Missing who have people missing wait for news. Public anger reaches a boiling point in malta. It is gripped by a deep political malaise, rocked by highlevel resignations and allegations of a of a coverup linked to the suspected killer killing of an investigative journalist. Can n european s space engineees improvove the area on program ad in and compete with private challengers like elon musks spacex . Phil im filled i am phil gayle. Welcome to the program. The europeans incoming president has won parliaments approval for her new team. Ursula von der leyen is the first woman to hold the top job and she has set out Ambitious Goals to turn the bloc into a green superpower and boost economic growth. As well as those challenges, she will have too deal with deep divisions amongst eu Member States. Resounding approval from the eu parliament, confirming the new team of Incoming Commission president , ursula von der leyen. Von der leyen is the first ever woman Commission President , and her team of 26 dont differ too much and profile from the usual politicians. Her ambitions are a marked change. Her ideas of forward thinking as is the gender balance of her team. It is a team with almost, almost, as many women as men. Only one woman away from gender balance. This shows [applause] this shows we have made real progress, but also that we still have to do more. Reporter von der leyens primary focus is on Climate Change. At the upcoming climate meeting in madrid this september december, she plans to bring a deal which aims to make europe the first climate neutral continent by 2050. We do not have a moment to waste anymore on fighting Climate Change. [applause] the faster europe moves, the greater the advantage will be for our citizens, our competitiveness, and our prosperity. Reporter to get going, von der leyen will have to overcome europes internalal political problems. Once in office this sunday, she will begin touring european capitals, selling her green vision as something inclusive. Recognizing many countries such as poland and germany still rely on coal for electricity. She also needs to tackle countries like hungary which are not too keen on European Values despite being Member States. She certainly has a big job ahead of her. Phil dws bureau chief max hofmann was there in strasberg. We asked him which where the issues Member States wanted ursula von der leyen to tackle first . Max it really depends in which country you ask the people. As you mentioned, there is a new poll from the foundation. They say the most important topic for the germans is fighting Climate Change. In other countries like france and italy, it would be job security and cutting down on the cost of living. Ursula von der leyen is going to tackle both or try to tackle both. Those are the most important topics. One, the socalled European Green deal she wants to have for the european union. The other one is digitalization, which is closely connected to job security, the future of employment in general. You have to keep in mind, today was not just about whether they are going to do the next five years, especially for ursula von der leyen and her commissioners. It was also an important day after all those optical obstacles that they got such a convincing vote and we got to talk to one of the most important persons in the commission, vice executive president , earlier today. Take a listen. After all the bombs in the road of of bumps in the road, you are officially a commissioner of the new commission. How do you feel . I feel great. Also because it is a convincing vote. Two thirds of the member of parliament who showed their faith and trust in us, that we will do our best. And you know what they say, you should enjoy the first day because tomorrow, problems start. Im very happy. Max we had problems yesterday, tomorrow the problem starts. You enjoy today. You are one of the vice executive president s of this commission with a very important portfolio, making us fit for the digital age. Do you thinknk that is realisti, if you look at the competition from the u. S. , china . Europe is lagging behind, dont you agree . We do lag behind in some areas. In other instant and other areas, when it comes to research, the businesstobusiness technology, we are doing good. The thing is being fifth in the developing age is not just about developing technology, it is using technology. Better health, getting more easily from a to b, fighting pollution in areas where we want to breathe freely. Lots and lots of things, not just a competition between china and the u. S. Max can you give us an example, one thing that gives you hope that europe is able to catch up . Well, you see both i think the one most of us know would be spotify. That is for us, as customers. Where you would find most of them is in the businesstobusiness environment. You know my colleague, they do exactly that. Max the french commissioner. Exactly. It has delivered for businesses to be able to do that. The second one would be sap, which is dealing in the businesstobusiness environment, providing the data, the numbercrunching, to enable businesses to do their best. Max what will you do . How will you go about your job now . You have been in the last commission