i mean. this is the news live from then vote for me all face the consequence is the leader of antigovernment protests in armenia urges lawmakers there to give him the job of prime minister during a vote in parliament today if they don't he says weeks of peaceful protest could become violent also on this program a judge in australia orders cardinal george pell to stand trial on charges of sexual abuse apparently is the most senior figure in the catholic church he is pleading not guilty. of israel's prime minister binyamin netanyahu presents

evidence he says proves that he wrong lied about its nuclear program critics say it's old news in a questioning his timing. plus countries around the world are marking international labor day we focus on the situation in china and on one for workers fights for is right. in european soccer by munich face an uphill battle tonight against real madrid in their champions league semifinal the bonus league titles have to be cheering al to have any chance of reaching the final. hello and welcome my name is christopher spring thanks for joining us hopes high of a new era in a new of parliament due to elect a new prime minister today the only candidate opposition leader nicole indiana. led

days of protests that prompted the previous prime minister. to resign last month now and has been speaking in holman to head of today's vote warning wall makers of what he calls a political tsunami if they fail to elect him a sheen and has the support of all the opposition parties in parliament but you also need folks from the governing republican party to where. we're going to get the latest now from do w.'s nick calmly nick you are in central yet yvonne in republic square i believe in supporters have gathered ahead of this vote how optimistic a day that he's going to be elected prime minister. could offer chris well this still is a very upbeat mood but it is getting slowly more tense this vote was meant to be a matter of a couple of hours it's dragging on lots of lawmakers from the ruling republican party making last minute still hold speeches almost twenty of them and that's put

the timetable off showed you all there's been a lot of criticism from them. and that's been met every time with boos and whistles here on the square behind me the thing is they had in recent days said that they wouldn't vote their candidate and be wouldn't get in his way and now it seems like they're not quite so sure so this definitely is situation that is now slowly becoming a lot more fraught and the atmosphere is changing accordingly and of course as i mentioned earlier in his speech to parliament and warned of what he called a political nami if he isn't elected prime minister how have other lawmakers especially in the republican party the ruling republican party been responding to that. well so far they don't seem to be addressing that comment from question directly they're all holed up in parliament together making this speech is criticizing him for what they say is lack of a clear and detailed program of policies i think the real thing here is the

expectations have been built that this is a foregone conclusion early this morning it was a very celebrates removed people thought this is basically all over i mean he's indeed pretty extraordinary event an election with any one candidate albeit only for the role of acting prime minister there are elections ahead so this really is situation that began very calmly and now suddenly seems like perhaps they will actually try and hold on to power they've been in power for almost two decades and it did seem a bit a bit strange that they would so willingly go along with his demands having been in power for so having so much to lose ok so nick you say things are dragging on do we have any idea when there might be a vote eventually when we can expect a result. we've been promised this is coming in the next hour or two the speech is still going on and people here like to talk to the ones of politicly each m.p. taking their minister to in the limelight and going to their reasoning they have

those said that they will eventually tell us how the because it will vote before the actual vote happens but so far this day showed us that all predictions of proven to be pretty. inconsistent and that i think today we could still see this going to a head tonight with even more people coming center of you haven't tried to pull the pressure on people in palma to make sure they get the result they were hoping for and they expected to happen ok nick great talking to nick calmly there in yerevan. we're going to catch up with some of the other stories making news around the world an abandoned high rise building in some paulo brazil has collapsed following a huge blaze this video uploaded to social media shows the building as it fell at least one person has been killed the building was frequently occupied by squatters it's feared there may be more casualties. young koum the founder of instant messaging giant whatsapp has left his job at parent company facebook whatsapp was

acquired by facebook four years ago and both smaller than one billion users worldwide but coom has had high profile disagreements with facebook over user privacy issues. u.s. adult film actress stormy daniels has filed a defamation lawsuit against president donald trump she accuses the president of presenting her as dishonest in comments he posted on twitter daniels has claimed she was threatened not to discuss an alleged sexual encounter with trump play he tweeted was quote a common job. now a judge in australia has ordered the country's highest ranking catholic cardinal george pell to stand trial on multiple charges of sexual abuse pelle is the most senior member of the catholic church to be tried on such charges details about the allegations haven't yet being made public police say they are historical sexual assault charges dating back several decades powell has pleaded not guilty

