this is g w news live from birthplace of america i'm mccrone put up a united front but the cracks still show the french president has been in berlin on an all out push to get angela merkel to back his reforms for a more united europe but germany's risk averse chancellor may put the brakes on changes that include a hefty price tag. also coming up cuba swears in its new president mean gal diaz kind that has taken the reins after six decades of broken by the castro family will

he leave the country down a different path and israel turns seventy as the nation celebrates its founding the prime minister calls on israelis to make sacrifices to ensure a safe future plus the ban is lifted it's something that hasn't been seen in saudi arabia for nearly forty years we will tell you why their saudi ends have the hottest ticket in the kingdom last night. and frankfurt secured their spot in the german cup final after seeing shots off we'll have all the action from the clash coming up. i'm sorry kelly thanks for joining us. french president among you all mccrone and german chancellor angela merkel have put on a united front during talks today in berlin but there are devices there to. visions

have started to emerge americal is here to breathe fresh life into his vision for the reforms he's called for germany to join him in delivering a reform roadmap in time for and using the summit in june but marigot has told a cautious line saying that her government has to assess his proposals before moving forward. of why this was bringing with a lack of chief political editor who was standing by at that press conference a little earlier today so mikhail of the two leaders they both did stress the importance today of e.u. unity i just want to have a quick listen in fact to what the chancellor herself had to say and then get your reaction after the re shaping and really founding of europe is much more than a project of peace each should also show that we can only pursue our values globally to get there as well as defend the interests that is if we cooperate a european level i would have this city should be enriching us. yes and this is why

we have important topics to discuss today. so talk of common values you know common goals within the european union but was the mood really that harmonious would you say at least heading into this meeting are they really in tune about everything. well clearly both leaders see eye to eye and they plan to do nothing less than reinvent europe and not just bring it closer together now this is this is traditional franco german engine that's always talked about and when there's a lofty was a use that this is about more than values what it really means it has to be about more than symbolism putting europe really into a place where it can define and sound its ground on a common foreign policy clearly is miles away from that as we most recently also saw with syria where to days really to get everyone to take a position on the bombardment there and also make it financially more stable

particularly after the financial crisis so the e.u. to the core and there the question is of course how much headway will want to make be able to make on the reform of the eurozone particularly with her own voters and her own in p.s. actually in view who are so afraid of german taxpayers money simply being distributed across europe and their banking union i mean as you're alluding to there it's a really sticky subject for her domestically a lot of pushback that she is also getting from the population within germany but in the meantime in the pressure is also on to find some common solutions because we have this e.u. summit that's coming up in june how likely do you think it is that we could see a breakthrough in talks today. but one thing can be said the e.u. is on its way to a banking union that has been decided but there still are divisions over what

actually means a high risk loan and these details still need to be worked out there's resistance from the german parliament which secured in its coalition deal here in germany the right to vote and decide on any concrete measures being taken that mean money being spent at the same time you have him on a core who's facing protests in his own country where he is seen as someone who's acting very anti social actually as some would put it taking away privileges for bringing more flexibility into the labor market interestingly when he walks into the room he's still seen as a socialist added complication and highlight that there's a real risk for not making that terribly much progress at all the new german finance minister. not martin is a former party leader who was a true glowing european now all off so he might be from the social democrats but at

the same time he's being seen as an heir of voice. and everybody across the e.u. knows what his name stands for which is not spending german taxpayers' money not offering that solidarity without some real commitments in return. he is chief political editor with the latest from berlin on this big meeting between the leaders of germany and france thank you. well meantime in other news the man behind yesterday's suspected anti semitic attack in berlin has turned himself into police reportedly one of the victims recorded the incident on his mobile phone well check this out. it appears as if two men below where she was silenced skullcaps that they were attacked by the man with a belt the two victims you're seeing there in some video that we shot with them earlier they were wearing what is known as the kippah for the first time to show an israeli friend that it was safe to do so in berlin and the.

