Changes im 72 years old and they have never been changes youre. Also on the day just days from insolvency the shareholders back the German Governments 9000000000 euro rescue package for the german avar. You know we have run out of money were living from the reserves we set aside in good years without support bankruptcy is looming. The russians have begun voting on constitutional changes that would allow president putin to stay in office until 2036 the president proposed the changes in january and they have already been accepted by both houses of parliament and the Constitutional Court despite this mr putin has insisted the changes be ports to a ballot the vote which is not legally binding will take a week to complete it was originally planned for april 21st but was postponed because of the coronavirus epidemic. And a massive surprise during the state of the nation address in january russian president Vladimir Putin stumped the country with his plan for constitutional reform. Proposal envisages strengthening the role of the state council as well as expanding powers for parliament and creating new entrants hurdles for president ial candidates the reform would also allow putin to stay in office until 2036 christmas. The speed with which the changes were rushed through Parliament Position in much the duma passed the reform and the Constitutional Court also gave green light. Now the only thing putin needs is the approval of the russian people. Through this with. Us from a German Institute for international and Security Affairs hes an expert on Eastern Europe and russia are welcome to doubly so president putin has russias institutions behind him this votes not legally binding and its not a referendum so why did insist on it happening. Well thanks for having me i mean its a great question because as you mentioned the procedure was kind of the and heart procedure that was specifically devised for his plebiscite and i would argue there are several aspects or pheasants that make it really important to putin himself and i think i mean many people speak of all that summation and it is certainly true. But we can also good due to defect of parliament and regions and so on the other institution got so weak that the only way he actually can. Kind of his constitution form as a kind of substitute but there are other constituencies are really important besides kind of the population i would argue its also really important for putin himself to actually signal to the elite that hes still the main person in russia who can guarantee you brought him to majority for such a broader 4 and the 3rd. Argument i would say why its really important for him to have to vote by the people is external that we have seen this opinion by the Venice Commission of the council of europe which has criticized one specific provision on the role of International Law and based in russia many argue ok its the will of the people so no matter what external actors say its with the people so we need to have a specific amount so as i understand it this is an actual rather than just being about president putin this is a yes no vote on a package of Something Like 200 changes the people didnt actually know what theyre voting for. Well exactly its a package for a vote and actually for this kind of the package would has been precisely such. I mean the people in general d that we know that amendments the popularity of mint amendments is highly different so for example social policy the pension but also minimum wages and so on they are highly popular also issues concerning state sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Russian Federation these are highly popular but others are not so really important for the population. I mean the separation of powers issues and also i would argue the ideology for example. Conservative values and so on thats really a priority of the elite not so much of the population so its a package vote and basically. These social issues theres wieters for for the core amendment which is the ziering of putins term terms as such which is really. Not really popular that much your journey to contain in favor of these amendments by a by the trauma and state media ok we started to focus on this idea of president present potentially staying on for 16 years do we know that he wants to do this and b. Is any woody imagining a russia without him in charge. What we certainly dont know i mean what we can say for sure is that he created options for himself i mean he can now if theres no doubt that kind of these kind of amendments will be adopted by the the population but so he creates his option for getting reelected there are some he could still choose step down appoint next successor or just step down and take up another position in the state and so on i mean there are some amendments that actually create some enhanced immunity for. Ex president s and so on but i mean the basic assumption is that theyre pretty brief personalization of the regime as such is said to such a highly creative the likelihood that he will step down its really low because i mean he did the merger of basically political power and economic capital and so on his. There is cause for a high for a quite a number of people to lose much as power but also an economic assets that both put an end and the need kind of the the quarterly tirant in there they are really interested in basically keeping him and paul as long as