a date for his trial has yet to be set. with me in the studio now for more on this today of these religious affairs correspondent martin thanks for coming in cardinal pell is obviously innocent until proven guilty i think we should always remember that but how damaging is the fact that he now has to stand trial formally for him and for the catholic church well signals study local national of the. so strangely i have seen evidence that points to the commission of a crime which he did dismiss what his lawyer called the worst of the charges that he didn't dismiss quite a few charges including a sexual abuse charge accusation during a during a screening of a movie that there are a set of other charges that they clearly to be serious enough and there to be enough evidence to go to trial and so very certainly i mean this is absolutely not good news i mean it shows that you know there is in fact

a possible case for for bill and for the church ultimately to answer to and of course he's such a senior figure isn't he the number three in the vatican the treasurer of the the the finance minister is it. tell us a little bit more about his status within the catholic church and particularly interesting his relationship to pope francis he's a very very senior figure i mean in the cardinals school i mean and certainly somebody who has a must a broad power within the very conservative wing of the vatican his relation with this poll is actually quite ambiguous so on the one hand he was brought into the fold because he was a very strong and very sort of you know a very sharp critic of the kind of financial operations that were happening during the previous as he would at the very same time he has taken openly openly contrary positions to the approach of murder liberal or more than a credit church which means that on the one hand it is true that we have the third

sort of ranking or basically somebody very very soon you're leaving the church or being put in a very precarious position but at the very same time it's true that politically it's not clear that this is completely but news for this pope ok and i mean the stay with the pope he's said he's not going to comment this case until it's over. is that a clever approach or you know some people have the impression that the vatican. the catholic church around the world has not been particularly hands on about clearing up these kinds of cases well. i think it's you know if you have been looking at this for a while you should realize that it's really unheard of that the church will actually release somebody into the hands of the national authority is that it's also let's what's happened to you with the panel and it's exactly what happened i mean he was what the pope said when last year he was actually allowed to to go or essentially turn to those truly know dorothy's for lack of a better term was that he would be allowed bell would be allowed by the vatican to go back to australia to clear his name and that's something that hasn't been

happening previously and this is something that the church has large in them and the mentally against putting sort of priests specially high ranking priests of any sword into the hands of national authority so in a way i mean one can read this both ways one can read this as an attempt of the church who are truly reflect great to see someone the other head it's quite clear that there is also an attempt to bring national authorities into this politically. to say a minute ago politically this actually plays in all sorts of that are quite difficult to mop because they do show sort of criticism of the church but at the same time they help the reformist wing that really wants to weed out sexual abuse scandals from sort of from the bottom of the institution well tonight love talking vatican politics with the. religious affairs correspondent many thanks for. your watching t.w. news still to come on this program workers rights with chinese characteristics as

many countries mark international labor day today we look at one man's efforts to set up an independent trade union in china and in sports you opine because in his by munich side face their toughest task so far this season they're in madrid ahead of their champions league semifinal against the veterans need to turn around a first leg deficit to keep their hopes of reaching the final alive. first though germany losing patience with washington's trade. brinkmanship then with more on that story that's for sure the german economy minister saying that this is the wrong way raising middles tariffs it hurt jobs not only in germany and europe but also the u.s. people are putting off the decision as donald trump did just hours before the midnight deadline is a big problem because of the persistent uncertainty is causing businesses. a sigh of relief for the steel industry at least for the moment for the next four weeks the e.u. can sell steel and adamantium to the u.s.

