i've been fizzling but still business greece's bailouts are over but there's a lot of money to pay back and the austerity continues taxes squeezing the great many of them have never paid anything and unemployment remains stubbornly high. finally no more aid packages and no more funding requirements but the last eight years have been tough for greece and brought drastic cost cutting measures many greeks lost their jobs and their homes income is fallen by a third on average the taxes however remained high for most people it will be a long time before the situation improves and some people don't even believe it's possible like this silversmith but i still think i am personally for me in the coming years i don't see any hope everything looks bleak to me. because he sees the middle of the greek crisis brought down me and thousands of people in my position women weren't interested in buying our clothes anymore and as a result my manufacturing company closed we started this combined cafeteria and many market he hopes he'll soon gain a foothold again many people in greece are trying to fight th

the youngest a mother of an inferno monkey in greece one week on from the devastating forest fire. villages are trying to guard what's left of their homes against looters while rescue teams such for bodies and survivors. people here have been left to fend for themselves with little support materializing from the state i know. i'm. sure the stars deliver performances. as flashy flamboyant as ever. english pop group culture club. good concert. they make a commitment. they find solutions. they can start. africa on the road. stories for both people in a different shaping their nation. and their continent africa. stories about motivational change makers taking their destinies into their long. t.w. single team series from the first guy. dot com. hello and welcome to focus on europe with me peter craven and europe is in the grip of a devastating heatwave it's been scorching farmland and triggering wildfires its worst hit so far is greece which has seen what's been described as europe's deadliest forest fire in over a century at least ninety people have been killed in a number of other.

european officials think beyond of greece two hundred billion euro bailout is a milestone but the mood on the ground is more reticent we'll tell you why. this news update i'm funny for char here in brawl that german companies say all. lack of workers is costing the country thirty fillion europe's a year in g.d.p. now the german government is sad it will make it easier for non international's to come here to work to fill the gaps in the future people will be able to come to germany without a job offer if they are properly qualified until now that rule has only applied to do so with a university degree people will be chosen on the basis of their age and german language abilities businesses want more workers especially in health care on the tray it's now the lack of qualified because this is especially critical in the geriatric care sector where they are thirty thousand vacancies nationwide that means you know to quit care for the old really on top of the workload for those who currently nurse them as germans are getting older the problem will get worse and that's why the government hopes

as of last monday greece is independent of international aid funding but less no more aid packages and feel fiscal requirements but the last eight years have been rough for greece and brought drastic austerity many greeks lost their jobs and their homes average income has fallen by a third but taxes remain high and now some of very skeptical about the future like the silversmith. personally for me in the coming years i don't see any hope everything looks bleak to me. the greek crisis brought me and thousands of people in my position to a low point in business women weren't interested in buying our clothes and as a result my manufacturing company closed we latest out of this combined cafe in many markets. he hopes to gain a foothold again like that most people are trying to fight their way through as best they can in brussels there was cautious optimism at the european commission. greece's transformative reforms have laid the foundations for a sustainable recovery putting in place the fundamental conditions need for sustained growth. creation and sound public finances indeed used to com

first safety place but most of those people don't want to stay in bulgaria they don't want to stay greece they don't state either leave them but end up as perhaps or remains we were told as well as their country in europe which is not the case that we can we were told about that were refugees don't want to stay in bulgaria but let's let's continue to a little give and then also in greece are let's let's talk about the control centers because this is a very important issue these processing centers are closed and controlled that's the idea right the process is center. in the beginning there are hotspots the tension centers now we call them processing processing but they have lost control of that and that two types of this close control for the people who don't actually receive you don't assign in advance who is really allowed and not allowed basically a closed processing center is like a prison for escaping people many of them barely survived the journey to europe is that what you want closed sentance. first of all what we want is to close our external border is not normal everybody who wan

