this is d. w. news coming to you live from berlin and the lives shattered in the battle against islamic states for months after the group's defacto capital rocco was liberated a special report on life and the legacy of war in the ruins also coming up for me as mass protest leader calls for a whole just strikes for the paralyzed the country ruling party is now hinting it will back him as prime minister after trying to block his leadership in and then chelsea manning appears in berlin for her first foreign trip since her release from

prison the convicted leaker of secret documents says she's worried that government and big corporations for abusing people's that's. also coming up this year's champions league final will see real madrid face liverpool in spite of for two defeats in rome on wednesday liverpool fans were jumping for joy as the ridge went on to aggregate and reach their first final since two thousand and seven. below i'm terry martin welcome to the program. it's been more than seven months since the syrian city of raka was liberated from so-called islamic state the militants had captured rocka in two thousand and thirteen and made it their defacto capital but last october a coalition of kurdish an air fighters backed by u.s. special forces ousted i.r.s. after a four month siege the liberation of raka marked

a turning point in the war against islamic state today only a few patches of land in syria are still under the group's control they no longer rule an extensive territory but rocca remains in ruins we have this report from the former capital. was once the capital city of the so-called islamic state. now it's a wasteland. seventy percent of the buildings are in ruins all severely damaged despite that the united nations says one hundred thousand people have returned to live in the city this resident fled the fighting she's lost everything she had. on the map and i don't know what happened when i came back everything i owned was burnt there's nothing left the she. was subject to the full force of the so-called islamic state which ruled an area the size of britain from the city. you know so

these are his fighters were ousted after an intense aerial bombing campaign by an international coalition and a ground assault by kurdish and out of militias. and now there's the constant danger of booby traps there are signs to warn the residents but the un say's as many as one hundred twenty people a month are killed by the bombs most of the victims are women and children there's no international help in clearing the threat and everywhere reminders of islamic state rule locals say the islamists use this church as a court and as a base for the religious police. on tiffin of money at this place is full of forms but there are also police charge sheets and written court judgments. in theory these documents shouldn't be here western and kurdish intelligence agencies claim they seized all the evidence they could to find out who joined us like this report here. a member of the

religious police called abu abdullah call to man with eight packets of cigarettes another man was arrested for using evil woods it's unclear what happened to the i.a.s. and forces and the people they targeted and then this square in central iraq the ultimate symbol of islamic state power and a place of execution abu ahmed said he stayed during i-s. rule. this squares called nine square paradise square but everyone called it the square of. the i.a.s. people were always here. they hung around in restaurants or they went to the internet. you know. and over there they stuck heads on spikes and crucified people. the world watched as rockefeller now coffee years later the city seems forgotten there's no running water on the electricity supplies ready on but there are places of hope i had people in the stadium now people are

playing soccer here again and there's music being played deafening the loud. everyone can hear it after it was banned for so long i. now have some of the other stories making headlines around the world today former news president giuliana recently joined trump's legal team is statement apparently contradicts trump's insistence that he was unaware of the payments two story house. officials in the us say at least nine people have been killed after a military cargo plane crashed near an airport in the southern state of georgia a c one thirty aircraft was on a training mission carrying national guard members from the rico it's not yet known what it calls the crash. and a letter has emerged in which the best separatist group says it is completely dissolving all its structures relatives of people killed by a say they are unconvinced that it's disbanding last. here the group handed over

its weapons after a sixty year long terrorist campaign to create an independent basque state in northern spain. in armenia opposition leader. has called for a halt to mass protests that have rocked the country for days this after the country's ruling party has hinted that they're now willing to back question young for prime minister a day after blocking his leadership bid the catch he'll have to get the support of one third of the country's parliament but if passion ends popularity on the streets is anything to go by that should be a formality. they were dancing on the streets of yerevan. armenia's capital power lies by an army of peaceful revolutionaries. by any means necessary. train lines or roads and the city's airport