without additional tariffs then negotiations will come to an end with says washington no more extensions in march trump announced plans to slash levies of twenty five percent on steel and ten percent on imports to the u.s. then two weeks later he granted the e.u. and six other countries a waiver that and today may first washington says it's been unfairly treated in trade with the e.u. it wants concessions from brussels a comparison of tariffs on five thousand products shows the europeans charge on average a five point two percent levy compared to just three point five percent by the americans. on tuesday the german government said it had julie noted the extension and expects a permanent exemption from the tariffs. i would have preferred to have received a definite permanent waiver with immediate effect this didn't happen and so now we

should use every opportunity to reach a reasonable agreement. which means negotiations between the e.u. and the u.s. will continue in an effort to prevent a trade war. the european commission insists the e.u. get a permanent exemption from the tariffs that are brussels correspond max hoffman says that could take a new trade deal which would take much longer than the new june first deadline. reactions here in brussels are very enthusiastic about well the success of extending the exemptions from the tariffs on aluminum and steel for another month and the reason for that is of course that many here feel this is just kicking the can down the road and is not really what the e.u. wants officially the e.u. wants to have a permanent exemption from those tariffs like australia for example like brazil for example but this doesn't seem very likely at the moment so what they're trying to

do behind the scenes is maybe through the united states of america maybe giving them something that they want there's even talk of the teeth to plight remember teeth to that comprehensive free trade agreement that was in the works between the us and the european union but never worked out well it might be earth and light it would only be industrial terrorists are a long way away from that and not everybody favors that in the european union but one thing's for certain if the united states and the e.u. would agree on something like that free trade agreement then the go she ations for it would take much longer than one month congratulations go out today to the people of greece eleven a zation for economic cooperation and development says there are enormous reform if it is bearing fruit still eat o.e.c.d. deafens to continue with reforms offered to the bank that expires in august thanks for a says greece doesn't need more austerity but rather the relief. greek prime

minister elect says the press has good reason to smile he's received high praise from o.e.c.d. secretary general and head for his country's impressive progress and reforms even though they were not voluntary and sometimes against the will of his people resist reform efforts are paying one percent in the first quarter compared to a year ago that beat analysts expectations a surge follows a rise in oil prices and production a positive showing for the british oil major in line with its peers shell and chevron the sector is benefiting from a massive rally crude has shot up to above seventy dollars a barrel from below thirty dollars over the last year. actor christopher in a war of words between israel and iran that's right iran lashing out at israel after the country's prime minister binyamin netanyahu accused iran of lying about its nuclear ambitions iran said netanyahu was quote an infamous liar yesterday the

israeli prime minister presented what he said was new evidence proving iran is pursuing a secret nuclear weapons program. using language his american ally would understand. iran lart big time benyamin netanyahu delivered a piece of political theater presenting what he called evidence of a secret uranium nuclear project a few weeks ago in a great intelligence achievement israel upturned half a ton of the material inside these walls and here's what we've got. fifty five thousand pages. another fifty far far less on one hundred eighty three. netanyahu

referred to files israel says prove secret nuclear facilities and plans to develop atomic weapons exist incriminating documents incriminating charts incriminating presentations incriminating blueprints incriminating photos incriminating videos and more. iran maintains it has never sought a nuclear weapon and never had one even before netanyahu spoke foreign minister mohammad javid serif had dismissed the claims in a tweet the boy who can't stop crying wolf is at it again undeterred by cartoon fiasco at the u.n. g.a. you can only feel some of the people so many times. netanyahu speech came on the back of a visit to israel by u.s. secretary of state might pump a zero. and i don't list suggest it was time to pressure donald trump into withdrawing his support for the twenty fifty nuclear agreement world powers signed

with iran. if that were the intent it seemed to have an immediate impact as the largest democracy and prime minister netanyahu just gave a very out of everybody saying but i've got to see a little bit of it and that is just not an acceptable situation and i've been saying that's happening they're not sitting back i believe setting off missiles which they say are for television purposes i don't think so. in the past week german chancellor angela merkel and french president emmanuel micron have made sekret visits to washington to urge trump to remain in the agreement but trump has threatened to withdraw from the deal unless it's renegotiated he is due to decide by may twelfth to go see. of some observers believe now to hear his presentation as an attempt to provide some sort of backdrop for us president tunnel trying to pull

