this is a news line from berlin germany's chancellor under pressure from all sides as i'm going to magaluf six to build a stable government coalition out of a potential coalition partners says his boss he will not join the government unless there is a clear change of direction also on the program. just two days after germany's

right wing after a set of my seat huge election games the policies complete a sense she aims to leaving the party on france's president calls for more european unity emmanuel macross says the e.u. was too weak i joined budgets of the eurozone and a shed military intervention force but i will not go down elsewhere in the. last six years old times have nobel prize the brightest life before the war has gone to for people to talk to the feel good enough lawyer to get the vishnu to see who has made all of the homework fighting discrimination against for the second. maybe talk of the part of this league of they face a huge challenge tonight in the champions league in champions league title holders brail madrid. i'm filled. you're welcome to the program. after sunday's election results are

germany's week in chancellor is coming under increasing pressure as she works to cobble together a new government and americans former partners the social democrats have ruled out joining her c.d.u. partner party in another coalition before instead to head up the opposition so her only option may be to link up with the pro-business free democrats and the environmentalists greens two parties with little in common. two days after the election news paper headlines showed just how difficult it will be to form a government. has to fight chancellor looking for course for the conservative bloc c.d.u. and c.s.u. finding the right course will be a major issue but anglo-american doesn't see flaws in her party's priorities it's going to see what we now need to change. from actually building a coalition will be a tricky task she has to bring together how conservative very insistent party

c.s.u. with the greens and the liberals all three want their own demands to be met. as. you can my view it's absolutely essential that we set out a clear commitment to stemming the influx of refugees in other words a cap on numbers. that's what we've promised people. to do of course we end the present a humanitarian refugee policy the business friendly f.t.p. has already described its main goal to avoid the traditional language the direction of politics this needs to be a turning point and if that's impossible they'll go into a position. that's the opposites you want for the german bundestag difficult times might be ahead. let's talk about those difficult times with the w political correspondent simon young a welcome simon it looks as though i'm going to call does

not back much room to maneuver well she's under a lot of pressure is resigning there you know this result was the worst for her party since nine hundred forty nine she's got to find some answers she's being told by her bavarian. counterparts in the c.s.u. the question so few union that they want to see changes in policy particularly the migration policy that's key for them but at the same time she's got to put. together a completely new kind of coalition with the the greens and the free democrats parties that are diametrically opposed on a whole host of issues so she's really struggling at the moment and i think it's very clear that simply to say as she was inclined to do yesterday will carry on with the tenor of the same policies that's going to work so in time the social democrats have also said that vanno interested in coalition is there any way that she could lure them back where it's hard to say what's going to happen in the

interesting times in german politics over the next couple of months first of all it looks as if as i say this so called to make a coalition is going to be the first option and all the parties are sort of saying they're making the noises that we will look at this we will try to rise to our responsibilities and that is the first place that we're going to go the social democrats who said you know we've had enough of being in a grand coalition we can achieve enough of our policies or we need to. go into the opposition we've been told by voters that that's what they want us to do that's how they've interpreted it but of course you have a new situation in german politics because we have this far right alternative for germany party there so it may be that down the line people say well you know rather than have new elections we really ought to have the two biggest parties come together and form some kind of government as it were in the national interest stay with us assignment if you would we need to talk about the part of insert new boys

and girls of our right a half day and their first day of meetings at the border stag first let's have a look at what has happened to ben since sunday's election. it should have been a day of triumph for the f.d.a. after the surgeon to germany's parliament the batista. but party co-chair foca p.t. was glaringly absent a day earlier she'd said she wouldn't be part of the if these parliamentary group because the party had moved too far to the right the question now is whether other deputies will follow her and go. as a bit intimate code don't expect any further deputies to leave but more have to wait and see the move surprised us all here but we've not yet seen any tendencies within the future problem entry group second. haiti was one of the f.t.'s most prominent faces but she had been sidelined by hardliners in recent months. on

