German far right party conference protests

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Americans turn out to mark two hundred fifty years since the Declaration of Independence, but a severe heat wave has seen some festivities scaled back or cancellled O senior Venezuelan officials insisted that search and rescue operations are still ongoing following last month's devastating earthquakes as the number of confirmed fatalities rises to almost three thousand France has become the second team to reach the quarterfinals of the Men's Football World Cup after beating Paraguay Al alsoso in this podcast. What's expected to be a huge recession. millions are expected to turn out Many will, but many won't. Those who suffered during the restrictions and repression of his nearly four decades of rule. Our chief international correspondent reports from Tehran on the funeral of Ayatollah Alihame Nayi Theveir weather has been disrupting events in the United States, which are being held to mark the two hundred fiftieth anniversary of America's independence from Britain The flagship salute to America Gala in the capital Washington, DC was delayed, with attendees evacuated and told to seek shelter due to thunderstorms President Trump has been accused by opponents of politicizing the celebrations. In a major speech in Washington, he had this to say. America will never be a communist country won't happen Communism is a loser and it always will be The communist system is the opposite of the American system and the communist system has never worked Our warriors did not fight communism on battlefields across the world, only to have that menace re ugly head right back here in America. We're not going to let it happen. I heard more from our correspondent in Washington, Howell Griffith. It's very hard to say with Donald Trump, what was scripted and what was his uglyin compared to Mount Rushmore and the speech we heard on the mall last week. There was less pure politics, there was less swiping at opponents And there was certainly a great part of history in there. I mean, bringing on veterans from the war means of course, he did have to speak about previous wars, American achievements on the battlefield, lives lost and the service given by fellow countrymen. So there was a greater emphasis there, and that will be more unifying, maybe because people from both sides of the divide can rally to that and honor and respect the commitment and the service given by others However, there was still a bit of politics in there. And while we're on sort of the theme of the military, there was one bit that I was drawn to about him claiming that the military had become more powerful, particularly in his first term. And then he said about to say second term when he said, maybe I should say my third term obviously slipping in the fact that he still disputes the result when he lost to Joe Biden and then saying that they'd had tremendous success. When you look at Venezuela, when you look at Iran, we wiped it out, wiped out their military. So for all the historical sweep, A lot of it did come back to the last couple of years and the last couple of weeks really of his presidence. Why does he keep coming back to communism It's interesting, and it doesn't have a lot of structure. These are big swipes talking about the villainy and tyranny of communism, how it's a cancer, he said this evening. Now, listeners may be confused if they think through American history that the Cold War is long over More recently in domestic politics, we've seen a resurgent Democratic partarty winning in primaries and the mayor of New York seemingly having great success. And that is a left leaning side, maybe of the Democratic Party. But none of these people are members of a commommunist partarty and they don't hold to a strict communist ideology. It is rather a way of tarnishing his critics and his opponents, particularly maybe as he looks to the midterm elections coming up in November, when they threaten the Republican control of the House and maybe even the Senate So I think it is a way for Donald Trump and the right wing media here because these terms are echoed and amplified by some of the news channels here and people online that they see the Democrats who are winning as communists and painting them in that way in order to put off the maybe underscided voters in the middle in America. How old Griffith The official death toll from the twin earthquakes that devastated Venezuela has risen to nearly three thousand Many thousands are still missing, and the government's response has been criticized as too slow and inadequate The U.S. backed interim President Delsi Rodriguez is adamant that the authorities reacted immediately. Our correspondent Yoggiser Eemoer filed this report from Laguaria. More than ten days since the disaster struck Venezuela, what you see all around is pockets and pockets of destruction, heaps of rubble, posossibly hundreds of bodies lying underneath debris. loocal Venezuelans who had families who lived in these buildings, still waiting for news of their loved ones is still hoping that at least the bodies of their loved ones will be found so they can give them a proper funeral, a proper farewell. It's going to take a long time for the true scale of this disaster to be known. While we've been here when they pull out the dead bodies, what we're seeing is there are helicopters that are being used to carry these bodies to a makeshift morgue. Morgues are full. So they're taking the bodies from these areas. They're taking it to a makeshift morgue, which has been set up in a place where they used to store shipping containers