consciousness on a moment we have an exclusive report on a series of attacks by far right gangs on the roma community in ukraine what is fueling the violence and apple becomes the first privately owned company to top one trillion dollars in market value the latest milestone for a company that began in a good project forty two years ago. and a new report says that google is secretly working on a sensor search engine for the chinese market that include global block controversial search terms and leave out certain websites from its search results. the only place. players. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program. zimbabwe's election commission is set to announce the winner of the country's presidential vote after under arrest in exile in the capital harare
opposition leader nelson chamisa claims to be the legitimate winner of the presidential poll but says that the results could be rigged to favor the incumbent zanu p.f. emerson among. international observers have appealed for calm after security forces killed six protesters last night today police raided the headquarters of the opposition movement for democratic change. the police called in sealing off the office of the movement for democratic change or m.d.c. they say they're investigating its presidential candidate nelson chamisa and others for inciting violence after yesterday's deadly demonstrations chamisa repeated his times that incumbent president amas and then get the polls and then he cling to victory for himself things he summoned up one note that is lost this election if it won this election is a little bit you know no longer. just a day earlier so she has cracked down on the protests in the capital harare
a period of about four days so really the only thing the time in which they must make their announcement these claims of rigging is. clearly superposition or the fix on the ground ok but we have to mention just to counter that that international observers they've also urged you to to release the results a bit earlier because there has been tension in the country i'd like to talk a little more about that tension because you know you've been on television today a bit earlier and i'd like to talk about something you said you blamed the opposition for yesterday's deadly violence and i'd like to ask you if that's fair because there are reports that the military used to live ammunition to disperse the protesters and people are dead today. i was not present so i cannot respond on behalf of the military what i will the noise that. the m.d.c. . the m.d.c. alliance. actually terrorizing people the actually damage to our parted
indices aware that it is lost to the election if they want to contest the election we have good legal procedures which they can no bill to them so they can approach the conditional court within the timeframe is given and contest we would defend ourselves because we nor that we have won this election properly and feel it is the people of zimbabwe who are the judges is to which of the two presidential candidate is the most popular our leader is popular because since he took over power he has been delivering on the wishes of the people he has a year he has sold a program of development program or kicking the ball with forward a program of modernizing our economy a program of creating employment in the country and this program resonates with the interest in the wishes of the people of zimbabwe so just quickly before we go and you just said there that the m.d.c. lost the election we know that the presidential results have not been released yet we are told by the electoral commission that they will begin releasing those
results at ten pm tonight are you willing to say on our air today that they you won the presidential election well i cannot say we were in the presidential election and two is confirmed by the electoral commission but just by their votes. counted to see their political elections will tend to be inconceivable and and reasonable for anyone to think that we could win two thirds majority in the political election and then proceed to lose the position election it is quite clear that just going by that logic alone we must have won the position election but we are waiting for the sick to confirm paul monk wanna spokesperson for zimbabwe zanu p.f. party we thank you so much for joining us this evening a tense time there in your country and we thank you so much for sharing your view on the situation. thank you. thanks let's turn to some other news now because the european union is marking roma
holocaust memorial day and remembrance of the hundreds of thousands of sent roma murdered by the nazis and hispanics european commission vice president to monks said that since he and roma people still face racism and hatred on a daily basis indeed recent weeks roma people in ukraine have found themselves under attack from right wing groups one man was stabbed to death in front of his wife connelly traveled to western ukraine to speak with his widow and two other victims of violence. this is how we do it began in april twenty eighth far right huge mountains protect the roma count the ukrainian capital kiev copycat attacks soon followed across the country in late june twenty three year old david pop was stabbed more than a dozen times in the western city of movie if his death provoked an outcry inside and outside ukraine's borders the teenage suspect
a noun custody but how could this have been allowed to happen and what has become the survivors. where in the village where david pappa grew up from here it's just a matter of kilometers to ukraine's western frontier with hungry it's a backyard the region is home to ukraine's biggest rent a community many of them live in extreme poverty since the attacks people here have become wary of strangers and it's only with the help of pasta filled your photographs that we are allowed in to take says to me david perhaps we do you know yes it's the first time she's spoken publicly about her husband's murder. he said when those teenagers came to attack our camp they didn't say a word they just started going at us with their nods i beg them there are children here but they just started attacking us even more viciously my husband was lying dead in front of me after that i lost consciousness. on the day of our visit the boy received a call in the police interview asking her to testify in court she refused the fish
she says was too great since the attacks police have responded to requests from community leaders to step up their patrols and roam a district. court about the roma community leader and a local councillor in the past most of his work was about helping burma people gain access to basic government services many here don't even have a birth certificate let alone a passport but in recent months he's been confronted with a totally new set of problems as the victims of the attacks come to him looking for support. i don't understand where this hatred comes from we've never seen anything like this kind of open discrimination these kinds of attacks or action what we need to get around to solving the roma communities problems now are not just kick the can down the road. miroslav takes us on a visit to rob a bank or a roma community on the edge of the shadow. there we meet claro
a survivor of one of the attacks in libya. these old people and children they smashed my brother in law's head in and just left him for dead but i don't want the attackers to go to prison prison doesn't make people any better they were just kids after all that's up it. up the day it's a point of view we hear time and time again whether people here are ready to forgive or simply fear further escalation we can't get a clear answer as we continue our walk through red bunker with miroslav the atmosphere suddenly turns there's been a break in the local church and. suspicion this fall and the inhabitants would disapprove the community will move so if he wants them they'll give it all back. someone broke into the church. so you have pictures. we never do find out how the investigation ends but now the police leave iraq and go without making any arrests
at a time when the roma community needs the police to protect the most never relations to the enforcement attempts remote places mission. and it's not just in ukraine that roma and sinti people face discrimination for more on this let's bring in george yvonne of each he's the president of the european roma rights center and he joins us now from novi. and george as we just heard there we just saw documentation of violence against sinti and roma and ukraine what can you tell us about the situation for these groups in other countries. the reports from ukraine but from other countries are well give us a lot of war is that. raise in europe we see very high official from european member states government giving statements in which they openly promote and support them as an example in the book area of fashions that is convinced on the anti hate crime against roma for calling them animals get to be
a deputy prime minister of the country and as the biggest irony he gets to run the national council for the integration of minorities including those people that he called animals at the same time italian interior minister silvio calls for the roma act next census promises cleaning of feet. of their own a presence openly express regret that he context felt italian. because they are protected as italian citizens in such a political climate we see that a direct consequence is that human rights and even the rule of law is not respected last week we had a perfect example of that in rome where the local of. around three hundred roma on the street from their houses providing gold tentative accommodation and aghast actually the order of the european court of human rights which says that dispy
people can be weak that so the discrimination as you've articulated there exists not only on the streets but also in the halls of government and i'd like to know because you obviously study this would you say that it's increasing yes and as i said yes in last year and this year we actually see dead. creasing in whole europe. so what needs to be done to counteract that to combat discrimination. so what my organization is doing is litigation so we take our asses to the courts we five for respect of human rights and rule of flow but this can be done in this elation because as we saw in this example of the word the authorities you can order a direct order of the european court of human rights that show us actually that whole european union has to change the european union has to insist on all its members to respect european values and that means respecting minorities including
those most vulnerable like koroma because you know the most european countries actually develop a very nice papers on integration policies for roma what is missing is actually a real implementation and a real political will to the roma and not using them as cave goats for the populace statements so how do you build that political well well you know and your goal which is to promote equality for city and around what do you see as the main challenges we need to do to promote equality we need to promote understanding between people we need to understand why someone is different why someone has a different life experience and we need to work to raise awareness of this long lasting youth discrimination of roma which exist since they came to this.
continent and are lost a long lasting discrimination is actually one of the main reasons why we still see so many differences between roma and non roma in our earth societies judge of out of it president of the european realm of rights thank you so much for joining us thank you. well now it's over to helen humphrey and we're talking about a major business milestone it absolutely is a moment of history of course sara on thursday apple became the first company to be valued at one trillion dollars now the i phone makers market capitalization briefly pos the market kind of challenging to actually visualize this enormous number with well thirteen digits not just to get an idea of that massive some apple is worth almost as much as indonesia's g.d.p.
which stood just above one trillion in twenty seventeen if someone who want to spend one trillion dollars i'll give it a go they could buy more than one billion brand new i phone ten's those start at nine hundred and ninety nine dollars in the united states i want to bring in safety shipments here on this now our correspondent on wall street and sophie many people say that the success of our poll is also down to the fact that it can enforce high prices were essentially i mean we're addicted to off. how long can the company keep that up. yeah i think that's a crucial question has been that the i phone a really any apple product has always been more than just a laptop or a phone and it is still after that day if status symbol design used to play a big role as well and apple has had the reputation of the number one visionary in the industry back then with steve jobs even more
a bit in the past fierce competitors have caught up and offered just as advance products for less money and in some quarters the numbers have shown signs of slowing demand for i phones maybe not every quarter but cook is getting the company ready by focusing on services and turn them into a more important source of income but then again according to the earnings we saw this week consumers are just as willing as ever to purchase high priced products so maybe the psychology basically is still working for apple here and let me quote a morgan stanley analyst who says that innovation led to price increases historically boost apple demand let's look at this in regards to the bigger picture that so you see what will the trade will mean for. well first of all china is a very important market for apple china revenue has been rocketing on strength i phone ten the company has just reported nine point five billion dollars in revenue
that came from china making for a nineteen percent jump since this time last year on a call with investors after the quarter earnings report investors expressed concern that the recent round of proposed tariffs could impact apple's market share in china but the c.e.o. always emphasized the company's position that terrorists can have unintended consequences for consumers and the economy but he did not say what's the any mpeg the new set of tariffs on two hundred billion dollars and good could have on apple products and then i would like to remind you off the special treatment president trump has granted tim cook when he said that the u.s. government would not levy tariffs on i phones assembled in china so i would say so far at least investors on wall street and wall street are not too worried here so he should be for us in new york so he thank you.
china's foreign ministry says it won't be blackmailed as the u.s. turns up the pressure in that terrorist disputes with the as you called for an conference rather getting underway in singapore asian nations already preparing their contingency plans and searching also trading partner. a free trade agreement signed by sixteen asian countries by the end of the year this is the ambitious plan for destroying the albion missing in singapore. the move comes after the united states withdrew from the trans-pacific partnership the new agreement with u.s. participation would leave china at the helm. trading system which has underpinned growth and prosperity is under pressure it's important . to support the multilateral system and work with like minded partners. of
corporate. co-operation is needed the gathering is taking place amid continuing bad news for members of the association of southeast asian nations the us just announcing plans to raise its latest round of tariffs on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese imports from ten percent to twenty five. as part of china's growing export supply chain the nation stand to lose big in a trade war making it display of unity and swift progress towards a new agreement all the more important. but over sarah now it's there the cost of doing business with beijing or perhaps the cost of not doing business with beijing in fact because china of course for now and for its historic great wall building started on the mammoth fortification back in the third century b.c. to protect china from invaders well these days china also has another wall that is known as the great fire wall of china it's supposed to protect chinese citizens
from undesired foreign influences first set up back in two thousand the great fire wall blocks access to certain websites and certain terms that the chinese government deems dangerous any whiff of criticism of the government or terms that refer to the student massacre in tiananmen square in one thousand nine hundred nine for example are prohibited in the past the tech giant google has spoken out against such internet censorship in fact that's why it pulled out of china in two thousand and ten at the time google's co-founder said the following are objection is to those forces of totalitarianism our hope is that there is progress and a more open internet in china so that was then this is now and how times have changed eight years later google reportedly secretly planning its return a new report from the investigative web site the intercept says that the tech giant has a team secretly working on
a new censored version of its search engine for china and earlier spoke with the author of that reports the intercepts ryan gallagher we asked him what he discovered about what is called project dragon-fly google's secret effort to get china back. yeah well basically drug inflight is the project name for. an underage google has developed for smartphone users in china the idea is that it will give them access to a censored version of google that is compliant with the ruling communist party regimes censorship controls over information that people cannot access on the internet in china and google is trying to get back into china. using the censored up that people will be able to access once it is launched at the moment is a. google idea was to have it ready between the next six to nine months it's
a warrant but we'll see what happens and the story that we published yesterday through a sponsor in the works so we'll have to see how it develops and that was right gallagher from the answer saft a short while ago turkey has threatened to retaliate against the u.s. after washington sanctions on some of its government officials the sanctions are in response to the detention of american pastor andrew bronson who was arrested in the wake of the failed coup in twenty sixteen despite the bullish stance from ankara turkey as currency sank as the sanctions came into force. effect of the u.s. sanctions on turkey can be observed over the course of just one day as the dollar rises in value. the euro has fallen even further we're lucky if it doesn't fall further than ten leave. i just know that milk and eggs have become more expensive gas is more expensive and so is a bridge that your brand the divide between nato partners u.s. and turkey is deepening interior minister who himself was hindered by the entry ban
tweeted this someone who belongs to us in america for too long and we will take him back so you was referring to the islamic preacher who fled to the u.s. after president declared him responsible for the twenty six thousand attempted coup president trump on the other hand is worried about this man u.s. pastor andrew branson seen here in turkey last week as he was transferred from prison to house arrest three months after the attempted coup in dance and was arrested on charges of terrorism we've seen no evidence that pastor bronson has done anything wrong and we believe he is a victim of unfair and unjust detention by the government of turkey. the u.s. government blames the turkish justice and interior ministers for branson's incarceration those ministers u.s. assets have been frozen and in turn foreign ministry said that the threat of sanctions from the usa would not remain without consequences. you're watching t.v.
news still to come on the program we meet syrian refugees living in fear and lebanon beirut says that it is ready to send many of them home just by the risk to their lives. but mark coming up after a short break i'm sara kelley in for lent i hope to see you can see. the sapphire ranch in madagascar are. gender hunters work for starvation wages. risking their lives in a legal minds. driven by poverty in dallas is destroying the environment and the consequences are devastating. to get start mining treasure island. on double. paned
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jungle and returned to the concrete and glass jungle. the result reversed culture. from the forest. welcome back to news i'm sarah kelly in berlin our top stories police in zimbabwe have sealed off the headquarters of the country's main opposition party after its leader claimed that he had won the country's presidential election the electoral commission is set to announce the official results later this evening and the european union has marked holocaust memorial day in honor of the brome and cindy people murdered during the second world war warns that roma and still face persecution around europe today. as well lebanon is stepping up pressure on syrian
refugees to return home so one point five million syrian refugees are currently in lebanon and officials there have repeatedly said that's putting the country under strain hundreds of refugees have returned to syria in the past few weeks but many more are afraid of what would happen to them if they went back to that your correspondent. traveled to the town of. or she met a woman who fled syria the assad government killed her husband and son she and her children fear for their lives if they return. it was not a royal. undertaking but the mother of eight and grandmother of three children was forced to flee his syrian home. to take refuge in the. just across the border. although it happened five years ago the memories are still
fresh this is my son her husband and eldest son were killed in the syrian war. at the beginning of the uprising protests were not violent and they were peaceful but my husband was killed because he took part in the my son was with the regime army doing his compulsory service and the syrian intelligence service killed him because he deserted other the. huda fears the assad regime but the pressure from lebanon to leave is building some three thousand syrians have already registered to return there but i can never go back to syria. she is especially worried about this man goes in via is a member of the syrian committee tasked with collecting the names of bill in return is and sending the list to damascus for approval. suspicious that the government
mitali the lives of those who protested against the regime and arrest them upon arrival other refugees are worried they will be denied permission to return but gholston denies the charge. it's not a condition not an issue of approval and it's just about informing the government of the names of the people returning. he claims syria is now safe and to convince us he asked one of the refugees who've applied to return to talk to us do you want to go back of course what's keeping me here but it doesn't go quite as he and the so much so he is confronted by angry syrians. back to syria safely is impossible. he shows his broad scars the military to this white house that i live. by lebanon's government is eager to talk one off million syrian refugees so many
say they may be forced to look at europe again. and her friends are among those thinking about making the journey to your other but they know that it won't be easy but the risk of reprisal by a soft security forces is high and. one of the ladies has just heard of the arrest of her sister by the syrian regime. i want to migrate to europe for the future of my children and i applied to the u.s. that they didn't help me other than i'm going to have smugglers want an eight thousand euros for the trip and i when i see the film is a lot more than a field who that doesn't know what she would do yet and many here are facing a similar dilemma. it may be too soon to say if there will be a second wave of refugees to europe but the conditions are right. for now despite all the hardship google's best bit seems to be levanon if the lebanese go to
a state. god knows universal health care system has been described as one of the most successful on the african continent but services are largely contained to urban centers people living in remote areas often have no access to medical care at all just north of the capital across the expanse of lake volta its shores are home to thousands of fishing villagers who access health care whose access to health care depends on infrequently visiting volunteers. dr ino. and his colleagues a setting off to give medical care to people on an island in the vast lake volta it's a risky venture. you know what i have a lot of stumps. and sometimes the both sky will to hit the stumps and the cup size . the doctor and his team will be treating fishermen and their families mortality
rates among women and children here are well above the country's average childbirth and malaria other biggest killers anal comes here in his free time normally he works at a hospital on the mainland he in one of a doctor look after one hundred thousand people in germany the average is four hundred doctors per one hundred thousand. so that's one of the stamps at it i think . this emerged tree stumps are from the time before the manmade reservoir was created in the one nine hundred sixty s. the boatman familiar with the water is still is the vessel safely through the partially submerged hazards. after an hour's journey the team arrives on the island is home to nearly twenty thousand people iraq is their only doctor and he could only visit every few weeks there's a clinic. for our new clinic. he can't always see all the patients in
a single visit. and often there's not even a mobile signal here to call the doctor in an emergency. worrying about how. patients a trio the outside the clinic first inside tends to the ones in greatest need many of them pregnant women. hopefully now he's better equipped to treat them. just a few days earlier the government sent him to do a crash course on how to perform complex dynaco logical operations at a hospital down river in battle. a lack of highly trained specialists in ghana means general practitioners life enough are expected to fill the gap. doing hysterectomies yes that's a very right are still. that we have to live with that if i lose it but at the back
of our stations. if a woman haemorrhages after giving birth a hysterectomy is often the only way to save her life in uk encountered this once in the far north east of the country but couldn't save the new mother the woman didn't stop living i do found it interesting. if i knew that if i knew the skills that i have now i'll go i would absolutely live. she died. most highly skilled medics are drawn to ghana's few big cities and more than half seek work abroad where opportunities and wages a better battle is feeling the effects of this brain drain. back on the island in like volta a knox already managed to treat more than forty patients next up is three year old
versioning he has a high fever and is so. weak he can walk. one of. the rapid test for malaria is positive because that's how this now woman is and everything and us have been done so for now we would take that in the boats back to them in a. week early the time of year otherwise that. would rule that. the intravenous infusions the child urgently needs are only available on the mainland but he'll have to wait a little longer to get them. by late afternoon has treated more than sixty people for others the time ran out and then have to wait until his next visit. to the vote four weeks from now doesn't manage to get through the last few hours and is now being taken for malaria
treatment at a knox hospital. let's go. they leave just in time. the boatman can easily spot the stumps in the water but it's getting dark a by the minute when they reach the mainland delusion will finally get to the hospital where he not thinks he has a good chance of recovery. to sweden now and ellen heiress and made headlines last week when she staged a one woman protest at stop the deportation of an asylum seeker back to afghanistan she was on board of a plane about to take off from gautham bar but she refused to take her seat preventing the plane from taking off she live streamed her actions and earned plaudits for her bravery and caught up with her. when ellen arsonists people these days her protest against the deportation of one of her friends dominates the conversation people all over the world still congratulate her when
she refused to take a seat on an airplane she prevented the man's deportation from goteborg to afghanistan even if only temporarily that it was thought that there were a lot of video from the plane made international headlines emerson wanted to draw attention to what she feels is sweden's inhumane asylum policy. we are not giving the correct legal procedure they have the right to we are the government and the migration of this are doing so much things that possibly can just to make sure that they deport and react as many people as possible. anderson belongs to a group that looks after former unaccompanied minor refugees from afghanistan. the young refugees are optimistic that swedes like ours and are prepared to use civil disobedience to prevent their deportation. here for good i also should have been deported i launched an appeal against it. i've been waiting a year for
a decision it might even take another year if i were to then be deported i will have lived in sweden for four years i really don't know how i would react to that the nurse in case has fueled debate on asylum and immigration in sweden parliamentary elections are coming up in september and surveys show increasing support for right wing populists but there are also those who welcome refugees. simply stop the night is government should put a stop to immigration. and everybody will need immigration in sweden because we need the workers i will certainly not vote for any party that is against refugees and immigration and. the biggest opposition party the conservative moderate is outraged over the acclaim arison has received for her activism. follett's who doesn't here in sweden it's not the government that decides on deportation. it's about it's the courts does. it and it's not
acceptable for individuals to define court decisions. through all the holes in her suit but as long as people being deported to afghanistan risk getting killed harrison says she wants to continue her work she feels this is her. in life so even if we guess but stuff think the flirtatious to afghanistan then i believe that probably they still together and i hope so because they are part of my life not. their sinhalese for an interview with a british radio station the debate over deportation to afghanistan continues in part thanks to ellen emerson. well now could the humble banana cure our addiction to plastic ellen humphrey has the answer of course sounds curious but something's got to sort out right there because of course if we don't cut back on that use of plastic well the u.n. estimates that by the year twenty fifty they'll be more plastic than fish in the
sea if we don't change our ways and i knew damned well the government is implementing a ban on plastic shopping bags and now a group of women are using the nano fiber to make paper bags instead. plastic bags are a common sight in uganda but not at this restaurant in the capital kampala instead of plastic bags known locally as cover the management here uses paper bags . and we are very very environment friendly and we do not want to use going out and contaminated the environment so. there's definitely reliable which is not only for us it's for our children and for our grandchildren and much more than. uganda is planning to implement a ban on plastic shopping bags this year and to replace them with biodegradable paper bags. this has encouraged a group of local women to start making paper bags using locally available banana
fiber. at most farms and uganda banana fiber is considered a waste product. but this group is using it to make paper. cut they're using this is out after the cutting with them after the. real will blend them like for five minutes. they turn into a pole we put them into a big container with water leave them on screens we drain this green through if i bust on top and the water drains out through the holes then we hung it in the rocks to dry. the fibers left to dry in the sun for at least six hours before it turns into hard paper. the women carefully hand craft the material into a range of products. these include paper shopping bags books and greeting cards. produced. on five thousand cards
that were produced. for us so different people come here they see their product the order form in we produce and send them in kampala their main clients are craft chops restaurants and supermarkets the women hope that the plastic bag ban will create more opportunities for them and neighboring them to expand their market and to protect the environment. but on the average german sixty here grams of meat every year almost all of it wrapped in plastic or total tupperware cases could end that customers take them home and get a new one next time in the supermarket chain. this german supermarket wants to wave plastic wrapping goodbye customers now have the option of buying their meat and sausages in environmentally friendly reusable boxes to avoid plastic waste.
