this is the w. news live from berlin and hamas calls for a new and have bought up uprising after u.s. president donald trump recognizes drew slum as the capital of israel.

as international condemnation grows palestinians protest in the west bank and gaza and the israeli army reinforces troops in the west bank we will go live to jerusalem and ask what it means for the peace process. also coming up a senior volkswagen executive gets seven years in a u.s. prison for his role in the diesel emissions cheating scandal. and greece rolls out the red carpet for vets of type and want he is the first turkish head of state to visit in sixty five years but can his presence improve the frosty relations between the two neighbors. plus hot dry winds fanned massive wildfires in southern california hundreds of homes have been destroyed thousands more are threatened as firefighters battle to control the inferno and.

storm. a very special performance here in berlin by the stars of u two we will listen in to bono and the edge entertaining commuters with their songs from their new album. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us the palestinian group hamas has called for a new and to fatah and uprising against israel this comes after u.s. president donald trump's decision to recognize to roussillon as its capital israeli security forces have used tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters in the streets of the west bank both the palestinians and the israelis see jerusalem as their capital and the city has been a key issue in decades of conflict but trump has ignored international warnings by recognizing it as israel seat of government saying that it is time for

a new approach. and we'll have more on that story a little later in the show but first we want to bring you some other news because in berlin germany social democrats are debating whether to open talks on continuing the governing coalition with chancellor angela merkel's conservatives for the next parliamentary term at the s.p.d. as party conference chairman martin schultz asked his fellow social democrats to give the green light for coalition talks so it's an issue he rolled out the option after the party performed poorly in september's general election now he says that the success of the talks will depend on what parts of the party program can be adopted as government policy. for more let's bring in correspondent charles potts who is standing by at the convention with the very latest for us welcome to you charlotte and what are the options for the s.p.t. delegates right now. well originally this party conference was planned to do some serious soul searching after a devastating election defeat in september they wanted to do that soul searching

now it's all about ending the political deadlock in germany and whether to take up the preliminary talks for an other grand coalition with merkel's conservative so we are expecting a vote from delegates and members in the next couple of hours here at the party convention in berlin and if they were to vote yes they would take up these talks which doesn't mean we would have a new government anytime soon but at least they would go into talks with the conservatives if they say no if they don't take up talks that would mean that that leaves germany with two options on the one hand it could rule in a minority government it's an unstable situation that she does not like or another option is new elections which basically all parties throughout all the political aisles are not very keen on at the moment and given that what is the mood do we to be sort of have an inkling as to how this might go because i mean marching childes

he spoke a short while ago got a big round of applause do you think that he was able to convince a speedy members that cooperation with angela merkel's c.d.u. c.s.u. is a good idea. well party leader martin scholz try to do his best he's not very credible at the moment because he said twice that he does not want to take up talks for another grand coalition with the conservatives he said that twice after the election now he's made one hundred eighty turn around and wants to take up these talks in his speech he said no delegates we can shape policy for the next four years if we take up the talks if we go into a new. government but the social democrats are extremely divided at the moment on the one hand you have those that are saying we have a responsibility we have to lead a new government in germany and we have that responsibility for the stability of germany on the other hand you have members who are saying we are blaming the grand

coalition of the past four years for our states all of the policy at the moment and another grand coalition what thomas in the future i think in any case the delegates here will decide to at least start preliminary talks if that in the end leads to a new government with the conservatives and the social democrats as a whole nother question charlotte how much of schulz's future is on the line today because i mean as you mentioned his leadership is in question isn't it. yes it is for sure he started out very strongly in the beginning of the year with the party with the social democrats where he was voted as a party leader he became he got one hundred percent of the votes from delegates and members which was unheard of he is up again for reelection later today i don't think he's going to get as many votes as baggage then it's probably going to be

around eighty percent and if the delegates were to decide to vote against coalition talks against possible coalition talks with the conservatives he would definitely be weakened and i don't think there's a strong possibility that he would stay on this party leader in the long term charlotte. with the latest on this voting which is about to get underway there at a speedy party headquarters we thank you so much for your reporting we appreciate it. people on twitter are fleeing virtually to germany this week to take advantage of this country's anti hate speech laws it is all thanks to a tweet from an american journalist who advised people to change their twitter location to germany to avoid saying content from neo nazis for more let's bring in our last man who is joining us from our social media desk so give us a little background here on who is this journalist and why did she tweet this it's really interesting that her name is virginia heffernan she's a prominent u.s. journalist she's an expert on digital culture and let's just show you what she

