this is the day of the news coming to you live from berlin caches between the israeli military and promised to erupt in gaza as thousands protest demonstration supporting the militant group hamas is really file at the israeli border guards off issues eighty seven palestinians have been killed and hundreds more injured also coming up diplomatic limousines arrived at the russian foreign ministry

a small school starts a wave of explosions it's the lizards in the sound off over the poisoning of a former russian double agent at his daughter in britain. and the job use family for char is in saudi arabia looking at the latest reforms announced by the conservative kingdom all the country's leaders not more in tune with its people. but also in the next sixty minutes of watch out the spacelab about the piece of chinese space junk is on collision course with planet earth redwood as it entered the earth's atmosphere and but it's also the damage we've talked to the head of the european space agency. and tibet's spiritual leader the dalai lama mocks the sixtieth year in exile read reports on the fittest loyalty he commands china's efforts to isolate him and the prospects for the future.

code of a will was continue. his wrist ministry is classed with demonstrators in the gaza strip as thousands of palestinians begin six weeks of protests gored by the militant group hamas the palestinian head ministry says at least seven palestinians have been killed and hundreds injured. this could be the beginning of weeks of tensions in the palestinian territories the first clashes erupted soon after thousands of palestinians started building tent cities on the gaza side of the border to israel. there marking a number of historic events the creation of israel and the expulsion of palestinians in one nine hundred forty eight. the deaths of six arab israeli demonstrators in one nine hundred seventy six and the scheduled opening of the us embassy in jerusalem in may. israel has doubled its military presence on the border

similar protests in recent months led to clashes that caused multiple deaths israel called the protest a dangerous provocation and said that hamas would bear the responsibility for any violence. the first casualty came even before the protests got underway israel's military said soldiers opened fire on two men who approached the border and acted suspiciously during the night one man was killed and another wounded the slain man's brother said he was a farmer. who know little man that. he went there every day to pick pursley in the morning. if it's anything but seems so he's been working there for six or seven years she thought but nothing ever happened to him when the jews started shooting. what happened this time i do not know. hamas has dubbed the protests the great march of return and says they will culminate on may fifteenth

with a march across the border to break the siege and the cause of blockade israel has warned that it will defend the border more bloodshed and sorrow seem inevitable. joining me now live is a middle east correspondent on extremely study what half a kilometer from the israeli side of the border tell me of bring us up to date with the latest situation. yeah we are here a couple of hundred meters from the border with gaza you know on the israeli side behind us is a closed military zone israel has been very worried about these protests they have said you know hamas is for sponsible for any attempt to preach the border here that's why they have brought in more heavy you know tanks and also sharpshooters all around i mean the port is always see it and closed but this is a very special. case today here we can hear some of the ambulances on the other side and we also understand that the casualties have been rising over the

past hour or so with also several hundred people injured and that is according to figures that we're getting from the palestinian health menace ministry that these filters are part of the march of return tell us about what's planned and what what's its aim. well from what we understand the organizers very recently a grassroots organization young people in gaza who wanted to highlight the plight of refugees in gaza but also around you know the palestinian refugees i have to say but also the situation in gaza which has been closed off for over ten years now to highlight the difficult situation people cannot travel restrictions of movement there. the this march of return is just the beginning of a months long planned marches and protests in the gaza strip but also

possibly later across the west bank that's at least what the organizers hope now they're supported by all the political factions but also especially by hamas who is controlling the gaza strip and that's why is was saying this is an hamas organized and they are responsible who's coming close to the border and that's why we're also seeing that whoever comes close to the border there's a buffer zone will be sought that's why we see this number of casualties as well and why do you given the tensions that down there why did the israeli army decide to use live ammunition beef if you can. we have seen such protests already in the past ever since and u.s. decided to to move the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem to have been protests here at the gaza border and that's also one of the reasons this part of returned a certain place and we seen during those protests that israeli army has used life as well as the protesters while in the occupied west bank they say they cannot