because i think it's great people should prevent waste wherever they can it is a good it's a good idea if you can follow it on these people also brought their own containers to buy flour sugar and other things. they didn't need plastic then. nowadays it's overrated. question if you will he doesn't like many people are against the green movement they say one person can make a difference but it can turn into a mass movement with a lot of impact that our. customers start by buying a box for their meat and sausage purchases they return the box when they pop in for the next shop in exchange for a new clean one. the project is a matter of personal ethics for the supermarket manager. mcconnell just tell you the full industry i introduced it because i'm convinced we need to change. it we have to change new approaches and we found
a strong partner in the w w at. coles myer in a store here by the north sea and we have to do something for sustainability with the something has to be done. the most has to see. if the project proves to be a success it could soon be introduced all over germany. let's back over to sara now and just a warning prepared to get a song stuck in your head at. the teacher. levy our. chat chat chat chat chat chat. he. gave me a path that led chaldean. micheline summer head of the year here in germany this is the song that gets everyone on the dance floor are in the clubs and around the country at the moment and joining us here in the studio to tell us all about this
song that we just heard is robin merrill so we first have to talk about the song of last summer that is of course desk which you simply could not escape is this one just as big i don't know how it could possibly be actually because a distress eater i love i was looking it was number one in forty seven countries and to date it's had five point three billion hits on you tube nothing gets close that's the biggest thing on new nobody's near ever by any means however the two songs do have something in in common by the fact that they stick in your head but also just for seats it was written by two puerto ricans it was done in a solo latin pop and reggaeton way this is equally sort of a multicultural in this is for original allien folk song made famous in a spanish streaming series and remakes and this is the hit by
a french d.j. called wonderful make sure styles and yes very signaling is we're back to see. every year has a smash hit summer song. a way that savage. this new clap remakes of child by french d.j. is the feel good hit of the year. and i. played. really well. stefan movements also knows a lot about hit single the berlin music producer has worked with beyonce and quincy jones. summer songs have to be fun and not too sentimental. and they're probably only good for one summer and so my. balance chalo was written in the late nineteenth century as
a protest by the women who had to toil away harvesting rice and italy. in the second world war a version with new there it's become an anthem for the resistance to fascism. and it's not a summer song as such and it is a bit more serious in tone but the words bella and chow are something everyone can sing along to and the rest has a nice feel to it. and suddenly people around the world are singing bella child. about to be just. a fascist and some transformed into a sing along summer smash. get it bad.
bad that's. bad that's out sad. joke. it is a little catchy so but it was really a netflix series that i got the all star was it was a spanish series the english soccer was is money heist is about a guy who take over the royal mint in spain that's for the print money steal the money and stop printing it billions as well for themselves meanwhile the series become as i watched norm english series ever netflix and the song is a light motif throughout the facts and let's just hear the gang boss and press. so far as he's gold one of these gangs singing them much more i have to say atmospheric.
suffice it to say that the series was ridglea actually had an ending it's been so popular that actually they've extended it for another series and there are going to be new amazing highside expect from. us so i can say that this guy and this song is not going away much like many of us myself included would like to go away around and. we have another summer hit that we have to talk about this is one that's inspired a dance challenge and yeah this is drake's single in my feelings i'm an american comedian called shakey actually we think he started off you never quite know on social media but he started doing a dumpster it in the middle of the road now now it's taken on a large design in the region celebrities and his pitch is this is will smith on top of a bridge in the one daring capital budapest doing the kiki challenge as it's cold but
also people started getting at was that their call was while their car is still moving and dogs into the song account are thought i mean looks a lot of fun and obama but also it could be a little bit dangerous so drake is thrilled about the challenge but not about moving calling saying kids be careful and yet. in the dog kiki challenge just as cold that's the song for you ok isn't very nice song let's hope that they don't get so popular that we get sick of them. robin merrill want to find out more at our website did a good dot com slash cultural robin thank you so much. soccer news now and one of byron munich's newest signings was formally introduced to the media on thursday he formally played for shaka and is also a german national team member. he's that byron's bavaria training camp in southern
germany he talked about how much he thinks he might be most effective for the school. has been said i'm actually fairly. well soccer authorities are considering changing the format of penalty shoot outs to make them fair and reduce the pressure on players going second the name of the new system has been inspired by a very well known swedish pop band but will the beautiful game decide to take a chance to find out. fresh off the back of a world cup which saw plenty of penalty shootout drama young german players a trialing a new system. with research revealing the side going second in a shootout loses sixty percent of the time a new format has been devised baby also known as ever sees things take alternating pairs of penalties off to the first spot kick. to often high new teams have a style the winner takes it but what if they make it the new system. is supposed to
say it's good because in the old system the team going second was under greater pressure which could make them lose and this system if the first person misses his teammate can still level the school and with that you are up to date now on your news i'm sarah kelly in berlin thank you so.
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tyrant's. this is deja vu news live from berlin a trump turnabout on turkey the us president lift sanctions on iran for after putting them in place just over a week ago he says turkey has told him that it has a middling tended to defense it against the kurds in northern syria. also coming up police find 39 bodies in a truck parked at an industrial park near london. they have moved the vehicle to a secure location so they can identify the victims plus basketball fans in the u.s. protest in support of big 3 hong kong superstar le bron james is singled out for
criticism at the n.b.a. season opener in los angeles we'll tell you why. i'm sara kelley welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump is lifting economic sanctions on turkey saying that on caret informed him it would permanently enforce a cease fire in north eastern syria where it has been fighting kurdish militia the ceasefire which struck claims credit for requires kurdish forces to move out of a 30 kilometer zone on the turkish border turkey launched its offensive into syria after trump told us forces out of the reach. this was an outcome created by us the united states and nobody else no other nation very simple and we're willing to take blame and we're also willing to take credit this is something they've been
trying to do for many many decades since then others have come out to help and we welcome them to do so other countries have stepped forward they want to help and we think that's great turkey syria and all forms of the kurds have been fighting for centuries we have done them a great service and we've done a great job for all of them and now we're getting out let's get more now on the situation in northern syria we are joined by from the german institute for international and security affairs get a welcome to the program i'd like to 1st ask you about that statement that we just heard from the u.s. president quite an upbeat statement essentially saying that by all indications turkey is making the ceasefire permanent lifting the sanctions against turkey your take. well it's the statement is is bizarre the sanctions were bizarre u.s. policy was bizarre in recent weeks the united states has left no we do see russia
the assad regime and turkey dividing north and syria between themselves this has nothing to do with the us and it's not a success at all for the us and western policies in turn around and those 2 parties i mean now that there is you know no more u.s. presence in the area those 2 parties essentially came up with the steel to sort of carve out the region yesterday where does this leave the kurds and the syrians well the syrians the syrian regime is winning together together with the russians simply because. the assad regime has been weak it suffers from a lack of personnel but because of the u.s. withdrawal it has been able to regain control of some small parts of north eastern syria the syrian kurds they will lose their autonomy they are losing territory right now to the russians to the syrian regime and to the turks and in the end they
will be they haven't agreed to that they haven't agreed to agree to that but that shows us something about their future kurdish autonomy without american protection will not continue to exist for a long time and they have already they have already approached damascus and they will return to the syrian fold in the coming months or years we heard the german defense minister weigh in yesterday on the situation there she suggested a security zone in northern syria what do you make of that proposal is it realistic could it possibly be implemented the way the europeans have no say in what is happening over there we have seen an agreement between russia and turkey russia is the protector of the syrians to. right now turkey has some influence and there is no way to bring back any western troops into the country without fighting for it
and the germans are not ready and ready for it my take on the situation is that the german defense minister if she knew what she was talking about yesterday was talking was addressing the miss domestic audience what she said has nothing to do whatsoever with the situation in syria and nothing nothing to do with the german syria policies in recent years is europe dropping the ball right now is nato dropping the ball right now and we had secretary general. saying it's too early to judge the consequences of that deal that was struck between russia and turkey over northern syria your view oh it's not the u.s. is out without the us there is no western presence in the country anymore we've got some 200 us military in a 10th of that is of no consequence to the to this future of the syrian state there is no nato no western presence in the country we have seen yesterday the new
reality of syria it's not a mere putin who's in charge and it is turkey and turkey only because putin wants to one stuber the alliance between turkey and the west that's the only reason why the turks are allowed to remain in syria right now that's the new reality on the ground it has nothing to do whatsoever with us middle east analyst thanks for your perspective. it's it's in the u.k. investigators are trying to piece together a tragedy $39.00 people have been found dead in a truck container on the outskirts of london the vehicle was discovered at an industrial park and the driver has been arrested on suspicion of murder police say the container where the victims were found traveled to the u.k. . from belgium. the but far supplants there is nothing unusual about this cargo truck parked an industrial estate in the town of gray's east of london. but
when police forced open its doors in the early hours of wednesday they made a gruesome discovery the lifeless bodies of thought to 9 people. in the. emergency services attended but sadly all 39 people inside the container had died. early indications suggest that one of these paper was a teenager the restimulate to be adults. a murder investigation was launched and the lorry driver a 25 year old man from northern ireland was arrested on suspicion of murder i mean mains in place custody prime minister prime minister boris johnson expressed his condolences in parliament. so the whole house will be shocked by the appalling news that 39 bodies have been discovered in a lorry container in essex this is an arm imaginable tragedy and truly heartbreaking i know that the thoughts and prayers of all members are with those
who lost their lives and their loved ones. as police try to piece together the truck's movement footage has emerged of it passing by 2 separate cameras shortly before the bodies were discovered authorities say the container had just docked in the u.k. from zeebrugge in belgium the cap part of the truck is believed to have originated in northern ireland police have moved the vehicle to a secure location so that the bodies can be recovered as this murder investigation gets underway. and charlotte potts joins us now from there that industrial park in the town of grey is east of london where those bodies were discovered charlotte one of the latest developments. well the police are just slowly lifting the cordon behind me this area has been cordoned off all day but now the truck with the 39 bodies inside has been taken out of this parking lot away from that street that has
been cordoned off to recover those bodies and further identify him we had a closer look at the truck before we were able to go behind again and see the forensic teams at work they were working at high speeds to just find out who these people were and trying to identify them. there's conflicting information about how the truck reach the u.k. what more do we know about that. well we know that the truck was driven by a 25 year old northern irish man and this man has apparently driven the so-called taxi off. through ireland into the united kingdom he then picked up the container somewhere in belgium this is what authorities believe at the moment and drove it back to the united kingdom
so that container originated not as we originally thought in bulgaria probably in belgium again this is what authorities believe at this point and this confusion with ball gary originally was because the truck itself has been registered in that country in bulgaria for tax reasons so far we really don't know where those victims were from and how they came into that container charlotte potts thank you very much. let's get a quick check of some other stories making news around the world the european council president says that he would recommend the e.u. grants the u.k. another extension to leave the block or dish prime minister boris johnson says that he wants no further probes that delay but after parliament rejected the schedule for debate on his divorce deal he could now push for an early election. google has officially announced that it has achieved quantum supremacy confirming research
that late last month the company says that its processor needs just 2200 seconds to crack a problem that would take the world's fastest supercomputer 10000 years to figure out if the claim is validated it would represent a major technological breakthrough. bolivian president evo morales has said that his rival in sunday's presidential election is attempting to stage a coup this after opposition protest accused authorities of rigging the vote. the latest official count puts the incumbent 9.5 percent head but morales needs a 10 point lead to avoid a runoff. tunisia's new president has been sworn in as this aide vowed to fight corruption and protect freedoms and women's rights in his inauguration speech he's a conservative law professor and he had a landslide victory in the country's 2nd free presidential election since the arab
spring. to the united states now where basketball fans have protested in support of a free hong kong at the n.b.a. season opener for the los angeles lakers the leak has been locked in a war of words with china and lakers player le bron james has inserted himself into the crossfire some protesters directed their criticism squarely at him. the face of the n.b.a. le bron james was the focal point of protests at the season opener los angeles lakers top player was targeted after he criticized an official from a rival team for tweeting support for hong kong residents in their political dispute with china last week james took to social media himself stating i do not believe there was any consideration for the consequences and ramifications of the tweet my team and this league just went through a difficult week i think people need to understand what a tweet or statement can do to others but james attempt to salvage the lucrative
relationship between the n.b.a. and china before the season started it didn't really work chinese t.v. didn't broadcast any of the n.b.a.'s opening games in protesters in los angeles are disappointed at the league's response i asked the n.b.a. to come out and make a forcible statement that they support the misdeeds and support the people of hong kong and they support their american values but even fans of james own team were perplexed. you know it's always tough to to use sports as a little device to talk about you know politics but sometimes it's necessary and i think when the bron james did. tough stuff. it was not a happy night for the lakers off and on the court they lost their opener to cross-town rivals the los angeles clippers. meantime in tampa the league football. escaped with a now victory over great team olympiacos but they lost yet another defender to
injury lucas hernandez left on crutches yossef raviv gave a limp jaco's the lead in the 23rd minute but 2 goals from up at leave and dusky fired biron had the poland international is now the 5th highest goal scorer of all time in the champions league olympiakos pressed to the end but fired came away with a 32 win. and now to an elephant's long journey from too late to a sanctuary in brazil roundabout finally made it after being mistreated for 14 years as a circus animal but now she is being cared for in a safe space for elephants in western brazil she's estimated to be over 50 years old but she is still not too long in the task to have some fun. you're watching live from berlin coming up next it is business africa 1st i'm sara kelly in berlin from all of us here as news thank you so much for joining us have
talks on a future trade relationship all depends on a breakthrough today can she do it we will go live to brussels also coming up u.s. president donald trump weighs a decision that could set off a seismic shift in the middle east moving the u.s. embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem could he calls the peace process to crash. plus trading life in a war zone for a life of toil an eleven year old girl is one of an unknown number of syrian child refugees who must work instead of going to school we have a special report from istanbul. i'm sara kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us. british prime minister to resign mate heads to brussels for a day of crucial talks on britain's exit from the e.u. she's hoping to reach a deal on bragg's a divorce terms with the european commission chief john claude younker the two sides are said to have agreed that britain will pay around fifty billion euros to leave the bloc but they still haven't hammered out conditions for the irish border and the rights of citizens living in each other's nations the e.u. has refused to move on to future trade talks until those issues are settled. for more now let's bring in our correspondent garrick mattis who is standing by with the very latest from brussels hi to you georg what are the most controversial sticking points would you say between britain and the e.u. at this point i mean when we boil it down is it all about the money well given the latest concept come concessions that at least the appear to be the latest concessions on the brakes a bill that has shifted a bit into the background and given more room for citizen rights and the question of a hard border in northern ireland the key sticking points appear to be now in that field particularly northern ireland because for the irish government it seems it is now the time to come forward and to make demands because it will depend on them if they give green light then the things could move for forwards to face to and that is something that the u.k. is particularly keen on face to would mean trade talks about a future relationship and derek i just want to turn back to that hard border and ireland that you mentioned there does it seem as if a solution is in reach. it is the single most contentious issue and ultimately a solution can only be reached once you talk about a future relationship because that can resolve this issue but for the irish government at the moment it seems they're very keen to at least hear the intentions of the bridge prime minister to get some sort of guarantees of what they could say for instance if they would put it on paper and say we don't want a hard border so no forms of of custom checks that could separate northern ireland from the republic of ireland something that many people in ireland but also many people in northern ireland do not want to see on the other hand creating that border if it would come to a real separation from the u.k. creating that border in the irish sea so separating northern ireland from the rest of the u.k. is also very contentious so it's a highly diplomatic highly complicated issue today will be all about the intentions of the u.k. in which direction they are heading and if it's the right direction if they give some guarantees we might well see today that we move into the second face. matus with the latest from brussels thank you another source of contention and brags that negotiations is the role of the european court of justice may has promised that britain will take back control of making and interpret its own laws but the e.u. still wants jurisdiction over the rights of e.u. citizens living in the u.k. who stands to win or lose as the two sides untangle this legal puzzles well now d.w. went to the e.c.g.'s jays headquarters in luxembourg to find out. the sacred halls of the european court of justice its future role is a major obstacle in the press to negotiations. the british government wants no more european judges meddling in their legal affairs so mrs may has remained adamant that her country will not be bound by any future judgements of this court we will take control of our own laws and bring an end to the jurisdiction of the european court of justice in question. leaving the european union will mean that all will also be made in westminster and cardiff and belfast but escaping the jurisdiction of the european court of justice is not as easy as many in the british government believe we have agreed to guarantee for the fifty thousand school. but the u.k. will apply concepts. in a manner. which you low but we fail to agree that european court of justice played an indispensable role in assuring the traditional systems. so the e.u. wants the european court of justice and its judges to maintain jurisdiction after breakfast especially when it comes to the rights of e.u. citizens living in the u.k. legal experts also say britain won't be able to remain close to the un trade and customs while at the same time breaking free from all the regulations that govern the single market without the court. difficult. chris relationship with. having common rules and above all in the rules being interpreted and applied in the same way. to see how you feel. rule. and not only that while the u.k. will likely fail to escape the easy reach entirely the country will also lose influence here since the court will no longer contain a british judge. one possible solution to a system of joint e.u. u.k. courts to resolve disputes but even then european judges will continue to have a say in u.k. affairs. case definitely not closed. well let's turn now to some other news because we're going to head now to brussels accord spain has ordered the release of several former catalan cabinet members who were being held in custody for their part in catalonia as declaration of independence in total six catalan secessionist leaders are to be released on bail but the judge upheld the jailing of four other men who have been in prison since november those still in jail include the former catalonia vice president former cabinet member and two pro independence activists meanwhile in brussels as we mentioned ousted catalan president carlos pushed amman and for close separatist allies are in court for extradition hearings and a possible decision on whether they will have to be sent back to spain. pillas following those proceedings she joins us now from brussels so what are we expecting to hear out of today's hearings charlot. there is a closed door hearing going on in the courtroom behind me carlos payan one and four other dismissed ministers arguing that they should not be extradited back to madrid now it's possible that we could get a result to the judge could rule today on whether or not they will be sent back and a great deal of course is at stake for them back in spain they're facing thirty years behind bars one of their charges alone rebellion is extremely serious but this doesn't mean to say that if a judge does decide today that they will be sent back that they'll be straight back on a plane they do have several appeals and his lawyer calls which ones lawyer has said that he believes that this process could go on into at least january so we're expecting some legal wrangling to continue over the next couple of weeks ok so pushed him on perhaps realistically not being returned to spain soon but what sort of timetable do you think that we are looking at here charlotte realistically speaking. well yes well it could take several weeks and that does mean of course that constitution is likely to be here in brussels during the elections which is due to take place in catalonia on december twenty first no there's a lot of speculation about exactly what that will mean for those elections but. has said that he is running an official campaigning is due to starts tomorrow there is some speculation that he will try and honiss his position here essentially in exile he would have to become sort of a figure so people he can argue to people back in catalonia that he is. prison dissidents it's not yet clear exactly how that will play out and according to the polls