shared with her twitter followers this week and this is the tweet that we're talking about here she writes public service announcement for anyone beset by nazi and brown shirt bots i changed my twitter address to germany at the suggestion of a shrewd friend and they vanished germany has stricter hate speech laws just to clarify some terminology brownshirts that's a nickname for nazi stormtroopers based on the brown uniforms nazi bots those are automated twitter accounts a tweet out extremists content and these are things that people complain about all the time on twitter her tweet was shared by tens of thousands of people this is really catching on many people even ended up saying they did the same thing as her take a look there's just one person who took her advice and this is a nother journalist he writes pro to switch my twitter location to germany and my twitter experience seems much better after just one day this is the strategy it's been discussed before but hate speech on twitter you know it's still

a big problem we're both on twitter so virginia's twitter hack here it's gaining momentum now people fleeing to germany apparently absolutely and i can say from personal experience i've done it before indeed it does work for those who haven't tried it yet karl how big of a difference does it make me we looked into this we want to see does this make a difference what really happens here and it does seem like twitter is blocking more content in germany than in the u.s. and here's how we tested it first we logged on to twitter from mark. peters here in berlin we search for the term national socialist and it brings up several self-proclaimed white nationalist or neo nazi accounts but as you can see about half of them are blogs and this is the message you see it says for example sparrow patras account has been withheld in germany then in our profile setting sarah we change our location to the united states to see what that would look like here the search results as you can see it looks very different none of those accounts are blocked including that one right there that we saw moments ago you see he's not

blogs so you know there is still plenty of offensive content still on twitter in germany but it does look like changing a location can make a difference and you know it's pretty interesting because twitter has of course in the past committed to combat a hate speech by you know having their platform basically used as a vessel by which people may express those views so why is it handling content different in germany than elsewhere why wouldn't it also use these tactics elsewhere to block hate speech we reached out to twitter they haven't gone back to us about this but it's pretty clear that this all comes down to these stricter laws in germany there's a new one now they just took effect in october and let's just run you through that really quickly this is what this new law says it's pacifically deals with the internet it's called the network enforcement act it requires social media sites like twitter to remove blatantly illegal content and that includes hateful or insightful speech holocaust denial nazi iconography sites have twenty four hours to respond to any reports of illegal content or they face a fine of up to fifty million euros this has

a lot of american twitter users asking hey if twitter can do this if they can block these bots or these accounts in germany why can't they do this everywhere why can't they do it in the u.s. for example i mean the thing is that this takes resources this takes time it takes money this takes employees so i'm not sure that twitter is ready to do this across the board in the u.s. as well as in germany obviously they have to adhere to german laws here but we do know that. twitter is coming up with some stricter rules in terms of hate speech and those will be applied universally so we have to wait i think until the end of the year and we'll see how strict this approach turns out to be but in the meantime we may be seeing a lot more americans appearing to be in germany when they're on twitter very interesting a lot of people probably switching their locations now karl osman as always thank you so much for your reporting. well another industrial giant is axing jobs around the globe first as our business asquith mark thank you very much sir now there are reports that general electric is to slash twelve thousand jobs from its politician

aeration business that's more than they originally anticipated it's part of a restructuring to shore up the embattled firms finances increasing competition from wind and solar power are resulting in lower demand for gas turbines the u.s. industrial group recently announced that would also cut its dividend to shareholders for the first time since the financial crisis the news comes off the german archrival siemens also announced thousands of job cuts in its energy business. seven years behind bars that's the price to pay for lying to consumers a former senior executive for fox was also find a four hundred thousand dollars over his role in the company's massive emissions cheating scandal he's the second v.w. a high level figure to be convicted over the desert gate scandal in the u.s. . this wednesday was perhaps the worst day of all of a smith's life the engineer sentenced to seven years in prison the toughest possible sentence for perpetrating fraud against consumers he was emotional power

