visited every news lot from berlin israel mark seventy years of independence after memorial day for israel's fall and now come seventy hours of festivities lasting till saturday night in jerusalem prime minister benjamin netanyahu welcome to real seeds of peace from some of israel's arab neighbors also coming up french president if i don't call is in berlin with some ideas for the changes to the european union among them a european monetary fund to help bail out member states in trouble trouble will germany be on board. for almost six decades cuba has been castro country fidel took

power in the one nine hundred fifty nine revolution and handed it on to his brother raul ten years ago now this man began a d.s. and there is take in the house will he meet you but down a different path. also on the show frankfurt secured their spot in the german cup final after seeing off shaka play and all the action from the clash coming. to. your. time sumi so it's gonna good to have you with us israel is celebrating seventy years of independence according to the hebrew calendar that anniversary began at sundown on wednesday to honor the moment founding father david ben-gurion announced the state of israel into existence the following year saw the jewish state of bitter odds with its arab neighbors bus prime minister benjamin netanyahu told crowds in jerusalem that real seeds of peace were beginning to sprout in the region . in

a blaze of fire the menorah the symbol of the state of israel comes to life. was. with a colorful ceremony the country marked its independence day. seventy years since the jewish state was founded in the middle east israelis celebrated the country's economic and cultural accomplishments. the event also marked israel's memorial day a fleet of drones in the night sky formed the star of david over jerusalem to honor those who died for the country. prime minister benjamin netanyahu that an honorary torch to remember those killed in his speech he issued a warning to the world that israel would defend itself against any would be aggressors. growing up here doing. today we are not deterred from the struggle against those who strive to annihilate us

because we know how to defend ourselves with our own forces which is the essence of independence we are as determined as ever we're as strong as ever. at that meeting just weeks ago saudi arabia signaled a something of its fully anti israel stance netanyahu also emphasize israel's hand is quote outstretched in peace to all our neighbors who want peace. but germany's a key ally of israel and we can talk to our political correspondent thomas sparrow to talk about those ties between the two countries hi thomas tell us more about israel and germany's relationship and what sets it apart well what sets it up potts sumi is essentially its history and that's something that german politicians have stressed on on various occasions that's something that i'm good at michael also

mentioned as a pot of germany's reason of state the right of existence through to israel that's something that's germany's foreign minister heikal mosse also stressed in his inaugural speech saying that he entered politics because of our states he then also went to israel a few days later even if you look at the coalition agreement the new coalition agreement of the german government there's a chapter on israel where the israel and relationships with israel i described is a pillar of german politics so you can certainly say that their relationship between germany and israel is very important even describe it as unique it has been important historically thomas how would you describe ties today. ties today are still good but there is potential to me there have been certain issues between germany and israel that have created tensions whether it is israel's settlement policy or when a former foreign minister my god will also met with guys asians that are critical

of the israeli government those were elements that created tensions between the two countries but in general political relations are strong in fact israel has been one of the countries with which germany has governmental consultation and germany only has intergovernmental consultations with a handful of countries so that explains also how the relationship is strong even though as we have stressed they have been instances of tension between the two countries one point of tension thomas has been that both countries have expressed concern about growing anti-semitism in germany including in some arabic communities here the attack on tuesday evening on a young man wearing a cap on berlin seems to show this let's take a look at what happened. the victim recorded the incident with his smartphone that didn't stop his attacker. the attacker repeatedly shouted. which means do and with his victims

a twenty one year old israeli and his twenty four year old german moroccan friend. and. companion for the attacks. the two victims spoke with d.w. and explained that they are not even jewish that the yarmulke was a bit of a game an experiment to find out how dangerous it would be to walk around berlin as a jew the result of. i could not sleep last night. my body in various places. and i must say i just feel less safe. the incident took place a trendy middle class prince lower back district not a high crime neighborhood it's an area where residents rarely encounter violent altercation. always think it takes place in the city's outskirts of the districts you think are violent anyway but this year i don't get to hear this. come on you.

