and i. can't with the dawn of islam this is an exclusive d.w. report starting april twenty first. this is the that we news live from berlin the changing of the guard in here that cuba swears in its new president me grell the us going to hell and the hand-picked successor to rove construct the ass canal vows to continue the country's revolution more than sixty years on from the communist uprising also coming up french president emanuel mcconnell brings his charm offensive to berlin in search of

a new were formed but shells are going to go give his pricey proposals a lukewarm reception and israel turns seventy as a nation celebrates its founding the prime minister calls on israelis to make sacrifices to ensure the country's future safety. and well iraq thank you very much for your company everyone. cuba has a new president and his name isn't castro for the first time since the communist revolution more than a half century ago the country's leader does not hail from the castro family who. has been sworn in as the country's new president replacing our own castro cuban lawmakers have decided to elect the ask him how he could rule for a maximum of two five year terms d.s. cannot climb through the ranks of the. ominous party for decades he has now said

his mandate is to give continuity to the cuban revolution. while our old castro will remain the leader of the communist party for now but cuba's do have expectations from their new president. a region change it is not the era of fiedel and raul castro may be coming to an end but the cuba they built remains launch of the unchanged cubans extent 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 on their own as well i'll tell you. can now will now be the first leader of communist cuba who was not a member of the revolutionary generation and he's 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 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 dance canal a party loyalist is a cautious choice for a cautious country in cuba the revolution will not be jeopardized. well a journey now is dr park amar swami she is a cuban specialist at reading a university in the u.k. a very good afternoon this isn't exactly a transfer of power more like musical chairs. i know it's a little bit more than that there's many things that you can say about me in the ass kind that make him quite different from what's come before all. those are good things and bad things i think the biggest thing to say about him is that he's somebody as you said in your report that rose up through the ranks of the communist

party and most importantly he did so outside of on that so his experience of cuba is a very different one he has he's in touch very much with life in the provinces and it's often a mistake to generalize about cuba based only on a vision from havana right now that's a very very valid point that you make there he promised to defend the social star revolution in that speech that he just gave a short while ago but also acknowledges that economic reform is necessary do you believe that cubans can expect change in society with this change in leadership that. cubans can expect as much changes as possible cubans have been experiencing change predominantly and probably most radically since the one nine hundred ninety s. when the collapse of communism in the rest of the world meant that they were very much on their own and they had to bring in market reforms very very quickly and open up to a more market driven idea of socialism so they used to change i think probably the

most problematic change has been the expectation that was raised by obama coming to power and the relaxing of diplomatic relations under his government and that door has been very firmly shut by his successor president trump so in many ways it's very frustrating the last couple of years have been very frustrating for cubans in terms of what they can expect aren't well let's talk a little bit more about that flesh out for us because that's a very good point because under all castro there was this push to open cuba up to the rest of the world even the united states but what kind of obstacles can the new president president of the u.s. can now face considering you know this trumpet ministration this new this. u.s. administration now in washington that is more isolationist. well the answer to that is very simple let's not forget and let's not forget that actually under the obama government the u.s. embargo that's been in place since nine hundred sixty two is still in place and

that has been reinforced in many ways by donald trump and his government so as much as cubans might want to engineer economic change and social change from within the hands of very much tied by u.s. foreign policy towards cuba and that's i think is the greatest element of frustration and it has a generational axis as well so many young cubans predominately in havana because they've had a lot more contact with foreigners through tourism and other things are more frustrated than the rest of the people of relations and more desiring of economic change but as i said the last couple of years have been very turbulent in that respect and a lot of people feel and don't always understand i think even in cuba that it's not necessarily a cuban problem cuba is doing everything it can you know your reports referred to restrictions being lifted on travel now those restrictions were lifted several years ago however the rest of the world finds it quite difficult to issue visas to cubans for all kinds of reasons and so the cuban government has done as much as

they can and certainly under an obama huge advances were made those have all been pushed back and again cuba is and is in paralysis because of u.s. policy towards it i've got fifteen seconds left why was he picked. he was picked because the years a younger member of the communist party he was picked because he has been trained and primed for this post over several years and he's been primed i don't mean that in any kind of sinister way but he's been trained to understand that the cuban revolution is very complex and to do that as president he needs to respect the desires aspirations memories experiences of a whole range of cubans of all kinds of generations dr park and reading university in the u.k. thank you very much. all right here in germany

