seventeen train a former communist functionary turned businessman was strolling through a burden park when he was dragged into a v.w. bus and taken to vietnam. the snatch and grab operation was rim innocent of the cold war. linspire museum documented the history of is in the german capital history that's not over. thanks to the city's openness its many embassies and the fact that the german intelligence service is moving back here there are probably more agents here now than at the height of the cold war. the former chairman of the german israeli society knows all about that. he was targeted by the iranian intelligence service for surveillance and possibly elimination. not certain naturally foreign intelligence services exploit the fact that berlin is

a liberal cosmopolitan city that doesn't shut itself off. it's a place where everyone can do what he wants well you know. income was a real. trinitron ton the kidnap victim doesn't enjoy any such liberties he's been given to life sentences in prison in vietnam german politicians are outraged. i think we need to send a very strong signal to a country that orchestrates something like this in berlin and. it needs to hurt. otherwise other countries might think they can get away with something similar. before trends abduction germany enjoyed excellent relations with vietnam germany opened a major cultural center and city in two thousand and sixteen as part of the two nations pretty. partnership but the cold war started kidnapping has turned those

relations frosty indeed. watching d.w. life from their french president to my home across areas in the united states today is the second day of his visit and the window as you see just that were waiting for a press conference to begin so as soon as the two presidents take the stage we will bring that press conference life will move on there in the meantime and i read a concession by the iranian regime a team of female white list as it was recently given permission to compete abroad in international competitions for the first time the girls of trials of the asian youth junior championships and it was becky stone correspondent caught up with them with members in tehran just before they left. it's training time in this gym in west end to run champions have pumped i run for

decades their weight said just as heavy as they look at four and nasm the other girls lifting them is that dream come true. my dad was a weightlifter i've loved the sport ever since i was a child and i watched every competition hard by the member of us so as soon as it was possible i started lifting weights myself. and is proud to continue the family tradition and to passion has paid off. she's the strongest of the four girls so far. the grains behind the goal success has this office just one floor higher than i lead what i do he is president of iran's weightlifting association and perhaps the girls biggest fan he says there should be a difference between men and women in his sport. well. we

have many iranian men who have many championship titles and our record holders in the field of weightlifting. the word strongest man right now is an iranian soon as we want to achieve the same with our women. we hope that in the future not the far future i'm talking about the olympics of twenty twenty four that the iranian women can add to these glories but. to make that happen the girls work hard every day just like the men they live in the compound of the association under close supervision by doctors and coaches. in just a few months we've come a long way to get from over. time i mean they don't have any experience yet next year they'll do very well in competitions for sure. but for now

we just want them to build up confidence. after all this is their first international competition. and i had to go to. the others excited to leave to iran for its biggest it's a historic first for the girls and for iran's female weightlifter us all together. marry me now today that's you kids hear what men can do women can do too in the first five or six months since we started weightlifting we've already broken more than half of the women's weightlifting records that's glorious well i was up with only if they're caught it at glory they plan to continue at this week's tournaments and beyond confident well prepared and determined to show the world how strong iranian women can be. business news that we have got hot and trouble brewing at another job and called make up this time that's right work

is that all plans again protesting against planned cuts by the new mother company p.s.a. after its acquisition of opel from general motors the french p.s.a. group became europe's second largest comic last summer and the french groups such as appears to be paying off in the first three months of this year p.s.a. group sold more than one million cars that's a record and it means the company is on track to meet its goal of selling four million cars in twenty eighteen the opel vauxhall. brand formerly owned by general motors accounted for more than a quarter of costs sold us opel still posted significant losses last year and analysts say it remains in the red that's what p.s.a. group is trying to cut costs at opel it is now in negotiations with germany's largest industry trade union over its plans to suspend the pain crease at opel factories through. company transports continue to arrive at opal's factory in

eisenach but that could change soon opals french owner p.s.a. is looking to cut ships and reduce its workforce by eight hundred employees about half the workforce here a potential disaster for eyes and the suv of it could make you but this will be catastrophic for the region because it affects not only opel but a number of suppliers sized those eight hundred jobs don't reflect the whole picture thing and. also affect the city the central shopping district. the local economy will collapse because there won't be any money that will happen if they lay off those eight hundred people it's tragic. posted losses for two decades under its previous owner g.m. new owner p.s.a. is looking to make opel more competitive that was the goal announced in two thousand and seventeen. is this our clear plan is to cut out forced redundancies