tolerate any preach of the border and that's why they using light on the mission here as well in addition to other means against the protesters each of these middle east correspondent on a train my thank you very much for that live update. today not to moscow which has begun a wave of diplomatic expulsions in the standoff over the poisoning of the former a russian double agent a deal to russia kicked out sixty u.s. diplomats and closed the u.s. consulate in st petersburg it's someone ambassadors from the other countries that expelled russian diplomats earlier this week is the latest chapter in the raw over the poisoning of the double agent said against his daughter junia and britain many western countries who are russia responsible but moscow has denied any involvement . a revolving door at the russian foreign ministry ambassadors from the west came and went as moscow inform them who'd be leaving the country at short notice russia is retaliating for the west record ejection of russian diplomats

early this week but western envoys say the spot is russia's fault. every boy writes as if it's the. kind of weapon. i think that the spread. of. russia says it's only responding to the egyptian of more than one hundred thirty russian representatives this quake create a sort of curtain of social crisis everything will also be reciprocal in terms of the number of people from that diplomatic missions who will be leaving russia because that's the source that was able with each to see and that is all for now just look at a park or sixty american diplomats are among those being kicked out of russia and historic some pages but consulate is being closed down stuff again heisley packing up the mission which was opened in the i ten century. but washington true is on ballard refusing to accept blame for this low in russian american relations it says

russia has violated international law in this great power crisis. russia is responsible for that horrific attack attack on the british citizen and his daughter once again they have broken the chemical weapons convention it was a banned substance that they have used no but shock we take this matter very seriously former russian agents a great script and his daughter yulia were found slumped on a park bench in the city of souls brain early march poisoned britain believes moscow tried to kill the pan. scrip our minds in a critical condition in hospital with the yulia is conscious and talking according to doctors russia did not any involvement in the case and wants access to yulia. we are witnessing the engines of russian representatives accessing injured russian citizens that are actually what i see is congressionally the question now is

whether this crisis will move beyond tit for tat measures. and for more let's bring in constantine a fallen eggers he's a commentator standing by for us in moscow constantine russia cause this a reciprocal move does this still the diplomatic equilibrium then or should we expect full of the punitive measure this. well i think it didn't because what we've heard from the united states is that they consider the russian move to be completely unjustified and they expect more scope to repent and admit to involvement in the in discreet. says for i sat tempted to cessation and then i said they considering further measures and that is really interesting because first of all that's definitely the first time in my life span that we've seen such a massive diplomatic row concerning russia nothing like that ever happened even

with the saddam hussein or the kim dynasty and secondly it seems that americans are ready to respond to russian response which may mean more expulsions which may mean closing down for example the houston consulates russia has a consulate in texas and also what we've seen and i'm still russia didn't respond to that from the first of april are t. russian states foreign propaganda channel he's going to be closed down in washington and the surrounding area i mean providers were given notice to switch it off russia did not respond to that what i expect is that probably c.n.n. which is in the quite a few cable packages here will be also switched off i mean providers will be will be told by the russian state that they have to quit broke the rebroadcasting c.n.n. so this story isn't over definitely and i'm judging by the turn of western

politicians it seems we'll have more confrontation that means that russia will respond and we must go as me had notified is demanding access to you have the daughter of said she is reported to be conscious i'm talking what do you make of that before you can constantine. well i think that russia is up basically claiming that they have nothing to do that so yes if they don't then as russia is as a us good body as it is it is a russian citizen she should have consular assistance question is whether she wants it but i think that this will and that's the last thing you can say i think that this crisis will be taken to the next level after we have here we hear from the international chemical weapons mission organization in the hague where that presents its assessment of the case and its analysis of the alleged. stuff with which this group was one point right constantine fun i guess in moscow thank you