out of the iran nuclear deal but what to iranians themselves thing to do is to raise a trucker has been talking to some think. prominent politics professor at the university of tehran so doctors the u.s. president donald trump threatening to pull this country out of the nuclear deal how is that seen here in tehran. people are very concerned they have all of this in the alternative people who are really feeling. their body weight the pressure. beaten ness of the sanctions. and obviously it wasn't fifty years ago or it was five years ago or four years ago or so everyone remember and obviously it's a nightmare to go back. and unfortunately even

though many you don't hear leaders say that all the are going to shore the united states is going to show the united states that many if any and feel that it will be it will be the ordinary people will feel. the pressure. of of the sanctions so. they are hoping that a miracle happens you've already mentioned that there would be a reaction from tehran if trump would terminate the deal how could it look like. restarting. their nuclear industry. i really don't see any of their very action that. that the islamic government will be able to do what are they going to do bomb so get ready. united. to bomb their

u.s. ally in the region what are we going to do. what do you think with the influence be on iran in domestic policies of the nuclear deal was terminated no on fortunately. draw of united states. from that the. need more sanctions would be more belligerent foreign policy towards the test towards. europe towards the united states it will mean that the hardliners in the wrong with fun. book game or all are sure that that's why i say that democracy human rights would suffer as a result of any confrontation between us is there anything you think that could be done to avoid all of that do you think there's

a way to save the nuclear deal even if the us pull out hope that gemini would keep a little bit of a little bit on the sea. and realize that you're not at the state is there is it is is really. finding. business as a. as an excuse to really have a go against a wrong and i hope in general people. pressed a government. who'll realize that you know me and now eighty million you don't you know not being punished because of something that they haven't done anything wrong . in their media of the dispute between all the there is. and president from thank you very much i want to go. w.'s

tereza try talking to iranian political scientists is about cologne now our next story reads a bit like the beginning of a spy novel five rain young women dressed to deceive their disk i fake be it's. man's clothes but there's a twist to this story the women in question on tout to still government secrets or overthrown enemy state they're actually off to something much more innocent dillon joins us from social media desk ravel this ministry this mystery for us. yeah so this the scene or the setting for this story is to around the couple of iran and specifically it's a soccer game the final game of the season for a team called persepolis let's go and take a look inside the stadium here so this is the scene of the final match now persepolis you can compare them to buy a new chin or f.c. barcelona these are the biggest baddest boys in all of iran you can see the fans

here are so excited the team has a chance to win it's eleven national championships in a row you can see this guy cheering here another selfie video taken you can see the fans are just ecstatic and the team did go on to win that game and their eleven championship but here's the twist none of the guys you have just seen are the guys they are women in disguise and we're about to see how it happened here's one of the guys you just saw inside see that beard transformation and this is the woman who was actually inside that stadium here's another example i just look at that beard christopher i think looks totally realistic it's like a hollywood make up job this is what she looks like in real life so these women were forced to don this kind of stuff in order to enter the stadium because according to religious authorities in iran these stadiums these matches are just no place for a respectable woman ok and color i mean you know apart from being quite dangerous you know what what these women did they've clearly posted it on social media.

otherwise you wouldn't have seen that so there disguise you know has evaporated isn't what's happening there. yeah these videos these videos were not leaked this did not accidently happen they it was a guerrilla campaign they did it they're proud of it and they have posted up a couple of follow up posts to instagram to kind of explain what they were trying to do and what they hope to accomplish with this sort of action here's one of them again you see the woman inside she said i want to enjoy being a woman i don't want to enter stadiums as a cross dresser i have the right to visit all stadiums in my country president rouhani during your campaign it was all right for women to come to stadiums at least that was the promise it would be great if you could bring about change now too she says and christopher this does come at a time of kind of changing attitudes in iran here's a video that went viral just a couple months ago of a woman of men helping a woman to climb up you can see she's standing on one guy's back and other guys about to pull up there so that she can watch

