live from bergland out on bail catalonia separatist leader walks free from a german jail it's a conditional release for carlos pushed him on the court refused to extradite him to spain for rebellion but could still hand him over two hundred on a lesser charge also coming up showdown at the gaza border israeli troops began using live fire on palestinian protesters before say that at least two people have been telling. and a stiff punishment for south korea's former president park geun pagan sentenced to

twenty four years in prison for corruption her dramatic fall from grace has gripped the nation for mom. plus a most wanted man of course in brazil say that former president knew of this bill but will do a court order to hand himself in to police that's after the supreme court has begun to delay a twelve year jail sentence for corruption. and a book beloved around the world turns seventy five celebrating the little prince and its place in the readers' hearts. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program. had to land separatist leader cardless pushed him on has been released from a german jail crossed. ordered his release after he met

a bail fee of seventy five thousand euros pushed him on had been held on a european arrest warrant issued by spain which called for his extradition on charges of rebellion and misuse of public funds yesterday a german court ruled against extraditing him on a rebellion charges. he has bailed pending a court decision on whether to extradite him on the second lesser charge and here is what he had to say to reporters on his release a short while ago have a listen. i climb for the immediate release for all of my colleagues still in the spanish prisons it's a shame for europe to have prisoners. i always thrust in european democracy based on the will of the people separation of powers peace and human rights that's kind of the more chrissy. space. for more let's bring

indeed up against political correspondent simon young to break down what exactly has been said here so i mean jail does not have a it does not appear to adapt and his spirit i mean a pretty defiant message that he is that he's issued there where does he go from here simon first of all no way because he has been told that he has to stay in germany and near enough to the court that he can present himself there if the court wants to speak to him because of course the extradition proceedings are still continuing as you mentioned they've thrown out the idea that he could be extradited to spain on rebellion they say there is no equivalent potential charge in the german law but the. question of the misuse of public funds in order to finance that controversial referendum on catalonia independence last year that that charge remains and is equivalent to something on the german laws that are going to be looking at that it could take a few days even to bring that into the cools and. the

extradition has to happen within sixty days but there's a long way for mr bush to mount to go he could still appeal if he is told that he has to go to spain he could appeal up to the german constitutional court and even to the european court so there's some way for this thing to run yes ok so extradition still on the table apparently he has to stay in germany to know where in germany he will be we don't know that yet he was hold a press conference. lights had to die but mr who just a moment spokesman says that he's now canceled that so we don't know when the details of that will emerge but i imagine he'll have to stay as i said somewhere where he can report to police and make himself available for this call to rights in the north of germany where does all of this leave germany in terms of its relations with spain who really wants him back that's right well germany berlin has been a little bit troubled by this whole proceedings so far in the over the months of

this story with their covers perched mont berlin this tended to back the madrid line and say that you know madrid's spain's procedures must be followed just spain's judicial process must be followed and today the government spokeswoman was very well you know this has never been a matter for the government it's all it's a purely legal question and they're sort of keeping their distance from it i think they're a bit relieved in the sense that they've cleared up one point from this to put it to most least in the short term he can't be tried in spain for rebellion and that is the really troubling one for him because that is a choice that could have put him behind bars in spain if convicted for four decades or so a bit of a victory of then for him and ethics in that regard we know that the independence referendum that he spearheaded that it really polarized catalonia he saw some of those deep refs coming out in the region to know how cattle lands are reacting to

this ruling now today whether i've seen a little bit of reaction. on the web you know with people saying you know they were surprised frankly by this ruling by the court and i think that's true of a lot of people in germany as well that weren't expecting quite as clear cut a case and relatively quickly but look obviously it's been welcomed by mr bush to months supporters the madrid government obviously sees it wrong the differently they said well they respect and accept this decision by the german court the justice minister also said you know some decisions by courts we prefer more than all of us so i think you can tell which kind faces simon young our political correspondent thank you. and let's get a quick check now of some other stories that have been making news around the world the trial of former south african president jacob zuma has been adjourned until june zuma is facing charges of corruption relating to