turkish president wretch of type one has announced plans to hold early elections on june twenty fourth the early polls will hastens turkey's switch from a parliamentary system to a presidential one that will strengthen and wants power the announcement came just before turkey's parliament voted to extend the country's state of emergency which grants the government sweeping powers and police in our many as capital have arrested dozens of opposition demonstrators protesting constitutional changes that allow a former president to become prime minister protesters claim that the move is an attempt by the ex-president to hold on to power it's the seventh consecutive day of protest in the city. cuba has a new president and his name isn't castro for the first time since the communist revolution more than half a century ago the country's leader will not help from the castro family just a short while ago miguel diaz kind that was sworn in as the country's new president

replacing raul castro cuba lawmakers have decided to elect to a five year term is climbed through the ranks of the communist party for years he now. has said his mandate is to give continuity to the cuban revolution. castro will remain the leader of the communist party but cubans do have expectations from their new president. a regime change it is not the era of fiedel 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. that will mean more of its all the same for me honestly as long as things keep improving obama as well although you. may get around diaz can now will now be the first leader of communist cuba who was not a member of the revolutionary generation and he is expected to carry on reforms

introduced by now ex president raul castro such as allowing citizens to run small businesses and reducing restrictions on foreign travel cuba's new generation is optimistic that would like to travel back to travel and see the world. while many cubans dream of change the social programs of the castros communist party remain popular ideas can our party loyalist is a cautious choice for a cautious country in cuba the revolution will not be jeopardized. so now that cuba has a new leader who is not may have to castro let's have a look back on cuba's history under the castro brothers fidel and raul. the first of january nine hundred fifty nine in the middle of the cold war without castro and a group of revolutionary supporters asked cuban president for when you protest he

flees to the dominican republic. castro appointed himself head of state and officially declared cuba a socialist republic all industry in business with nationalized and socialist reforms implemented throughout the country to the united states the home of capitalism that you see as my sons. in one nine hundred sixty one a paramilitary group of fourteen hundred cuban exiles invaded cuba at the bay of pigs the invasion was sponsored and supported by the us within three days though it was defeated. washington responded with a number go against cuba which lasted for more than fifty years. it wasn't until an aging fidel castro transfer power to his brother all that the first signs of political reform became noticeable in. the eyes of the seventh i'm

out of work. all before taking over from his brother raul castro had been defense minister and chairman of the state council officially number to win the cuban leadership relations with america slowly began to thaw. in a telephone conversation with the us president barack obama. we made decisive progress concerning a few issues that are of interest to both of our countries. in one thousand nine hundred sixty the american embassy in ghana was closed. more than fifty years later in two thousand and fifteen it was finally reopened and the stars and stripes symbolically hoisted. then president barack obama became the first american leader to visit cuba since the beginning of the embargo or. even british rockers the rolling stones performed

in the country for the first time rock music from the west had previously been banned under fidel castro. many thought the change had finally come to cuba but the feeling wasn't to last. after every new reform row castro seemed increasingly cautious then twenty seventeen he announced he would step down as head of state claiming he didn't want to stand in the way of younger leaders. when the national assembly meets next year on the nineteenth of april my second and last monday it will come to an end. cuba will then have a new president. yes. it go up a good. policy that. the mantic to be his successor is may get he has come out three years he's been preparing to take over the reins of power. we

are very grateful for what the cuban revolution has afforded us to be able to support we know the grassroots very well we've already been part of youth and student organizations really. he may not be a castro but miguel de has come out as a loyal follower of the communist party and her own castro will continue in his position as party chairman. and as cuba ushers in a new political era many residents will be looking to see if changes could be on the way to the country's shoddy in turn that infrastructure the u.s. think tanks freedom house calls cuba one of the world's least connected and most repressive countries regarding internet access but that is not stopping people from surfing chatting connecting online with some clever workaround so let's get more on this now we are joined here in the studio by our very own carl lawson from our social media desk to tell us a little bit more about it. so. tell us