possible and so briefly if you would mind is there any chance that he will lose this. Well i dont really see any option that he can actually use does. This kind of popular vote i think for me to my questions is at what cost like how far the supremacy need to mobilize the population actually to to get the i mean the majority they actually want to talk with you thank you so much for joining us. From the German Institute for international and security for us. Its. Shareholders voted to accept the German Governments 9000000000 euro rescue package for their lie of the bailout will make the german taxpayer the biggest shareholder in the countrys largest carrier with a 20 percent stake last chance a house struggle to stay afloat the Coronavirus Crisis at disrupt travel center around the world the shareholders werent exactly happy about it but you turn it it was bankruptcy for the company and its 138000 employees the reason was clear. We have run out of money well living from the reserves we set aside in good years without support bankruptcy is looming earlier in the day the European Commission approved the rescue plan then the shareholders gave their blessing including lufthansas biggest shareholder billionaire heinz him until who had been skeptical the d. O. Clears the way for a 9000000000 euro government rescue plan the state will receive 20 percent of lufthansa shares berlin can also increase its stake to avoid hostile takeovers its a heavy price to pay. Because the bill is asian packet is not a gift we have to work hard to pay it back it will be an enormous burden to pay the interest and pay back the loan. This is particularly true because no one is expecting a speedy recovery in the Aviation Market 80 percent of lufthansas airplanes are still grounded experts say it will be at least 3 years before the crisis is behind the industry and things will be different climate will be a smaller loved ones a group then with around 100. 00 fewer aircraft and a much slimmer structure to do tons of has already closed some of its subsidiaries and has warned it will have to slash thousands of jobs the company is nichols heeding wages with unions cabin crew have agreed to take a 17 percent pay cut through the Coronavirus Crisis pilots will have to make similar sacrifices. To get more from Business Reporter rob whats. So is that it now crisis averted back to business as usual well theres certainly going to be an enormous sense of relief in the management. Ahead of this vote had more or less begged the shareholders to back this deal they said that they were voting on nothing short of the future of the airline and its potential collapse if this deal didnt go through so a lot of relief they could get this 9000000000 euros deal on the been looking for those 6000000000 in funding from the German Government another 3000000000 in public loans they get it for free not completely they giving away 20 percent of their shares are to the government giving it away they get the 90 big and billions for it give it away now so that actually its interesting the real sort of controversial part of this deal is the 20 percent stake that the German Government is getting for that actually only accounts for 300000000. 00 euros of the amount of money that. The times is getting from the government that said heavily discounted price and thats why there was some opposition to this deal they were saying that actually you know you know we could hold out here and we could get an even better deal from the German Government here dont this is where there was a reading this today i think 90 percent of the shareholders backed it so i should think so because they saw nothing but as you say that it was it wasnt certain until today no it wasnt in fact lufthansas biggest shareholder at least before this deal because this deal now makes the german taxpayer the biggest shareholder but the biggest shareholder before that heintz teela had a 15 percent share looked like he might vote against this and that would have been enough to stop this entire deal because of the you know when you work out the number of people who are actually going to vote a number of shareholders would register to vote he would have enough in his own right to scupper its completely ok huge sums of money why is looked on so so valuable to the German Government that wants german taxpayers to bail it out of this way when of a flag carrier is also is always a significant symbol of a country but youve also got to bear in mind that this is not just an airline in its own right it is also an Airline Group in a its responsible for austria nowadays its one Brussels Airways yoro wings swifts it employs 130000. 00 people so a lot of jobs on the line here as well as reputation i mean it would not look good if the German Government was unable to save such a such a big symbol of german calmness when it was possible so that briefly then should we presume that trade unions are happy about this well actually sounds a strike a deal today with the. Crew union called the u. F. O. Somewhat musingly to agree to cut the hours for their staff to try and save some of this money so the unions are on board with the restructuring plans that lie ahead but theres still going to be a lot of jobs lost probably for some of this please rob id like your thoughts on that of a big business story here in germany this concerns the payment provider why a card which is now filing for bankruptcy protection. It was a historic day at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and not for the most positive of reasons for the 1st time a company from the elite club of german blue chip stocks the dax is filing for insolvency. Wire card shares have plummeted by 98 percent within the past week following the revelation that the company had a gaping 1900000000 euro hole in its books. That news came out after the companys orator refused to sign off on its 21000. 