this is news live from berlin after days of speculation china confirmed a landmark meeting with north korea on his first foreign trip since assuming power and north korean leader kim jong un met china's president xi jinping in beijing what's behind this diplomatic overture. also coming up. russia hold a national day of mourning after sunday's fatal fire at

a mall in siberia accusations fly over failures that led to the tragedy sixty four people died in the blaze most of them children and catalonia is leading voice for independence valve's never to surrender part was pushed him on awaits a decision on this extradition in a german jail and his detention triggers protest across the catalan region we'll go live to barcelona. plus germany has suffered a blow in their world cup preparations four years after famously defeating brazil seven one you off the low side live to a friendly defeat against their south american opponents. i'm sorry kelly walking to the program china has officially confirmed that north korean leader kim jong un has met with chinese president xi jinping in beijing his first for. one visit since he assumed power back in twenty eleven can reportedly

told shave that he was committed to denuclearization and resolving the conflict on the border the meeting is seen as a crucial preparatory step in the lead up to two landmark summits in may both between north korea and the us and between the two koreas. and correspondent material interests following all the latest developments for us from beijing where he joins us now so entails just first and foremost walk us through what exactly was discussed here which were the two leaders. well it was of course all about the nuclear crisis and the upcoming meeting between kim and the u.s. president donald trump it was very important for beijing to hold this meeting to to have kim here in beijing before he would meet donald trump because a north korean leader meeting the enemy the american anime before meeting his most

important ally in beijing would have been a major snipe at china so china wanted to make clear with this that it is still in the game around this around this nuclear crisis and for north korea of course it is also important to to show that there is a major power behind and given that i mean how can we read into this i mean what do we make of what we roll china might want to play in these summits coming up in may . what it wants to play a major role in previously it has been hosting talks of the six party talks for example a few years ago now it would probably not be at the table at the trump at the trump kim meeting but it wants to at least make clear that in the that nothing will go against its will that it is there in the background and people have to talk to beijing. meantime another interesting comments that has been reported coming out of

this meeting apparently kim jong un said that he was committed to denuclearization and resolving conflicts on the border why would he come out and short china that because those are his bargaining chips aren't they you know i don't think he has given away any bargaining chips he said he would be ready to denuclearize if the u.s. and south korea would make would create an atmosphere of peace he did he wasn't clear oh it wasn't communicated clearly what was his demands but that's not has been said by north korean leaders before and it was usually included that the u.s. withdraw their troops from the korean peninsula and that they. that their whole nuclear installations in the asia pacific. would be would be moved

away and that is of course something that the u.s. will never agree to mathias ballinger with the latest from beijing thank you. funerals are being held in russia for the dozens of people killed in a shopping mall fire in siberia over the weekend forty one children were among the more than sixty people who died in qana robel. russia is observing a national day of mourning today with memorials taking place across the country at the grief is mixed with anger many believing that authorities are trying to cover up of lax safety standards that may have contributed to the high death toll. thousands of kilometers apart but hugh knighted in grief people in moscow mourn the dozens of five victims in siberia as camera of this tragedy has gripped russia and caused anger many believe officials are hiding the true extent of what happened on

sunday. what is known is that multiple safety violations happened when the blazing gulf the mall people trying to escape found many a marriage in ca blocked the fire alarm didn't sound in the public address system wasn't switched on reports to that children were left locked inside cinemas as staff fled. the did you know i was talking to my daughter on the fine i told her lie down on the floor and breed three then don't die. young i was crying to my daughter she said dad i love you i'm suffocating i'm losing consciousness. vision. furious distraught locals suspect a cover up in non-believing more being told they think they could be more victims then what officials say and may distributing their own least of those missing most

of them children are. going to well i think authorities are hiding the real number of did and there's a lot of false information about how many people there were at the shopping center how the fire started and who is responsible for the start which. as investigators combed through the rubble the government has promised that those responsible will be harshly punished. it's declared wednesday a day of national mourning a time when all of russia joins cameras in grieving big dead children. well now let's get a quick check of some other stories that have been making news around the world france will hold a national memorial ceremony in honor of the heroic policeman who was killed by a jihadist attacker last week lieutenant colonel are no offered himself in exchange for a female hostage during

a deadly supermarket siege in trat president among will leave ceremony today as the final day of voting in egypt's presidential election incumbent leader general abdel fattah el-sisi is expected to secure an easy victory do in large part to the absence of any real competition critics have labeled the election a sham and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been discharged from a jerusalem hospital after suffering a short illness he was rushed there with a high fever and official report states that the hospital tests show that netanyahu had been suffering from a mild viral infection in his upper airways. in germany cattle and separatist leader carlos pushed him on has said that he will never surrender in the fight for independence from spain his lawyer passed on the message after visiting his clients at a jail in northern germany. pushed him on has been held there since being arrested on a european warrant while travelling through the country it could take weeks for german