monday she dropped her bombshell she was leaving. and she i have decided that i don't want to be a member of the a.f.p. parliamentary group and the german bund is talk taking up my seat in this one just as an independent but rest assured i'll remain actively engaged in politics is fighting an active political bloc on the other. but she won't be with a populist here fifteen it's drift towards the far right and left her isolated and her husband marcus puts it was if tea party leader in the state of north rhine-westphalia is also quitting the party. just two days after its stunning election success the f.t. has been engulfed by internal turmoil. so w political correspondent simon young is still with us what do we think that they're expecting no more surprises a bit about the nature of surprises how well frogger petrie's resignation affect the f.d.a. well i think is

a blow because she's obviously one of the more recognizable members of the party some say one of the more charismatic members so the fact that she says she can't work within him anymore is done. look good for them first of all it doesn't come as a really big surprise to be honest she was already split from the f.t. she says they're not focused enough on the possibility of government one day and that's why she's she's decided to go off on her own the problem is of course she's now going to be isolated in parliament as an independent effectively with absolutely no chance of joining any government here this is really interesting these are really interested times for germany and indeed for the german parliament let's bring into this conversation dr oliver lempicka from the university of yale he's a political scientist who studies a focus on the german political system welcome to d.w. dr. how much is influence is they actually expected to have in

this new german parliament. well i think it's fair to stop by saying they have already been quite influential on the parties in government think about the c.s.u. the sister party of the christian democrats for instance and their long talk about limit off limitation of immigration and maybe even more visible on the on the liberals and their let's say approach to push for a law about foreign law abiding approach to immigration politics and also a quite a skeptical view of e.u. policy so this influence has already been shown and i think it will it will continue to pressure other parties now in government so that's that's i think a clear though in direct way of of influencing them and i would say potentially we can expect them to increase this pressure. because of the i mean you know there are constant germany is constantly on the vote constantly elections on

the level of the wonders linda and so so basically so despite the turmoil they're going to make their presence felt and just we heard that the soccer petry has announced that she's going to stand as an independent m.p. is that actually possible in the german parliament given that she was elected as an f.d.a. member. yeah but i mean she was elected nevertheless by voters and not by her party so that it's possible it's legal let's say. for the rule of the games that's possible but she would not have any influence at all i mean parliamentary politics is made by parliamentary parties like groups it's about all about organisation and procedures and if you're on yourself on your on your own then you would have no impact whatsoever simon your own vanity has moved quickly to try and change the story and they elected two new leaders today alison vital and alexander dowdle

galland how are they going to shape the party well these are the the people the rather odd couple perhaps you know some would say who led the a.f.d. into parliament. alexander gallant is a sort of senior member of former member many years of the christian democrats by the way but he's come to prominence in recent months with really remarkable controversial comments for instance talking about you know honoring germany's world war two army the very marked and saying that there should be a completely different culture of remembering what happened under the nazis also talking about sort of disposing of a lady who's in charge of integration policy in germany and some really extraordinary comments he's made he's quite close to a right winger called your own hooker who's also made some very far right xenophobia speeches so you know there are concerns about him this vital for her

part is perhaps more of a modernizer she's you know somebody with with a very modern image so it's hard to say what they will do going forward i think they're going to try and be on their best behavior as they start their first appearances in parliament simon young thank you. at the university thank you miles. well we were saying the day began as a euro skeptic party so it's perhaps slightly ironic that two days after the huge election success in germany france's president has given a keynote speech calling for more european unity emmanuel macross long awaited speech outline his vision for the e.u. speaking of the sorbonne university in paris he described the use current systems as weak slow and ineffective the call for a shared budget for the eurozone more cooperation on terrorism and european rapid reaction force to work in tandem with nato but hear more of what he had to say

about terrorism we have to strengthen our approach and it's in order to fight against terrorism and to combat terrorist propaganda on the internet and we have to strengthen our cyber security and to create security and a common security and just displaying. well well let's get some more reaction. you're a correspondent there catherine martin says at the softball in paris that chief political correspondent linda crane is in the lead with a critical reaction from welcome both we'll start with you catherine president mccraw envisage a europe with greater cooperation and all sorts of levels how do you propose to get there well for the french president one of the main causes for this european succeed in your scepticism these days is the disconnect between on the one hand the brussels lead and on the other hand european citizens and this is his starting point he advocates the idea of so-called democratic conventions

