they could be the future of cologne a little columbia. granting opportunities for global news that matters d. w. made from mines. good. place to play. this is you don't use life from berlin a wartime relic shuts down a modern city experts with nerves of steel that need an unexploded world war two bomb in the heart of girl and an hour before thousands of people are forced to clear the area in the city's main railway station is brought to a complete standstill also coming up students across the u.s.

walk out of class to mark the nineteenth anniversary of the columbine high school massacre classic our washington correspondent of lawmakers are paying any attention to their demands for gun control legislation and zero tolerance the w. launches a new investigative series first following the rise of islamic extremism in politics why is the country finding your harder and harder to reconcile free speech and religion. plus the end of a sporting era the premier league soccer club arsenal announced the departure of cosa part of coach arson vigor at the end of the season he has been in charge for over twenty years. in. the beyond. iraq thank you so much for your company everyone experts. in berlin we have carried

out a controlled explosion of a massive world war two bomb the operation forced the shutdown of a large part of the city center seven decades after the wars and germy still finds more than two thousand tons of unexploded wartime ordinances every year but this was the most significant bomb disposal operation the german capital in years. yet. you form. all on how you and unusual sight on central berlin straits police urging residents to evacuation and offices going door to door to make sure buildings were cleared. the biggest evacuation in burnie name is came as bomb disposal experts new team to diffuse an unexploded second world war bomb that had been on earth on a construction site inside the exclusion zone and ami hospital part of the german intelligence agency's headquarters a ministry building embassies and

a number of hotels in the city that likes to wake up late some were caught by surprise. we took a shot from denmark and we were not informed by hotels dot com that we were going to be equated. frustrating you. so you went very. together with the big get out. for those with nowhere else to go emergency shelters were set up around the exclusion zone. but the biggest disruption perhaps came for the thousands of commuters travelling from one side of the city to the other. also located within the exclusion zone the in central station went from buzzing travel hub to go station as it too was cleaning it ahead of the destination.

but by around one thirty pm local time it was mission accomplished for the disposal tame as authorities announced the world war two bomb could be made safe. this is the site where the bomb was discovered and successfully disposed of and was findings like this are quite common in germany so common in fact that eight state has its own bomb disposal unit the size of this bomb and its proximity to the city center meant a widespread police action. bill in central station was reopened within an hour of the diffuser all allowing the city to get back to business as usual. all right want to tell you now about some of the other stories making news around the world. violent protests in south africa's northwest province have prompted the country's president sarah ram opposer to cut short his visit to britain testers are calling for their premier of the province to step down accusing him of corruption and the businesses have been looted in the first major under-estimates from the post it

took power in february. the leaders of the fifty three commonwealth countries have approved prince charles as their next head queen elizabeth the second has told him that it was her sincere wish for him to be given the role and continue the work her father began back in one thousand nine hundred forty nine. medics in the gaza strip say two strips a two palestinians have been shot dead by israeli forces and another day of protests along the border as after the military drop leaflets urging residents to stay away from the border fence at least thirty three palestinians have been killed by soldiers firing at the border in recent weeks. north and south korea have opened a telephone hotline ahead of next week's historic summit leaders of the countries plan to speak on the phone before meeting face to face in an effort to and the nuclear standoff with the north while technically the two nations are still at war

they signed an armistice in the one nine hundred fifty three south korean president jan is now hoping to replace that arms this with a lasting peace accord at the last summit back in two thousand and seven former leaders of north and south korea tried but failed to reach a peace agreement so says it intends to keep the new hot line open after next week's summit. well earlier we spoke with journalist bruce harrison in seoul about what the expectations are for this north south summit. 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 had with north 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 then 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 moon in the south korean president has his work cut out for him bruce harrison there reporting from seoul a little earlier ok in other news tens of thousands of students across the united states have walked out of their classrooms in protest against endemic gun violence organizers say teenagers for more than two and a half thousand schools are expected to take part in demanding the government do more to prevent mass shootings the protests coincides with the nineteenth

