this is detailed good news coming to you live from berlin a german core group cities can impose driving bans on decent vehicles the landmark ruling allows look at parties to ban all but the very latest cars from city centers a drastic move but environmentalist group says it's long overdue also coming up the u.n. says fighting is still bridging in eastern despite a temporary truce each side has been in the other for launching attacks humanitarian workers say no it aid is getting through. and south korean prosecutors

demand a return for ousted president park to get the latest on a corruption trial from silwood. blasts in the next sixty minutes an arctic storm dumped the beast from the east slams into europe temperatures have plunged to record lows killing at least seven people across the continent but also bringing the rest scenes of snow to rome. part of a warm welcome to you i'm a bit touchy one of germany's top courts has ruled that municipal authorities are allowed to impose driving bans on diesel vehicles if they wish environmentalist have been calling for a diesel ban for you this if thousands of people a year die prematurely as a result of nitrogen dioxide emissions from disease. exhausts authorities in some

cities there in favor of peace bhatia ban but even if they did they don't believe that allowed them to impose these restrictions. because one of assad has been following this story he joins me now from adi mentary studios i want to first of all tell us about the verdict and what it means well what it means is that we're not expecting a direct general ban on diesel cars of course but rather the court and by its verdict it paves the way for such a ban on diesel cars in certain cities of germany that are not meeting the necessary thresholds set by the european union as they say that many german cities seventy german cities in fact have an air quality that is not meeting the threshold especially when it comes to nitrogen dioxide caused by diesel cars so this is

a landmark decision that we've heard here today by the court that is unparalleled here in germany and also quite unheard of if you consider germany is a car industry a car nation with many world famous car brands and a high percentage of diesel cars in particular many people prefer diesel cars here they were told that those are the cleaner options for years and now this is a verdict that is shocking many people in germany it's not said though that this comes for for everyone but rather for some areas of germany for something and some certain car types and out of the house a government reacted to this is ruling by the court in leipzig. well the government stresses exactly this that this does not apply to everyone that this does not does not apply to every diesel car oh no so they're trying to call them down basically people here in germany who of course are very afraid of that verdict and very feel

very uncertain about what this could mean uncle americal the german chancellor just held a press conference a little earlier today let's just listen in what she said if you don't fight by night you know the federal government's plans for cleaner air must be enforced you . will discuss the matter further with all the parties concerned. but what is important today is that it is about the action that individual cities need to take. but it's not really about the whole country and all german car owners . so all of us because german chancellor angela merkel stressing that individual cities can ban polluting diesel vehicles but how likely is it that they've been. we're down a situation in which the cities are legally it's the city's turn basically right now but of course they do not want to impose such

a ban they don't want to be the culprits as they think for a action that was forgotten by the government so they're calling for they're still in spite of the verdict calling for a nationwide regime for a nationwide solution which could be a so-called blue sticker for every call that meets the necessary threshold then the government of course does not want to act and impose such a ban as well this would be a very important unpopular solution here full of voters that would not be very happy about such a diesel ban so the pressure eventually will mount on the car industry here to act and to finally pave the way there for a hardware based solution in order to meet the threshold set by the european union drive on of the senate up on i'm interested yes thank you very much. and of course the implications of that ruling from the court in leipzig are huge specially as we heard from one of the solid for germany spouse industry we have more on that in

business news coming up later in the show meanwhile let me bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the wasn't a check court has ordered the release of syrian kurdish leader salim muslim refusing turkey's request to extradite him trick authorities detained salim muslim over the weekend at a request salim muslim denies turkey's claim that he was involved in attacks carried out on its territory. saudi arabia's king said mom has fired some of the country's top military officers in a major shake up big clue the military chief of staff general of the. un and other defense officials no former reason has been given for the move. the frontrunner in colombia's upcoming presidential elections gustavo petro has alleged voting is that risk of massive fraud he claims a decision not to digitalize results from the country's polling stations makes

