this is the news live from berlin turkey has a jail yet more journalists the court reporters from a leading opposition newspaper on terror charges amnesty international saying turkey must stop using the twenty sixteen as an excuse to restrict free speech also coming out. buddies of the white house not so friendly in congress for president called criticizing his post especially. america first balsa.

also coming up next dumble in the clash of the titans their coach says his team deserve to win the champions league semifinal that they were undone by injuries and missed chances again. i'm brian thomas great to have you with us amnesty international says the turkey must stop using its ongoing state of emergency as an excuse for silencing critics the report comes a day after a court jailed journalists at the leading opposition newspaper her yet they were accused of supporting the movement of the government says was behind the fell through twenty sixteen the country has been under a state of emergency since the. family friends and supporters of the defendants gathered in front of the court in celebrity outside just stumble waiting

for the ruling at the end of the nine months to hurry at trial the journalists were charged with helping terrorist organizations. three of them were acquitted but the court sentenced fourteen defendants to prison terms ranging from three to eight years among them as the prominent investigative reporter ahmed chick who got seven and a half years critics condemned the convictions. what we saw today was not justice. this is the stifling of journalism and the right to information is at the hand of the justice system and you. can with this one. of those convicted will remain free while an appeal is pending but barred from leaving turkey. so can critical journalists to do their job in turkey did abuse istanbul correspondent delia on joins me now in the studio for good morning julia hi good morning you know early one has been arresting journalists for

a long time now since the failed to but this sentence escalates the war on the media doesn't it what does it mean for press freedom and freedom in general well first of all drew here it is not just any newspaper in turkey it's the oldest newspaper founded in the one nine hundred twenty s. following a long tradition off secularist reporting and it is and was one of the few newspapers to still dare to criticize the government so among all the other media cases and trials against journalists it's safe to say this is the most high profile trial so far and of course it sends a devastating message to all other journalists in the country you could be next so what's your every move what's your every article and the journalists themselves jewelry a newspaper have said from the very beginning this is a politically motivated trial designed to intimidate all critical voices in turkey and what they are saying is it's not individual people standing trial there it's

journalism as such in turkey and i think that's the message it's not just domestic journalism is it i mean we have here a institution for secular turkey we also have a german journalist on trial as well another german journalist yes after dinner as you gel and that was the famous case was released this year her name is michelle the total and she was. put on trial faces similar charges like the jury a journalist supporting terrorist organizations she was really. spending trial in december but she has to stay in turkey she has report to the authorities and today her trial is going to continue we don't expect any verdict but she of course hopes that she will be allowed to leave the country because she really wants to go back to germany so that's this case that is going to continue today and that has of course strained relations between germany and turkey so it's an important trial to watch from here from germs or nationally as well and these are arrests and the

sentence come as turkey faces elections are coming up yeah two months indeed. well as you know independent reporting is essential for democracy for any election for citizens to be able to inform themselves and to form an opinion. unfortunately and that's the criticism here critical voices have been sidelined in the media opposition candidates for example complain that they don't get enough time to get their message across and of course the dominating voice is the voice of the government and ministers a.k.p. a representative of the governing party reporters without borders for example say pluralism in turkey is dying and clearer lism is an essential element of and it is briefly if you could what are people in turkey saying about all of this how do they feel about the government's crackdown well if they are supporters of the government they don't see any problem they say what is it that you're saying we have

a free media landscape we hear everything that we know but they are opponents they complain of course and many don't follow the mainstream media anymore they they go on twitter they go on facebook to try to find some other reports or they follow international channels you leon thanks very much for bring us up to date on these developments. now for some of the other stories making the news today kim jong un is expected become the first north korean leader to cross into the south since the korean war more than half a century ago kim will meet with president in a store summit on friday the two sides will hold talks focusing mainly on pyongyang's nuclear program. american investigators have been searching for more than forty years for the so-called golden state killer and now they've arrested an ex police officer on suspicion of being the man behind more than fifty rapes and twelve homicides throughout the area police detaining just us back outside his home in citrus heights that's a suburb of sacramento. the philippines has closed its most famous

holiday island borat carried to tourists for a six month cleanup heavy commercialization and over development have taken a real toll on this once pristine island security forces have been deployed to enforce the shut down but business is relying on tourism say the closure puts their livelihoods and risks. police in northern india say at least twelve children have died after a train crash into a school bus at an unmanned road calls it believed the driver of that school bus who was also killed ignored a guard signal to stop several other children have been injured in that incident in our products. us president all trump has thanked kanye west for praising him on twitter the rapper opposed to the series of pro trump tweets sparking an online backlash from fans but his wife reality star kim carr dacian took to social media