with jeanclaude juncker. Do you have a different approach . How will you do that . I think it is a commimissionf new beginnings. I think we feel more confident. Von der leyen says this will be more geopolitical. A more selfassured europe, a europe ready to take its place, also on the global scale. Max is your message, if i read this correctly, to the competition in the u. S. And china, get ready, europe is coming . We are coming for our own sake. This is about making europe better for us as europeans. I think in that process, we will also be firm competitors toward the others. Phil the eus new Prime Minister speaking to max hofmann in strasberg. Now to albania where rescuers are searching for survivors a day after a powerful earthquake. Authorities say 30 people are known to have died with hundreds more injured. The magnitude 6. 4 event struck about 60 kilometers northwest of the capital. You may fifind some of the imags in this report disturbing. Reporter finding survivors of albanias worst earthquake in 30 years is a slow and delicate operation. But it is yielding results. A man is pulled out of a collapsed building alive in one of the towns hardest hit by the quake. It is around 20 kilometers from the epicenter. But many were not so lucky. Earlier in the same town, a childs body was found. The quake struck early Tuesday Morning when most of the people here were asleep in bed. I felt it in my bedroom, went to my kids room and the door slammed on me. I heard hurt both my arms. This is horrible. Reporterer numerous aftershocks followed the main quake, adding to the feaeaand causining furtr damage. Albania is one of f the poorest countries in europe, and its neighbors were quick to o offer help. Teamams frorom itataly, greece,d romania are already helping and rescue operations. In rescue operatitions. Using hand signals, rescuers ask for silence as they listen for cries of people trappeped under the wreckage. Many peoeople are still m missi, their families are hoping and praying they will be found alive. Phil some of the other stories making news around the world, polls have closed in t the president ial a and parliamentary ectionons. The president is facing discontent over the poor state of the economy. The other party is tipped for a strong showing. He has been in power since they won independence from south africa in 1990. Apple has agreedd to russian demands to show the Crimean Peninsula as part of russia. The regionn is shown on weather maps but only for users within the country. Russia sees crime era seized crimea in a referendum that others say was illegal. Demonstrators across columbia are holding their Second National strike in less than a week as part of ongoing protests against the president s rightwing government and its anticipated economic plans. Protesters are demanding the countrys should be disbanded after a young demonstrator was killed by a teargas canister over the weekend. This is dw news live from berlin. Still to come, the chinese children whose study days are longer than adult workdays. First, to malta where a series of highlevel resignations has rocked the government as a scandal grows over the murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana galizia more than two years ago. Two senior government figures have designed have resigned and another says he has suspended himself. The opposition calling for the Prime Minister to step down says the only decision he has taken is to protect those around him. Reporter making a short, sharp exit. An angry crowd through accusations and eggs at maltese prime e minister Joseph Muscat s he escaped parliament shrouded by tight security. Hours earlier, his chief of staff and two ministers resigned. One is under arrest and spent tuesday night in Police Custody as part of the Police Investigation into the murder of a prominent journalist Daphne Caruana galizia. Caruana galizia, an investigative reporter, described as a onewoman wikileakaks, was blownwn up by r bobomb two yeaears ago. She had become known for exposing cronyism within the countrys political and business elite. Although, three men face trial for carrying out the murder, the mastermind has not yet been identified. Last week, a suspect believed to be a middlemem and the m murder was arrrrested. The prPrime Minister granted a pardrdon, if the man helped find of thehe mastermind. The next morning, a maltese businessman was a apprehended on his s luxury yacht, allegedly preparing to flee. The businessman too is now reportedly seeking immunity in exchange for cooperating with the police. Protesters say Caruana Galizia was a victim of what they call endemic corruption at the highest levels of multis government. Muscats top eight has been questioned by police. The other ministers say they are to stepping aside until the investigation is over, while denying any involvement in the death. All three are accused of corruption by Caruana Galizia. Her family says the Prime Minister is protecting those behind her murder, muscat has ignored calls to quit. The country needs stability. And my m mandate, my actions, ad decicisions in the coming hohous andays w will be aimeded to ense that stability is maintained. Reporter protesters say democracy in the country