disrupted as protesters answered the call of their leader. and he called to shani and lead from the front. two weeks ago no one thought this was possible but the people of on many a took to the streets for nico because they believe in him. we want i would then christian this country we don't want to be ruled by just thirty people who are getting all the power all the money of the country and we want to help them pressure want to always to be our my weeks thousands of protesters have demanded change they say they want to bring down a system riddled with only got some corruption the. last night falla passion ian and marriage to bring news from the country's ruling party hierarchy. there was a meeting of the republican party they said that in the coming vote they would support the people's candidate. the people's candidate

told the masses to go and get some rest ahead of next tuesday's crucial vote. what began last month as a student demonstration has exploded and me change the future of a nation. u.s. president has sent a trade delegation to china. that's a pretty high level delegation as well in keeping with the seriousness of the issues u.s. secretary of the treasury steve nugent trade secretary wilbur ross and trade representative robert lights has a meeting with china's top economic advisor vies from in lieu heat together they hope to find an agreement so that the trade dispute between the two largest economies in the world does not turn into a proper trade war trade relations at a low points the u.s. has a big trade deficit with china and accuses beijing of on third practices the u.s.

has implemented tariffs on chinese steel and aluminum and is threatening duties on one hundred fifty billion dollars worth of other chinese products china and return slap tarps on imports from the u.s. soybeans and meat. as not only tariffs that are on the agenda the u.s. also wants to stop sending high tech goods to china because they accuse beijing to infringe on copyright and steal secrets it's all not an easy situation let's bring in t.w. corresponding muchas building who joins us from beijing what he has is a pretty high level delegation trump sent to china that what does that in itself mean well yeah you've mentioned the names on the american side and you heard on the chinese side is also a very important person he's the top advisor to see jinping so it means first of all that both sides take this conflict very seriously it does not mean in my view

that this is an attempt to find a soft solution to find a quick solution the american delegation consists of dialogue oriented people like nugent but also hardliners you've mentioned the names ross navarro et cetera so i think both both sides are going to lay out their positions china has already announced also very undiplomatic very unconsidered and a way that they are not going to discuss their key issues with the u.s. or i would rather not expect an outcome of this meeting well it's a conundrum as well the a sphere is theft of intellectual property and wants to stop selling several goods to shut diana on the other hand they want to increase exports to ease the trade deficit how's that going to work out. the good question. first answer would be probably that they want to reduce imports from

china but i think that the key issue here is another one that the trade deficit is one point of conflict and the other point of conflict is you have mentioned that the technology transfer and china are catching up on some relevant technologies so that both countries might see themselves as competitors in the future and this is a big fear for the u.s. and some recent measures like export ban on the chinese manufacturers e.t.e. which is effectively banned now from buying any components from the u.s. is a sign that the u.s. is taking this very seriously thought of these materials boiling over in beijing for us thank you very much. china is on the way to becoming the world's second biggest nation of wine drinkers the community of wine lovers is growing by double digits every year so father it's been good news for

wineries from an upper valley to bordeaux because chinese wines had a reputation as being quite undrinkable for a long time but a new generation of wine makers is now set out to prove china can do anything even grow world class wine. a vineyard on the edge of the gobi desert and the spring time the great finds are cleared off after spending that cold dry winter covered in protective soil it takes several weeks to resurrect a vineyard which is artificially irrigated but no one funky isn't at all put off by the challenges. ok even though it's expensive and complicated we said let's do this we want to be able to make our own high quality chinese wine. since setting up the canon winery in the new province seven years ago one fung has been granted a number of accolades she discovered her love of wine in germany where she lived

for a decade the ventnor and her staff are always experimenting to get tastes just right she doesn't have a professional qualification but you don't necessarily need one to be able to identify the perfect flavor so what's her secret my palate. my love wine. drinking it is my hobby and. if you really love wine and you need to be able to rely on your palate need to be able to say no that's not right. something still missing. one funks father has a winery of his own right across the way one thing you was the first person to cultivate grapes in the region that was fifteen years ago despite the less than ideal climate he was confident that the soil was suitable the retired agricultural engineer and a colleague begged the authorities to lease them a piece of land. back then they said nothing would come of this two old folks

