a prime example of the german government's marshall plan for africa if africa second largest country can succeed in modernizing its agriculture that it's possible elsewhere says magnus schmidt ever since the new ethiopian government took office germany has been able to sell modern plows past aside and seeds directly to farmers in so-called farmer service centers. if there are good seeds here if it's possible to increase production if there is good downstream processing and more jobs in the future then ethiopia will be a region that won't have refugees making their way to europe really go through what you know. every year germany gives eighty million euros to ethiopia it's an investment that could grow. here's a look now some of the other stories that are making news around the world militants in afghanistan that killed at least two people and injured five others in the salt on a training center for midwives nearly seventy people were inside the center in jalalabad when extremists attacked witnesses for gunfire and several blasts no one has claimed responsibility yet. tens of thousands of russians have protested against plans to hike the country's retirement age rallies organized by trade unions and the communist party mobilized people in over a dozen cities many russians have voiced their anger over the fact that the new retirement age of sixty five is comparable with the life expectancy for russian men . pope francis has accepted the resignation of cardinal mccarrick one of the most prominent figures in the catholic church in the united states as far as allegations of sexual abuse including accused involving an eleven year old boy francis has ordered to remain in seclusion and in prayer until a church trial is held well extreme summer temperatures in many parts of the northern hemisphere have left firefighters battling massive blazes in the united states two firefighters have now died after struggling to bring informal in northern california under control dozens of homes in the city of reading have gone up in smoke and the blaze still is under control. now you know. it's a vision of hell fires swirling at high speed this is reading california at night wildfires raging through the forests and into the suburbs at incredible speed. and this is what they left behind hundreds of homes tend to char and rubble devastation for homeowners. to firefighters have already been killed whilst tackling the flames in california it's an uphill battle. only five percent of the blaze is under control so far current conditions high temperatures and wind are going nowhere. so we need the experience of more and more damaging wildfires more fires that ignite rapidly it's like throwing gas in. these type of fires they wrap them they spread so fast california is used to fires. but over in europe sweden isn't huge places broke out even as far as the arctic north authorities warn conditions could get a lot worse and. the high winds may cause the fires to spread and the thunder is likely to start new fires so we're still on high alert and ready to fight for any new fires hawg home this could have for them to renew your bet on those. sweden's neighbors have been coming to the support sending people and planes planes sweden has never needed in the past but swedish officials say some of those international volunteers may have to be pulled out so great are the risks elsewhere in europe thomas produced another excellent display in the penultimate stage the finish the time trial in third place and crucially retained a lead of almost two minutes in the general classification. to do on the biggest stage of all. over three weeks. since a. time trial world champion tom to milan won the stage an outcome that keeps the dutchman in second place overall. he finished narrowly ahead of chris froome the four time tour de france champion has had a difficult few weeks but will at least end up on the podium in paris but barring a disaster it's his team sky colleague thomas who will take his crown as the holder of road cycling's most prestigious title. so thomas likings that for a victory there he's competed before but we've never really heard his name in contention to win what do you do right this year where he's always been more of a supporting cyclist that's been his role the team's guys he's played an important role as chris froome has claimed tour de france titles over the past few years his highest ever finish in the past was fifteenth so for many it's a bit of a shock that he's done so well this year but they were signs there for instance in last year's tour he was in second place before he fell off his bike broke his collarbone so although we didn't have the luck last year there was clearly pedigree there and some cycling fans could have expected a good performance from again this year and he also didn't take part in the chiro which is the big italians which happens just before the tour de france all the other cyclists did chris froome for example and it takes a lot out of you. is possibly a lot more fresh than the other competitors well and it went right for him and had a great is a great run right rest is important guys set for its six the win in seven years but they've had a controversial tour haven't they have chris froome. the defending champion he's been spat out he's been booed he's actually had physical altercations with fans on the mountainside a lot of people aren't happy with him taking paul he was involved in a big doping allegation and obviously in the cycling is the last poll in which you want to be basically you know accused of doping so it's very bad on his record he was cleared of the allegations but people still aren't happy to see him taking part now away from the cyclists the team manager dave brailsford he had to apologize as well for basically saying the spitting that was happening was all part of french culture so he was very happy of course i mean so it's a french people so a great victory again for skype but there have been a few setbacks along the way all right a bit of drama at the tour de france it wouldn't be the same without it that is ed thank you very much for being with us today. and that is it for me and the whole team here in berlin we're going to leave you now as the images in the german tattles annual christopher street day parade enjoy and i'll see you again at the top of the hour.