To us humans is relatively tiny. Its in rivers and lakes and under our feet groundwater that usually hidden from view is vitally important. Hello and welcome to tomorrow today the science show on d w. The vast amounts of water on our planet and sitting still but in motion in a perpetual cycle heat from the sun makes water evaporate and rise into the air as it condenses into forms clouds and eventually precipitation ensues in the form of rain snow or hail. Some of that water evaporates again directly some is taken up by plants flows into rivers lakes and seas seeps into the earth. And replenish since the ground war set some of that in 10 makes its way to the surface. This is the upper rhine valley in southwest germany. There are places here where something valuable and increasingly rare couples up to the surface. Clear pure groundwater. Pike feel right at home in it as do many other species of fish. Some are facing extinction the european theres a critically endangered species. Oh fish
In the valorous in capital face warning shots and stun grenades as they renew their demands for president luca shanteau to step aside its the 12th straight week of protests following his disputed election victory. And in formula one a Lewis Hamilton wins again this time in italy to extend his record breaking number of victories to 93. Im Claire Richardson and welcome to the show u. S. President donald trump and his democratic rival joe biden are making their final pitches to voters ahead of tuesdays election trump is holding Campaign Rallies in 5 states on sunday including michigan North Carolina georgia and florida biden meanwhile is focusing his attention on the pivotal state of pennsylvania our record 19000000 early votes have all. Already been cast as the contest heads toward the biggest turnout in at least a century. Well joining me now is our chief Political Editor in washington d. C. Were nearly there only 2 days until election day why are biden and trump visiting these states i
Gunshots the city as demonstrators came out onto the streets despite a curfew this comes after a peaceful protest was broken up by a shooting allegedly by nigerias security forces. Im told me a lot of welcome to the program pope francis has said that he supports Civil Union Laws to protect the rights of same sex couples this break from the vaticans traditional position on the issue the pope made the comment in a new documentary about him titled francesco which premiered on wednesday at the rome Film Festival the film also tackles other controversial issues such as racism Climate Change sexual abuse and relations between christians muslims and jews. Knowledge joined by chicago based journalist michael of laughlin he is a journalist and author who covers religion and politics with a particular focus on the Catholic Church michael good to have you on the program how have the popes comments on same sex civil unions been received in the u. S. Its been a welcome statement to many of bt catho
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Pose a threat to the chancellor. Clause in a mock shift for the Catholic Church pope francis says he supports same sex civil unions observers are calling it the clearest language yet from the pontiff on gay rights and christianity. Im told me a lot of ball welcome to the program with just 2 weeks to go before the u. S. President ial election intelligence officials believe that iran and russia have interfered in the upcoming vote they accuse iran of being behind recent intimidating emails targeted at American Voters to sow unrest in multiple states they also stated that teheran and moscow obtained Voter Registration details with the goal of interfering in the election democratic voters in at least 4 battleground states received emails that threatened we will come after you if the recipients didnt vote for donald trump. U. W. Correspondent is in washington covering events for us. Can you tell us more about these accusations well tell me what we know at this point is that groups from iran