pro independence parties and anti independence parties are currently neck and neck so it's going to be very interesting to see exactly what's going to play out. here in brussels ahead of these elections charlotte some parallel with the latest from brussels thank you. eight people have been arrested in connection with a car bomb killed a maltese journalist back in october. was a leading investigative journalist reporting focused heavily on corruption on the island nation now the suspects are described as multi is nationals most with criminal records the prime minister of malta says that investigators have forty eight hours to question the suspects and to decide whether to seek those charges of a quick check now some other stories that have been making news around the world the u.s. and south korea have begun their biggest ever combined air force exercise the trails involve more than two hundred thirty fighter jets they have predictably drawn an angry response from north korea on state television pyongyang called it an all out provocation that could lead to nuclear war. the leader of germany's christian social union the bavarian sister party of chancellor angela merkel's conservatives has said that he is stepping down as the state's premier the announcement by horst say hoffer could further complicate merkel's current efforts to build a new federal coalition government. sky watchers in the city of london were treated to a spectacular view of the moon on sunday night for the first and only time this year a visible super moon lit up the sky the lunar event occurs when the moon is especially large and bright because it is at its closest distance to the earth a turnout to turkey which has taken in more refugees from war torn syria than any other country more than three million syrians are officially registered there and the un children's agency unicef says that about one point two million of them are children now has vowed to place all syrian refugee kids in school within three years but it is a work in progress right now many syrian children feel that they have no choice but to go and work to help their families survive. the reckoning noise of sewing machines has become the soundtrack of this child what she works twelve hours a day monday to friday in this clothing workshop in east ambled the women he a selling underwear and iris has to make sure they never run out of fabric. she earns about fifty cents and allah. as the house and the room of course i'd rather go to school but it's just not possible we have to pay a lot of rent and food the water bill everything is expensive and that's why i need to work and help my family. out us is eleven years old and not the only child in this workshop. has been working here for two years like others he is from syria. from the moscow's is certain he is the oldest among the kids. the youngest here is only six years old. the turkish owner lets us film but only because we promised we would not show him in our report child labor is illegal in turkey the owner knows this but says the families would be much worse off without the work. these children might be safe from the war and terror all back home in syria but what they really need now is education and the chance to build a future despite efforts by the turkish government to get refugee children off the streets and into public schools many here remain out of the classroom. many other children us and out by their parents to beg on the streets they can be seen everywhere in istanbul. up to one million syrian refugees live in the city about one third of them are children no one knows exactly how many of them are working instead of going to school. and us has finished work for today she takes me home with her to meet her family. she has two little sisters her mother is pregnant and had to stop working they don't receive any financial support from the turkish state her father found a job but even with the money. they can still only barely make ends meet. we have to send her to work we don't have any other choice every morning she cries and tells me i want to go to score it's heartbreaking i know she is too young to work and many people would not offer her job because she's still a child but i know the owner of that clothing workshop and he said he wants to help us. in syria i was the only one working. and it was enough to support my family. even my parents. but here it's different rent the kids expenses i just can't do it all on my own. i meet. one of the stumbles district may as he admits the child labor is a problem in turkey one that has grown with the arrival of the syrian refugees. visit. our options are limited. we try to get these children into our schools give them books and pens and school bags of course we do . but we don't always read all of them. it's often the case that more help is needed and we are able to give. the talk. that's why others are trying to help in our houses neighborhood syrian teachers are giving classes even on weekends for children who otherwise wouldn't be able to attend school turkish arabic or math the basics at least. for paris these are precious moments when the sewing machine stop rattling and she can be a child again if only for a few hours. long now we have from turkey to the business world in the united states monica jones is here with more on a tie up in the health care industry right in date and dates america's biggest drugstore chain c.v.s. has agreed to acquire health insurance et now for almost seventy billion dollars now the deal will link c.v.s. nationwide where network of ten thousand stores and clinics with at nasa twenty two million customers analysts say it'll take a further consultation in the industry as firms seek to defend themselves against amazon the only one online retailer is threatening to enter the market as it acquires a surgical licenses across the united states. and if the recent bitcoin boom weren't enough you may soon be able to invest in venezuela's very own crypto currency the country's president nicolas maduro announcing the so-called petro which will be backed by venezuela's oil and gas reserves is an attempt to claw back financial independence as both tension and desperation grows the venezuelan bali valar has plummeted over ninety five percent against the dollar on the black market over the past year sending the price of food rocketing. now here in europe eurozone finance ministers will pick the replacement for euro group chief deisel blown today the job is one of europe's top posts and it was especially crucial during the tumultuous years of the eurozone debt crisis for some years then it seemed the eurozone was doomed and with it its currency but recent data shows there is life in the old dog yet. years of recession on three bailouts if there was ever a poster child for europe's economic crisis it was greece but now the country's fortunes appear to be turning around growth is returning and borrowing costs to fall in. southern european nations spain and portugal are also showing signs of recovery that's especially good news for the e.u. single currency. since january of this year the euro has risen to around fifteen percent against the dollar landing most recently iran to dollar nineteen so is it all rosy not quite says the european central bank while things are improving economic with remain italy's fragile banking sector is a big concern and public debt in the country is high should europe's third largest economy find itself on shaky ground and the euro would be likely to suffer too. for the latest let's cross our two commodores now are a man in frankfurt the euro's come under some pressure today what's the problem. well it's not really a problem you know it's very nice that the euro has come down from the high rise it's shown here in trading last week people in germany are quite happy when the euro is not too expensive it helps our exporters which deal with businesses outside the eurozone of course what's driving this decline of the euro is a dollar strength after the u.s. senate passed this bill on tax cuts on saturday morning markets in europe have opened the week with a very very upbeat tone they hope that those tax cuts in the u.s. now more likely to happen will give the u.s. economy a boost and this helps the u.s. dollar currency this indicates also that market people are not really really concerned about the possibility that the u.s. budget deficit will increase quite significantly if this tax reform is really passed ok so these are reactions and expectations related to the united states what about here in europe what are the key topics you are today. well everyone is focused on brussels today where we have the meeting of the euro finance ministers they will decide who will become their speaker after their own deisel blome. ex touch finance minister has to give up his post because he has lost his job as finance minister in the netherlands and also in brussels to resign may we'll have lunch with younger the e.u. commission chief they will talk about brake said and market people are really anxious to get a few details they say that the reason they will really has to put some money on the table in order to broker pope progress with a more you know softer approach to bracks it in other words putting the money where her mouth is counted was in frankfurt thank you very much for bring us up to date now this weekend was the first sunday off advent and that means that here in germany christmas season is in full swing germany is of course the home of the christmas market where the first ones appeared as early as the late middle ages and those hundreds of years they've grown to become a seasonal economic factor and they are regulated as is one of its most popular products here in the center of cologne locals and visitors are getting into the festive spirit for many that means indulging in a thief no drink or two food quality tester all of our miami has come here to check they're up to scratch. i'm i would assume ok for the boiling point of alcohol is seventy eight degrees is so mulled wine shouldn't be hotter than last. and don't go together my own hole but evaporation and that would reduce the quality. when it comes to drinks there's no competing with mulled wine in the four weeks before christmas a store like this one can expect to bring in a rant one hundred sixty thousand euros. with some to size in markets across the country it's no wonder germans consume a total of fifty million liters of mulled wine a year. so what makes for the perfect you've tied experience like. colder weather maybe a bit more mild wine and another few visits the christmas market it's only a matter of time before you get into the spirit getting into the christmas spirit is big business and at this market at least visitors can be sure their mulled wine has enough of the other kind of spirit too. so much for business sara is now taking a look at a very controversial topic namely the one of jerusalem being recognized as the capital of israel thanks so much monica yes in fact a big warning coming from jerusalem jordan basically saying warning the u.s. president donald trump that recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel could have dangerous consequences trump has repeatedly fledged to make the controversial declaration and move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem previous u.s. presidents have declined to do so amid fears that the move would enraged palestinians who claim east jerusalem as their capital donald trump's son in law and advisor jared kushner says that the president is still deciding on whether to formally recognized as israel's capital in the coming days. but also is that the president's going to make his decision and and when he hasn't made his decision he's still looking at a lot of different facts and that when he makes his decision. he'll be the one to want to tell your nominee so so i hope he'll make sure he does that at the right time. let's get more now on this issue joining us from jerusalem is due to a few courses fondant tanya kramer welcome to you tanya we know that just the suggestion that trump could declare to the capital of israel has caused an absolute up for in the region what would you say are trumps motivations. well i think we don't know what his motivations are until he makes a decision and clarifies them as well he certainly made that pledge to move the u.s. embassy which is currently in tel aviv to jerusalem during his election campaign has signed that waiver once and his presidency now there is speculation that he could sign that they've a but then he might recognize to some as the capital of israel and that would constitute certainly a major shift in u.s. policies and it comes at a time when the u.s. is actually reportedly being pushing for a new peace to be just heard jared krishna there the son in law and middle east peace envoy mr trump who came into the region many times in the past couple of months and he made it clear although he didn't give any details about what this new plan might entail but he said that it's a very personal and very important point for mr trump to go ahead with it now a lot of people are questioning now why would mr trump well had such a recognition it is such a contentious issue and there is a good international consensus to say that jews and the status of jerusalem should be part of a negotiation and they could get a deal and also for the palestinians of course they want to see. is to resign as the capital of the futurist state and that would all preempt such a negotiations trying to tell us just briefly if trump does move ahead with this recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel what are the potential consequences. well i mean it really hurt it already i mean there's a lot of serious concern being boys are ready the palestinians have said you know would make any peace a push for peace totally avoid the don't jordanians are very concerned about it they have a stake in toulouse and they're custodians of the whole he sided gyptian to have warned about it ahead of the arab league has warned that it's my destabilize the region so all of this together will make people look very. you know they will look at all the steps being taken now there in washington and follow very closely what will happen then the next couple of hours tanya kramer with the latest from jerusalem thank you. quick reminder now the top stories that we have been following for you here at e.w. prime minister to resign heads to brussels for a day of make or break talks on britain's exit from the e.u. the two sides still haven't agreed on the terms for the irish border and so since rights the e.u. has refused to discuss the future trade 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holocaust remembrance day and the biggest nazi death camps the nation's presidents lead the annual march of the living but this year there was tension in the air. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump has said that decisions will be made fairly soon about how to respond to these suspected poison gas attack in syria fears of a confrontation between the west and russia syria's main ally have been running high since trump said on wednesday that missiles will be coming here's what he had to say a short time ago. they're we're looking very very seriously very closely at that whole situation and. we'll see what happens folks will see what happens it's too bad that the world puts us in a position like that but you know as i said this morning we've done a great job with isis we have just absolutely decimated isis but now we have to make some further decision so that we may fairly soon thank you all very much. and russia's military said that the syrian government has taken complete control of eastern go to the last rebel stronghold near the capital that includes the town of duma the side of the suspected poison gas attack over the weekend people have being evacuated from the town. convoys of buses and making their way out of duma carrying out of the town rebels and their families and with them their hopes of victory against the syrian government this is what's left of eastern after years blockaded and bombarded by syrian government forces people here too scared to enter the buildings. come up with that one a look around all the apartment entrances are blocked because of the mines inside i can't get in everywhere see wires and things that trouble me. as smoke rises over duma russia says the area is now under the control of the syrian government but it is russian military police who are patrolling the streets in line with a surrender deal struck with the rebels at the weekend. moscow has broadcast pictures said to show resident celebrating and says the situation here is normalizing. i've read a lot of. thought for several international powers these images of saturday suspected poison gas attack in june give no hint of normalcy. the u.s. britain and france are considering military action in syria in response to the alleged attack syria's allies russia and iran have threatened to retaliate if they do so with turkey israel and other regional powers also involved the u.n. has warned this conflict could spiral out of control. as u.s. warships make their way to the region there are mounting questions about where this crisis will lead. and earlier german chancellor angela merkel said that germany would not take part in any missile strikes on syria have a listen good chance with germany with a note is obsessive hate and even more civil military action but i want to stress again that no decision has been made on this but we acknowledge and support that everything has to be done to signal that this use of chemical weapons is unacceptable and. let's get more reaction now from europe we are joined from berlin by political correspondent simon young and standing by in brussels is our brussels bureau chief max hoffman welcome to both of you and simon i'd like to begin with you because we just heard chancellor angela merkel speak there she seemed to be implicitly backing military action but not wanting to get involved where does germany fit in here. you know i think germany wants to be positioned as a firm member of the western alliance that's why chancellor merkel has telephoned with the french president and with other countries and is saying that it wants to be in contact over this issue but it comes as no surprise that germany won't be getting militarily involved i don't think anyone was expecting that and i don't think that it will. you know negatively affect other countries ability to take military action if that's what it comes to but the chancellor also said it was difficult to do nothing and that's why they're backing pressure from the p c w the international chemical weapons inspector it and in the un to put the pressure on syria at this time and as that pressure mounts i mean european countries definitely watching this very closely french president emmanuel knock on in fact has been talking about the gas attack and talked of having proof max over to you now walk us through what exactly is said here and whether or not it might be more likely that military action could be taken there now. well you did say that at least chlorine was used and that it was used by the regime of bashar al assad so of course this strengthens the case for military action by the french because crawl had said earlier that the red line for him was the use of chemical weapons in syria by the regime of bashar al assad so you can think all right this is basically a go but it doesn't appear to be a go yet although the president said on tuesday that he would decide within days it seemed a little more mellow on thursday saying they would take the decision when it was useful and also efficient what exactly that means is anyone's guess but we can guess that it's probably also due to the complications in the background because of course we're talking about an alliance here with the u.s. and with the u.k. there needs to be coordination with the mixed signals coming out of washington it's absolutely possible but that this coordination especially with the states is pretty complicated at the moment and given that complication and in the search for coordination and what about the other european military having weight the u.k. because british prime minister theresa may is talking with her cabinet today right . she is she is she called the back from the easter break in principle it seems that the prime minister of the u.k. is willing to follow the u.s. lead here as soon as we know what they actually want to do but the problem and the little twist here is that the opposition at least parts of the opposition are calling for parliament to approve this they don't have to do that it's not the law but it's sort of a convention and if you look at the history of the u.k. following the u.s. in two wars in two thousand and three for example in iraq that didn't go too well that this this might complicate matters or even slow them down absolutely indeed simon americal for her part doesn't want to get directly involved as you mentioned earlier but you know she did indicate that if the u.n. security council took action beyond diplomacy that germany would be supportive what sort of support if she were for and tail yeah it's slightly on clear what the chancellor meant boy by that phrase actions beyond diplomacy she does seem to have left the door open for germany to take some kind of further actions that could be supporting the work of the b c w or it could be providing logistical or other support to allies in military action but i think the key thing is germany's emphasis on solidarity and unity with the other international partners in europe and at the u.n. simon young and berlin max health and brussels thank you. let's get a quick check now of some other stories making news around the world the international chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. wu has confirmed that former russian spy service scribal and his daughter yulia were poisoned with a nerve agent in the english city of saul's wary however the organization stopped short of naming the substance nor did it say where it was produced. these twelve people have been killed after taliban militants stormed a government compound in central afghanistan the gun gunmen overran a district headquarters in province triggering an hour's long gun battle at least three of the dead were were to local officials. afghan security forces eventual drove out the insurgents. algeria has begun the three days of mourning after a military plane crash that killed two hundred fifty seven people the russian built transporter went down shortly after takeoff on wednesday killing mostly soldiers and their family members the accident is the worst aviation disaster in algeria's history authorities have ordered an investigation. the human rights group amnesty international says the number of reported judicial executions around the world fell during twenty seventeen but the group warns that the true number of people put to death by the state is not known some countries treat executions statistics as a state secret china for example but many others carry out executions in full view of the public. in iran responsible for carrying out small than hoff of the world's known executions last year that's according to amnesty international's latest because in dozens of those cases that meant public execution in iran drug trafficking and blasphemy are among those crimes punishable by death at least five people were executed in iran. when they were still on. the. just four countries responsible for eighty four percent of all recorded executions last year iran saudi arabia iraq and pakistan but the country suspected of being the world's leading executioner is china. it's thought to have put thousands to death last year more than the rest of the world put together the because data on the death penalty that is a state secrets exactly how many is a matter of speculation. but not counting china twenty seven thousand so the total number of executions worldwide fall by four percent from the previous year. m misty international says that reaffirms a global trend towards a pollution of the death penalty last year a further two countries guinea and mongolia joined the one hundred four who have now abolished capital punishment for a second year in a row the us did not feature among the top five global execution is slipping from position seven to eight this is due in part to ongoing legal challenges of the use of lethal injection but as litigation in several states progress is that because the executions. israelis have been marking their holocaust remembrance day when they remember the six million jews murdered by the nazi regime across europe president reuven rivlin was among thousands of people who took part in the annual march of the living at auschwitz in poland the site of one of the most notorious death counts now recent polls legislation about the holocaust has cost controversy so there was some tension in the air. a march in memory of the victims of nazi terror at the french the presidents of poland and israel more than ten thousand people including youth groups from around the world have come to auschwitz the route leads to the death camp birkenau earlier the young people visited the camp to familiarize themselves with the horrible details of what took place german groups are also taking part. it's very sad to stand here knowing that my great grandmother stood and had here as well as my great grandfather an indescribable feeling. survivor's accompany of the groups and recount their traumatic experiences edward most burgs mother and brother in law were killed here yeah they do have to remember what happened and this age. in the war over the political dispute between poland and israel over the so-called holocaust law is causing uncertainty penalties could be imposed on anyone who blames the polish people or state for nazi war crimes israel has criticized the law because it fears polish accomplices may no longer be identified as a result. i would like to say once again with all my might that it was never the intention of polish politicians to create such a rule which would block bearing witness to the whole the cost. of the polish constitutional court is currently reviewing the law the meeting of the two heads of state at this site of german nazi terror could point towards an amicable resolution of the conflict. let's turn to rome now in a moment to remember for fans of formula a racing that's the electric car version of formula one and it's holding its first ever race in the attorney city pope francis took time to bless a formerly car the pontiff is said to be a big soccer fan and at least for this week he is a racing fan and he also took time to meet some drivers and their family members before the main event on saturday. they're watching d.w. news still to come on the program the supervisory board of the world's largest automaker meets tonight and big changes are expected and physical and we'll have all that and more in just a few minutes time you're watching t w i'm sara kelley in berlin and thank you for joining us. they make a commitment. they find. stronger.