a little bit more what it's like day to day for people who want to commit yeah and it's difficult in short it's just not good the access there that's because of you know lack of funding the u.s. economic embargo of course and then government restrictions as well so if you're a cuban citizen and you don't have home internet access you don't have mobile data on your phone if you want to log on you basically have to head outside and you find one of these government run by fi hotspots and first for access you have to buy a prepaid card from it takes the government run telecommunications agency the cards have an access code and a password or link to your government i.d.'s you're likely being tracked as well i was in cuba last year actually and these are familiar scenes these are people outside using these why if i hotspots cubans and tourists alike twenty four seven even in parks there's about one hundred of them scattered around the country people just go there to check their e-mail chat with friends but even with these new hotspots those were set up around twenty fifteen the internet on this lee it's still luxury for most cubans and this is what we're talking about here the average

cuban salary is only around thirty u.s. dollars per month but one hour of access costs one u.s. dollars you can do the math is expensive to go outside you have to use these hot spots so i mean when you have restrictions like this when you have things that are so expensive of course you know where there's a will there's a way right a lot of exactly that cubans are creative and you see that all around of and all around the country finding solutions right so one of these solutions to to share content to get online it's called pocket. that means the weekly package and this is a package of digital content that is distributed physically all around the country using basically an underground network of digital dealers and here's a basically how this works it's essentially a u.s.b. stick with about a terabyte of data this includes the latest t.v. shows you've got music sporting events even phone apps and advertisements and this is all the stuff of course we access on the internet every day but now. not everything there's one reason that authorities seem to tolerate and sarah even

subscribe to the package and that's because of what's not on there and take a look at what is not included as we're talking about things like maybe pornography religious content anything that's overtly political things that would basically run afoul of the gun the country's communist regime and the strict government censors we don't know exactly where the the package comes from but it's likely downloaded in the us and brought into the country ok so is this is stuff that's getting them brought into the country how about you know when cheapens want to send things out for example you know culture or things that are produced within the guy it's tricky but it's happening more and more we're seeing even some you tube stars now making it big on you tube some people in cuba using that slow access and this is one of them he's a you tube or now is name is frank comma yet he says he specializes in showing people around his island showing off his culture in different parts of cuba in fact in one episode he shows where you can buy for just one dollar what you can eat in havana he's getting more popular this video right here has about two hundred

thousand views still tricky though for cubans to use the internet and will see if this new president this new regime opens it up a little bit more in terms of internet access it's good to look to see their colleagues who want to have to go out and it's really crowded as the social media has great fish in it. if you're watching news still to come on the program frankfurt's fence is full for a against shot day in the german cup we have all the thrills from the semifinal battle on wednesday night. but first more on that powwow between europe's most important leaders and fizzle and has a story answer how to bridge the deep divide of reform in the euro zone french president my moma core is in berlin presenting his big plans for the economic bloc they include a finance minister and common budget but his host until a miracle is unlikely to be wooed by her friend to open up. a red

carpet for your up french president and manuel is pushing for big changes soon he thinks there is strength and more unity and wants more competencies and defense of law and asylum now i phone didn't drift 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. but as you know. if you see. the vision more money and responsibility for europe and manuel 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. entrepreneur who can give us the business take on this story you've worked here in germany and in france haven't you that's the case is germany holding back the eurozone from performing to its full potential by rejecting these reforms of mr ok my personal view is you know it's a question of trust and for for decades to trust has been a little bit broken between the different partners promises were not kept and rebuilding this trusts that we all hoped when there was the election of his famous one speech that things would go in motion but especially in a country like germany it takes time so they needs to be signs that this trust is

a vote and i think the. french president is doing the right thing by reforming his country that's the first think that that need to happen but it does take a lot of trust when it comes to bailing out other countries or paying off their bad debts and he just doesn't want to do that it doesn't want to do it it also begins to realize and you see that in many circles that the traditional recipe of i would say german austerity has not necessarily proven right in areas like portugal which is proving that actually another way was possible but this should not be an excuse for not doing the reforms and in you you actually mixing good economic policy with a lot of emotional aspects and this is what we've not achieved in europe is to create this diversity and emotions and views into something which is creating a lot of creativity innovation for the moment it's putting a lot of politicians back to the national boards and lost elections also show that focus on national topics is is is the key priority but i was just speaking to the

