling to identify the remains of all of those killed in the attack some parents are still looking for their children among the deputy mohamed addo is following the story for us from a neighboring djibouti what more do we know about the funerals mohammed. well money m. people in yemen came from near to give a good send off to the victims of the latest so. strike in north yemen majority of them of course children see television footage showed along homeboy vehicles cutting the border all the people who died from the morgue to a school in the sent all this other will see stronghold where they say the final pray

but they had one comes to visit us in berlin in september we will do our best to be of help whether that will be enough depends on the edge it you yes of the american president also but also of mr ed one i would like to remind you we were recently on the heavy threats from the american president on trade issues and the commission took a strong stand but also a flexible one and it came to a standstill and they are not on the goats uniting it is not impossible to bring a similar situation about. between turkey and the united states but it will require the head of. freds and pop most of turkey still economically strongly linked with turkey and on to domestic leaf through the three million turks in germany we will try to do our best whether it be big enough to have probably the help of the commission the e.u. commission. major pop those like france in the e.u. and people do our best that's all because i hope it depends also on the flexibility on all these participating in this all right we are out of time so we're going to leave there because. i want to be optimistic and go up to ms dietrich

but they had one comes to visit us in berlin in september we will do our best to be of help whether that will be enough depends on the edge it you yes of the american president also but also of mr atwan i would like to remind you we were recently on the heavy threats from the american president on trade issues and the commission took a strong stand but also a flexible one and it came to a standstill and the are not on the goats you think it is not impossible to bring a similar situation about. between turkey and the united states but it will require the head of. fred and pop most of turkey still economically strongly linked with turkey to domestic leaf through that three million turks in germany we will try to do our best whether it be enough to have probably the help of the commission the e.u. commission. major pot those like france in the e.u. and people to our business that's all because i hope it depends also on the flexibility on. these participating in this all right we are out of time so we're going to name there because. i want to be optimistic. dietrich. major gun sorry to inter

belgium and the netherlands walked off the job of the pay and conditions dominic cain reports from berlin. sleeping on the airport rather than the whole of the hotel all because of the strike. these passengers their vacation is beginning with uncertainty and lots of tricky questions like this couple freshmen from the states when we landed here in berlin yeah. they told us that the ryanair flight to athens that we had booked to be canceled because. pilots on strike so we just went through a couple different ways of getting there at the. airline rebooked going to the tonight and then tomorrow morning bouncing from personally to athens so what's behind this industrial action employs about four hundred pilots here in germany they are members of the pilots union. cockpit and for the union issue with ryanair is very clear they want improved terms and conditions and they say ryanair really needs to reform. does the other i know everyone is not about want to debate right now and it wouldn't be possible anyway against a transatlantic employer what it is about is to signal to management that there

in namibia some remains of the day finally being repaired treated but there's no german apology from berlin dominic a report. this was a moment more than a hundred years in the making remembering one of the darkest crimes of the early twentieth century center stage where the last remains of proud people's imperial germany sought to exterminate on wednesday democratic germany expressed its remorse . i bear down in the greatest sadness i cannot undo the table ones our ancestors caused but i beg you from the bottom of my heart to accept my apologies. those terrible wrongs took place in southwestern africa in the one thousand nine hundred six when colonial german forces suppressed uprisings by the herero and the nama peoples those who survived the fighting worked to death in concentration camps it's thought eighty percent of the herero and fifty percent of the nama people perished today the collective memory of their ordeal motivates the communities to seek reparations something the federal republic of germany will not give which is why the namibian government is suing berlin in a us court. why

across germany and poland up towards scandinavia it will become just as active for ten to twenty four in berlin still twenty in london in the sunshine twenty three in paris a change of type really a drop in temperature but quite windy and wet weather will be accompanying this change and we've had some decent showers recently in tunisia you just see from the satellite picture they passed through as for the forecast well it does have a look shall we thirty for a hot sunny day in tunis twenty six and about equally warm and sunny occasional showers now jerry. the weather sponsored by cattle and face. every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stones happening wasn't trucked in here. when the boy told through the eyes of the world journalists the images matter a lot international politics. post as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they report on the stories that matter the most here it is someone from the country who guides you who leads you to the story of the byline tells us who wrote the listening post on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching algis there i'm still robi

localized flooding as that water starts to really start to come up there across the area up towards berlin a nice day for you at twenty five degrees in london is looking quite nice as well we expect to see partly cloudy conditions with a temperature of twenty four well here across much of the northern part of africa world via temperatures here into the thirty's to tunis about thirty four that's a little bit higher than what we've seen over the last few days clouds across algeria those are gone we're seeing better conditions in terms of the sun there but over towards been gazi winds out of the north temperature for you at about twenty nine not changing too much as we go towards sunday with cairo seeing about thirty eight well we did have one big tropical wave make its way out of senegal that system is now making its way towards the cape verde islands but we are looking at a lot of tropical moisture here across much of the coast lagos is going to be rated if you are twenty seven in accra at twenty six degrees there. for thousands of years farmers and shepherds lived on this land but such a t