gys to he regrets his decisions he said he takes responsibility it's his fault. schmidt was responsible for us environmental matters at v.w. from twenty twelve until twenty fifteen the time that fox wagon admits to manipulating emissions tests using software loaded into its cars. he knew about the test manipulation and testified in court that he simply followed orders the judge ruled that without doubt the v.w. board shared responsibility for the scandal prosecutors said schmidt was in the same room as the c.e.o. they all worked on their stories that they would tell the authorities. it remains to be seen if former fox foreign c.e.o. martin venter corn could face charges in germany he has repeatedly denied knowing about emissions cheating schmidt's sentencing comes months after that of another

former manager james liang having cooperated with authorities and handed in a guilty plea from the outset he received a forty month jail sentence. so seven years in jail for a manager is the company taking full responsibility let's bring in an at the frankfurt stock exchange. is that man a scapegoat. yes and still i have to say that fox is taking responsibility of the company has paid about thirty billion us dollars in fines and rebates so that means the company sort of has taken on some of the responsibility it had to be forced to do so of course and here in europe correspondent is much less willing than in the u.s. to really compensate its customers but still the company has. for sure. recognize that there is something went wrong and that it has to be corrected still

all of us made of course is something like a scapegoat the judge himself said that more senior managers were to blame as well and people here in the trading hall of frankfurt stock exchange are joking there saying that martin into gone to bed and not consider traveling to the united states any time soon he might be safe from imprisonment here in germany but the american authorities have shown that they really play it tough to beat going on for want of interpol in other news and there's another easy be meeting happening today in frankfurt anything expected regarding interest rates there. there is no announcement expected in terms of basic interest rates or monetary policy is what is expected though is a press conference by mario draghi where he is expected to announce an agreement on basel three you know this international set of rules for the banking sector and that's saying something and agreement on this high international level and

agreement that the europeans have signed the americans and the chinese of course not all of those countries might always play by the rules but the mere fact that those parties sap together at the table negotiating common rules that's a piece of positive news a positive indicator i would say. in the in front of for us thank you. and we're coming to our daily bitcoin watch and i can tell you the party is still on more and more investors are casting their downside and joining the fray this is this the cryptocurrency gain more than three thousand dollars in just thirty hours on thursday briefly shot through the fifteen thousand dollar mark here's a little mind game have you bought bitcoin at the beginning of the year if only you had you'd have made a profit of your life bitcoin gained one thousand eight hundred percent but the warnings are not going away most analysts say the high volatility makes bitcoin

suitable for hobby investors like you and me because when the bubble bursts there will be tears and the losses will be as spectacular and fast as the gains that small business to come in this show doing warnings about the stability of china's financial system but first back to service and more world news thank you so much gary hart and in fact were returning to our top story now because as we mentioned at the beginning of the show the palestinian group hamas has called for a new and to fatah a resistance against israel and it appears that people on the streets have been heeding that call we have seen protesters out on the streets even some clashes of course this all comes after u.s. president donald trump made the decision to recognize to roussillon as its capital israeli security forces have used tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters on the streets of the west bank both the palestinians and the israelis say jerusalem as their capital and the city has been a key issue in decades of conflict but trump has ignored international warnings by recognizing it as israel's seat of government saying it is time for

a new approach. my fater is standing by live for us in the old city of jerusalem maya i just want to get some perspective from you where you are is the home to tens of thousands of palestinians what is the mood there. so things are actually home down a bit but just our last ago there were lots and lots of people around me here where i'm standing in front of the damascus gate shouting and singing things like death to israel and jerusalem is palestinian it has not been an easy day i've seen police detained at least three people and another young boy was injured earlier and attended to by volunteers and we're expecting that as the sun goes down here momentarily that is going to get even more heated it's been relatively calm in this area of jerusalem but as we've seen elsewhere in parts of the west bank and in the palestinian territories things have already been heating up you know and

speaking about heating up we know that friday prayers are coming tomorrow how our forces there are preparing for a potential escalation so i can tell you that i'm seeing a lot more soldiers around me here in the damascus gate than there usually are and they seem calm but they are being very strict about who they let in and out of this area we also know that several battalions of the i.d.f. were released into the west bank to try to control the situation there we want to put it that way and the entirety of the old city of jerusalem is very very shut down and very subdued it's usually very bustling stores are open people are around by thinking arguing bartering and i walked through just earlier and everything is shut down even though it's thursday evening and people would usually be out my remind us this call for an intifada in particular especially that term because it