city you see s. use economy spokesperson yesterday and he will not budge from that formulation that formula of reforms equal. economic progression and it will save the day but the reforms that have hurt the southern states have really hurt and i don't think that message has got through to the germans yet what what message would you like to give to ms merkel today on such an important day that she's meeting mr merkel well i've no message to give but i think things should be seen as a as a moving picture another as a static view reforms need to be initiated but when you see that out of china and of the u.s. you realize that the world is in a very accelerated mode so we also need to see that speed is as important as the facts which the ways the european google ways the european facebook whereas the

european as. well this is this is a good example to see to name all of those in china yeah well look the ten largest companies in the world ada american to a chinese none a european the issue for the political is that technology and we saw that with the fable the facebook story technology becomes politics it begins to influence. elections i mean we like it or not but mr obama was elected by forty nine percent of the people's but it was probably a mass of money palatial minds going on but that innovation needs the financing and that financing is not going to come from a divided europe what financing is important and this is why we are pushing for for an agency for disruptive innovation but what is also more important comes back to you part of the political question is that speed is important i think the key topics for democracies and that's probably what prism michael try to push in his speech in the european parliament is that democracies need to reinvent the capacity of experimenting so even the germans i can fully understand and by that topic about

we need to do structural reforms but we also need to experiment new ways and i thank you very much for coming in today i hope it is well with the experiment thank you for my cost says he'll present a united front on euro zone reform with germany by june he'll have to win over mrs merkel in that time and he has a whole nation should convince that his own domestic reforms make economic sense walkouts of causing travel chaos in the skies and on the ground across france with more strikes yesterday and today. who owns the railways they ask we do comes the answer french rail union so well organized workers like train driver fabulous villager are ready for battle when it comes to defending their privileges. don't go in part rail workers are more than ready to fight it out we're not interested in sitting round and talking about

it during our coffee break. i'm proud of being a train worker so what. rail workers enjoy considerable perks like retirement as early as fifty two and free rail travel but the railways are heavily in debt president macron says reform is essential yes. passengers are suffering because of the strike their working days are 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 . and say experts pushing through may be easier than it looks. when strikers find themselves in the minority that can make the more radical public opinion quickly turns against them. then they can't maintain the strike and have to give up because that could give them

a clone the opportunity to push through his reforms without unions agreeing with will be proof of your. mother from. the time your and his colleagues won't give up without a fight this after all is about where their futures are headed. he business coming your way including badly behaving banks down unda like that one for you later on first of all some sport with sarah actually behaving badly down there not yet we're going to hear more about. the first woman to talk about soccer which we can say in one word because by her munich we're awaiting the winner of shaka and 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 that they haven't won in thirty years. home side show good food spirit set one match away from entering the german cup final coached domini go to disco has made schulte good a league heavyweight this season here in frankfurt city coco batch buyers next

coach in braced. shoka misfired their first good look with digital kelly gary regretting his wide shut. later in the first half frankfurt goalkeeper lucas for a dead 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 death skis great luck. frankfurt at the corner with a chance. to you live each back killed a miracle to give the eagles a one nil lead in the seventy fifth minute a red card for the team and red k. shoka in extra man on the pitch shell could take advantage and level to school or will they thought they did but frankel decided to do was call for the handball. the replay confirmed the call was correct as most of us 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 in the shul good is in mourning while frankfurt is returning to the finals once again this time facing byron munich in berlin on may nineteenth. you're watching d.w. news still to come on the program as israel celebrates its seventieth anniversary we visit jewish settlements in the occupied west bank illegal under international law will they prevent israel from ever making peace with the palestinians. on that mark coming up in just a few minutes i'm circling in berlin have to see you again soon.