wanting to grow wine here. but one thing you stuck to his guns and these days investing in wine has become fashionable even the regional government as in on the game it's invested some eight hundred million euros in the sector today authorities are inspecting a prospective wine growing site investing here means joining a state cooperative group that the fun of one day a premium brand of chinese wines will be produced here. so far small wine growers are the only ones to have really found success here one fung produces eighty thousand bottles a year she's introduced to reasoning have a great from germany she often gets visits from abroad her wines cost between twenty and one hundred fifty euros a bottle. there. it's a higher price than what you would pay for a similar quality and other countries that have

a history of wine growing people's will but i think it'll settle it certainly high quality. they're hoping that one day they can go be desert will be familiar to wine lovers the world over cambridge another to the british firm of the heart of the facebook data collection scandal has announced that it is immediately ceasing all operations the consultancy group says it is fine for bankruptcy in the u.s. and and and brits damage and was propelled into the limelight after the merger and its absconding to date own up to eighty seven million facebook users compile the database on a large number of those of us voters and use the information to try and influence the twenty sixteen us presidential election facebook lost the trust of many uses over the scandal and has since tightened its previously restrictions. now many large u.s.

companies use drug tests in the hiring process but that is about to change at least as far as my own ana is the reason filling jobs in the u.s. is not tougher than it's been for two decades truck tests were introduced thirty years ago after a federal law required government contractors to maintain drug free workplaces but now experts say the marianna test excludes too many potential work because it comes at a time when more and more states are legalizing kind of is for recreational use. it still does not mean that you can be stoned on the job and the e.u. is wrangling over money and terry has that story that's right the european commission has unveiled and then bishes new proposed budget for the e.u. or britain leaves spending a seven year period starting in two thousand and twenty one the budget about store around one point three trillion euro with britain's contributions falling away other states will be asked to pay more. cuts to the european farming subsidy

fines for me and this was undermined the rule of law and who will pay for the pricks it. did august third. in the writing of. just a handful of the dividing lines in the e.u.'s new proposed budget. not to produce only me the departure of the united kingdom is a factor that needs to be taken into account. we have conducted a rigorous examination of all policies and we propose an ambitious but balanced budget music one that is fair to his all. argument but this trouble brewing in brussels over who will foot the ten billion euro shortfall the commission wants the members with the deepest pockets to shoulder the burden. austria's chancellor among those who pay more was not impressed. with examine the proposal from brussels precisely we have to say for us we are far away from an acceptable solution seems

to be a loss occur due to the brics it should not be carried by the net contributors alone . another proposal turned a few heads and one some supports a plan to withhold funds from countries deemed to be violating e.u. rudolph. we also propose that we beef up the links between the european budget and respect for the rule of law respecting the rule of law is an indispensable prerequisite for sound financial management. not shared. some members have already rejected the idea of the budget needing the unanimous approval of the member states it's unlikely to make the final drops. chelsea manning the former u.s. soldier convicted of leaking classified documents is in germany on her first trip abroad since she was released from prison the transgender activist was on stage

wednesday at the republican conference in berlin warning the tech crowd there that government and big business should not be trusted with data privacy. oh warm welcome to a tentative new celebrity. chelsea manning was on her first trip abroad to speak at the republican tech conference in berlin which deals with the impact of the digital world on the real world. she has a lot to say on this topic manning best known for leaking classified documents asserted that software developers have to have a code of ethics and that she is concerned about the way people's private data is used. don't just churn out we don't just you know create a you know create a product and that's the end of it we as developers are complicit in the software that we write and i would argue how we gets used and how it gets misused so we have

