this is g.w. news live from berlin tension and traffic in the german capital as authorities begin working to defuse a potentially deadly world war two bomb the british device was found on a building site close to the central train station thousands are being evacuated from the area we will go live to the seed also coming up the suspect in the alleged attempt the smiting attack has attended himself into poland believes authorities say that he is a teenage asylum seeker arrived in germany from syria in twenty fifteen. north and

south korea set up a telephone hotline and again where summoned next week it's meant to ease communication between the two sides at odds over the north's nuclear ambitions. played. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us. central berlin on shut down this morning as emergency services diffuse a potentially deadly world war two bomb the british bomb was uncovered on a building site near the city's central train station now 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 on earth on construction sites and for more let's bring in rebecca rivers who is standing by at the scene for us so rebecca what's the situation there where you are. hi sara well i'm standing here in front of main central station main street train station national and regional rail also where the main lines go through for people to cross town it has been completely shut down police have spent the last three hours evacuating the area and eight hundred metre radius around the bomb site and the disposal was supposed to start about half an hour ago but evacuations are still underway they have me now to get everyone away from the area so it's been slightly delayed things are pretty calm here at the moment out the front but they're hoping to get under way within the next hour and amid those delays amid the folding of

their plan we're learning more from the authorities especially on social media and i just want to bring up actually some more that we're learning about the bomb itself because earlier the berlin police they they shared a photo on their official twitter account and it said the following it said on height a straw so they're the source of evils of the world war bomb are emergency responders stand ready and you can see them standing there meantime three hundred police officers they are at work to make sure all berliners in the affected areas are taken to safety as you just mentioned rebecca and all buildings are empty of the ongoing operation is disrupting berlin's public transportation as you might imagine and here's a rare sight check this out berlin's otherwise overcrowded central station completely deserted there and rebecca we know that you're standing outside of that central station and this bomb in particular i mean as we mentioned here in germany thousands of tons of bombs they were discovered every year but this one is really

particular what makes it different. well it's the size of the bombs there as you say you know do you find stuff regularly in germany but this one five hundred kilos of the british bomb it's really big i spoke to a bomb expert near the site and disposal workers were actually killed just as they were going to work on the bomb so it does happen and authorities don't want to take any chances and also the fact that it's right here in the center of the city that's that's pretty rare you know often they do find these things but they're sort of further out not in such a built up area so that makes it quite dangerous absolutely and we were just looking actually at a radius of that that area that you were for into that one kilometer radius indeed right there in the center of the city meantime we also understand that a person in charge of the bombs right now i mean sorry to interrupt you there but they've had to shut down sorry. i was just going to say rebecca

we know that you've been speaking to people down there we've also heard from the bomb disposal. official who's in charge of the whole operation a bit earlier and i want to play what he said and then get your reaction there after. apparently we actually don't have a clip of him speaking so you know the interesting thing about this i mean we're talking about the radius there the technology is also quite interesting the one that they're using because it's very obviously advanced for such a high profile operation like this but how dangerous could it be if things go wrong tell us a little bit more about that. well it could be really dangerous as i mentioned before bomb experts said to me that for a thousand kilometer radius windows would explode if the bomb were to go off i mean obviously people you know the authorities do not want to chance that happening it

doesn't happen very rarely as i mentioned before bombs like this do get disposed. often here in germany but the fact that it's in such a central part of the city right by the central station the hospitals being evacuated and all of the government buildings in the area as well that that's what makes it you know all the more dangerous even were to explode rebecca ritter is with the latest from berlin thank you rebecca. also in berlin police are investigating a potential hate crime that has stoked fears of rising anti-semitism in germany one of the suspects in that apparent attack has now turned himself into police he was filmed beating up two young men who wore jewish religious head coverings those men told d.w. that they were wearing the campus because they wanted to show a friend that had to safe to do so in berlin. with this video the alleged attacker addressed the outcry a friend announces that cannot and wants to turn himself into the police the