fraud more likely colombians will vote in a presidential primary on march the eleventh. they've been reports of fresh bad incident looting and strikes in the rebel stronghold of ghouta in syria and this despite a daily five day a truce that russia declared a short while ago the u.n. says a renewed fighting makes delivering aid impossible to russia's military is claiming that shelling from rebel groups means civilians have been unable to leave eastern huta rebel factions they have denied bombing the evacuation route or preventing civilians from leaving more than five hundred civilians have been reported killed since the government syrian government and its russian allies stepped up their offensive on is to tell last week. martin amelius is the regional humanitarian coordinator for care international in the middle east based in amman jordan i asked him what his colleagues and he said hotel was saying about the situation on the

ground. they have been telling is that after ten days i find president at levels of violence and aerial bombardment that dan had a rather quiet now. people were emerging from their shelters in the morning at nine o'clock local time looking for their belongings or looking to get some food some water and then unfortunately around lunchtime again we got. we got the information from our partners on the ground that the aerial bombardment had to raise you and people were running for their lives again and basically now we have really trouble to reestablish communication at the moment and while people on the ground able to establish where does the law was coming from do they think it was a save in government forces responsible for this because the russians are saying that in fact rebels have also been shelling and fighting. i mean

that is very difficult for us to say i mean we are. i mean we have been seeing that men in the last ten days and you know kind of preparations for a ground offensive by the syrian regime. it's very difficult test average for our stuff that's sitting in their shelters and sitting underground. sharing where exactly but what i can tell you is that the humanitarian situation has really deteriorated to the degree that people don't know where they can get their food from the war i feel optimistic that this is an attempt or they hear about it to aid in the cease fire which is supposed to be in place to take some aid into that besieged eastern ghouta. i mean the five hours a day that is not sufficient time to bring and any kind of share manager and eight . so we are definitely calling for the implementation or the security council resolution that calls for

a. humanitarian ceasefire thirty days ceasefire all over syria including mr. martin emilius from canton ashton thank you babe much for talking to us m d w about the situation in eastern who. knew what international pressure is growing on russia to off a specific measures on how it can be delivered to syria's besieged region a talks in moscow the french foreign minister said russia is not the only active that can get the syrian vision to implement the un backed ceasefire critics say the five daily tewson fighting proposed by russia does not allow sufficient time to get vital humanitarian aid into the area let me now join correspondent in moscow ambush in spite of humanitarian truce is already in tatters how likely is it that brushed back the full thirty day cease fire that it voted for and the u.n.

security council a security council at the weekend. well it seems unlikely that moscow was actually expecting the firing to stop you know just within a couple of hours today i mean you have to realize that this deal that was put out this five hour humanitarian stop was actually a deal hashed out between the russian government and the government of bashar al assad so basically for from the beginning the russians have actually accused the rebel groups based in the east in eastern goto from of actually using a lot of the civilian populations as human shields and they actually say that the rebels are attempting to prevent the civilian population from leaving to basically make further airstrikes almost impossible so it seems unlikely that that they actually expected the rebel systolic firing. you mentioned the press conference the meeting between the french foreign minister and sergey lavrov today it actually seems like they're increasing their support for some of the u.n.

and international demands regarding these five hour cease fires he actually said that. it actually said that. the russian government would be willing to actually use those humanitarian corridors to bring in aid into the city which is something that they had previously not been willing to do so it seems like at least for the next few days the russian government is rather sticking by its guns and will continue to support these limited expires so what are you hearing from aid organizations allan is that this is not enough time within these five hours of juice to get aid into east and who just how much influence does what you have always see it is the shot assets to allow this aid to get into these simple humanitarian corridors. well least from the russian perspective right now it is isn't actually the syrian government that's providing aid from coming into the city rather a military representative of the russian government in syria today so there was actually the bombing the shelling taking place and being carried out by the rebel

groups that was preventing civilians from leaving the area and would also prevent humanitarian aid from getting into the city now when it comes to how much influence the putin the russian government has on assad you have to remember the saudi government is largely dependent upon russia for a lot of its military power in the region it was russian military intelligence assistance that kind of turned the tide in the syrian civil war in the last several years and also in the on the international scene russia to a large extent provides the political cover for the assad government but we also heard reports that unconfirmed reports that the syrian government engaged in bombing today as well which would seem to indicate that while the russian government can influence the syrian government it doesn't necessarily have a direct control over their armed forces advantage in moscow thank you very much. ted another south korea prosecutors are looking to pile the punishment on a former president going high they asking the court to levy