And we've been there, we've seen families going there looking at photographs of dead bodies trying to identify the dead. And when we've been speaking to residents in so many areas, so many people I've spoken to now Most of them have said one thing that the response to this earthquake came too slow. They feel their loved ones might have had a chance to survive. That's not happened. But frankly, it's even hard to put in words just the scale of this disaster, and that's why it's quite clear that it's going to take weeks, possibly months, even to assess what it will need for this country to begin to recover Yog get limur ye And we're rapidly counting down from the sixteen remaining teams to eight quarter finalists. co hosts Canada are out after they were beaten three nil by Morocco. And so are Paraguay who lost one mil to France. Three more games are scheduled on Sunday, including co hosts Mexico against England at the imposing Aztec Stadium in Mexico City. The England team is already in the city and our correspondent Will Grant has been following their progress It was interesting outside their hotel as the England team got ono their coach and left for what will be their final training session before the match. There was a really interesting combination of fans who were there to see their idols from English football, a lot of arsenal fans looking out for Kyo Saker and Rice and other players. a lot of the fans of Captain Harry Cane, but of course, a large number of booe too, as people want to do whatever they can to slightly upset or kind of make uncomfortable as an environment for England as possible. It was all pretty good natured. The truth of the matter is they're going to face far more formidable crroud in the Azteekca itself one of the cauldrons of world football, a place where Mexico has been performing very, very well and of course, a place where England doesn't have the happiest of memories. No, I was going to ask you about that. This is a place with very unhappy memories for England. It is. It was where in nineteen eighty six, Maradononna and Argentina beat England with the notorious infamous handand of God as well as of course, one of I think known as the Gal of the century. I mean it's one of the greatest golals ever scored. Both of those memories are sort of seared into people my age from England. And if the England team, if this England team hope to bury them at the handand of God in the Aztec or on this trip, they're going to have to up The game a bit. they have played well, they've got through their games, their first knockout game and of course their group, they won. but it hasn't exactly set the world on fire. They don't look like they've clicked and Mexico on the other hand, are playing very, very well. They yet concee the single goal. Well, I hate to put you on the spot, but Who's going to win You are absolutely putting me on the spot. I think England on paper, th it's not going to be an easy game. If football does what football is supposed to do, then it should be an England victory, maybe two one, maybe even two nill. well comfortable as you well know, Alex. It doesn't always do what it's supposed to And this could very, very well be a major upset. notothing would make Mexico happier. And lastast question, Will, what's altitude going to play in the dynamics of this? It is definitely a consideration. England have got a very truncated amount of time to adapt to the altitude, which is two thousand two hundred meters above sea level in Mexico City Normally, if this was just say the Mexico World Cup rather than one that's being split between the United States and Canada too, they would have had their training camp here. they would have had weeks to prepare by this point. they would be very well adapted by now. But of course they're changing from sea level to two thousand two hundred meters above it. Now that's going to be energy sapping for them There was, of course, this possibility that it was going to be paid at midday too, which means the heat would have been consideration But after opposition from both camps, FIFA rolled back on that and the match will remain at six PM local time as originally planned. Will Grant in Mexico City Still to come in this podcast in nineteen eighty one or so I had a conversation with the commissioner of the National Wheelchair Basketball Association and he told me you cannot play wheelchair tennis. It's not a feasible wheelchair sport. We hear from one of the pioneers of wheelchair tennis This is Lilip Pons from Sweiteet three hundred and five with Lip Pons. 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She is reporting on condition that none of her material is used on the BBC's Persian service. These restrictions apply to all international media organisations operating in Iran Iranians from across this country cue men in one line, women in the other to get food and water to rest They tell us they're heading to Tehran. They want to be able to go to the vast Musala complex where the former Supreme leader is lying in state. And then on Monday, what's expected to be a huge procession carrying his coffins through the streets of Tehran. millions are expected to turn out many will But many won't. thoseose who suffered during the restrictions and repression of his nearly four decades of rule This is an intensely political moment. under the flags, a clenched fist a symbol of resistance and also revenge, a message from the leaders of this Islamic Republic. The war assassinated their suupreme leader and many others But they're still standing And still in charge. Last toset in Tehran Ukraine has struck targets in the Russian