could be turkey's next president. auctioneer emerges as the main challenger in next month's election but she faces a tough battle to unseat president branch of type there don't want plus the colonial legacy dividing cameroon the country's english speaking minority are in no revolt against the french speaking authorities and the result is violence for oppression and communities cut into we have a special were formed and hundreds of people on hawaii's big island evacuated their homes after the killer whale volcano comes to life ash and lava have reached a residential area. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us the swedish academy has announced that it will. not award the nobel prize for literature this year the institution is in crisis over its handling of sexual assault allegations against the husband of one of its leading members the scandal has seen a string of board members leave in recent weeks the prize has crowded the world's best writers has crowned rather the world's best writers for more than one hundred years but will be absent from the literary calendar until twenty nineteen. it's not unprecedented but it is rare the swedish academy has postponed the twenty eighteen nobel prize for literature. we have decided not to watch the prize this year and we did that after a long and intense discussion. before but we reached the conclusion that the confidence of the academy is so low in the world of the moment and that was the deciding reason why we know refrain from awarding the projects. that the body was plunged into crisis last november when a swedish newspaper published testimonies against this man. he's married to swedish academy member catarina frost and son the jew i will significant influence in sweden's art world eighteen women accused of sexual misconduct the accusations include an incident in which he allegedly touched sweden's crown princess victoria in appropriately denies the claims the revelations and the handling of them so deep discord among the academy's members a wave of resignations followed including permanent secretary sorry danny us. all clear now. i'm leaving the academy it was the wish of the academy that i should leave my role as permanent secretary to get out. of the ouster of ms dani has prompted an outpouring of support regarded by many as a case example of a woman taking the fall for a man's bad behavior. care into natural health says huge scandal internationally norms will sound that will truly it's him. and then it's unbelievably symbolic when the first woman to hold the post as permanent secretary is forced out when she tries to sort things out that worrying it's a true in the capital. the nobel prize for literature will be postponed until twenty nineteen when the academy will name the laureate. and for more let's bring in dave that he is very own karen helm shot who has been following this story closely for us and karen i mean this is really an unprecedented situation here many layers to it what is there a why there has been such a strong reaction now well essentially sarah just simply because the economy is in such disarray i mean we just heard there people have lost complete trust in this institution and it says that in this situation it can't really make a credible decision so the academy has eighteen members in a normal situation and they are elected for life which means that when these people step down their chairs are literally left empty until their deaths so they need twelve members to be able to make a viable decision and they're only working with ten at the moment and so because of this diminished academy situation and the fact that public trust is so low they've decided they need to take this time out to work on things. also out of respect for the laureates past and future but it's really bad news for writers this year especially those that are getting on in years yeah and you know it's quite interesting because there has been such a good reputation of this institution we know centuries long history we actually have a look at that reputation now and then we'll get your reaction after we have this. go prize in literature in award to quote denote the most outstanding work you know and standing direction that conferred the greatest good on mankind that was alfred nobel's wish when he founded the award one hundred seventeen years ago over the past century it has been given to people as diverse as thomas. ernest hemingway. and winston churchill for their contributions to world literature. but it's more than just a celebration of the world's literary canon the nobel prizes often help more obscure authors who find wider readership. and this huge academy that oversees the prize has also been accused of taking political positions as well like with the selection of which russian journalist is a prominent critic of russian president vladimir putin and was selected for nonfiction works the collapse of the soviet union. the decision to award the prize to bob dylan twenty sixteen for his lyrical work caused controversy especially when the american singer songwriter seemed to ignore it for weeks afterward one member of the academy reportedly called him rude and arrogant while the nobel prize for literature has had its detractors throughout its history it's still remains the most visible and relevant literary prize in the world. so a very big decision here and you know it will probably have implications for the academy and its reputation absolutely this is utterly devastating i think at first glance because this was a globally respected institution was founded over two hundred thirty years ago and has always had a stellar reputation as we know the prize has been. has been postponed for usually for war reasons sometimes because they also have an allowance in their rules that says they can postpone if there isn't a right or that's meeting the criteria or something that that's only happened a number of times over the last seven decades so this is really quite crazy it's of course devastating for sweden as a nation especially because it's a country that's that we've long seen as being so progressive in terms of. gender equality and politics so this is definitely a blow for them but they cademy itself for having this great reputation has also on the inside people sort of in the know know that they're very well known for being extremely old fashioned sort of you know quite straight laced very very secretive and close. stories about. gun frog about how they're doing things so quite self-important in fact and some critics are really skeptical that they can ever actually get back the credibility and the reputation that they had to be counted ultimately about should we really be surprised because in the past year we have seen so many institutions so many executives so many prominent individuals that have been toppled by scandals like this aspect i mean we're seeing need to essentially hit some of the world's largest institutions we can look at what happened just yesterday in the u.s. across the pond obviously it took a long time for the academy of motion picture arts and sciences to make these decisions but they finally decided to expel. convicted actor bill cosby and of course the director roman polanski. were basically seeing an awful lot of fallout and it is accumulating and this situation of course really shakes trust in the sense that you just know this sort of thing is everywhere there is nowhere that sort of you know. lying under the under the rug the cannes film festival next week and we can put our hands in the fire here today that need to be based on all of these things and based on what just happened with the academy in l.a. me too will be a part of it what do you think i mean beyond can and beyond those those those individual expulsions obviously here i mean you're you're a culture correspondent you've been following this really from the very beginning of the way that all disc annals have really rocked especially the world of culture what do you see as the wider implications going forward. i think essentially that. we're looking at in the case of the of the of the academy obviously there's there's a modernization need for modernization there but i think essentially what we're seeing is a massive need for transparency everywhere i mean we've got social media that allows us to be. critical right away when we see these things and there's a new acceptance obviously since the since the need to movement has started of women stories of women women are encouraged to come forward those stories are now being accepted and there's really wider and wider spread pressure coming from the general public to to see to it that these kinds of power abuses and predatory behaviors. simply are not seen as acceptable anymore it's it's still going to take so much work obviously i mean when we see this kind of thing but i'm sure we haven't seen the last of it you can't get away with it anymore. probably a lot of people shaking in their shoes i'm sure i'm sure there are as i'm sure this isn't the last karen thank you a pleasure now in other news more than a hundred palestinian protesters have been injured in fresh violence close to the border between gaza and israel dozens of them wounded with live ammunition others suffering from tear gas inhalation thousands of palestinians gathered on friday for a sixth week of protests there demanding the right to return to their homes seized by israel back in one thousand forty eight. and palestinian president mahmoud abbas has apologized for remarks that he made about the holocaust earlier this week it had suggested that the persecution of european jews was because of their roles as bankers and money lenders rather than their religion or race in his apology he condemned anti-semitism and called the holocaust the most wretched crime in history . partial results from local elections in the u.k. suggest british prime minister theresa may has been spared the wipe out some have predicted her conservative party has lost control of some key councils but maintained but managed rather to gain ground and gregg's at supporting regions. you're watching data of you news still to come on the program called marks he is one of the most divisive thinkers in modern history and the revolutionary philosopher is turning two hundred for at least the anniversary of his birth there so how should he be remembered we will have a look. but first it is over to helena humphrey now we are heading to the united states where some big charges have been issued yes that is right u.s. prosecutors are doing what germans prosecutors couldn't they have charged folks fog former boss martin been to court for his part in the diesel gate emissions scandal will they say martin even to comb conspired to mislead regulators and violate the u.s. clean an act media reports say that stuff at b.w. support the u.s. charges against the former c.e.o. general prosecutor's name all say their investigation into vinta court is ongoing and will not affect the affected by the legal process in the u.s. . it couldn't have come at a worse time for volkswagen the announcement that its former c.e.o. martin venter corn was indicted by u.s. authorities it came soon after v.w. shareholders meeting where its new c.e.o. old spoke about regaining confidence. most volkswagen must become more honest more open more truthful so that we don't make ourselves more vulnerable again. model but is still vulnerable the indictment of ventre core now has many asking whether the carmaker has done enough to investigate its senior executives according to u.s. authorities in two thousand and fourteen the former c.e.o. was informed v.w. cars produced lower emissions during tests than they did on roads but it is unlikely event of corn will face charges in u.s. courts germany doesn't extradited citizens to nine countries still the former c.e.o. could be implicated in ongoing diesel gate investigations in his home country german prosecutors are looking into the involvement of senior management in diesel emissions cheating and there are lawsuits pending from both shareholders and consumers so why an indictment in the united states is opposed to legal ramifications in germany first is a financial correspondent. the easy answer to that in the quick answer to that is that the united states authorities were quicker than the german ones the germans have been taking a long time but as we just heard in the report there they will be ready at some time to put in the diet but if the facts that they have are in their view strong enough another thing is that the u.s. authorities just have a lot more leverage with the laws they have to levy high fines and high prison penalties in cases like the w one like mars inventor corn what he did and what volkswagen did there is considered a criminal offense in a much inventor cohen is found guilty as faces up to twenty five years in prison plus i have to find and you'd never see that sort of penalty or that sort of prison sentence for such a transgression here and in a german court and the matter at hand is also different in the united states there were much stricter standards and o x much stricter than in the european union and in germany so any any prison penalty here or any penalty here will be for that reason alone also probably much lighter. a financial correspondent that we bought several u.s. unemployment figures are else in the good news but not quite as good as some had expected in april while the job list rate fell to three point nine percent its lowest level since the year two thousand some twenty four thousand new jobs were created in manufacturing there was also some strong growth aided the services and healthcare sector analysts say the figures are signs of resilience and with the recent stock market chaos and fear is a trade. well talking of a trade war talks between a top level u.s. delegation to china and chinese representatives of wraps up with no real solution to avoid a trade war tariffs remain the main issue but washington also accuses beijing of systematically infringing u.s. copyrights statements from the u.s. and china after the talks were polite but it seems the dispute is far from over. perhaps chinese state television wants to avoid adding fuel to the fire trying to play down the current trade dispute with washington this news anchor says both sides are interested in stable and healthy economic relations but appears to be the official version of events after the first round of trade talks between china and the u.s. but behind the scenes big differences remain reuters reports that beijing has offered to lower import tariffs on u.s. cars and agreed to increase exports from the u.s. to china whether that will be enough to pacify donald trump is still to be seen but as the u.s. delegation leaves the country the war of words continues at the chinese foreign ministry this spokeswoman says that many people around the world are against a u.s. led trade dispute showing a letter from american economists. and they warn trump terrorists are even for his country's economy and she's beijing has its own warning to washington trade barriers heard both sides but they might end up pressuring you more than us. air france care limbaugh says no margin iraqis stepping down off to start project to pay off a good ending months of strikes well the news comes on the same day that quarterly figures show the company incurred further losses unions have been holding a series of one day strike since february dead amounting a five percent raise to compensate for a fight you pay freeze strikes a planned the next monday and tuesday. venezuela's economic situation has been critical for years but until now basic services were still provided by the government now along with restricted access to groceries and medicines people in venezuela are suffering without electricity because power stations are out of order struggling anger against the socialist government. they has only the flicker of a single flame to cook by even candles are lucky we nowadays said the mendoza family use one at a time as a feeding themselves wasn't complicated enough and they can't store any fresh groceries they do manage to buy fridges run on electricity. power cuts are a regular feature of daily life here in america. and they're lasting for ever longer periods. and actresses he is very important in a hurry because of course you need the fridge and food for children and condition is in your photo extremely hot here. but we have to keep everything closed because there are a flies which carry diseases. but i said americans we have to close our doors and we need electricity to make food. it's absolutely essential for us. but i don't know. it's been like this for months in venezuela here at the power station in maracaibo only four of the twenty four turbines are still operating lack of proper maintenance has left much of the facility in disrepair. on state television the minister for energy refuses to take responsibility for the nation's power cuts. he says subbuteo has have tried to bring the country's electricity supply to a halt. the student body part of a systematic attack he would have us with the government refuses to publish information about the power outages and their effects but there's no getting away from the evidence on the streets in magic long lines of people wait for banks to open but to no avail no power no cash. oh it's back over sarah now as we stand by for that news conference in washington and so they were actually heading to the u.s. state of delaware believe it or texas rather where dallas is the city where u.s. president donald trump is scheduled to speak shortly at the national rifle association annual event he is expected to throw his full weight behind the powerful gun rights lobby and the address that comes less than three months after the high school massacre in parklane florida which sparked nationwide demonstrations demanding gun control trump have briefly vowed to quote fight the n.r.a. at the time but this speech is expected to align with his republican base that strongly supports the organization. and the u.s. vice president mike pence is currently speaking at that conference right now and we will bring you donald trump when he takes the stage live a little bit later on this program but first we're going to head to lebanon where voters will be voting in their first parliamentary election in almost a decade on sunday there are hopes that it will and prolonged political gridlock and the read vote postponements forming a government could take months or longer due to the country's complex party system which is organized primarily along religious lines. and india is bracing for more wild weather a day after dust and thunderstorms killed more than one hundred twenty people in five states and injured another two hundred many of the dead were sleeping when their houses collapsed after being struck by lightning or gust of wind. this saturday marks the two hundredth birthday of perhaps the most divisive political and economic thinker of modern history called marx he argued that capitalism would only make the rich richer and the poor poorer today some view him as a visionary others revile him for inspiring authoritarian communist regimes allow reporter hit the streets of berlin the city where he was educated to find out what people here think of a book. monk says i'm doing is spot revolutions those aren't is a originated here in berlin and they continue to resonate in the city. in eight hundred thirty six the eighteen year old come august came to study at berlin's university. he started studying law but soon found he was far more interested in philosophy and history quote in the entrance hall of the university of tribute to its former student. marks wrote the for most of his heavenly interpreted the world in various ways the point however is to change it mocks didn't just want to theorize about the state of the world he wanted to do something about it he wanted to shake things up. it was the tone of the industrial age and while in berlin marx witnessed the plight of poor because. it was then a cause that marx took up his theories of eliminating social injustice by empowering work has started revolutions and changed the map of the world. his ideology was the basis for modern communism and socialism the defining philosophies of the cold. war which ended up dividing the world and this city. in former east berlin a launch of a new still bears marx's name the boulevard was built as a propaganda project by the socialist regime by the workers for the workers. the last military parade to celebrate the achievements of the self-styled workers and peasants state was held here just a month before the berlin wall fell. but what does mark still mean to people here that gadhafi had a kind of different idea of how society should work. he wrote a lot of good stuff capital for example which is still valid today goodness i started reading the communist manifesto but you've got to have quite a bit of concentration for the can do you know this man black comics of course karl marx he was a great thinker in this time of course unfortunately things didn't quite turn out the way he predicted because see invoiced is a. clever man and a way to book definitely good. things that are really just as worthy of discussion today. especially now considering the split in society between rich and poor because of his use by them through. communism as a political system in germany might have fallen with the berlin wall but for some of the people here. have lost none of their relevance. the football world cup is just weeks away and fans in the host nation of russia are finding new ways to enjoy the beautiful game football enthusiastic and kaliningrad have come up with something called atomic football let's have a look. all you need are fourteen players fourteen balls and two teams how do un easy be the first team to score fourteen goals with the added challenge of playing in tradition over lanky boots and your flap hats. i think the uniform represents our national identity it's not easy to play football and felt boots but we see the game was very successful i think it's very interesting and fun to watch while some locals are enjoying football by the seaside kaliningrad stadium is still under construction and despite being one of the smallest arenas ever used at a world cup seeing only thirty five thousand will be hosting big football nations such as spain england and belgium fans are buzzing their gas prices that this is a great football experience there's a positive and good mood people are happy and content this is cool if it was cool might not be the right word to describe your flat hats but they're fun and with six weeks ago before kick off we might have already found the next with us. you're watching the news we're standing by here because u.s. president donald trump is expected to take the stage in just a few moments at the national rifle association event in dallas texas as you can see there the stage has been empty it is sound checked the vice president actually just left the stage a short while ago after giving his own address u.s. president