thirty two to paris of indian origin he published his first novel in one thousand nine hundred fifty seven and then went on to write dozens of books many of which dealt with colonialism and its legacy he was knighted by queen elizabeth in one thousand nine hundred and awarded the nobel prize for literature in two thousand and one he was. he watching the news live from by i mean you can log onto a website called for around the clock news and information thank you for watching. good job it is. your link to news from africa and the world your link to exceptional stories and discussion from the news of easy to our website d.w. dot com so much for joining us on facebook at g.w. for god. time for an upgrade. friday saw the biggest wave of industrial action ever to hit europe's biggest budget airline as ryanair pilots walked out on a twenty four hour strike at frankfurt on airport check in desks were unstaffed and passengers nowhere to be seen pilots' unions representatives say the message is that ryanair must change. all the days not about defeating ryanair it's about sending a clear sign that defeating their own employees has to end. some passengers at berlin shona failed airport were forced to spend the night there many didn't know when they'd finally be able to fly out but some are still sympathetic to the pilot's demands of the abyss and it's a bit unfair the pilots draw the short straw just because people want to fly on the cheap. i think it's a safety risk if someone's employed as a so-called freelance pilot then perhaps doesn't stay home when they're sick so i think it's justified. pilots in belgium ireland and sweden also walked out on friday in the airlines first coordinated europe wide strike a total of four hundred flights were canceled disruption of european airports was at the minimum though with passengers informed in advance of the cancellations. the u.s. reinstated economic sanctions against iran beginning tuesday a few weeks after u.s. president donald trump a taken america out of the multi-nation nuclear deal with the country the sanctions prevent the iranian government from buying dollars they also target the auto and aeronautical sectors as well as iranian exports a loan not explicitly targeted german companies exported goods worth three billion euros to iran last year and fear for their business. the e.u. has offered to support them but trump says any company dealing with iran will not be allowed to do business in the us car make a dime or became one of the first to suspend trade with iran. trade tensions the dust has yet to settle on the facebook cambridge analytical scandal in which the data of millions of users was harvested to further political agendas that facebook apparently now wants to collect detailed information on bank customers to broaden its range of services and increase user engagement on its messenger app which has one point three billion users the wall street journal says facebook has approached several major banks including j.p. morgan chase and citi group but many of them have turned their request down unhappy about the idea of passing client bank account data on to facebook. facebook has denied it's been asking banks for their clients' account data. it insists it simply works together with banks as a way of offering users a connection to check their account balance or to check with their bank. a respected german newspaper reported this week that the black sea port of a desert is a hub of corruption many of the containers customs declarations are falsified zippers become shoelaces because shoelaces pay only a fraction in customs tariffs the charges are laid bare in documents made available to german daily sued doctored sites on papers are routinely forged many people are involved freight companies customs officers police and even the intelligence service as fee you that even though the port was supposed to become a flagship anti corruption project after the my down revolution twenty six year old civil rights activist. played a key role in the protests in the capital clear afterward she was put in charge of customs in odessa and was supposed to drain the harbor of corruption she said customs officers to the u.s. for training and the e.u. supplied modern scanners that were able to identify what goods are in the containers as well as contraband none of it helped the scanners were vandalized. chefs gave up her job frustrated in her resignation letter she said the ukrainian government had sabotaged her anti corruption drive. so corruption still flourishes on the black sea visit dodge site and report estimates the losses to the ukrainian treasury topped four billion euros a year in tariffs alone. the small town of nothing used to be a prosperous coal mining community but the old shafts in the former industrial region have long been shuttered now there's very little work in the county of west yorkshire a lot of the young have moved away only the local social club offers a little distraction run by former. rail workers pull green like green many here feel left behind and forgotten they don't see any benefits in european union membership. you think you're going to benefit from the money that you're paying in demand among cape town consumers. didn't talk when local people can for you say to me they need this in my the same studio you know something i got this through char . i got the words. by wind char when close i can come to challenge down to rise again some money i get really close. to success because for itself since twenty ten lou and his partners have opened three miles in cape town with a total of one hundred fifty independent stores. hot dry weather europe's recent heat wave has been perfect for the grapes at least here in germany's run hessen region famous for its white wine the high temperatures have had the teams out harvesting grapes earlier than ever before in saigon yarn was not special is that production started about two weeks earlier this year with harvesting at the beginning of august already will be finishing today the young one will be in the shops by friday that's great the market's waiting for it. like many here the vul family near mines specializes in a partially fomented young wind cold feet of ice because of the sun the grapes are especially sweet this year they'll yield a fruity wine with a high level of alcohol german wine makers expect the twenty eight team vintage to be exceptional they're among the few german businesses that might actually profit from climate change. the average annual temperatures are getting higher we can see that but some forty years ago in one thousand nine hundred seventy six we also had a very hot and dry year. so extreme highs so it doesn't mean that it's happening more and more often now that it's. maybe next summer will be very cool and wet let's wait and see. if the climate really is getting hotter and drier though right hasn't been you know its plan to start growing new varieties 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