which means a large public debate across europe in order to keep citizens in the loop without suffering shortcomings of referendums and all in all this is the attempt to beef up the democratic accountability in the european union. melinda crane is he likely to receive value of american support. sorry could you i had a little drop out of sound of saturn again is emanuel micro likely to receive american support. well after his election she was mildly if nonspecifically supportive saying that she definitely would like to see france and germany reenergizing europe following germany's election on sunday she said that she's not necessarily a verse to more europe if it leads to more competitiveness and more jobs and certainly he was endeavoring to frame his proposals in exactly that manner she also

said she has no red lines on europe interestingly enough he has the same phrase red lines why because her potential coalition partners have indicated that or at least a couple of them have indicated that they absolutely do have red lines the first among them the free democrats that's the business friendly party with whom she is likely to be looking to build a coalition they have said in the past they absolutely would not tolerate a common euro zone budget as he's proposing nor do they want to see a common euro zone finance minister they are afraid both would lead in the direction of germany winding up footing the bill for a lot of the indebted southern european countries problems so that's one set of issues that the chancellor will have to deal with going forward another one her own sister party the bavarian c.s.u. it's one of its leaders made very clear today that he also doesn't much like this

scheme that is proposing including exactly the same thing the common budget the common finance minister so she may have a certain receptiveness to these proposals but some of her coalition partners are going to make it very difficult indeed for her to try to do that french german tandem that so often has energized europe in the past three months and in paris let's talk about european reaction to this has it been any yet and how much support is president macro likely to get in brussels. well the chief of the european commission is on clothes. stronger you volcom this french strong commitment in order to serve the european union back back on track as for example he comments the idea of a common european finance minister no surprise here and it's fair enough to say that the european commission already tried to grab more power by suggesting to

merge the new job with the already existing european finance commissioner so this is fair to say but all in all they were not on the same page in all points for example there was a clear no today from brussels regarding a common euro zone budget and a clear no for a euro zone paul you meant there is also the stiff opposition really remains regarding any sort of a two speed europe definitely. the german chancellor's open door policy towards refugees which we got in twenty fifty has cost. quite a lot at this election so is this same chance to go to fight for upon european asylum agency as well he might do if it were to find that leave result in

a fair and equitable distribution of refugees across european countries as you know european countries are actually obligated to take a certain share of the refugees who enter the european union that has not been the case in a number of southeastern european countries have made it clear that they are not going to be taking in any refugees if such an asylum agency managed to distribute that burden more equitably and that's exactly what president of mccall was proposing then i think the germans might be very receptive to hearing more. melinda crane. and catherine martins in paris thank you both. let's take you through some of the other stories making news around the world european council president donald tusk says sufficient progress has not been made on bret's in talks to move ahead to the next stage of negotiations the comments came during his visit with british prime minister theresa may in london this is may says a solution can be found that will benefit both sides. police in israel say

a palestinian gunman has killed three israelis and wounded a fourth at a jewish settlement there struggling israel on the occupied west bank the gunman was shot dead at the same. face in kenya have used tear gas and batons to disperse opposition protesters in the capital nairobi protesters were calling for election officials to be sacked before the rerun of contested president a contested presidential vote in. a fast moving fire in southern california has forced hundreds of families to evacuate their homes blaze is reported to spread over two thousand acres local schools have been closed because of the evacuations and road closures and poor air quality. now it's known as the of the third city of nobel prize every year the right livelihood award all those people who defend human rights and the environment the names of twenty seven teens are laureates have been announced and this year the prize money three hundred

thousand euros will be shared by three peoples khadija is my is my leave is may eleventh is male over is a leading investigative journalist from azerbaijan if you abuse yet nervous new goosey has been honored for her work fighting discrimination against the disabled and calling gonzales is an indian human rights lawyer who champions the poor is also filed a petition defending a group of ranger refugees against deportation by the indian government w.'s india correspondent saif ali khan has been to meet. prepping for an important case lawyer collin gonzales is about to head to india's supreme court he's pushing for an independent investigation into the lynchings of about thirty people by hindu which is known to groups they were murdered in recent years for allegedly transporting cows or eating beef the rage against. against other communities and other religions is so extreme today india is really on the brink of