00 accounts this in turn led to the resignation of wire card c. E. O. Marcus brown prosecutors are now charging brown with market manipulation and tampering with wire cards books hes been released from custody on 5000000 euros bail. The insolvency filing does not automatically mean the end of the company though wire card could regain solvent see with the help of outside investors should not emerge the company will be dismantled and creditors paid by the sale of whatever assets wire cart owns shareholders however will come out empty handed so rowboats this is an astonishing fall yet its hard to overstate it to be honest i mean this is a case of a German Company going from darling of the dax to the dustbin in the space of a week and its just 2 years since it joined the index of germanys 30 Biggest Country companies with a value of 25000000000 euros and over the past week it chef rice has gone from being in 3 figures to today being in the single figures and has been described by the German Government as an unparalleled scandal theres a lesson for us all in there so much robots thank you. People in the locked out in germany are complaining that conditions in lockdown are inhumane local Movement Restrictions were reintroduced in the state of north rhinewestphalia because of a cluster of infections linked to a slaughterhouse but many of the people say that now suffering. Locked in and desperate 5 days ago these people were placed under quarantine to stop a coronavirus outbreak that originated at a local Meat Processing plant but instead of just ordering the close to 700 residents to stay indoors and practice so sial distancing the authorities barricaded them in. I feel like a pig like a pig in a small hole we have a family we have a family. Official say the fence is meant to give residents a chance to get fresh air while in isolation but it also means those infected with a corona virus are quarantining alongside those who tested negative the Living Conditions inside the buildings make Disease Control practically impossible. Some of the apartments i lived in were very clean but there were exceptions as well it was always very cramped sometimes there were 1012 or even 14 people in a single flat. The 10 year slaughterhouses widely blamed for the outbreak that originated in their local plant and led to the area wide lockdown authorities demand they take full financial responsibility for the crisis the company is currently providing food for their workers trapped behind the fences only a slight relief for a worried community. Yet they ask questions of course and i would do that too if a fence suddenly appeared around my house for how long we tested negative why should we suffer as well they ask about tanyas and many also ask i dont work attorney as i work somewhere else why am i included to. Our budget of chronic quite a few maternity job out of our notes moment by concerns that grow louder every day to make the situation more bearable for this neighborhood local authorities or building recreational areas and jason fields but to the hundreds of people feeling like prisoners inside their own homes this gesture is of little consolation. For the killing of george floyd by police in minneapolis last month have sparked a wave of protests against racism across the United States under around the world and this focused attention on the issue of Police Reform in the u. S. Local forces are often distrusted by communities and see this hostile recent efforts to introduce National Legislation to deal with this remain deadlocked because of differences between republicans and democrats but local example shows that before can work. When officer Alexander Baldwin and his colleague natalie paris patrol the streets of camden new jersey people greet them in a friendly way police and local residents have an affable but above all mutually respectful relationship all no word to the law you know above the you are involved with him during desert that day we dont have a lot of. Its taken a lot of effort to get to this point the solution has been Building Trust all officers here have to commit to that aim. When officers graduate academy there put a foot and put it in neighborhoods to meet people of the human level the key for us is being in the community before crisis happens a meeting people on a human level and building relationships and partnerships and out there not so long ago things were very different this city just across the river from philadelphia consistently ranked number one for Violent Crime in the u. S. For years 7 years ago camdens desperately understaffed police force was dissolved and then rebuilt by the county from scratch now police here focus on deescalation and damage limitation theyre experts in calming troubling situation down camden receives 3 complaints per year concerning Police Brutality compared to 65 page year in the past. That stand on one problem with the police do good work here perfect not like in other states where they are violent. Grateful that things are so peaceful here thanks to the police. Since the Police Reforms camden has seen a 42 percent drop in crime compared to just 2 percent in the rest of the country there are now twice as Many Police Officers here was before that training includes nonviolent conflict resolution. Perhaps not being in their cars or just riding through people but actually walking is a benefit it improves your image and has a potential to improve relationships between 2 individuals one as a resident and i want to be a Police Officer the United States former crime hotspot offers a role model for the rest of the countrys often outdated frequently Violent Police forces. 