a two point five billion dollars arms deal the former leader was met by supporters as he left the durban courthouse where proceedings were held malaysia's prime minister has dissolved parliament ahead of elections expected to be held next month the polls are a major test for him rattles prime minister. who has to buy a multi-billion dollar corruption scandal. in britain a tax on sugary drinks has gone into effect as part of a national effort to improve people's health studies show that a majority of adults in the u.k. are either overweight or obese many drink makers have already reduced their sugar content ahead of the levees introduction. officials in gaza say that israeli fire has killed at least two palestinians during border protests today while dozens more have been wounded israeli soldiers are firing tear gas and live ammunition to try and prevent demonstrators from approaching the border fence today's march is the

second in several weeks of planned protest against a decade long israeli blockade of the gaza strip israel accuses the palestinians of using the protest as a cover for attacking the border last friday more than a dozen palestinians were killed when israeli soldiers opened fire now the u.n. says that it has seen indications israeli soldiers used excessive force against the palestinians last week and is now urging israel to show restraint in policing the green line fence israeli security forces are required by international human rights to respect the rights to peaceful assembly and expression to use to the extent possible nonviolent means to discharge their. standing by with the latest from gaza is tanya kramer who is actually at one of the flashpoints there today and tania what are you seeing. what we've seen all day are people coming here really people from all walks of life coming in the area so further down it's only

a couple of hundred meters. and a bit further up here my side is a small tent city two minded people you know this march of return of the plight of palestinian refugees some people have been coming and going here and people are still gathering in the border area there has been they have been burning tires some young people are also going close to the fence from what we understand and there has been tear gassed by foot in the last hour or so we heard here also sniper fire into this crowd down there and. and with these reports now of these chouf a tallit is what more can you tell us about what is driving the protest and the mood among those protesters now. well these protests started last week with. this whole idea of the protest the march

of return as it was called by young people on the social media but it has been taken over now the old political faction supported by all the. groups over here specially hamas is also called for coming to protest so one thing is to remind the would of the refugees nine hundred forty eight you have all kind of commemorations coming off now there is the foundation of the creation of the state of israel seventy years many and this these protests should go on until the fifteenth of may which is not bad day for the palestinians stick test of the when they have to to leave their lands at the same time. we know that people have been saying now the people i talked to what is much more important to them right now is to the world to understand that gaza has been closed for ten years and that's why they're all coming here to protest they say they want to protest here peacefully but of course in light of what happened last week and also today that many injured. at least on

this side it hasn't been that peaceful for the protesters ok and just to tell our viewers those pictures that you have been saying that we were just showing perhaps we can bring those back up we saw smoke billowing there it's very clear those tires being burnt looks like quite a scene there in gaza so tell us because israel says that it's defending its border the united nations urging restraint what is the latest word from the israeli government. well the israeli government has said all along that anybody who would come close to the defense and the buffer zone would be seen as a as a threat to israeli security israel is concerned that people might be trying to breach the fence i mean this is the worst case scenario for them that a lot of people would push against the fence we haven't seen a big movement of that there have been apparently some people trying to push in so

they're saying that. the rules of engagement are like that if you come close to the fence that is a threat to israel and that has been watching this but all along they're also saying that hamas is actually trying to use those protests. to to for their own means and that they have taken over those protests tanya kramer in gaza thank you. former spy surrogates cripple has emerged from a critical condition after the nerve agent attack on him and his daughter in the u.k. last month the russian embassy in britain tweeted the improvement was good news that russian officials took a very different tone at the u.n. security council yesterday they again denied involvement in the attack and threaten britain with reprisals should it persist in making accusations against moscow surrogate and you scream. for weeks the british government has accused russia of trying to kill them neither kremlin is using the u.n.