a precipice so that's a very important case that the supreme court is taking up today apart from handling politically sensitive cases gonzales is known as a defender of india's most vulnerable citizens he spent more than three decades campaigning and litigating to secure their basic rights. he's far from alone gonzales books with a team of young dedicated lawyers some have even given up lucrative corporate jobs his human rights law network provides free legal services to bonded laborers religious minorities refugees women and others go to the supreme court his petitions have led to some landmark rulings notably one of the directed india states to implement several food security schemes that means millions of poor children now get free school lunches the supreme court of india and the high courts

of the states already future for people like us and our clients it's a place we can go to it's a place where. they can get relief from persecution. and it's a very quick remedy the indian remedy of public interest litigation is unique his organization operates from this office in delhi in all two hundred seventy lawyers social activists and academics work for gonzales across the country. their job is to defend people in a system that is often stacked against them. people like these farmers who have crumbled more than one thousand kilometers to seek legal help. mission they've munden says the government illegally took over his farm land in the state of charge for an infrastructure project. he still waiting for compensation. after meeting the lawyers here i am very confident that i will get justice for what

has happened the truth will come out and came back with a policy with condit has had a long day and it's not over yet he kicks up a workshop on the legal framework of hiv and aids in india we didn't know any there's hardly an issue the activists lawyer hasn't tackled in his drive to hold the government to account. it's his mission and his passion you fight injustice may get a lot of joy or they're giving the government a tough time discrimination inequality violence we get a lot of satisfaction is a david and goliath kind of situation but there's no stopping this crusading lawyer in this tireless fight to improve the lives of millions of fellow indians. another of award winners is yet no negotiation joins us from london welcome to day w firstly congratulations now i believe that you lost your sight when you were

a young girl now you're a human rights lawyer who fights discrimination against the disabled how did your own experiences influence your career choice. my past experiences leave the other person with a disability and their women with disability coming from developing country has made me concert or that isolation sigrid patients are really at painfully and they really matter in terms of future the betterment of the person so in my experience. is limited for me to creation from home as i really want this to end i don't want to pass isolation and segregation for the coming generation of those it was disability so i was purely incident with my own experience of day. in getting to school in getting to work in getting to marry every life. here in

europe is considerable lobbying to ensure that people with disabilities don't suffer that sort of treatment how high on the political radar is it that they're in there in ethiopia. the movement of the disability has significantly grown and quite important milestones have been achieved internationally as well as in europe including ethiopia the un convention on the rights of persons with disabilities being one of them and the point is if your view has met also progresses like having a policy on accessibility and having different that amount of actions focuses was disabilities including in areas of employment and indication but there is still much too far to be improved in terms of implementation and people with disabilities complain that there are good deals but they cannot we have got to people with disabilities who really need immediate response and that's why we called for action

for all development initiatives in every country like you to become disability. so you've been a trial lawyer as a for women with disabilities in africa what do you think what would you say your proudest achievement. my point is the cheeseman. are too many but we can mention that. considering this ability included in development agenda of ethiopia and getting at least. legal frameworks in place for presence was disability to claim their rights feel that shipment michael is the scottish roots of the africans before him which was really visible by other people but getting it placed in that these ababa ethiopia that's where we can share our successes in africa together with other african countries is a great achievement in the way we can in france african union and you particularly focus on schools you say the value of the right place to promote inclusion of

people with disabilities why that focus. my life has already been changes from being a blind unwanted girl in a village towards being a famous lower it today globally because if occasion and i believe the next generation shouldn't carry the isolation and discrimination that persons with disabilities have already has previously so i believe that schools especially inclusive schools are go right place to start investing in the next generation to believe in fair just that inclusive society well there you have the person who is a from a if you're one of the winners of a season right and livelihood award congratulations again thanks for doing thing done. thank you as this data leaders lie from above and still to come as a rocky celebrate the independence referendum a kurdish leader a society yes i pass one about possible but he refused to accept the outcome.