is a very specific time what does this mean. it is basically a call for a rising that's what intifada means they are calling for the people of palestine to rise up again and this would be the third time i believe correct me if i'm wrong the third time that this has happened in the history of these two countries and their struggle over the any piece of land here. this would be a major blow to the peace process which we had already seen had been stagnated a bit under president truman under the late obama administration despite president trump assertions that he was going to revive the peace process and it would be the best peace process the best peace deal we've ever seen now he's thrown in this monkey wrench of well now jerusalem is the capital of israel and no one on any side of the negotiations is going to find that easy to work with my recognizing jerusalem as the capital capital of israel remind us why is this such

a hot button issue why are people on the streets today why is there so much anger. it's hard to understand what brought us to today without really knowing the entire city history of jerusalem but it has always been a very contested city and when the un approved the the palestine partition plan at the beginning of the twentieth century jerusalem was supposed to be an international city that would be open to all about after a series of wars after israel declared independence israel ended up conquering most of what was laid out to be the palestinian state including the parts of jerusalem that were supposed to be the palestinian capital and that has continued to this day and now is and israel the israeli government still maintains that jerusalem as its capital and that israel would not be israel without jerusalem as its capital so if it is one tiny city causing all these problems but there are so many historic religious cultural claims to it that it's hard to separate either of these cultures

from the city. this weekend we know that the arab league is going to be holding a meeting where do they go from here because i mean there have been various members who have come out and said that you know this throws a major wrench into the peace process that the united states can no longer be over liable broeker what comes next. exactly that is the big question what does come next because euro zone was really one of the biggest sticking points in the entire peace process and now that basically president trump has declared no it's off the table it belongs to israel no one is going to be clear on how to proceed forward because it was one of the biggest things that was going to be negotiated for the how divided the city whether it was going to be divided up how the two districts are going to be governed who are going to govern them the entire arab league and the israeli world as well has sort of been thrown for a loop here saying oh this is not what we were expecting this is always been a point of contention and now we don't know how to proceed without it being on the

table so whether or not peace talks even go forward at this point is extremely extremely questionable maya schrader with the very latest there we thank you so much for your reporting from the old city of jerusalem in other news the jailed leader of the turkey's pro kurdish opposition party went on trial in absentia in ankara today more than a year after his arrest he is accused of connections to the outlawed kurdistan workers' party the p.k. k. he was detained last year when the government launched a crackdown following a failed coup attempt until his arrest the keris matic h.t.t.p. leader was widely seen as the strongest political goal of paul mint of president went to tie affair to juan and if convicted he faces up to one hundred and forty two years in prison. for more let's bring in our correspondent dorian jones who stand by with the very latest from istanbul also dorian this is no ordinary trial

even by current standards in turkey tell us a little bit more about what is at stake today. well many people say so he's very democracy is at stake sell it in their metallic she's the leader of turkey second largest opposition party many ways he is seen as probably the most effective challenger to the president reject type one very charismatic he managed to achieve what many previous kurdish leaders have never done reach out beyond kurdish vote to wider turkish society and was many ways seen as a possible leader of the country in the future now he's been in jail now for just under four hundred days before his first hearing he's facing one hundred forty years in jail five hundred pages of indictment but many people many critics of this case say that this is a political case aimed at silencing one of the most effective challenges to the president why is the turkish government so afraid of him.

well it is because he is not only seen as an affective our operator very charismatic young he can play the guitar poet or writer in many ways he takes all the boxes of all western affective politician but beyond that he presents an image beyond traditional kurdish politics the people who don't or more than image he has a family he's someone who's that he even talks can relate to and i think the vis is why he is seen as such a threat by the turkish government by the turkish government argue no this is nothing about him being the leader of democratic party but rather he is of the political wing of a terrorist organization the p.k. k. which is waging this insurgency gate's turkey they say there's no difference between him and the guerrillas militants in the mountains killing our soldiers and they say that this is why it is so important to bring him and his organization to justice. the crimes that he is accused they include founding a terrorist organization and sedition does he face