a thirty year prison term and a fine of nearly one hundred million euros against the form a south korean president of a corruption charges. last year in a bribery scandal which struck the country's business and political elite. her words in a televised apology last year i'm sorry to the people i will faithfully cool create with questioning now of a possible lengthy jail term hangs over former south korean president park geun hey she's been detained for almost a year following her impeachment. as well as a thirty year prison sentence prosecutors are seeking a one hundred mi team point five billion worn or a nearly ninety million euro fine. per case brought scrutiny to the ties between south korea's political leaders and its largest company samsung two weeks ago prosecutors jailed the i used to president's long time confidant to soon seal for twenty years she was convicted of taking bribes from both samsung and the retail

giant law to. hundreds of thousands of people turned out every weekend for more than two months in late ninety sixteen demanding parks immediate removal but now they're made as one of despondency. i'm not a patriot and i even though i'm a sectarian set isn't i have no love for this nation after witnessing this mess inside korea receiving bribes carries a penalty of up to a lifetime in jail park in haiti denies any wrongdoing in a very direct as expected on april sixth. join me now is what i'm jason strother in seoul south korea just in today was the final session in this luck irruption guest tell us about the significance of this trial and what kind of wood it is expected. i mean i think many south koreans feel this was an example of people power as your reporter indicated for months millions of south koreans came

out onto the streets to call for her ouster and they got it pretty much and to them it was you know it was a long overdue correction of what they many people see as the corrupt ties between the political and business elites and as for what kind of a verdict that we can expect when the judge rules it's hard to say prosecutors have asked for much to for penalties for the samsung chairman lee j. young as well as chase to shill the woman at the center of the corruption scandal but in the end the judge has always given less than what the prosecution has asked although we have to remember that lee j. young the samsung heir who was given a five year jail term last summer was let out just recently after spending less than a year behind bars and just seven o'clock didn't attend court today why. while she is essentially boycotting this whole hearing back in september when there was

still not a verdict in sight. prosecutors sought a six month extension to her detention somewhat unprecedented and her lawyers her private lawyers quit she has since been assigned government lawyers and she refuses to meet with them as well and you mentioned that you know people of this south korean seem to be disillusioned about the killing cozy relationship between the government and business how widespread is this feeling. right well i mean i think it's what many south koreans feel that keeps them back from succeeding that it all the good jobs good titles good opportunities in life all go to people who have political or business connections and by business connections i mean to the top conglomerates like samsung and hyundai. so there is

still i'd say overwhelming support for parks ouster that has not changed although we have seen protests here in favor of the former president many of her supporters say that she was unfairly taken out of office and want to see her freedom. ride to jason south to instil in south korea thank you very much for that . to get him in the poorest country in the middle east which has become a pawn in a fierce struggle for recent dominance between saudi arabia which backs the yemeni government and iran which backs rebels the conflict dates back to a fear of transition of power if the arab spring uprising present a bit of a months out how these struggles with various issues into the uk either attacks food insecurity and high unemployment who the rebels took advantage of this political instability and over several years gained control off various provinces

in yemen according to the un yemen is on the brink of a famine millions of young yemenis are dependent soley on humanitarian aid on next report follows one doctor trying to ease the plight of children caught up in this conflict a warning this report contains some disturbing images. it's the start of a long and busy day for pediatrician a shrug. today she'll be making house calls in the countryside. but first a father is waiting anxiously at the central clinic in what data with his emaciated daughter a shrugs occupation requires her to remain optimistic but she's frustrated during the three years of fighting the number of undernourished children has risen dramatically for her the suffering is unbearable especially when the children are brought to the hospital when it might already be too late. don't cry my dear don't cry don't be afraid. doctors hope to save the

child's life with an infusion of liquid nutrition when asked what her name is the six year old cannot answer she's too weak to talk. her father says her name is i shot the girl doesn't utter a single word during the examination. will try to help her but the effectiveness of her work depends entirely on adequate deliveries of medicine actually reaching yemen. a shrug drives to the harbor area of the data to find out what kind of relief aid has been delivered this time but when she arrives she can hardly believe her eyes. the united nations sent this ship. a swag asks the harbor workers if i know why such a small ship was sent but they say they don't know the reason. why i need that benefit is not enough unicef sent that ship we need unicef the medications for

