this is g.w. news live from berlin a powerful dust storm kills more than seventy people in india extreme winds smash walls and tear of trees across the country's north this is the view from delhi where we'll be going live for the latest. also coming up armenians opposition leader calls for a halt to protests that have paralyzed the country the ruling party is now ending it will back him as prime minister after trying to block his leadership that. chelsea manning appears in berlin for her first foreign trip since her release from prison the convicted the leaker of secret documents says she's worried that the

government and big corporations are abusing people's data. and a milestone for g.w. was germany's international broadcaster turn sixty five from a short wave radio station to a worldwide multimedia network we asked our developer director general what's being done to deliver news that comes down on the side of facts and truth over clinical agendas. former. i'm serious i was going to get to have you with us we start in india where a powerful dust storm has left more than seventy people dead in the country's northwest extreme winds and rains brought down trees and destroyed temporary structures throughout the region causing many of the deaths the cloud reduced visibility practically to zero as you can see in the social media footage from the capital delhi officials confirmed that more than one. one hundred other people have

been injured they warned that the death toll could rise the storms caught many by surprise as india's typical monsoon season is still weeks away. let's bring in the holter he's following the latest for us from delhi hi issues good to see you bring us up to date on the storm delhi was also affected what has this been like. yeah i mean here in delhi we were affected yesterday last evening you know i was actually out in auto rickshaw which is an open vehicle sort of driving into the eye of the storm and you know getting quite a lot of dust in my eyes and all of that but you know it was pretty pretty tame here really compared to what was happening in other parts of the country in the states of the predation drought just on where these deaths have occurred and you know power power lines were uprooted trees were uprooted homes were destroyed and

so that that's really where the sort of brunt of the storm really hit i should we just were looking at some of those images from the rickshaw that you said we could see how hazy it was there in delhi there have been dust storms in the past in this region why has this one been so deadly. yeah you know i mean this is not an uncommon things you know as i was in that rickshaw you know kind of looking around and it was pretty much you know business as usual for for most people in delhi you know people you know maybe covering their face or their eyes is a common thing that happens in the summer so it's not unheard of but you know we're not used to seeing it have this kind of impact the kind of impact that it had in the other states are just done in order for this which are nearby also in the north of india and what some officials are also saying is that one of the reasons that the death toll is so high is because this occurred at night so a lot of people were sleeping they were unable to sort of react and leave their

homes there was another similar dust storm in mid april which one thousand people died in in northern india but you know that wasn't at night so people were able to react and that's why the death toll wasn't as high as as yesterday's one was how has the government been responding what kind of relief efforts are we seeing. yes so the governments of both states just on and with the have announced compensation that the they're going to give to the families of those who have died and who are who have been injured. and the state of roger stone has declared this a disaster and what they're produced interestingly the chief minister of that state is a very controversial figure. and you know he has come under fire in the last year or so for not reacting to certain sort of disease disasters and cases of violence against women and he interestingly is not even in the state right now and he's

getting some criticism from the opposition for that he's down in south india campaigning with the prime minister for a local election that's very important coming up in a couple of weeks so some criticism there you know he has you know announced compensation but some criticism for him not actually being. in his home state or rushing back there already. reporting on the very latest for us there from delhi thank you ashish. now to some other stories making headlines around the world police in southern germany have been conducting a large scale raid on an asylum seekers hostel they're trying to arrest a total lease man who is wanted for deportation they were prevented from detaining a man two days ago after being threatened by other asylum seekers at the hospital. china's top diplomat has met with his counterpart in north korea it's the first trip to pyongyang by a chinese foreign minister in more than ten years and it comes as diplomatic efforts to bring lasting peace to the korean peninsula gather pace the north korean

leader reportedly told china he is committed to eliminating his country's nuclear arsenal. and former new york mayor rudy giuliani says donald trump repaid one hundred thirty thousand dollars spent by trump's lawyer to buy a pornstar silence over an alleged affair with at the u.s. president giuliani recently joined trump's legal team his statement apparently contradicts trump's insistence he was unaware of the payment to stormy daniels. in armenia opposition leader has called for a halt to mass protests that have rocked the country for days this after the ruling party assented they're now willing to back for prime minister a day after blocking his leadership that the catch he'll have to get the support of one third of the country's parliament but 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 on the city's airport disrupted as protesters i'm sure the call of their leader. and he called the shiny and led from the front. two weeks ago no one thought this was possible but the people of on minya took to the streets for nico because they believe in him. we want to i would then question 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 heard my four weeks thousands of protesters have demanded change they say they want to bring down a system riddled with only got some corruption the. us night fell pesh

any and marriage to bring news from the country's ruling party march. there was a meeting of the republican party that they said that in the coming vote they would support the people's condit. was 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. i. don't have ela is turning sixty five years old today over the years germany's international broadcaster has become a worldwide multimedia network which in more than one hundred fifty seven million people weekly we take a look back at how far we've come and the challenges ahead as did he looks to press on with free and fair reporting. they are your borders with