have to do something about this from the very standard schools training centers and have more reports from people who experience this kind of thing. jewish community has been growing in recent years many have been moving here from russia but also many young israelis see berlin s affordable livable and less as the place where the whole cost originated but it seems to have become risky again. in public. we've recently experienced increasing anti-semitic incidents seen here they include physical threats and injuries so we have to say that the security situation for people who were clearly identifiable as jews has worsened. firstly that the german government appointed its first commissioner to combat

anti-semitism just a few days ago and. we have to prepare the schools equip the teachers with learning materials maybe also with additional training in order to respond to these things and to make people aware of what's happening. adam has sustained some minor injuries but nothing is known about his attacker police investigating. thomas police say more than a thousand anti-semitic crimes were reported last year alone what are authorities doing to stop the strand of the first and foremost criticizing. stressing that jewish life has to be protected one concrete measure so. is the. special commission. the semitism in the german government but they have also been studies here in germany stressing the need for other measures whether it is more

concrete to databases or non-theism it to crimes or long support for groups and organizations that are dealing with this issue and also trying to have more concrete information on different types of modern anti semitism are based on the semitic tendencies in different parts of society whether we're talking about the far right scene or the far left scene or even among muslim groups those are all issues that according to several studies have still to be dealt with by authorities here in germany. is political correspondent tom aspera reporting for us thomas good to talk to you now some other stories making news around the world u.s. president donald trump says he is prepared to walk out of planned talks with the north korean leader kim jong il and if they are not quote fruitful after discussing the plan sit down with the japanese prime minister president trump said maximum pressure must be maintained on north korea until the nation denuclearize is turkish president vegetate everyone has announced plans to hold early elections on june

twenty fourth the early polls will hasted turkey's switch from a parliamentary system to a presidential one that will strengthen air to once power the announcement came just before turkey's parliament voted to extend the country state of emergency which grants the government sweeping powers. the quest for life beyond earth just expanded a nasa satellite designed to search for planets outside our own solar system was launched in the us scientists expect to find hundreds of thousands of so-called expo planets the big question is whether any of the unknown worlds could support life. and same a tickets go on sale today in saudi arabia for the first time since public film screenings were banned in the one nine hundred eighty s. and the move is part of crown prince mohammed bin some months reform agenda there was a private screening on wednesday of the hollywood blockbuster black panther to herald the return of the big screen. you're watching news still to come on the program cuba will soon be castro country no war and this

man is likely to be head of the presidency will he take the country in a new direction. and frankfurt for a again shall call in the german cup we have all the thrills from the semifinal battle on wednesday night. a german carmaker opel could also been on the agenda today when uncle americal meets a model mccullum that's right because some boring signals are coming from the german comic opel that was only last year taken over by the french p.s.a. group german chancellor angela merkel says the german government may need to come to the aid of all but she also expects parent company p.s.a. to stick to the commitments it made when it took over the future of one of the german factories is add risk off the shop stewards in the eastern town of eyes enough rejected wage concessions p.s.a. had demanded them exchange for a commitment to invest in a new production line for mobile new mobile so far p.s.a.

has been unable to reverse shrinking sales. c.e.o. says its mis truck showing is showing first signs of success. it's bringing in financial correspondent the frankfurt stock exchange. will deliver what p.s.a. wants it to do. well many actually have grave doubts that this will be able that they will be able to fulfil what p.s.a. really wants p.s.a. has been very clear from day one after years of losses opal needs to come back into the winning zone under the ownership of general motors from the us this was not the case since one thousand nine hundred nine so the homework was clear until twenty twenty the company needs to be profitable again and the entire merger has been taking much longer and also synergise did not pay off as fast as many were expecting and yes we've heard of the financial situation has improved a little bit but just in the first quarter of this year also like other car makers

here in europe sold less cars at least twenty five twenty five thousand less than they wanted also the zero. so the worker unions have been for a long time in a big dispute with the owners and also with the boss of opal he's saying that there is no need to be warry that over wants to invest even more money into the german production facilities spots yes many have great doubt that this is really going to be the case. there was a lot of hope amongst the workers when he has a took it from the americans how are they feeling now. i well they are worried we are waiting also for statements coming in today there is going to be meeting at all the three big opel facilities taking place because there's the question of what will be announced there is already a some speculation that opel could announce that up to one thousand opel employees in the production facility of aizen that could lose their job at the beginning there were actually quite happy with their own as they have stated in the past that