to change the culture we have to change our developer culture technologist no longer can just say we bring you tools here they are here are here are here they are now society figure out how to use them. manning was sentenced to thirty five years in prison for the leaks she served seven before then u.s. president barack obama pardoned her and her talk she also touched on her new life and coping with her celebrity status i just worry. that. i'm an imperfect person and there's been a kind of cult of personality that it's really intimidating is overwhelming for me. and i'm i'm still trying to adjust to life after prison and while also being a public figure at the same time i have i've been struggling to balance that. she may still be adjusting but manning isn't stepping out of the spotlight any time

soon she's filed to run for u.s. senate in the twenty eighteen maryland democratic primary. is covering the republican for she was there yesterday quite a warm welcome there for poor chelsea manning she's clearly playing to a friendly crowd absolutely i mean she's clearly seen by the public a crowd as one of part of the online community which has basically embraced the opportunity to have for us i guess that is a huge that she's still coming to terms with this at the same time she also represents the kind of diversity the whole transgender issue that the republican wants to open up to as well why is chelsea manning in particular headlining this event well she is a whistleblower but she's a whistleblower come advocate for online rights and to create some kind of

awareness what's the big companies like google and facebook we are doing to public discourse and we have seen that reports that talk about the digital world in the real world was far as most of the people that are concerned the digital world already is the real world and that the whole issue of algorithms is becoming more and more important algorithms so we're hearing so much about controlling our lives algorithms so the operative word at this year's event obviously yes and even to those. of us who don't code in a personal time and professionally algorithms pretty much determine what we see on our screens and this is also while the whole why the whole issue of cambridge analytical became so important and why this is potentially had such an impact on the democratic discourse because eighty seven million users with facebook i.d.'s had their data exposed and that means that people are basically the thinking that

attitudes their motions basically for everyone to see there for everyone to manipulate and this is something that's healthy manning has been warning about i got the opportunity to ask a from the crowd well there's this whole discourse here and about more regulation her take on it is regulation simply won't work and that there needs to be some kind of code of ethics amongst those who actually write these algorithms but we also heard from google that has no interest in reading becoming completely transparent because at the end of the day google is not a search engine it's a business model so is facebook ok algorithms and regulation chelsea manning is a very very political figure now we heard that she's probably going to run for political office in the in the u.s. what else did she talk about well she also talked about the whole issue of what it means to be in an institution she says that institutions are going to fail that pressure from the out she clearly was alluding that to the u.s.

military but any kind of public institution needs outside control and that's what she really wants the online community to do to not just be watch for but to also deliver that kind of control that regulation cannot provide in a society otherwise she fears that the democratic discourse is severely harmed she feels will ready for decades behind figure that for decades ok overall the republican interesting event bringing so many tech minds together there it's. talk about current current affairs what's your takeaway so far from this year's republican well that's certainly a lot out there and it always seems somehow important but difficult to pin down i think the whole question of fake news is still very much an issue that of course concerns often this one sentence really resonated with me that we're not in a crisis of what is true we're living through a crisis of how we know what is true and i think that's something for all of us to work on the connecticut thank you so much for your analysis and of course if you

want to know more about this year's republican bent you can find lots on our website thanks making. the air we breathe is it another marker for what divides the world's rich and poor a new study from the world health organization has revealed that air pollution kills seven million people each year most of them in poor countries while air quality is actually improved in european cities those in asia and africa have seen their air become more polluted. for air pollution an invisible threat that affects almost everyone on the planet clean air has become a luxury now the world health organization has described the situation as unacceptable. by every ten persons around the wall breathing air that these no so respected recommended the guidelines of ritual for so he's going to be using the requirement. that's really very dramatic while few have

access to pure air air quality goes hand in hand with inequality ninety percent of air pollution related deaths occur in low and middle income areas of the world. and the gap between the rich and the poor is widening while air quality generally improved in european and u.s. cities between two thousand and ten and two thousand and sixteen pollution worsened and poor areas such as southeast asia emissions from motor vehicles in bustling cities are a major risk factor as people around the world continue to move to urban areas but the world health organization warns that indoor pollution is also a major killer accounting for around half fatalities. three point eight million are. many people on the wall. all in very few words for cooking or painting or getting their houses. strides have