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the station launched on the third of may nine hundred fifty three in the west german city of cologne is to dodge a bullet to shortwave radio programs in german women to provide a source of information for germans living abroad but its reach soon expanded to include programming in other languages. in the last sweater jeremiah you see love what manama in one nine hundred sixty one the first bricks of the berlin wall laid the foundations for de w.'s current role as a voice for western democracy listeners behind the iron curtain used as a source of unbiased news you mentioned ron people were isolated and weren't allowed to travel they lived in permanent fear and stress since they listens to all foreign would cost is not just torture vella the other foreign stations to go and then also georgia vella had an excellent reputation for an. referred to. the fall

of the berlin wall and german reunification heralded a new era for deutsche vella in one thousand nine hundred two d.w. launched its satellite television station six hours of daily news programs in german in english the european view is devoted. and it was political turmoil at the turn of the century brought even more changes to the broadcaster after the war in afghanistan you helped rebuild the media there to strengthen dialogue with the arab world it launched t.v. programs in arabic. they call it was all going to work related though he admits the today show chabad talk has become one of the most successful programs in the region . around three thousand people from more than sixty countries now work for door to bella from the german cities of bonn and berlin to go from there and across the world. as d.w. expands further it holds fast to the values of democracy it was built on covering

the stories that matter most and championing free and fair reporting into the future. and we have our director general peter limbaugh with us in our studios to help us mark sixty five years of daughter bella thank you for joining us i guess a happy birthday is in order for d.w. and when we were founded in one nine hundred fifty three the german president at the time had these words to say is dedicated to quote the beloved compatriots all over the world the world and the w. are very different places now what is the mandate today. where we came from the voice for the germans brought and today we. network which has to inform people around the world no matter what language they speak so i think this has changed in the recent years and we are more dedicated to towards the world to towards other cultures towards people who speak other languages we broadcast and

thirty languages which is a lot and so i think the important thing is to inform inform inform especially where people don't have the chance to get the information they need to inform about an especially difficult task today we've seen press freedom also here in europe come under pressure why do you think that is. well i think that autocrats rediscovered that the possibilities of the media and the internet also with all its benefits also has the disadvantage that it can be a platform for this information and autocratic regimes they really use this platform and so i think we have a more and more pressure on freedom of the press and also in europe but not totally in europe alone i mean there's a lot to blame in europe but if you really the world the situation is much worse.

for instance in china in iran and other parts of the world so i think we have a big task ahead still to to inform people without this information did of itself has come under pressure in countries like russia china iran you mentioned also here in germany were receiving the right wing afghan parliament questioning the mandate its neutrality how can and does g.w. respond to challenges like that. well first of all i mean it's fair enough if there is a parliamentary group who asked west questions i mean we live in a democracy so also also right wing parties have the right to question and we give answers and the good thing for us here in germany is that the vast majority of the german bunds talk supports away from so this is something which really is encouraging for us and basically yes we have we have a lot to do ahead as said and i think. we need the support of the german text

so we also have to explain the german text why we are here and i think it is something the german people are interested in a stable world in a peaceful world and we contribute we can't solve every problem in the world but i think we contribute because well informed people tend to do the right decisions and not decisions which to go into war or go into into into hunger or whatever so i think we have to constantly do our job and do serious journalism and nothing else i did of you today awarded its press freedom award to the iranian political scientists that exceed why was he chosen and we see a picture of him right here on the wall well he was chosen because at the beginning of the year he gave fozzy serve as an interview and after this interview where he described what's happening in iran he got sentence for eighteen months of prison in

iran and i think this is the typical thing. where something goes really wrong and so we had now the chance to really encourage somebody who gave us the chevelle an interview and also to show that we support people who are talking. frankly the truth and not hiding and so they saying what they mean and i think this was a great opportunity to do to show that we really really mean what we say and i think he really deserves it because it is a very courageous men we had the opportunity to speak to him a little bit earlier in the day as that exhibit a let's listen to what he had to say. i believe me i think it believes that i believe that there are many men and women. who will use it much more than i do receive. its price of freedom of speech there. as i said

they have they said much already because they have suffered far more than not. because they. don't risk. so we hurt there no freedom of speech in iran what effect of these awards have. well i think the most important thing is to highlight that there are problems and also to encourage people but they're not alone because i think what a lot of people who live in countries where there is no freedom of press or freedom of speech tell me when i travel is that it is the most important thing is that the should have the feeling we are not alone the world is watching on on what we are doing and so i think we can encourage relatively simple but giving an award these people and tell them somebody is out there who at least tries to support you and i