one of the suspects an alleged anti semitic attack in berlin has turned himself into police police say the nineteen year old is a syrian the entire incident was recorded by one of the victims he and his friend were wearing a jewish style skullcaps when they were attacked by a man with a belt he later told the news they were wearing the keep for the first time to show an israeli friend it was safe to do so in the german capital. art want to bring you know have to date with some of the other stories making news around the world. the king of swaziland has changed the name of his country to the kingdom of this one teeny the name means place of the swazi the announcement coincides with celebrations to mark fifty years of independence from britain the country is one of the world's few absolute monarchies. police and army are in the armenian armenia's capital ledger a van have arrested dozens of opposition demonstrators protesting constitutional

changes that allow a former president to become prime minister protesters calling the move is an attempt by ex-president serge circassian to hold on to power as the seventh consecutive day of protests taking place in the city. britain's queen elizabeth has welcomed the leaders of more than fifty commonwealth countries to buckingham palace they will discuss issues including climate change terrorism and cyber security the queen says it is her wish that prince charles becomes the group's next head. israel is celebrating its seventieth anniversary of its founding with events 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 israelis will need to make sacrifices to ensure their security in the future festivities began at sundown yesterday with a laugh a show in jerusalem. but even as the nation unites to

mark this milestone there are sharp divisions within israeli society this agreement is perhaps deepest over the issue of settlements in the occupied west bank did over a year's time you cramer travel to the west bank to the settlement of their fish to take a closer look at life there for the israeli right such outposts are among the country's major achievements for the left they are a blight on israel's international reputation. as squatters lies deep in the occupied west bank sixty families live in this illegal israeli outpost near the settlement of she. own coats of move to a school does that mean years ago with his family it situated in the middle of an area with palestinians want to establish their state many years ago there's nothing here that's not it was empty it's a real symbol for israel. these great friends right here it's you know it shows

belief shows that we're back here we're coming home we're our home. or more come home every year for growing cutoffs conviction made him come here because 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 dawn 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. that an ingrained are hearing from the from the village enough to say they think that the now harm is there are. deleted.

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 the wrong 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 serve us. don posted activities on social media and internet platforms in the hope it will have some influence on other israelis. young israelis like alan cuts off i'm not interested in a two state solution he's convinced that the settlements have to security of it's fine. 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 anybody 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 just 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 of israel and the visions for the future could hardly be more different. all joining me now for a motel of eve is chairman of the israel council on foreign relations and former israeli ambassador to germany pre more on mr palmer thank you very much for coming on and spending time with us a seventy years says the foundation of israel is this reason to celebrate or to contemplate. it

depends who you ask i mean most people celebrate most people celebrate because this is their tradition because it's independence day because the government does everything to make it as happy as possible to make it as. obvious as possible but of course of many people who are also very critical about what's happening in israel they're not the majority but let's say they are an important part of the population and particularly of the intelligentsia. mr people president rivlin and prime minister netanyahu have repeated that israel's independence was its ability to defend itself a certainly a very important trait to have on there if country that is has to deal with so many of security issues but what can your country offer the palestinians that would help you become more secure. you mean

what we cab a what we are doing or what the government is aiming at because what we've got is very simple we can separate the palestinians allow them to have an independent palestinian state as it was meant to be seventy years ago. and of course local for. everything necessary for the security of israel what we will do what the government does and what the government wants to do is to develop these subtle months in the occupied territories sort this will lead to with that we will not be able to operate on the palestinians than this will lead eventually to the arc to the sation of all of the palestinian territories nobody says openly but this is what's happening in reality shred of it slowly slowly but this is what we're going to so are we also headed to a one state solution instead of a two state solution. yes but

if it'll be a one state solution what does it mean it means two nations in one state i mean you can and next the territories without the next in the population and when you're next a population the question remains do you when next the west bank or rolls of the gaza strip go the gaza strip as part of palestine no matter how you look at it in the population sees a dog or a field the doll boy so the question is what do you do with all the population do you grant them the israeli citizenship or live i mean like we do already with these radio arab so-called israeli arab the one million of them war or do you were in force apartheid but that won't work in the twenty first century you can't impose apartheid anymore are want to go it to a bilateral relations that recently or germany israeli relations appear to have cooled down a bit and that's just not down to the chemistry between mr netanyahu and the chancellor merkel but also issues like the status of jerusalem the two state issue

and so on and so forth would you agree with some of some of that analysis. vocal i think is the divergence of point of view between germany and israel totally officially totally and if you look at the polls in germany and the polls in israel it's extremely interesting to compare in nineteen sixty five when we established the robotic relations eighty percent of the germans were probably israeli and only twenty percent of the israelis wanted to have any contact with germany today it's the other way round eighty percent of the germans are now that the israeli but their reserved because of the policy of israel in the occupied territories and about by listing in problems and eighty percent of the israelis are very pro german as totally in the same numbers but reversed so i think it slowly and