city of Stt Petersburg, hitting oil installations and military sites including the nearby naval base at Kronstadt. Moscow says it shot down dozens of drones over the city and the wider Leningrad region. Conway asked our correspondent, James Landale, why St. Petersburg was targeted Stt Petersburg is on the sea. It has substantial oils terminals and facilities in that area, and it is oil refineries and oil infrastructure that seems to be in Ukraine's targets at the moment We know that Ukraine has targeted this area and these targets before And Ukraine clearly seems determined to keep the pressure up because it knows that it's beginning to bite and that Russia is beginning to suffer fuel shortages as a result of striking these oil terminals. And you know the irony is not been lost on many people You now have Russia one of the biggest oil producers in the world actually now having to contemplate importing refined fuel because it simply hasn't got enough itself because of so many Ukrainian attacks, reducing its ability to refine oil. And how damaging is this for the Russian war machine? and what impact is it having on the mood of the Russian people Well, I think in the terms of the Russian war machine, not a great deal at the moment. This is a Ukrainian strategy to put political pressure on the Kremlin. The Russian war machine has a substantial amount of fuel in reserves They say they can rely on for some time in certain areas, particularly in Crimea, there are definite shortages there for Russia's military simply because of the geography and the fact that Ukraine has been targeting Crimea's supply lines for some time. But the broader point here, the reason why Ukraine is striking oil refineries in Petersburg and elsewhere is to basically bring the war home to Russian people and hope that that puts political pressure on the Kremlin and Vladimir Putin. Well, Russia vowing to hit back, and it has been doing that in recent weeks and months anyway. Yeah, the Russian Defense Ministry has put out a statement saying that the Ukrainian attack would not go unanswered. I think what we're seeing here is a tit for tat exchange of air strikes, missile strikes, drone strikes by both sides ahead of next week's NATO summit I think there's clearly by the Russian side an attempt to try and get on the front foot. There is a feeling that the tide of war in recent weeks and months have been turning in Ukraine's favor. I think the Kremlin and Vladimir Putin are trying to generate some positive headlines for their side ahead of the NATO summit. So as well as the massive and deadly attack on Ukraine last Thursday We've had in recent days, President Putin being filmed in military fatigues, talking to military commanders cllaiming advances on the front line and things like that. And I would expect similar messaging right up unt next weeks sumit on Tuesday. James Landale in Moscow In Germany, the far right AFD is holding its annual conference in the state of Tururinger, one of its strongholds. But thousandousands of protesters have been blocking raids to try to stop delegates from reaching the conference hall. Our correspondent, Jessica Parker was there ushes I'm making my way through Huge crowds all prters They're here because just up the road, the party alternative for Deutschland is holding its annual conference Speaking to a couple of people who've shown up here, Stephanie and Felix, who live in the local area. We' stood on a road where people are doing a sit in. There are obviously attempts as part of this demonstration today to stop AFD delegates getting to their conference Is that alright to try and prevent people from going to a party comp Is it allright to force migrants to go back to their countries with war and bad situations happening in their home countries. It's our right to be here and the right to protest the right to protest against the party that My opinion is not democratic I have several colleagues of mine that They directly told me if the AFD gains power, they will leave Germany. They have concrete plans to go to Switzerland, to go to the Netherlands, to go anywhere else, but to Germany. And I have to say I'm scared There is a huge security operation surrounding this event. A helicopter just flew over our heads. I'm looking at a water cannon truck, not being used at the moment And I can tell you how many police fans, police officers I've seen We're just going to try and get an idea of the scale of the operation from police spokesperson, Patrick Martin Y as a Taatlish We have pulled in forces from all other German states, several thousand officers, We have water cannon, helicopters, police horses. The situation is complex Thousands of protestters here at the conventional center but also protestters blocking roads in the vicinity and dozens of demonstrations in the city center Now sections of the AFD are classed as right wing extremist by domestic intelligence. The partarty argues that's a political smear, it insists it's a democratic movement Policy wise, the AFD wants to restore ties with Putin's Russia buy Russian gas again term Rem migration A word that's widely understood to mean mass deportations of people with a migrant crowns Though the AFDs claimed it's illegal immigrants and foreign criminals that they have in their sights in this respect, not people with German citizenship Nevertheless, it raised eyebrows when co leader Alice Weidel openly used the term last year. This weekend she took to the stage in Erfort with this message for the party's opponents To our political competitors who incite hatred against us. and to those troublemakers outside the conference. I say