been made recently in green technology but they mainly benefit the developed world the world health organization will hold the first conference on air pollution in october to hasten change at the global level. you're watching the news still to come today is world press freedom day we'll talk to the illustrator who created the world famous cold twelve covers for the news magazines time and eagles . and in sports liverpool fans across the globe will be happy today as their side secured a place in the champions league final the reds will face madrid in kiev later this month and if they win it would be the club's sixth european title. and if you can always get news all the go just download are out from google play or from the apple store i'll give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news and also use the app to send us photos and

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the germans started make thirteen song t.w. . welcome back you're a t w news i'm terry martin our top stories are mean is opposition leader nico pasha yon has called for a halt to mass protests today this after the ruling republican party hinted it would back him in next week's prime ministerial but was the party made the move after opposition protesters effectively shut down the capital europa. and the european commission has unveiled plans for an expanded budget after the. u.k. leads and law with pozole has angered major economies who would have to contribute more to the european bunch of. reporters without borders says hostility towards the press is growing worldwide and is often encouraged by

political leaders even in democratic countries on this world press freedom day d.w. takes a closer look inus latest report the watchdog classifies the situation in seventy out of one hundred eighty countries as bad or very bad to those of the colored regions on your map china and iran remain among the world's worst countries for journalists in china el media is subject to strict censorship and foreign journalists can be closely monitored it's estimated at least fifteen journalists and around forty bloggers are in custody there iranian media are also strictly controlled by the state journalists can face horse and even violent reprisals if they step out of line the country ranks one hundred sixty four on the press freedom a list and then there's turkey while that state doesn't completely control all media there are very few remaining independent outlets some thirty five journalists

are reported jailed in turkey more than almost anywhere else in the world we asked a handful of journalists from around the globe to briefly explain to you the idea behind press freedom. freedom of the press may seem like an abstract concept something very vague but doesn't really mean it means that you have the information to make up your mind and to speak out first we don't protect journalists like me that is true was actually so much more than but because. if you're free. let me tell you why freedom of expression is one of your fundamental human rights written down in the united nations the universal declaration of human rights it says everyone has a right to freedom of opinion and expression this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

and let me tell you about my country in poland we have a limitation of press freedom that governments to control over states media and shout broadcast pure propaganda and the private media and political mechanical pressure by discover meant in two thousand eight hundred within a month six hundred forty eight people were detained over social media posts criticizing governments policy and military operations in syria and they were not only journalists the cost of nigeria is for green. use and the means to civil society and it limits the ability of society to order government to count here in the united states the freedom of the press means that if you work for taxpayers chances are your work emails are public records. and that has enabled plenty of journalists to uncover areas of corruption in conflicts of interest that

never would have otherwise been discovered here in kenya press freedom allows the citizens to make informed decisions especially during elections this march three indian journalists covering sound mining. were run over by a recall there were murdered and they were murdered because they were exposing the activity of illegal extraction of sand from which many people profited and those people did not want the public to know that the public's money was being stolen i didn't want the most dangerous countries to work this journalist around the world. and i have witnessed how self-censorship and the lack of justice in our institutions have cost many that's and many of my colleagues. journalists around the world they're giving their views on press freedom well one man who knows something about press freedom is the rug regus he's

a u.s. illustrator his magazine covers are known all around the world and he's with us here today in our studio good morning to you. together with your parents you came to the u.s. as a political refugee from cuba when you were just nine years old what does press freedom mean to you today world to me it means in these everything that's the one of the main reasons we left cuba and i left my my homeland as a child was that we wanted freedom i wanted to be able to speak freely and speak our minds and through my work i you know take advantage of that on a regular basis means quite a bit to well you're an artist in your you've done a lot of really interesting and impressive magazine covers for magazines like time magazine desh spiegel we see examples on the wall here behind many people recognize them the iconic trump cover is do you consider consider yourself an artist or