herself saying her husband did not agree with the president's policies. well they were buddies of the white house but french president manuel mccall went out of his way to point out the differences with his host president trump when he made his speech to the u.s. congress criticized president america first agenda saying it was a threat to global prosperity and on climate change a cold war and that there was no plan a day. at his rendezvous with u.s. lawmakers can look to share their love heaping praise on france's special bond with america but his message seemed to wrecked it to an audience of one u.s. president donald trump on iran he warned against abandoning the twenty fifty nuclear deal but still took a hard line. for iran our objective is clear iran schol never pull this any nuclear weapons.

accomplish back on transamerica first agenda urging the us to engage rather than retreat from world affairs. but closing the door to the word will not stop the evolution of the word it will not dollars but inflame the fruits of our citizens. in the car also pushed back on trams threat to tear up international trade deals warning of commercial war between allies at the end of the day it will destroy jobs increase prices and the middle class will have to pay for it. and he tried to sway trump a father of five to reconsider the paris climate accord i believe in building a better future for our children which requires offering them a planets that and still have bootable in twenty five years. to

come across things up with the call of duty for france and the us to confront global threats shoulder to shoulder. watch which. is that. what we love is in danger we have no choice but to prevail and together we shall prevail. and invitation to shape the twenty first century together one micro may have a tough time getting trump to accept. your views washington correspondent larry johnson sent us this is what the president's visit was a success french president and came to washington d.c. on a charm offensive trying to woo donald trump into seeing eye to eye with france on a number of issues like trade climate change and involvement in syria but his most important mission of all have been to convince trump and not to back out of the

iran nuclear deal russia china britain and germany agree with france that the landmark agreement is the best way to stop iran from developing a nuclear bomb but trump is called it the worst deal ever made on his trip to d.c. mccrone called on the u.s. president not to ditch the deal without getting a better alternative in place first yet at the end of his three day trip he hadn't secured any promises from trump and it's not yet clear how much success he's had in buttering him up ahead of americans visit the german chancellor is coming to washington d.c. on friday when she'll be trying her hand at saving the iran deal. claridge isn't there why here in germany a court is due to rule today on whether a medical test to determine the age of young migrants is a hotly debated topic because of concerns that older migrants pretend to be minors to avoid deportation are currently in migrants ages established in a personal interview but the court ruling could replace that with medical tests.

how old is this refugee is he an adult or still a minor since leaving afghanistan had to morey has already learned that his age plays an enormous role in germany. traffickers told us refugees if you are twenty or twenty one and make yourselves younger because it will be to your advantage then they cannot deport you. know the. german officials check the age of refugees if there are doubts about whether they are legal minors there is a psychological interview and a medical exam x. rays a wrist bones of teeth or c.t. scans of the collarbone but critics say bone tests cannot precisely determine a person's age or kind of needs you cannot always determine a person's exact chronological age based in the age of his or her bones there's a range that can span one to three years. one to three years can make

a huge difference under eighteen year olds are assigned a guardian help in the asylum process and accommodation with the youth welfare service. for refugees aged eighteen and above the initial conditions and shared accommodation are often much worse many must rely on their own devices. kyra grabowski and both guys and hina look after forty young refugees in their shelters they have even brought in young people from the streets after being categorized as adults all access to health was withdrawn from them with harrowing results we are insured for we consider it irresponsible and the catastrophe that age estimations are carried out without at the same time considering what kind of help is needed for a person might legally be an adult but if he or she is in need of health then in the interests of that person and of society adequate help must be provided it's. not

meant to mori has never lied about his age he's twenty four has received political asylum and is in a training program but he knows many others who are pretending to be younger hoping it will help them access help education and prevent them from being deported. the result of the court ruling later today the state of the news still to come on the show by i mean are you going to early it against the defending champions league holders but things oneself from there will tell you about the first of the two like match up against powerhouse yes ryall madrid. versus over to monica and china it looks like they're reacting to the pressure from washington they've opened up their market to foreign cars and now they're about to go a step further they're going to go a step further and i'm going to tell you all about it brian but news has come in that there's a continued slump for germany's biggest lender doj a bank reported nearly an eighty percent slide in first quarter profit to one hundred twenty million. in europe at the also planned steep cuts to its biggest

