this is deja vu news live from berlin a powerful dust storm kills more than ninety people in india extreme winds smash walls and tear of trees across the country's north these pictures from delhi will be going there for the latest also coming up we'll hear from a rainy and academic subjects he took along the winner of this year's d.w. freedom of speech award he faces prison for daring to speak out against iran's government during protests in two thousand and seventeen. a standoff at the mexican border as a caravan of asylum seekers looks to enter the u.s.

did any of visits the camp and we learn why transgender people in particular fear for their lives in a central america. toss this year's champions league final we'll see where on the dread face liverpool and despite a four to defeat in rome on wednesday liverpool fans were jumping for joy as the reds went win on aggregate and reach their first final since two thousand and seven . times to me so most of the good to have you with us today is recognizing a man who has chosen to spoke out rather than stay silent risking his freedom to do so sad example is the winner of this year's d.w. freedom of speech award. criticize the iranian government over protests there in two thousand and seventeen well hear from him in a moment but first a look at his challenge to those in power. at the end of december twenty

seventeen iran's though its biggest anti-government demonstrations in almost a decade the protests quickly spread to dozens of cities and towns across the country. just days after the unrest to rep did so dexie back alam gave an interview to d.w. far as the he characterized the demonstrators as young people disappointed with the entire political system. and said more than two thirds of people are dissatisfied with the islamic republic those views didn't go down well with the a rainy and all pharmacies they accuse the back of spreading false information and propaganda against the islamic republic. he was sentenced to eighteen months in prison and barred from social media for two years. is appealing the decision. was punished someone has expressed an opinion what she's not

contactable which is starting line which is not in all of the answers because it got well meant open ian chillag acquired should i go eighteen months into prison. it's not the first time the academic has received a jail sentence for speaking his mind. he's become a well known figure in iran for challenging the government narrative on many sensitive issues from the country's nuclear program to foreign policy. and he has a large audience online and telegram which was banned by the iranian authorities this week he has almost one hundred pages and followers. on instagram almost seven hundred pages and. has vowed to keep on expressing his opinions despite the official threats against him. i hope for for iran is genuine i really i sincerely hope it's not

a daydream it is just thinking because i believe that it more prosy will eventually prevail in iran. you have to see that columns help seems out of reach for now reporters without borders has ranked iran one hundred sixty fourth on the press freedom last he spoke to us earlier about the harsh reprisal he and other journalists face for speaking out against the government there is a well. i am and there. is that. right and. i think the belief that i get it believe that there are many men and women. who are with he said much more than i do you can see. price of freedom of speech there. as i said they

it is a must for them i think because they have suffered far more than i suffered because of lack of freedom of speech but anyway as you mentioned. at the moment i have to see eighteen months or a sentence in my serious trial which has evolved two months ago and also to hear that my son may conduct the interview all such as the one that i bet on that the now right the market those either bureaus and be in the social media office yes this is a service that's on bomb has been a sentence like that by the revolutionary war in baghdad not getting it in social media up for two years i think he against the sentence and. the baking for there for the second quarter it becomes being eighty eight n.e.t.'s

and i am hoping that that that that the court crushed that sentence and i will walk free. that was a rainy and academic and winner of this year's d.w. freedom of speech award sunday speaking to us earlier from come on shah iraq moving on to some other news now and around one hundred central american migrants are camped at the u.s. border with mexico waiting to be allowed into the country to claim asylum few will be successful as a criteria for receiving permission to stay in the u.s. are strict but people from the transgender community may be and with a greater chance claire richardson reports from the border. for the hundreds guatemalans and salvadorans waiting at the u.s. border the odds don't look good the vast majority of us asylum claims from central americans are denied for the transgender people taking part in the caravan the

future could be somewhat brighter but after a grueling journey this twenty seven year old is still not sure what it holds in store. i'm a little bit tired from the trip. it was very long and we've been here waiting to see what happens to us. and she's one of several transgendered individuals spending time at this makeshift camp of mostly women and children. some twenty transgender people traveled with the caravan coming by foot by bus and by train all the way from near mexico's southern border they say they face violence and discrimination in their home countries and now they're waiting to ask for asylum in the united states they come from countries with some of the highest murder rates in the world where people are often killed or threatened by powerful gangs but it still wasn't an easy choice to leave home. what we need is to forget what they've done to us in one place and go somewhere else when i left my