to go on the offensive we're going to move because we've told operatives colleagues you're playing with fire and you'll be sorry i don't think the british investigators are grateful to the british government for their hasty and unequivocal statements and conclusions. in a long and a place during speech moscow's envoy reached for alice in wonderland to argue that it was russia who were the victims of the sloppy rushed and dishonest blame game but with the normal course of the quantum sampson's first verdict afterwards britain's envoy dismissed him firing back with a passage of her own. there's a. very good quote from alice in wonderland this is sometimes i've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast so i think the quote that suits my russian colleague best it is the latest in

a diplomatic war of words this information claims and counterclaims that is showing no sign of letting up. early a russian broadcaster aired what it said was a telephone chat between you and her cousin in it she said she and her father were both recovering well. this was followed by news from seoul where this international poisoning scandal began police guarding the hospital beds of the former russian spy and his daughter issued a statement in her name. my strength is growing daily the entire episode is somewhat disorientating and i hope that you will respect my privacy. is not only a victim she is also a witness and her full recovery may yet prove vital in the search for the truth. and the diplomatic standoff between russia and the west is showing no signs of

abating we're just hearing that the u.s. has imposed fresh sanctions on russia and we will get more on that when we have it but first we're going to overtake erhard now who is joining us here in the studio with more news that's right world economic output is due to fall by one percent according to an e.c. b. official referring to the recent trade spat between the u.s. and china the official said world trade in goods could fall by up to three percent already in the first year after the chains in change and tariffs well g.d.p. could drop by up to one percent meanwhile donald trump has doubled down on a possible trade war with china the u.s. president has ordered the visuals to examine imposing an additional one hundred billion dollars worth of tariffs on chinese imports only hours before business leaders and of the us does around the world had welcomed signs of deescalation in the dispute is more. u.s. president trump proposed the latest terrorist in response to china levying tariffs

and u.s. cars and soybeans that was also in retaliation to an initial round of terrorist washings on put on chinese products critics warn that an all out trade war could hurt the u.s. farmers worried this is the one thing keeping an eye on what's happening out of washington what's happening with the markets that directly affects our lifestyle directly affects our pocketbooks and the way we plan for the following years are we gonna pay all the bills a share where are we going to buy a new piece of equipment. you know do you get your kids you know a couple new pairs of shoes more than half of us lojban exports go to china so for us farmers any escalation of this trade dispute means they'll while it's could be taking a direct hit but this is a spot that even the u.n. secretary general is watching closely you know first of all sort of was always the damage for those involved in the good war and for the international we're going to

be usable. we need to do in the international cooperation with it it is a problem that must be that will that must be to the citizens go through to overcome the problem so far there is no dialogue instead the tit for tat continues china's ministry of commerce has already announced counter measures saying it's ready to fight the u.s. at any cost. part of that is that china meanwhile house called on the european union for a unified response reacting to the threat of further punitive tariffs amounting to one hundred billion u.s. dollars beijing is announcing sweeping countermeasures and accuse the us of our guns and blatant offenses of international trade lol if the us continues down the path of trade protectionism china is for pat to see through to its conclusion the chinese trade minister said in beijing on friday. check how the markets are taking all this in bonds is standing by and frankly it's been a quite a boat

a coaster ride for investors this week no. it sure has it's an awful week and i think most people that i've talked to here are glad that the weekend is just about to start there's only a few more hours of trading left here in frankfurt it went down like a roller coaster at the beginning of the week and then right up again to the top yesterday and now losses again after a new round of tariffs has been announced but donald trump at least and people are aware of how damaging this could be you mentioned the one percent g.d.p. world decline that could be a result according to an e.c.v. official and people here see that too and it's amazing that at the end of the week the dax for example is clearly higher than at the beginning but to put it into perspective how damaging the mood or how damaged the mood is at the moment the levels here but on wall street as well are much lower than at the beginning of the

year will events in frankfurt thank you very much. the u.s. trade deficit has been widening lately even though u.s. exports were at an all time high among the products shipped overseas by the u.s. a cost these days the country's two big car makers are showing their latest models at the manila all the show where they meet competition not usually found at car shows in the western hemisphere. the whole thing is reminiscent of a striptease. and it's supposed to be the american carmaker once to seduce its buyers. i don't need to use it there are sixty convertible mustang that we have launched today chrysler is right next door showing off its s.u.v.s very comfortable during traffic jams in manila and dime there is also showing interest in the southeast asian market. the russian car and truck maker guns is at the manila auto show as well it's a new competitor here. how i hate him that he was