unit of the corporate and investment banking division leading to job losses the bank calls painful avoidable it did not mention how many positions would be axed for the restructure could have an impact in london where deutscher has its biggest investment banking operation the financing of big corporations is going to be reduced particularly in the u.s. and in asia. and our financial correspondent on the business standing by for us in frankfurt the home of the daughter of bank and i believe con about you're actually just outside to dodge a bank headquarters to tell me where does this cut hurt the most. well monica in terms of locations those are bank itself talking about. u.s. and asia explicitly but it's very likely as you said that london is also going to be the target of job cuts. it has the biggest investment back operations

with around about eight thousand employees working for this business for deutsche bank in london and investment banking is likely to be the part of the business where we are going to see most job cuts banks says it aims to shift more decisively to more stable sources of income and everyone knows investment banking with its bond trading its equities trading its derivatives trading that's not very stable but a very volatile source of income but i have to say the bank also says that the layering of management structures across the organization are due so we're not only talking investment banking also many people here in the corporate headquarters of the bank in frankfurt are likely to feel uncomfortable today all right so if i ask you what the mood is like it would be one of discomfort right now would you think that this is the right move. which has in the headlines for all the wrong reasons for quite

a long time now. yes and for quite a long time those are bank insisted that it wants to stay a global bank catering to all sorts of different customers but it turned out that a bank simply cannot afford to follow such a strategy it spent too much money on bonuses and not enough on sustaining the business for example the i t it infrastructure bank is in a bad state and not enough was spent here now the bank is turning to a more realistic strategy a strategy it can afford a strategy focusing on the german. customers the european customers corporate customers. you know not so much on customers in singapore or new york i'm going to just very briefly talking of strategy a frankfurt also is hosting the e.c.b. rate meeting today what are the expectations. well the

expectation is that the e.c.b. will say how much it has noticed a certain amount of and of cycle mood on the markets recent economic data hasn't looked too strong so it's likely that the e.c.b. we'll have to say something about that i read you bring us up to date on that later on conrad wasn't for us in frankfurt thank you now facebook's flush with money after a new critic first quarter profit went up sixty three percent to five billion dollars on advertising revenue showing little fallout from various data misuse scandals plaguing the social network facebook has been trying hard to appease users investors and regulators in the face of questions over allowing improper collection of private data while the bad press heard facebook's stock price of first shares a hottie heading back north again. and all to china which is considering a cut to imported u.t.s. on passenger cars the duty could be reduced by about half

a news reported sighting people familiar with the matter the move should be parts of the country's plan to further open the automobile market according to bloomberg china's cabinet wants to reduce the levy on imported cars to between ten and fifteen percent that from the current twenty five percent an announcement on the decision could be made as soon as next month. that's your business update for now brian has more news for you. it's two armenian hour days of mass protests in the capital year of on that have plunged the country into a political crisis may not be over the opposition is now demanding the resignation of the entire governing republican party tens of thousands taking to the streets again yesterday after talks between the two sides broke down the protests were originally triggered after parliament elected the veteran leader says sars yond to become prime minister and what critics condemned as

a power grab resigned on monday. let's go straight to our correspondent emily sherwin standing by for us in the armenian capital year of on emily what's happening where you are right now. well i'm standing on republic square which is one of the central squares here and yerevan and it's the place where a lot of the protests have been taken place in the last few days and and last week as well and yesterday there was a rally here on the square and the opposition leader and he called pushing on called on people to come out today and to continue protesting and now you might be able to see as well one other thing that he called for yesterday an act of civil disobedience behind me you can see there are a lot of parked cars. called on people to drive to the square and to block off access to the square over on the other side there are cars parked as well there are

protesters slowly assembling here on the square and they will be marching presumably through the city today as well and they'll be a rally this evening now the opposition leader in general is calling for there to be a candidate of the people as he's calling it to take over the interim government and for that interim government to then arrange snap elections now it's important that the opposition wants. wants to be in charge of those elections wants to be in charge of arranging those elections they say if the currently ruling republican party arranges those elections there could be fraud and there could be vote rigging and this is a real political crisis is that we have seen a breakdown of the talks days of protests forcing the prime minister to resign will the governing party follow suit and step down as well. well that's hard to know at the moment the initial demand from the opposition was certainly for. to step down that happened at the beginning of the week and

yesterday the mood shifted people on the streets were really chanting against the ruling republican party as well and against the interim pm cut in. who is also from that party so there are. signs that they may have to compromise they have now said that they are willing to negotiate with any party and we have just heard that there will be a special session of parliament on tuesday to actually select a new prime minister so it seems that they may have to go ok it also seems that that blockade of that area you're talking about seems to be taking effect right now right behind you emily sherwood forest near of on the top throughout the day thanks very much. well the head of the united nations agency for palestinian refugees has criticized the american decision to slash aid to that organization leaving a facing the worst crisis in its half century your history speaking to.

