our next speaker was an elected member of the brussels parliament representing the green party. she was also minister of social affairs, health, and equal opportunities in the government before starting her political career in 1993, she worked in the european level in environmental and social organizations for 10 years. as a politician, she focuses particularly on the development of economically depressed areas which despite their assets face challenges like poverty, unemployment, and a lack of development. she believes these neighbors are a key to a vibrant and prosperous brussels. please. >> i'm happy to be here and as far as i could take note is the situation for cyclists as well as in oakland as in portland as in san francisco -- excuse me, i think, yes, important to be again the whole different thing. but as i understand most probably brussels is somewhere in-between. in the last few years, we managed to raise the amount of cyclists let's say from 1% in 2000 to what today is estimated but how did the countings go, but it's estimated as being 3 1/2%. i have made it as one of

has voted in favor of banning the book in public and other european countries i expected to follow that example in throngs that woman wearing a face covering muslim veil in public will have to pay one hundred fifty euro fine and listen paul last rushes if wearing a veil insults representatives of other religions twenty four percent believe the veil does not offend twenty percent believe the veil does offend other religions and more than a half fifty six percent of respondents all get against public display of religious symbols at all that to peter ok i'd like to go back to our guest in paris so when you want to you want to finish your point about. the that the reasons why. some of these garments are being banned even in the in the greater middle east in the muslim world itself in some areas like in universities. yes because we have to face just to to this problem you cannot just say ok it's freedom of the women to wear the niqab of the book or on the full veil it's so strange to say no to the board in afghanistan and here in europe we just say we have to understand sorry listen to to th

. >> the defense minister will lay out plans to parliament next week. a german diver has won her second gold medal in as many days at the european swimming championships in budapest. after a surprise win in the 10 meter platform, she teamed up to take the 10-meter center platform event. silver went to ukraine and great britain. another diving medal -- bold in the 3 meter springboard. a silver medal in the men's 100 meter freestyle. a frenchman outpaced him in the final stretch to win gold. italy came third. german soccer news -- a future in international football may be less than bright if the former german coaches and the thing to say. he said the team needs a captain committed to staying with the team for at least three years, something that balloch has ruled out. he was forced to step aside ahead of the world cup. he is competing to regain the post. klutzy has had a tough year. once the undisputed captain of the german team, he faces an uncertain future on the squad. an ankle injury sidelined him during this summer's world cup. but the german team po