play. this is d w news live from for lance another gun massacre at a school in america. didn't know you. blew it all up and then everybody started running. at least eight people killed at a high school near houston most of them students explosive devices also discovered

we will have the latest. also coming up peace hopes revived for eastern ukraine as russia's president meets germany's chancellor in the black sea resort of sochi prudent says that both sides will reconsider options for a multinational peacekeeping mission and italy's antiestablishment five star movement breaches agreements with the breitling league that sets up a clash with the e.u. italy's debt is a likely battleground plus that what it may give marco will not walk down the aisle alone our future father in law prince charles will accompany her to the altar after her own father was unable to travel the final preparations underway excitement is growing we'll go live to windsor. and the world health organization raises the national threat level of in a bold outbreak in the democratic republic of congo two very high there have been twenty. five deaths so far.

i'm sorry kelly a very warm welcome to the program. at least eight people most of them students have been killed in a shooting at a high school in the town of santa fe near houston authorities fearing that as many as ten could be dead at least six people were taken to the hospital with injuries one suspect is in custody and another person has been detained. and the santa fe attack comes three months after the u.s. its deadliest school shooting this year and parklane florida where seventeen people were killed that massacre prompted a nationwide movement against gun violence back then u.s. president came under fire for supposedly shying away from gun control measures in favor of arming teachers he expressed sorrow in the wake of today's trashed

this bill has been going on too long in our country too many years too many decades now we grieve for the terrible loss of life and send our support and love to everyone affected by this absolutely horrific attack my administration is determined to do everything in our power to protect our students secure or schools and to keep weapons out of the hands of those who pose a threat to themselves and to others for more let's bring in our correspondent alexandra phenomena who is standing by with the latest from the united states and alexandra just like to begin by first asking you about the situation we have these reports about potentially explosive devices on the school compound what more can you tell us. yes we go it's an opportunity from the police in some tuffy about thirty minutes ago the police chief confirmed that there have been explosive

devices found in the high school and in the surrounding areas and the main priority for the sort of tease is to secure the school and to evacuate old students and stouffer's and they seem to be very concerned they warn the public you know not to peek and think not to touch anything because they assume that they could be possible explosive off the campus so the situation is quite serious and we have to say that the compass is huge it's still high school with one policy one thousand four hundred students so these are very concerned in the moment and do we know more about the attacker at this point the police released that information. well according to the police one suspect in custody it is huge and some

media outlets here in the u.s. are reporting that it is a seventeen year old a troubled person may be stretched and to do something like that on social media we don't have any information about that what we know is that there is person person of interest that was detained however it doesn't mean that is a person that you know was in connection with the shooting or the shooter. tell us a little bit more about alexander how this is likely to be received on the national front because we know that for example the gun control movement has really picked up steam in the wake of the marjorie stoneman douglas high school shooting that was back in florida back in february but you know texas for its part is relatively gun friendly isn't it. yes it's true texas is a quiet girl when we talk about gun control laws and it will remain to be seen

where this movement started but this amazing students in parklands will really gain speed and will we are going to see more protestants more demonstrations on the streets demanding strict gun laws alexandra phenomena with the latest from the united states thank you hugh. and we'd like to turn now to a developing story because a boeing seven thirty seven airliner with one hundred four people on board has crashed after taking off from havana is international airport according to cuban state media the cuban president. said that many are feared dead after the plane operated by the day obviously an airline crashed jose marti airport it was heading to the eastern city of holguin.

and for more let's bring in jose. who joins us on the line from havana with the very latest and you know jose we just heard there but there are one hundred and four people on board what more can you tell us about them. i've actually just been told by my producer please forgive us that was a yes is not on the line for us at the moment so we're going to proceed with some other news and we'll try and get him back on the line in due course but in the meantime german chancellor angela merkel and russian president vladimir putin have rekindled hopes of peace in eastern ukraine on talks in the russian resort of sochi putin said that diplomats on both sides would look again at options for deploying a multinational peacekeeping force to the region at their post some a news conference merkel declared that germany has a strategic interest in getting on well with russia rather than the somewhat chilly relations of recent times. she speaks fluent russian.