nineteen year old suspect was filmed apparently assaulting an israeli arabs on the streets of berlin he yelled at you who didn't you in arabic media reports say the alleged attacker is a syrian with a palestinian background who came to germany in twenty fifteen dollars. in the past year berlin has seen several anti semitic incidents like this one on al 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 arab and muslim populations in germany found mixed reactions among the community. as a human being i'm happy to live with christians and jews and muslims together but the jews in palestine are occupiers. only work with them not all jews occupy palestine so what is a boy who was born a jew have to do with it and the menace that they know that our social media we can't trust social media if you have the cash to be an investigation and if they find that palestinians did this then i reject that as a muslim until muslim out of. the case has left many jews wondering if they're safe in berlin. let's get a quick check now on some other stories that have been making news around the world

more than fifty people have 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 and investigation is underway to determine the cause of the accident officials in japan have enforced a no go area around a volcano that has erupted for the first time in two hundred and fifty years it is part of a curious she mountain range in the southern island crew shoe residents in nearby towns reported falling volcanic rocks and ash hundreds of people in indonesia have watched unmarried couples being beaten with canes for showing affection in public two prostitutes were tortured and six young people were lashed for alleged flirtatious behavior these are the last public beatings to be held in the conservative province authorities say that they will soon be moved indoors to prisons. of the global oil glottal that has kept oil prices down appears to be over

their heart has that story. at least that's the report says conclusion of a joint technical panel made up of members of opec oil producing countries the opec led agreement in place since january twenty seventh tina's help oversupplied earlier in the week oil prices hit the highest level in nearly four years raising concerns about inflation. so we're all glad it's over that was quick let's bring in our correspondent at the frankfurt stock exchange don the local very is done a lot of the mean for the oil prices in the near future. investors are actually sure that the direction off the oil price will follow the trend we have seen here happening lately and that is just one direction going up and that's giving investors here on the trading floor actually quite some headache equities.

are maybe not anymore going to be asked popular that's one of the fears that they are having because with high oil price in many cases investors are feeling that also for some of the fat in the united states could be even looking for more and even higher interest interest rate hikes and those are not popular among investors at all heart. when they were getting some news here of the raids on porsche managers homes and offices earlier this week the sports car maker seems to get drawn deeper into the design today what can you tell us yes indeed this is getting a really serious rumor that this week rates were taking place at different poor she premises is a very and also and bought in britain back and for the first time in the desert gate scandal also active board members who are part of the investigation now various german media outlets are reporting all of this and we have to say have not has not been yet confirmed that the head of the porsche engine division you're kana

has been arrested in this currently in remand apparently he played a key role that's what we're hearing in this gate scandal and prosecutors are fearing that because of the latest accusations he could be leaving the country while we're waiting for more information let me tell you that this is now getting bigger as ever before so far never top managers were arrested or even put behind bars in the case of volkswagen for example only engineers with not a very high ranking person were facing those charges. who's going to be staying on top of that story during the day thank you very much. the international monetary fund and the world bank are having their regular spring meeting in washington both organizations are predicting strong growth for the global economy this year i.m.f. have christine lagarde predicted growth of three point nine percent the fastest rate in eight years so the outlook is quite upbeat at least in the short term

reason it was a case of good cop bad cop i.m.f. chief christine legarde focusing on crumbling business confidence a gloomy projections while world bank president jim yong kim saw the current climate as an opportunity to spread the money around. the challenge now is to ensure that strong growth will translate into inclusive growth so that the benefits of global economic integration are enjoyed by all members of society but the ongoing china u.s. trade and lackluster productivity could ruin the upswing by as soon as twenty twenty lagarde warned earlier and then there's this. global debt is at an all time high it stand it stands at one hundred and sixty four trillion dollars which is two hundred twenty five percent of g.d.p. of which the private sector accounts for two third public debt in advanced economies is at levels not seen since the second world war the two lenders are

clear short term the global economy is looking up but without immediate action stagnation and instability lie ahead the on the next couple of years. georgia the pride and joy of the german financial industry is making headlines again for the wrong reasons again this time they made an accidental transfer to the best of us who wouldn't get the number wrong once in a while with online banking all those pesky pin numbers and pos words right but mind you you've never accidentally transferred about twenty eight billion euros two of the wrong account have you well to their credit they figured it out a few minutes later and rectified the issue no harm done but a couple of red faces were there for sure but the incident sheds another harsh spotlight on the bank's risk and control processes and it's creaking i t. systems time for a reboot there i say. it's all your business for now it's back to sour imagine if

