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Unmanned american fine drone and. The domestic route of course johnsons london home brocks the u. K. Leadership great well talk to our correspondent in london to find out how this might affect his chances of becoming britains next Prime Minister. Thanks for joining us. Hundreds of climate activists have broken through a police line and stormed one of germanys biggest like late night coal mines several Police Officers have reportedly been injured its the culmination of a mass protest organized by several environmentalist groups activists are demanding that germany take immediate action to phase out fossil fuels so as to limit global warming. Its a coordinated protest targeting several different locations slowly this group of demonstrators make their way towards their destination the carts wyler coal mine. Isnt metabolise and were well distributed now the train tracks in front of the new coal power plant are occupied and over 1000 protesters are on their way to meter out this morning nearly 2000 activists from our camp set off towards the open pit here in chorus finally. Hundreds of activists slept on the train tracks leading to the coalfield power plant in order not successfully blocking coal deliveries to the facility. And enough that it was very quiet during the night but the mood was very positive it was they were all very happy to be here. This has to be done i thought it would be much harder whats going on here is really impressive i have a good feeling that we can make things happen. By mid afternoon some activists managed to breach the Police Cordon and enter the Open Pit Mine these people want your money to immediately end its reliance on coal seeing the environment cant wait for a gradual phase out. For more on this lets go to d w correspondent peter hill was at the got violent late night line for us peter welcome we are hearing reports about clashes between protesters and police how is the situation where you are. The situation is very tense here at the enormous Open Pit Mine of god squad as you can see behind me about 1000 activists have that mine today in the afternoon and now its a standoff between them and police down there in that mine theyre hard to spot because this is an enormous pit thats about 66 square kilometers big but i just had to look through binoculars and you can see really hundreds of policemen facing hundreds of protesters some of them have set up their tents so its a very tense situation down there theyve got smiling that line belongs to energy giant of a conflict between the Energy Supplier and environmental is a new whats behind it well its a conflict between and viral mentalists and the coal industry the environmentalists the protesters he has say that. The via the late night mining in this area is the main source of c o 2 emissions in europe they say and so they wanted to be shut down as soon as possible and the one running this mine and some power plants around and other minds of course says no we need to burn that coal we need that energy from the ground here that germany has announced that it will stop using coal as an Energy Source by 2038 politicians are even talking about bringing the deadline forward to 2030 how far along is germany with the transition. Well germany is not that way once to be and the mining the brown coal mining in the country is one of the reasons for that because it is called. The worst. Production when it comes to c o 2 emissions as i said its considered to be the main the biggest Single Source of c o 2 emissions in europe and that is a reason why germany wont meet its climate goals if these mines will keep running and the power plants in this region will keep running for another 20 years and that is why politicians are now discussing that they reached a compromise in phasing out brown coal mining until 2038 and they are now discussing new dates in order for germany to achieve its goals so how protests like this one here following there for us affected Energy Supplies at all no not at all not yet. Energy supply here in the region of course they have stockpiles of coal not far from here i can see smoke coming from chimneys off their power plants so they are still running these power plants and even if some of these power plants were to be shut down of course is that the sources of energy in the country so i dont expect that we will see any sort of power shortages in germany in the near future t w correspondent peter heller thank you very much. American Officials Say that planes were in the air and battleships in position but at the last minute u. S. President alsheim decided against military strikes on targets in iran he said the likely death toll would have been too high iran meanwhile has said it will respond firmly to any u. S. Threat as tensions between terror on and washington continue to rise with these pieces of debris almost triggered a war visibly beaming the Iranian Military presents the remains of an american drone teheran claims it had penetrated iranian airspace thats why they shot it down. The u. S. Military said the drones were actually in International Airspace an american counterattack on iranian radar and rocket positions was imminent trump said on friday but the expected death toll would have been around 150. 00 and he said because of this he decided to call off the attack so you know what they shut down a horn and. A drone plane whatever you want to call it and here we are busy sitting with 150. 