and he speaks fluent german. yet they still struggle to understand one another in the past few years now of all people donald trump is changing that the u.s. president's unashamedly anti european foreign policy is forcing germany's chancellor to look elsewhere for allies instead of relying on washington for example in moscow which hasn't exactly been her favorite hunting ground. we have a strategic interest in good relations with russia and even during the most difficult times i supported for example the continuation of the nato russia council and that ease you to you remains in contact i believe talking to each other is about most importance but that on that meeting for absolute fifty germany and in fact the e.u. as a whole are on the same side as russia on certain issues both sides want to save the iran nuclear deal even without the u.s. and both considered the u.s.

moving its embassy to jerusalem a huge mistake but a few things stand in the way of getting too cozy the biggest stumbling blocks are russia's illegal an exception of crimea from ukraine a move that is not being recognized by most nations and russia's overall aggression towards ukraine. in the case of the former russian double agent sergei script all who was poisoned in london has also triggered tensions russian president putin claims russia is innocent in the whole affair offering his own insight. you know the experience that. if a military great agent had really been used the man would have died on the spot is the trick but you've been in this. maybe because the last time the two leaders met things weren't so friendly this time at their meeting in sunny sochi on the black sea the russian leader wanted to leave a better impression by saying it with flowers. and for more i'm joined here in the studio by pressel from the think tank the european council. on foreign relations

welcome to you and thanks for joining us. we saw their flowers smiles as their relationship improved. mauler quiet and to be frank it's not the only personal relationship between the two it's sort of the policy does house wolf cheering the time that makes the relationship on the it still chilly and it will be chilly for for many reasons. and merkel is also the kind of personality that is not really impressed by him or holds or other things you put up in front of her so let's get down to the issues because of course there were many sticking points that were on the agenda that we know that they discussed one of them was of course ukraine. you know putin saying that both sides reconsider options for a multinational peacekeeping mission does that sound like progress to you. that sounds like the usual stuff because we've been debating this since september at least september the fourteenth i'm sorry turned seventeen when the russian proposal

for peacekeeping force came out before pushing for presented its own version the thing is russia and the west come to agree on what the u.n. peacekeepers should do that the russians don't want to relinquish their control of the separatists and so they don't want to give the un peacekeepers as little competences as they are mothers the west wants to have a full fledged un mission that actually implements a cease fire and peace agreement and sort of takes over some of the ministries you starts to facilitate independent elections which the russians don't want to have because it will threats and the rule of their minions and sort of the proposals have been running back and forth and you have numerous countless of suppressed for tory meetings with the germans the french with the americans with the british could folco strolling back and forth and he's german and french counterparts sometimes the russians are a bit more sort of willing to give in something but then sort of didn't and the

next day they day retract and say nonono this is this is not on the agenda. regarding to that i believe it went to seed you believe it when you see how but also with regard to the iran nuclear deal today at least share some more common ground in that regard they have a bit more common ground on this. arguably the russians more rationally on middle eastern issues than their own east european issues because it's a bit more distant to what they feel is their sort of sphere of in for the interest the other thing is that basically both want to preserve the deal. of course fourteen sort of fall for showing his kind of been of a lens. it's role in persuading iran to to enter additional negotiations he wants to have a price and i think during the conference talking sense if the about syria and the needs to pump money into into assad's regime to rebuild the part of the country he

rules and we all know russia doesn't have this kind of money. i think this is kind of a short into the preconditions and prices for russia is going to be let's talk a little bit more about values just generally speaking because we know that russia of course has the veto power in the u.n. security council one that is exercised quite extensively when it comes to matters of syria maricopa you know often the the politician who is sent to russia who is sent in to sort of smooth relations over with pretend do you think that she will ever see progress in that regard on that particular issue i don't think are the russians and sort of assad's. stuff or is it yesterday was basically the single by the russians of sort of no regime change so bottom line all coal and the russians emphasize this all over i mean to be frank turn it is for assad's are all to the