anniversary of the columbine school massacre in colorado thirteen seconds of silence were held in memory of those killed in that attack. a washington correspondent claire riches is at one of the protests in the u.s. capital a clear good to see what's the turnout like. there's a couple hundred people here on the capitol that is of course much smaller than some of the previous protests we've seen this is the third nationwide demonstration since the shooting took place in parkland florida and the walkout that we saw a month ago as well as the march for our lives protests certainly drew larger crowds however it's important to note this is meant to be a protest that takes place on individual high school and elementary school campuses that people are walking out of their individual schools and it's just a small section of the protesters who have made it to washington and to capitol hill to talk to to send

a message to lawmakers today right so you would say that the movement is actually running out of steam that. i think there have been some ups and downs certainly they have not seen the kind of change that they have been asking for at least on the national level there has been almost no action in terms of certainly no action in terms of any serious gun reform very limited action in terms of school safety measures that have been taken a little bit more success at the state and local level we've seen measures passed in florida and illinois that have raised the age at which you can raise the age to twenty one that you need to be to buy a firearm but they're fairly modest steps and i would say that that has been a disappointment has not been the sweeping a change that the protesters and organizers had hoped to see but now as you know it's the anniversary of the columbine high school shooting has a taken on a special significance this year. that's right it's the nineteenth anniversary of columbine today not

a major number that you would normally see in the spotlight so much but it really has become a part of this bigger movement pushing for stricter gun control laws since the shooting in parkland and of course a lot of the students who are out here today would not even remember the shooting at columbine it took place nineteen years years ago we're talking about students who are fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen years old and they're disgusted to see that no serious action has really been taken a sense that they're fighting with the same problems they were going on a so long ago and so they're finally saying enough is enough they're ready to take action into their own hands aren't clear richardson reporting from the u.s. capitol thank you. you're watching the news we still have a lot more to tell you about including. after twenty two years in charge at english soccer club arsenal a coach arson and bigger is stepping down at the end of the season we ask our sports correspondent about the legacy of one of the game's great personalities.

but first germany a lobbying for europe in washington and ben has that story for you thank you very much they left germany's vice chancellor scholtz says he's optimistic the european union will be granted a permanent exemption from the u.s. as metal tariffs schultz made the comments after meeting in washington with vice president mike pence he used temporary exemptions to tariffs on steel and other metals expires on may the first german chancellor angela merkel will travel to washington next week to personally make the case for an exemption we've been told yesterday's meeting between shots and white house economic adviser larry could load was delayed leaving the german to stroll along the fence in front of the white house for about an hour let's go over to our washington correspondent cousin phenomenon he's in front of the international monetary fund first we'll get to the i.m.f. in a second but first of all what i'd like to know is if germany is going to be spared

the worst of this trade war that's rumbling between the u.s. and china considering what scholtz is had to say but i guess scholtz is like we said before he's just going to have to wait to find out more about this. absolutely and today on our show it's a fact sounded a bit less optimistic than yesterday he said he did not know whether there would be a permanent extension for europe of all of your old not just germany before the current temporary exception runs was one very important point for shows to also once again impress on his american counterparts people he talked to at this was not about germany this was about europe and that europe stood united the office of the trades is the prerogative of the european union another big priority was to make sure that there would be no escalation of trade conflicts in general

another thing schultz pointed pointed out today and he said also that the parties involved should follow. the procedures of the other multilateral organizations to avoid conflict echoing what christine lagarde the managing director of the i.m.f. had said yesterday ok unfortunately we're going to have to leave it there i want to ask you about the i.m.f. as well they've been warnings of course about this trade war and its effects on global growth but cost will have to get back to you at a later stage so things have told the news agency is the german police are holding porsches head of power train development on remand they say you can as the rest is related to inquiries into emissions manipulation and that he's considered a flight risk and it was the man in charge of potions engine division when the diesel gate scandal broke in twenty fifteen the arrest followed thursday's rate of

several properties linked to three executives at the fox talking subsidiary. germany's not keen on forking out even more money to deepen european integration but chancellor angela merkel does appear open to compromise over her french counterparts reform plants cause idea is a lofty and could cost a lot but he's fighting this reform battle on two fronts abroad as well as at home . french riot police raid a university in paris they're trying to force out dozens of students who shut down the campus for a month in protest over president emanuel much higher education reforms too much like early retirement and free train travel for train drivers. told the president isn't fazed and his ambitions go beyond friends he says he wants to save the e.u. and the eurozone you see does it in the city. more solidarity in the currency union

