that will turn your home to something special. yourself with g.w. spin interior design channel on your to. visit g.w. news live from berlin a secret meeting between a superpower and a pariah us president donald trump confirms the meet up between cia director michael pale and kim jong il and in north korea tweeting it went very smoothly what does this mean for peace on the korean peninsula. also coming up another delay reports of gunfire in duma appear to unlock the team of the international chemical

weapons inspectors from entering the syrian city they've been tasked with analyzing the site of a suspected poison gas attack eleven days ago. the largest operation of its kind average turned out by germany's federal police early morning raids nets more than one hundred suspects on sex trafficking drugs. i'm sorry so it's kind of good to have you with us u.s. president donald trump has confirmed that cia director mike pump aoe traveled to pyongyang and met north korean leader kim jong il and he tweeted that the secret trip went very well trump has been hosting japanese prime minister shinzo ave at his mar-a lago resort in florida. to syria now where there is doubt as to whether inspectors from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons will be able to start their investigation into the

suspected poison gas attack today they're currently in damascus but reuters news agency is quoting a united nations sources saying they're not likely to go to do much today as expected have been reports of gunfire there the inspection team will focus on establishing whether a poison gas attack actually took place and if so what chemicals or use let's stick to journalist stefan borne from t.v. for sweden he was in dumas on monday and joins us on the line of from damascus hi stefan there are reports that the weapons inspectors will not go to do much today and that there's been some crossfire any news on when and if they'll actually be able to access the site. what we know about this incident obviously it's happened already yesterday while u.s. curiosity was there to look at the site and see if it was possible to work to safely and then there was some gunfire in we don't know much about that if

it was just up in the air of what was written was and did something one other piece of information says that there was some protest by local people demanding aid from the u.s. if that's about all we know so far but it seems like here it's very uncertain yet when what exactly the inspectors will be able to stop or the foreign journalists were allowed in to do more on monday you also visited there what are people there saying about the alleged chemical attack. was some don't want to talk about it some people are claiming that it's actually the rebel side that is responsible for that attack and for all those of their started turning in this building get this but you have to have in mind ducks people here in syria don't attempt it's general speech freely about what they think and so big event almost everywhere in it this country it just bothers you government control they are your rebel control the area

so you have to see to it way what what people are saying actually it's could lead to war or not to free if they have some other reason to be careful and what about where you are in damascus what are they saying over this investigation by the o.p.c. w. do they trust these investigators. well actually the syrian government you know invited to come here to investigate and what i spoke to the last time they they said that the u.s. specters are welcome to come there any time but all the same day the o.p.c. w. said that no we're not allowed to go there for security reasons they were stopped by the syrians and russians so we have different versions of this and i guess we'll see a lot of different questions also about what's coming up in the next few days whether we'll be able to go there and do that is a great journalist on board from t.v. for sweden thank you very much for that update. now to some other

stories making headlines around the world french president has warned that europe is fighting a civil war between liberal democracy and populist nationalism made the remarks in a speech to the e.u. parliament calling for democratic where new won't be fought off the far right to win the french presidency in two thousand and seventeen. the former first lady of the united states barbara bush died at the age of ninety two she had recently refused further medical treatment for recurrent health problems she was one of only two women in american history to have been both the wife and the mother of a president. and one person was killed and several were injured after an engine i.e. on a u.s. passenger plane exploded the southwest airlines flight was on route from new york to dallas when an engine cover broke loose and shattered a window passenger spoke of a woman being partially sucked out of the broken window. ok we're going to return to our top story now u.s. president trump has now confirmed via twitter that his close aide and cia director

mike pompei oh did hold a secret meeting with north korean leader kim jong un let's cross to reuters correspondent josh smith who is standing by for us in south korea hi josh how significant is this meeting well compare. the most senior u.s. official to have met personally with kim jong un and the fact that he met with him personally does seem to indicate how serious this is both sides seem to be putting their most senior people directly on the issue which does seem to make all these talks more likely trump said that a good relationship was formed during pomp ayers visit there so whether that relationship turns into some kind of political breakthrough remains to be seen a political break that would be saying a meeting between donald trump and kim jong un well we indeed see that happen.