pipelines with the west. should of wants him to go but it's still very far away from from fulfilling to doubt him. nevertheless the problem is that all these also are tearing people the russian support to create a lot of problems and i think the refugee issue is if. the most significant from june point of view and many refugees say they won't return on the rule of assad's. days are domestic impetus to choose to sort of not only pulled the values on the table but to sort of freely and impetus for for force. as a generally speaking the summit some progress but still a ways to go but thank you so much for your expert opinion on this coast of grasso from the european council on foreign relations we appreciate it thank you lou it's . now let's get

a quick check of some other stories that have been making news around the world doctors in britain say that the former trouble agent sergei scribal has been discharged from the hospital a month after his daughter yulia was released they were both admitted to intensive care after being poisoned but the nerve agent insults her in march the u.k. and its allies have blamed russia for that poisoning. the u.n. human rights council is to send an independent group of experts to investigate israeli violence against palestinians the bodies metaphor and extraordinary session after sixty palestinians were killed on monday in mass protests against the us decision to move its embassy to jerusalem. and a nineteen year old syrian man has been charged with bodily harm and slander after an assault in berlin on an arab israeli wearing a jewish skullcap the men yelled jew in arabic and whips the victim with the belts the victim wore the cap to see if it was dangerous to do so in germany. well

italy finally has a government deal what does it mean for the country's economy helena is here with us some big spending plans some big spending plans and for a start sarah just the fact that there's a deal off to two and a half months is good news a little bit of stability that finally a deal seeing the coming together of the anti establishment five star movement in the far right league party now they've put together a plan to govern the country gone although the proposals to scrap the euro which rattled the markets to say the least and plan to ask for massive debt forgiveness from the european central bank the question is what's left. monte passkey shares tumbled sharply on thursday after the new coalition proposed scrapping restructuring plans at the world's oldest bank monti passkey is still unstable despite an eight billion euro state rescue last year its size makes it the biggest threat to italy's financial system the possibility of ending measures aimed at

nursing the bank back to health have made investors very nervous. the euro's under pressure to the new government also promised tax cuts and increased public spending implementing the plans would cost billions of euros but italy has the highest debt levels in the e.u. after greece the economic plans combined with the two parties euro skepticism could set rome on a collision course with brussels. well as phase of the next year a crisis has been rattling the markets for days off financial correspondent daniel cope as. it's not a crash we are seeing but yes you can clearly see that investors over there in italy are very nervous what this new government is going to bring in the country because of this nervousness we are seeing a lot of full tilt volatility of their stock exchange during the trading day this is actually very interesting because usually the trading day there is not very volatile something like that we usually see more happening for example at the

london stock exchange sometimes here in frankfurt as well already this morning close to noon by that time as many trades were executed compared to the normal everett's daily volume and they don't even selling all of their stocks it seems that more defensive shares are very much demanded today also we continue to see a loss in bond deals and once again because of this uncertainty the euro has been dropping to the lowest point now in five months is also making investors a bit nervous here in frankfurt as well the blue chip index starts close with a loss of zero point three percent at a level of thirteen thousand and seventy seven points. down your cool there in frankfurt while the diesel emissions scandal continues this time it's luxury brand porsche that is in the hot seat the german transport ministry has ordered the car maker to recall around sixty thousand cars around the world they sell for all it is discovered and legal cheap devices in a diesel powered s.u.v.

models the cayenne and can these make mission seem relatively low on the test conditions when in reality out on the road they could be significantly higher says it will take full responsibility to fix affected the costs. so if you sarah now and i don't apparently there's a waiting going on in egypt tomorrow a wedding i have no idea what you're talking. of course we're talking about that where the wedding you know where britain's prince charles now he's not the one getting married obviously but he's going to be very much involved in a role that. he probably wasn't expecting because now he's going to a company make a mark on down the aisle after her father was unable to give the bride away because of heart surgery excitement is really building across the u.k. and of course abroad ahead of tomorrow's wedding between meghan markle and prince harry a crowd of impatient fans is already gathering outside of windsor castle near london where the couple are to marry more than one hundred thousand people expected to