a fair trial would you say in the country. well i think that's a lot of people are very concerned about this international human rights groups have been very concerned about this they say that the evidence doesn't reach the bar for prosecution most of it is even based on his speeches which human rights groups say are would be considered perfectly acceptable and normal in any normal functioning democracy and given the fact that turkey is under this state of emergency there is growing concern that he has little chance of receiving in effect a trial even today's hearings he wasn't allowed to attend he was only allowed to use a video conference he refused to do that he said it's my right to be in court he is a lawyer by training and this is adding to the concerns that this is a political even some people say a kangaroo court. how have a cheapie party members reacted to all of the story and. well i mean the h.t.t.p. is facing being liquidated there is over ten thousand of its activists have been

detained over the the current a crackdown of the last year dozens of its mayors are in jail and also nine members of parliament are also in jail and further investigations a very existence of the party is under threat but what remains here are they do see this as the what they claim is the stamping out of the political option for kurdish politics they say that this gives this option for those who want to fight for minority rights it's now the choice between the subservience or going to the mountains and fighting and they say that this helps no one they're calling for a resumption of the peace process but the government's message is that this is a fight against terrorism and no quarter can be given dorrian just briefly is it likely that we're going to see any protests there and ankara. whether was very strict a presence a lot of water cannon trucks where there is one claim that they you know they beat used water cannon it's phase out of prison it's very little there's going little opportunity of any kind of real protest to be allowed violent or nonviolent dorian

jones but the very latest from istanbul thank you. you're watching b.w. news still to come on the program greece rolls out the red carpet for air to watch the first turkish head of state to visit the country and sixty five years but camus in fruit frosty relations between the two neighbors we will go live to see. all that more coming up in just a few minutes i'm sara kelly see you again six. imagine you're a child. and you can't live in your home country. and things are good in macedonia it's not good all the kids hate me and lot of kids would go

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asia. every week and always looking to the future on d w dot com site. answer in research for asia. i'm a mother like two billion other mothers around the world i have one wish the best for my child. but in this is in which breastfeeding is often frowned upon and adults will for me to abound with profit is more important than my babies will be how do i know how to make the right decision. starting december ninth d.w. . welcome back you're with t.w. news i'm sarah kelly in berlin our top stories israeli troops have used tear gas in the west bank as palestinians protest u.s. president trumps recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital the palestinian group

hamas has called for a new uprising against israel. turkish president has begun a two day official visit to greece the first by a turkish head of state in sixty five years in the capital athens he met with prime minister alexis tsipras to discuss relations between the neighboring countries both are members of nato but the relationship has been rocky for decades occasionally even going to the brink of war and greece and turkey have tried to normalize relations in recent years but there are still thorny issues to resolve the greek turkish relations have been tense if not adversarial for decades the two countries have disagreements over three major issues the island of cyprus control of parts of the aegean sea around the two countries and recently the migration crisis.

cyprus was granted independence from the british in one nine hundred sixty years of violence between the island's greek and turkish communities followed. when greek nationalists tried to do unite cyprus with mainland greece in one thousand nine hundred seventy four turkey invaded and captured land in the north. today the two halves of the island a still separated turkish northern cyprus is recognized only by turkey the republic of cyprus and the island south is an e.u. member state protected un buffer zone keeps them apart greece and turkey are also at loggerheads over the aegean sea located between the two countries they've been contesting sovereignty and other rights in the area since the one nine hundred seventy s. tensions have run so high since then that the dispute has twice almost led to the outbreak of military hostilities. the migration

crisis has further strain ties between the two countries greece and turkey have become the landing point for many migrants hoping to reach europe from africa and the middle east a deal between turkey and the e.u. to return refugees that arrive from the greek coast has helped ease tensions but a long list of grievances remain. and for more let's bring in correspondent and the car star who is standing by with the latest from there we just heard about that while list of grievances given that what the greats make of this visit. well on the face of it the greek government wants to build bridges as it says with its. traditional adversaries so we are going to be hearing a lot of talk about bringing these two countries together with more commercial truck ties potential travel between the two countries but there are as you say longstanding differences the government doesn't expect these differences to be