has long been on the slide. The law broken in more ways than one. Phil german chancellor Angela Merkel has renewed her pledge to raise germanys defense spending. The chancellor was speaking during the debates in the German Parliament about the governments budget for 2020. She also responded to recent criticism of nato either french president , saying the alliance was as important today as it was during the cold war. Reporter a handshake with a minister of defense. Then, in her speech, chancellor Angela Merkel focus on urgent Foreign Policy issues, and offered a spirited defense of nato. Even more so than during the cold war, maintaining nato is very much in our interest. Because as the foreign minister said yesterday, europe is not in a position to defend itself alone. We depend on the transatlantic alliance, so we must support and assume greater responsibility for it. Reporter and she said germany is ready to spend more on defense. The defense minister has drawn up a plan for germany to play a greater role in the alliance. With our Defense Budget to reaching 2 of gdp by the early 20 30s, and we are committed to that. Reporter the Opposition Left Party strongly criticized the plan. Parliamentary group leader accused the government of spending too much money on the army. Your policy on military spending is dangerous, its expensive, and ultimately, you are surrendering to donald trump. Reporter even merkels Coalition Partners criticized her defense policy. The social democrats do not want to support those push for military dominance. We want a strong position in diplomacy and demo severe struggle and the severe struggle of catastrophe. We believe this is the better course of action. Reporter an already difficult times for the german government, the nato spending meant men could put further spray strain on the coalition. Phil german president has awarded one of the countrys most prestigious prizes to a team of computer scientists from munich. The german future prize went to the engineers, for their work in developing groundbreaking data analytic software. The prize recognizes innovation in science and technology and aims to highlight projects with the potential to create jobs. Heres more on the developers of big data breakthrough and how they hope to make businesses more efficient. Reporter before milk reaches supermarket shelves, it goes on a long journey. It is picked up from the dairy farm and often rerouted before it is delivered to stores. Consumers expect the supermarket to be fully stocked. When the supply chain does not work, it is often hard to find out exactly what went wrong. These three men aimed to spot issues and optimize processes like these. They have developed software that can improve the processes of entire companies. So, processes like these occur every day. Our lives are filled with them. They actually make our world function, and every process can be optimized. Reporter optimizing processes is usually a job for consultants who examine them in companies and find inefficiencies. Consultants ask for specific information and usually collect data at a certain point in time, but these three have a completely different approach. In everyday life, people have to make decisions all the time. Obviously, your decisions can only be as good as the information you have. We provide information people need in order to make the very best decisions. Reporter s the trio core the trios core idea, make sure the information is always available. In principle, it is clear where the milk is and when, but nobody uses this data, you have to dig it up. That is known as process mining. The software collects that information and creates a visual display of the process. That makes it easier to spot a pitch, for instance, here. Milk arrives on time at store 12 but not at store 13. The reason . A traffic incidenent. Asas a result, customers are unhappy and employees are left waiting. By evaluating the data, a different delivery route can be found, improving the process. We have surely all had situations in which we were frustrated when despite our best efforts, we are dissatisfied as when when things do not turn out the way we want. Think of chest. The successful chess player is the one thinking several moves ahead. Reporter in Large Companies where production processes are interwoven, it is often difficult to keep track of them. Because everything is interconnected. If you change something in one place, you never quite know the effects it will have elsewhere, like in a game of chess. This trios main goal is to make Companies Better and more efficient by letting them analyze their own self generated data using the process mining technique. Phil this is an important week for the future of European Space missions. Ministers of Member States of the European Space agency will speed will meet in spain to discuss how much to invest in the agencys various projects. High on the agenda is the new launch vehicle, ariane 6 which costs around 3. 