think this is something we can do with such an award the world is watching and d.-w. is watching our director general hayden back with us in our studios to mark sixty five years of dr bennett thank you very much because of things. i'm moving on to business now and thoughts back on is holding its annual shareholders meeting here in berlin care how it is with us c.w. the new boss have a decent whereas first face to face with shareholders at the current comic us annual meeting in berlin despite first quarter revenues in the billions and record sales in january some stockholders seem determined to add their dissatisfaction many are still angry about the deal emissions scandal and subsequent damage to the company's image not to mention the high level costs it caused meanwhile folks says it's committed to change in the next four years the world's biggest automaker plans to invest thirty four billion euros in developing the cars and a new mobility services. and there's the two big issues right there these are great

and the e-card gap so did folks wagner's new c.e.o. have a decent dress those issues was his opportunity to make a good first impression and set the tone for the coming months my college policy bell is at the venue where folks are just held its annual meeting to ponder what does this take on these are they then does he has one does he have one or was it one of those let's look to the future speeches. well of course it was her but de says opportunity to make a really good first impression to shareholders today and he some might say he actually succeeded at that of course because he used the word. diesel crisis to refer to that these are missiles scandal quite a few times a lot more times than i could count myself and that's something that he actually succeeded to doing and he called for people to have confidence in the management of

the company that they would handle this crisis as he referred to it adequately by investing more in the end ovation and a lot of other things that he actually did talk about which will obviously. might get into today as well. are his plans did you see and did shareholders see a coherent vision a clear and plan for the future. yes i mean he has very concrete plans and he is known to be a very decisive person and has done that before in his career at b.m.w. into doing a he talked about changing the structure of b.m.w. and dividing the company into seven different units and one of them would include some of these cars behind me which are some of the used luxury cars and that would also be a unit on its own and then there's of course regular brands like skoda which would be in another unit and he talked about having someone you had all of those seven

units he would be chief or she would be a chief operating officer and that's the person that the seven units would be reporting to so that is actually a slimmer structure than the company had before and that's something he really talked about making things faster by slimming down the structure of the company to put those who believe that for us thank you very much. and we stay in the sector electric comic of tesla has lost another one billion dollars during the first quarter. this year the company has had trouble reaching its production target for its mass market model three tesla still burning through more cash and it's earning us despite that c.e.o. elon musk did little to ease investors' fears instead during a conference call who refused to answer analysts question calling them so dry and not cool meanwhile customer interest doesn't appear to be waning there are no more than four hundred fifty thousand people on waiting lists for

a tesla. so does that mean that tesla is in danger of going out of business let's bring in in frankfurt. most finding questions not cool i mean is he serious just this one remark cost over two million billion dollars in market capitalization is must losing his grip on reality here and how important is he has a person for tesla anyway. he's all important his vision is what is keeping investors interest interested and i think his selling abilities performance ability i would liken it to that of steve jobs about full. well jobs was much more successful economically in the end but investors are lapping up in mosques and visions but the analysts are certainly not amused by having their questions being called dry or not so cool that's totally unprofessional and that's

that it's almost childish i would say. and it shows the it's kind of thin skinned reaction to obviously critical questions or quick questions he thought too critical that he recognizes that there is a serious situation and any other chief executive would be out the door if they responded like that in public and of course the two billion that were lost in the market it can be restored if the stock goes up again but well it it has a high valuation but it's still a long must as a leader i think he's lost a lot of his cache at the moment only balance and the fact that the forest thank you. it's not to chelsea manning on her first trip abroad since she was released from prison look ahead many will know her as the a former u.s. soldier convicted of leaking classified documents documents rather and she's also

a transgender activist well she's in germany she was on stage wednesday at the republican conference in berlin warning the tech crowd that government and big business should not be trusted with data privacy. warm welcome for a new celebrity chelsea manning was on her first trip abroad. to speak at the republican conference in berlin which deals with the impact of the digital world on the real world. she had a lot to say on this topic many 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. you know don't just churn out so we don't just you know create a path 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 misuse 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 and here they are now society figure out how to use them manning was sentenced to thirty five years in prison for leaking classified documents she served seven before then u.s. president barack obama commuted her sentence in her talk she also touched on her new life in 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 is really intimidating and 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 that 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. sports now and this season's champions league final will see real madrid to take on liverpool the red secured their spot after beating roma seven six on aggregate in the semifinal game in rome saw monday take an early lead before a james milner zone goal level to score both teams more goals to their tally with roma just a strike short of taking the game to extra time despite the defeat on wednesday liverpool advance to their first final since two thousand and seven. i reminded of our top stories here on new war than seventy people have been killed by severe dust storms in india's northwest extreme winds and rains brought down trees and destroyed buildings throughout the region authorities have warned the death

toll is expected to rise and daughter bella marks its sixty fifth anniversary today germany's international broadcaster started as a short wave radio station in the one nine hundred fifty s. and up the decades has become a multimedia network that reaches one hundred fifty seven million people each week . thank you for watching you will be back at the top of the hour. the be. above. the be.

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