donald trump is expected to throw his full weight behind the organization something that he has done before in fact he said a little bit earlier today on air force one while talking to reporters that the n.r.a. is a great organization that loves the country this of course coming against the backdrop of the shooting in parkland florida and the movement that it has sparked there after it has been inspiring many young people to come out in support of gun control so we're standing by for that or you're watching news we'll have more on that after a short break also coming up after a short break is chirpy ready for change morel action out of marriages as a surprise challenger to president recha tie affair to walk in the elections next month. and all that more coming up in just a few minutes time i'm sara kelley in berlin thanks for watching so you can see. european stars deliver a rousing performance or. electro touch only. on one side of the world. or. europe in concert in forty five minutes on a double. of glazing. and a curse. placed for supposed nature and in this scheme. monsoons the tropical job force that she believes yada is the cylinder so come to nudge plato source of law and tons of enormous destruction form a plate monsoon starting may twenty third come to double play. israel seventeen years. to displace the mission's. gods over one homeland featured in our program a moment of optimism when rypien an hour of silence agreed on peace look peaceful future for both israelis and palestinians was seen with rage but an assassin put an end to. end to the returning news from the history of the displaced people is still a function for their homeland however hopeless it might seem they will never come back to those places israel seventy years may twelfth on t.w. called broadcast times online play. welcome back you're with news i'm sarah kelly and our lead our top story donald trump has traveled to dallas texas to address members of the powerful u.s. gun lobby the national rifle association that's despite increasing calls for gun control in the wake of precent mash shootings including in hartland florida in february. and the swedish academy has announced that it will not award the nobel prize for literature this year after a series of sketch sex abuse scandals and finance scandals it says it will instead award to process into a ninety. well now the west african country of cameroon is currently in the grip of a violent secessionist crisis and surgeons in the west of the country have launched a series of attacks on security forces after the government crackdown on a peaceful protest movement the conflict is centered on the english speaking area of western cameroon which we're about to highlight on a map for you but many of the region you see that area actually highlighted in yellow there and within that yellow region there those individuals many of them they want greater autonomy from the french speaking majority of the country and our correspondent krishna went to the area and issued this report. that. is over ninety years old even though one there's a lot she can't remember anymore but she'll never forget one day last year. the pain is a constant reminder. the wound move through someone knocked on the door i said is that and i finish it it was the police and they hit me right in the face in the look i'm a bush who. there was blood everywhere i just didn't stop believing. thousands of people in their hometown with taking part in peaceful protests at the time they feel let down somewhere calling for their own state to be called i was there when the government troops responded with why olin's who. was one of the victims there's growing unrest in the region and some of the protesters have since joined pro independence groups but no one wants to speak about it openly. they went to the bush because they are fighting for their rights what they are asking for is something they deserve if the government can grant what they are asking for it will be better for all of us southern cameroonians then we won't be neglected the way the government has been neglecting us. we need a well connected independence activist who wants to remain anonymous there are six rebel groups in the forests fighting against governments troops he shows us their training videos. president for the last thirty five years has sold north the protests he says that's why the conflict is now escalating. it is the only option because the people believe that it is through these means that they can force the president into dialogue what they're doing now is simply defending themselves they did not start the file and. almost every week separatists launch deadly attacks on government officials they accuse of betrayal the bishop of war many see the church as a possible mediator in the crisis. but in this circumstance this is a very difficult because. because they give conditions for talking to but i think the sort of the problem. and. talking to. the person must be the same with. the government refuses to speak with the separatists despite several requests we are not given an interview with the government representatives. presidential elections in cameroon our schedules to be holes in october this year but many people in the ngo phone region and particularly those in rural areas i wondering how this will be possible this happily any indication that the situation will be improving in the next month i think about what it all the same. hopes that peace will return to the region at her age she says she should not have to be afraid of the police and especially not in her own. home. from one cameron separatist uprising let's bring in adelaide krishna you saw there he was the author of that report he's actually joining us this afternoon from lagos nigeria welcome to adrianne as we saw there these began as peaceful protests but they turned violent walk us through how this happened while the whole thing flared up in two thousand and sixteen in late two thousand and sixteen first it was lawyers who started protesting later on teachers went on strike and then there were a lot of people who actually took on the streets even the catholic church in form of bishops from this part of the country protested and wrote a letter to the president of the country to paul b. always been in office for more than thirty five years telling them about the telling him about the grievances of the people in this part of cameroon the reaction by the state was well they ignored the letter more or less that was written by the bishops they reacted with aggressive measures against the protests there were mass arrests of demonstrators later on also violence and this of course played in the hands of radical people already called separatists a lot of people now support them because they say we cannot trust the government anymore we cannot trust the security forces anymore and up until now we had hundreds of people say one hundred civilians who were already killed and more than forty security forces were killed krishna's the latest on the separatist uprising in cameroon joining us from lagos nigeria thank you for the latest. it's fun when you're watching t.v. news and u.s. president donald trump is speaking at the national rifle association right now it is a rant in dallas texas he is throwing his full weight behind the powerful gun rights lobby are this he is expected to do so he has just begun speaking it's a senate seat is the weaving of taxes so we love the with the governor greg abbott my friend where is he right there over the greco of that he's running and i've already done it but i will tell you right i fully endorse you you aren't doing this you want to thank all of the old saying hey wait you had your water just pouring down on top and you just kept coming and coming he kept calling and calling we need more money laundering money. and you know what we gave it to you the only undoing of the attorney general can tax the tremendous amount of the and by the way can you have my full endorsement and sure your wife has my full endorsement she just had a big thank god the senator john warner been with me right from the beginning thank you i thank you for the food and your sister this. ted cruz weighs the with thought the i was the. thank you what i was really rouses. it's a good shot. congressman peter shankman and congressman michael burgess great friends. we're also joined by rick day and charlie. diamond and silver of the. mark i read series about. peter brown ally and leslie running. finally i want to thank all of the true american patriots of the n.r.a. who defend our rights our liberty and our great american flag thank you thank you. the people in this hall have never take our freedom for granted and never have. and you have never stopped fighting for our love a concious is credible people thank you. you give your time your energy your vote and your voice can stand strong for the sacred rice given to us by ga including the right to self defense. and now thanks to your activism and dedication you have an administration is fighting to protect you our second amendment and we will protect yourself. of the. years sagging the family right. are undersea but they will never ever have to. be under sea as long as i'm your president was. i want you. to i was all of us here today united by the say time wise by us we believe that our liberty was a here from our creator and that no government can ever take it away we believe in the will follow. you and we support the men and women of our law enforcers was of the. pride of our house and we sat for our we put our hands on our heart for the play a show of allegiance and we proudly stand for the national anthem we are proud of was. was was was was was was was. the. what people what great people. and this is your record crowd you know all time record crowd you do know. thank you thank you of the we love our country and we've really says deserve a government that shows the same. and loyalty in return. for the last fifty years that as exactly what we have been doing we are all finally putting america first with the and we are seeing the credible results. as a result of our national tax cuts and everybody's benefiting and everybody's happy . and the democrats are very concerned if you watch how well we do in a. lot of the out of the i don't think the place is over the place. this thing is that when you win the presidency you get complacent we all know the feeling you know the feeling not too many. like ninety percent of the time you win the presidency and for whatever reasons you lose this it or we kill it and the word is because places like. you have been watching us president donald trump speaking at the national rifle association's annual event in dallas texas as we heard there him there throwing his full weight behind the powerful gun rights lobby thanking the n.r.a. for defending american rights and the american flag saying that those are god given rights to self defense and the way to protect the second amendment rights as long as he is president. for more let's bring in correspondent claire richardson who is standing by with the very latest from washington d.c. and claire you know when we left that feed he was actually just talking about tax cuts saying how they have benefited all americans i mean this really is pretty typical of trump it becomes sort of the latest hits sort of speech what are we to make of what he said so far. hi sarah he really was telling the crowd exactly what they wanted to hear saying that these were real patriots true americans for their fight to try and defend the right to bear arms so the message that we heard coming from was really his administration is on the gun owners sides we heard chants of usa we heard a highly nationalistic speech in which he spoke of his policy of putting america first and what's most surprising about this or perhaps not surprising but what stood out the most to me about this is how little really has changed in the last few months and in the last few years we've seen speak to the n.r.a. and its conventions for the past four years but there were some thinking that this time around things could be a little different and that is of course because of the shooting at marjorie stoneman douglas high school in february and the subsequent student led protests that have been taking place across the united states over the past four months there is a sense that there might be some changing wins that this activism by the students the walk outs the huge marches with lots of a celebrity support could lead it to pressure congress and donald trump into kind of backing off his support for gun lobbyist groups but here we see him really giving the n.r.a. and its supporters his full backing clear what does that say about the state of polarization in the country. well it's interesting because in some ways the democrats still have not coherently rallied behind gun control as an election issue obviously we have midterm elections coming up in november of this year and the n.r.a. spent fifty five million dollars on backing republican candidates in the twenty sixteen elections so it is a very partisan issue it's not necessarily one that we're going to see as a front and forward issue in the polls but trump knows that this is his base this is a massive rally of about eighty thousand people or a massive convention which is really trying to rally his supporters to get them to turn out he said we should not be complacent we need to come to the polls and so this is in many ways an opportunity for him to tell these people that he's still with them and clear of course all of this this speech coming today coming against the backdrop of some pretty big happenings in washington this week which we have to talk about and i have to ask you if the president is likely to address them because there's this question of this one hundred thirty thousand dollars payment so-called hush money to this porn star actress stormy daniels trump previously denied compensating his lawyer who made that payment now apparently there's some question as to whether or not he might have actually done one of his new counsels with the giuliani has said that in fact he did read compensate his lawyer for that just walk us through what has happened in this past week and whether or not he might address it. sure i mean it seems you never know with trump whether he's going to talk about a certain issue whether he's going to stay on script or not but in terms of the stormy daniels case it's really a matter of a trump and his team getting their story straight as you said rudy giuliani who's kind of the face of his legal team said that trump had paid back this money to his lawyer that he made in payments to keep stormy daniels the adult film star quiet she said that she had an affair with the u.s. president while he was married and was paid this one hundred thirty thousand dollars to keep quiet shortly before the twenty sixteen election and now the question really is whether this was a violation of campaign finance laws it seems like giuliani was perhaps trying to help trump in this regard by making it clear that it was just a personal payment that had nothing to do with this matter but it contradicted what the president had said earlier and that's where he's in trouble never a shortage of action there in washington claire richardson our reporter there with the very latest thank you claire. well earlier this week we brought you the story of activists in kenya fighting for equal rights as in dozens of other african countries homosexuality is treated as a crime there punishable by up to fourteen years in jail today we bring you the story of how dating apps are being used to target gay men and lesbians who dare to go looking for love for more let's bring in elizabeth show who has been looking into this for us and she is standing by in our social media desk and liz we know that dating apps that they are as we just heard there they're essentially being used as weapons to go after gay and lesbian people tell us a little bit more about how this is unfolding. well one of the apps that are being used right now in kenya is the app grindr that is the number one on the most popular dating app for gay and bisexual men so what is happening in kenya is that there are people who say they want to catch homosexuals so they get on that app they create profiles they try to look for men who want to meet them and want somebody agrees to meet with them then they beat the person up and even threaten to expose them as a gay person so we have actually talked to somebody to whom this thing happened and he has issued a warning written a comment on the travel website lonely planet so this is what he's telling other people who live in kenya's capital nairobi he says it's not safe i met a guy through a grinder and i thought he was ok but when i got to his place i was beaten and held for six hours while they milked my credit card it was scary indeed and i said grinder knows about this problem so it has issued a statement and also safety warning to people who are using the app in kenya saying don't post a picture of your face when you're creating a profile meet people by skype or in a safe location first and if you get arrested never ever confess or add minutes to anything so people right now are being very cautious when using that app ok so some warnings there at least but is anything more substantial being done to protect people in kenya. well not much really in fact there are reports that the police themselves are also using apps to try to hunt down homosexuals in the country and what we have right now is activists who are calling for a decriminalization of homosexuality but they're not getting a lot of support from of the kenyan society in fact talked to people on the streets of nairobi and this is what they had to say about this issue here. the other embodies. the. human morals and they should not be allowed in i don't think it's ok. i think it should be talked about. some but it's not something that should be you know. that's that's that's not according to the according to the leader. and sarah even he have the country's president who are kenyatta he's shrugging the whole thing off in an interview recently he said the gay rights are not of any major importance to the people and the republic of kenya this is not an issue of human rights this is an issue of society of our own base as a culture and kenya is not alone here in fact many people across africa are against homosexuality they say it is a sin they say it is a moral it is unnatural and that is why it will take a while for our perceptions and also views about homosexuality as change across the continent elizabeth show on our social media task thank you. well now hundreds of residents on hawaii's big island have evacuated their homes after the killer whale volcano burst into life and this video you can see here shows lava flowing through a wooded area the volcano erupted on thursday after a series of earthquakes and spewed ash and lava into residential areas have a look. it started with multiple earthquakes then a plume of pink smoke that shocked the local residents. ok we just had a huge earthquake and now in the direction of there's a massive cloud of smoke coming up. after days of warning signs to kill away a volcano on hawaii's big island has erupted lava flowed into residential areas of the u.s. island igniting fires and spreading deadly gases nearly two thousand people were forced to evacuate. since it's right there behind our homes we could hear this loud . exploding. right from the house and so you know there is a house going to still be there when we go back over there. the eruption saw boiling lava flowing directly from cracks in the ground in populated areas and lasted for about two hours. a mandatory evacuation order remains in place in the affected area and geologists one that eruptions could occur again soon. time now for soccer news and it is the bundesliga is penn ultimate match on saturday and i have jonathan crane from sports to take us through all of the buzz and of course we have to start with the chase for the european place to start so what are we expecting on saturday yes we do two or two games left that so miles or a lot could be decided this weekend some seem to have their dreams realized others will have them absolutely shattered by it and some of the european price is really shallow or impulse position to cement second prize you can see the table that a draw announced would be enough for them to secure a top four place and then consequently a place in the champions league next season it's so exciting behind them don't when looking good so make it seven shampoos make appearances in eight season hoffenheim there you see the at me for pointing out are they really on a roll of the moment. nine games on base and. going in the wrong direction and then the. and then light station frank and frankfurt both host relegation struggle is on saturday like this hosting frankfurt hosting have gone wrong for frankfurt ever since. agreed to take over by munich next season they've lost three games in a row and they've conceded a whopping eleven goals in the process so let's talk a little bit more about that relegation battle i mean is it likely that this is decided now this weekend theoretically mathematically yes it could be decided this weekend i do think it's probably going to go right down to the wire now all eyes really on their in seventeenth place they are two points adrift of sixteenth which is the relegation playoff spots now they've been in trouble for pretty much the whole season really and they've beaten for their rivals in recent weeks freiburg. is giving them half a chance but they really still do have it all to do and i think really is looking like. wow so a lot of action this weekend a lot really riding on it jonathan crane with the very latest analysis thank you so much you're welcome. and with that you're up to date. after a short break. the european stars deliver rousing performances lower leg length truckler touch. play. a love plane trip to. europe concerts in fifteen minutes on t w. play play the white childless round is shaking up the cut up the flu is your favorite place listening to when template shook in europe the pulse of the entire country champlin for the last sixty years douglas for mines. philosopher and pop star. the dark and despised player karl marx icon of communism blame other men of revolution against clubs took place to especially change the world to go so diplomatic how relevant is he today. and what influence does he have on politics and general culture place among the two hundredth anniversary of his first live documentary marx and his heirs belong to. w. . this is do the unions lie from no nobel prize for literature this year a sex abuse scandal infighting amongst the awarding committee on the police financial investigation in the swedish academy takes a year to try to regain the public's trust also in the program. us president donald trump lose the gun lobby promising to fight to defend best second amendment rights . less than three months after the high school shootings in florida.