a valid three years to go home he goes to play step to do cry sometimes you need sound but if he's truly that. peaked cap for the movement was last year and now we already entering that market so this was a boy project things president did their thing president putin was relationship hell. politics obviously play a major role in the asian car industry the other factories of course. the sound of screeching tires. looks like a small business a bit later the chauffeur seren the keenly watched election they're heading to hungry now in fact they're hard where people are going to the polls in the national election this weekend prime minister viktor orbán one of europe's loudest opponents of allowing in migrants is seeking

a fourth term in power opinion polls show that his party has a comfortable lead but hungriest complex electoral system makes the outcome difficult to predict the the correspondent funny for char is in the hungry to cover sunday's parliamentary election for us she sent us this report from the capital budapest. hungary for hungary once the slogan mirrors the feelings of many feet as voters the governing party wallpapered the country to billboards like this. it's been two and a half years since the station behind me the kelty train station looks like this it was packed with stranded refugees and although hardly any has been granted asylum here in hungary since then it remains the main topic of the governing fitness party . its leader prime minister viktor orban talks of an invasion by muslims he's campaigning with a message hungary first. i want to know are refugees to biggest

concern of hungary and voters out of the elections when you go is a game i care about the health care system for example it's in ruins i mean many migrants wouldn't want to settle down here what's important to me is to make sure fi does doesn't win this election and i feel they're saying at the end. migrants there are very aggressive especially with women. we won't let that happen for you. we meet a young journalist who has another concern. so i thought most media are controlled by physicists there's lots of propaganda everywhere opposing liberal democratic voices receive less space. to be a reporter for the biggest leftwing paper. but it was shut down in twenty sixteen officially for economic reasons but former staff says its demise was the work of the government keen to silence

a critical voice. in why didn't i don't see any political party and hungry right now that could start and opposition parties are not working together the best we can to the outskirts of would have passed to meet with fittest supporters hungary first resonates well here. manager of an accountancy firm. he's patriotism is clear for everyone to see he has three kids the family are devout christians i met them back in twenty fifteen when the migration crisis was at its peak what's changed since then. without them when there aren't that many migrants because the policies work to keep them out they're not a work force the culture does not fit with ours and having them here doesn't help public safety because mr sharon and your theory agree that the issues such as corruption are problems in politics but he says they are nothing new for him the positives of a fetus government outweigh the negatives. we benefit greatly as

a big family and years ago utility costs started to decrease that's also good for us. opinion polls but fit is firmly in the lead some in the opposition would consider it a victory if they manage to deprive over two thirds majority in parliament all agree hungary is heading for a fateful election. and from our we want to bring in the author of that report very unfunny char who is standing by at the socialists closing rally in budapest right now welcome to you funny as we heard in your report there orbán is really strongly pushing an anti migrant message in the country but is this the most important issue to voters right now. the british or the migration policy so it is a very important issue having recently as they suggested in education the best education system a more competitive education system that's

a good system social topics this is a very important topics so people don't change if you look at political policy preferences people most like to believe that if you just party immigration was the number one topic and other other topics not cause that overseas hypertension high approaches as a topic number two what i find pretty striking this country have a talking to people from different sides is hope emotionally charged is a campaign that's been doing the past few weeks actually it was a lot of time that it coming into this campaign because apologies are coming to a little too greatly like this one and you just mentioned the socialist party alliance here behind me tell us a little bit more about their alliance what can you tell us about their campaign. to try to touch the topic immigration and. unlike other opposition parties i must be a socialist party to this nobody on the ticket with the umbria small of the center

left the other one to make different promises to construct the pensions highest salaries but also what's really important to them they say is to hide the corruption it's going to be up the cost so close to home much of the coverage this particular hot bunch of people come to the polls on sunday a lot of analysts actually say they have a chance if other opposition. policies united on the decision making sure that the districts because they can actually beat the few just party let's talk a little bit more about those chances funny because of course there's always the polls ahead of the polls the official polls over the weekend where people get away and you know orbán has been consistently ahead when it comes to those metrics but it seems the race may now be tighter than expected so what happened. is more dynamic of the since he. has won it would lead to my shop which