a journalist i have actually been asked that similar to something like that before and i i was going to side of journalism i feel that i'm a journalist and i'm using my art to inform educate bring topics to people and that's you know when i do magazine covers i really think of myself as a journalist and as an artist i do my own projects you know separately but but to me being a journalist is it's also what the reason why i can you know go after this person and then if someone else comes up on the other side i'll go after them too it's really more about trying to find justice and. distribute information as i see it so to inform to educate and to find justice and illustrate that as it were and your covers of us president donald trump they were extremely successful they're also very controversial. all of them in particular is trump different to other subjects

that you deal with in your work yeah i think that he's taken the level of you know animosity towards people to another another level so i feel that my work had to get to that level and confront it and have very direct manner i felt from the very beginning that he was quite a danger not just to the to the united states but the world and i wanted to do with my work to try to do what i could to confront that that danger and that's what i've tried to listening well talking about danger of producing controversial illustrations can be a risky business as you well know vesta got the danish illustrator was the subject of several assassination attempts after he produced the famous the muhammad cartoons are are you ever afraid that you could become a target by extremists who don't share your opinions i think that there in the united states at least there's a quite a bit of protection for press freedom and for artists to express themselves and

it's quite a bit of respect for that. for an artist if you have an idea you you make it you want to put it out there you want people to see it at the end of the day it's income a piece of paper and ink is never killed anyone so. i fight for that if i can't do it in the united states no one no one will be able to do in the world so that's why i feel that i really need to continue doing my work. now just looking at how dangerous the work is seventy nine journalists were killed last year around the world according to you know and there are a lot of restrictions coming along now too we're seeing countries like iran and russia restricting the use of messaging applications like telegram these are popular with journalists and opposition figures do you get the feeling that press freedom is being increasingly restricted i think that there that it will always be

restricted i grew up growing up in cuba and that's part of the reason why i do the work that i do is that there was that pressuring cuba that it's very. contained and they try to contain journalists and order some regular basis but people always get around it and that's that's you invent new apps she meant new technologies because nothing can really stop people from wanting to express themselves and until governments and they didn't figure that out and figure out a way to actually give people freedom and talk about issues we'll just keep going around whatever limits come up do you think that your work can help draw attention to because of press freedom specifically. the i think about that on a regular basis and that's part of why i do my work i want people in other countries to look at what i'm doing go and then go wow there's there's still freedom in america it's still a country where you can aspire to do these kinds of things and there he is on

television doing this i want people in china and russia to see me and see what he will to do in america it'll thank you so much for talking with us today on d w news it'll rodrigues the u.s. illustrator talking to us on the occasion of press freedom day. uganda has announced controversial plans to levy a new tax on social media users from july people there will have to pay the equivalent of thirty u.s. cents per day to use services such as whatsapp facebook or twitter president you very much seventy says the move aims to raise revenue so that the government can improve access to the internet but critics accuse him of trying to stifle freedom of speech they also fear that the new tax will harm business. is key for home baker. juba they own to approve and uganda's capital com paula sales products or. since she started baking cakes two years ago the internet has

been hard show the folk with good tree fire of plant one hundred percent plant conversation. i would wake up each and every day this was things i would do so. i would to those in my floor and get the message. i get to what so maybe this isn't running. and facebook. three out of ten ugandans use the internet and most of them are on social media the government no once in your talks on their own lane activities the proposal by uganda's president yoweri museveni seeks to collect over one hundred million u.s. dollars in revenues annually. is what i'm calling us that is all the services we took stock with. what. they said what that is like but that is what.