refugees don't want to stay in bulgaria but let's let's continue to a little give and then also in greece are let's let's talk about the control centers because this is a very important issue these processing centers are closed and controlled that's the idea right the process is center. in the beginning there are hotspots of attention centers now we call them processing processing but there are those who control that and. two types of this would close control for the people who don't actually receive you don't assign you advance who is really allowed and not allowed basically a closed processing center is like a prison for escaping people many of them barely survived the journey to europe is that what you want closed centers first of all what we want is to close our external border is not normal everybody who want to come fully from europe and look for a better life which is normal well for the people who can cross illegally the border and as you nice way we're going to speak about these ones who want to have a better life we are speaking and talking about these ones who have to escape li

is always better if to see all this money which flew to flew to greece. with the reform of conditions this has damaged the relationships between greece and the rest of europe so much. from the math fund in frankfurt thank you very much for your analysis and insights. thank you. to a potential financial crisis in another country the us has threatened a new round of economic sanctions against turkey as the escalating a diplomatic adek anomic dispute that has seen the lira plunge this after turkey's finance minister better has assured international investors that the country's banks are healthy and strong while the lyrics volatility is pushing investors to put their money in other currencies some are backing the president's call to do just the opposite convert dollars back to liras what seems to be an irrational thing to do becomes a no brainer when you sell it as a nationalist cause and with the idea of a common enemy the us. as the lira struggles at all time lows many turks are really in behind president everyone's calls to exchange us dollars for local cu

from greece to neighboring turkey the u.s. has threatened a new round of economic sanctions against turkey escalating a diplomatic and economic dispute that has seen deliver a plunge this after turkey's finance minister a bit out of iraq has assured international investors that the country's banks are healthy and strong when the lyrics volatility is pushing investors to put their money in other currencies some are backing the president's call to do just the opposite convert dollars back to lure us. as the lira struggles at all time lows many turks are really in behind president everyone's calls to exchange us dollars for local currency one is then bull restaurant to unseat upon his own novel scheme to rescue the lira. much the aim is to support the state and support the government therefore we launched a campaign to offer one portion of free fish and bread to anyone who converts one hundred dollars or more to. the restauranteur came up with the idea in partnership with a nearby foreign exchange office and the idea seems to be

we are in greece. it sounds strange but people, even if affected by ebola, they still have the hope to survive or they have the support of their family, their society, the village, their relative. here, no. here, the hope is taken away by the system. the charity msf refuse to operate inside moria in protest at conditions. this clinic is just outside. the children here have skin conditions caused by poor hygiene inside. respiratory diseases brought on by tear gas fired into the camp by police to quell fights. we had a mental health programme for children here and in between our patients, we had a ten—year—old child wanting to suicide inside moria. you are having to deal with children as young as ten attempting suicide? yes, and that maybe sounds real extreme but it is something we are seeing constantly in moria. is that normal? no, it's not. it's not normal, it's not normal, but that's the problem. we are reporting this to the public system, saying, "look, we have children attempting suicide. " chil

plus an economic milestone to greece as a democracy from its final bailout program athens will not be able to tap into money on financial markets for the first time in a.t.l. as this follows the years of crushing most penalty that led to widespread anger as the country tried to slash its debts we'll go live to athens. cheema dozens of. south koreans i'm north korea for a long awaited reunion with family members. who own these on the phone screen unions in three years they bring together families who were divided after the korean war in the one nine hundred fifty s. some haven't seen their relatives since the end of that conflict the reunions were agreed to by the two korean leaders at the historic summit in april part of the recent forward relations between the two countries the south koreans were chosen by lottery the oldest of them is one hundred one for some these brief meetings are likely to be the last and only time they'll see each other. joining me now is journalist jane quantify she is in the south korean capital seoul welcome jan how are these reunions progressing give us a s

on the streets of greece violence is on the rise. and increasingly migrant farm workers of victims a vicious beating. is helping the pakistani community to find a voice the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live them undocumented and under attack this is zero on al-jazeera. i go in south africa says the u.s. will investigate what he calls the large scale killing of fall because. there are also had. are you going to spray for a pop star turned opposition leader as he heads to a military court. for the billions of dollars in new terrorists are slapped on cars and factory machinery as the u.s. and china go to the next level of their trade war. and that is where the families in search of a better future why brazil is moving them out of a border state. welcome to the program south africa's president says he totally rejects donald trump statement on london for the allegation of the large scale killing of farmers the us president announced a short time ago that he was getting his secretary of state to investigate land refor