very much. and. it's now been yup and if it's about the stories making news around the blood nian man has sworn in its new president when it comes as the country marks two years of civilian rule myint a kills and i have defacto lead on sense and she stressed the need to respect the rule of the media during his inauguration speech. in thailand at least twenty people were killed when a boss caught fire and veered off the road that they thought was on its way from the man mob border to bangkok when it burst into flames one with all those on board the bus well mike than twelve because. u.s. president donald trump said american forces should be coming out of syria very soon speaking to industrial workers in the state of ohio trump lamented what he said was washington's waste of trillions of dollars in middle east and more this. he was indeed every day is coming up ahead times are changing in saudi arabia country runs

builders not the world's most conservative but now its leadership wants to modernize this funny for chalk talk to ordinary saudis about their country's future . but first joins me for a business is the dutch government has announced it's slowly turning off the taps in one of the was largest natural gas reserves that's right a reserve that comes after a series of small but still damaging earthquakes in the area were caused by the gas exploration the switch off of such a large field is a big project in any way but a few things make matters more complicated lucrative groningen gas field is europe's biggest and the government has long term contracts to sell groningen gas to neighboring countries but that's not all a staggering ninety percent of dutch homes use the gas from that field. what the groningen gas field is going going gone. or at least on its way out the

plan for now is to scale down current production of twenty one point five billion cubic meters to twelve billion but the long term goal is to shut it down entirely by twenty thirty. but the ordeal was active judgment was out it's really not savings even at the level of twelve billion cubic meters production there as the low level tremors that caused damage upon homes schools and farms the gas field has been operating for more than five decades its closure will involve major efforts to keep supply covered this includes a five hundred million euro gas generation plant as well as a campaign to promote more electricity use in dutch households. the government in cyprus said today that it's ready to support the sale of the islands and other nations co-operative bank that is growing out of bad loans to private investors ironically this announcement comes on the two hundredth birthday of. the man who

founded the co-operative movement in germany with a particular form of rural cooperatives it was a time when german farmers were fighting poverty as well as loan shocks fisons co-operative banking model has since spread to many other industries and it's still functioning today. these two families members of germany's oldest corporative in one thousand nine hundred eighty their forefathers banded together and started a cooperative that built and operated a flour mill one farmer could not have done it alone. in the grain from our region the all mountains is very coarse it was difficult to sell to nearby dresden there was very little profit so they said we need our own mill so we can process the grain and then we can make the bread as well. as for. the mill and the bakery have ensured a thriving business for the farmers for many years now some seventeen businesses and now part of this successful cooperative. the idea of the cooperative goes back

to free trade vilhelm hif. in the mid nineteenth century he promoted as a way of overcoming the poverty faced by farmers in his region festival. since then the idea has spread to other parts of the economy new industries like sustainable energy have also adopted the model for most cooperative work on a majority wombs basis all members can have their say regardless of their stake. in the continent both are small when decisions have to be made to get everyone's opinion has equal weight. that applies to the world's largest co-operative mondragon in spain it has around seventy five thousand members eighty percent of whom it joint owners as with any business cooperatives like monder gone can suffer in times of crisis but because all members have an equal say they usually avoid mess layoffs this is. still

a private company it has to be profitable but the number one goal is always to support the members so there are always two sets of objectives to consider economic objectives and social ones. to co-ops it's not just. about the bottom line and maybe that's why they often outlast private companies that are generally profit driven. it's still a good idea if you're planning on taking an easter holiday vacation with air france be patient and be ready to look for alternatives every fourth france flight has been canceled today the reason several trade unions have walked out pilots flight attendants and other personnel are demanding a six percent pay increase management is only offering one percent the strike affects the two largest airports in paris and other major french cities half of air france flights from nice for example have been counseled media most flights are being hit hardest but many of the long haul and short haul routes are affected too

passengers could change their journey free of charge if possible. that's all your business for the moment dr meter thank you very much care what the saudi arabia is the known as not the ones most conservative countries things may be changing though the reason or a food prices have hit the oil rich kingdom haad crown prince mohammed bin cell man has unveiled an ambitious program of reforms known as vision a twenty thirty it's aimed at transforming the kingdom's economy these reforms include diversifying the economy and reducing its dependence on oil and creating new jobs and making the country less reliant on foreign workers and saudi arabia also want to attract more foreign investment it has also taken steps towards social reform it's made a start by lifting some of the very oppressive restrictions on women for example