food to combat the malnutrition among children cholera dysentery can unicef only lease ships this small if you want it is not supposed to be enough for twenty seven million people. a day does harbor is the largest and therefore the most important port in the who the rebel held area it's under constant attack by the saudi led coalition but i shrug says the bombardments of civilian homes nearby is a worse crime than. this district is close to military base says the airport is nearby that's why it is continually bombed including the university's medical faculty. to. ash what drives to a village south of her data the war is also hitting people in the countryside hard the few age deliveries that do arrive really make it out of the city that's why the

doctor makes these trips. the town of adam now is near the coast the fishermen who live here are very poor. is able to help them because of her relatively good income when she arrives she can see how rightful the people are she's almost their only contacts to the outside world the war's effects are highly visible here. the children are terribly undernourished. and. before i could give my child milk every two days but i haven't gotten anything for two months now. but their parents are grateful to us shrug for treating the children for free and give her a gift of hima it's a small gesture that allows these poor people to maintain their dignity ashworth and has made it her mission to help people but this is becoming increasingly

difficult she sees no end to the war and has made a professional decision. and the health of the children is deteriorating because they are not getting adequate treatment i've decided that if we can't provide food supplies to adults we have to at least guarantee the children that because they need nourishment more urgently. that's why she's come to this village bringing only powdered milk. believes it's the children who must survive because they are humans only hope. the conflict in yemen has been lorna's ignored by the international community but it's up for discussion today at the security council at the united nations we'll keep an eye on that story and bring you more on the when it becomes available on the central european nation is in shock after a young journalist and his fantasy well func shot dead in their home twenty seven edward yon works for a popular news website but he's believed he was killed because he was investigating

corruption linked to top politicians his last report examined financial transactions that a lot of political scandal. in his short journalistic career young had attempted to shine a light in some very dark places political corruption corporate tax evasion suspected italian mafia links to slovakia on sunday twenty seven year old coot siac and his fiance were found dead in their home outside brought to slava they had been killed by gunshots to the head and chest police said it was likely that c.x. murderers wanted to put an end to his probing. on school the motive of this crime is probably related to his investigative journalism activities we will assign all our money to this case you know. but in a conversation with d.w. could c.x. former editor cast doubt on the police's willingness to get to the bottom of the

case. unfortunately i really say that i have a confidence but but you are going to a lot of pressure on the police because you go cancun you run the farm pretty quartus murder is serious. the slovakian government at least appears serious about finding cute c.x. killers that has offered a one point two million u.s. dollars reward for information that could lead them to the perpetrators. it's been called the beast from the east a college fund that has blossomed across much of europe a number of people have died across the three any of poland and france as the lucky plummeted in germany home to shells as a close to maximum capacity as temperatures drops to minus twenty degrees centigrade in pots of the country the snow is also thrown the italian capital into a state of slippery. snow in temperate rome can wreak

havoc some of the trees here give into the extra weight since they're almost never burdened by anything more than rain drops at extra slippery streets and temperatures well below zero the transport system falls apart and businesses need to close. still seriously when to the locals or tourists get to see this. the coliseum covered in snow. or when can they do with this climate ridge and slide down in circus maximus. invent a consider a snowball fight. it's been six years since a significant snowfall here but even catholic priests see something of a winter miracle they think that even that is just incredible mother nature's going to die. but. of course not

everyone loves a blanket of white room i don't think it shouldn't snow in ready because we're just not ready for it in russia they are ready for it but even the residents of moscow can be caught off guard by temperatures south of minus twenty degrees celsius the cold is caused by a giant low pressure system of. the n.t. cyclon covering the scandinavian peninsula is really big and spreads to poland in the front of us on the cycling has brought the cold from the european. in parts of russia east into the rest of europe. it's the poorest who bear the brunt of the cold in poland officials are appealing for citizens to help the homeless and the elderly. the freezing weather is expected to hang around europe for the rest of the week extending even past thursday when according to meteorologist snow men and women even in rome are supposed to be long gone and winter should give way to spring.