time now for today's installment of our series island dreams greece is one of the prime destinations when it comes to the travel trend of island hopping and no wonder the country boasts over three thousand islands in total we're off to see one of the most popular ones situated just off greece's northwestern coast corfu is the second largest of the ionian islands it's also among the richest regions in the entire country. is known by its inhabitants as kara kidda but we discovered a third name. cook food is the seventh largest of the greek islands it's respected taishan and just the name of the green island the royal cafe and can only mean south of the city of course through affords a fabulous view upon the county seat the uninhabited mouse on and a landmark of coffee and a flush i have not the monastery on and. this is the right spot for plane spotters as well they can enjoy an excellent view of the airport's runway. every half hour a boat leaves can only use little ports for the mouse on and the byzantine chapel reportedly dating back to the eleventh or twelfth century is worth a loo

come right through to greece and. i think produce as overlooked on a. few comments might be responsible for what's the use and it doesn't at the prison to find that. he was she when we are on the case there was of so you do know that is. why is it. that h.p.v. . i said in the u.k. and europe and in america we are responsible for the end of life of the opponents why when it comes to africa we live it well for young men to dismantle and poison themselves and everybody else i mean i feel so bad to see these multi mass not companies and. my balls and the. keyboards lying around i believe he is probably and i wish he didn't start yesterday at least i've been running for almost ten years now why is there no concrete action by the produce as to try and also solve this problem. chilling effect look like. it's being. skewed towards. the. woods is the. chicken little bit. is the. sick sick sick sick sick sick for the future. it's really been interesting to watch the. global focus now both on climate change but also on materials and how much do we have and how muc

nor does it in a new greece it was it's all the same. many of the statues around town commemorate famous historical figures who also wore simple sandals. for example the statesman parrott least half in the city hall. and his fellow philosopher socrates in front of the academy of athens. two simple. which were later adopted by the romans. in the fifteenth and sixteenth century open toed shoes called buskins were all the rage women wore these shoes which featured high corks under the hoop skirts to make them look taller. pantelis many seen also continues to find inspiration in the historical figures who wore greek samples and always carried a sketch pad with him to draw pictures of a foot well on statues. whenever i look at ancient statues that wear these sandals i'm always impressed that people already wore this kind of shoes three thousand years ago. fell in love and they went to war while wearing them. they lived their lives in the and these sandals are still around today. shoemaker fits every sandal personally he has many regular custo

currently roommate is only reducing waste in greece. but it hopes to help other countries in the future. if you like them. also. tell us about. visit our website. do you feel. it's a perpetual conflict humans a sudden nature in governments kept a liberal the oil boom has led to an increased demand for housing the effect on the environment is devastating for the mangroves in the coastal areas but also for the residents with hectares of mangrove forests cleared to make way for homes but the rain is left vulnerable and heavy rainfall can result in see where flooding that threatens the new houses the agency for national parks is currently assessing the damage and doing everything it can to raise awareness of the impact of such on the country. rangers on patrol they watch out for people cutting wood illegally in the monk groups of northwestern . mangrove trees are important for the ecosystem the culture five times more cup on the outside then at the trees they also protect my real life. here the damage has already been done this cleared land

remount historians are reexamining his case for greece thinking the rochas history been unfair to the infamous emperor starts aug fourteenth on d w. rock n roll a little. clump. plug sinful comes from condemned by the church. and all that evil feeling that you feel when you fight. your pastors of music are stoppable no one is more popular than jesus psalm book religious morality preachers subversive talkers battling with sound marketing potential by placing a warning label on music products. rock and religion a clash that brings many power levels to light. for the two really so irreconcilable. card the devil rock'n'roll starts aug nineteenth two w. . come up. the flames. play. this is deja vu news live from berlin police in belarus arresting journalists is this the beginning of a media crackdown among those arrested as d.w. freelance correspondent all your coffee his apartment in the capital minsk search for a number of hours d.w. has logs of protests with belarus isms past that are here in berlin also coming up . argentina's senate rejects a bill legalizing abortion it was a narrow v