no currency union conserve without convergence element this is. instruments of compensation and adaptation in the. union is part of it. but northern european countries especially germany aren't enthusiastic because micron's plans could end up costing them money. he might be enjoying a warmer reception of broadband at home but emanuel mccall's reforms are running into resistance wherever he is. to my favorite time of year spring it's just about everything is blooming at the moment here or germany but what's missing is a whole lot of buzzing this season experts have long been sounding the alarm about the cloning honeybee populations what wide not just if some blame climate change others disease of course bees are essential to food production pl and i think seventy percent of global props you may have been wondering why your business

anchor is talking to you about b.s. well here in germany they contribute an estimated two billion euros a year to german g.d.p. in the french research institute c n r s says that figure rises to two hundred billion euros when you look at it worldwide but how awful european be called unease have died out and scientists blame mites but monocultures and loss of habitat also play a role u.s.p. populations shrinking by thirty percent a year they've become so rare in parts of china that thousands of farm workers pollinating trees and crops by hand. when the cherry blossoms are out it's time for witching you know to start work on something that's normally taken care of by nature the farmer pollinates her trees by hand it should be bees doing this work but here in the honey one region of southwest china there simply aren't enough of the beneficial insects to go around. there's not been our

year olds were simply too low the trees were flowering well but only produced a few fruit seed at the heart then we heard about hand pollination we checked it out and then started doing it ourselves. hand pollination is a painstaking task first farmers have to find flowers which have only just opened the pollen dust has to be fresh and clean and removed very carefully. and her husband. colony each tree three times. nowadays it's really hard work being a fruit grower. we have to spend a lot of time tending our trees that the. global be populations are on the decline and china is especially badly affected most regions no longer have any native varieties the main problem is the widespread use of chemicals in the

district capital cinci farmers come to junk store to stock up on fertilizers herbicides and insecticides. so you want to tell farmers not to spray during the flowering period because then the bees won't go on the blossoms. at all other times though the farmers happily spray away on average chinese farmers use twice as many pesticides as their european counterparts meanwhile beekeeping has become a profitable business year. leases his piece to local farmers on a daily basis he charges five euros per hive per day. when famous pollinate by hand they only roughly distribute the pollen on the blossom like bees go right into the center of the flower and take the pollen exactly where it needs to go it sounds like easy cash but these need a lot of attention and the keeper has to know precisely what local farmers are up to at all times to. make sure he'll start

spraying the apple trees so i will pack up my beads and take them to the forest otherwise they'll die i. will. go and her husband though i don't want to spend money on renting bees so instead for the next three weeks they'll be in their orchard pollinating their trees by hand. and you know the situation's got so dire that some tech companies are creating drawings to do the work of bees that sounds really interesting the expensive way of doing it but less labor intensive than how they're doing it now all right thank you so much for i greatly appreciate it and we're going to stay in there is a new series out called zero tolerance that's the title of our new show of documentaries focusing on asia the series will explore what is happening in the world's most populous continent as intolerance and religious fundamentalism on the rise we start our journey in bangladesh a wave of attacks by radical islamists has swept over the country in recent years

many of the victims have been liberal bloggers apparently targeted for criticizing islam. as you wouldn't said doc a university letting the had down the semester is over. just a few metres away is the spot where blog average roy was murdered in february two thousand and fifteen the atheist writer was paying a visit to book fair while walking home with his wife he was attacked by radical islamists wielding machetes. royce father is heartbroken hero royce a retired professor of physics his son of egypt was one of five sexual love bloggers murdered in two thousand and fifteen three years later and none of his killers has been convicted abhijit roy's father placed the greatest share of the blame with the government. who have or did he or did it. all.