this visit is perhaps the most significant confirmation that we've seen so far that that meeting is likely to happen. while up till now you have mostly been going off of what the south koreans who met with him have said about what his position is on the talks now that it's clear that the americans have met directly with kim and come away apparently encouraged does seem to indicate that it is very likely that trump and kim will you don't need a later this month do you think we're going to see a peace treaty. well that's likely a longer term goal analysts we've talked to have noted that south korea is not actually an official signatory to the armistice that ended combat during the korean war of the one nine hundred fifty s. so this is the kind of thing that the two koreas will likely try to lay the groundwork for likely make some kind of perhaps joint declaration that would then

lead to a broader agreement set would include players like the united states and possibly china reuters correspondent josh smith speaking to us from seoul thank you josh thank you police here in germany have detained more than one hundred people and arrested seven others after a large scale operation against suspected sex traffickers thousands of officers raided more than sixty sites across the country in the early hours of this morning the properties targeted were brothels offices and homes the operation centers on a suspected sex trafficking ring set up to bring women and transsexuals from thailand to germany. and we could speak now to five highly he's the director of the berlin based organization together against human trafficking is also a member of parliament with chancellor merkel's c.d.u. party mr hines thank you for joining us are the rates today a good sign for the fight against human trafficking here. it's a good time and not a good sign now that we know that something like that happens. is showing us the

reality so having having heard these news doesn't make my heart feel happy but it makes me happy that now the police is going after that and then they found out the first as i am saying as we are. members of this this group that goes after human to trafficking that we now see that if we really follow that. then then we would find much more standard tell us more about this reality that you said there how widespread is human trafficking and how deep are these criminal networks. we would like to know that more for sure so that is the good sign of this this last night or this morning's what's happened and the police is showing we feel that the numbers are so high that we in germany really have to look better on that so what we think is that mafia structures are so deep involved in

this business and you know just hearing some numbers some official numbers we don't have but some say there are four hundred thousand people working in this business up to this whole time full time and many of them police says after their structures and help organizations say i need to do ninety percent don't do that for free just liberally by their free will so we need to go deeper that in doubt and if there is a number of one point two million transactions in the six business in germany per day you can imagine how much involvement of mafia structures there might be so why have these structures been able to flourish and what can the government be doing to better protect the victims. now we we knew that we advocated for that and the government the parliament has changed laws in the last two years and one is going into function the beginning of this year and this rate of tonight could be an

outcome that the police is more more open and more clear in their duties what they need to be doing so that you know up to last year it was as easy to have a brothel as organizing a top of the table where party and now we are and the politics have to go even more into that direction we need to clear more what is allowed what is not where is it liberal it wasn't harming human rights why do you think it is so difficult to stop human traffickers doing their work here now it's that sort of black market if mafia is doing their structures from abroad as we saw this night and many women were involved in leadership of that to then it's a very complex situation and we are in a society that is very slow to say blind or in their liberal thinking blind to that there is still a lot to be done and that's that's our problem from kind rich from the organization

together against human trafficking also a member of parliament here in germany thank you so much for joining us on our program thank you very much but. on tuesday night in the first german cup semifinal game byron munich demolished the hosts leverkusen by a score of six two the man of the match was thomas miller who scored first in the fifty second minute then in the sixty fourth minute and then once again in the seventy eighth minute goal sets that sense buy into the cup final against the winner of wednesday night's clash between shaktar and frankfurt. by minix our rival in the german cup final on may nineteenth is up for grabs what the second semifinal taking place on wednesday night high flying shot that will host last year's runners up frankfurt a hard fought battle as expected. footballing highs don't come much higher than a long awaited been in that regard. after four long years without

a win over brasier dortmund shelter boss the boys in black and yellow in the big game on sunday. but blasting past their bitter rivals in the bundesliga will only help so much in what lies ahead. this is not to shouldn't them on it's great when you win a darby and have another big game a cup semifinal against a very strong team to be looking. at on the instant but. keeping their concentration has been tricky for frankfurt the german media have swarmed around coach nico kovach ever since word broke last week that he set to take over byron munich this summer i'm trucked worth umps for one in the first game since the news came out about the coach's future but kovacs preferred a reminder of the past in his pre-match remarks i think that

the situation is a lot like last year nobody thought we stood a chance of winning our semifinal or mention gladbach but we were the ones who made it to the final if we know how nice it is to be there and we know how hard it will be in goals and. lives on the. lips frankfurt couldn't seal the deal in berlin last may falling in the final to dortmund going one better this year and lifting some silverware with frankfurt wouldn't be a bad dress rehearsal for coach's next show. are new developments in the diesel diesel emissions scandal porsche is now in the hot seat there how does all the details coming right up and business.

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