may the fourteenth one thousand nine hundred forty eight the state of israel was founded. for the jews it's the end of two thousand years of exile. for the palestinians it's the day they lost that whole lot of. nineteen forty eight jewish dream out of nightmare the creation of israel. in forty five minutes on g.w. . would it have been fighting for the case to be taken seriously in the words of one here's what's coming up. on this talk on

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a huge. bangladesh the dawn of islam as i'm an exclusive detail. you report starting april twenty first. welcome back here with news i'm sarah kelly in for land our top stories german chancellor angela merkel and french president a manual makana have put on a united front during meetings and berlin but divisions have still shown through paul has called on germany to join his push for economic reform by june merkel meanwhile says that germany wants to stand with france but that path her government must first assess the risks. cuba has elected its new president. the fifty seven year old communist party loyalist takes the reins from the castro brothers who ruled the island for the past six decades promised that he would keep

cuba's revolutionary politics. israel is marking seventy years of independence with celebrations across the country prime minister benjamin netanyahu began the day by inspecting a guard of honor he praised his country's achievements but also said that israelis will need to make sacrifices to ensure their security in the future and just if he's began at sundown yesterday with a lavish show in jerusalem. but even as the nation united's to mark this milestone there are sharp divisions in israeli society disagreement is perhaps deepest over the issue of settlements in the occupied west bank for the israeli right they are among the country's major achievements for the left they are a blight on israel's international reputation he traveled to the west bank for a closer look. skordas lies deep in the occupied west bank sixty families live in this illegal israeli outpost near the settlement of she'll our own cuts of

moved to s. coldest seven years ago with his family it's situated in the middle of an area where palestinians want to establish their state seventy years ago there's nothing here it's not it was empty it's a real symbol israel. these great friends right here it's you know it shows the leaf shows that we're back here we're coming home we're our home or more come home every year are growing cutoffs conviction made him come here he calls this land today and some area as it was known in the bible and claims it is jewish land according to international law though the settlements here in the occupied territories are illegal they're said to be one of the main obstacles to a two state solution. in the center of tel aviv to one that is taking part in a demonstration against the israeli government's occupation policy. leftist organizations called for the protest. they're also protesting the use of snipers and recent

demonstrations at the gaza border at the beginning of april there is a lot of fear was done in friends are hearing from now from this little enough to say they think that is done no harm is there an ergonomic delete it. i think they're down on the other side of the street a few members of the ultra right movement try to disturb the protest. in the past few years israel has seen a significant move to the political right cause has a left leaning activist and says it's not cool to be on the left anymore she like to keep the public debate alive on issues regarding peace with the palestinians and a two state solution the message we found on these demonstrations is that we must have peace we need to fight for this peace this situation that does not thorough us . to protest on social media and internet platforms in the hope it will have

some influence on other. young is very it is like alan cuts off i'm not interested in a two state solution he's convinced that the settlements the security of. military school you learn that if you sitting on the mountain you're protecting the valley this whole area is huge in some areas the mountain the whole area of tel aviv is the valley everybody knows if you sit here you're protecting the cities in the valley if you don't sit here you're not protecting a new settlement is being built not far from here officially sanctioned by the government for settlers who were forced to leave their outpost two different realities two points a few seventy years after the founding of the state the visions for the future could hardly be different. let's get more now on this seventy year anniversary for

israel we are joined by correspondent mary and diane who is joining us from tel aviv welcome to you maryam how are people there in the city of tel aviv celebrating the birthday of their nation. oh well the atmosphere in tel aviv is very joyful also very relaxed parties have been going on all night street parties deejays this morning thousands came to the beach to watch the big air show an hour long air show and right now i think israelis are doing what they always do on independence day which is mostly barbecue in the park with their families and i think it's important to note that you know this was preceded by a day of a memorial for the victims the fallen soldiers the victims of attacks and it's something that really precedes immediately independence day celebration so mourning is something that comes before the joy and destroy is really a celebration of normalcy and of the fact that this normal season even possible that something very special so definitely some somber and undertones despite the celebration there i want to turn to one of those others potentially somber