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peace of my songs the cellist soul got better. in forty five minutes. hijacking the news. where i come from the news is being hijacked journalism itself has become a scripted reality show it's not just good versus evil us versus them black and white. in countries like russia china turkey people are told it's that simple and if you're a journalist there and you try to get beyond that you are facing scare tactics intimidation. and i wonder is that where we're headed as well. my responsibility as a journalist is to get beyond the smoke and mirrors it's not just about being fair and balanced or being neutral it's about being truly. funny was born god

and i work in either. the. this is news life from the hunt for galleys our top stories this hour germany's chancellor angela merkel is under increasing pressure as she tried to work out how she will couple together a new government the leader of one of her potential coalition partners the after the players already said that he won't join the government unless there's

a clear change of direction. and france's president emmanuel microbus used the long awaited speech to outline his vision for the e.u. he called for a joint budget for the eurozone a shared military intervention force for the whole of the e.u. and more unity on immigration and border security. to iraq now where a kurdish leader massoud barzani has claimed victory for the yes vote in the referendum on independence official results a not yet a bazaar and he is adding iraq central government to engage in dialogue with the kurds but baghdad has maintained that it will never accept the breakup of the country. iraq's kurds celebrate the holding of their independence referendum. will be sent to break the creation of a kurdish state. we can live with iraq anymore so that's why we're

here. we want to express that. we are came to the right the other. three don't. we decide our future. but iraq's central government said it would never accept the breakup of the country and move to calm u.s. fears that the kurds push for independence would distract from the fight against islamic state. to have been unfortunately this referendum is unconstitutional it will not prevent our armed forces continuing our priorities the elimination of islamic state and the return of displaced people to their homes and now and. over the border in turkey many ethnic kurds have been boiled by the referendum but ankara was firm in its opposition. still there are

a lot of question that our attitude on this issue is very clear you know regardless of the results with a clear this referendum null and void. it is not in conformity with the current law in iraq. we declare it illegitimate it's. going to michoud the. turkish tanks on its border with iraqi kurdistan a potent illustration of one stance. the united states is ramping up its response to the humanitarian crisis in puerto rico five days after the caribbean island was struck by how the forces are struggling to restore basic infrastructure so. transport and communications networks have been knocked out food fuel and medicines are all in short supply puerto rico is

a self-governing territory and home to three point four million u.s. citizens. now the country's president donald trump has just sent his condolences to the people of puerto rico in a news conference but over the past few days a say he's been criticized for the slowness of the response it took him five days after the storm hit to comment on the crisis the reason behind that could be a different war that he's been waging over twitter since the weekend social media editor was not has gotten the same is from tracking me this escalating iraq welcome i was that mr trump is no stranger to twitter wars bring us up to date on this current one. well he certainly is not phil you may recall that donald trump took offense at the national football league players kneeling down during the national anthem before a game now let's remind ourselves what he was so upset about these are the dallas cowboys they were reportedly protesting against black men being subjected to police

brutality and a very public rao broke out on twitter under the hashtags referring to the protest including hash tag stand for our anthem and donald trump tweeted that the booing at the n.f.l. game was the loudest he had ever heard and another tweet he also suggests that the n.f.l. has become unpopular and that americans now only watch games to see whether the players will disrespect the u.s. flag or not and sponsors quickly joined the row most of them coming out in favor of the players to defend their right to protest car maker hyundai which is a key and f.l. sponsor tweeted we stand for and respect individual's freedoms to express their first amendment rights and any peaceful manner in which they choose another sponsor called on holidays or bush also expressed their support which call which calls a lot of people calling for

a boycott for the brand and even other sponsors products and also the end if all together now here's one outrage from supporter that i want to show you here's a tweet of the supporter and he says tech subsidies of one billion giving a given to n.f.l. every year i say we cut them out than maybe owners say stand up or leave and a woman from a military family tweeted hey on highways or bush to marine vet son's husband as army vet will no longer buy your product i hope you stand with america and not the n.f.l. but there were other. veterans who have come out in support using the hash tag take than me here is one who says to every american who decided to take the knee this weekend i applaud you i have deployed seven times to protect that right thank you and one of the most touching responses has been this photo here posted on twitter