a game this went viral in iran and people you know liked what these men were doing to help this woman watch the game more recently the final example here this is from a professional soccer player and he said from iran he said i think if the ban was lifted we would have to build a stadium that could hold two hundred thousand spectators because we'll see the flood of passion from our lady so again a lot of people kind of slowly but surely supporting this idea of support that women could go to the stadiums but the laws have just not kept up just briefly you know what about the timing of this action as you call it you know iran have qualified for the world cup does it have anything to do with that. you know this may not be a coincidence that this happened just now just about a month ago the president of fifa was actually in iran for a game and at that derby match thirty five women tried to get inside and they were immediately detained they may have been doing it so that he could see that this was still happening now there are calls of hypocrisy on features behalf here is the

statute here's what few says the rules are if you're a part of the organization they say you know discrimination of any kind including gender you can see there on the right is prohibited and punishable by suspension or expulsion so there are a lot of people hoping you know maybe hey if it can use its leverage can can threaten suspension or expulsion and others hoping that increased media attention on what these women are doing that that will that will help them ok khan a fantastic story kind of villain there from a social media desk. they're watching out do you have any news in but then we're going to preview in just a second of that big champions league semifinal between israel by trade and by the way to stay with us. all the cartoon is suited that's tailored for the environment the nutrient rich groups inside the song talked about in chile and they need to produce it the boom

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me on the only candidate for that post after weeks of protest forced the incumbent to resign it's unclear however if pushing on has enough support to win the federation. and a judge in australia has ordered cardinal george pell to stand trial on multiple charges of sexual abuse alison australia's highest ranking catholic and the most senior church official to be tried on such charges he's pleading not guilty. now it's made the first today labor day workers around the world taking to the streets to put the spotlight on their rights and we're going to focus on workers' rights in china now our beijing correspondent much as booting is been speaking to a man who's been trying to set up an independent trade union in china a plan that made him a government target. these tracks still give me a feeling of comfort even if they had just a distant memory. almost every day for twenty years leeway gere drove his

train past this spot he worked as a train driver until one day while getting off the train he slipped and fell and broke his spine the railway refused to treat the incident as a workplace accident lee believes the company systematically violated labor laws by long sense that something wasn't right but it always worked so much that there was not much time to think about things. today he's partly paralyzed he receives no pension or compensation but he's long stopped worrying about just his own fate lead documents how worker's rights are ignored he says it's not unusual for train drivers to work up to two hundred hours overtime each month without pay he's trying to organize workers on line. the official unions do not represent workers interests on the contrary as soon as someone stands up the unions try to muzzle

that person that he has made contact with others outside china the union invited him to the u.s. in twenty sixteen he was already at the airport and had checked in but i was turned back at the gate he was under surveillance and up to today his social media accounts are regularly blocked and. that was someone who needed advice. or sure whether reaches out to me has shown where the boundaries lie and is threatened only if you are brave enough to contact me directly. the police arrived someone informed them about his meeting with a join a list a neighborhood policewoman and a plain clothes. he's unable to show his id. leave my apartment immediately. there. the policeman leaves

a small victory. to. the policewoman remains she turns up regularly. instead of focusing on the foreign reporter leading man she had him fight for his rights his is a constant struggle that exclusive report there from our beijing correspondent yes bolling who now joins us from beijing but just tell us first of all how how is leeway to now. well after i left some plain clothes people started guarding his entrance when he leaves the house he's followed by them now otherwise he is in more or less good spirit he's continuing his struggle he's continuing to post things online he has had very bad

news a few days ago his contract that still existed with the railway was ended so he's in a very difficult very difficult financial situation but his spirits are there and but you know this is a man fighting for workers' rights in private companies why is the government cracking down why are the authorities cracking down on people like rachel. well the railways are not a private company but you are right they crack down on fire on people who fight for private for rights and private companies as well. the chinese government does not accept people organizing themselves outside of the control of the communist party so anything that could stir unrest that could destabilize as they call it the situation the society is is being cracked upon down upon like like it is with him

and we wager says that official state ledge trade unions aren't helping work as it always is that true for all workers and if so why well the trade unions the official trade unions in this communist system they have a different function then than what we would expect them they are guided by the party they implement the policies of the party so although they claim officially reprinting the workers they are there to to implement the policies of the government with the workers so if the government thinks that growth is more important than workers rights it's the duty of the of these organisations to jujubee to do to ensure that growth is possible and not to defend workers' rights