country it was very painful. by law the migrants are allowed to request asylum but to stay in the us they must show that they have suffered persecution because of characteristics like race religion or sexual orientation or that they have a credible fear. if they are not granting asylum for fleeing violence that's not enough of a reason but a well founded fear based on belonging to a particular group and in this case the community offers more possibilities of receiving asylum. that could give transgender people a leg up. but even the migrants who pass initial screenings face more hardship their futures will unfold largely behind closed doors and often in long term detention centers as their cases are decided. in india a powerful dust storm has left more than ninety people dead in the country's northwest extreme winds and rains brought down trees and destroyed at temporary structures throughout the region causing many of the deaths officials confirm that

more than one hundred other people have been injured and one the death toll could rise the storms caught many by surprise as india's typical monsoon season is still weeks away. he. is following the story for us from delhi he joins us on the line bring us up to date on the storm dolly where you are was also affected what was it like. yes that's right i believe it was affected and currently you know single calm down but around this time yesterday actually i was actually out in the street i was. i was i was driving in an auto rickshaw riding in an order for which is one of the open you know we just kind of were driving in the storm with weaker guys were very gray there's a lot of stuff sort of flying in my eyes and it it sort out the bad it's something that's true i mean full of heavy rain and you know that that brought temperatures

down and are in a funny way the people here tell you people are the kind of clears that you know the temperature that come down for typically people lost power particularly. if it was going to be a lot easier for the provision of god those two states were hit the hardest and you know uprooted power lines and how that part destroyed that that's really where the brunt of the storm hit and dust arms are really nothing new in this region why has this one of been so deadly. yeah absolutely i mean well that's a that's one of the things i noticed yesterday as well you know people in delhi at least kind of disappointing business as usual in the area i was in and we may be covering their faces and their eyes but you know just going on with their everyday business but as you said and just to reiterate i mean that's that's why. you know people are. used to this kind of thing it's a common thing elsewhere. in kazakhstan it should be where it really hard to get

a bit later in the fight and a lot of officials are saying that you know people weren't able to react because they were they were sleeping and that's why the impact is so much higher in terms of just count how is the government been responding to see what kind of relief efforts are we seeing. so we think. they need a kind of relief at getting both their predation and practice on both states have announced compensation for victims' families and families of the injured but there has also been a little bit of criticism of guilty i did not who was the chief minister of the controversial figure and he's actually currently down in south india campaigning with the prime minister for p.d.p. party the country's growing party there's an important state election down there and so you've got some criticisms of the opposition that you saw in his home state more of the running back. to deal with the crisis. he's actually smallholder of

reporting for us from delhi i think you i should. thank you. you watching the news still to come in sports a liver full liverpool fans across the globe are celebrating today their team secured a spot in the champions league final the reds will face madrid in kiev later this month and if they win it will be the club's sixth european title. but first volkswagen is holding its annual shareholders meeting in berlin there had to have more on that as far as sunni and it was the new bosses have a decent first face to face with shareholders 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 bargain says it's committed to change the next four years the world's biggest carmaker plans to invest thirty four billion euros in

developing the cars and on new mobility serves. now let's bring in advance in frankfurt how did that first appearance go down with shareholders. well when you look at the share price here in the market. it doesn't seem as if he convinced anyone the shares going down slightly and since his appointment just a few weeks ago the share hasn't really moved all that much but when you look at him how about this represents a whole kind of new leadership at the top of volkswagen he's much more enthusiastic about cars and self driving at least looking out at present those ideas and listening to him talk and he also says that volkswagen has to become faster is of course not a very high level when you look at the profits and the market shares and volkswagen has despite diesel gate despite the scandal but he also says and he said this at

the annual general meeting that volkswagen's culture has to change he says vote for wagon has to become more open more truthful honest and in short more decent well then there's all big words on the culture change this is not going to come easy is it. it's not because he's basically facing the same environment that his predecessor did not see as many workers council the trade union they have a huge say more in volkswagen than in most other companies probably not in germany but also worldwide there is political interference if you will because lower saxony has a big stake in the company and the families are still the same so he has a huge task of overcoming that old culture. only thank you so far we're going back to you in a moment because going to talk about electoral comicon tesla which keeps burning money at last another one billion dollars during the first quarter of this year alone the company has had trouble reaching its production target for its mass

market model three tesla is still burning through more cash than its awning but despite that c.e.o. you know musk did little to ease investors' fears instead during a conference call he refused to answer analyst questions calling them so dry and not cool meanwhile close to my interest doesn't appear to be waning there are no more than four hundred fifty thousand people on waiting lists for tesla. only coming back to you in on last finding questions not cool is he serious is he not becoming a liability for his company and how important easy is a person for tesla anyway. he's becoming a liability and i think he's still there because he is so important and because shareholders still value his presence the company share is valued almost as highly as that of ford and tesla has never made a profit ford is making profits selling millions of cars not just tens of thousands