5 billion euros to develop. Will it make European Space launches more profitable . Can it compete with rockets of private space entrepreneurs like elon musk and jeff bezos, or richchard branson . Reporter garretts new Space Shuttle is launching into a fiercely competitive markeket, with new financially powererful rivals. It is a biased contest. The chinese, russians, and americans benefit from many orders known as institutional launches. Which can only be given to domestic rockets. This stipulation does. Not apply in europe space x offers prices in europe that are hard for domestic launches to compete with. Thats public information, it is not a secret. If you search online, you will see space x r regionalllly recently s sold launches for 10 million. It offered the same rockets to europe for 50 million. Thats half the price. Reporter the launch cost ariane 6 had to be brought down dramatically by at least 40 . Which is no mean feat. That is why they are relying on synergies. New boosters have been developed and tested. They gave the shuttle that thrust it needs during takeoff, and they will likely be used for europes smaller rockets as wewell. This means they can produce more units which reduces production costs. The operators expected the biggest savings to come from the new production methods, like the protective insulation on the upper section. Plates used to be glued to the outside of the rocket by hand, a timeconsuming process. For ariane 6, these components are sprayed on by a robot. This creates a uniform surface, which is important for the structures on the upper section. It is much better and easier. You have much better control of the process. And it is much more costeffective than the previous method. Reporter there are two versions planned for the new rocket. One will be able to launch two satellites, and the otheher wl be ablble to launchh four. The operators hope this flexibility will help to attract more customers. They are calling f for eu fundss for rocketss to go to european producers. We much more dependent on the commercial market. It is a question of fairness. If we have institutional launches in europe, we should launch with a european rocket. Reporter up to 12 rockets are to be produced annually, double the previous amount. This fuel tank will soon take off on its maiden flight. The first ariane 6 will launch at the end of 2020. Phil for many children, time spent in school is part of their learning. If you then at afterschool activities and extra tuition, the pressure can be unbearable. This is the reality of many chinese schoolchildren. They are told of the best grades will guarantee them a private a bright future. Reporter she waits here every day for her sons class to end. She quit her job so she could spend more time raising her son. The sevenyearold to spend seven hours a day in school, but that is only part of his education. She has organize the schedule of activities for his afternoon. They start at 4 00 p. M. With a talk about the days homework. I dont look at his grade so much, but i do Pay Attention to his study habits. In first gradede, his chinese characters were not very neat, but he has improved. It is his attitude toward learning that client that counts. Reporter like many middleclass parents in china, she feels thee regular School Curriculum is not enough for her child. It is common for families to pay for additional classes and tutoring. His extracurricular lessons include english, chinese, swimming, exercise, and math. Chinese parents spend a an avere of 15,000 euros annually on private tutoring. By 5 45 p. M. , he has finished his math and english exercises. He and his mother take a break for dinner. His father works 12 hours a day, so he barely sees him during the week. Chinese children are already being trained for their later woworkload. I think i have enough time to play. If i get my homework dodone quickly, i have more. If im too slow, i have less. Sometimes i have an hour a day, sometimes 40 minutes or just 20. It depends. Reporter it is time for his evening class, a language and writing course. Chinas technophile society enthusiastically embraces new teaching methods, especially if they are more playful than traditional learning. But she sometimes asks herself if she is pushing him too far. Many children now in china are excellent students. But then they fail an important exam and they cannot deal with the frustration and they jump off a rooftop. What matters most to me is to raise a healthy personality. Reporter that is an issue that is much discussed on the internet in china. The competition to enter the best schools and universities is fierce. And there is one thing that has not changed for generations, chinesese characters require a t of practice. At 9 30, he is finally done. Bedtime. He just finished 12 hours of studying and activities. Now it is sunday. But he is not off today either. Weekends are the busiest time for tutors. His parents have decided to limit his activities on weekends to one class per day. On sundays, he gets tutored in physical fitness. Another tough week is over for him. No more classes, and no more homework. In the afternoon, his parents have Something Special in store. They are taking him to a museum. Phil this is dw news live from berlin. In a moment, i will take you through the day. Stay tuned for that and we will have more of the headlines at the top of the hour. Have a good day. 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