you get to it if you just think you did miscue to these attacks there so the protocol is let's get to it that forty one is according one what's up only it was quoting was quite because they were the government in this thing even although he did take. most of and he says many ugandans use the internet to spread gossip leading some to suggest he stocks is more of a way of limiting online talk and posts that are critical of his government others see it's just another way to raise the much needed government revenue. it's ridiculous. it's not free. it's one of those need. because this government at this point in time are looking for as many. to get as possible but the problem. as opposed to whitening the tax base so somebody is already paying taxes from the

atom they buy from them when they buy that's already taxes being paid and so again when you want to talk to them based on the data they use i think three four or even five levels of. access to the internet in uganda has more than doubled in the last five yards but connectivity remains course the internet users like already. but if they are forced to pay more to good for the limited access to the wild wild where it. has become very very expensive very very expensive i remember i was using. it was very very high for me. different how do you get it was a very expensive. proposal comes closer scrutiny the

government still has a lot of work to do to strike a balance between raising revenues and addressing the public's. champions league football now. sports is here to take us through wednesday's semi final we now know who real madrid will be facing in the final after liverpool faced roma last night what a thrilling semifinal that was tell us what it was actually spectacular in the first leg in liverpool was the home so. which already was an incredible result and yesterday's action pretty much match the i mean we can have a look at the pictures the atmosphere the study olympic go is just absolutely stunning you know the fans were really up for this clash we see some of them celebrating here before the match well an hour before the game started sunday scored in the ninth minute to some of subdue that misfit of an own goal from illness sort of brought roma back in contention then liverpool scored again before

the half hour mark so they went in to have time to warm down roma did with a pretty much impossible task but they went for it jacko scored nine galon scored an absolute scream and then in the ninety fourth minute he had a penalty to make it seven six on aggregate it wasn't enough fool two was the final score to roma but seven six and liverpool progress an absolute stunning game liverpool have advanced much further than many people expected in his champions league what makes them so special yeah i mean for one it's their attacking trio you look at players like saudi i'm on a real battle for me now and of course mohamed salah has taken the whole world by storm together in this champions league season they've already scored twenty nine goals that's a record for an attacking front three but it's also your club you've got to give the man credit he has this gung ho approach he calls it heavy metal football and in this season at liverpool it's all sort of clicked into place he's got the right personnel for the kind of football he wants to play and he's just an absolute

fantastically with his team as you say overachieving and yesterday he felt team didn't do so well let's hear what he has to say. i'm not really escuela this we can be so we need luck and. that's what we had. over the whole of the campaign so far it's absolutely deserved it would have been said before to give it would have been easier for all. the bulls european club. let's talk more about atmosphere he already mentioned that last week there was some trouble in liverpool what about this time well five thousand liverpool fans travelled to rome and there was heightened security because of the incident last week where a liverpool fan shone caulks suffered head and head injuries and he actually still remains in critical condition two italian men were arrested over the incident this time british police came to rome to aid the

a time police were actually three thousand members of the italian police in the city and at the stadium so very very sorry for liverpool fans were scolded towards the stadium and while there was like i said early a ferocious atmosphere in terms of you know the fans getting that see ready it was all very peaceful and we see his liverpool fans enjoying that seems goals in a pub in liverpool and then just about will see them actually marching from the game from the study olympic oh in rome a very relieved set of liverpool fans i think after a very close seven six aggregate win but it's a fantastic match and for the little fans luckily calm and peaceful one word answer what's your prediction for the final it's going to be fantastic or just i just rail but educate well from day that he's sports thanks so much sorry. france is taking aim at social inequality among school children a recent study shows that children from immigrant backgrounds are more likely to perform poorly at school work that's despite france's school system being ranked

one of the best in the world so lawmakers have decided the solution is to start early. for in the town of nowhere in the french region of burgundy the blessed pascoe preschool is getting under way. three year old raina is learning how to read she'll start arithmetic and writing when she's four a year as the children get to choose their own activities but i make sure they gain all the required competencies in this. school attendance in france is now mandatory beginning at age six but president emanuel mark karr has announced it's to be lowered to the age of three next year as part of his planned education reform and that's what. i would like to see more equality of opportunity arise out of the new school starting age that goes into effect next year with.