00 dead people that would have taken place probably within a half an hour after i said go ahead and i didnt like it i didnt think it was i didnt think it was proportionate leaders of the Opposition Party in the u. S. Congress said this was the correct decision but at the same time they cautioned against any escalation the president may not intend to go to war here but were worried that he and the Administration May bumble into a war mark kimmitt who was assistant secretary of state under george w. Bush said trump is not unpredictable but rather sticks to a consistent strategy to avoid a new war in the middle east. And really i think he made the right decision there United States has been accused in the past of being a cowboy to overreacting to the situation particularly in the middle east and i think that particularly with the advice given by his counselors and by congress he actually is showing a policy of restraint i think he recognizes that iran is not going anywhere it will be there tomorrow if he wants to attack the president himself has said hes not in a rush but trump still faces a dilemma if he doesnt react to iranian provocations like the drones being shot down his threats might not be taken seriously and if he does start a war he risks breaking his Campaign Promise of keeping the u. S. Out of new conflicts. Well i mean the soaring tensions between the u. S. And iran Global Leaders have been calling for calm german chancellor Angela Merkel has said the International Community has to try to come to a peaceful resolution she believes the crisis is likely to dominate next weeks meeting of g 20 leaders in japan. Firstly i am hopeful although the options are not unlimited but we too can all help to achieve our aims namely a political and diplomatic solution. Im not just saying this is my hope. We need to address this with the utmost seriousness because i firmly believe there has to be a political solution. Or. So take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world the people of istanbul are preparing to go to the polls tomorrow in a rerun of the citys Mayoral Election that was an old and may all show him of the ruling party again trailing akram in my molo of the opposition c. H. P. And im a little one the initial vote in march which was then scrapped following alleged irregularities. As President Donald Trump is facing new Sexual Misconduct allegations new york based columnist carroll says trump and her against the wall of a dressing room in a Manhattan Department store in the mid 1990 s. Where he sexually assaulted her the allegations are from her forthcoming book excerpts of which have been published in new York Magazine has the nightly accusations. Chinese president xi jinping has left after a 2 day state visit to north korea a country of leader kim jong un attended a seeing off ceremony for she and his wife a highly symbolic visit was the 1st by a chinese leader and 14 years the 2 countries agreed to strengthen collaboration on major internal and external policies. The front runner to be the next british Prime Minister Boris Johnson is in the u. K. City of birmingham today is attending the 1st of 16 Campaign Events for the leadership of his conservative party but its this personal life thats in the spotlight police were called to the home he shares with his partner after neighbors heard screaming shouting and banging johnson hasnt spoken about the incident and neither he nor his girlfriend Kerry Simmons have issued a comment. Today johnson has joined his only remaining rival in the leadership race foreign secretary jeremy hunt as both men step up their campaigns to be the next Prime Minister standing by is a correspondent challenge of pots in london. Is this incident likely to have any effect on johnsons campaign. Well this really couldnt have come at a worse time for Boris Johnson the 2nd part of this leadership race has just started and he was hoping of course for a good start this is not one his partner allegedly said and there is a recording of this incident that Boris Johnson was spoiled and that he has no respect for money of course it puts Boris Johnsons character into question but on the other hand its not the people who are going to vote for Boris Johnson in the end its going to be the tory Membership Base 160000 of them to be exact and we know that Boris Johnson as of last week was definitely the favorites of the front runner and not much seems to change the hustings you were mentioning him birmingham the audience actually booed when one of the questions was if the private life should be discussed in this race also one of the candidates johnson himself said he didnt want to comment about the incident and i highly doubt that this will in the end have any effect on the race right now Boris Johnson and jeremy 100 facing off in the 1st of a series of Campaign Events across the country the socalled hustings what can we expect. Well its the foreign secretary and the pharma foreign secretary and they are basically showing off their vision for the future of the u. K. And for brics that there are a lot of tough questions that the 2 candidates can expect about that because that is what the tory membership is most upset about its all about brics that we are expecting 16 of those hustings to take place thats basically additions for the next weeks and then the Membership Base will vote on the 2 candidates and by the week of july 22nd it will be announced who is going to be the leader of the conservative party and thereby the new Prime Minister of the u. K. Were here really to become the next Prime Minister and johnson is about to leave by october 31st no matter what how realistic is this promise. Well he has promised by october 31st he is going to take the u. K. Out of the European Union come what may even if it was meant even if you had to do it with no deal which could have of course catastrophic consequences for the economy here in the u. K. And the you his promises cannot be taken too serious he has flip flopped on issues before he is somebody who is a political opportunist so people in the u. K. Are worried. About this uncertainty of what kind of Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be thank you shut out of london. To soccer now the ongoing lawsuit by the u. S. Womens team against the American Soccer Federation over fair pay is set to go to mediation following the world cup the u. S. Players initially filed the lawsuit and march over an equal pay and working conditions when compared to the mens team they and the u. S. Federation are hopeful mediation will settle the case but 1st team usa is dealing with the task of defending their world cup title and france. Are watching day w. 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