coming up ahead on the trail of italy's disappearing he says italians for better vote in the general election are to forge a finds out why young people to leave the country. that's coming up shortly. here people are just trying to stay alive. there is no humanitarian aid. on the frontline in iraq. the only one coming from the volunteers from nato the musicians columns risking their lives the german aid like i'm getting a book. on d w. it's

all happening coach of a good. tour linked to screw africa and the world of. your link to exception stories and discussions can you and welcome to the discussion income family from one to many from the news of these events and while with safety debited comes the traffic come join us on facebook t w africa. is really. the scars on. the pain still tangible. for good. for city but. they have survived but do they also have a future. i really understand people who say they don't want to stay here. but i also admire people who want to stay here and who decided to create something

good economic in peace time for the people making it possible what needs to happen if tolerance and reconciliation are to stand a chance. to start this city's after war starting march tenth on d w. you're watching the news coming to you live from berlin i'm attaching great to have your company the top stories monitor groups say as strikes it hits syria's rebel held innocent huta during a five hour daily truce but the syrian government denies any such attack meanwhile russia's military has said rebel shelling has blocked a planned evacuation route for civilians which rebels have denied. and germany's top the ministers of court has ruled in favor of allowing cities to ban heavy lead

polluting diesel vehicles environmentally safe thousands of people a year die prematurely as a result of nitrogen dioxide emissions from diesel exhaust. monica joins me now from businesses and she has more on that story and germany isn't the only country struggling with high emission levels in fact more and more urban authorities around the world are introducing different measures to improve local air quality and a last january when air pollution was particularly severe osce low placed a one day ban on most diesel costs of traffic was down thirty percent even though there were many exceptions diesel trucks taxis police cars and other official vehicles were except paris has already banned diesel cars made before two thousand which produced more pollution than other models and starting in twenty twenty all these will cost will be banned from the streets of paris and that is not all the

mayor of london has announced that he'll also ban diesel cars in twenty twenty meanwhile madrid athens and mexico city have pledged they'll do the same five years later in an effort to curb nitrogen oxides and other toxins in their cities and as we've heard from today cities in germany are also legally allowed to ban diesel costs a court ruling that was highly anticipated and that could turn out to be a game changer for the car industry cautious have already taken a beating daniel cope in frankfurt with the details. well how are they coping with all of this this morning there was still some hold but after the news were breaking we have seen shares of the big carmakers dropping here on my and chairs of volkswagen b.m.w. and they are all down between zero point eight and one point four per cent of course this could be way worse but we also have to remember how many billions of

euros in the equity market have been already lost during the gate scandal of course the car industry was alerted we're already getting statements from business associations all purpose also representing smaller businesses or all kinds of negative a effect this could have for the economy and one thing is also sure even though shares were not a drop jumping or going down dramatically the value off of diesel may be standing at home right now has dropped more than their share price of the comic us they are right in front of thank you so much. and joining me now for more on the ramifications of this verdict for one of my colleagues and then to my loudly joins me here in the studio and horse and automotive analyst who joins us in london good to have both of you here with us on this topic and i would like to start with jenelle just briefly what exactly did the court decide well the broad strokes of the verdict confirm the legality of driving bans to be in the to be imposed by mr

pallet is in order for them to enforce their plans to fight air pollution now this could be a decision that affects up to seventy cities in germany if applied widely but you know as you know the double be in the details so i guess we'll see ok so this ruling leaves room for interpretation. how much bite does it have. well i think it will have quite a lot of bite because the environmental agencies and lobby groups will now start spewing out the cities to challenge their emission levels so that the industry together will have to come up with a solution these are retrofits costs or extend buyback programs for really polluting cars needs to be seen it's going to pay for it needs to be c. so it has a very wide consequence and also the question comes up with more european cities could face growing brands as well ok we'll of course we have already some european cities who announced that they would car industry janelle perhaps enough time to

change their game plan right now this must be quite a blow well it is but at this stage they should have expected it i think the public discourse on air quality and human health has reached a particular turning point which they should have noticed and part of what they have to do now can be blamed on relative under reaction the past they could have really done more to avoid being in this position and as are inside they will probably have to respond to renewed calls for hardware fixes you know that they didn't want to do with us for the longest time because of the cost that that would entail anywhere would it be the solution because this is also a controversial solution that's been discussed it could be part of a range of solutions there is no there is no one size fits all solution for the scale of this problem so anything like very costly hardware fixes or a scrappage scheme that would allow a diesel owners to trade in older vehicles or probably also have to offer more models that bridge the gap from where we are now to mass electric vehicle adoption