undertones because a lot of israelis of arabic origin are also living in israel how are they were backed into this milestone. correct it's actually one fifth of the population of israel or arab citizens they've been very silent at the celebration but they're not joining in the celebrations of course arab schools for example are not celebrating like. jewish neighbors some people are also going to visit the destroyed villages of the sites where palestinians had to flee in one nine hundred forty eight so for them it's a difficult day because it's also the nakba but at the same time many arab citizens or also see themselves as having a good life in israel and wanting peace and integration so it's a two sided perspective. mary and doug and with the latest from tel aviv we thank you so much for your reporting. thanks. and let's get more

now i have with me here in the studio you can file chairman of the israeli german society and berlin we thank you so much for joining us this afternoon and it's my first i want to begin first with something that is written on your website you actually have an expression on your website and it reads as follows a friend in need is a friend indeed israel needs good friends and reliable friends more than ever you know the tone of that statement it seems to give the impression that israel is somehow beleaguered when we look at the country now seventy years on is that a fair assessment is israel beleaguered i am married not only interested i much very much engaged in this country in german israeli relations for so many years and i have been traveling to easter is so many times and every month every time when i was there i finished my trip resist eight mm and

i'm still confused but on a higher level it is that it is always in a very special situation or raise a very different country and has always very different problems and really is germans. in many reasons very much committed in good relationship and one of those reasons is of course the history of anti-semitism that that has been here in germany i want to talk a little bit more about the rise of anti-semitism in europe generally speaking because that has been a factor and i know you want to say something you know what is it a sign would you say that that the past is being forgotten and if so what can change that. as a past is never been forgotten it is it is always in our mind but it's not the only reason to have to create and to. to work for good relationship

the good relationship. is based not only on the historical reasons not. as images in which is raising right now in germany and in europe but also because israel is. let's see promotes the same values as we do and it's the only country in the middle east which is based on the same very use as we are in germany and in europe but surely you must be concerned by what's happening in your own country right now in germany because for example we know that you you served in politics you were a christian democratic member of the bundestag for sixteen years in fact and we know that in this most recent election back in september for the first time a far right party entered the german bundestag a.f.g. party are you worried yes of course i'm very but the f.t.'s so-called

if the the cause of service friends of israel they are they say we are not anti-semitic be they many members many voters may be. anti-semitic but not is a program and of course we have a very very very great distance to the members of the c. functionaries the leading people of the party but we have to be very cautious and we don't accept members of this party in our organization as long as we know it. but nobody has to. define i mean my religion is so in so my political party is so and so as long as he is ready and able to support the german israel relationship he's very much right but i don't know anybody who came from this party if you are cautious you are probably

right it is that they actually do when they are in office there i don't have so many members that right now they have of course from too much far too many voters so we can't really prove which is the political background always the people who are joining us just briefly before we go i want to turn to the situation in israel itself and to the seventieth anniversary as we mentioned for the for the nation's founding the occasion is no by the palestinians as the day of catastrophe it is translated as a national. do you see a day when these contrasting views are perhaps reconciled i mean we know that you visited the country quite a lot do you see if a lasting peace in the middle east ever to be found. peace is possible remember in one thousand nine hundred five when being was assassinated.

the hope of peace died is row but as long as you live there was hope their voices there were many reasons to believe in a very peaceful future so it depends very often in just very few persons very very special situations and it's a combination of historical reasons. people who are leading in this countries and we don't have. to say we. the people who. work for peace who are asking who are demanding they don't have it we are partners in the palestinian authorities it's the region. is raining and he is. far more than eighty years old and nobody

knows if you're really in power or has he only has a job so but i believe is there is hope it can be involved he is time it can be in one hundred years time but as long as there is no peace we have to fight for it and i'm not optimistic level we want to thank you now from from joining us this afternoon to tell us a little bit more about your experience in the region and also in germany as we mentioned you're the chairman of the israeli german society in berlin and also sixteen years in the german parliament we appreciate it thank you. you're watching t w n is still to come on the program it is something that hasn't been seen in saudi arabia for nearly forty years we will tell you why this audience of the hottest ticket in the country last. but first aging braces for trade turmoil and fizzle and has the latest. china's commerce ministry says the country is well prepared to handle any fallout from a trade dispute with the u.s.