a driving ban on women will finally be lifted later this year on the border funny for china has been in saudi arabia looking at what this vision for the future really means for the country she joins me in just a moment but first let's have a look at her report. it's a small but significant change many women these days where they're a boy is the news even in the react saudi arabia's ultra conservative capital it's all connected to one and vicious agenda you will see plenty of billboards like this one portraying a young and dynamic. prince mohammed bin psalm on now he was three brand the image of the country as an open and modern kingdom but the question is will the population accept changes and wage and from top down. the majority of the population is young most of them are nothing more than religious extremists began

to enforce restrictions on the country tame and soccer is accepted and these teenagers want me to join them but they are not yet willing to accept everything women can play soccer they tell me. i have to wear a headscarf. and his friends tells us. so because you know the culture in saudi arabia driving is only for men. not here in the desert it's not that women have come here not far from riyadh to learn to drive for them change can not happen fast enough they are hungry to get behind the wheel in every respect. you want freedom for women it and normal life it begins with driving but a lot will have to follow. in saudi arabia is divided over how much to change

and how soon the country is at a crossroads i mean. she became known as the woman who resisted the driving ban in the ninety's is more change in the way she sighs. but however it isn't about the soccer or isn't really about just women for. i think it is the impact it has in our core value and the change that comes with it and then this social structure change with with the structure of the family. psychologist her patients tell her about all the sudden changes impact family. within this transition period we're seeing the young adults are actually negotiating with their parents have a male or female if it was a female she's negotiating whether she wants to unveil her face negotiating whether she needs to take

a particular job that has men and women working together or even travelling so there's a lot of negotiation within the family how much change becomes acceptable doesn't only differ between families but also between cities things are moving faster in general than rio is a multicultural most music concerts take place here people are still has a tent. to. adapt and change directives from the top down takes time. to portland funny such as she now john joins me live from saudi arabia it's funny no you didn't saudi arabia for a few weeks' time what's impression is the country really opening up or is it just v. branding at south. america apart from the really visible changes that you've also seen industry for the people we're going to overjoyed by the pure fact something as

simple as going behind the wheel and b. and to drive very to want to go to a concert etc what i find most interesting is even revealing here a little bit about the first that's the first time the social change that people are willing to debate is willing to debate on and off camera as well of course whether for example a shop should remain on. when during prayer time for customers or whether in a restaurant they should end the segregation between men and women so far you have the family section and you have the single section for men only three don't have debates going on but what it comes to the question really is just how much the country's going to open up it's really hard to answer because this is a protest a process that has just started and is so dependent on the individual choice but also of course on the willingness of male relatives within the family to give up control when he's conscious a decision making of kenya and the reforms affect women for example you talk about the fact that women will be allowed to drive by the end of the as something you and

i take for granted but this so many restrictions which remain so how see our women in saudi arabia. it really depends on who you ask and what kind of a social all family framing they have i've spoken to females i've spoken to women who said we can't wait to change to happen soon enough in fact some said i'm ready to end the greatest country to finally be able to show my kids to in public which is not possible yet something really add as as normal in other parts of the roles when cops for example the job situation some women said we like the fact that we can now answer different rock feel that this is possible there and we can even do something as being a receptionist and do even local jobs and that they're deemed in more or not decent for women ever at the same time there's a lot of concern expressed by ramin that not everybody's going to enjoy being right as a woman depending on that guardianship rule that is killing play zeid funny for children

to live in saudi arabia thank you very much for that. what is the secret of a lifelong romance a new german documentary film is trying to answer that question the not their nest all night of nights features full couples from around the world whose relationships have endured for more than five decades the event along to the film where it's a film about the secret to a lifetime of happiness and love featuring four couples who've been together for over fifty years the film puts big love experiences center stage. i've always been lucky just like with card games. where the film reveals the strains and low points of married life the japanese couple's marriage was arranged for them patience and understanding were the key. both used to talk a lot and often but grandpa here conscious so well anymore it's too much of an