flocks at the town to catch a glimpse of the happy couple there is heightened security across windsor but while fans are making the most of this big effect as you might match. and our correspondent dare to mass and derek mathis they are both standing by in windsor they are the lucky ones who are covering this trial wedding for us so here's a lot of excitement tell us a little bit more about the atmosphere that you've been experiencing. this enough flukey one full of fear here one has to say i really and when i decided to come here when i went for the first came into windsor i expected people from the town here i expected the royals super fans who are securing the places year along the fences staying the night but i did not expect people from all over the world of course colleagues who are reporting on this but there's people from all over the

commonwealth but also from far beyond who have flocked into town and truly electric atmosphere. yeah and there was one specific moment that actually we experience which was you know excitement building up just here very near where we are where prince harry and also prince william were coming out for a walk about it say it was a huge draw going through the crowds as as they were coming out quite an unusual moment and and shaking hands and talking to people so both of us have been here for a little while and we've gone on our own walkabout we've talked to a lot of royal fans from far and also from the air and this is our report. and say. it is waiting. tired but very very happy that's the mood of these royal sukkot fans it's been

camping out food days to secure their prime spot just a stone's throw away from windsor castle when a lot of tents so were literally on to the stalls out in the winds and the cold is very cold last night and. yeah it's awful says yeah it's awful thank you it's the first royal for the sisters they came all the way from australia to see that that's what you have done this were any of the romance no no no no no i don't carry i do think it's wonderful no i don't know and i love the fact that israel should have all say she's a real person like us she's got the family issues this are a very rich we all have a. couple people can relate to combined with pomp and tradition the key ingredients for a modern day fairy tale for nearly a thousand years windsor castle has been home to kings and queens.

the petit how big is the excitement behind these walls oh incredible lots of preparation taking place as you can imagine there's thousands of people involved in getting everything wrong everything is toying droit down to the last second of where the royals are going to be as usual nobody does it better than the the british army and the british people really we really know how to put a show on for the well to watch. but it's not just the army that's been rehearsing in the streets. that you know the acquirer of singers living with or having overcome disabilities has a special wedding a love song written by sandra goard. only a gospel singer and be making more consent. yes i'm a done this punk around my girl yes absolutely and it's still lovely because the world family have already accepted her and

a lot of people culturally this is an amazing occasion to change direction as it were and how hard some are somebody outside to his normal culture we're all celebrating that really wish them the very best of making love. across the street from the castle free pizza for the super funds and also a slice of royalty doesn't he look just like prince charles is good because you're going to young people to take an interest especially now harry's going to marry make it and you know he does have a great deal with the invictus games and she's got many mary charities she us supports and travels i mean he's a we're very refreshing in these in the new era and finally time for ourselves to get really close to the royals. sorry guys he does not look like prince charles in fact we're going to be able to compare tomorrow because as we mentioned prince charles is going to be walking meghan markle down the aisle at least for a part of it and that's not what was planned right. that's

right and i think i asked that question to a lot of people here what they make of this and they said look this is fantastic it's first of all of a fabulous way of welcoming her to the royal family but it's also a lot of women told me this feminist message of and also the taste of the fresh winds coming with making markel into the royal family at least that's what they hope the sign that she will walk herself together with the page boys and bridesmaids all of them children down the aisle so two messages in one here she's welcome in the royal family but it's also a little bit of a potentially a feminist message at the on the other hand one has to say let's not over interpret year because there's already a debate whether harry will shave and what it will means if he shaved off his beard so we have to be careful there as well ok so a lot of big questions and you know we're not going to miss a beat tomorrow because of course all of the major media networks or at least most

of them around the world they you know have this intense interest especially and you know this american bride marrying into this very prominent family tell us a little bit more about the media fever well where i am where we are standing now i see you know one two three four six five six television crews the old interviewing fans and i mean this is this is only a fraction of who is here there five thousand british journalists accredited alone and then you're a seventy nine the american networks and the feeling eights and many many more international journalists thousands of them in fact when you walk down the high street here in windsor we is just not from from where we are and you look up into the windows there's cameras everywhere so it's really a huge huge media interest masson garrick mathis you guys are going to be carrying covering it tomorrow as we understand just give us