by the grandson of a ninety seven year old world war two veteran john middle including the comment from him where he says those kids have every right to protest and the american civil liberties union also had this message here don't confuse take any for disrespect for suspect and love for america does not require blindness to its failures and indeed it appears the n.f.l. kneeling crisis is overshadowing other pressing issues at the moment including proto rico during a press conference earlier donald trump was asked about this and he was asked whether he was preoccupied with the puerto rico crisis with the n.f.l. crisis instead of dealing with your to rico which he did night. thank you. well to sports and in football the champions league group stages resumes tonight one big match in group h. seems german side dortmund play host to defending champion vale madrid which seems

like a tall order but momentum could give dortmund an edge to it going to have been on fire domestically they're sitting at the top of the bundesliga having scored. nineteen goals in six games and conceded just one moment have had beaten run against a real madrid dating back to twenty four team in fact they've never lost two to. travelers we. want to talk more about a dormant chances were very young occur spite from d.w. sports welcome yannick are dormant going to be able to carry the best this great form into their match against rail tonight it's going to be a pretty tough ass to be honest i mean they have been fantastic in the bundesliga their attack is been on fire with those nineteen goals in just six games and they do have the oftens to punish around madrid that said their defense has not really impressed in the bundesliga yes they've only conceded one goal but it was more the opposition not taking their chances than dortmund necessarily by

a very strong in defense and with ramage attack i mean tonight they have is go rinaldo and bale in the front three they're really going to rip dortmund to shreds if they defend how they have been defending that said again if dorman's attack is on fire and i score enough goals it doesn't matter how many they concede and i have history on this side as we've heard they haven't lost a home match against real madrid and back in two thousand and thirteen they defeated four one and one player mario goodes that was in that squad at the time and he's into not scored as well he'll be starting so he had something to say just before the game we have a little stand out from him. even if i definitely got a history of playing against real madrid they were always great games against them home and away champions league is nothing to take for granted we are looking forward to the game to facing them again we know the situation we're in but we're the home team it's going to be a good game. yes so i mean seems fairly confident with the home

advantage but again i mean around the trade around the trade the defending european champions it's a tough ask dortmund last match of the champions league against tottenham are they going to survive the group stage again. i mean that last to tottenham was very disappointing though a bit. naive tactically in that set up and the three one loss was a huge blow to be fair if they lose tonight against real madrid they have a massive uphill battle to get through to the knockout stages if i can get a draw or even a win then it gives them a good chance but lose and it's looking like a pretty tough so whichever matches your chances are that the other match i guess to cave in on would be six first away match in european competition they're travelling to istanbul to play the shit us which is a pretty i guess intimidating place to play but they'll be looking for their first win ever in europe and that's probably the other game to keep an eye on spike

thanks so much is. what now to what could turn out to be a politically tricky deal to expand siemens rail empire down there winter is here with us yes siemens a stock skittering all over the place phil over the last few days siemens is looking for a match made in heaven but that's a love triangle will the german engineering company pick out stem the french with a heart for super fast trains or bombarding the canadian who's on the rebound well joe kayser the man behind siemens has made up his mind. the fusion between siemens and now storm is on track to create a new european giant in the train building business. in the near future the german i.c.e. and the french t.g.v. will come from a single manufacturer siemens wants to bring its entire train division in return for a fifty percent cut of the new firm which will be based in paris but they're not doing

it entirely of their own free will they're not. sure the real construction and signposting market is in a state of advanced consolidation the chinese group c. r. c. is today bigger than alstom siemens and can it is a combined the next step of this chinese group is in all likelihood continental europe where c.r.c. could rely on a purchase of a european manufacturers. even after the new firm is founded the pressure on the europeans will increase siemens has considered canadian company body a but the deal was reportedly derailed by a bum body is shaky finances however if the competition authorities aren't all aboard that big european deal will hit the buffers. u.s. prosecutors have charged ten people including fall college basketball coaches and financial advisors with bribery and fraud in connection with college recruiting