and is there any official reaction to those accusations from lee you know from the government from the official trade unions. yeah as i said not not from the trade unions no there is are reactions from courts from the organisation from the railroad organisation. as i said the trade unions they do not really care about these cases ok much yes many thanks for that much as building of the beijing correspondent. time now for some of the other stories making news around the world in the filipino capital manila thousands of demonstrators have burned in effigy depicting president rodrigo do tend to as a demon of protest was part of today's may day marches they were protesting to chant his failure to keep a campaign promise to get rid of short term employment contracts. a u.n. delegation has arrived in myanmar's rakhine state to investigate the ranger crisis

there some seven hundred thousand muslim or hinges fled the country for neighboring bangladesh following a military crackdown last all based un has described the action as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. and north and south korea have begun taking down loudspeakers on their border that have plagued propaganda for decades the move fulfills a promise made at the historic summit between the two countries leaders last week and while south korea has also asked the u.n. to verify north korea's planned shutdown of a nuclear testing site. time to get an update on that big match in the champions league tonight at home and from the w. sports here to talk us through that by munich facing reale by last the first leg this is the leg in madrid so you know just to buy and have a chance i do think they have a chance but not

a very good one they lost two one at home as you mentioned which means that they're only behind in the tie but they have the away goals rule working against them so they have to score and they have to win indeed indeed but you know the noise coming out of my own camp this week was very positive and let's take a look at how they're spending it ok. to turn this tie on its head start players fail to dazzle in the first leg and now ray out of the home advantage still even just put three past them here in the quarter final and hikers is heartened by the memory. not. because that game showed that madrid are vulnerable at home and that they aren't as solid as they look. but right now did make it through against you venters as they did in the quarter final last year i get spy and fight because though there is a big difference this time around. and i wasn't the coach back then and on tuesday

it will be a different team than the one which played last year. the opponents however. the stars talent and their coaches confidence also remain unchanged. look at dinner most important thing for us is to think about winning the match and nothing else. to come onto the pitch and so win the match that's our goal you not to speculate not to overthink not to step back or do strange things the down does have the upper hand but he knows not to underestimate his opposition. by and will not be worried at all and will come to play. a great match there a great club and a great team and we are aware of that. to be hard praise but by now face the difficulty of living up to their opponents' expectations. and the difficult time of getting to the final you know what what what to buy and have to do to manage to get through to that front well first they have to score then they

have to score again and it would be really good enough wouldn't it would be enough but unfortunately keeping off the scoresheet is a pretty tough thing to do i mean the best way things could go for by him would be to get an early goal and then maybe get another goal and try and hold the door as hard as they can unfortunately you ventus did that in the last round they were actually three nil up having you know. having sort of equalled the scoreline that real madrid had beaten them interest had but you know keeping real madrid out of the score sheet in any ninety minute game is almost impossible sometimes it takes the intervention of a late referees decision to get them on the score sheet but that worked out for them last round the rail madrid you know what is it about them and the champions league they've won the last two titles this will be their third final in a row what is it about real madrid in the champions league well i mean if you want to look at it in the most simple of terms in my view they have the best squad in

world football by far and barring some kind of interest squad chaos or coaching malpractise they should be in or around the champions league final every year. so if you want to say it that way yes they should be winning titles or at least becoming close to it but. the luck also has to break their way and it has the last couple of years football you know it's a low scoring sport there's a lot of chance involved especially in knockout tournaments so you know we saw that look almost run against events. in the last round for real madrid and we saw spurs you know beat them badly in wembley in the group stage so if this is not an unbeatable team it would be surprising to see biron go through tonight but it would be shocking i mean. he was kept very very quiet in that first leg and it is also very hard to keep him off the scoresheet for too many matches so if he has

a breakout game this could break byron's way into even you never know the byan are also a fortunate team sometimes that herman thank you very much for bringing us up to date on that. staying with soccer news reports are emerging that former manchester city and into milan coach were both two men sydney has agreed to take over the italian national team the fifty three year old who is currently coaching russian side in each thing to petersburg is expected to take the reins after the final round of the russian championship on may thirteenth usery have been without a ball since november when jumping out of into it was sacked for failing to reach this year's world cup. still to come in this program anthracite coal provided the fuel for germany's industrial revolution but this year the country's last anthracite mine is closing we're going to be looking at a new exhibition on the rise and fall of germany's coal industry. first though ben is back with europe's growing pains the e.u.