everyone gets an equal chance that's long been the goal but in few other industrial countries is educational performance as impacted by social and economic inequality as france critics also say there are just not enough teachers. the purpose of preschool is to learn to become a student becoming a student means learning to socialize that's essential and. at this german french kindergarten in paris educators show little interest in a rigid less implants for small children. i find that kindergarten provides another possibility many more possibilities to challenge children individually and to enter into creativity and musical activities. compulsory schooling from age three might sound pretty drastic but it's long been normal in france more than ninety seven percent of three year olds already attend preschool that's why the impending legal change is not making many waves. almost in my find it logical and normal

that's education for children were offered. even earlier than. my child went at two and a half. which is better structured lesson plans or childhood fun in the o.e.c.d. p. is a study three years ago french students underperformed german students in reading math and natural sciences. to south korea now a country famous for its work ethic people their work among the longest hours of any industrialized country this may be good for the economy but many south koreans say it means they don't have time to find partners now young south koreans are trying to help themselves by setting up blind dates for each other. junction was used to being the center of attention she's a model she jets around the world good money very good in fact parents

were very clear you're meeting today. but i have no idea. who you are. and here he is some. his outgoing best friend has a range the date. is more reserved. he has two jobs and like many south koreans of his age a high salary he barely has time for anything outside work but he still like to be the relationship. of course i'd rather meet someone in a more natural situation but most people here are very busy they're always working and when i have time off no one else does. it's tricky so my friend has arranged this blind date. this is standard procedure in south korea friends arranged blind dates for their friends it's old

fashioned stuff not online now algorithms deciding likely match is. blind dates aren't always successful. but the more you do them the more likely they are to work out they're part of our quick results culture . junk show ended her last relationship because her boyfriend wanted to marry her she wasn't ready settling down having a family she's not there yet and her parents are worried like many young south koreans junk she still lives at home so there's plenty of pressure. i still live with my parents and they talk about marriage all the time when you're getting married they ask i'm twenty eight two of my friends have just got married so i'm supposed to but i don't want to yet know you look at all the you. had dress a single two and also lives with his parents he's thirty eight and regularly goes

on blind dates. in south korea blind dates make connections because everyone is always working there's no time to meet anyone. so they go on blind dates to check out a potential relationship they hope to be able to make a quick decision and save themselves the preliminaries basically because the date comes recommended by a friend. in south korea people say that once you over thirty your over the hill especially women for men it's more like forty but that only applies to love a man's career has to be in full force by thirty otherwise something's amiss. south korea has one of the world's highest percentages of single people and one of the lowest birth rates. but it's hard to find time to have a private life when you're working at the rate we do. yeah that we have to work hard but our lives are running away from us and i struggle to keep up to it. but

now it's time to take some time out for a blind date in keeping with tradition jay sean introduces the two to each other and being a matchmaker he hands out compliments saying how beautiful she looks and how smart he is and then is off and they're on their own with nerves to keep them company. on so we think it's cool this is my first ever blind date i don't know what i'm supposed to do here to. get through the gate fling and the pregnant pauses there's definitely a spark to find each other attractive and both like humor and a nice smile and then they talk about blood types like star signs in the west in south korea a person's blood type is thought to reveal a lot about their character. yet much of the type i'm type

really. believe in blood types really don't care i do. what's your blood type of don't take me up do you like taipei yes i do. really that's a relief they say type things are shy. no more that's what they say. well maybe a bit but i think taipei's can cope with my personality i said to be open minded ah ah. got it a long long. promising start as hope these two may be one step further towards finding the one at escaping from all the pressure of being single. you're watching t.v. news coming to you from berlin we'll be back in just a couple of minutes with another full roundup of the latest international news thanks for being with us for the be.

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