is a small town in the soul of the country i'm actually one of the this enormous for the very first time in many want to make this actually as an effort to spot it was a huge surprise to many including to defeat as a party that was give some dynamic into the campaign but also the fact that time is the big obama did live at the national day of march you did see that you will deal with those who posting today and also give some not here to the opposition that the reds actually there contrasted ballots on sunday. funny the char with the latest from budapest thank you funny. and we will have more on the hungary an election and the country strong economy but who should get the credit for it victor or bob or the european union erhard l first joins us again a little bit later in the show to talk more about that plus also coming up on g.w.

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once they start there's no stopping them. just starting april seventh on d w. welcome back you're watching news i'm sarah kelly in berlin our top stories catalonia separatist leader carlos bustamante has walked free from a german jail after posting bail the german court refused to extradite him to spain or valiant but could still hand him over to madrid on a lesser charge. twenty four years in prison a harsh sentence for south korea's impeached president. she was convicted on several counts of corruption park is the latest in

a string of south korean political and business leaders to face jail and disgrace a corruption scandal has divided the nation. after four years in power twenty four years in prison the judge said pacu harry had shown no remorse for her crimes including multiple charges of coercion bribery and abuse of power. south koreans watched the sentence handed down on live television for some it wasn't punishment enough. and it turns out that i had hoped that former president park would attend the hearing it's a shame she was sentenced to twenty four years in jail but i was expecting more but i think she deserves thirty years in jail. to disgraced former president of voided court claiming illness but chose to remain in the detention center where she's being held she has always denied the charges against her. it's been over a year since park was forced from office under

a wave of massive protests. the daughter of a former military dictator pock was impeached and convicted for causing major companies including samsung into giving tens of millions of dollars to charities controlled by a close friend and confidant. she was also found to have shared state secrets and misused her position to exact revenge on opponents. prizes sentence was handed down hundreds of poc supporters protested against what they see as a politically motivated conviction pocock an appeal against her imprisonment her lawyers say they expect an appeals court will deliver a more lenient sentence. and elsewhere brazil's former president luis inacio does silva has just hours left to turn himself into police or face forcible arrest sources from his party say that he does not plan to surrender voluntarily

luba is currently hold up with his supporters in a cell paulo suburb the supreme court has ordered him to begin serving a twelve year prison sentence for corruption even though the appeals process is not yet complete he's currently the front runner in the presidential election scheduled for october going to prison would likely put him out of the race for more let's go to south paulo where we are joined by journalist sam kawhi so sent to us i mean we're hearing that he's not going to hand himself over what is that likely to mean what happens next. well if you doesn't head himself over there is that the few benefits that he would receive in prison and would be taken away basically it was it was puts out in the media last nights in brazil that we received his own cell in the prison in korea cheever in the south of brazil and this this this privilege will be taken away it's understood now if he doesn't have himself and so

he hasn't so far i have a quote days ahead and so in so far he said that he wants and as you mentioned his supporters are gathering as a metal work because you needed him so it was a full much trade union worker during brazil's military dictatorship and was arrested then. and basically yes so he's holed up surrounded by his supporters and his defense team have submissives and requested the united nations to basically stop to block his arrest warrant was issued yesterday evening and i mean the point that he and his defense team make they say that you know the appeals process has not let yet played out so why would he bag turn himself in and already began serving this sentence how rare is it that one would do that in the legal system in brazil. well there well this is basically based off of a two thousand and sixteen ruling decided by the supreme court that all convicts

must begin that prison sentence off that appeal is rejected now this actually goes against brazil's constitution dictatorship nine hundred eighty eight constitution and this is the debate right now between these legal saying you know they're saying that these rights to a fair trial have be and the rights to the presumption of innocence have been violated by this ruling but it's also important to remember on the other side of things that while this seems like a very progressive. practice the right has basically to remain free and so we were being used is a bit of a you abused for years by very powerful and wealthy figures who can afford like you know legal teams while forty percent of brazil's prisoners who are you know poor actually languish in these terrible prisons without you know without i've even gone to trial so that's the dichotomy here sam tell us just briefly before we go what