settled in the next twenty four hours during the talks here with reject don but in fact they are now shocked with some controversial statements which the turkish president made just before coming here namely he has contested yet again this agreement between greece and turkey outlining their borders he's also come down very hard on the greek prime minister for not handing over eight turkish servicemen who fled to greece last year after a coup so this is put the government in a very awkward position here and we may be seeing a bruising encounter in the next kind of day or or so because of these controversial statements but i mean ultimately the hope was to have an improvement in relations there how will

a sick is that prospect would you say. well absolutely i mean as i said before the greeks do want to see a continued discussion between greece and turkey despite these lingering differences they also were hoping to kind of help turkey kind of anchor its way back to the west as it has we've seen a kind of drift more towards russia. and iran and we were expecting some some some strong support from the greeks to to to the turks to kind of bring them back within the european realm were their designs to join the european union but all of that remains to be seen and we'll be getting more on that correspondent and the chorus of thank you. raging wildfires in california have prompted authorities to issue

a purple alert that is the highest level warning ever issued in the state amid what is being called extremely critical fire weather tens of thousands of people are under evacuation orders and nearly two hundred homes and buildings have already been destroyed as firefighters struggle to contain the fires that figure is expected to rise. a wind whipped inferno that shows no signs of stopping the ferocious santa ana winds are forecast to hit one hundred thirty kilometers per hour on thursday for their fuel for this fire in ventura county that's already consumed hundreds of homes. greatest threat is and will always continue to be the wind if the wind dies down we'll get a handle on this we're in the middle of a week long red flag condition we're not done. the wildfires have surged right into the heart of los angeles here at the luxury neighborhood of bellaire. a vineyard

belonging to billionaire rupert murdoch one of the million dollar properties under threat. fire crews struggling to contain the flames for a handful of homes it was a losing battle. and darkness revealed shocking scenes on the four hundred five one of the city's famed freeways as far as go way bigger from now on the freeway. need to get out of here. about two hundred thousand people have already evacuated a number that's likely to increase if wilder winds ignite even more fires. german investigative reporter say that a vietnamese oil executive due to be tried on corruption charges in january was kidnapped by security forces from his country now the charges against the individual include embezzlement of one hundred fifty million dollars during his time as chairman of an oil industry construction company apparently he fled to

berlin and back in two thousand and sixteen but in july this year he disappeared later turning up in a vietnamese court we bring you now a report from members of the team who investigated the story of his disappearance. i kidnapping in berlin in broad daylight yes exactly what happened has been pieced together by reporters from several german media outlets a police investigation has revealed how deeply involved in the kidnapping both the vietnamese secret service and officials from britain's the enemy's embassy are. this is the person who was kidnapped trench one ton he's a successful businessman who once had close ties to vietnam's government turn fled to berlin and twenty sixteen after he fell into disfavor with the socialist authorities turn was thrown into a car while going for a walk and here garton park police reconstructed the route the car took using g.p.s. data it drove directly to berlin strapped oh districts where the vietnamese embassy

is located at the car parked there for five hours that's where all traces of train vanished ten days later he appears on vietnamese state television to make a confession. it was reckless and in considers of me to go into exile and i realized in germany that i had to come back to face the truth. transmission is in line with the vietnamese government claims they maintained train is corrupt and voluntarily gave himself up however his german lawyer calls it a kidnapping and a forced confession. is totally unacceptable. so it's well beyond the remit of any stace. the only way to explain this is that someone thought a covert mission could be made to look like a voluntary return. for. the investigation has reinforced suspicions that the vietnamese embassy was the nerve

center for the kidnapping squad that travelled to berlin. previous enemies checked into this berlin hotel a week before the disappearance the deputy chief of vietnam secret service also traveled to the german capital to oversee the kidnappers. they followed train who had a room booked in the sheraton hotel just a few hundred meters away from the kidnappers they followed trin as he took a walk to tear garden park. trans kidnapping could have serious consequences for him. in vietnam victims capital punishment is legal in vietnam and in a country like vietnam you always have to be prepared because courts there don't necessarily need proof of a crime. the german foreign ministry is demanding that trin receive a fair trial berlin has said that vietnam knows what needs to be done in order to clean up the damage done to its international image. well now to thailand and the