says increased tariffs on u.s. imports will not have a big impact overall as tree spokesperson golfing has called washington's restrictions a miscalculation warning the u.s. from trying to stop china's rise this week the u.s. commerce department bad american firms from selling parts to one chinese company for the next seven years beijing responded with tariffs on sorghum and synthetic rubber. the power struggle between the u.s. and china is reaching new business sectors. trumps administration is now taking aim at c.t.e. a chinese smartphone producer and network supplier the reason given is that c.t.e. exports telecoms equipment to iran and north korea countries which are on u.s. sanctions lists that of washington has long been worried about the company's close ties to the chinese government. c.t.e. was the world's fourth largest mobile infrastructure company in twenty seventeen

after fellow chinese company who are y. and european players ericsson inaki but now its market share is in serious danger. it could cause immense damage to c.t.e. if you ask companies were barred from doing business with it because they supply thirty percent of its equipment. china's ministry of commerce says it will protect the interests of chinese companies. and we hope we won't see an escalation of china u.s. trade friction. but as we've said china is prepared for all possibilities. should the u.s. side keep moving in the wrong way. we will fight back resolutely and fight to the end. the conflicts next peak could come as early as next week when the us book publisher brought

a list of tariffs on one hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods. finally a case of the banks behaving badly down under an inquiry has heard how the couple of bank of australia knowingly build dead people continuing to withdraw consultancy fees from one deceased customers account for over a decade the nose broke into tears before the royal commission explaining how she lost her home after acting on advice from the westpac bank government data shows lenders gave bad advice to over eighteen thousand consumers over the past decade costing the billions of dollars the street is treasurer has raised the prospect of jail terms for the worst executive offenders. now let them eat popcorn amongst the plan for the movies sarah. fought for and indeed this is a hot ticket ban in fact this wasn't simply. popping popcorn because the lights were also damn and it was movie time in saudi arabia the kingdom has opened its

first movie theater in nearly forty years and it's part of a drive toward social reform by crown prince mohammed bin some months the cinema in the capital riyadh held a screening of the hollywood blockbuster black panther the audience was by invitation only but take it for the general public go on sale today. times are changing in saudi arabia. the kingdom has lifted its ban on cinemas. and now these people are attending the first official public screening of a film in more than three decades. they're about to watch the hollywood blockbuster at the black panther for many it's an historic moment. i think there are a lot of things a changing roberson happening we're opening up. where opting out with everything that's happening in the world. will cinemas were banned in the one nine

hundred eighty s. following a campaign by religious hardliners. the crown prince mohammed bin solomon has reversed the decision as part of a push to modernize the country but it's also about making money and creating new jobs as the kingdom tries to diversify its economy away from dependency on oil. our market is by far the largest in the region. a sizable market so it's very lucrative a lot of you know testers are sort of side to to be part of this industry just for all the excitement some things look set to stay the same for now at least women will only be allowed to go to the cinema with a male guardian. the government will also sense the content but nonetheless saudi arabia seems to be changing its tune. and we will continue the culture news now but i'm different topic we are joined by our culture editor karen helped start his tell hared tell us about another story

because you know many critics they agree that there was hardly an artist in the last century as controversial as lenny riefenstahl right you know this german filmmaker who died back in two thousand and three at age one hundred one talks about longevity of their own life was famous beauty for her. if we shot documentaries that helps define and glorify the nazi aesthetic leaving a stain on her reputation for the rest of her life well now we understand that her state archives have been officially handed over in berlin right exactly and this is a really big deal lots of excitement this morning firstly because on the one hand was born here in berlin right next door to us here in vetting actually and she said this quite some time ago that shit she wanted the city to have this so this is something of a homecoming but on the other hand because now that we have all this incredible material so films photos books archives letters correspondence is of course it can be critically and properly evaluated and that might just lead to