hit out of the politics hurting humanitarian work of course it came as a surprise that what is essentially a political decision should impact humanitarian funding there is a consensus that exists across member states of the united nations or may have differences politically with a given actor but one protects funding in humanitarian terms and that is what the united states had done for many many decades all present trying to cut aid to the palestinians after the u.n. rejected his decision to recognized as the official israeli capital u.s. had long been the agency's biggest donor warned it could be forced to haul relief work for millions of refugees if it cannot raise more money more than five million palestinians across the middle east depend on the u.n. agency for basic services it's now feared that food aid for gaza could run out in

a matter of months because of that funding gap. football now in jam princely drama in germany last night as the business leaders byron munich faced titleholders real madrid in the semi advocate drew from the sports talk about that a better two one defeat for byron what happened that well unlike the previous evening's events last night's game really did have the feeling of a champions league semifinal heavyweight clash it was a cagey affair neither side wanted to make the first mistake but it was by munich who broke the deadlock to joshua kimmage but they did start to vulnerable off they lost. shortly after they'd scored that goal and so it transpired marcello the brazilian left back pulled things level before the second half marco asensio the youngster gave real madrid a two one lead and as it transpired a two one win now very difficult bind have got a lot to do when they go out to madrid but madrid will be feeling very confident

after that and by and have been so dominant lately how can you explain this loss at home well i mean it's a very different beast when you go into europe i think by and fans are so used to seeing their team dominate every game in the business layer against the likes of freiburg an outburst but when you go and play a team not real madrid a wily team full of talent it's a totally different beast and they they were found out slightly you know the injuries didn't help you get love the germany manager was also in the stands to see jerome boateng limp off and they'll be concerns about his world cup participation but as we're about to hear from you it wasn't the injury so much as a lack of quality at both ends and so let's hear what he had to say now. does come to even though there were missed chances and on top of that we handed out gifts and then didn't use the chances we created for ourselves properly. like paul the last chances he was saying there this result means that we all must

be the heavy favorites going into the second leg it's not a home buyer doesn't have that advantages in madrid well they will be the favorite going to go to go out to madrid not even one goal won't be enough one will win would be very tough to get to get out of but about but they're going to need to score two and they're also going to have to stop madrid scoring which is the problem but as we've seen in this champions league campaign comebacks can happen from of a turn to three goal to sick and also ana event is almost at the same thing against real madrid in the last round so your point is well his team fought off and they will be going for it ok no madrid though let's look at it from this perspective it hasn't been doing well domestically can they make it three in a row well is this something about madrid on the european not so i don't know how they do it but they just turn into a different machine they know how to win these games and then it is it down their manager i mean he he's come under a little bit of fire this season but he's won two straight champions league no one had no one and won the european cup twice on the bounce and the land in one nine

hundred ninety unprecedented he could win a third in a row but if he does he'll go down in the legends madrid fans there's no doubt about it briefly if you could we heard is there do you think a buying can put it together in terms of quality get those chances you know actualized what do you think well there were a few spurn chances in that leg and they will be kicking themselves like i said the problem they've got now is they lost robin early in the game as well they've lost around batang so there's a lot of quality is going to be missing from that from their first choice eleven obviously the goalkeeper mammal neuer won't be playing either so it's going to be very hard and i think this could be this could be a little a bridge too far perhaps by me and a lot of stake the title mccambridge is over from our sports thanks very much. this is deja vu news live from berlin thanks so much for being with us.

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one story and seeing the joy of. just once having the chance to touch like a child. for most children in kabul this is just a tree. growing up in afghanistan names taking on a sponsor going to play a game like providing food treats family stolen child. in forty five minutes on t w. global inequality. what does inequality mean. well. to the media. john. and how are you. going to balance a global media following him to. a music. that seems to listen to you sounds. not to time.

but. i really. put big dreams on the big screen. maybe magazines on the tell me what. it's no secret that the west is angry with russia on a whole range of issues but the feeling here in moscow is decidedly mutual my guest this week is russia's deputy foreign minister sergei riyadh cuffe what are the chances of halting this current slide in east west relations or is there worse to come. that gave the ark of welcome to come.