g.m. never really understood what the european market wanted of course with p.s.a. this was different but now it's a very lots of uncertainty for them many fear that they could lose their jobs done in the open frankfurt thank you. model mccrone dreams of giving the euro zone its own budget and finance minister but from berlin only his nine nine germany does not want to foot the bill for other countries debts and voters here have repeatedly made that very very clear. as unlikely to be would perhaps friend them on a micro to open. a red carpet for europe french president manuel mccomb is pushing for big changes soon he thinks there is strength and more unity and wants more confidence sees in defense law and asylum now i phone didn't drink form is a third indispensable front before the end of this term of office we need to define

a roadmap for progress on the banking union and the establishment of a budgetary capacity promoting stability and convergence in the euro zone business but i don't know. if you hear. the vision more money and responsibility for europe and manuel mcconnell says it's the only way to make the e.u. stronger as well as more efficient and united. not everyone is applauding though germany in particular is skeptical conservatives there say the plan sound like they carry a hefty price tag there is concern germany will be given a big bill but have little influence on where the cash is spent but time is running out european elections are set for next year by then member states should have a road map for the union future. so mccall really needs some allies if you can show support from the likes of home he'd have

a much easier job in pushing through here konami reforms which continue to draw fire from the french unions that were more walk ons on wednesday by rail workers only one in three high speed trains was running bringing misery for many travelers more strikes a plan for today and what is adding up to be the biggest test of my presidency today. outside the station train driver five year view of june and his colleagues a feeling defiant in a normal working day he brings thousands of people into paris and the suburbs. now his train is it a standstill in the god. who owns the railway yes. we do comes the. french rail unions a well organized and workers are ready to push back with everything they have got

to protect their jobs. and man a sincere phone call and just rail workers are more than ready to fight it out. we're not interested in sitting round and talking about securing our coffee break up song i'm proud of being a train worker what. rail workers in france have built up in title months over decades drivers like fab yang can retire five years early and enjoy free rail travel across the country but the national rail network is heavily in debt and president emanuel macrumors wants to roll back some of those privileges macross already made some reforms but says he's ready to push through more for him shaking up the railways is a political battle he has to win. the suffering because of the strike they're working days or longer and some companies could even go bust because of it we need

to sort this out i want to make it quite clear we will push through the reforms because we have to have change. that many say strikes like that are a thing of the past. is that. when strikers find themselves in a minority that can make them more radical but public opinion quickly turns against them then they can maintain the strike and have to give up that could give macron the opportunity to push through his reforms without unions agreeing. to be fair your. own. something the. while work has a determined to prevent from happening. we have to stand firm together otherwise the changes will go through. champions in no hurry to get back in the driver's seat he believes the track that will determine

his future is only now being laid. and that's all your business i'm going to cuba now assuming that's right there had been leader raul castro has moved a step closer to retirement after ten years in office the country's parliament has proposed vice president lee get d.s. kind of as his successor he was born after the one nine hundred fifty nine revolution in which fidel castro ousted u.s. backed dictator hence you about this that after years climbing the ranks of the communist party lawmakers consider him to be a safe bet to inherit the ideological legacy of castro he is an engineer by trade tech friendly and is viewed as a socially liberal politician if confirmed yes can now will be the first person outside the castro family to lead under communist rule in a moment we'll find out what changes might lie ahead but first a look at some of the expectations cubans have for their new leader. a regime change it is not the era of fidel and raul castro may be coming to an end but the cuba they built remains largely unchanged cubans expect the new president to

continue his predecessor's legacy of slowly modernizing the communist country. honestly it's all the same to me as long as things keep improving as well. thought out the. nominee miguel diaz can now be the first leader of communist cuba who was not a member of the revolutionary generation he is likely to carry on reforms introduced by current president raul castro such as allowing citizens to run small businesses and reducing restrictions on foreign travel cuba's new generation is optimistic. would like to travel i'd like to travel and see the world. while many cubans dream of change the social programs of the castros communist party remain popular ideas can no party loyalist is a conscious choice for a cautious country. in cuba the revolution will not be jeopardized.