because we're just not there yet so maybe things like more hybrids ok so it leaves certainly room for development eight demand say i know that you haven't been a fan of the diesel engine anyway do you think if this is now the the kiss of death for the technology which by the way here in germany is very very popular. well i can't say i'm not a fan of a diesel engine of use of myself right and we need to be very clear that these legends were what the european regulators want what the german regulator want to look at texas and want to every one of these rules and here we are and we designed it is a test cycle that is just far away from reality that's the fact now i'm not a big fan of the future of diesel because i just really believe these laws have become too expensive to manufacture they're really i mean technology for european consumers they don't sell anywhere else in the world it's becoming too expensive and the money's not being ok didn't to electrify poetry's into hybrid miles of fuel

hybrids plug in hybrids and evey's these are global technologies and i think it's a good development that we're moving in that are rich ok then i have one more question for both of you a short answer if you would so you say i wanted to be driving a diesel yourself if you were here in germany there are a lot of confused a confused diesel drivers out there what's the court ruling mean for them what it means for them if they have a euro five diesel they will probably be offered a hardware fix if they want to drive into cities if they drive an older diesel they will probably have to look to replace their car in the coming years if they are your sixty's will find the right channel while i would say it would mean a future of restricted use and dropping resale values i'm surprised not more of them are more angry sure and certainly keep your eyes on the news on the developments there as i have them aloud from the business end in hostile from london thank you so much best to you. now donna at least should soon be able to

swiftly move from diesel to electric can gently pushed by its new may just stay cold the chinese ought to make a genie of the surprise announcement that genie plans to buy almost one tense off the german kamaka has caused a stir not only at the maker of my c.d.'s cars german politicians also fear for the future of one of the country's iconic companies. berlijn has questions julie found early shoe food is headed to the chancellery to explain just what it would mean for a chinese company to take over ten percent of one of germany's industrial jewels it's about more than stock ownership there are concerns about technology transfer and foreign influence on corporate strategy chinese companies have been buying into key german companies bank puts most of concrete systems robot maker kuka. in two thousand and two only two chinese companies bought into german enterprises

but that number has increased constantly since then in two thousand and sixteen it was sixty eight. but after looking long term in ten to fifteen years we'll have to ask ourselves which parts of our industrial base are still left in germany as more and more of them are relocated to china while on the other hand german investors in china a systematically disadvantaged. german investors in china have long complained of discrimination and have called on politicians to do something about it it's one reason why the sale of part of it is raising eyebrows germany's financial regulator an ounce an investigation gili is also on the agenda in parliament but german politicians don't have much decision making power as long as no security related information is involved shareholdings and takeovers cannot be blocked. right over to in return our news from the united states

thank you veronica. teaches in the u.s. if taken to social media in response to present some suggestion that amin them would prevent school shootings between the two there is the death of the social media editor last month welcome now you've been following this campaign for us and what's what's how do you begin yeah i mean it's really all started with trump's announcement of this plan president trump essentially proposing to arm twenty percent of teachers in the u.s. now actually seven hundred thousand teachers than with guns in classrooms and that's a big number and this comes after of course the recent school shooting and in part in florida we can actually take a look at the president's plans in his own words i think a concealed permit for having teachers and letting people know that there are people in the building with a gun you are have in my opinion you want to have these shootings because these people are cowards they're not going to walk into a school if twenty percent of the teachers have guns and maybe ten percent or maybe

forty percent and what i'd recommend doing is the people that you carry we give them a bonus we give them a little bit of a bogus. yes even suggesting paying more to teachers that would like to carry guns in the classroom that was a few days ago and now a couple of teachers have decided to respond to the president's plan and it's fair to say that they don't like it very much and here are those two teachers that have started this new campaign you see a livia bear tolls on the left she's a middle school teacher in kansas and brittany wheaton from utah they were inspired to act by a friend who teaches at stoneman douglas high school that's the florida school where the most recent school shooting took place and they created a hash tag called arment me with they're asking to be arms not with guns but rather with supplies that they say can help them do their jobs better gosh and it's i understand from day noble and it did from these two teachers this is really turned into now tens of thousands if you look at this hash tag on social media many many