we want to keep our existing plants in europe and modernize them. as well as develop a plan to make each location competitive but that. these commitments however don't seem to apply to eisenach for mayor county of all of this about face from p.s.a. comes as a surprise. we expect t.s.a. to keep its promises to uphold the collective wage agreements and honor the investments they pledged to us and off. higher wage agreements negotiated between the metal workers union and g.m. coupled with recent salary hikes of three point seven percent make it harder to restructure opel industry experts fed and warns that opel plants could be in jeopardy human done. i don't see how the p.s.a. group which is used to working with large plants will be able to deal with the higher wage structures coming into place with these two plants the threat for icing

off and prices loughton has never been as big as it is now. the opel crisis in eisenach comes during a period of robust economic growth regionally and there are some three thousand job bacon sees perhaps one small consolation for opel employees here and the car industry is a banking there are increasing rumors of cuts in investment banking and personal changes at the top as. earnings numbers for germany's losses lender also do this week let's bring in our financial correspondent in frankfurt are we getting closer to understanding the direction the struggling bank is taking in the future for all those losses. well the rumor mill is hyperventilating about this newspapers here in germany report that deutsche bank plans to communicate significant cuts in its investment banking division next thursday along with the

latest quarterly earnings report you know deutsche bank has been conducting a global review of its investment bank the internal code name for this was project colombo now the reports are that project colombo suggests cuts in equities trading also in the so-called prime brokerage which is a business that serves hedge funds and also cuts in u.s. municipal bond trading suggested that would be the first major strategic and now instrument by christians even the new c.e.o. of georgia bank. the investment banking has been a cash cow for a long time not in the real recent years but for a long time for those about is it conceivable do you think that gets out of investment banking altogether. not altogether this would sort of change the whole business model of deutsche bank but this is if those rumors become

a reality deutsche bank would definitely become a big more deutsche again you know concentrating a bit more on the markets here in germany with its corporate customers with its private banking division and getting out of this business anglo-saxon business of investment banking that's also very expensive you have to pay those people a lot of money and that's been a problem recently for deutsche bank. they'll also be in new german operations boss the new c.e.o. will that make more german again and is that a good thing you think. well yes the name is frank. he will succeed kim hammond's you know that's the woman who called deutsche bank to be the most dysfunctional company she ever worked for frank now frank in germany he is close to christians even the new c.e.o. both have been working for deutsche bank for many decades and this is probably the

qualification that counts more here than the german passports of both men. knew cuts will have to be implemented at deutsche bank new enormous changes in the i.t. division and it's probably a good idea to have people here in charge who know the bank and all of its corners and many of the people very well. changes like the way definitely. in france would force thank you. five years ago today the collapse of a multistory tech stuff sector factory building killed more than eleven hundred workers in what since has become known as the runup plaza disaster a painful light on working conditions in the bangladeshi textile industry the accidents or brands unions and the government set up initiatives to improve factory safety but despite some financial compensation many victims of the rana plaza

disaster still feel left alone. every step hurts she hasn't been able to walk without crutches for five years. was working as a seamstress at ronna plaza when the nine story building collapsed pinning her legs under the rubble for ten hours the compensation she received thirty five hundred euros wasn't enough to cover her multiple operations her family has had to scrimp and save. by one compensation from the government none of the affected workers have been properly compensated they gave us hardly anything what happened to all the aid money that came from abroad we need that money. there was a powerful outcry from the international community after the disaster working conditions in bangladesh improved a bit for the garment workers the owners addressed safety issues and improve the structural integrity benton's month from in kota clean clothes campaign says that

another round of plaza could happen at any time in bangladesh although there has been some progress kind of. foot there's no way all the factories in bangladesh are party to this agreement and not all the hazards have been sorted but there's been some serious progress on safety it's much safer than the year run a plaza collapsed because it covers structural safety fire safety and it's partly due to the fact that the buyers have to fork out along with the suppliers to ensure the safety regulations are enforced. the textile industry freely decides whether or not to produce sustainably or offer fair working conditions germany's development ministry set up the textile partnership following the run a plaza disaster but only fifty percent of german textile companies are members of the agreement on factory structural safety and seen a few days but one signature is missing from the follow up agreement that of the

