the dawn of islam there's a an exclusive d.w. report starting april twenty first. uni. union. this is deja vu news live from berlin a tense time here in the german capital as authorities begin working to defuse a potentially deadly world war two bomb the british device was found on the building site close to the central train station thousands have been evacuated from the area we'll go live to the scene. also coming up the suspect in an alleged anti-semitic attack has handed himself into berlin police authorities say he is

a teenage asylum seeker who arrived in germany from syria in two thousand and fifteen. north and south korea set up a telephone hotline ahead of a where summit next week it's meant to ease communication between the two sides are at odds over the north's nuclear ambitions . i'm serious oh my god they're going to have you with us central berlin is on shutdown this morning as emergency services diffuse a potentially deadly world war two bomb the british device was uncovered on a building site near the city's central train station german authorities are evacuating thousands in the surrounding area rail services will also be halted for several hours at the central train station seven decades after the end of the second world war germany still finds more than two thousand tons of unexploded bombs and live ammunition every year most are unearthed on construction sites.

rebecca rivers is at the scene covering the story for us hi rebecca give us an idea what's going on the evacuation is underway. yes that's right sumi the evacuation is underway we have been moved away from the bomb site where i'm now standing about eight hundred meters from the bomb site just on the edge of the evacuation zone on the on this side of the bell in central station which you can see behind me. the train station has been completely shut down all routes have been diverted and basically the city around the bomb site is in lockdown we're back with mention the thousands of tons of bombs are discovered every year what makes this different. well the size of the bombs to me as you as you say it experts people do dig up world will memorabilia world war not memorabilia story about world war explosives often

however this this sheer size of this one is what makes it so different and its proximity to the city so it's a five hundred kilo bomb and it is so close to central berlin that had to evacuate lots of the city as i just mentioned the central station one of the city's main hospitals charité is also had certain buildings surrounding it evacuated as well as the the armed forces building has had to forces hospital building has also been evacuated as well as germany's central intelligence agency that building's been evacuated so it's a really grand scale as well as as you mentioned thousands of residents in the area and all the transportation has been shut down across the city so it thirty's don't want to take any chances whilst this is a regular occurrence this scale of this means that people you know really don't want to take any chances you know are back as you said this is a really big bomb and actually we can take a look at it ourselves because police have actually shared

a photo on their official twitter account let's look at it here where they are saying here the source of all evils the hash tag world war bomb our emergency responders stand ready that's impressive now we also have a picture here of the water police securing one of the canals a leading up to the main station and the ongoing operation is disrupting for lin's public transportation as you're saying we're back on several stations throughout the city center displaying evacuation warnings so we're back at you know you talking to people how are they taking this all this destruction today. people have been pretty good about it i did speak to one girl out the front earlier just as they were sort of securing the front of this station behind me and she was a bit distress she she couldn't get to her family her father was on the phone and she was a bit distressed about that but all in all i've spoken to tourists and locals commuting and you know i mean people feel a little bit i suppose there's a bit of excitement that they caught up in this historical moment and also i feel

that they they think that safety first is the case that you know that they would rather be away from the area in case something does happen but i also saw a tweet from teagle one of the main airports here in berlin wishing luck to the experts so with the bomb expert so i think that you know the whole city sort of rallying around them and it's definitely captivating the audience here and rebecca when will this be over well it'll be another few hours yet sue me the bomb is supposed to be to get the disposal is beginning within the next half an hour to an hour and it could take a couple of hours all going to plan things should be back up and running by around three pm so just off to in time for everyone to knock off for the weekend all right rebecca ritter's for us after central train station in berlin thank you rebecca stay in your berlin police are investigating a potential hate crime that's raised fears of rising anti-semitism in germany one

of the suspects in that attack is now turned himself in to police he was filmed beating up two young men who wore jewish religious head coverings now those men told the w. news they were wearing the campus because they wanted to show a friend it's safe to do so in berlin. with this video the alleged attacker addressed the outcry a friend announces that can and wants to turn himself into the place. of a nineteen year old suspect was filmed apparently assaulting an israeli arab on the streets of berlin he yelled you hoody jew in arabic media reports say the alleged attacker is a palestinian who came to germany in twenty fifteen after leaving a syria. in the past year berlin has seen several anti semitic incidents like this one are now could stay when palestinians and their supporters demonstrate against israel protesters made anti semitic statements and burnt an israeli flag the billion base crowds big initiative against anti semitism visit schools to explain the subject including to students with immigrant backgrounds they want to gain

seeing anti semitic attacks specifically muslims. there is a specific group among muslims who are anti semitic is much more sometimes like in the present case they act in a particularly hateful way but i think that we should not stigmatize muslims. rather we should try to convince them to fight against anti-semitism everything else is counterproductive. berlin has one of the largest arabic and muslim populations in germany be found mixed reactions among the community and ok as a human being i'm happy to live with christians and jews and muslims together but the jews in palestine are occupiers. not all jews occupy palestine so what does a boy who was born a jew have to do with it no minister. we can't trust social media if you have there