teachers taking part saying we don't want guns we want to be armed with maybe some other things and they have some suggestions here on social media you can just take a look at how many of these teachers really are joining in using that hash tag arm with me many holding up signs asking perhaps for better school supplies many others asking for smaller class sizes and other prove ment's like maybe better pay for teachers or just simple things for the classroom different supplies and i love this this teacher from san francisco holding up a picture of a gun but that's a glue gun she says that's the only gun she wants in her classroom these teachers really points out look the u.s. many teachers and schools there are drastically underfunded they don't have the money for the basics so they say look rather than guns give us books give us school supplies really a united response against trump's plan to put guns in classrooms or we have to.

fill a social media disc thank you very much. italy goes to the polls this week and in the country looking at issues ahead of the election one main concern for young voters is the economy after years of deep economic crisis italy is doing better but young people are still leaving the country our reporter lisa lewis is a neighbors where she met with young voters to find of why so many of them see no future in italy. my. album i have always dreamed of working as midwives in one of italy's hospitals but they've been struggling to find a job in their home country they are now learning german to search for a better life abroad. no new people have been recruited in our hospitals for years there's no money because of the economic crisis there are no opportunities for young people here. the few available jobs don't go to the best

qualified but to those who know the right person your own efforts aren't enough to get ahead in this country. they feel left behind by their politicians the upcoming parliamentary elections aren't likely to change that. but on the other politicians don't do what they say anyway they make me feel sick if that's a certain point you just stop believing the. president but don't feel represented by our politicians there have been a lot of proposals made during the election campaign but i do think things will get better there are but milan yeah i'm no exception many young people are having a hard time finding work despite the economic recovery economists say more and more of them are leaving especially in the south where the. the four inside. out of north free to. the law number of enterprises that invest in the south but he is why people labor law probability to

find the jobs the karen left wing government has tried to turn this around it's made firing easier thinking that then more young would be hired but so far that doesn't seem to have worked one in three young italians is still out of the job here in the south it's even one in two. the local leftwing mayor says only the left can get a grip on the job crisis and that the government should finally stop trying to liberalize the market to follow us a nice double booked out it come to me left wing politics could change that there would be less inequality and more social justice we would put the focus on the human being the weak the young in the working class would be bullied on a national level policies like these have been lacking for years. but the left is facing stiff opposition former prime minister silvio berlusconi's forte tahlia has teamed up with two far right parties there making the migrants the scapegoats for

the current job crisis. foreign doctors are stealing our own doctors jobs will be the future of our maritime transport sector hangs in the balance and the government needs to intervene that's the only way to save our youth any more than i mean. these arguments are unlikely to convince me to stay even if it will be difficult for them to leave you know. i do hope as i will be able to return home one day because i think i will suffer when i go away and you know i think he would be better if we first need to hit rock bottom before things will change hopefully in the not too distant future but i don't think i'll return to italy once i've settled in germany and feel good there i want to stay both have now found a job in the other western city of disorder for they start in june they're hoping to find their the bright future that their own country couldn't give them.

just is following this is vent to games in south korea a ceremony in the next winter olympic location has already been has beijing marked the start of the tour of the olympic flag in style it was carriage on a stage at the great wall of china the country has seen a recent boom in winter sports president xi jinping has to get three hundred million chinese and skis and skates before the two thousand and twenty two games sounds like a tall order we just four years to go to reach that goal and knowing china they should manage. in monday night's going to see a game don't look to improve their eight game unbeaten streak as they lock horns with outs get home total and opened the scoring on seventeen minutes when mark lacroix screamed out a defensive mistake from space martin king to have a go it was the german international second gold in three games since making his

comeback from injury outskirt got back into the game on seventy treatments thanks to a kevin dunn still go on one all the fun school. a piece of history from the american football team the dallas cowboys who are known as america's team has just made it into the hall of fame sort of the smithsonian museum of american history has accepted to uniforms off the dallas cowboys cheerleaders into its permanent collection citing their iconic contribution to sports and culture. the dallas cowboys cheerleading look from the one nine hundred eighty s. took the world by storm its simple design by libby to craker was in team colors and featured blue sequence silver and white in the middle with white gogo style boots. our cowboy hurry the decade america's sweethearts starred in t.v.