bangladeshi government. and activists also wanted to be obligatory for employers to give their employees accident insurance cover. so that people like needle for big room don't have financial worries to add to their problems. a bank in shanghai is calling itself the first in the country to go human freight that is a pod on the customers the young man branch of china construction bank has just opened its doors high tech in high street banks are supposedly response to growing competition from conflict cashless rather payment systems giving the banks a run for their money. who needs the human touch this branch of china construction bank in shanghai thinks nobody dies robot assistants are just one part of it so called personal strategy it also has virtually reality rooms for customers looking

to buy real estate or gold and these screens let customers pay among other bills their communist party membership fees many customers welcome the bank's innovations . these days because people are less and less likely to be and find other people to come and bother them because they want to be left alone we hope when we come to a bank that we have human machine interaction this kind of experience. but some are worried that this sort of automation would leave some customers behind. particular children some people in their sixty's or older and i talked to another view was that with you use this what does it do. you hear. others are skeptical that investing in more tech doesn't necessarily add value much of banking already has a high level of automation and whether increase or valence from a state bank is something customers really need is questionable to still about free

of human interaction is still a novelty for customers they're lining up to see the potential face a future services. for back to fill this woman from the u.s. state of colorado traveling home from paris has to pay five hundred dollars for free apple she received from an airline flight attendant crystal tad look wasn't hungry at the time so she threw the fruit in a back and planned to eat it later while being searched by customs tablet says the agent asked her if her trip to france was expensive and when she said yes he told i was about to get even more expensive and there are five hundred dollars fine for bringing fruits and vegetables into the country was that now wants to fight the ticket in front of a judge. well. good luck to have you back to fill more world news thank you so much ira get out we go to saudi arabia where with its

rigid interpretation of islam a country the kingdom has become one of the world's most conservative countries that's especially true for women who make up more than half the population reforms initiated by crown prince mohammed bin salma as part of efforts to diversify the country's oil dependent economy easing so restrictions on women doubly as one official traveled to saudi arabia where she met a few male writer and academic who's pushing for more freedom. i've got a book my name is doctors in a year and today i'm signing my novel it's about two generations shahar a mother and her daughter hia. it describes problems saudi women face and it's about the relationship between men and women that are yet it and. that is enough first novel hajar criticise a spoiled mess within our society and between different generations but only between the lines. that it i really like witty frisson and the way you

write it's charming but the thing is that did you also take the other book it's new . is that look at the collapse. i think men and women men go here at the book fair in riyadh a place where conservative and modern world views. how much has somebody arabia changed. i sing of science or books at several steps so. i guess. i could live on. this is a kind of a that's radical overbetting why don't you use your complete from a. i hated it and i will soon it's time to know how to address it i say nope didn't want to talk on camera about not publishing on the her family

name it's because not everyone in her family supports her push for change i. guess that's right what do women today have in common with those fifty years ago when i know that it was in this book i describe how a mother felt fifty years ago and how her daughter feels now they share the same burdens. that the daughter has to suffer just as her mother did before her nothing has changed. even at that if you know at the end i ask whether a person can change and improve their feelings. and whether time can change how we feel. that if and and if women are to change over the course of fifty years with all the challenges they face how will that influence saudi women. if they learned that that had to be on them but it did it influence them at that yes it did but only if they're willing to leave their cage and the past if a woman is strong enough she can do it. at first glance real it seems like

a modern city but that's a facade riyad is very conservative women are still not allowed to drive you live out your life on social media and your smart film the country wants to become more open but they are still limits regarding what can be discussed on camera. i look. up at the. getty i don't talk about politics but i understand it well and i read a lot we can talk about change and i accept every change that benefits when regardless of how radical or crazy it is you see society wants you to marry to be like the rest but i don't want anything from society and that's why i am who i am today i'm in my kingdom in my house with my life in my travels my daughter. at a you tube into your care. to say no it doesn't need to do much at home she has a maid from the philippines the minimum here for the middle class she's divorced

and lives here with her daughter who doesn't want to be felt. zainab says to reims joins her for breakfast. but the topic of conversation is a good thing because i have these changes continue. that they will continue. and i don't want them to be only temporary. and then again. will be one thing that women are already advisors in the shura council maybe later they can become junior ministers a lot going backward isn't an option. women would block that there'd be resistance change will be fast and already now there are a lot of laws benefiting women it will get better. not to have said here. when are going in and out of the sun i wanted to send the laws are indeed changing right now. they're changing in favor of women on regarding child custody.