courts to rule on whether the former cattle and leader should be extradited to spain to face for being in charges meanwhile across the whole of the cattle and region separatist blocked roads and motorways to protest against his detention. for more let's bring in the l.d.s. who is standing by with the latest from barcelona and public you know there's an extraordinary meeting of the council and parliament that is scheduled for today what's the latest on that what are we expecting. good morning sarah well i'm actually standing outside the capitol and parliament and it's already underway basically what is going to happen it's really a symbolic meeting called pro independence parties to show their support for a cutoff which we won and the other two candidates who were put forward who are also actually in prison but they're in spain as opposed to someone who's in germany because they want their candidates to be the next leader of this region in

northeastern spain so they're going to be debating that in the parliament it's already underway we've seen all the main leaders arrive this morning and so it's going to be a very full day in what is actually a quite a quiet week in spain because of course it's easter week but also chris is now on what is going to come out of this debate session that's taking place here in barcelona but not a quiet though on the streets of barcelona at least in the past couple of days what is the mood like there in catalonia. now you're absolutely right i mean there's i would call it. a sense of calm but also tension and then we like we saw and we've seen images of course of roads being blocked and yesterday even actually when i arrived in barcelona and we had to go around the city basically because one of the main avenues have been blocked and also we saw motorway the main one that connects spain to france we saw protesters causing some travel chaos for people and then on

tuesday evening the main train station there were several hundred protesters. blocking the entrance for commuters who were basically trying to go about their trying to get home or travel to other parts of spain and like what i said it's a big week here in spain for people it's a big holiday week so a lot of people traveling from barcelona other parts of spain and and also one of the big things is going to be discussed today actually refers back to october first of course that was also a referendum that took place here in catalonia and we're going to be hearing watched and. the first report into how the police acted on dark day what the what the outcome of that is from this report on that could lead to further protests depending on what is said and what comes out of the rest of. us the big picture here where does all this leave the independents with. huge. two words political deadlock at the moment and that's what we've been essentially talking about here in catalonia for for quite

a while now and no leader is elected by the end of may catalonians will be voting once again in another round of regional elections and considering that divisions are so divided so divided here between those in favor of pushing for this independence movement movement and those against we could be headed for another political deadlock so it's certainly a very worrying time for people here in catalonia and i must say also across spain . in barcelona thank you thanks there. you're watching t w news still to come on the program the so-called islamic state terror group has been forced out of iraq but what is left behind for many iraqis is a wasteland we will look at the monumental task ahead for those trying to rebuild. but first it is more money for greece one of the joneses here rebuilding the greek

economy sara and they're offering funds for the country the eurozone bailout fund has approved a six point seven billion euro loan and stallman's that's off to the greek government in active painful reforms finally meeting the conditions to unlock those funds a first tranche offer five point seven billion euros is due to be paid today the rest could follow in may athens has received financial aid from euro zone countries and the international monetary fund since two thousand and ten now the third risk you pack each amounts to eighty six billion euros and drums until august twenty eighth greece's total debt is around three hundred twenty billion euros and that is about one hundred seventy six percent of its economic output but the economy is growing for the first time in ten years unemployment is down to twenty point nine percent but many greeks only work part time and they don't much and that means that despite hopes of an upward trend the reality for ordinary people may not be

improving but it appears that reforms are taking hold so is the greece economy is it finally on the mend now that is what i asked andy carroll in athens. well the simple answer is yes and no the numbers are looking better on the paper as you say growth is seemingly resuming the unemployment is seemingly. coming coming down but still there are a lot more reforms that have to happen and in the real economy in the pocket of every greek that reform that progress is yet to be found the creditors are still a little apprehensive and want to be certain that greece sticks to its reforms which it has completed which it has been pursuing and this release of it

is a vote of confidence that greece's are right that it is pretty reforms that it is holding are and this one billion euros in aid to keep it on track exactly let's talk a bit about this reforms which are very very painful they include a tax changes of tax policy of privatization of state holdings how did all of that affect every day people in greece. well it is literally brought them down to their knees they're one in three businesses have gone bust more than a million greeks are still in the unemployment line you know they are suffering quite a deal and they have been burdened with back to back taxes which they are not hearing about as far as yes the government is saying that it will make a break from its austerity but it's not hearing. you know talk

about them their salaries improving or these taxes being written so so agreed to still suffering quite quite a lot they've seen twenty five percent of their earnings at least lost in the name of austerity so just briefly and how does this impact their their view of europe what's the mood like right now. well they are very greeks are very hoped to get to europe they believe in fact that their future is anchored to the west of course their feelings. are not as strong as they used to be but they know that their future lies within the european union and he was there in athens thank you so much for this. a fully fledged trade war between china and the united states would have a severe impact on the global economy once the head of the world trade organization

global growth could fall very quickly roberto acevedo told the b.b.c. in an interview no meanwhile in a phone call with u.s. president donald trump german chancellor angela merkel has called for dialogue between the european union and the united states over trade the white house said to the two leaders also discussed what washington described as china's illegal acquisition of intellectual property a call comes the week after trump ordered new tariffs on china but accepted to the e.u. answer. well these are difficult times for the who usually successful tech market a string of scandals are weighing on investors appetite for tech stocks it seems for more let's cross over to our man of the five stock exchange daniel corp daniel what exactly is behind this take route. well there are simply afraid