you have that account that i got transferred accidentally to and then you had to give it back unbelievable thank you so much care hard well now we're going to have to north and south korea because they have opened a telephone hotline ahead of next week's historic summit leaders of the country plan to speak on the phone before meeting face to face in an effort to end the nuclear standoff with the north south korean president moon j n wants to officially ends the war after the arm assist of one thousand nine hundred fifty three at the last summit back in two thousand and seven the former leaders kim jong il and romo in one their efforts for a peace agreement they never really materialized so says that intends to keep the new hot line open after the rare summit takes place next week. journalist chris harrison is standing by with the latest now from seoul so first just generally speaking how high are the hopes ahead of the summit and what can we

expect. well syria it's really hard to say president moon julian has made it clear that his focus is going to be on getting north korea to give up its nuclear weapons he hasn't said that directly but we know that because his administration has made it clear they're not going to focus on other things other issues that have more as korea such as human rights south korea's foreign minister recently said that that's something they're not going to touch on which is made many in south korea unhappy but like i said the focus is on getting north korea to give up its nuclear weapons this is different than previous summits however because unlike two thousand and seven as you mention and the previous summit with the former leader kim jong north korea didn't have a confirmed nuclear capability that it's pretty clear that they do now which gives north korea a lot more negotiating power they have a nuclear weapons capability they've proven that time and time again and they will

certainly leverage that that is in kim jong un's mind a way for the regime to survive so mungy in the south korean president has his work cut out for him i'll say once again the focus is on getting north korea to give up its nuclear weapons and it's really unclear though exactly what the agenda will be and how moon plans to do that ok so the nuclear weapons are one car in that air that's in the north koreans deck another one is the fact that of course the two countries they're still officially at war in the hostilities of the korean war they only ends it in an armistice agreement as we heard earlier so for its part it wants an official and before signing any possible treaty how likely is it that north korea will give up that card. we've heard president discuss that this week he said that a peace treaty should be in sight it should be the ultimate goal he's also a condition that he's also said that that's probably not possible without a deal on denuclearization so getting to that step of

a peace treaty has to come after north korea agrees of some sort of concession about his weapons programs and then you have the u.s. as well which complicates things because it has always viewed negotiations as a nonstarter unless the north is willing to give up its nuclear weapons a stand still a stand simply at this point the north seems to want to discuss that but the peace treaty at this point it's really hard to see that is something that's possible immediately without even knowing if the north and the south in the north in the u.s. even have the same view about north korea giving up its nuclear weapons and and all eyes will be on those talks as they kick off next friday one thank you very much journalist for us harrison joining us from seoul putting it into perspective. the summit of commonwealth heads of government is wrapping up in london later today

they are expected to make a decision on who should leave the organization after queen elizabeth the second the commonwealth is a group of countries most of which are former british colonies and with brags that looming britain is trying to boost ties to other member nations. or a specific g.'s. big rate. and the young it's. the royal family has taken didn't the leading role in britain's charm offensive. prince harry and took the stage in his new role as commonwealth ambassador. i am also incredibly grateful that the woman that i'm about to marry meghan will be joining me in this work which she too is hugely excited to take part in. i was just under your control cracks and this is the stage in which britain wants to present itself as a global player part of a family of fifty three commonwealth. there's

a lot of synergy. british government and pakistani government are together not only improve the relationship but also the economic relationships that i've always been a bit uncomfortable with the history of the commonwealth and so something that's made me feel uncomfortable however i don't think i've ever felt more positive about the future of the commonwealth because i feel that there's an opportunity you can do here good morning everybody in the past the commonwealth focused mainly on promoting development and democracy now to reset may want to reenergize the organisation and torn attention to boosting trade the commonwealth can lead to the world the commonwealth can spot our world and the commonwealth chose the world i admission that the canadian prime minister also supports offering the u.k. and a deeper trade relationship than with the e.u. . many wrecks of supporters believe that the network of mostly former british