and divorce for example what would help you know other arabic countries these things remain huge problems but not for us anymore and that. in the cellar how would you react if the changes that have been made were to be on done. or that. and among the a lot of that opinion was the man a mark of the scene and we have no experience with changes like these and why so it's difficult to say what would happen. maybe women would think about emigrating. others would use social media to raise awareness and build pressure those would probably be the most immediate reaction. you have other than that probably not much. we don't take to the streets and protest here but what about some of our mafia. zina press fought for independence as

a writer a mother and as a professor she's on the way to king celt university a university for women and men saner teaches only women. here pull your head in the bullet finish them out of. the restrictions that exist in society not apply university to we would assure you that i have been but i think much too much as soon as society becomes more liberal there will also be more freedom at the university. and what you want to have a political job but. of course. i would serve my country and i could serve women as well. and then end up with an admission every woman should know her strengths. regardless of the field she works in. over the next few hours saina pietra students medical management.

she had hopes to be able to show us. but again the spite having octane official permission we are forbidden to fill. change in saudi arabia is a slow process every day there are more barriers brought to be. the champions league football to say i can't stand the semifinals this week have a point is the biggest buyer of munich will host defending champion real madrid in their first leg match up tomorrow night though liverpool host rome all eyes will be on the superstar most solid who played for the last season the egyptian international is fresh from being named the english premier league's player players' player of the. most the love returns to italy as one of the world's hottest talents the chipset has been on fire this season scoring forty one goals across all competitions unlading liverpool to an unlikely champions league

semifinal spot. knows all drama teammates won't be giving him any favors into knots class but he is confident his star men will drop above the challenge. pretty sure. each of the fans are famous for. not having friendly games so i think mobile will feel pretty early in the game that they are not his teammates anymore and then he can strike back in a football way that would. have fared pretty well without this season they knocked out past the line or in the quarterfinals overturning a four one first leg deficit a fate that will go down as one of the competitions greatest comebacks and they're ready to flex their muscles once again this is rome his first semifinal in europe's premier competition since nineteen eighty-four apart as little pull haven't reached this stage since two thousand and eight. it's

a big thing semifinal like it is for us so that means we are not used to that that's good we don't if you experience that's not good but we are not used to that means you will see the excitement of both teams in a positive way and it's all football should be unfamiliar territory for both sides the dream to make history sets the scene for a cracking contest. press conference between emmanuel macro and president trump has just started so let's go to washington life. i i. i i i.

i. so this is day two of the manual that my calls a visit to the united states. and i has been meeting at the u.s. president donald trump in the course of the day a tougher sell me agenda and the iran nuclear deal as well as the united states is imposition of a trade tariffs against the world from which europe managed to get itself an exemption and so the first of may so those will be up for discussion. mr trump today i described very recently in my democracy is being viewed as mr trump sam most faithful european allies going to be interesting to contrast they get the difference in the reception that i might your macro received today he got the full panel play of the state with the welcome that i wait so i'm going to

medical when she arrives on the friday the two men had been due to actually start this press conference some hours or so ago yes you could say the room he said just getting ready we'll be ready we've been here with you for the last seven let's see if there are any closer. but while we're out while we're waiting let's go to the route washington correspondent costs and the nominee welcome coston what was the groom and mr trump was actually grooming the president in emanuel are macro. explains the this apparent chemistry between the two of them. well there are a number of reasons first of all a president mccraw france made a real efforts to groom this relationship after an awkward start to remember their first meeting where they had this battle of a handshake basically they come have come together and mr mccraw

invited donald trump to the bus tea they parade in france and the president trying very much like that clearly president mccraw was playing to mr trump known. for pomp and circumstance and he has taken mr trump very seriously at least openly he's he's done that publicly he's done that and yes probably mr trump.