dominic cain joins us now from berlin dominic what's the latest on those protests. words been an evening of tension and sporadic violence in the town of chemist's wine to rival demonstrations one organized by left wingers to protest against far right extremism and the other by members of the far right have been marching through the city and elements of those two groups have tried to disrupt the rival demonstrations with the police effectively in between them trying to prevent the outbreaks of violence i was referring to rocks have been thrown bottles thrown also fireworks thrown by rival protesters and some people were wounded by those fireworks the point to make here this is a town as i say of about two hundred fifty thousand people as you say on sunday there were very violent scenes we know of the death of one thirty five year old german national who police believe may have been attacked by the people you mentioned the syrian national and the iraqi national now the point here is that there are something around about one percent of the population of chemist's is co

had one comes to visit us in berlin in september we will do our best to be of help whether that will be enough depends on the edge it you yes of the american president also but also of mr atwan i would like to remind you we were recently on the heavy threats from the american president on trade issues and to commission took a strong stand but also a flexible one and it came to a standstill and the are not on the goats uniting it is not impossible to bring a similar situation about. between turkey and the united states but it will require the head of. freds and pop most of turkey still economically strongly linked with turkey and on to domestic leaf through the three million turks in germany we will try to do our best whether it be big enough to do so will be to have probably the help of the commission the e.u. commission. major pop those like france in the e.u. and we will do our best that's all because i hope it depends also on the flexibility on the board these called participating in this all right we are out of time so we're going to leave there because. i want to be optimistic a

integration welcome such thoughts some people in berlin are concerned a senior official of the interior ministry has spoken publicly about whether it's time to reintroduce border controls all part of his bosses migration master plan your globe and the government's land meant we remain a liberal minded country we remain a humane country and we remain a country which grants protection to those who need it at the same time we want to eliminate the abuse which also exists. but how significant is that abuse in the first five months of this year more than eighteen thousand people were detained trying to enter germany illegally of that twenty seven percent were held on the austrian border a further eleven percent on the swiss border with nine percent on the front a with france some in violent itself this is the last remaining sign of any physical border here the river rhine the natural front here between germany france and switzerland the question must be how practical might it be to reintroduce border controls in areas where the people have grown used to the absence of them for twenty years a

well let's bring in our panel now joining us from berlin as the last and bennett the director of the global public policy institute and harvard katherine clutha ashboro executive director of future of diplomacy project at harvard kennedy school and in brussels via skype is daniel cross he's the director of the center for european policy studies a very warm welcome to all of you mr bennett let me start with you and learn and your foreign minister is all paid away here vote making plans for a new world order are europe and the u.s. on a collision course here. not necessarily but in the course of readjustment we find ourselves in a fundamentally new situation with the us germany used to have the best deal of all us would take care of our security we can compete economically and to disagree politically now the trump administration has served us our vulnerability is on a silver platter the security guarantees are no longer secure and the u.s. is going against the very institutions it helped to create that are dear to germany and the atlantic alliance and they're also going against one of

details from berlin. this is the second time that these two leaders have met each other in the space of just three months basically demonstrating the importance of the relationship between these two governments the point to make here is that there is agreement and disagreement there are issues where they find themselves on the other side opposing each other specifically in ukraine regarding the ceasefire the minsk agreement that was brokered between these two governments plus the french plus the ukrainians some time ago which the german government the french government also believe that moscow really hasn't done enough to ensure implementation of that agreement ukraine matters also to these two leaders because of the nord stream two gas pipeline which is being built which is which is in the in the pipeline as it were which will lead to a changeover in the amount in the way that natural gas is pumped to germany that's important because at the moment lots of russia's gas is pumped into western europe transi

six days of competition earlier on we spoke to journalist stuart where he's covering the events in berlin he says the sport is maintaining its popularity well of course we are missing more far a ball but i'm really looking forward to this weeks. and clearly the two hundred fifty thousand ticket buyers are as well you know i think the people want to excitement they want races which are competitive and you know that was the one disadvantage if he won all the time if you look at the hundred men and women i really have no idea who's going to win what i think the great position to be and we do have our stars you know showman like renewal of allen in the pool vault or you can silence a stadium when he's competing and of course that lasts for an hour not just ten seconds of it in bold. justin thomas is looking good ahead of the defense of his u.s. p.g.a. championship title the american has just won the w t c invitational in ohio by four strokes of fun of a round of sixty nine seconds of fifteen under par enough to clinch his first world golf championship events a time when it's hard would starts