a bitter debate is raging over who was to blame for the tragedy. and. i'm sara kelley welcome to the program people across the world have been watching the longest a lunar eclipse of this century the moon turns this orange color a short while back this was at the point that the moon fell in the earth's shadow after it aligned itself with our planet and the sun this is what is popularly known as the blood moon people across europe asia australia and south america have been able to watch all or parts of this phenomenon which is about to end in just a few minutes. and for more at let's get more now from astronomer he is joining us from stood apart this evening so tell us why the red orange color for the moon can you explain to our viewers how that happens. good evening when no moon eclipse takes place the earth is exactly between the sun and the moon so you would think that the moon should be in the shadow of the earth but the earth has an atmosphere and the atmosphere of the earth throw some light the light into the shadow so the moon looks threat. and not only is it a beautiful color it is also the longest lunar eclipse of the twenty first century as we mentioned earlier the moon appearing darkest for around one hundred and three minutes why it's so long this time around. that's right it's one hundred and forty minutes this time because the beach of the moon is inclined to what's the orbit of the earth you want to have a movie clips every full moon as you remember it's only two or three years two or three times a year and now this lunar eclipse the moon ghosts strikes through the shadow of the earth and additionally the earth over the moon is of far away from the office so the lunar eclipse is one out of three minutes long this time. but the experience of the event i mean it really depends on where you are in the world right tell us more about that yes depends where the moon is above your horizon not just ten minutes ago i was outside and had a look at the moon and here in stuttgart it's still twilight the moon is the sky it's bright and you barely could see the moon in the twilight it's deep deep regret and have seen some images from south africa where it's already really dark so there the moon is high in the sky and you can see it in in the rest. the phenomenon is also special for another reason with the red planet mars it's also visible in the sky near the moon tell us more about that yes ma is the art of planets of the earth be true os the sun in two years as you know the only needs one year so it needs two years to see must at its best but it needs fifteen years to see to her. the smallest distance between the earth and the mosques and after two thousand and three this year mosque is at its closest to the earth and it's just for instance that it's this evening with them moon eclipse takes place and it's closest to us and most is only some decrease away from the eclipse moon now when people hear the word eclipse especially when observing a solar eclipse for example they think about you know those glasses that you have to wear in order to protect your eyes but there are no precautions right if they want to watch this particular eclipse you know except enough that you don't need only eclipse classes you need them but not your lot to see if you're really good but you don't need a telescope or just your eyes and good you to the south use the horizon you're from germany astronomers spend melter joining us from step dark to where we have all been observing this phenomenon very fascinating indeed some beautiful images that are coming in and we thank you so much for walking us through it and explaining why it's happening and why it's so significant. is the mother news now and there are fewer of them coming but just as many are dying the un's migration agency says that about fifty five thousand migrants have reached european shores across the mediterranean sea so far this year about half the figure for the same period last year but for the fifth straight year at least fifteen hundred migrants have perished in the crossing most migrants used to cross from libya to italy but since the new italian government started turning them away many switched to spain. the coast of southern spain is within sight. it's the end of a treacherous crossing of the strait of gibraltar. what you're seeing is a group of migrants reaching european soil. and they're among the many who arrive on spanish beaches every year. we don't know where they ended up but we do know they're lucky to be alive. so far this year at least fifteen hundred have died in the mediterranean sea their route to europe too has changed with spain now the preferred entry point we can say is that the first indications we're getting from spanish authorities is that it is the west african. migrants that were most prominent crossing into libya in the past couple of years who seem to be choosing spain as their route now. the number of undocumented migrants arriving to the spanish coast so far this year is almost as many as the total for twenty seventeen most are rescued at sea and brought to ports like this one in the town of. it's here in the port where they were initially held before being moved to overcrowded immigrant reception centers. in a meeting earlier this week with france's president emanuel micron the spanish prime minister said the e.u. needs to do more if it wants to see a fall in the number of people arriving illegally on its shores in luck will be to feel a little cooperation and development is very important a requirement is to socially politically and economically stabilize the countries of origin of the border protection sure type of dignity and respect for the human rights of migrant people if you know we need to strengthen our cooperation with countries of origin and also with the transit countries those. back in southern spain it's the end of an exhausting journey for these migrants and the beginning of an uncertain future in the european union. of greece as prime minister alexis tsipras has expect excepted response political responsibility is me for this week's wildfires with killed at least eighty seven. people at a cabinet meeting broadcast live he also said that evidence suggested that the fires had been started deliberately though he didn't know who might have been behind it a bitter debate is raging over the way that the authorities handled the fires and why they failed to order an evacuation. of the paradise lost of africa's eastern shoreline the mediterranean sea claims as blue as ever but on shore so many of the homes and hotels that once stood here are gone. on monday the flames charge through here at sixty kilometers per hour almost everyone fled towards the bache is only the firefighters have the mains to try and resist the flames often in vying. and this is their first time in thirty years of my service. seeing so much. of it sometimes we come in the course it's something. to stop this investigators say the blaze took just ninety minutes to write down the mountain towards the coast many residents simply had no chance to escape and while monday was extremely hard and we need grace the government suspects the worst fires were no accident. as you've all been informed. of the indications that we have and which authorities in charge are already investigating. lead to the conclusion that arson was behind the deadly fires. the police are also still trying to identify victims relatives of the missing have been gathering need their forensics lab the agony is compounded by anger at the government which they choose of botching the evacuation of residents one confronted grace's defense minister as he visited victims. no one notified anyone to fire engines didn't come nothing you left just of the mass you have god. with the residents would cheat by monday's blaze we're living in an area known to be prone to fire greeks are now asking why authorities weren't better prepared and watch so many perished. now let's get a quick check of some other stories making news around the world osama bin laden's alleged former bodyguard seen here in a german court is free after a judge ordered his release in tunisia citing a lack of evidence against him he was deported to tunisia earlier this month after living in germany off and on since one thousand nine hundred seven. israeli police have reopened jerusalem's so mosque following a raid they say that they had been pursuing to use who had thrown rocks during a confrontation with police the mosque also known as the temple mount is holding to jews and muslims. and north korea has handed over the remains of american soldiers killed in the korean war which raged from one thousand nine hundred fifty to one thousand fifty three a u.s. aircraft brought the remains to an air base in south korea the handover follows an agreement an agreement reached by north korean leader kim jong un and us president donald trump at a meeting in singapore in june. the numbers are in and they look good very good over the last quarter the u.s. economy grew at its fastest rate in more than four years and that's positive news for the world's largest economy but analysts say that it's unlikely to be quite as positive as the white house makes it out to be. trump was quick to celebrate the new figures four point one percent growth from april to june. we are on track to hit the highest annual average growth rate in over thirteen years and i will say this right now and i'll say it strongly as the trade deals come in one by one we're going to go a lot higher than these numbers and these are great numbers trump claims the new quarterly rate is sustainable on the campaign trail he promised annual growth between four and even six percent. his war on obama air regulations was supposed to unshackle the economy his one point five trillion dollar tax cut super charge the new growth but while economists expected a surge from the tax cut this quarter some even predicted five percent if you believe it is sustainable. for one the federal reserve concerned about inflation is expected to raise interest rates several more times this year. businesses also don't appear to be investing heavily there were also one off events this quarter soybean exports shot up over terror concerns government spending rose in part due to the defense budget. and there are worrying signs housing sales continue to decline wage growth is still weak one thing is sure the u.s. economy is booming at the moment in the long term however question marks linger. the tour de france leader graham thomas has a golden opportunity to claim the biggest prize in road cycling after maintaining his lead through stage nineteen the two hundred kilometer route from loris to the rons was the best chance his rival had to knock him off for his perch for sunday's final stage of thomas was in paris once again. a decisive day so right his head through the pyrenees with everything on the line the first big winner of the state was home favorite julian i love philippe the frenchman now has an unassailable lead in the race for the king of the mountains title. and the general classification leader garang thomas was under attack throughout slovenian ride of primeau drug ledge raced into contention with a phenomenal performance which saw him cross the finish line in first place. had legs today and. i just really tried a lot of times and finally i went away then on the descent. but thomas was in hot pursuit a final sprint gave him a second place finish extending his lead to more than two minutes. with just a single time trial stage and the procession to paris to go wash when thomas has a first tour de france title within his grasp. and with that you're up to date now on the news i'm sarah kelly in berlin and don't forget the latest news information that's on our website at the top of the dot com or you can follow us on social media thanks so much for 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discover who. subscribe to documentary to. the little bit about. a president prevented a german cord reject a lawsuit against a clothing chain that would have made it partially liable for a deadly fire at one of its suppliers factors also the program teaming up for a better future for ford and an alliance to develop new technologies of the same time ford wants to x. thousands of jobs in yours. i'm krista of corporal welcome to the program and we start with a verdict that's upsetting to a group of pakistani plaintiffs hoping to set a potentially far reaching precedent but a german court has rejected compensation claims aimed every tailored kick by survivors of a blaze at a textile factory in pakistan and twenty twelve the court ruled that according to pakistani law the claim was no longer valid kick was the main contractor at the karate factory survivors accused germany's biggest clothing discounter of being partially responsible for two hundred fifty people lost their lives and many more were injured if the last week had succeeded it could set a precedent for claims against other german companies operating in low wage countries. take a closer look at this verdict and what it means with. the european center for constitutional and human rights and she represented one of the plaintiffs miriam what's your reaction to the verdict. well the verdict obviously is very disappointing it was forseeable that the court would decide this way after the expert opinion that it received still it's it's a big disappointment especially for the claimants and other victims of this fire. but we also need to see that with that case we have actually also achieved already a lot meaning that on one hand kick has been paying compensation out of court on a voluntary basis up to six million us dollars and also the whole case has been highlighting the problems of the whole industry and the need for better regulation i want to get to the impact of this court case in just a moment but first of all let me ask you the question of liability wasn't even addressed what do you make of that. yeah that is very disappointing and it's only due because the court case has been dismissed due to the statute of limitation which has been raised by keke although kate previously had been saying that they are also really interested in the merits of the case and clarifying the standards of liability the court did not decide on that at all so that means to the whole question of to which extend do european based companies. have responsibility of toward staff suppliers is completely up in the air so the president that you were hoping for could not be said do you think this trial nevertheless an impact on a different scale. yes so the merits have not been decided which still means that the whole industry needs to be on their toes because when ever there is a new tick factory disaster the next claim will be brought and we will again ask the courts to make a decision on liability questions also the case has been putting so much pressure on cake that they were willing to pay in total six million u.s. dollars in an out of court negotiation. and i think at least for the german debate this case has also highlighted that we are desperately in need of better laws and that make us need to be thinking about supply chain liability rules and other fashion labels have put pressure on their suppliers to up their game when it comes to safety what do you make of the situation in the pakistani government sector today. well brands have put pressure on their suppliers but mainly in bangladesh and that is because supply the brands have been on the pressure themselves by civil society and media so that's why they have been putting into place a bangladesh accord in pakistan the pressure was much less and therefore not very much has really changed for workers in their everyday life when it comes to fire safety. of the european center for constitutional and human rights barry thank you for your thoughts thank you fox wagon and ford will join forces as they develop new technologies the two companies are set to unveil details of a deeper alliance at the detroit motor show next week sources close to that has been say the carmakers are hoping to fend of rivals in electric autonomy driving among them software companies like google another reason for working together the continuing trade for each of us between the united states the european union and china by going forward have said in the past that any alliance would not involve a merger. for more on the story let's bring in early bards our correspondent at the frankfurt stock exchange only what are they getting out of this. well they're getting out of this the ability to pool their resources and make a go of it with more research and development capacity firing power if you will with more production capacity possibly offering even more flexibility in the future moving between factories in order to accord for regional differences or for model differences and of course the financing working together on these projects would be a huge benefit because putting self driving cars and electric cars on the road now the germans i think ford to have some some back to back a little ways in the development that's going to take huge resources and this is what they hope to profit for of course they're treading a fine line they still remain competitors elsewhere and partnering at the same time now for those in the spotlight for another story today it wants to cut thousands of jobs in europe tell us more. that's it has fifty thousand jobs in europe in total and it's losing money like anything in the third quarter alone in just three months it was a quarter billion dollars and so it wants to cut jobs how many it is not said but it's going to present a plan. sometime soon a program for twenty one thousand and twenty twenty and one of the elements is supposed to be. getting people to quit voluntarily to resign early and it's going to talk to workers council and union representatives about that ford wants to x. thousands of jobs in europe only bards reporting from the frankfurt stock exchange only thank you. the french tobacco or tobacco shop has been an institution for generations alongside their goal loss cigarettes and live to go newspaper customers can purchase cryptocurrency in their neighborhood shop. it seems like there's one on every corner in french cities that about all tobacco shop now the small store was a selling bitcoins vouches can be bought at the counter and later redeemed for the cryptocurrency restriction the buy must be at least eighteen years old. to google because of all those who've ordered the two it's much more advantageous in terms of prices and it's easier in terms of transaction at least you're sure not to be giving your bank card details to malicious websites. the business is a joint effort by french financial start up to play out on the association of tobacco retailers around four thousand stores are already on board and many more are expected to take part kopeck hopes to help recover from its collapse in the last year a lot of people now know and for a while are interested in becoming don't know how to buy it even online it's quite complicated even if even the bitcoin concept and blog chain is quite complicated and then buying or or purchasing free to point is if it's another step off of complication of course you store owners are also banking on the new business they hope can help make up the diminishing tobacco sales. people we are already sell a lot of other things apart from tobacco we do money transfers we sell a lot of telephone related stuff we sell credit to buy things on amazon or other shopping websites and i think big coing goes well with the products we already offer. of course making big koreans more accessible does not automatically mean they'll be more acceptable to skeptics of digital currencies. now let me tell you about a sad statistic i've gone through four printers in the last two years from one day to the other each one just stopped working but of love to have fix them but motivation as we know cannot replace skill it's episodes like these that have resonated with consumer advocates as home appliances become more complex and digitally networked they fear that normal users are losing the ability to make basically paris and if pushed for a so-called right to repair. the household appliance industry seems to have to develop a love affair with new technology promising smart homes full of network refrigerators washing machines and other electronic devices but many consumers are actually pining for a return to the good old days when appliances lasted much longer and were easier to fix when they broke evidence is mounting that home appliances are breaking down earlier and becoming too complex to fix in many cities activists are setting up volunteer repair shops to help people overcome what many see as planned obsolescence. like with their famous leg. listens more and more known. industry create tricks so that we buy it with more stuff that's why the european commission is in the final stages of approving regulations to build repairability into the very manufacturing process. the new rules would make it easier for people to disassemble appliances ensure that spare parts are readily available. and the repair instructions are provided. the european appliance manufacturers association says it is basically behind the new regulations as long as they are applied to all competitors and that amateur safety ed liability issues are addressed. that's a show if you want more check out our website that's t w dot com slash business or simply fall off of twitter or facebook for now thanks for watching every successful there. are. some. nominees. on. the. bombing out. playing with friends cheeks rosy. and two into. the room and more on. the on on the. with him her to being done did go sagal as well lions how you know if i had known the boat would be that small i never would have gone on the trip but you know i would not support myself and my parents so you know that danger to the bottom of the theme of the going to give us leave or a. loved one sunk in the hut that one of the woman to give them i had serious problems on a personal level and i was unable to live there but it meant i'm going to. you want to know their story in full migrants terrified and reliable information for margaret's. please be. sure love his wrist bands i. mean it seems. mucky muck. good shut. the suds. learn respect. for the body. are there welcome to today's edition of euro max starting off with a look at some winter wonderland is what's coming up. on the full.
lawmakers vote today on whether to accept or reject her controversial drugs a deal with the e.u. may has warned of dire consequences if the parliament throws it out because she and the people of poland more of the slain mayor of good dogs public other volvic she was stabbed on stage at a charity event in front of thousands. and it is the largest gathering of human beings on the power planet in virtual bathing in india known as the cool mela is a unique symbol of spirituality tourism and politics it starts today. from sarah kelly welcome to the program we begin with breaking news out of kenya where explosions and gunfire have been reported at a hotel complex in the capital nairobi witnesses and police are calling it a terror attack firefighters and six. the forces are at the scene and we know that people are being evacuated the complex includes the upscale dusit hotel as well as banks and offices. and our correspondent there is just making her way to the scene and we hope to catch up with her a little bit later in the program it is a moving breaking story but first we'd like to turn to some other developments today because it is also a historic day full of britain as it counts the hours to the moment when lawmakers accept or reject prime minister to resign made steel for leaving the european union and the house of commons may urged lawmakers to support the agreement warning that rejecting it would be catastrophic for the country but observers say that most m.p.'s remain determined to throw out the hard won deal which has split the nation . and if that's the outcome of tonight's vote britain could end up crashing out of the e.u. with no agreement at all so the government is taking steps to minimize the temporal disruption to trade at ports on the english channel one of those ports is rahm's gate although it will need an upgrade if it is to handle the big ferries used for cross channel trade. its glory days are long gone a channel resort once frequented by queen victoria ramsey today is sleepy and rundown only its mayor appears to be advancing energetically into the future. a brigadier like the majority in this harbor town. here's trevor shock points proudly to what he calls a working harbor that's ready for all the investment needed to turn it into a hub that can accommodate large vessels and commercial traffic. and. ramsgate has not operated a regular cross-channel service since two thousand and thirteen the ferry to ostend was a loss making business now there are plans to revive it in the event of a no deal brags that it's slated as an alternative route to avert bottlenecks amid customs chaos in nearby dover but the plan by transport secretary chris grayling has been sharply criticized the harbor is too shallow to accommodate freight ships of five to see it is what's odd because the improved new port the emperor in question is crisscrossing he cannot see that this port is completely naked of all the facilities you might need to be in international. the harbor is as ill prepared for the freight service as the company awarded the contract to run it not only has it never operated a ferry service it doesn't have ships steve coombs and his action group discovered that some time ago as the transport secretary insists that's not a problem the government is testing other no deal scenarios alive rehearsal last week this time at ramsgate defunct airport but only eighty nine trucks took part in the trial of an emergency traffic system to avoid congestion in dover a fraction of daily traffic ramsgate has already borne the brunt of jokes ridiculed as the town of failed preparations. i think that we're just being a bit used their i think right right right wing groups who are trying to push for and for this no deal in the way they are the only people that seem to be at peace and everybody else just instituted a job hotel owners in ramsgate want clarity on what awaits their town amid breck's of uncertainty their earnings have been dropping for months. but the mayor isn't rattled by the prospect of impending chaos he'd be fine with a disorderly. because that would catapult the sleepy town of ramsgate into the headlines as the no deal harper town. of bring in our london correspondent back of mass who is outside of the u.k. houses of parliament and we know that their parliament lawmakers they're already debating bragg's ahead of tonight's vote what is the mood in which direction is this likely to go today. the mood is intense i have to say here outside parliament we've got many hundred protesters and it's really been heating up throughout the day there are those who are protesting to stay within the european union risi behind me a lot of european flags also a lot of british flags and we see peacefully side by side i have to say leave protesters those are people who are fearing that bret's it might in the end actually not happen and they are fearing that m.p.'s are going to somehow drag it out and might come to a second referendum so there are really strong feelings each either side and the same is true for the houses of parliament it's a matter of conviction for many politicians and i have spoken to two one who have said how deep it is asian this is for them and here it is sort of feels the weight of history on his shoulders and i think that seems true for many of the m.p.'s now as of parliament they don't seem to be in a mood to compromise it doesn't look like many of them are going to support trees amazed you which is effectively a compromise between the two sides if they do not support the deal if they do indeed projected what is may's plan b. what happens next. if only we knew we don't really she hasn't said anything about a plan b. maybe her inner circle knows what she intends to do she has said that she's not going to us for article fifty to be extended so to. for these that line moved from the end of march to too late supposedly into the summer that she's not going to do that that's what she's said now but we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow if she really does lose by a large margin if mitt is maybe hundreds over over an m.p.'s are not behind her she will face criticism she will face also people who are calling on her to resign she has been extraordinarily resilient and it seems that she is determined to to push this through for her is the will of the people and she sees us up as the woman who needs to execute the results of president to make sure that britain actually does leave but we also know that she doesn't want to crash out without studio so the question is what's going to happen if she loses by a big margin maybe a vote of no confidence that the opposition labor party might table as soon as tomorrow they're good mass with the latest from london ahead of this vote thank you so much. one of the issues that delayed the approval of the steel by the european union and continues to be controversial with u.k. lawmakers it's the so-called irish backstop that's a measure designed to avoid a physical border between northern ireland which is part of the u.k. and the republic of ireland opponents of the may deal says that they say that the irish backstop would put an artificial border in the i receive between two parts of the u.k. and that would violate british sovereignty. now. visited one town that is particularly worried about a hard irish border for the simple reason that it straddles both sides of the frontier. when terry hughes entrance his gas station he's in the republic of ireland. but walking past some groceries. and out the back door takes them across a national border straight into the united kingdom i cross the border if i'm going to grab a kiss of drinks or. at the back doors and in the u.k. i'm in the front here with we have the republic of ireland so. i would probably think maybe when the region the thirty forty times a day across the border living and working on the other side of the border is a daily routine for many in these irish communities the small town of petty go with its six hundred inhabitants has been divided ever since island gained independence from britain people across the border to post letters and get milk and when they die they cross it to be buried behind me is the republic of ireland and right here is northern ireland and no deal breaks it would mean a hard to border and that means fences walls and checkpoints and all that right here in the center of this town. urban johnson runs a little repair shop right by a crossing point he remembers what life was like when there was a heart border during the early seventy's violence was almost a daily occurrence for him and his neighbors. forge and they all have businesses in the northern side of had to go or. sharni wouldn't make. the same thing again. but tensions are already running high republican hardliners such as patty gallagher who's the spokes person for a small political group are warning that a fixed border could quickly become a target if there is. border infrastructure put in place again a concrete structure to mention that there would be attacks for a greater than an army are all rocked if they're there within our communities. from what i hear they are very capable or turn to violence due to breaks to a nightmare scenario for a gas station owner terry hughes. twenty years or so of peace in this country i've never seen the culprits poor raised so you're you're in the paper kick and you're just waiting for the mission heading home to the north again across the border terry is hoping for a breakfast solution that won't close crossings and open old wounds. and we are joined now by professor federico fabry me director of the birds that institute at dublin city university in the republic of ireland welcome to the program thanks for joining us a lot of stake there as we've seen for the people living close to the border area how about the rest of ireland. well indeed brax it represents a major challenge for the republic of ireland among the twenty seven member states of the european union the republic of ireland is certainly the one who has more to lose as a result of the decision to eve. i do you could treat the european union with the exit date approaching in few weeks the irish government has been planning to prepare contingency measures to deal with that no deal scenario but of course the hope there probably of ireland certainly that at the deal will go through and that the border problem will be sold within the framework of an order the withdrawal of the u.k. from the european union what do you think happened though if the british parliament votes no today what happens next. well it's very hard to to make a prediction i think it's very likely that today westminster will not support the bracks deal neko shaded by prime minister three days i may and if dobson is indeed going to happen i think there are three scenarios effectively on the table the default scenario is. no deal for the simple fact that the clock is ticking and we are meet january and the exit date in march is really be behind a corner a second scenario is one where the u.k. government asks for an extension under article fifty four keeping the u.k. with the in the e.u. beyond march that of course would require that u.k. to ask for it and the european union unanimously to accords that extension and i think in principle that could happen but of course we have european parliament elections at the end of may constrain quite significantly the european union in the next standing membership of the u.k. for too long and the or sorry no sorry then therefore i think a third option is also still possible which is a new vote on the same deal i don't think we can rule that out ok we have to leave it there professor federico fabry need to rector of the bag that institute at dublin city university in the republic of ireland thank you so much thank you. well it's over to christophe kober now and british businesses are bracing themselves for the bribes and stare of the concerns only seem to be growing grist to reason may's breaks a deal said to be rejected by parliament later today many british businesses are preparing for months of chaos many have been stockpiling shifting investments relocating jobs though no one knows what the true extent of the damage could be and the european union certainly won't escape scot free either by the end of two