but. you've just got to get in the. truth and be. ready. if you feel. the country has been governed by a prime minister shaker. since two thousand and nine once the ruling party stood for liberal values and a clear separation of state and religion nowadays it seems to show more sympathy to the murderous than the bloggers. distort the group which is a holy war and. life of the prophet some people incensed. we lose the ones there so we. brought it on themselves the government claims to pursue a policy of zero tolerance against militancy while islamists are becoming increasingly assertive them address us are considered by many to be breeding

grounds of fundamentalism mufti pfizer law teaches islamic sharia law and to koran school in dhaka and has repeatedly been accused of hate speech in this video he calls for the death penalty off a politician who criticised pilgrimages to mecca talking to a t w he explains why it is dominated the motto be in his. allah and the prophet. if you insult or abuse that our hearts bleed. so what should you do if you are hurt but do you pick up a weapon with them but you know that it is law does not permit that is what when it comes to those who hurt you and make your heart. at least you can ask for their punishment it's all still biblical to have it. not only atheist bloggers but also artists and people of different faiths have been under oppression bangladesh in early march there was yet another targeted attack against

a renowned writer and eminent scientist the motive of the young perpetrator he saw his victim as an enemy of islam. and we've got that major soccer news for you everybody is talking about it from the english premier league arsenal manager arsene wenger will be leaving the club at the end of the season and our very own mark meadows from the resource is here with me is this a bolt out of the blue it is slightly yes he's been there twenty two years so it's a long time and actually quite a lot of the fans were a bit frustrated because of not born an english league title since two thousand and four so there's been a kind of out grey for quite a few seasons so in that way it's not a surprise but the timing is maybe a surprise we expected the announcement the end of the season they've suddenly come out with it today it might be to do with the success actually i think the real reason i have done it now is to give the players a bit of a jolt and say hey let the guy go out in style go win

a trophy for him in the last few weeks and the europa league is a trophy they really want to win no pressure. what legacy whatever legacy is he leaving behind oh massively i mean look at the stats first of all three premier league titles the last one of those in two thousand and four it was the invincible season they went the whole season unbeaten in the premier league no premier league manager has done that before or since they won three probably titles in total say the f.a. cups it's a champions league final in two thousand and six but his real legacy is how he revolutionized the game and you know when he came in he looked at the diets you know before matches bad idea there's some great anecdotes sol campbell the defender once told how thank god told them all have to still their teeth so the sugar granules would be completely dissolved it was that obsessive and the style of football as well i mean it completely changed how arsenal play it's great second football lots of goals very very different to how it was and what are some of the reactions that you've been seeing yeah i mean explain both to play for him and

against him and said look this guy is a great we should really really lot and then go for what he has achieved and also some premier league managers have chimed in we can have a little listen listen now. he always developed teams brought always fantastic players and. was a dominating guy mid ninety's maybe early two thousand when he was really winning pretty much everything played wonderful football so i'm i admired his work always it was always been since i'm in england it's a little different because now we have to challenge them of course but i'm from from germany he was always was always a big big role model into trouble all my respect who has put the course he has done so premier league is with premier league i now think a huge personality like arson not to my down in any of the premier league is the family things food he has he has done here right and he's vision

a lot respect for the for the full. wow some big big shoes to fill mark so who is being lined up as a potential successor thomas took all is top of the betting at the moment in the form of bruce you don't want manager i'm not sure that's likely because i think he may have got a deal with the man already so we'll see how that pans out outside bet you if you live jimmy coach if you goes out on a high with germany all on a low but he has actually got a contract still a journey beyond the world cup he's not the sort of guy who would would leave a job like that i think collar launch a lot he's free obviously left by munich this season but given the left by making a bit of a messy situation maybe not go to a great little end to his c.v. there so it's a tough one x. players like. vieira not got the managerial experience of those of the guys so if he's wide open to be honest with the field this wide open i want to start doing see who will succeed the greater van or thank you so very much mark meadows.

and before i let you go we're to remind you of our main headlines that we're following for you right now. experts in berlin have defused a massive world war two bomb has after it brought the center of the city to a standstill and closed the main railway station and students across the u.s. have walked out of their classes to commemorate the nineteenth anniversary of the columbine high school massacre they want tighter gun controls in the wake of continued nashua things that you are schools. you're watching you know when you sound like a little rock and roll in on behalf of the entire news team thank you so much for spending this part of your day with us the news continues at the top of the hour.

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