bennett thank you very much i will have to end that somewhat positive note that is the list and banned in berlin or catherine clutha ashbrook and harvard and daniel gross and brussels and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion do go to our facebook page that facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter handle it at a.j. and sad story for me as a problem in the whole team here by finance. track . by track. it starts. and scott. venture. to get his cattle i always. desperate for a better life millions of people have sought refuge in europe sometimes their dreams of century are realized but sometimes disenchantment and hostility drive them home. in the second of two films on these contrasting experiences people and power meets the returning migrants now determined to discourage others from following the same policy. gambia back home on al-jazeera. optimism has faded. blue counties elected leaders are divided attention as fears that a crackdown is imminen

and when we landed here in berlin right yeah i mean really they told us that the ryanair flight to athens that we had booked are being canceled because the. pilots on strike so we just went through a couple different ways of getting that this is the airline rebooked scaling the vessel we need tonight and then tomorrow morning bouncing from that's leaking to the fs ryan are employees about four hundred pilots here in germany they are members of the pilots union cockpit and for the union issue with ryanair is very clear they want improved terms and conditions and they say ryanair really needs to reform. the mystery is not about wanted to beat ryanair and it wouldn't be possible anyway against a. runs atlantic employ but what it is about is to signal to management that there needs to be an end to them trying to beat their own staff today even to send a clear message to dublin ryanair must change the financial hit the airline is pretty clear on a usual friday in the middle of august they would hope to generate a great deal of revenue all of them is gone with all these flights that have been c

bubble most of the people he's showing around came to germany as refugees this is just one of several berlin museums taking part in the project called a meeting point and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to emphasize the contribution of migrants right up to the pro. to western culture. because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things but news is forward for me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new part of life it's culture. goes hand in hand with growing all. refusing to be defined by the mexican women and bringing out their dancing machine. and rediscovering their you. one step at a time. by john. part of the viewfinder and latin america. this time. he wanted me to take a bullet for donald trump but the president's former lawyer michael cohen now says he's ready to tell the russia probe everything he knows. from london also coming up. thousands flee venezuela a country that's been also become too dangerous for mothers and pregnant women. zimbabwe's opposition heads to court in a bid to overturn the presidential resul

playing out here in kemet mean for germany at the political level while angela merkel looking on from berlin will see that this minority of people is receive for us and it's not going away and they say she must leave and she must be radically changed the way migration is dealt with here in germany. austria has proposed using european union armed forces of the blocks borders to keep out undocumented migrants the country's defense minister outlined the planet a meeting of e.u. ministers in vienna it suggests placing soldiers at europe's borders to support the e.u. gods already stationed at brazil's health but history is reporting an upsurge in cases of measles specifically in two states the border of venezuela seven people have died of that but over fifteen hundred reported cases the collapse of medical services in venezuela the arrival of migrants is being blamed ugandan opposition politician robot juggle on the. widely noted as bobby wian has been prevented flying abroad for treatment government forces drag why the way from entebbe airport as he attempted to board a flight to the u.s. local

the russian leader vladimir putin on saturday dominic a new ports on the complex relationship between berlin and moscow when i'm going to merkel need to learn to move putin on saturday it will be for the second time in just three months on the table of the conflict in syria the situation in ukraine and the controversial nord stream two gas pipeline under the baltic sea but hanging over the meeting is this statement from donald trump a july's nato summit but germany as far as i'm concerned is captive to russia because it is getting so much of its energy from russia so we're supposed to protect germany but they're getting their energy from russia explained to him the way you know russia provides only around half of germany's annual energy consumption but most is in the form of natural gas and that is why the nord stream two gas pipeline is so contentious it's a network which when complete will transport natural gas from russia under the baltic sea to western europe bypassing the existing land based pipelines through ukraine and it might deprive the government in kiev as much as three billion d

integration welcome such thoughts some people in berlin are concerned a senior official of the interior ministry has spoken publicly about whether it's time to reintroduce border controls all part of his bosses migration master plan. of most land meant we remain a liberal minded country we remain a humane country and we remain a country which grants protection to those who need it at the same time we want to eliminate the abuse which also exists but has significant is that obese in the first five months of this year more than eighteen thousand people were detained trying to enter germany illegally of that twenty seven percent were held on the austrian border a further eleven percent on the swiss border with nine percent on the front a with france some in violent itself this is the last remaining sign of any physical border here the river rhine the natural front here between germany france and switzerland the question must be how practical might it be to reintroduce border controls in areas where the people have grown used to the absence of them for twenty years. at the midday market tra