effort for me to converse with him. and. yes we talk less but no i hear fewer of the bad things. the nights of nights as an intimate film about relationships stemming from another era it's directors wanted to find out the secret to keeping relationships in life over fifty years. all of the couples seem to use humor to resolve conflicts. conflicted ahmed's losing one. we squabble but at night we fall asleep together that we can recognize ourselves in the nights of nights the message love can overcome. you're watching the dad news coming up ahead cedar leon holds its presidential runoff tomorrow a vote that was delayed after allegations of fraud in the fun strong did obvious

i've been clean for the candidates ahead of the closely watched. that and much more coming up shortly i was indeed other news coming to you live from london supposed to have stayed with us. mark catholic architecture. one of the world's cultural treasures. the never ending construction site. for tourists. and it cologne cathedral joining us as we explore the history of this imposing house of worship. cologne cathedral. in forty five minutes on d w. yeah i do

nashville and i think one day this war will be considered cruel and unjust war where he certainly all citizens of ukraine every man woman and child will be friend their homeland if the enemy invades. no one wants russia here which is the. rebel against the mighty google news that matters. b.t.w. made for mines. hijacking the news. where i go wrong with the news being hijacked journalism it still has become a script is reality show it's not just good versus evil well it's forces that's why and why. in countries like russia china church people are told it and if you're a journalist fear and you try to get beyond it you are facing scare tactics intimidation. and i wonder is that we're work harder these were. my

responsibility as a journalist is to get beyond the smoke and mirrors it's not just about the prayer or being neutral it's about being. funny was cordoned off and i were. you watching the news coming to you live from above and i'm. on top stories clashes between the israeli military and found as timmins have erupted in gaza thousands of demonstrators supporting the militant group hamas were met with israeli gunfire at the border goes all fish and see if you seven palestinians have been killed and hundreds in shed. and foreign ambassadors have been summoned to the russian foreign ministry as moscow's toss a wave of explosions is the latest in the standoff over the poisoning of the former

russian double agent at his doorstep in britain. china's defunct spacelab one is set to plunge back to earth this weekend the ten metre long space station is believed to be out of control and it's unclear where. the space agency says most of the space lab will burn up on reentry and is unlikely to cause . any damage. has been all that since two thousand and eleven. joining me now from the european space agency. is the director gendron villain at this event first a big thing tell us about this town gong one so young come one is a space station which is all waiting in the earth's and usually that's the usual case if these stations are low enough in orbit then they are always a little bit decelerated by the atmosphere and in this case calculated that it will

come down on sunday and by that of course it's a little bit of movie and that's it because we can this still controlled entry now for that for a limb and this sounds quite dangerous you know uncontrolled means that we have no link and that's at least what we have also as an information from the chinese to control it any longer that means it is operating and as it is decelerated we don't know exactly when it will be entered into atmosphere if we do a controlled bolt re entry which we do regularly was old satellites right and then we define very clearly where to where there should be and we enter into the atmosphere and ratcheted the earth but in this case we don't know and as i said we expect reentry on sunday at noon but with variation because we don't know exactly what the atmosphere looks like according to the sun of the next

days and therefore we don't know exactly redbull come down i mean an object which is about ten needs is long weighing or listen it's tons is falling towards earth i would divide how i want to die you. so first of all i can say for a lot of people on earth there is no danger at all because young bone is beating in an inclination way as we say of forty two degrees that means it will not go for instance to berlin but it will it may hit this hasn't part of europe it may hit all the as a sudden and then that even in. africa is part of it but as we know there's a lot of water in between in the oceans so there is also some probability that it will fall down and not just in the ocean and we don't recognize it but they say of course there is also some from the calculation point of view or some per probability that a force on solid ground that it hits or so some people it is possible we cannot