colonies holds the key to britain's future outside of the e.u. and the potential issues after all commonwealth nations account for forty percent of the world's population but there are many barriers for example geographic proximity one reason why only nine percent of u.k. exports go to the commonwealth compared to forty four percent but go to the european union and many commonwealth countries have highly protected economies like india for instance prime minister modi wants visa restrictions lifted before agreeing on trade liberalization a hard sell to empty immigration quotas following the brics it referendum suddenly the british government is paying attention to the organization and i'm afraid you know if the commonwealth has the. a future we're in more trouble than i it really just isn't a properly functioning international organization it doesn't have a proper decision making process it doesn't have any kind of implementation

mechanisms among many young delegates there is an appetite to change that only one of the first place. in the e.u. and is looking out. of the commonwealth then we are also looking out. on the basis of fairness and equity seem to be growing stronger used to be the way to europe many common both leaders do not want the u.k. to leave. now their support will come at a price. there is big news coming from the english premier li arsenal have announced that manager arsene vang or will be stepping down from his role and leaving the club at the end of the season the frenchman who had been at arsenal since nineteen ninety six is the london clubs most successful manager he won three league titles including going

unbeaten for an entire season and seven f.a. cups despite banger taking arsenal to the champions league for twenty consecutive years his relationship with the club and its fans has become increasingly factitious in recent seasons also not a great way for football's new video assistant referee system there has been more controversy in the bunder single while fifa has announced that decisions by v.a. are will be shown on stadium big screens at the world cup now the referees themselves have had their say on the use of the technology have a look. the video assistant referee system is the biggest change in football in decades but it's fair to say it's had its stephen problems. mines were given a penalty after the half time whistle in monday's bombing as they were clash with a furious freiburg when the referee was alerted to act and won't the decision was correct procedures read the reading chief says technology cannot put

a stop to all controversies. about many interpretations so something that could be clear for in a way could be not put another in this is not what the we'll answer to. for those a mistake which in the past the. created big problems certainly it would be avoided. favre has been running a training camp this week for referees to get more used to v.a. are ahead of its use in the world cup in june and july video decisions will be shown in the stadium big screens in russia meaning fans will finally understand what is going on. i feel very comfortable working it out because people have done some of the same and as for us it doesn't. put on the pitch of the pitch so we are very very comfortable we also started in africa now we are using

a. few ok so it's not all unnecessary autonomous so i am very comfortable. the referees seem happy but many fans are still to be convinced it could be one of the most talked about well copes in history. of tennis is now and buff ale nidal has eased through to the quarterfinals of the monte carlo masters but he won't have to face long time rival novak djokovic in the last eight that's after the former world number one went out to austria as dominic team in three grueling sets of a six seven six two six three. after two years struggling with a niggling elbow injury novak djokovic at the top of the screen says he's finally playing pain free and there were glimpses of the man who's won twelve grand slam titles. be safe setpoints in the fast search which the serbian won and

it's high break for djokovic she lacks tournament sharpness and his opponent dominant team is no slouch from crappy. i think a crucial breaking or deciding set djokovic she looked out last and though the fight was that the end product often wasn't an unforced erik a team victory on his second match point djokovic still with some work to do. i think ideally i would want to you know be playing to have played for so many years but. you know all the a c. . patience is required. and and trust in the process and believe in myself djokovic she's defeat ended hopes of a quarter final clash with rafael nadal the king of clay made light work of russia's karen had chan off losing three games in the first set and just to win the second no doubt has an excellent record at this tournament he'll need to keep that run going if he's to stop roger federer overtaking him as world number one only

another monte carlo tight so number eleven in total will do. a quick reminder now the top stories we've been following for you here at c w bomb disposal experts are working to defuse a potentially deadly world war two explosive in central berlin police have evacuated thousands from the city center during the past several hours and trains coming into the main station have been diverted it could be several hours before the evacuation area is cleared tree. i'm sorry kelly in berlin thanks for watching .

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