a re-evaluation of the role of this incredibly controversial woman but let's have a look for stuff at what this estate compass. the estates of german filmmaker than he riefenstahl consists of seven hundred boxes crammed with photos film stock manuscripts letters and files it was a meticulous collector she flew away almost nothing so far only a small part of it has been evaluated. of course is the perspective of. there was certainly be a lot of interesting new material but it's too early to say whether korea will be reassessed as a result of economics are. any riefenstahl wrote film history triumph of the will most notorious work from nine hundred thirty four is a grandiose staging of the nazi party rally in europe.

the estate includes first drafts context sheets and photos of her other important work a limpia two part film about the olympic games of nine hundred thirty six was high old as an aesthetic masterpiece. but lenny riefenstahl never shook off the stigma of being an artist who collaborated with the nazis the state could provide new evidence so far no personal correspondence with the nazi leader and of hitler has been found lenny riefenstahl try to reinvent herself after the war in the one nine hundred sixty s. her pictures of the new troy were internationally acclaimed. in her seventy's she learned to dive and captured impressive pictures of the underwater.

one surprising document has already surfaced a handwritten letter from photographer helmut newton to the ninety eight year old complimenting her on her legs and referencing the legendary animosity between marlene dietrich and lenny riefenstahl. so a lot of controversy but really an incredible body of work and we have to talk about her two most famous films in particular absolutely you know monumental is the way you could probably describe them and that's very much also her her style i think that it's a fitting word as well as a limitation i was incredibly innovative in her visual language and we see that probably best with the first film which is olympia of a sleeper visual record of the one nine hundred eighty six olympics in berlin as she pioneered an awful lot of techniques that are still used today in film and sports coverage and in advertising things like multiple cameras tracking rails and crane slow motion and of course rhythmic montage to music that all made for

credible dramatic effect you can see here her obsession with the greek ideal of aesthetic bodies now far more controversial is this one the documentary from one hundred thirty four the nazi rally in nuremberg triumph of the will and although she claimed that she was completely disassociated from their politics and only making an artistic film you can see here these images are clearly crafted to mythologize the event. there's undeniable glorification of nazi pageantry in this film and a day for kishen of hitler if you will especially in the opening sequences and needless to say her budgets were enormous money was no object obviously for the nazis when it came to getting their their image right and because of those films she was a pariah after the war but this these style elements have been have been overtaken and persisted as a list of local to watch that imagery but seeing all those swastika is in fact it's difficult to look at that and just see it as and value artistic obviously merit so

i mean the jury is really out as to whether or not she was a naive participant whether it was just a bit of wedding or if she was you know an active you know collaborator when it comes to the philosophy but i mean there's no denying though that she was a pretty incredible artist that's right i mean we know from documents that have we've already seen that she was utterly infatuated with hitler and if she did. distance herself and when she did it was at a very late stage there are many many stories of things that she did and did not vehemently that she did. for instance that she witnessed killing while filming at the polish front or for for instance the fact that she was possibly even a mistress of hitler himself or of goggles and hopefully the meticulous study of of this material that we have now will shed some light on a lot of the unanswered questions and to how how intimate some of those relationships were and it's also a good question as to whether it's all they're absolutely and never are censored. and he was there was one of find out more. details you dot com slash culture lots

only need and i mean we will be talking about this this will be a long process probably will cost up to a million euros to to actually sort this out properly it's being divided up it's going be a long process we we will be coming back to any different as we discover what's in have the hope is to really get some answers here karen home shot with the very latest on this we we very much appreciate it. you're watching the news a quick reminder of the stops the top stories that we have been following for you german chancellor angela merkel and french president the money will mark on have put on a united front during meetings and run land but divisions have still shown through kong has called on germany to join his push for e.u. wide economic reform by june americal meanwhile says that germany wants to stand with grounds but that her government must first assess the risk. and with that you're up to date on t.v. news i'm sarah cali and berlin and from all of us here at d.f.w.

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