17 years ago today communist north korea invaded the u. S. Backed south starting the korean war 3 years of fighting ended 953. Not with a peace treaty but truce maybe technically the war is still. Between the 2 neighbors continued to this day the latest tensions were sparked when im seeing north activists in the south launched by loons carrying propaganda leaflets over the border urging North Koreans to overthrow their leadership so as youll see the next report on the most is between the 2 koreas still run deep. After 70 years Korean Unification still exists only on paper at an anti us protest in seoul we meet a former spy from north korea park he song unmasked in 1962 he spent 27 years in prison and says hes now stuck in south korea a country that is not his home which it ive been here for 58 years officially im a resident of south korea but my loyalty lies with north korea the democratic peoples republic of korea. Parks family members live in the north if theyre still alive if theres one thing he cant abide its people sending anti north korea flyers over the border. To their low lifes how is the north supposed to put up with that money. The man sending the flyers is also named park and hes also from north korea but he despises kim jong uns regime and wants it overthrown. The activist has found refuge in south korea but even here hes under Constant Police surveillance hes seen as a troublemaker and potential target for an attack he agrees to meet us at this playground where he feels its safe to talk. You know the North Koreans need to know that the grandfather of kim jong un and his sister started the korean war thats why ive produced this special brochure for the 70th anniversary i will send it over in the coming days it depends on the wind. One of parks actions in late may prompted the north to escalate. Yang blew up an inter Korean Leader as an office just north of the border to prevent even more trouble the south now wants to stop parks activities to he says hes not afraid of either side. I would consider it an honor to be assassinated by kim jong un himself. A few nights ago park sent his balloon with the brochures northwards but the winds were not favorable and his delivery fell from the sky above south korea. This group of former prisoners from north korea is happy and did parky song a former spy is one of them the men gather at this house in seoul run by kwan or he. The group has 14 members south korea calls them unconverted prisoners even though all have been out of prison for years. You know and we just i think even those North Koreans who are imprisoned after the war and have paid their dues should be treated as prisoners of war and allowed to return to the north. But thats a nonstarter for the south and so the men are left with their memories and their belief that north korea is paradise come out i dont regret coming to south korea as a spy for one second sure it cost me my youth but i dont mind. If you can these men were released early from prison thats something that cannot be said about their south Korean Counterparts in the north. United. If youre feeling fit you can head to the eiffel tower in paris which has reopened after its pandemic closure the lifts are still out of fashion because theyre considered a Health Hazard but you can climb the steps if thats your thing about in mind thats just over 700. 00 steps managers say they hope to get up ration is fully back to normal later this summer but for now a magnificent few will cost you a lot of sweat. So its what the parents in the days nearly done but the conversation continues online you can join us on twitter the producer or you can follow me at smithfield ok thanks for watching have a good day. Ma ma your. Limited number of women can now return to the college i am an. Join the enjoyment for them is different. And each club 6 the party seems to be over. The face is like a laboratory. And one of them ok when the germans come to visit the focus on the road. On the. Society faces a coronavirus meltdown is the crisis also and too much of. It is focused attention on the problems of. Labor shortages overstretched health. Spotty internet last. Sunday. Is it time for a major briefing. In germany. In 60 minutes on t w. Slate. Listen carefully. To this soon. To be a good. Just got. Subscribed. To. A low on a warm welcome to focus on europe im peter cop and thanks for joining us these days were all longing for life to get back to normal while we are gradually moving towards normality in europe the impact of the covered 19 crisis is becoming more and more visible especially when it comes to domestic violence. Millions of women have been physically abused by their