we have the chan with us now she's been reporting on cuba for the new york times and it's also with the nonprofit organization the global reporting center melissa good morning thanks for joining us what kind of politician is this man because. well that's the really interesting thing we don't know that much about the is canal and that is partly intentional you've had situations in the past where there were successors to the casters and they often spoke too soon and too much so d.s. can go as somebody who's been very very careful in terms of what he said is he a reform is is he a hard line or there are clues to suggest his one or the other so he's walked this very interesting line and it'll be very interesting to see what he does do in the next few years that's a question everyone's asking what can we expect under him are we going to see a continuation of the opening that we saw under. well to a certain extent one thing to keep in mind israel castro is stepping down from the

presidency but he is still retaining some power so you are going to see the continued influence of raul castro with dia's canel again we don't know what he's going to do is he going to try to push for more reforms or is he going to sort of answer to influential hardline faction in cuba having said that to certain extent he doesn't have much of a choice the economy in cuba is not doing very well it was in recession last year if you believe the numbers now it's no longer in a recession but g.d.p. growth is very very low so he has to do something and he doesn't have the revolutionary credentials of fidel or route will cast. joe to sit back on fidel castro could make mistakes and people would always remember him as the guy who led the revolution who you know of course overthrew this corrupt regime but for dia's can now he is opposed to revolution leaders so he's going to have to show something

to the cuban people and to the elites and he has a tall task ahead doesn't it's not just the economy is plenty of challenges facing him yes of course there is the northern neighbor the united states us cuba relations were great to two years ago when president obama visited in havana but the situation now is not great and you have the trumpet ministration rolling back some of the obama era normalization policies but you also have a very strange situation with american diplomats that have taken ill i am sure a lot of people have read about it and been very confused the americans are alleging that it was some kind of attack the cubans are denying any responsibility for it and it has caused a crisis the embassy in the united states the embassy in havana has been sort of downgraded in terms of the number of staff and so these canals going to have to fix this because american tourists are not coming in the same numbers as they were about a year ago and people in havana really depended on those american tourist dollars

what are younger gibbins telling you about how they see the legacy of the castro family well that's a really tough one first of all young cubans that's just one big group of people with a lot of different opinions a one thing that i have heard over the years is that no matter what young cubans think of fidel castro and some people really do not like him others you know do like him and do respect his his position in history they do say that they respect him for standing up to the americans and for having led the revolution no matter what he did in vain years journalists most of china thank you very much for joining us with your analysis this morning. to sports now on the stage for the german cup final has been set fire in munich where awaiting the winner of shock in frankfurt and the result was somewhat unexpected frankfurt secured their spot in the final for a second straight year and could bring home a trophy they haven't won in thirty years. home side show cook food spirit set

one match away from it shereen the german cup final coached domini go to disco has made shelter of the league heavyweight this season he and frankfurt's nico kobayashi buyers next coach in braced. shoka misfired their first good look with daniel kelly gary regretting his wide shut. later in the first half frankfurt goalkeeper lucas radebe ski provided the chance for the royal blues to take the lead from the corner after the break shell two were looking to take the lead. yet cut off by her dead skis great luck. frankfurt at the corner with a chance. to kill you over each back heeled america to give the eagles a one nil lead in the seventy fifth minute a red card for the t.v. a great game show could an extra man on the pitch choke it took advantage of the level to school well they thought they did but frankel decided to it was called for

the handball. the replay confirmed the call was correct. i want to play in the final i want to win the final we wanted that last year the consolation is the same again a top opponent will see what happens in a few weeks now we have four games still in the bundesliga we also want to do well for the shuttle could use it morning while frankfurt is returning to the final once again this time facing burn munich in berlin on may nineteenth. we just have time for a minder of our top stories here and have you israel has kicked off celebrations to mark seventy years since the jewish state was founded in the middle east prime minister benjamin netanyahu said israel won't spare those who raise a hand against it but he also hinted at better relations with some arab countries and french president tonight on the cause due to visit german chancellor angela merkel in berlin today it's a bid to breathe new life into his vision for a new were forms but he is likely to meet with german resistance to changes that

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as tips or tricks that will turn your head to a special. upgrade yourself with interior design channel on you tube. twenty years ago the good friday agreement paved the way for an end to decades of bitter conflict in the of the island but the results have been mixed my guess this week here in dublin is but for my irish prime minister and one of the co signatures of the agreement in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight just how fragile is the peace process now and what would it take to get it back on track.