does this ruling likely to mean for the election because he was planning on running yeah that's right he was planning and running and you know he leads the polls by a comfortable margin at the moment it means that he is out of the right. it's not the final decision the final decision will be decided by the electoral court and not the criminal justice courts on the eve of the elections and now it means that he's out of the race which opens up the race to a series of different candidates the leading candidate is in fact a very far right former army captain. yeah but we'll see it's it makes it a very unpredictable process thanks very much. paula thank you. well now donald trump may have started it but the war on so-called fake news is by no means limited to the united states across asia governments are moving

aggressively to clamp down on what they see as an onslaught of misinformation but a spate of new law proposals have sparked controversy and drawn fierce criticism from human rights organizations for more on that let's bring in frederica budget who's standing by with more on this story so tell us what exactly are these governments doing to fight so-called fake news well just this week malaysia has passed a new law that punishes whoever publishes or she has fake news which is defined as any news information data and reports which are wholly or partly falls and the bill sets out fines to approximately one hundred thousand euros and a maximum of six is in jails it covers news outlets online pages social media in malaysia but also abroad so it's your firm publication who publishes what they deem as fake news affecting a malaysian citizen you can also get in trouble. there was fierce resistance

against this bill in malaysia from the opposition also from journalists of course. just months surely ahead of malaysian elections in august many say that this is not a coincidence and they fear that the law is aimed at targeting critics of the current prime minister najib razak and malaysia is not the only one we've seen in indonesia the president has created a new agency to combat misinformation before regional elections this summer in the philippines president deterred to has been calling several media that were critical of him fake news and the country's considering new legislation that would impose prison terms of up to twenty years in singapore and there was an eighteen long. it's a long hearing the longest in the country's history after which a parliamentary committee has been put in charge of reviewing possible measures to

prevent what the government called the liberty online falshood and the committee's you to send out a report by me so this really is taking the shape of a tendency particularly in countries where elections will be held soon so frederica where does the truth lie and all of this i mean it is misinformation a really big problem in these countries or is it as you know you've alluded to here just being used as a tool to crack down on freedoms well i mean of course it's misinformation is and should that shouldn't be underestimated and we've seen for example in. social media has been used to spread hate speech to spread false information about the gems the minority which is dreadful consequences for them however it is also true that many of these countries already have regulations in place that can be used to tackle the problem and reporters without borders has been monitoring the situation on the ground very closely and earlier we spoke to the head of the asia pacific desk at

reporters without borders this is what he had to say. the biggest concern about these laws is that the. possibly be used to crush independent voices there is no definition of what is fake news everything that would displease these governments in a country where pluralism is not the rule then and now governments would be able to these kind of low to criminalize those leaders to get some subjects the government doesn't want to. so the point being it's a very vague concept so it's very easy for governments to manipulate it for their own in their own interest briefly federica what is all of this mean for press freedom well according to the upcoming press freedom index by reporters without borders all the countries in the south asia will rank lowered then countries like afghanistan for example and this is they give us two reasons for that and we can

listen to what they had to say about this one is the increase of china where the government runs everything and on the other hand you have donald trump's united states mostly donald trump. who's whose discourse about against journalists about this so-called free use you know is used abused is very likable nonstop for four governments in asia wants to crush press freedom so fake information obviously being a problem the instruments elevation of the battle against false information being a new big concern it is my own fredricka thank you. think you're watching news still to come on this program as part of the european year of cultural heritage hundreds of young performers from across the continent are converging on cologne for benjamin britten the monumental war requiem.