coming to an answer is a happy one the head of the european stability mechanism said greece will be monitored more closely than other countries that have emerged from rescue programs in an interview with the german weekly. asserted the eurozone crisis is over as greece prepares for the official end of its bailout program on monday but people in greece have seen little benefit in fact many are much worse off than ever before one in five are still unemployed and a slight economic growth is little comfort for those who saw their pensions shrink to a minimum. fens in august while there's been much talk of an economic recovery there's not much of it to be seen on the streets then you make this crisis is far from over there are a lot of cuts and a lot of difficult years ahead for us to kick up us and then the situation hasn't improved and it won't change any time soon. i'll call mine if it's hard we're struggling to live on his family business has been here for forty years giving up is not an option for andy and that is june here he changed his business successfully joined the crisis from

that's achievement i've seen refugees children locked in cages when i first went to the hotspots in greece a couple of years ago they're not in cages anymore that's an improvement it's the thousand small steps that are making an important contribution to a better european future lockwood said that what happened in spain was an internal affair also what you describe by elation of human rights in a member state can't be an affair can it but human rights are not an internal affair with a website so mr york is wrong no i'm framing this in terms of human rights and by that i mean that spain and all the other e.u. members. dates are bound to human rights commitments which transcend the state and i and it's very important that the issues of human rights are surveilling motion of violation of rights in and member state this internal affair or not it depends on the context for purposes of the e.u. and how it's structured it may well be an accurate statement for for purposes of human rights compliance no it raises issues under international human rights law so let's look at another important country

this is deja vu news still to come on this program greece prepares for the end of its balance of programs coming up next week but how much as a benefit of the country's people. plus filling job vacancies here in germany has attacked the us all labor shortage that more is free to. make your smart t.v. smarter than t w four smart t.v. . what you want when you want it up to do extraordinary in-depth decide what's on find out more that dot com smart t.v. . these creations should just brand the stink of all the column lock off an icon of the fashion world. look what do we really know about the man behind the dark shades what motivates him how does he think and feel private moments in the life of a great fashion designer business on smartphones. start september ninth w. look at it in. germany takes action to tackle an urgent lack of skilled workers new legislation will make it easier for non e.u. nationals to come to germany we'll tell you what the new conditions will be. also on the show european officials say the end of greece's two hundred billion euro bailout is a mile. stone but there are

on the streets of greece violence is on the rise you have to go. and do increasingly migrant farm workers of victims a vicious beating. is helping the pakistani community to find a voice the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live them undocumented and under attack this is zero on al-jazeera. and here in the stream today a wave of african-americans are choosing to move to the african continent but why and what happens when they get there join the conversation using the hash tag. or if you're watching live on you tube you'll eventually see us in that box you can leave your comments in the chat box and you too could be in the stream. right. in recent years thousands of african-americans have made the decision to quote return home to the african continent many say they want to escape the racial pressure pot of the united states while some want to connect to the land of their ancestors for others countries like ghana with an easy immigration process and the promise of a better life though many african countries are welcoming of the amer

remembers the sixteen people who died when a river runs into crowds on lot on one year ago today but even greece gadhafi not the city at a time of heightened political tensions. passed a musical plea for harmony. ah. ah my mouth was. south africa's miyajima youth orchestra marks hundred years since nelson mandela does the book with a tour of europe just one of the vibrant a song moves taking part in merlin's young hero classic festival. band. hello and welcome i'm. we start in southern india where the death toll from catastrophic flooding has more than doubled the chief minister of the state of canada announced that three hundred twenty four people have died in what he called the worst flooding. in one hundred. one with a quarter of a million people have lost their homes and are living in relief camps carola is a popular tourism destination known for its beaches the state is hit by monsoons every year but this year rains have been unusually heavy. because following that story for us from delhi sonia what's the situation like this even in the flood affected areas how does one explain the sadness