among those charge was the director of global sports marketing for basketball and added us the german sports when they could confirm the arrest of the ana death executive on tuesday and said it was unaware of any wrongdoing on the part of its employee the manager is suspected of conspiring with coaches to pay high school athletes to play at university sponsored by al qaeda. now gold is a smugglers' drink that's because it's extremely valuable even in small amounts and the democratic republic of congo the illegal export of gold has been used to fund groups for decades now a u.n. report to single out an army general saying he personally operated an illegal mine but the military profiteering doesn't stop the. hand to mining for gold is labor intensive and twenty thirteen alone congolese workers dredged up some ten thousand

kilos of the precious metal the united nations estimates that ninety eight percent of annual gold exports are illegal the country's military is behind the unlawful trade even though military personnel are forbidden from engaging in mining but the country turns a blind eye to that. the last twenty years has seen the establishment of illicit trading centers mainly in the eastern provinces. a majority of the gold goes to lebanon the united arab emirates and india. the gold sold by the military in twenty thirteen was worth an estimated four hundred nine million u.s. dollars according to the u.n. this is hurt the country's economy to the tune of some eight point two million u.s. dollars annually. meanwhile millions of congolese are fleeing violence that is seen fauzi and killed in recent months. been roundly research as

mining in the democratic republic of congo and he joins us now ben thank you for joining us what exactly does the u.n. report accused the military of doing well the u.n. group and see who could use the report was sent up back in two thousand and four by the security council at the end of the congo was part of its mandate was to monitor the illegal exploitation of. natural resources which were thought at the time too contributed to the longevity of the wards now as your report just mentioned army officers are two excluded from participating in natural resource exploitation by the congolese mining code and this latest report has cited a high rank you see the officer. major general. let me see combat in the gold sector through a local company operating in the north east of the congo and i think it's worth mentioning that although this particular case is new the general trend is not and

the group of experts have been citing such instances for over a decade or more now. for what exactly are the military using profits from gold mine well that would be hard to say exactly i think we can assume that the army officers would be using profits for their own personal needs to countries materials equipment and provide salaries to their soldiers but also and i think importantly to pass those profits back up the chain of command and often this would have links to senior producer sure or national level politicians so this kind of exporting illegal exporting of gold isn't the goal that isn't allowed but what rules exactly are in place and why aren't they being enforced. well over the last several years now we have built up quite a considerable. legal framework product at the national level at the regional level

and at the international level so the legislation is there i think the fundamental particles are making progress is simply the operational challenge of monitoring supply chains across thousands of out is no mind sites which cover a vast region with poor transport infrastructure and low state capacity so when you combine that challenge with the lack of political will being demonstrated under the current could be it ministration to address this issue then progress is difficult so how widespread the problems are highlighted in the un report in the congolese mining sector is it just gold. it's not just gold gold is certainly the most problematic. because of its high value to weight ratio which makes it very easy to smuggle but there are also what we call the three t c t in terms of lim and tungsten and in terms of how widespread is the problem most comprehensive data we

have is from the international peace information service whose research is visited around fifteen hundred of his not mine sites over the last few years and they found the presence of groups around half of those mine sites so we can around half half of the sites demonstrate the presence of either the national army or a non-state on group and i think importantly for the other half which we can consider clearly that's a common is that problem is they don't have access currently to legal access to international markets because they are still awaiting certification program to be rolled out which will allow them to gain access. brian bennett radley thank you very much for talking to us about that very difficult problem which is not going to go away any time soon but as. and back to phil now with the story of an unlikely friendship. years ago

and have almost. i do know to years made the longest serving monarch in history. scenes from a new film from british director stephen frears victorian abdo it's been brought out in fear since the weekend kind of helps to use here to tell us more welcome karen. victorian rather than victoria and albert what is about that's right phil albert is out of the picture at this point in time and this is the story of an indeed an unlikely but also much frowned upon friendship between queen victoria and a young indian servant so we've got judi dench as we saw who's acting royalty herself and she's playing yet another round of the from medieval queen victoria and very clearly having a blast with that office that her is the indian actor. who plays the servant of duty who becomes her trusted friend much to the horror of her royal entourage so