at forest gary hart is here with more on the hunt gary and election as promised. thank you very much sir yes those elections on sunday take place against the backdrop of a thriving economy domestic demand is strong private consumption is at its highest level in three and a half years that's have a look at the bigger picture shall we after hungry made a feeble recovery from the economic crisis in twenty ten g.d.p. growth began to pick up robust growth of over four percent return four years later that slowed somewhat in the next couple of years but once again growing full speed ahead last year as you can see at the end of the table and that's showing on the labor market as well the unemployment rate fell steadily throughout the decade from a dismal eleven point eight percent in two thousand and ten to just three point eight last year and that's a level that economists consider to be full employment prime minister viktor orban

this government of course is trying to take all the credit for an apparent booming economy but the truth is more complex as this report shows the people of jo had hoped for better from a new street lights here in the suburb of the hungarian capital budapest they were supposed to be replaced by early day lights but hundreds of the lamps were never installed millions of euros have been earmarked for street lighting upgrades in hungary in terms and cities mostly funded by the european union but the tendering process is controversial. prime minister viktor orban son in law is said to have been effectively handed dozens of contracts of investigations by news websites direct thirty six are anything to go by. i was worth the problem the problem in this case is that the conditions for the contracts were fixed in such a way that only the prime minister's son in law would be able to fulfill them you need to know that in hungary e.u.

funds are distributed by the government. hungary has a corruption problem the e.u. is anti fraud office known by its french acronym oluf has advised the e.u. to reclaim the forty million euros lighting subsidies from hungary the country has benefited greatly from it's a you membership only ten years ago it was almost bankrupt wages there stagnant e.u. funding has been the driving force behind its economic recovery by the end of twenty sixteen brussels the channeled a total of forty eight billion euros to hungary the country is one of the biggest net recipients of funding in the block the e.u. also subsidizes a lot of investment in hungary something which encourage german firms to locate there three of the country's four biggest companies are subsidiaries of audi bosh and. hungary uses the e.u. cash to give tax breaks to foreign investors which also boost the economy and creates jobs. earlier we asked europe expert and journalist nicole

cow part if hunger and prime minister viktor orban is right to claim all the credit for his country's robust economic growth here's what he said. well absolutely not i mean we have to say that hungary's economy is doing pretty well i would be foolish to not to that but we have to look at the situation as a whole ten years ago as we saw in the film right there. hungry is that g.d.p. growth was minus there was a recession and. now they're recovering and they have been recovering for a couple of years now so it's a good development in the sense that there is a healthy g.d.p. growth and victor audubon and his government really as we just saw also that they are managing to get foreign investment into the country while at the same time doing some protectionist policies as well i mean our went to the northern hungary and city of jordan recently and they're all very elated and very happy about having

the there it's really improved their city but at the same time of course is using all the e.u. funds to help his friends and his cronies. good bit of nepotism there and that's in the long run is not going to be very healthy for the hunger in the economy and that's all your business for now it's back to sara thank you so much there hard we are heading now to what has been described as one of the largest charity sell offs ever in the auction of peggy and david rockefeller their collection is expected to raise over half a billion dollars for selected charities those artworks have been collected by generations of rockefeller's one of the most wealthy american families ever now the rockefeller's made their fortune in oil and banking now there are collection is on display in beverly hills ahead of the auction. she used to adorn the walls of the late david rockefeller spry the library before that she'd only had one. collector

and write take a trip stein. picasso's the bill would flow about scott is perhaps the most famous artwork from the vast collection that will go under the hammer next month what's extraordinary is that this is the largest auction for charity in world history we think that will bring more than five hundred million dollars and the recipients are visual arts charities philanthropies universities science and vironment all in conservation interest. water lilies in bloom by claude monet is another highlight the auction house estimates its value to fifty million dollars there are also works by paul gauguin. diego rivera. edward hopper georgia o'keeffe and many more we're looking at a fraction of the collection there are fifteen hundred pieces being sold half online so those pieces are two hundred dollars five hundred dollars one thousand

dollars the collection is on display in los angeles following exhibitions in hong kong paris and london the works will go an auction at christie's in new york in may why missy is clearly only with the hard words of advice from a famous children's book celebrating its seventy fifth anniversary today the little prince by a french author first hit shelves on this day back in one nine hundred forty three it went on to become one of the world's most translated books and one of the bed time favorites also for enchanting generations of young readers. it's a global bestseller translated into hundreds of languages the little prince still captivates children and adults even after seventy five years. do you remember if you meant for. the fox asks the little prince to tame him or.