it's good here in greece i want to go to school and study mechanical engineering would be fine. lotus swapped his going in village for a tent village on summers it's outside the island's official camp which is full of those living here plagued by insects there's no running water and the best way to have a bath is to swim in the sea summers is now home to some three thousand eight hundred asylum seekers that's half the island's population over again and four times its camp capacity this syrian man has constructed a retouched over his tent to keep his pregnant wife cool he's done his best to provide the amenities of home with official resources inadequate it's up to groups like son most volunteers to help maintain hygiene and prevent an outbreak of disease they recently set up this laundry facility for the official camp a lot of people asking if he's in the can. you don't have to watch the banking and you think it's sleeping at night can we get bags with blankets in that bed like have cockroaches in and see what it says is that people live in a position to have a new way out of ce

areas hitting nearly forty six degrees celsius that's close to the record forty eight degrees set in greece more than forty years ago. mercilessly the sun beats down day after day driving the temperatures in portugal to record breaking highs. people do whatever they can for relief. authorities have issued a nationwide health alert and urging people to take precautions against heat stroke the most important thing is to drink lots and lots of water. i need lots of water something cool and i try to stay at home. easy doesn't stay in the shade and drink a lot and that's. right. emergency services are at maximum readiness because of the threat of forest fires last year wildfires killed more than one hundred people in portugal. expect the risk of fires to rise in the old army and in parts of iowa into as well as in the north. the first alarms were reported on friday some seven hundred firefighters are working one major fire in the hill country of the our garvie. forecasters expect temperatures to hit forty seven degrees before things start to cool off slightly earlier in the week. and the heat wa

beyond the mother of an inferno monkey in greece one week on from the statement hours tomorrow. villagers are trying to guard what's left of their homes against glutens while rescue teams search for bodies and survives. people here have been left to fend for themselves with little support materializing from the states . next. that people are looking for information. opinions want to stress g.w. on facebook and twitter are up to date and in touch. from people make fun about the own social economic and political problems. in mozambique we say that you have to laugh so you don't write it's help people because we think they do people. as a journalist i often call called these folks in the bag by the less local to the. elector staff may day by checking alpha told us jokes finding out what people are talking about what is moving them. my father taught me how to ask uncomfortable questions about my country and about to book that is what i keep doing to this day my name is fadi self and i work at. hello and welcome to focus on europe with me peter craven and europe is in the grip of a d

the deal as a breakthrough in the current immigration crisis a similar pact is also being made with greece and there was never any doubt that this agreement with spain would go ahead as spain has recently become the new preferred route for asylum seekers attempting to reach europe and there are fears that it will be yet another transit point for migrants to reach germany germany is also working with italy to agree a similar deal a challenge given the immigration stance from politicians now in its government so a diagonal al-jazeera. anti-government protesters are rallying for a second day in romania after more than four hundred demonstrators were injured in violence with police on friday and. these are live pictures from bucharest were thousands of people have been protesting in the remaining capital against the ruling social democrats many of the protesters are remaining migrants who have returned home to demonstrate against corruption police have denied that they used excessive force on friday and they used tear gas and water cannon to dismiss the protesters. twenty four years after the

safeguards europe's ability to send back failed asylum applicants to turkey greece and. has now concluded a new agreement with germany whereby it will take back refugees who applied for asylum here and smuggled themselves across internal e.u. borders that puts in place it reverse flow mechanism from central europe back to turkey but it leaves most uneasy about its role even though germany has in return offered to speed up family reunifications securing the question is how many people will be returned and how many families will be united with a piece of equivalence in numbers anything difference we did know greece and it's just a two speed europe what if some of the more fortunate asylum seekers are in hotels paid for by charities a sign of how europe is trying to encourage the silent to sell a political service summers just wants to serve its tourists jumps are awful us al jazeera some us. as their arms the whole robin these are all top news stories ugandan opposition leader bobby weiner has been charged with treason he was rearrested moments after a military court dropp