thousand and twenty the union could see a budget deficit of around sixteen billion euros with germany expected to foot about a quarter of that the german chambers of industry and commerce warns the german businesses may have to fork out three billion euros each year just to pay the new export tariffs on goods headed to britain. all of that doesn't really appealing for a quick market update before this crucial vote let's cross over to our financial correspondent dana cope in frankfurt daniel the decision will be made investments later tonight how nervous are markets before that. you had there chris i can tell you that the traders here on the trading floor they are nervous i can see many of them they are having a very close eye on what is happening there at the moment and we have to remember that the crucial vote will be taking place at around eight pm the german time by that time the markets here in frankfurt will be already closed but at the moment it seems that every outcome is possible and that is making investors certainly in overs they want clarification of what is going to happen when we take a look at the market at the moment the blue chip index stocks is in the red at the moment down with a volunteer zero point two five per cent this was happening even though the signs from asia looked pretty promising at this morning the footsie one hundred in london pretty much unchanged the power. won't it sound at the moment daniel prime minister of tourism a made a last ditch effort to persuade lawmakers offer plenty of the less a heavy defeat for the prime minister is expected is this the most likely outcome that investors are going with and what do they think will be the impact. while investors are pretty sure that there is no way that she's going to get this through parliament to night so the fear off a hot breakfast that is certainly coming up again and if there's something that investors certainly don't want is a hard break said because as you said this would most likely create a lot of chaos in the u.k. and also around europe so they are hoping that there could be possibly a new or referendum maybe even with the result that at the end we won't even see that this scenario would certainly be appreciated by investors then you're hoping for thank you. your consumer products drying procter and gamble is in hot water for allegedly trashing their old customer base that story in a short while for now but to sell so much great stuff. we're going to get a quick check now of some other stories making news around the world a member of the german armed forces has been arrested on suspicion of spying for the iranian secret service officials say the suspect is a fifty year old german of afghan descent but suspect reportedly had access to sensitive material including information about the german army's mission in afghanistan. judges that the international criminal court have acquitted former ivory coast president laurent gbagbo as war crimes allegedly committed following disputed elections in two thousand and ten judges ordered the immediate release of both babo and codefendant chavez leg a day. case had been seen as a milestone in efforts to bring justice to even high ranking leaders accused of atrocities. hundreds of central american migrants have set out from on the us to try and reach the united states the new caravan hopes to succeed even as thousands of migrants from the previous wave of caravans have been largely marooned at the mexican u.s. border since november. the people of poland are paying their respects to the murdered mayor of don's pavol. he was stabbed in front of thousands of spectators at a fund raising event on sunday night and he died on monday the mayor was leading was a leading figure in the country's opposition and. a city in mourning and flags at half mast for the slain man. polls have been turning out to pay public tribute to the man who led the city for two decades. inside city hall many of those who knew him personally bit deaf as well in a condolence book. e.u. council president to ask. his hometown to honor his friend. i want to promise you today your problem on behalf of all of us. holds an europeans. for you and for all of us we will defend our good our poland and our europe against hatred and contempt we promise you this so well. his death has shocked local residents. for me it's terrible meters especially since we went to great school together just over there and i thought he would survive. because it'll be. physically devastated and very sad because i saw the mayor very often. part of the item over which was attending a charity event for children in need on sunday. as the man looked out at thousands of people a man lunged at him with a knife. the attacker remained on stage shouting that he blamed the mass form a party for what he called wrongful imprisonment then he was tackled to the ground . prosecutors are charging the twenty seven year old suspect with murder. just before his death at the most rich called the most wonderful city in the world a lasting message to the people he served. one of the more now i'm joined by my colleague monthly from d.w. polish he's with us here in the studio and we just have the government in warsaw that they've actually held a moment of silence. how is the political establishment reacting to his death what do you make of that reaction well unfortunately i i'm afraid is kind of a silence before de silence before the storm will the politicians in warsaw in poland they know it's simply too early to bring out some heavy political action the man was killed yesterday so they are know being very cautious they don't want to bring this heavy political a political action but there are some voices indicating already that a big political kalash is coming well polish politics is extremely polarized it's very aggressive verbally. ruling the law and justice party uses a very aggressive tongue could the media supporting this party also uses very degrading language so the opposition has really a lot of fuel to attack maybe in couple of days maybe a couple of weeks but the government is also blaming the opposition for being aggressive and for making this tragedy happen how about wider society though i mean how are they seeing this as a one off incident or do they also. see this is a problem perhaps with the fabric of politics in the country i guess this was cited to seize there is there is a there is some there is some issue i think there is a question being asked right now haven't we really gone too far shouldn't we change the way we report about politics that the media reports of both politics should we change the way we talk we discuss some things with each other so polish society needs cooling down needs some other temperature of discussion and hopefully it will it will come but i don't know if it's going to last but i mean this is not only about politics we're beginning to learn a little bit more about the suspect he seems like he was a deeply disturbed individual what more do we know about him well it's a man with a long criminal record who has been imprisoned for robberies armed robberies. prosecutors say say well he has some mental problems mental disorders however this aggressive atmosphere in poland could have some impact of course and want to hear what he has done and he said actually that what he did was in revenge for as he claimed a wrongful imprisonment. thank you so much for joining us to tell us a little bit more about it fresh action on ski as we appreciate it thank you. hugh some other news now and a fresh blast of winter weather has hit central europe making many regions treacherous and the austrian ski region of botha left authorities are urging people to avoid wooded areas because of the risk of trees collapsing under the weight of the snow they have been avalanches no deaths have been recorded however the extreme weather has killed more than twenty people in the last ten days. and i mean s.f. is in austria and reports now on the toll that the heavy snow is taking. local news in austria today is dominated by announcements of road closures over one hundred fifty roadways are blocked due to the danger of avalanches and falling trees this could turn a ten minute drive into a two hour detour and about a dozen villages in austria are completely inaccessible they're blocked off from the outside world no sun and warmer weather is predicted for today and tomorrow but this only increases the chances of avalanches because heavy wet snow can trigger an avalanche but the break in the weather will allow them urgency services to kick into full gear helicopter pilots can fly again to go survey for avalanches and also deliver much needed goods and services to the snowed in villages and of course many austrians will just be glad to see the sun again after so many days of blinding snow that was on s.f. joining us from australia let's get back to our top story now explosions gunfire have been reported at an upscale hotel and office complex in the kenyan kenyan capital nairobi firefighters and security forces are at the scene and people are being evacuated it is not yet known who is responsible for the attack but our correspondent catherine on one thought is at the scene she is joining us now on the line catherine what's going on. ok so i have. was you can see who are trying to connect there with our correspondent catherine a month of standing by in nairobi in kenya where as we mentioned there is this attack underway at this hotel complex in the capital nairobi we haven't been able to reach or actually on the lines of going to turn to some other news now will try and get her again a little later on the show australia sweltering through temperatures of forty degrees celsius as yet another extreme heat wave bakes the country records may be broken if the mercury climbs of a forty six degrees in australia's most populous state yourself wales the extreme heat has killed a million fish in mass die offs since december now officials have announced desperate measures to save the remaining fish stocks. an ecological disaster is unfolding in the waterways of southeastern australia. the country has been in the grip of a record breaking heat wave and it's having a devastating effect on lakes and rivers. drought conditions have been compounded by algal blooms which is starving the water of oxygen fish a dying by the thousands like here on the darling river. this species one hundred years old is coming back this is what he described to me lately absolutely now the regional government has announced it's deploying battery operated aerators to mechanically pump oxygen back into the water. other trucks will arrive in the next twenty four hours from western australia will start installing. solution we admit that nothing will stop this unless we get. rid of flowers and dams back up to normal. but returning water levels to normal looks unlikely to happen any time soon forecast as a warning the record temperatures in many parts of australia are set to linger and even rise over the coming days. and watching g.w. news still to come on the program it is a unique mix of spirituality tourism and politics we're taking you to india where more than one hundred million hindus will take part in a virtual bathing and starting today and forty years ago u.s. television series not only changed the way that history saw hitler's final solution it also gave it a name we'll take a look at holocaust. all that and more you're 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player. people who put big dreams on the big story. playing. the movie magazine on d w. welcome back here in the united i'm sara kelley in berlin our top stories also a somali islamist militant group has claimed responsibility for an attack on an upscale hotel an office complex in the kenyan capital nairobi firefighters and security forces are at the people are being evacuated. but it's judgment day for british prime minister to receive a plan for the leading figures in the union may has called on lawmakers to back up break the deal but all indications are things will overwhelmingly vote against. it let's turn now to a growing diplomatic dispute over the fate of a canadian man sentenced to death in china for drug smuggling canada's prime minister justin trudeau has condemned the sentence as quote arbitrary now china is hitting back accusing today of making quote irresponsible remarks relations were already frosty after canada arrested a top chinese telecom executive at the request of the united states his name is robert lloyd schellenberg. a canadian national in chinese custody since two thousand and fourteen originally he had been sentenced to fifteen years in prison for masterminding a drug smuggling plot a charge he continues to deny but in a surprise move in appeals court allowed chinese prosecutors to retry him the result. well the defendant is guilty of smuggling drugs and his sentence today if all of his personal assets will be confiscated they say that. canada's embassy has urged its citizens to be cautious when traveling to china. and the prime minister has also expressed his misgivings. it is of extreme concern to us as a government as it should be to all our international friends and allies that china has chosen to begin to arbitrarily apply death penalty in cases facing it as in this case a face in canadian the verdict represents a new escalation in the diplomatic spat between beijing and auto. observers have link schoenberg's fresh conviction to canada's arrest of this woman. she's a senior executive at telecommunications giant huawei and the daughter of its founder she's accused of helping the company by pass u.s. sanctions and american authorities are seeking her extradition. schoenberg's retrial was boxed through just weeks after one was taken into custody and now it seems her fate as well as that of schoenberg and two other comedians in chinese custody might not be decided in a court of law but rather on the international stage. and correspondent mathias all insurance covering the story for us from beijing china has been gauging this kind of hosted diplomacy before but it has never done so in such an open and assertive way officially the government keeps denying any link between the case of man one joe in canada and chen banks and the two other canadian detainees cases in china but through an official channels it has been very clear about what it expects it expects the release of mrs munt in canada. the tabloid global times newspaper with close links to the top ranks of the communist party has recently warned that china might be doing more than just detaining canadians and this verdict is what it meant at the time and the government has organized a reporting trip for foreign reporters to the court hearing this is something china does very rarely it rarely admits foreign reporters to court hearings so it wanted to make sure the message gets across and the message to any government that engages in a conflict with china is your citizens might be at risk that was our correspondent in china meantime the world's biggest religious festival kicks off today in india for the next eight weeks up to one hundred fifty million hindus are expected to take part in the ritual of bathing known as the comella now the actual pilgrimage rotates between four sites this year it isn't the top pradesh at the confluence of the ganges and the union of rivers. the curve is a mix of spirituality tours and also politics it is the largest gathering of human beings on the planet and a mega event with its own mega challenges. they are the first of many to come. at holy men heading towards a special part of the ganges river to perform a deeply spiritual ritual and waters they consider holy. the sunrise marks the official beginning of the kumara and more pilgrims arrive hindus believe that bathing here during this time will wash away their sins and help them reach hinduism ultimate spiritual goal salvation from the cycle of life and death. it is said that if you base at the confluence of these rivers during the time of calm you retain nirvana received blessings and all your wishes are fulfilled. the camilla draws on centuries of hindu tradition but even among young people today the ancient ritual is hugely popular. but one theory since my childhood i used to hear stories about the come from my grandparents this is the land of meditation of millions of sages and holy men i feel privileged to have braved in this confluence of rivers today. managing the crowds is a mammoth task portable toilets lined the dusty roads and a special tented city has been set up to accommodate the pilgrims festival officials say india's hindu nationalist government has made it a priority to make the festival a success. the unity government was to make sure that the indian heritage the indian culture the. reject any for you what india is is shown today and i would. have a good experience. prime minister narendra modi his party's up for re-election is expected to join the pilgrims during the eight week festival. now germany's domestic intelligence agency is set to investigate the right wing populist alternative for germany you aren't a f.t. it wants to determine the extent of the party's right wing extremist motives this will not involve full on surveillance of the f.t. but the party's youth wing will be observed more closely and public statements made by a.f.p. members as well as the party's links to the far right identity tarried movement will be monitored when germany's constitution contains strict safeguards against extreme. let's get more now we are trying to buy a group of you know votes from our politics department so why has the same message intelligence agency decided to do this now i mean what did the head of the service say. the the president of the office for the protection of the constitution that's the official name of germany's domestic intelligence service thomas hide among he gave a press conference just half an hour ago and what had to say. is a quite a blow for the dean said that there are indications that the represents a policy that contradicts the constitutional order of germany that would make it possible that this party can be treated as a test case that's the rather official name of what the office or for the protection of the constitution is going to do right now they're going to look close into this party they're going to look at the remarks officials of these parties are doing they're going to look at the of manifestos are going to look at all the public information they can get a hold on trying to find out if this party in its soul is an extremist party or not what does this decision on a practical level now because i mean what sort of information coming intelligence service actually collect about the f.d.a. legally. well on the if he has a party as a whole as i just said it's more or less just public information information that they give out by themselves it's a party manifestos interviews remarks and social media speeches on party conventions or speeches in parliament but on the other hand and that's the even was part of some parts of the party going to be treated as targets of suspicion and here it is possible to gather some information that is nonpublic so to talk to informants to. look at some of the stuff to look at databases by the police for instance and which is very bad for the party is that they are going to look not only as a party at the party as a whole but also some movements within the party that as already mentioned and the piece we've seen before talk the youth organization the j. the young and the t.v. and there's the movement within the party the far right movement the wing the flugel it is called in german and the head of the nixon the government who's also how do the parliamentary party here the bundestag is also one of the members of this wing he has signed the founding manifesto of this movement within the party and that means that surveillance matters could be used on the head of the parliamentary party of the a of d. what the biggest opposition party here in german parliament of the vid about thank you you're welcome. is back now with what is next and we're talking about two automotive giants forming an alliance sara german car maker fox wagon and u.s. competitor ford have announced a much anticipated plan to team up the two companies will work together to develop commercial vans and medium size pick ups while exploring corp on electric and self driving cars the announcement came against the backdrop of the motor show in detroit company officials said the first vehicles from the effort could hit markets as early as twenty twenty two the corporation comes as international trade conflicts are triggering carmakers to rethink where they build their vehicles as a way of warning terrorists the german auto giant can also said it wanted to invest eight hundred million dollars in a new plant in chattanooga in the u.s. state of tennessee. u.s. consumer products giant procter and gamble is in hot water over their latest ad in a social media campaign razor company gillette which is a procter and gamble subsidiary seems to bandon its traditional celebration of macho role models this time around hunted called for men to shift their behavior and reject patriarchal ideas and concepts the commercial says today's men should question their all old male ness in the wake of the me too movement chauvinists and macho simply no longer have a place in society the spot implies. this. now so far so good but there has been some backlash from the target audience gerri from our social media desk is here to tell me all about it what's the issue well i guess jill it is deliberately being provocative and it's attracted a lot of attention good attention people are saying they're supportive of the message that men need to call out other men for bad behavior because sexual violence is a problem but there are lots of people saying look we don't need politics without shaving joe on you tube the ad has had around two million views but two hundred thousand dislikes which is quite a loss lots of comments there from people known as men's rights activists one uses saying the ad emasculates men apparently they've done engineering raises now it's time to engineer society and reprogram men conservative t.v. personality piers morgan has called it. p.c. guff and that's fueling the current pathetic global assault on masculinity he writes let boys be boys and he's going to take his business elsewhere and many men appear to be following his lead dozens of videos of being posted on social media people are just throwing the products in the trash gillette says it wants to promote healthy versions of what it means to be a man and it's a very clever campaign i guess but one that is designed to to be provocative. certainly in the wake of the me too movement has become somewhat of a questionable claim let me hit you with some numbers here advertising and social media has become a major part of ad budgets in the u.s. alone company invests around thirty two billion dollars each year on social marketing now these can backfire though why is it so hard to predict it will look sometimes it works and sometimes. doesn't it just really depends on what they're latching on to one example of something that didn't work came from pepsi in twenty seventeen they tried to align themselves with the black lives movement and that was met with an outcry with. kendall jenner who is a. the company was accused of trying to make a mockery of the movement and she. pulled the ad in the face of calls for a boycott another more recent example of nike teaming up with a football player. he's become something of a lightning rod for taking in need during the national anthem to protest police brutality that cooperation angered a lot of people and americans some americans saw that even burning then nike shoes bought was a bit risky but it seemed to have worked out in nike's favor because one estimate. went up by thirty percent so sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't work how much damage can such a complaint actually do well in the case of pepsi if we look at pepsi you can have severe reputational damage and you are. the target of campaigns the internet never forgets basically so this is something that will hang over pepsi and in the case of nike sometimes it does go very well so you just really depends on your message and how you react to the backlash to. shaving cream. from our social media thank you so much. back to sara now and tennis fans a melbourne doing everything to stay in the shade getting those portable fans ready christophe because it is really steaming hot there in melbourne where tennis players and fans are enduring high temperatures and humidity at the australian open organizers have put new measures in place this year to try and ensure player safety during extreme heat waves the women's top seed simona halep just about managed to cope with the high temperatures but she had to battle her way past instilling in better and canopy six seven six four six two twenty seventeen australian open champion serena williams had less trouble in her match she cruised to victory beating germany's tatyana maria six love six two and in the men's tournament top seed novak djokovic started his bid for a record seventh men's australian open title on the right foot u.s. qualifier michel kruger in straight sets. meantime other news the head of japan's limbic committee has denied the two payments made shortly before tokyo was selected to host the twenty twenty games were in any way corrupt. today cost to k. that. has been indicted by french prosecutors as they investigate two million dollars in payments made just with what took you know chosen to host the olympics the affair is a concern for organizers who have been praised for running ahead of schedule japan's olympics minister says that the country must now overcome a bad image decade and maintains his innocence. but i am very sorry that this trouble could possibly affect the olympic movement the organizing committee and all the people involved in steadfast and smooth preparations toward hosting the twenty twenty games. very much very much a group and in football the round in the asian cup group stage has begun with heartbreak for india they have crashed out of the tournament after opponents bahrain scored in stoppage time to take in one nil victory and the other game united arab emirates confirmed their place in the round of sixteen major one all with thailand who also progressed to the next round despite firing their coach early in the tournament. well with their incredible output of sirius streaming services like into the go netflix amazon prime have for ever changed the way that we consume television but forty years ago it was a four part american miniseries that changed the way that germans think about their own history now this mini series back in one nine hundred seventy eight was a production called holocaust starring meryl streep which aired in west germany the following year and was watched by nearly half of the population and unprecedented viewership that effectively brought the crimes committed by now to germany and their aftermath into the realm of public discussion now three years later the series is being asked among with a new documentary about the impact that it had. and he was very on karen homesteaders joining us from culture to talk a little bit more about it tell us about the reception of holocaust the serious at the time over starters it was a huge success it was watched by some seven hundred million people worldwide and as you very correctly said nearly half of the west german population a back in one nine hundred seventy nine world war two and the holocaust had only been consigned to the history books for just over three decades and there was still very little public consciousness for what had really happened in germany very little knowledge about what went on in the jewish ghettos in the death camps and the heinous crimes that had been committed so people were really shocked by what they saw from the cosiness of their living rooms and there were considerably fewer books on the subject in those days many hadn't even been translated into german. so this series really introduced the word holocaust itself and its naming of the period of nazi genocide against european jews into our collective of kavya larrys the producers thought that was very important in this series to have the top level nazis played by english speaking actors which from today's perspective can seem a bit funny but they wanted to show that this kind of collective hatred can happen everywhere so before we go on let's have a quick recap of the story. holocaust tells the into woven story of two berlin families the series opens with the wedding celebrations of color vice a jew and his christian bride in the helms. meanwhile eric doff is looking for work his father a social democrat took his own life after being driven into poverty. graduate so eric doff signs up with s.s. senior group leader reinhardt hydration watch and i made a job. that is fresh. this series uses some historical footage to illustrate the rise of the nazis. despite their rise and numerous warnings berta vice doesn't want to leave germany again no use we are going nowhere now the kind i'm always has your way. but then in one thousand nine hundred thirty eight christan knocks changes everything but his husband will suffice is deported to poland and the family falls apart. in one nine hundred forty two the run secret france decides on the so-called final solution to the jewish problem policy review and eric doff is that heinrich side the use of them to pass. on joseph ice a murdered while the present at the auschwitz concentration camp. the series holocaust shows how prisoners were sent to the gas chambers. and never before had a film or television series made use of such dramatic images to illustrate nazi crimes yet some critics still accuse the series of playing down the horrors of the holocaust. after the war the us army confronts erik dorf with evidence of his involvement in nazi atrocities. he kills himself with a cyanide capsule. you know about it. so very sobering stuff there sara i should add that with this rebroadcast that's happening on german television there's a new documentary being aired this week about how the series made it to television and in it we learned that michael moriarty who we just saw there at the end had real psychological trouble with this role he was so intensely disgusted by his character the s.s. officer erik door who climbs the ranks of nazi hierarchy and here's how the head of production remembers some of what went on. there our economy the american actor who played a door for the main role started having real psychological problems and he was unable to sleep he was awake half the night and played the piano and i had to get a psychiatry to help him get through it all so the actor who played him in whole got and it sounds so ridiculous but he came down with the measles clean and i was afraid that a measles epidemic would break out. break. up. eric character was a really tough one to play obviously as moriarty says but it was in very important because he represented the normal guy who just wanted to get ahead and followed his own ambition and through his own lack of questioning became one of the biggest monsters in the whole nazi system so the quintessential portrayal of the banality of evil if you will and it's interesting because at the time there was a lot of shock in the german public but there was also a lot of controversy you know after after each episode of holocaust when it was aired at the time there was a follow up companion show in which the public could phone in with questions to a panel of historians now that was really unprecedented and after the very first episode ten thousand people phoned in the panel was completely overwhelmed by all these thousands of calls from shocked and angry germans on a much more sinister level there was also violent protest for instance when a group of right wing terrorists actually tried to blow up the transmission towers of the transmitters. in western germany they actually wanted to prevent the series from being broadcast on german television but of course. very luckily they failed so tell us a little bit more about the larger impact this has had well it's very interesting because in addition to all this really really heavy discussion that was going on amongst the public there was sharp criticism on the part of some holocaust survivors some prominent ones like. who felt that for instance this series was making a soap opera of the holocaust it was trivializing it it was historically inaccurate it was overblown and that it was commercializing one of history's greatest tragedies many of those criticisms you could argue were very well founded. and many historical dramas as we know get are guilty of trying to pack in too much to make their point but on the other hand the holocaust or holocaust was the first. i'm that many germans and many americans at the time of its first broadcast in seventy eight. were confronted with the dramatize ation of these events and actually made to engage emotionally with victims as with perpetrators. when they were portrayed as characters the series was even talk of discussion in the german bundestag in the parliament. and it was hotly discussed in school so it really marked a turning point in germany as culture and if for all to remember links from front to what actually happened in a way that was really tangible indeed. from g.w. culture thank you so much for that that you're up to date and you know you news i'm sarah kelly in for land thanks for. bringing. to you true is transforming people's lives i'm still learning so you kind of in. i'm into mountain communities he's bringing an extra city to places that have never had to face all kinds of america's energy revolution told the residents of these villages challenge is that some can also morocco. says the units d.w. . the fast pace of life in the digital world such a shift has the lowdown on the web that you chose a new developments useful information and anything else worth knowing. presents the image finds. looks over the shoulders of makers 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since i'm obviously missed a group al-shabaab claims responsibility for an ongoing attack in nairobi was because as a hotel an office complex in the kenyan capital to run for that lives after an explosion and heavy gunfire of security forces have been deployed in the area as being in factories and. also on the program judgement day for britain's prime minister after weeks of white single make us folks today on whether to accept a recent magazine called devotional threats and deal with it work in union mrs magnus warned of dire.