it's a feast for the eyes true to form for director stephen frears and lots of pomp so let's have a quick look. bill you will travel to england. to the royal house. you resent the cream with the ceremonial coin. what do you do you must not look at her majesty. victorian abdul tells the true story of the remarkable friendship between an indian servant and a british monarch on an indian actor. who plays the real life figure. the. i think one of the most attractive things was that there isn't much about that guy actor you know it's just some stuff that has trickled down from getting hundreds and you hear about it there's a mention here and there but i saw i had to bring a lot of it alive and that's good for an actor. british director

stephen frears is no stranger to historical dramas and he's teamed up once again with judi dench remove the oscar winning actress think she knows how the unlikely friendship might have unfolded getting ready i was somebody good looking which is fair. so it was easy to imagine you know. kind of tired poor cab person suddenly this wonderful young good looking and thought oh how lovely somebody asked to travel beautiful to look at. and the film is certainly beautiful to look at if somewhat on even it also has another standout performance from the indomitable judi dench. perhaps. attached to. the.

person. is my friend. i was asking you what it was playing there is this english is this a british film or a hollywood film it's a british film because you can tell it's not a hollywood film because there is an actual indian playing engine it's based on a true story so how close to real events is and of its merits well the movie does give the caveat that it's mostly based on real events or some artistic license obviously has been taken but the friendship between them really did take place and the film is actually based on a book by the journalist danny boston who uncovered the story back in two thousand and three and we can take a look here at a couple of historical photographs of queen victoria with abdul who she called her beloved moon she which means teacher and they were very close for over a decade and a daughter was her closest confidant during this time he taught her or do he had

enormous privileges in the court but the relationship was deemed so awfully scandalous by victoria's family that after her death in one thousand one they insisted that all of the letters between them be burnt they even took him from his home in england and deported him back to india so definitely not a happy end there. they also did a pretty thorough job of it so it's a wonderful wonder that this story ever came to light but luckily they overlooked a few diaries of basically the scandal was was class and race based. obviously yes there was an awful lot of jealousy and and bad. feeling in the court that this man from india. of a far away country where she had never been herself was actually allowed to partake at the table and yes tell us about the reviews reviews have been pretty mixed obviously that's one of the reasons of the depiction of how things were in colonial times is rather whitewashed in that she's made to be it out to be

a very tolerant soul indeed it's perhaps a bit surprising that when disappointing because judi dench and stephen frears is such a fantastic team and we saw that in fellow mina both of course are also no strangers to royalty in the movies and in fact for real film buffs this movie itself could even look like a rewarming of one thousand nine hundred seven film mrs brown that's victoria's other scandalous relationship another she played the grieving queen who rediscovers her lust for life through her friendship with a scottish servant and she actually got an oscar nomination for that one as stephen frears for his part. made the queen here starring helen mirren who did get an oscar for that role and he still waiting for that accolade but he seems to have great fun looking at the human side of some of the world's most invincible women you know so i don't think this particular film is quite up to the standard of those two that we just saw. as i mentioned the the debates and the acting is considered to be pretty an evening but if judi dench were to be nominated for the oscar for this fun film

and she would add to that very small club of actors who've actually been nominated twice for basically playing the same role or character so and that twenty years apart at the age of eighty three yes she's not at all a bit still a formidable presence on screen absolutely and she's incredibly disciplined with herself even though she suffers from macular degeneration and can hardly she can really not read her scripts herself she has to have her screenplays read to her so an unbelievable amount of commitment there she still considers her own performances sometimes terrible and thinks the theater is better because you can go back next day and do it better he said and done forgetting about you know here's to bashing on regardless it's proof of a real a real artist a real talent ok. thank you so much for that. about the. top stories at this hour i'm going to makkah listen to increasing pressure as she tries to couple together

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