portrait a photo of his home village from syria he fled to turkey and from there he went by boat to greece then along the balkan route. in september twenty fifteen here in germany he has called his wife every day since they parted and every day she has sent him a picture of their daughter. he wants his wife and daughter to join him in germany but in march of twenty sixteen the german government stopped allowing refugees to bring their families into the country. it's hell and it's hard to describe that your daughter is growing up without you. it's pretty painful. only those who've been through themselves know how bad it is people's families. and these are has long been waiting for the rules to change again he hopes his wife will be given an appointment at the german embassy in lebanon this month these are things that might help that he's attended all his german classes and integrated well. i have a great wife and my daughter can come. and that my daughter complained here. during the long waiting period i meet a great integrated here. i work for one year as a security guard and i believe tha

greece's transformative reforms have laid the foundations for a sustainable recovery putting in place the fundamental conditions need for sustained growth for drug creation and for sound public financing is indeed used to come. but a mountain of debt remains three hundred fifty billion euros and unemployment is still high although for the first time in years it's dropped below twenty percent it's still the highest in europe. and early in my colleague than physical and also our financial correspondent daniel cope at the front foot stock exchange what investors there were saying about the end of the bailout program. we can clearly say then that investors have changed their mind about greece at first they were very skeptical now they are actually giving credit to the greece government that there drastic austerity policies paid off we have to remember that the greek government established some very unpopular reforms inside of the country the pension system we just heard it was completely reform lots of costs were also cut in the civil service machinery but when you take a look at the late

elections will be some countries want a minimum of outside interference including portugal hungary and greece. china now seems to have its own presence at the negotiating table along with the government heads of the european union. around two thousand chinese companies do business in africa raw materials are the main focus and africa is a huge market for chinese products so creating the necessary infrastructure to mine resources also sets up the ideal supply network for selling to customers but the africans doing all the hard work say not being treated right. cruising through kenya at one hundred twenty kilometers an hour the new rail line between the port of mombasa and the capital nairobi went into service just about a year ago it took twenty five thousand kenyan workers some three years to build the initiative and finance behind the whole operation a chinese construction company local construction workers are working for chinese companies throughout africa but unions are becoming increasingly critical of the working conditions a large number of africans working for chinese companies have n

in the jet stream, a ribbon of wind that circles the earth, causing wildfires across scandinavia and greece as well as california. all experiencing high temperatures, as well as texas, africa, and japan. let's get more insight about this heat wave. alan: hi. what we are looking at is the u.s. midwest. you see extreme drought conditions from missouri to the main region of the corn belt, which will hurt soybeans at a time of pollination. key for the crop. iowa and illinois possibly seeing lower yields. that could drive up prices in the next few weeks. when you look in europe, over in the black sea region, you just saw wheat market jumped 6% today. ukraine will be limiting exports to keep domestic supplies there. ukrainian wheat crops have been affected by this weather. it is a band that goes from france to poland. there has been rain in recent weeks and days that may make the crop a little better, but they have a shortfall at this time. the final look is at china. when you look at chinese crops, they are getting more rain in recent days and weeks. that is helping corn and soybeans over there.

is on the ridge of the forest fire last year during another he suffered a tragedy similar to that in greece recently. more than one hundred people lost their lives in forest fires portugal last year and the authorities have been working for the past year to make sure there's no repeat of that this year of course this heat wave even worse than last year is not helping with that at all there's already one very large laney's just north of the out of the fields close to the algarve coast to space it a lot of a lot of houses have been destroyed about nine people have been injured so far in that but it's. correspondent jason wise in lisbon peter thank you for that and please do stay as cool as you possibly can. thank you. and it's not just europe that is suffering from the heat japan has been battling with soaring temperatures for weeks now more than one hundred people died of heat stroke last month while tens of thousands of others were hospitalized in south korea reco temperatures of up to forty degrees celsius have left thirty people dead and across the border in north korea the government has