of regulations in the afternoon trading we saw that yesterday also happening on wall street shares were dropping and mostly the shares of tech companies they are in trouble after the latest scandals involving different companies you just mentioned many fear that those companies could face tougher regulations from authorities in the united states and also here in europe mostly facebook and tesla are again and they had lines after it worse revealed that millions of user data were sold in the past to the british company can bridge analytics now facebook as having more problems because of their mass and your app users fired at the district court in california that's what we're hearing a complaint that apparently facebook is keeping an exact protocol when calls were made and which messages were exactly sent so this means even more trouble for them shares were also affected by bad news for the tech electric car maker tesla

including the u.s. authorities investigation into a fat old crash involving a tesla vehicle last week and california they want to find out if the automatic control system was activated this is the deadly accident now involving a car linked to autonomy driving now danielle so a lot is happening investors are worried but german consumer seen on face just briefly. yes exactly at the g. of k. that's the in-situ that is always reporting they're reporting that the situation is looking better now and that the consumer confidence index is now even showing signs of perking up and even looking for better results for the upcoming months write down a quote in frankfurt thank you so much. so german consumers are willing to spend but a lot more money is needed to reconstruct parts of war torn needle east especially

iraq absolutely we're talking about some major logistics here monica because now that the so-called islamic state has been forced out of iraq the country has to be really built it will take years some say decades and a lot of money twenty four billion euros was raised at the last donor conference in kuwait these funds are desperately needed to reconstruct once vibrant neighborhoods armed nearly to oblivion daniel hechler has this report. when ali rides his bike through western mosul it's a trip through a dark and painful past the wasteland their minds the thirty six year old with the worst trauma he's ever experienced living under i.r.s. rule. centuries old buildings palaces churches and the world famous noori mosque now lying in ruins here with his camera the university lecturer wants to document the destruction and rebirth of his hometown at first i

couldn't recognize that this is by the way part of the busiest ever and now it's a ghost town it's a risky place it's hazardous and it's empty the soul of the place is no one there. ali is rediscovering his bike following three years of war and terror every bit of fresh paint he sees gives him hope and color is indeed coming back to most of the black flags of the murderous propaganda on the bridges and walls are all history now street artists are covering it up with declarations of love to their city in spite of everything that has happened here. does that help or did help but did i love my city it has great charisma and we're now giving back to it what it has given to us we went to school here to university

amelle the city needs us. now look at the amount of these types of positive messages of what ali wants to send out to the world with his photographs fear of hate and fear is are you there for once and for all most lives again that your murals use to attract young people to join them i trust people to kill. to purge the city on the minorities to impose their point of view with their dark point of view so it is very important to to deplane that the two planes that are done in iraq with the beautiful colors. but the wounds of the past are still far from being healed ali also feels a deep sense of mistrust wondering who may have sympathized or collaborated with i.i.s. he makes a statement on social media with his photos and his blog he believes that mosul is better than its image so it's not isis mosul has always been living in

a corner way. i have a christian kurd student kurdish students i have is it a student and nobody thought to put their finger on the head of them what happened was something exceptional well something was something brutal and it was something that happened by the tiniest potion of. of muslims of iraqis. photos from that dark era he took them secretly and in so doing he risked his life the university abandoned most apartments were closed also lost his job as a lecturer. his father who had always shaved was forced by i.a.s. to grow a beard. alman

asked to square a central meeting place for festivals and ceremonies stood under the i.r.s. flag for three years now that flag is gone what's left behind is rubble and graffiti which reads our symbols are martyrs or without blood we would not be free nearby like the remains of the assyrian gate once the symbol of the city militias blew up the street thousand zero down mt. i think depressed heartbroken i used to take photos for that and there i says. thank god i could take photos for that. now it's gone but at least they have the full name of. the book form cafe it's a place the briefs freedom year ago the building was still burns out now schoolchildren students and artists meet here to do all the things that had been forbidden for years to reach to play music to smoke to have fun

a few of these pictures also graced the walls he's a regular customer and a friend of the owner for had cyber invested all his savings into the cafe during the i.r.s. period he read countless books in secret since then he's convinced that every change begins with literature. this place will success if the young people decided to change our minds to change. to did it. black from our from our memory. there are some indications they might succeed music can once again be heard in the streets of mosul for three years how common mohamed hit their investments from i.a.s. religious police now they play music once again for themselves and for others scenes

like this the hope for a better future for his beloved long suffering city. in sports news germany's twenty two match unbeaten run has been ended by brazil you walk a low side defeated the south american seven one in the world cup semifinals almost four years ago but failed to fire in this friendly rematch. memories of the seven crashing were in everyone's minds before the long awaited rematch brazil out for revenge started aggressively. but it was germany had the best of the chances. mario gomez unable to hit the target. for sales took the. sense of from the right to feel just the free hand.

and that would go keeping the reserve stopper cutting the track. was playing with the flip side how he saw his season. multiple substitutions from both sides in the second half stifled the game action was at a premium. germany improved in defense but it was too late to avoid a woman defeat. plenty of lessons learned for the two heavyweights ahead of june's world cup in russia. and with that you're up to date now on the news i'm sarah telling you so much for watching.

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