exclude that one the chinese authorities say that you know they are saying that that would be a splendid show when the debris come down because it's like a meteor shot is that how you see it that would be as you would see it and most of that we expect we don't know exactly the construction of young no one but most of the aluminum and we can attack metals and they will burn up when we enter into the atmosphere but that might be a fraction which is hitting the surface of the earth so it is like a meter and that's a good comparison. to the director general john of in off the european space agency e.s.a. thank you very much for joining us from paris. best specially the barking sixty three year of exile in india it was a march nine hundred fifty nine when he made the arduous journey across the himalayas from tibet into india he felt the tibetan capital loss after

a fierce uprising against chinese rule nine years after beijing have taken control of the region the law was given refuge by india along with thousands of his followers this set up a provisional government in exile in the northern city of. there now some one hundred thousand tibetans living in india but commemorations in that i'm sorry i have been muted allegedly because of pressure from beijing this summer follicle sent us this report. in the foothills of the him in northern india to putin's wait for a glimpse of the revered leader the dalai lama. it is but he surpassed by here shortly. the. peace laureate has lived here in the town of. nearly six decades ever since india granted him asylum. in one nine hundred fifty china invaded been independent a bit following the field and the chinese uprising in one thousand fifty nine that

was forced to please balance. and cross the himalayas and foot. here in india and set up a government. he's been advocating autonomy for tibet but china considers him a separatist threat. tibet and its monasteries remain under the tight control of the chinese government possessing pictures of the line or his writings is illegal. in. the diaspora has transformed the area into a mini tibet the town draws visitors and followers of the lama from all over the world. all but china remains unhappy and opposes countries that support the tibetan legal been the lamas presence in india periodic aggravates border tensions and inflames diplomatic spats between the two asian giants the calm in this a million town has been marred by political controversy in recent weeks the indian government has advised that officials to stay away from events commemorating the

valid sixtieth year in exile in india to avoid angering china at a time of rising tensions as a result the tibetan exile government has cancelled a high profile event for the lama in delhi which indian politicians were meant to attend officials insist the latest controversy is a mite a hiccup that won't affect india's welcoming attitude towards the tibetan communities if at all the tibet cause is a life. of myself flourishing icon it's thanks to india and a small. political decision which i call it a temporary face in political diplomacy where not undo six decades of. rooted bornemann ties but on the streets of that this anger about what some see as china's bullying of the

indian government if you listen to china ones then they are going to tell you next time you can't do this do that janice china has become so powerful trading with the whole world they have a lot of economic clout as tibetans that does scare us. in a makeshift studio. along with his brain dumps animated films into to britain a lot of the refugees like him continuing chinese repression in tibet and the long years in exile have made questions of identity all the more important. to the he's at his old school in that. ideally we arrived as an orphan from tibet and egypt said. the children are treated to one of the films. they really get a chance to watch cartoons or to put a. big hit the what are your isn't just about preserving to put an identity

it's the very survival of the community. what i feel is like what will happen if there's not a. bit but. from what we're going to happen to the tibetan you next time. kind of of road the questions loom large as mick moderns family head to the temple in the evening for decades that the lama has been the best known galvanizing force behind the tibetan cause life without him seems unthinkable. with that support of people in the west african nation of syria leone are heading to the post tomorrow in a closely watched presidential runoff the vote was pushed back after course challenge of a fraud allegations in the first round earlier this month similarly and fragile return to democracy after a civil war was tested by a devastating a boiler outbreak back in two thousand and fourteen with a close election race predicted many people are hoping for a peaceful outcome our west africa correspondent arjun krishna reports from the

capital freetown. i mean yes you know what for the past four weeks early ninety three children have become used to make shift outdoor lessons like this one a series of elections run offs and delays have meant that many of freetown schools are currently closed so. deal with all. i was well it's very annoying and. he attacks me because for the second time to have paid our monos we have fees on the at the only way one on half so it's close them. to full yes done that we are full you did not fall for the with the. said on tuesday the national electoral commission announced voting would now have to wait until saturday the