of the team going to greece here now in these temperatures oh you want to do is find a way to cool down but what if you've got a job that means you've got to skate the heat oh. we asked three people with the hottest jobs in the capital. as a champion i just took the temperature here and it's off the scale how does a guy who has to stand here when i don't usually get up two hundred eighty degrees and how do you survive as he does here by drinking a lot of thinking cool thoughts and you're just getting used to it so it doesn't mean. i'm trying still to just how do you cope in these temperatures demands by saying to yourself that it's minus twenty four degrees it's all in the head yeah it's all in the head absolutely definitely hides the manhunt you do that so it's cool it's cool it's called. this is that what idea works for me and really this is the north pole doctors are going right now i'm at the north pole i'm delighted at the still want to use the current system as he would say oh well look you can see into prison. who. lives as a z. as a fun and you're used to high temperatures right

finishes eight years of dependence on its eurozone partners the state remains expensive and greece has to produce large budget surpluses for the next thirty years to pay off its lows but the current high taxes could sink the economy that's left a recent study shows that greeks work seven months of the year to pay taxes an increase of twenty five percent over the past decade that puts them on a par with german taxpayers and above most europeans what differentiates them is that they have the lowest level. as of satisfaction from public services like health and education in the developed world the center for liberal studies which produced that research believes this dissatisfaction has ripened greeks for reforms needed to begin a new economic era we all know what the pro growth policies are and that's what we have to pursue and if we do that. i'm very optimistic about our country three years ago the majority of greeks wanted more government programs even if it meant more taxes now the situation is reversed sixty percent of greeks want lower taxes and only thirty five percent of greeks wan

yes but then maybe not here in germany where in greece. so whereas the one can only dream of a house with a pool the other can afford several properties. cost of going to has a villa in the lynn and a penthouse in cologne with a view of the cathedral but little time off. how much distance should there be between those in the middle and those at the top and how big is the gap in reality . there's a lot of data about poverty in the pool that very little about the rich a state asset registry would help but there isn't one and so a team from the german institute for economic research is trying to find out more with. the man i'm a physician for move if you try to represent the wealth distribution in germany in a graphic way you can do it quite simply on an a for sheet of paper and if you look . it's welcome and you can imagine a coordinate system like at school obviously with an x. axis and a y. axis and with a y. axis this year i show the amount of wealth from new ones well you could easily display ninety five percent of the population on this

reached a migration deal with greece screes has agreed to take back migrants who apply for asylum there and later turn up at germany's border with austria now the deal was struck last night it affects migrants who try to enter germany via the austrian german border and who have previously filed an asylum application in greece under this deal migrants can now be sent back to greece within forty eight hours the german government releasing no d.t. details as to what greece would get in return germany agreed to a similar deal with spain last week it's working on another one with italy. we're turning now to the conflict in syria and the fate of one volunteer organization that has saved thousands of lives during the recent years of bloodshed there the white helmet says they're known have been operating in rebel held territories where a number of years now rescuing victims of the fighting and of government airstrikes syrian president bashar al assad calls them western sponsored propaganda tools to help terrorists wise the russian backed military gradually defeated rebel forces the danger confr

of a devastating heat wave it's been scorching farmland and triggering wildfires worst hit so far is greece which has seen what's been described as europe's deadliest forest fire in over a century at least ninety people have been killed in a number of others are still missing after flames engulf the coastal area east of the capital athens hundreds of homes have been destroyed in the catastrophe now at the center of the conflagration is the small community of marty and our reporter norman sri girl who's been there and spoken with some of the residents including constantino some are guests who return to the remains of his house. constantino somalia his front door was warped by the intense heat and he's trying to fix it after the devastating fire in martine erath and his family summer house is a tempting target solutions even if there actually isn't much left to loot but the fire came down from madness and with such power because we have so many trees right in the street so what separates or coming from the right so if you can see your house here is black. although forest fires happen frequent