movies and even had their own barbie dolls celebrities in their own right they visited u.s. troops abroad as well the legacy of the one nine hundred eighty uniform will live on this is such an incredible opportunity and when we look at all of the archives not only the ones that she shared behind the vault and with us today but throughout this entire news then i mean they they resemble american history and american culture join in the one nine hundred eighty version is the one from two thousand and eleven it's not much different from its predecessor created by lisa dobson it's a bit of an upgrade with more of a western appeal. in contrast formula one last month had decided to stop using brit girls with immediate effect stating the custom doesn't resonate with our brand values and clearly is at odds with modern day society norms while america's sweethearts become the first in shrine to n.f.l.

cheerleading object in the world's largest museum. one of call for all of us off and all the all the one thing they didn't think there was this of course this angle of america is off it from the book open to still a marionette kid to the south in germantown of. it's an institution in this country and today it's celebrating its seventy fifth anniversary job and better from the desk is here to talk about that welcome robinsons seventy. three but apparently they started a few years early and how to stop well they did kind of. a family called the mission family actually stops at papa. and his wife and his daughters in the middle of the second well bowl when war was raging around them as it was and they did this

to sort of raise this spirit of their neighbors and friends and then they actually cause of puppets out of wood themselves they have a little cabin that was for the key is that went between a door frame then unfortunately the cabinet was destroyed in a balmy i'd boming right in some of the puppets as well so that was that anyway nine hundred forty eight seventy years ago the family managed to persuade the city authorities announced going to give them a a venue to use and they started the puppet theater. exactly seventy years ago today. behind these doors lies a very special place. for. kings who by their subjects icecream giants dragons it's a world filled with little stars made of wood. strings

cloth glue and some wood is all the marionette making needs. to use the front head string a lot of it runs over the middle and index fingers we have to have flexible wrists so we don't have to change hands out to every move. i guess we've got special profiteers hams with. us marshall is the third generation member of his family to run the theater he says the stories come to life in the audience's imagination when they can see their own images that's why the narrative has to unfold slowly. the. literally puppet chest held its premiere not long after the second mode war in february nine hundred forty eight in a former hospital. the show was put in but it's one that still down there today. the whole family was involved valdez daughter hannah laura carved her first puppet at age thirteen his wife rosa so the questions.

over six thousand of the marionettes were crafted by class marshall's mother hundred during her lifetime work is the treasure trove of the theater. if you ask her when she got the idea she'd say from the street car. in one nine hundred fifty three the theater gained nationwide prominence with their television debut. it's got it's not. just seventy years the marionettes have been in chante. young and old alike it's a wound made of wood and strings and lots of imagination start.

to sway you to educate us to love it but they're not just to just they also do offer us yet they do this for the lot of the best albrecht operas because best hope for a couple of course rock music but brecht is the most famous song actually and they did the threatening opera and many of the breakfasts have been so well received that even the great actress lottie lenya and i got to daniel was one of the great sort of british father interpreters back in the twenty's and thirty's she actually asked the pope and can i have a pocket of my own and she don't want his resolder. they also apart from that they created puppets that represented the seven deadly sins like swallow rock. and envy and all these puppets by the way were created by the mission and. family who still run the theater to this day and of course if we go to much they also do a lot of political satire as we saw with i'm going back and found these but puppets

of a famous on t.v. but also on the big screen yes they've made a few full length movies here in germany but actually warner brothers got hold of them back in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven and they did a film called a rat style starring roles of course but taken by the outspokenness that we can see here but they were actually ately assisted by a few humans as well. jerry stiller that people might remember from seinfeld also the likes of his beverly the angelus from national lab and a couple of other actors so yes the house. is. just has made it in hollywood as well dr moore on his website no dad robin merrill thank you very much for coming in and bringing this delightful folkenflik telephone. to us on new davina's that's it for me on the thought she might and the d w t we'll have more news coming up for you shortly and you say we did have if you can the back.

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