slowly the german government will have to align itself to the policies of the european union so far the german government still feels that it has a special obligation towards the jews and towards the state of israel and it holds its opposition back but that they cannot hold on. avi pretty more chairman of the israel council on foreign relations and former israeli ambassador to germany sir thank you for spending time with us. all right we stay now in germany because the french president and i call him german chancellor angela merkel have put on a united front at talks here in berlin but the pair disagree about how to reform the european union mccauley is pushing for deeper ties but he's facing resistance from a cautious america they're hoping to reach a compromise ahead of an e.u. so much in june but for now their plans are a work in progress. it's

a conversation the french president's been waiting months to begin. but as he arrived it was chancellor merkel's turn to wait. her choice of venue for today's talks was berlin's home bold for him a cultural center of national importance that still under construction. with the european union also in need of reconstruction the symbolism was clear in a world full of new challenges metal in my core a keen to build a more robust bloc joining hands to kick start the legendary franker german engine is a first step in that direction but their success will depend on reaching common positions ahead of a key european summit in june they have a long list of issues to agree upon. is not too late because we have different points of depart germany and france have differing opinions on some issues so what we need now is open debate and the ability to find compromise complements the potty

did it mean we want to find common responses to the challenges we're facing today and to the challenges of tomorrow as we prepare our future that's what we've committed ourselves to do and what we shall accomplish for the e.u. summit in june we know that means a great deal of work for us having a new civil war. in his joint agency a french journalist reminded merkel about a german writer she'd quoted when michael first visited last year helen has surrender his famous sentence in every beginning lies a certain magic he asked her whether the magic was still alive it's the first time i think when i quoted that sentence i wasn't fully aware of how long it can take to form a government so we decided to conserve that magic we put it away for a few months but now it's coming back. at camp david and. with the franco german conversation on europe's future resuming in water appears to be a friendly atmosphere all eyes are now on a joint meeting of the two countries cabinets in june. are right and ben is here

with the business angle of that all important power that took place here reforming the euro zone is a mammoth undertaking you know that leyla the hardest part though is getting old members to agree on what and how magical is calling for flexibility and once a french counterpart to be prepared to make compromises my call wants to see more financial solidarity between the european countries who share the euro among his ideas for economic reform a common finance minister for the nine hundred four plus deep of banking union germany is wary about a shared budget and is concerned most of the darity could undermine competitiveness . 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 or is germany holding back the eurozone from performing to its full potential by

rejecting these reforms of mr my horse but i think my personal view is here it's a question of trust and for for decades the 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 money and our corn is famous for one speech that things would go in motion but especially in a country like germany it takes time so there needs to be signs that this trust is a virtue 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 i mean germany 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 you actually mixing good economic policy with

a lot of emotional aspects and this is what we've 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 of c.s. use economy spokesperson yesterday and he will not budge from that formulation that formula of reforms equal. make 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 where is the european apple well this is this is a good example to see to name all of those in china look the ten largest companies in the world ada american to a chinese none a european the issue for the politicos 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 organ was elected by forty nine percent of the peoples but it was probably a massive money place the minds going on that innovation needs the financing and that financing is not going to come from

a divided europe well 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 paula political question is that speed is important i think to the key topic for all of democracies and that's probably what prism i can try to push in his speech in the european parliament is that the 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 because well with the experiment thank you. the hazard lights back on that opel and the german government may come to the rescue although the benefactor is in french hands chancellor merkel urging the p.s.a. group to keep its promises before buying the european arm of general motors last year it vowed to uphold job guarantees that opel but shop stuff have rejected wage

concessions demanded by p.s.a. they were in exchange for a commitment to invest in a production line for a new model at a factory and not become a continues to lose money recently management pressed unions to forgo a four point three percent pay rise to allow for further investments in germany is that your call with more. lots of uncertainty a germany's carmaker opel the company is having a really hard time to complete the homework off their new owner peers say their goal is very simple opel who has been reporting losses since one thousand nine hundred nine mostly under the ownership of general motors needs to be profitable again and that by twenty twenty p.s.a. has promised in the past that no jobs will be cut but the opel are not only have a job guarantee until the very end of this year if p.s.a. runs out of patience opel might have to fire up to one thousand people most likely

in their smallest production location in the city of eisenhower german chancellor angela merkel has reminded p.s.a. many times not to forget what they were promised to thousands of opel employees before taking over the company. promises promises that i can say that in french. i'll tell you no later all right before we let you go in our mind you have the top stories that we're following for you right now cuba has sworn in its new president as me where the us kind of the fifty seven year old communist party loyalist takes the reins from the construct brothers who ruled this island nation for the past six decades promised he would keep up cuba's revolutionary politics. in washington w.'s on leave iraq we hope to see going to top the hour.

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