Due to lung cancer. Hi there and a warm welcome to our arts and culture news and before we start with a fantastic news ical project from south africa lets have a quick look at what else is coming up on todays program. Its flower time in the belgian capital brussels and the city hall at the center. And if you bend it like beckham well youre sure to like the latest film from british director chad out blinded by the light blends a u. K. Coming of age story with the music. Well it was in 1998 that Peter Guy And American Double Bass Player who had moved to
south africa started the Ball Toby Last String project it began with 18 kids from the black townships around. And since then hundreds of children from disadvantaged backgrounds have learned to play a String Instrument Well Today the orchestra travels the world and we took in their performance at the right angle festival in western germany. Far away from home south africas bunch of String Orchestra plays a piece of music called the nelson.
Your country. Your function surgeon. General. Do they stand a chance. And the same thing i do. With my get on you to stand up for your values and contribute to something important that she of. The future of europe starts september 2nd on d w. This is date every news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes brutality on the streets symbolically and please these opposition supporters who pays for the protested despite a bad will we see more seems like this in the coming days the m. D. C. Has vowed to continue the demonstrations. And comic relief for the ones who have lived through hard losses in the Central African republic are using theatre to make
people aware of the new paltz destine set up to prosecute war crimes committed in the country were talking to a prosecutor from the course. Hello im christine will welcome to news africa its good to have you along its been a tense day in Zimbabwe Police clashed with antigovernment protesters in the capital harare this morning opposition suppor
Impeachment. Signaling the house is already laying the ground work for proceedings to begin. Stick around for that. We begin with Christen Fisher as h day two of the official visit to the uk is about to begin. Tomorrow, President Trump will be getting down to business. The last meeting with Outgoing British Prime Minister, theresa may. But today was all about the spectacle of a state dinner with the queen. From a 41gun salute welcoming President Trump and the first lady to bucking hamm palace. To a String Orchestra at a white tie and tee ara banquet. The queen rolled out the most red of red carpets for the president s First Official state visit, a trip timed to coincide with the 5th anniversary of dday. We thank god for the brave sons of the United Kingdom and the United States who defeated the nazis and the nazi regime and liberated millions from tyranny. After the shared sacrifices of the second world war, britain and the United States worked with other allies to build an assembly of
A positive note the Dow Jones Industrial average ending the day up by just over one percent report that germany is open to an economic stimulus package helped bring buyers back to the market it appears the berlin government is willing to suspend its balanced budget rule and take on debt investors hope that europes largest economy can steer itself away from recession. And lets go now to our financial correspondent in new york jose luis to horo was a good to see there so say every everyones watching germany here why is everyone watching germany why are investors so interested in german fiscal policy. Well stephen as you mentioned even germany implements any kind of a stimulus that may have boyd a recession or an economy get sick nation at a time that investors a year in wall street see a growing financial will not ability of german households and Companies Germany is the biggest economy in europe and even if the European Central bank will probably implement a fresh set of the stimulus it
That. Summer slump not on arts 21 while everyone is out we set out to and our reporters have made so many fascinating discoveries along the way weve made exciting being able. To rate talents. And great heroes. All the way from buy a boy to south africa. Our grand tour of arts on water and land. And this is a 1st my 1st time swimming in a major waterway in the middle of the city i cant wait but 1st i want to find out a bit more about this. Urban reverse swimming trend. The rhine in the lower father ryan as its often called in german is the specially popular for urban swimming from its source high up in that flows through half of europe river swimming has a long tradition here but being more used to pools and lakes its quite an adventure for me in this sweltering summer people are talking about the concept of urban swimming in all over europe and as a former swimmer myself of course im fascinated by this concept because ive never really done it. Sure is here everyone seems to be doing lo