has to be an investigation and if they find that palestinians did this then i reject that as a muslim for the nickel muslim all of them the case has left many jews wondering if they're safe in berlin. now to some other stories making headlines around the world dozens of people have reportedly been injured after two passenger trains collided in the austrian city of salzburg the crash happened at the main station in the early morning hours an investigation is underway to determine the cause of the accident officials in japan of enforce a no go area around of all kaino that's erupted for the first time in two hundred fifty years it's part of the range of a southern island of q should residents in nearby towns reported falling volcanic rocks and ash. tammy duckworth has become the first u.s. senator bring her baby to work just yesterday her fellow lawmakers unanimously passed a rule to allow babies under one year old aunt to the senate floor the u.s. is the only developed nation that doesn't offer paid maternity leave. north and

south korea have opened a telephone hotline ahead of next week's historic summit leaders of the countries planned to speak on the phone before meeting face to face in an effort to denuclearize the peninsula their rivals have met only twice since the war ended in an armistice in one nine hundred fifty three at their last summit in two thousand and seven former leaders kim jong il and human agreed to seek an official end to the war but that never materialized seoul says it intends to keep the new hotline open after the rare summit takes place journalist bruce harrison is standing by in seoul now for more on the story hi bruce so this summit represents only the third time that leaders of the two koreas have actually met since the end of the korean war what can we expect. well frankly it's hard to say at this point you mention it's the third time so they aren't meeting that off in the leaders of north and south korea but in the past we

haven't seen diplomacy working at this fast of a pace it's only been a few months since kim jong un reached out to south korea saying he was interested in holding talks and bringing peace to the korean peninsula so in that sense it's fairly significant that they move this quickly and perhaps that there could be some sort of a positive outcome between this summit but really it's hard to say based on the failures in the past and how mercurial north korea has been sometimes that working level talks are even higher they have simply decided they were not going to continue those engagements and that has led to the president and they have nuclear weapons now where they didn't before so that is self is a wildcard the north has more leverage than it ever has previously and ahead of these talks through seoul is already said it's pushing for a declaration that the war is over before they would sign any possible treaty will that actually happened. and that's another good question so this week president

moon jane has been talking about how necessary it is to eventually. realize a peace treaty right now that the countries are under an armistice or essentially a truce basically a period of time where they agreed not to be hostile towards one another or hostile but the the war is technically over but they're not exchanging fire that has lasted for sixty to seventy years and says that needs to ian and we need a peace treaty at this point but he's condition that he says that may only happen talking about that may only happen if they can really reach certain agreements on denuclearization and it's hard to tell if that'll be possible this point president moon has told the nation that through working level talks north korea has said it's willing to give up its nuclear weapons. is long as the u.s. insists hostile policies toward the north and moon even said that doesn't mean the

u.s. has to remove its troops from the penciler but in the past that has been the main condition for north korea continuing to develop its nuclear weapons that the u.s. has a presence here that it protects the region with a nuclear umbrella so it's very hard to believe that those that a peace treaty is possible because denuclearization seems such a far way off it's kim regime it does but it's just very briefly if you can this is the nuclear weapon seem to be the north's only leverage here do you really think that we would see him give up those weapons. well he's worked so hard to build them and he's worked at a faster pace than his father did and he's only been in office for about six or seven years now so it's quite incredible what he's been able to accomplish western analysts were blown away that they actually were able to develop at the pace they have no one expected him to have to capabilities they have today so in that regard it's hard to believe that he would simply give them up. but the math the matter is

he's looking towards regimes survival and perhaps the sanctions facing north korea are tough enough these days from the u.s. and the rest of the world that he is feeling this squeeze and he thinks maybe it is necessary to actually have a genuine conversation with the south in the u.s. and ultimately maybe regime survival is more important than it knew that the nuclear weapons journalist chris harrison reporting for us live from seoul bruce thank you very much. thank you. to sports now and now with some breaking news coming into us arsenal manager arsene wenger says he'll be stepping down at the end of the season in a statement issued by the premier league club on friday the frenchman has been at the club since one thousand nine hundred six and won seventeen titles including three league trophies as we said that news has just come in to us but we'll bring you more on that story as the details come in to us now a turkish cup semifinal clash in istanbul was abandoned on thursday after best

coach. was struck in the head by an object thrown from the crowd she later received five stitches in the hospital tensions have been running high in the match between fierce live rivals but she touched and fenerbahce trouble started when a better player was sent off for a reckless tackle fans started throwing objects on to the pitch and was struck the sides players and officials left the pitch. the disgraced former cycling champion lance armstrong has agreed to pay five million dollars to settle a u.s. federal lawsuit armstrong was accused of defrauding his sponsor of the u.s. postal service by using performance enhancing drugs the u.s. government and armstrong's ex team a florida floyd landis had sought one hundred million dollars in damages armstrong now forty six was stripped of seven tour de france titles and banned for life for doping. a minor now of our top story that we're following at this hour major transport chaos is expected today in berlin as crews work to diffuse

a massive world war two bomb near the city's main train station rail service will be suspended for several hours and thousands of people are being cleared from the era area. sir kelly will have an update on your headlines for you at the top the hour. and i'm. sure the people of the world over in submission. to the opinions we want to stress g.w. on facebook and twitter go up to date and in touch follow us home.