continues to recover from the financial crisis which saw millions lose their jobs as record unemployment is falling back to pre-crisis levels for most but the rates vary from country to country the economic engine of germany for example enjoys a jobless rate of only three and a half percent that's quite a big difference to france which is managed to get below the nine percent mock at a huge difference to greece as you can see that they have a long way to go the job a jobless rate those been falling for years due to sweeping labor reforms known as hots for a more reforms are being made to get long term unemployed backed. work france is going through its own reforms making it easier to hire and fire the government hoping businesses will take advantage of the laws to create more jobs greece plans to lower the minimum wage and also cattail job protection measures to stimulate the labor market so three very different countries with very contrasting ideas of reform but let's focus on france activists are using international workers day to

protest against change correspondent how important today is to the unions. well this is a very important day for the french unions you know over the past few weeks that have been a several strikes that are still ongoing in different sectors in fronts like the strike against iran way reform or the strike at f. holes for higher wages and the unions have been struggling to speak with one voice across the sectors and actually that's what they're trying to day here obviously there are already quite a lot of people here as you can see just behind me however there are different demonstrations being organized across paris the it turns out it turns out that the unions haven't really managed to come together to speak just with one voice just yet lisa how much of a struggle is it for the unions considering their bargaining position right now the

government's campaign is surely putting them on the back foot. absolutely actually support of the unions across france across the crust french population has been going down there less and less people participating in the profit after professional elections for the unions and also the government in my macaw the president is trying to undermine the unions in the sense that that they are yes the government is yes talking to the unions but that should not really taking into account what the unions are asking for what they're demanding say it seems that they're negotiating position has been weakened over the past years and especially over the past few months and that's what they're trying to change now at the same time a corps has had success in implementing some of his reforms a very bearing fruit here from the labor market. it's still very early days at the moment so what we're seeing is that unemployment is going down a tiny bit and also the economy here the french economy is growing again but we

have to look at what's going to happen over the medium and over the long term however the awesome entrepreneurs i. i have been talking to and they have been telling me that they're really happy about some especially some of the reforms such as a cap on compensation payments for workers that have been laid off some entrepreneurs have been telling that over the past few months because of that measure they've actually employed new stuff ok we've talked about the bugging position of the unions what about macaws and bargaining position especially after that meeting he had which was a very touchy feely with the u.s. president donald trump how did that broadband sco down in france. while he could argue that the french are actually getting used to low that have gotten used to his way of doing international politics actually his principle is i'm going to talk to everybody even though we won't agree but he's trying to be you

know have a good relationship with all the leaders on an international level the french to peace a down they think that he's actually a good international president even though he's not completely he's not that much supported in france that in france it's fifty fifty actually half of the population still think that he's doing a very good job and half of the population either against him or they don't really know what to think about him however they do most of the people here do think that he's a good international president especially as for once it's a president who speaks english but how has his strategy actually got him because the e.u. medals tariffs dispute is still going on. absolutely you know what it's like with these meetings you never know what's really happening behind those closed doors but you could argue that trump has pushed back the deadline by a man by one month so maybe that's also down to microns diplomatic efforts they

said it was their first in paris thanks for covering the events. now germany's rua valley was once the nation's economic powerhouse thanks to its huge coal mining industry by the one nine hundred seventy s. coal was in sharp decline and this year marks the end of hard coal mining in germany a new exhibition in the western city of s. and inside what was once europe's largest coal mine looks back on the history of this area the room that count home shipped from the culture with me to tell tell me all about this and tell us all about this not just me this is all quite fitting on international workers day is in that though yes some of the workers there that of course were made jobless that one point to obviously reasons for for many protests over the years you and i are of course honoring the day before. so tell us about this execution you know it's called the age of coal