it's a story about friendship and trust and a philosophical fable about the human condition the power of imagination and the beauty of the world. what is really important to bob the power of the book is the link it creates between people on to wonder center exude perry was born in one thousand nine hundred and grew up in the south of france. in the one nine hundred twenty s. he became a pilot and writer essential theme aviation. it's a book about reconciliation and consolation that explains its success. the story of the little prince and of his creator doesn't have a happy end santa exhibit he set off on a flight in one thousand nine hundred four and never returned the prince also disappeared yet both are still with us. twenty eighteen is the year

of european cultural heritage this is an initiative from the european commission and there are hundreds of events and performances around the continent robin merrill is not going to see all of them but he certainly knows about many of them so tell us a little bit more about this and it's you know european commission yeah the idea is that cultural heritage if through various artistic events will unite bring is together and shows what we share as europeans i wish it had been a few years ago before the brics. but anyway one of the events performances of benjamin britten is war recreation now just i should mention this because of the title that you might think this is something that doesn't bring is together but the war requiem was of course and and he war peace. also require as a myriad of musicians and singers and in this case there are a young musicians who've come together for many different countries in the e.u.

. including a choir from england where it was first performed and we were at the final rehearsals for the first performance which is tonight in cola. that it. direct up to almost noise off seems benjamin britain's rejection of fool as an opportunity to unify. germany waged war against these countries in the first and second world war as those big ideas to create an experience of peace and reconciliation with the grandchildren and great grandchildren if those who took part in what was well well lost in the us of course on one machine and i'm pleased with the. for leaped.

the huge performance brings together musicians from across europe including an ensemble from the world's premier at coventry cathedral back in one nine hundred sixty two as well as the cathedrals girls choir. benjamin britten's work uses war poems as a type of commentary on a traditional requiem mass to distill the moment of realization of the cost of war . is government over the past few days i've talked a lot with other members of the orchestra. i think it's important that we don't forget what's going on in the world of money for good. but never. lets them here here when we're all together we don't have any borders or conflicts and. rather we can simply do something together our language now is the music.

theme of the. park for noir hoff the sounds of war don't look to be losing their pertinence any time soon. that's when alice sadly nationalism is on the rise in europe what we're doing seeks to counter that but of course it's just a drop in the ocean of. benjamin britain's war requiem supported by the year of european cultural heritage starts tonight in cologne paris. cellar and be a big night in the city of alonso talk a little bit more about the background of well i should say from britain a number of his friends were killed in the war this affected him greatly became a lifelong pacifist after that and indeed dedicated to four of his friends i think . he dedicated the peace to them i mean he was i think britain was one of the great

composers transco composers of the twentieth century and as a pacifist was thrilled to be commissioned to write this piece for the consecration of the new coventry cathedral the cathedral was almost completely destroyed by a bombing raid was the new one was built right next to the ruins you can see here this is a very modernist building designed by the renowned sabbaticals tents incidentally the great russian composer dmitri shah shostakovich he actually said that the war requiem was the greatest piece of music composed in the twentieth century so praise indeed and just to put it in a historical context it was done written this is all about nine hundred sixty two and his first film was the height of the cold war when both sides were piling up nuclear weapons when relations were very frosty so i think israel. has relations are a little frosty again makes a lot of sense and this performance going to have is the first of three right yeah

this one the first for four months is tonight in cologne then they're going to rots wafa in poland on sunday and then on tuesday it should be a performance for the monic and as i said this year of cultural heritage the hundreds of performances loads of them going on and just google year of european heritage or i should say a much better go to our web site of course and. much more information as we always have all the information on there rob merrill from our culture death thank you so much. you're watching d.w. news we have more coming up at the top of the hour and don't forget you can always get all of the latest news and information around the clock also on our website as robin. mentioned to us that's dot com thank you so much for watching i'm sara kelley in berlin have to see reckons.

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