but he's made a huge mistake here and he's really upset analysts and investors the share is going down if the word any other company he'd probably on is if he'd be on his way out the door we just talked about volkswagen how about this is predecessor mathias miller basically didn't make any other mistake than being. looking a little sour first and upset critical questions and also from investors basically that was the reason he was let go despite shoots commercial success but tesla is a special case but mosque has to watch out because people are alarmed at this series of losses burning through cash and lastly also the lack of being able to cope with defaults and production processes. in the frankfurt thank you. and maybe the following does not apply for maverick c.e.o.'s like the law must

large companies in the us on normally required to test their future employees for past drug use before their high over but there is about to change at least as far as marianna is concerned the reason filling jobs in the us is no tougher than it's been for decades drug 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 its fluids to many potential workers who might have enjoyed a spliff or two in the past it comes at a time when more states are legalizing kind of as for recreational use please note this still does not permit workers to get high on the job. is just eight years old but chinese company show me is already the world's fourth biggest smartphone producer and now it's planning its next milestone an initial public offering on the hong kong stock exchange this year according to reports the company hopes to raise ten billion dollars from the offering that would make this the

biggest i.p.o. since chinese e-commerce giant ali baba launched on the new york stock exchange in twenty fourteen in the first quarter of this year showing you sold twenty eight million small phones worldwide that's an eight point four percent share of the global market. and that's all your business ventures only will have an update in an hour it's now back to sue me for more world news thank you care hard going to catch up on some of the store silent secrets facility they're trying to arrest a total lease man who is wanted for deportation they were prevented from detaining the man two days ago after being threatened by other asylum seekers at the facility . in armenia opposition leader nicole passion yan has called for a halt to mass protests that have rocked the country for days the move comes after the country's ruling party indicated they're willing to back question jaan for prime minister if the country's parliament supports his base. the european union is

coming back into fashion among younger europeans that's according to a study of people sixteen to twenty six years old from countries including germany poland and the u.k. but the study which was carried out by the polling group you gov also found that support for the e.u. doesn't equal support for democracy. whether in berlin paris or london younger people are increasingly developing a european identity that's the top funding of the study and europe's youth want their home countries to be part of the year. when asked how they would vote in a hypothetical referendum on this issue eighty five percent in spain would vote to stay in the e.u. eighty percent would do so in germany and even in brics it bound u.k. sixty three percent would vote to remain the european average is seventy one percent. i would say we should stay because the e.u.

is a good thing and we should work more toward maintaining european cohesion. after the e.u. has specifically given a lot to ireland so for me i would definitely be to stay there the study's authors say negative feelings toward encouraging people to identify with the you. are disillusioned from ukip and other parties who are supporting the perks that we the discussion was already there during breaks that the old one stole the future from the young on the whole young europeans also see their future as democratic although not all of the figures are encouraging. for instance on the question whether democracy is the best form of government sixty nine percent of young greeks say yes . in germany that figure is sixty seven percent but in france it doesn't even reach

fifty percent and the e.u. average is only fifty eight percent. younger europeans aren't all that susceptible to populism the study found but they'll need a better understanding of democratic systems if support for the e.u. in its current form is to continue. touch of ella 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 a state of the looks to press on with free and fair reporting. for your borders and what i was you know the sight of you know about the tens of thousands of people on it just a small thousands have gathered for the opposition rally their ground is shaking as hungary sealed off its border to croatia. enjoy that they can learn how to drive.

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future. champions league football now in liverpool have punch their ticket for the final and she have later this month the reds carried a healthy five to lead into the second leg against italian club roma and for many this tie was a foregone conclusion but as we have seen so many times with liverpool this season excitement is always guaranteed. a ferocious atmosphere greeted liverpool at the study olympic oh but the mood was dampened nine minutes in a saudi oman a school the open a for the visit as an own goal by james milner briefly restored hope and in the twenty ninth minute giorgio why now them restored the leaves to want to liverpool at half time. romo still had fight left in them as ed injected leveled the schools before roger nine galon put away a long range strike and in the ninety fourth minute scored a penalty but it was too little too late to rome on the night but seven six to

liverpool on aggregate a record in the champions league semifinal stage you can close it felt his side was somewhat lucky so it was the first time that we were not really as school guess we can be so we need luck and. that's what we had but i think over the whole campaign so far it's absolutely deserved it would have been before to give it would have been easier for. relief for liverpool fans in rome who saw their side reach the champions league final for the first time since two thousand and seven record holders real madrid await. and we just have time for a mind of our top stories at this hour more than ninety 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 that the death toll is expected to rise and iranian academic subjects is the winner of this

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