the world race to roll out five networks many parts of germany don't even have access to three cheap our correspondent visits the german countryside to find out what it is like to live in a networked dead oh. i'm sorry walk into the program after a weekend of violence in gaza that claimed the lives on both sides of the border israel and hamas have reportedly agreed to a cease fire according to palestinian officials it came into effect just a couple of hours ago over the weekend at least nineteen palestinians and four israelis were killed in the most severe escalation of violence between israelis and palestinians since the two thousand and fourteen gaza war. on the run as a hospital in gaza. palestinians mourn the dead. the funerals were held for a pregnant woman and her fourteen month old niece both killed on saturday the girl's father blames israel it's all of. the children were playing and they were struck by a missile shot from an israeli drone. and israeli spokesman denied that the defense forces the i.d.f. were involved and said the palestinians themselves were responsible. for the unfortunate deaths of that woman and the baby were not a result of the fifty's rather a result of the use of weapons by terrorist organizations in that area in the southern gaza strip israel says it's targeting what it calls terror elements in the gaza strip pinpointing farm buildings cars and high rise buildings in gaza city. the israeli government insists the strikes are in response to hamas and islamic jihad far and more than six hundred rockets across the border into southern israel this weekend many were intercepted while still arab own but some landed in residential areas destroying homes injuring and killing civilians. hastily declared in the early hours of the morning the latest ceasefire has a verted an all out war but with tensions high it won't take much for the violence to flare up again. let's get more now we're joined by correspondent tanya kramer who is in jerusalem and tanya as we've heard there the cease fire has been in effect for a few hours now how is it holding up. well it has been quiet for the past few hours since to early morning hours have been no rockets incoming rockets from the gaza strip and there have been also no more strikes by the israeli assholes so effectively what we're hearing reports from palestinian sources is that a cease fire has gone into effect at four thirty am local time. now we know if we look actually on the official side when it comes to the cease fire there was no official an announcement from either side what should we make of that tanya. well usually on the israeli side at least there is also in previous time there was never an official confirmation on the on a cease fire it's just known that there have been understandings brokered by egypt by qatar and the u.n. they have been working all weekend on that no what we have seen as a statement by the israeli army this morning they have said that as of seven am local time so that's two hours earlier. all they said they told the communities in southern israel that life can go back to normal that the strict sions are lifted like roads will be opened some of the schools will be opened as well later today and that is an indication at least the most officials we will probably get in this at this time that also israel considers this round of fighting being over and when we look at you know what has really contributed just to sparking this round of violence we have palestinian officials in gaza on the one hand accusing israel of not taking steps to ease its blockade under some previous cease fire promised deals tanya how likely is it that we could see steps to resolve this. well i mean this is very crucial because. the militant groups in gaza have referred to the fact that the last understanding set had been reached on the mitigation of egypt and the u.n. that it wasn't the end of march beginning of april that is well it didn't comply. with the implementation of those understanding so that has been at the source of also the latest escalation now we understand that probably under this new. fire is also based on those understandings meaning lifting some of the restrictions on the gaza strip like expanding the fishing zone and letting in aid money from qatar and other projects in gaza. having said that it's clear that if there's no long term solution for the gaza strip which has been under close it for over a decade now we will it's highly likely that we will see another round of escalation pretty soon so it's all now in the implementation of those understandings that have been reached this week and tanya kramer interests thank you tonya. russian authorities have said that forty one people died during an emergency landing at moscow's sheremetyevo airport on sunday evening the aeroflot airliner was en route to the northern city of more months when the pilot reported technical problems and turned back the plane caught fire as it landed. a ball of flame hurtling along the runway trailed by a plume of smoke. i want to put watch in dread flight as you want for nine to solo comes to a halt. most of those who had boarded the flight only hours earlier but not managed to escape the flames. as a lucky survive a stock a safety fire trucks rushed towards the bunning hall. several passengers were taken to hospital and while doing it justice is play with some of the severity of the injuries comes from smoke inhalation and burns. a car being imperfect getting and many other people have injuries to their bodies and legs. the skin to be sure cool. it's unclear why the aircraft russian built sukhoi superjet one hundred ten back about thirty minutes into its flight the cause of the fire is also not known russian media reports that the plane bounced off atomic as a pilot attempted to land they cannot in the fuel tanks. the disaster also raises questions over this who put it one hundred since one crashed in indonesia and twenty twelve deaths in several complaints about technical flaws in the aircraft. as a nation emerges from its grief the call for answers will grow louder. of give more now we're joined by correspondent emily sure went who has the view from moscow so emily what are you hearing from investigators about the cause of this accident. well the investigative committee has been rather careful about what information they've been releasing they haven't actually stated in the fischel reason for the crash yet they've said that they will only do that after a thorough investigation they are investigating what happened as a violation of safety rules what we do know is that the plane was flying from moscow to more money and that the pilot sent a distress signal shortly after takeoff now itself is actually saying that the plane had to return to unspecified technical reasons they say that the fire broke out after landing now there are conflicting versions about whether the fire actually broke off broke out during the flight or after landing from videos it does certainly look like the fire broke out after landing but pilots the pilots from the plane have been reporting that the plane may have been hit by lightning that could have caused the fire or that it could have also caused technical issues other sources say that the plane. broke out in flames when it hit the landing strip so really not much official information not much information lots of different versions being discussed so we'll have to wait and see to get more clarity on what they are really happened what the reasons for this accident there also seems to be emily a bit of a debate about the emergency response what more can you tell us about. when it comes to the emergency response people have been discussing on social media one thing that people have been discussing is why it took so long for the blaze to be put out as some eyewitnesses said it did and one report in the media says that perhaps. airport used its own fire brigades rather than relying on civilian fire brigades who were not let on to the airport territory and that that could have been a reason for the slow response but again this is not confirmed another thing that people are discussing is the evacuation of passengers an aeroflot representative for said that passengers were were actually evacuated within fifty five seconds the norm there he said was ninety seconds so a rather quick evacuation but media sources are citing. other sources so again not very confirmed but who are who are saying that actually passengers panicked and they tried to get their luggage their hand luggage out of the storage compartments and that actually slowed the evacuation of passengers and with forty one people dead in this instance the search for answers will certainly continue and will be sure when with the view from moscow thank you. let's get a check now some other stories making news around the world white house national security advisor john bolton says that the u.s. will deploy a carrier strike group and bombers to the middle east to send a clear and unmistakable message to iran it is the latest in a series of moves aimed at ratcheting up pressure on tehran a year after washington withdrew from the nuclear accord. brunei is to suspend capital punishment for gay sex and adultery the sultan of brunei may be announcement in a television address the country has been under international pressure after celebrities including george clooney and elton john called for a global boycott of the royal family's businesses. i mean i did nation says that it has gained access to grain silos in yemen's port city of data for the first time in months fighting made the storage facility inaccessible last year it may hold enough wheat to feed hundreds of thousands in the war torn country. you're watching news still to come on the program thailand's newly crowned king makes his public debut huge crowds turned out for braam of the town in bangkok as he takes part in the ceremonial process to celebrate his expression to the for. the first shares on china's stock markets have plummeted after u.s. president donald trump threw a wrench in ongoing trade talks he's threatening additional tariffs on chinese imports only days before chinese delegation is expected in washington for possibly final round of negotiations now the chinese vice premier says that he will still travel to the united states but shorten his trip to want to have. many had to leave the trade dispute could soon be ended when negotiators met in beijing last week there had been hope for a quick settlement it was believed things were going well and then u.s. president donald trump made an announcement on twitter. for ten months china has been paying tariffs to the usa of twenty five percent on fifty billion dollars of high tech and ten percent on two hundred billion dollars of other goods these payments are partially responsible for our great economic results the ten percent will go up to twenty five percent on friday. the tariffs are indeed a lucrative revenue source for the u.s. and october twenty eighth income from tariffs rose by about forty percent to five point five billion dollars year on year according to the new york times this week a high ranking chinese trade delegation is scheduled to visit the us following trump's trade announcement a media report has said that the chinese side is considering canceling the talks. a fake this down now with steven gerrard's lee who joins us from business so i it's trying making this threat now we're members. as these negotiations with china have been going on here the u.s. has been holding out two hundred billion dollars in goods rising raising the terrace from ten percent to twenty five percent that big huge blow the chinese so first off this is pressure tactic writes. the reason for that of course we know that trump has been very impatient with the pace of these negotiations and probably impatient over the fact that they won't contain the full scope of what he would like them to contain there's a lot going on he talks about the trade gap he talks about also intellectual property and chinese respecting western intellectual property it talks about things such as cyber theft as well so containing all of these and once of negotiations has proven very very difficult is proving very very awkward and so these negotiations have been kicked out further and further and another reason that's important to note is that the u.s. economy is doing so well and there was such a positive jobs report last week that we should be that surprised to see this coming now he might feel that he has the leverage to really ratchet up the pressure a bit more and on the back of that positive news on the u.s. economy and interest donald trump has made a claim in that regard saying that you know that is in part due to these tariffs on chinese goods what are we to make of that claim is he right right there's no there's nothing to suggest that that's the case i mean these tariffs are bringing in money to u.s. government coffers in the matter of tens of billions of dollars that's really in the grand scheme of things not that much the u.s. economy isn't really profiting off of the back of the back. of this to such an extent that it's furthering the boom the boom has been years in the making but it's also been sort of turbo charged by trump's tax cut in two thousand and seventeen by his deregulation and by a number of factors that we're still trying to figure out but the likelihood that these tariffs are tuber turbocharging it very unlikely in fact studies have shown the opposite that it's affecting. affecting consumers that they're the ones who are paying for this and the economy might be doing better actually without them and how are the markets responding. shattering to them especially the asian markets because the chinese economy as we know is already very weak that's another form of leverage the trump is seeing and they see this is further bad news for the chinese chinese markets and so in shanghai down almost five percent in hong kong it's also down and jones industrial futures also down so we'll see what trading does in the us on monday as well and how they respond a lot of attention on these u.s. china trade talks it's going to cause markets ripple no doubt on the story for us you thank you for the second day of thailand's three day coronation ceremony has come to an end after a spectacular procession through bangkok's old town hundreds of thousands turned out to see the new king for royalists the ceremony has been a long time coming thailand's last coronation was almost seventy years ago when the new king's father ascended to the throne. mutai king now have a juror longhorn made his first public appearance in saturday's coronation in grand style this spectacular royal for session took a seven kilometer route through bangkok's old town. the king was accompanied by over one thousand soldiers and a one hundred nine member marching band playing tunes written by thailand's beloved former king bhumibol. some two hundred thousand onlookers clad in yellow a color associated with the thai royal family lined the streets many turned out hours before the event started braving the summer heat to show their support for the new monarch a they did love him to fly to his tivo despite that his father you could go to the sylvia very happy. the nearly seven hour long procession continued into the night with stops at three different temples along the way and at each stop more adoring supporters waiting to catch a glimpse or at least a photo of their new king. and the king turned to my side and i was shouting long live the king while waving flags and fairy grateful believe me when i had to buy i can't explain what i'm feeling but i'm very excited and grateful to be here. today why did. the elaborate three day coronation ceremony is expected to cost over thirty million dollars but most in attendance don't seem bothered it is after all the country's first coronation in sixty nine years and the new king is one of the world's richest monarchs with assets estimated in the billions of dollars. now around the globe the race is on right now to roll out five g. mobile networks but as in other aspects of communication technology germany is lagging behind. as a graph shows a quarter of germany still does not even have access to five g. network technology ranking the country thirtieth in the world and compare that to south korea and the united states where coverage is almost one hundred percent it's a problem that people here are increasingly aware of so when our correspondent kate brady set off to find out what issues germans are concerned with most at the moment she travelled to a network dead zone. for the first leg of my journey i'm leaving behind philip essen in the german countryside. once a wellesley to an industry an innovation when it comes to digitalize ation germany is lacking fall behind. despite the impending arrival of five technology here and have a need for some parts of the country especially in the countryside people are still treatment of networks and a reliable internet connection let's not forget it wasn't so long ago that the japanese chancellor angela merkel has so much describing the internet as new territory. agriculture is just one industry feeling the effects of germany's digital shortcomings caravel of when network dead zones are a common occurrence for farmers like pick. by using g.p.s. signals this tractor has the capacity to drive itself autonomous the uncover the exact same route and the exact same tracks taken on previous days. with. this value here shows how good reception is you have to imagine it's like when you get three g. your on your phone the higher these numbers become the worse the reception gets right now as we stand we can work with one centimeter accuracy into the dog noise. but when the signal fails things go a little off plan and the tractors wheels their off course. which means wasted resources and the expenditure for farmers. was most important here for these farmers is perception and making sure that they can farm with exact signals and making sure that these signals are even available in the first place so that they can work more precisely and efficiently to make sure that they don't waste any use of the land. farm owner banhart flyhalf on face is holding the german government to its pledge of nationwide high speed internet by twenty twenty five and five g. mobile internet the political loser. here still politicians mr standish these standards across the board network operators who can provide five g. standards must be obliged to make this internet connection available not only in the densely populated high revenue regions but also in the countryside where the turnover is low. probably long ok story. the german government has now promised plenty of measures to at least get germany on the way when it comes to digitalize ation but now the question is whether those measures can really be implemented in time to make sure that germany has any. tenses oh of becoming a digital tech giant. brady you saw her there she's now with us here in the studio to talk a little bit more about this and kate you know we just have to tell our viewers that a couple of months ago germany's research minister said the following five g. is not necessarily at every can it turns out though that the people in those areas they really took that quite differently than perhaps it was intended phyllis and yet they really are frustrated and the two guys i spoke to in the report that you've just seen actually quoted germany's research minister themselves as well and this is something that really struck them and i think that is still quite a blahs a attitude not only from some politicians but also from some germans in different parts of germany on experiencing the lack of every day of course this report here that i followed was actually just focusing on agriculture but also this affects their entire lives when what about when an emergency doctor doesn't have a signal on my phone so that they can take an emergency call for example so this really gets into every part of the everyday lives especially in rural germany and it's just one of the many issues actually that is concerning germans right now we know that you're actually doing a series on that particular topic so what else is on the agenda exactly they'll be running every day this week so we saw digitalisation today tomorrow we've got japanese housing crisis demographic change the fact that germany is becoming older and that's affecting the workforce especially and also climate change and that series how concerned do voters seen about these issues and especially in these towns that you visited i mean you visited a lot of small towns in the country didn't you exactly and it was not only issues that are in the countryside but these issues a concerning all of germany and i think that's what's quite unique about these issues that it isn't something that's. individual to. one specific group of people or one specific place in or even here in the german capital in berlin and even here if we take the example of. coverage today you know you can be in the center of the german capital i'm not have any internet connection of any foreign connection and this is something that you hear from voices when you ask if they're concerned they are concerned because they keep hearing these promises from politicians and now they want to see some action taken though and of course we could see the repercussions of that playing out later this year we have some really important state elections coming up in germany as well and germans really are becoming frustrated especially at the government that we currently have here the grand coalition between the conservatives and the social democrats and these really are issues that are going to shape germany's future ok so let's look forward to you kate brady thank you so much. well spring is in the air here in europe and it is time to cut the lawn but enthusiastic and england's do more than just trim the grass with their lawn mowers they also race them check this out at this weekend's events in the town of billings first it was not just a one off there was a full lawnmower racing championship in england with races spread out all over the season gary won the open race but admitted that the course had become extremely bumpy and that's without the mower blade it's actually being turned on. to have for that when the going to sleep the show follows after this program after a break lynn's player michelle didn't day is the guess they're the focus byron on the cusp of the title after another dortmund collapse also all of sunday's goals including an extraordinary match wishing they were cruising in frankfurt and i don't make the all important top four find out how that 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