case of an eighty four year old historian who has been charged with calling into question the heroic actions of a king who lived five hundred years ago ty law for scribes harsh punishment for criticizing the reigning king but critics say that it shouldn't apply so far back in history. facing up to fifteen years in jail for questioning the feats of a sixteenth century king eighty four year old historian so lots of iraq is charged under title and strict code in less may just laws protecting the monarchy from defamation the alleged crime suggesting that a famed jewel an elephant back won by a thai king against a burmese prince five hundred years ago may not actually have happened. one must have a very good sense of humor. because. if you cannot criticize history how could you be a human being. i criticize what happened what an idiot it was. the

less majestic law doesn't appear to mention dead monarchs but in practice the rules are interpreted more loosely critics say the law is more about controlling the country's citizens than upholding the reputation of its monarchy now headed by newly crowned and controversial king. long corn thailand's ruling military government has pursued more than two hundred fifty cases since seizing power in a twenty fourteen coup supposedly to protect the king and his family's dignity. of iraq's i got a temporary reprieve after the time military court delayed a decision on whether to prosecute him in order to consult historians microchip non-sensical. delivered to my children to see that. very she was actually. before. that. because he had been the pretoria time he was the only one. who brought victoria police come to visit but you cannot touch him so he become a god almighty in

a country where insulting royals has recently seen people sent to jail for longer than if they had committed murder many for thailand's political future if civil roxas prosecution goes ahead those worries could become even more urgent. you're watching t w news still to come on the program a very special performance in a burly subway at the stars of u two surprise riders with a free show to promote their new album. and the square is the hot favorite of this year's european film awards being held this saturday here in berlin robin merrill from our culture desk will join us for a look at the front runners. but first a warning from the international monetary fund to china has the story that's why chinese banks actually have sold too many short term financial products on the promise of quick and easy returns the market is so big now and the product so complicated that the i.m.f. warns its threatens financial stability in a possible downturn. it's

a high stakes business that's worth trillions of dollars in china and you can buy so-called wealth management products at a.t.m.'s and on your phone. their popularity has risen dramatically in recent years in two thousand and thirteen they were worth one point five trillion dollars three years later that figure had risen to four point four trillion. wealth management products promise investors high returns but many of them rely on borrowed funds to meet return targets soaring debt is a ready huge issue in china the international monetary fund has warned against a tendency to prop up unprofitable companies with loans that said it has praised china for efforts to reform its financial system. the authorities have recently announced that they would allow the participation of. foreign foreigners into the financial sector. and they would do this slowly over time. and

we think that this would help increase. competition and increase efficiency. it would also help and. pricing risks more accurately. china has also recently established a financial oversight body its aim is to strengthen financial supervision and better manage risks such as those associated with high stakes wealth management products. coming to a case of greed versus need the world bank says the vast majority of miners around the world work in unofficial mile mines and are totally dependent on the proceeds unregulated industry can be dangerous and would benefit both workers and economy is if recognized by governments until then they remain just a thorn in the side of the regular mining companies in this wasteland on the outskirts of kimberley close to ten thousand informal miners are eking out

a living by sifting through the waste of the area's diamond mines. locally they are known as sama sama us meaning keep on trying the local zulu language kimberley is situated in south africa's northern cape province and was once the world's diamond capital but the boom is long over many of the mines and supporting businesses closed or downscaled and working as a zama zama is the only work available. we. have . received a lot of this land to take us all. of this way. to see from mining affected communities to action is trying to help his n.g.o.s fighting to legalize the work of the zama samas and to lift the country's blanket ban on informal mining though the government seems willing to negotiate it's the mining industry that blocks the move. interested in helping us even decide to pull out of

the meeting that we are with them. but of men that are under stress and also the provisional government aren't here to pull out of that meeting they're not interested in us they are only interested in profit making. it's estimated that close to one hundred thousand people in south africa depend on artists in a mining generating minerals worth four hundred million euros per year yet this is only zero point one percent of south africa's mining economy. what we are dealing with the. question of greed versus need so often we see that. in fifty one companies control eighty percent of six hundred billion market and denying people the opportunity to put food on the table even though our legislation requires requires the state to make these the resources available to ordinary south