delay has taken its toll on businesses too in freetown many have shut up shop for the election despite all criticism off the electoral process and the delays in sierra leone the majority of registered voters is expected to go to the polls on saturday and the country can look forward to a neck and neck race the opposition candidate. came in slightly ahead in the first round of voting and his supporters remain optimistic. not that. i'm going to support that because he's a right man this country has a limit just got to look at the will of god briefly took power during a military coup back in the one nine hundred ninety s. now as a democratically elected president he wants to kick start the economy as well as fight corruption there would be. this fund want to know the laws of

corruption first. of the laws of this country to be to different political we have to make sure that people are prosecutors irrespective of. the party of president ernest koroma has been at the helm for ten years as a second term in office comes to an end he has selected former foreign minister some as. com are rejects any accusation of widespread corruption in the country even though the nation's auditor general announced millions of dollars had disappeared during the abel outbreak. is the most suitable. and i think all of this was. but it was not clear where the money is going i mean we're not talking about little romance it's fourteen million it was not a huge amount of money while i was killing people but more than one hundred. and therefore those who. choose it was difficult to get through because it was not as

it was stolen it is that it helped to was the fight against. meanwhile is hoping that the elections go peacefully and despite all their feelings of frustration she is determined to vote on saturday after all this is about her children's future. he was in need of news coming up ahead award winning still take a model daughter is known for his pill geometrical style an extraordinary church in montana designed his first house when he was only sixteen this weekend he turns seventy five look at the man and his pension from the desk. ok now it's over to get have business use it another setback for tesla found it on musk that's right because tesla is recalling one hundred twenty three thousand of its model vehicles worldwide making it the company's biggest recall ever affected

our model s. cars built before april twenty sixth the problem. rusting bolts and power steering units the company says those bolts need to be replaced in a retrofit that will take just one hour. drop three and a half percent on the news. you know if you've ever been to cuba you probably have paid for goods and services in convertible passes but that is not the can see the locals use for the same goods they pay in regular cuban pestles president raul castro wants now to phase out the two currency system and that's causing panic him or many of his people. the run on local currency exchange places called kartik us was so strong cuban t.v. saw the need to broadcast an official bulletin from the central bank and all through two more years in the last few days a number of people seeking to change the new season took

a source at bank offices and the take us has risen this is due to the false information that in the next few days this new scene will be withdrawn from circulation as part of the monetary unification. part of google official go on if you got your monica the government says the see you see the convertible currency commonly used by tourists on the island is here to stay for now anyway but back in december cuban president whole kustra said he wanted to see the convertible currency become history castro will step down as president on april nineteenth and many cubans feared he would abolish the currency before leaving office. following two years of decline the art market grew rapidly last year this year it looks even more appealing as investors seek shelter from recent volatility on capital markets now hong kong as embracing its newfound role as a global art hub within the first hour of this week's other basel fair in hong kong

a piece by a dutch born american artist villain the coning sold for thirty five million dollars and chinese artists are far behind. chinese bias probably wouldn't have had much interest in this painting by up and coming artist when dan in the past the dis here who work touch wood communion is gathering a lot of attention. in their first few years i felt that they are very excited and they are so poor hungry in collecting so they would be coming up to us and wanting to collect right away certain pieces if they felt they were that they love it but over the years i've seen more and more of our educated behavior china has become the world's second biggest market after the u.s. in the past year chinese buyers have spent thirteen point two billion dollars on paintings sculptures and other rot that's up fourteen percent on the previous year

. that's creating a windfall for sounds like eccentric on-call nationalist fro kwok who is selling his hand painted calligraphy he. when i first started a lot of people just came to take photos now the end thinking of it as an investment and that is a good development. call. visit is also to have the opportunity to become an artwork themselves anyone can pose either as a consumer reduce to their purse. or is too interconnected fool says keeping a book from falling this piece is kooky in india proving that you don't have to be a wealthy guy to get your fifteen minutes of fame and. now operator has a truly inspiring sports story that's right guests stick around and have