a european history so it's not only showing you where and how the coal was mined we're talking here in germany of hard coal as you said that's high quality anthracite here but it also gives you an amazing overview of just how central coal was to the industrial revolution i mean coal was so many things were dependent on coal and it was the main driver of germany's post-war economy for some time now it's interesting in the one thousand the mid nine hundred fifty s. we had about one hundred twenty eight of these mines by the seventy's by the mid seventy's that had already been down to about twenty. as the transition to oil and gas obviously was well underway and the last one will be closing this year so that's the reason for this exhibition with a quick look at. today its business is writing a cable come to an exhibition. they land in a prime. this is what the rule region in western germany looked like some three hundred. ideal conditions because its presence would shake the area.

pretty cool through cold out the rural region has been turned into a much. the people came for the coal coal had to be mined thousands upon thousands of people have come here and the rural area is a product of coal. the exhibition the age of coal is taking place in the old sulphur and coal mining complex here in huge rooms with cold was one source of visitors can experience to hundreds of you repeat in mining history in the early days of the work was hard and very dangerous thousands of mine has died but coal also changed people's lives its use was central to progress all over europe like here in england the first street lamps were fueled by gas made from coal production and coal has literally made our lives more colorful. made the world more

colorful it's brought color into everyday life because synthetic colors can be made from the by products of coal processing. within ten years there are more than ten thousand different shades of color made one of the best known by products of coal is called taso which ironically minus swore by to wash off the black stuff isn't it if it synthetic fats among other things are in soap so this leads to soaps being made from synthetic fat in the town of and the crazy thing is that the miners who were black from top to bottom from coal used coal in the form of that in the soap to wash and clean themselves on the. less popular though it was macho rain made of coal during world war two the nazis tried to convince people to eat it the exhibition the age of coal is filled with unusual in size from an industry that's left a huge mark on europe. unusual in fact. made

of coal and marginal reminded credible you know i looked that up there was a guy named arthur him. it was and who was very prominent fat chemist back in the early part of the twentieth century and he was very instrumental in the development of this so but also in creating a type of margarine that was different derived from paraffin sludge so very appetizing but it actually fit in with the nazis self proficiency policies at the time didn't last very long of vegetable oils went out i think that there is of course a dark side to coal mining you know it's not exactly good for the environment that's right needless to say obviously the pollution levels in this area of germany have improved greatly since the mines have been shut down and it was it was indeed also very dangerous not only for the for the health in terms of their lungs of the miners lungs but also the conditions in early mines because of frequent explosions that led nevertheless to the development of some really interesting and revolutionary technologies for instance an emergency evacuation device called the

bush bomb you can see it here a top aide it peter shaped cylinder that we use to transport trapped miners back to safety through drilled boreholes that was developed in kitchen and later used in many other mines further afield and many of the pieces in this exhibition really have had very interesting stories behind them mining also of course had a huge influence on the development of european politics. as we mentioned earlier you know such a huge industry you know helping germany to rebuild want to and and then this huge transition the roof you know losing coal mining is that's right there are definitely some tough times from the one nine hundred seventy s. onward and unemployment is still an issue in the area but the region has done an amazing job of really capitalizing on its industrial legacy in two thousand and one but so far on coal mine industrial complex we spoke about there in and was named a unesco world heritage site and

a lot of those decommissioned mines and buildings smokestacks blast furnaces sorting holes and the like have all been restored and repurposed has. quite incredible cultural spaces actually and right after that the ruhr trillion dollar was founded in two thousand and two now that's an annual music and arts festival that runs from august through to mid october and that makes really great use of these locations and in as in the in the complex where they attract some terrific events a lot of big stars as well and in twenty ten the a valley area itself was actually a european capital of culture so that really helped the area to turn its image around it's definitely worth a visit specially now that this exhibition is on its own until november so there's a lot of talk you just want to have my appetite i think i'm going to have to try to get some really really more details on our website on the website w dot com slash culture karen always good talking to you can help shout it from culture.

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