Hello good morning welcome just come on the clock here in moscow youre watching international 30 years ago the wall was torn reuniting east and west berlin and heralding the beginning of the end of the cold war where security is high today ahead of major celebrations across the country in berlin thousands are expected to take part in numerous events including a variety of exhibitions on the wars history but for those who cant attend his artesia with the story of. The berlin wall a symbol of the cold war and division a mind that separated the city families friends and changed berlin for the remainder of the 20th century 40 kilometers long at slice of the city and was erected on the night of august 13th 1961 1st it was just a barbed wire and concrete france where 12 checkpoints but it swiftly grew into the fortified version most know it today the checkpoints were reduced to 3 and crossing became all butt. Impossible. Imagine this a concrete wall 3. 6 meters high and 1. 2 meters wide smoo
Arent aware that the president will be making his speech about the environment today but they live it on a daily basis this is a very outdoors state youre very aware of the outdoors when you are here and i think people even some officials are quite costly to talk about manmade Global Climate change but at the back of many peoples minds is or what can we do about this were seeing this happening on a daily basis and then for the fires for instance the hotshot crews that are brought in from all over the country a very thinly stretched i know fire officials are thinking well if alaskan summers keep getting hotter and longer were not going to have the resources to deal with things like this and were not talking about Something Like deforestation where you can replant trees were talking about glaciers that of tens of thousands if not millions of years old rapidly disappearing and theres not much without radical policy change that anyone here can do thanks so much i think gallagher there. Cen
Is slashing its workforce by 20 . A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. And you can be part of the conversation. Summer is in full swing in the uk, and temperatures are rising. So today we want to know, is a strict dress code at work a good thing . Does what you wear make you more or less productive . Tell us what you think. Just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. Greeces leftist Prime Minister, alexis tsipras, has conceded defeat in the countrys snap general election. With the results still coming in, the centre right Opposition Party new democracy has won, with current projections showing it is closing in on an absolute majority. Mr tsiprass syriza party seems to to have paid the price for failing to oppose austerity measures imposed by the eu in return for financial bailouts. Our correspondent mark lowen reports from athens. A victory cry for a change of guard greeces centre right new democracy cheering its new era, wi
On investors mines. Minds minds. Thousands of staff at Deutsche Bank are worried about their jobs, after confirmation that up to 18,000 posts worldwide are to be cut over three years. Its part of a radical reorganisation of the german lender which is shrinking its Investment Banking business. It hasnt said where jobs will be lost, but with almost 8,000 staff, london is the home to its biggest trading operation. Our Business Correspondent katy austin explains why the cuts are being made. 0nafairly long on a fairly long list of long term problems, the german backhand bead we re problems, the german backhand bead were falling share price, Money Laundering scandal. It had been widely expected to cut back its underperforming investment operations and today it is announced a radical reshaping plan which will see it significantly reduce its Investment Banking arm are stopping many of its Share Trading operations was up along the way, 18,000 jobs will go as a result, globally. That will go as
Radical restructuring plans the countrys biggest. And 80000 jobs well. It was a story that gripped the world 12. For him to think. That turning up in the situation. Under the womens football. Status is the best in the world by beating the netherlands with a little help from the video system for. The program. Greeces sense of right Opposition Leader calls mitts attackers has won a landslide victory in the countrys snap election hes being sworn in as the countrys new Prime Minister after winning almost 40 percent of the of the vote on a promise to cut taxes attract investment and create more jobs he replaces Alexis Tsipras of the left wing side roots of party. Lets join. Mathes in athens outside the president ial palace welcome so the new Prime Minister is being sworn in behind you as we speak and hell present his new cabinet this afternoon and he cancel parliaments 4 week holiday hes clearly a man in a rush what sort of jobs he facing. Uli means business the man who just walked past me