a listen now when the fly weight boxer. suffered debilitating heart failure she was left fighting for her life but today just eighteen months after a successful heart transplant sheets. back into the boxing ring for one final sendoff. there's something special about. the moroccan born french woman twice fought for the flyweight world title while at the same time making a living as a self-made fashion designer. now at the age of forty six she's making a comeback but most incredibly she's getting back in the ring after a heart transplant. to him i'm just doing what i can at the moment each step is a victory over my disease it's massive. i'm not thinking about my opponent to be honest i'm going to work hard but my victory isn't over my opponent because my real

opponent is the disease. eighteen months ago i had an acute case of bronchitis which triggered heart failure that forced her to undergo a heart transplant. i had to learn the basics all over again because i had no more cardio no more breath i had no more insurance i had lost a lot of muscle mass so i had to work on everything with circuit training to build up the density again to get that insurance back and then there were the blisters i suffered a lot there too. but i was the zone was determined to turn the page she wanted to be at one with her new heart and return to normal life which for her means a return to the ring. i was afraid of a lot of things of not being able to lead a normal life full stop. my recovery wasn't easy because i could no longer speak or walk so the road was tough today it's just fantastic.

after friday. to hang up her clothes but she's keen to compete one last round the result doesn't matter she's already won the fight of her life. credible courage knowledge of the swiss architect of madea botha he's the defining force of modern architecture in a curious spending nearly sixty years he's designed dozens of projects all over the world ranging from detached houses to spas and because he grins a new exit mission of his work has opened in switzerland on the first of april he did seventy five can have shifted from a desk is here to talk about welcome again why is a. special well you know a lot of architects can say that they were inspired by the masters of the modern movement is one of the lucky few who actually had the privilege of learning

directly from the master so he studied in venice under. one of the great italian architects and he. mentored by the likes of nick and the americans are protected and we can so he was able to very much experiment with their approaches and with their methods and yet developed his own approach in terms of turning a social history of a place into a physical structure and such that in architectural circles he's really considered to be quite unique in his own right so let's have a quick look at the kinds of things. who would have thought that a church could look like a meter long viaduct leads to the round chapel a building like an amphitheater. just as unusual the church of sun falter in the italian city of turin. and the cathedral of if the near paris. an overview of potus designs is currently on x.

a bit in the car no sweat some land. near to the pattern we couldn't see the architect just speaks to us through its silence he prays the no prayer in these sacred spaces of silence have a very expressive power. they embody the idea of gravity the idea of light the form of transition but. these are the very principles of architecture he told me. mario bot has set an example in the mountain village of manju in the ninety's and the avalanche had buried the village and nine hundred eighty six but designed the modern chapel of sun giovani but to start. the church has a decorative chessboard pattern and is a site for visitors far beyond the reach and the marble and granite come from the nearby patchy our valley.

a few that they seem to take care is always in dialogue with the landscape. the architecture is never auto referential like a sculpture. but it was alongst to the geographical location but also to its culture and the history of the place i mean more near the last week when. it's as creative as f.r. today he's working on a mosque in china on the. with mongolia and a christian church and south korea. at seventy five is far from his design plans to rest. in peace is a ship like. an awful lot of churches they are some of his best known works and the

exhibition as we saw is about his sacred spaces but he's also branched out into all of the world religions for instance with the mosque in china but also for instance he did. synagogue. have a look at that because that's using his very signature red brick and. he's a big fan of very strong geometric forms. and yet he also transitions very secular buildings one of his most famous the san francisco museum of modern art here you can see starkly with the vertical surroundings. other truncated cylinder there that emulates and i the. more natural form. openness to the surrounding nature is. another. restaurant.

did begin very early that was a family house. and i mean growing up in the mountains he says he established sort of this relationship of architecture with the natural surroundings very very early and he says houses are very much a fundamental part of his training because i think we've got to get to the end but he's always had that dialogue going on between spaces for humans and the natural surroundings very impressive man we have. come to this story. thank you very much that's it for me on the thought she must feel again astounding might he have the news for you in just a few minutes to say the news if you can come back on. the tube. to. the for.

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