africans. if formalized there could be tangible benefits for the south african economy and for social cohesion in one of the most unequal societies in existence but for now artists will miners operate in a shadow economy and are only able to sell their non-certified diamonds on the black market thank you. don't defend those don't this shops are closing down so days no. days no meaning for us it means that you must. in crime or. yeah we find some some do with those schools they want to go to i'm poor good lord who put the weak local pool we're now off. if no permanent solution for artists no

miners like manya is found their future looks bleak. and that's all your business know to sacrifice some rock'n'roll knaves absolutely rock n roll on the subway as it turns out there are check this out because commuters in berlin were treated to a surprise performance when rockers bano and feet from the band u two performed some of their newest songs on the underground. on this subway ride it standing room only but these riders don't seem to mind when they're rubbing shoulders with rock stars. and the edge. and it's a once in a lifetime moment thank you for making me a part of this. after a trip on berlin's you to line the pop legend's offered up a taste of their new album songs of experience.

and i was so surprised to see them up close and i still can't believe it was that. what a great idea to meet them both in person. for these berliners truly an unforgettable commute. when the rock gods you too descended down into the you to for an unexpected moment. you are watching a scene from the square a satire on the art world which is the hot favorite for

a number of prizes at the european film awards being held right here in berlin this week. and our culture editor robin merrill joins us as always for more so robin do tell us what's going on here well the european film awards this whole the great the good of european cinema perhaps in the just staying as well i don't know i will be here this weekend. these awards they're the european equivalent of the oscars they don't have such a reputation as the oscars but they are all very important for the industry and indeed hollywood moguls will be in the audience watching the european film scene i'm quite sure it's quite interesting that next week the nominations for best foreign film will be revealed for the oscars i should say and it's often the one that wins you know the european film awards anyway let's open our minds let's see a bit more of the square and a few other of the hot favorites of the european film awards this year. what are

the biggest challenges. for. contemporary art so in its present swedish director. the square follows a respected museum curator and the publicist he's surrounding the venue's latest installation the squares in the music marsalis take down the lessons of which can be applied to contemporary society as a whole how often would you say that you take women that you don't know very well. and have sex with them you know their names yeah so what's my name. on body and soul is a hung jury on love story directed by a deacon and u.t. the film follows two characters a handicapped older man and a woman with asperger's syndrome they share the same dream every night but the real

world proves more difficult for them than their dreams. the killing of a sacred year starring khan and pharrell and the call kidman yaga slanty must direct that this deeply unsettling tale. a surgeon has blackmailed by a teenage boy and automatically has to make an impossible sacrifice the film starts with mild discomfort and at the point of no return he has a right in my night children. is the only thing i can think i suppose that just. maybe that's going to get. the benefit of all of. the other side of hope as a quirky melancholic finish comedy drama but i keep. the film follows two people

were. a syrian refugee the other a middle aged man both looking for a place to call home when he was. older. so many films there for awards and you know similarly to the oscars in fact they don't really know who has won before and it's a prize on the night except for some honorary about it's very yeah there's a couple of already awards i think in every free film awards and there is this year the french american actress julie delpy will get the european achievement in world cinema award now she's probably best known for help vomits with athan hawk in richard linklater before trilogy of films that they've done over a number of years and she actually co-wrote two of these films and received two oscar nominations in the screenwriting category she's much more recently written directed and starred in her own movies including one featuring chris rock i mean

she really is an all round talent now and the a lifetime achievement award this year which is award every year because the russian director alexander soccer off his film russian art from two thousand and two which we see here is very significant as it was made in wong fake completely edited which has obviously been copied a bit recently is his film files does not the great work by him won the gold mine at the venice film festival in two thousand and eleven you see a bit on here so these two do know they'll get a prize on started out but the others have to bite their nails until the end guys let's do a little bit of predicting just briefly here robin who do you think is tipped to win a bit up in this year who will win best film i've been consulting with scott roxboro as well films sort of genius and he thinks that as well i think the square will do well i think it might win best film it won best film can be and

saw one best film of the bird. with a good chance as well but i quite fancy cars makis film as well about the refugee question serious subjects of goals but it has two more in it so i mean it's really very open this should be very interesting to see robin. thanks so much for telling us a little bit more about what is at stake this week. you're up to date now on d.w. news i'm sarah kelly in berlin don't forget you can get all of the latest news on the go just download it. from your smartphones.

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