a sense of what the layout of the day looks like. well first of all of course they will arrive here and they will be greeted by thousands and thousands of people will make their way into windsor castle and of course then into the chapel the last person to wife is the queen and then once everybody seated of course the price will walk into the chapel the ceremony will start and after the ceremony begins well after the ceremony i think the big event is going to be that the new wave couple is going to go down and a big route around winds over three kilometers long and this will be really lined with crowds there are crowds here already as you can see around us but is going to be many many more hours tomorrow in fact you know hundreds of thousands of people well we'll see how many there will be will be

a huge event and huge excitement what a day it will be and of course you know one of the very beginning questions that we all have is what will her dress look like so us to attend for that tomorrow we want to thank you very much bear came out there to mass and also for telling us a lot but one about that we appreciate. today now and you have been is more coming up after shocks. european stars deliver rousing performances the best. good luck blues rock classics to. the best paid keyboard seles. and catch. the legendary run for a man that is on fire. the because it's been forty five minutes d w. global inequality and.

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master that we have received the crown of the realm from god the book we must treat. the book. if we would go. welcome back to rick's t w news i'm sarah kelly in berlin our top stories germany's chancellor angela merkel and russia's president vladimir putin have agreed to book again and options for a multinational peacekeeping mission in eastern ukraine merkel said that the next step would be to get a united nations mandate for just such a mission. cuban state television is reporting that a boeing seven thirty seven airliner with one hundred four people on board has crashed after taking off from havana the plane was heading from jose marti airport

to the eastern city of whole grains many are feared dead. and the cuban president. said that many are feared dead after the plane operated by the obviously an airline crashed near jose marti airport as we heard it was heading to that eastern city there for more let's bring in jose who is joining us on line from havana cuba jose just tell us do we have any more information about the people who are onboard that plane. loss of the people of our q one but the crew of their plan are foreigners so there are about one hundred one hundred people involved in this accident not only one hundred not four initially lustral so the airplane was very very full vien and mr siebenhaar probably later will be traveling to we are so

it should be also on alert for an extreme amount of liquids and of course you know the big question that everyone has now is how did this happen why did this happen what more can you tell us about the airline in particular we're hearing that its planes have had some mechanical problems in the past is that correct. well it was on the factory but not in the. airplane leaf it's on and that's again the company told us give them complained so it's not a q i'm clearly. not a big company do only have four or five airplanes mainly lotion airplanes so this boy in seven thirty seven was lisa from a mexican there's also the croatian so no choice if they don't want to say what. happened here because they don't know they are only open and now they are rescreening people on later they really investigate what happened here. jose talk with us a little bit more about that rescue effort do we know at this hour what is happening

on the ground well what we have seen on to allow a lot of bodies that people use a great risk in from the area where there is going crush to go through if you area around the airport here by here for if you want to say television broadcasts on the shift from the show when risk you can just say can you from the air an airplane was really completely destroyed. and of course you know in the situation you have to hope for the best but many really fearing for the worse for these more than one hundred people who are onboard this plane we want to thank you so much jose hasan the of us joining us with the latest from cuba bringing us up to date we appreciate it for now some other news on the world health organization has raised the national threat level of an ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of

congo two very high this after the health ministry there confirmed eleven new cases of the virus along with two new suspected deaths that brings the total number of reported cases to forty five the deputy h of headquarters is rushing to ship supplies of the vaccine to congo. hectic preparations in geneva how to get the vaccine to the democratic republic of congo the temperature has to stay at minus eighty degrees celsius or the doses might not work. two thousand units of the new experimental ebola vaccine are now ready to ship to can shots. in the past in most of the breaks in the sea it's been rural and fairly self limited but now we know that populations of more than a million are at risk the other major issue here is that this center of he's on the banks of the river. it's around six hundred kilometers between band dhaka and

the capital kinshasa the congo river connects the two cities and is a heavily used transport route for both people and goods fear grips the capital everyone here recalls the twenty fourteen west african a bola outbreak that killed more than eleven thousand people. so. if this outbreak ever reaches can chasa you're going to see is. also does very dirty in the city governments and individuals must make an effort to improve sanitation. guys. the government must make vaccines ever leave it for us as well and must ben last gatherings because it is very contagious. international experts are trying to contain the illness the world health organization doctors without borders and the congolese government have set up what they call ring vaccinations it involves immunising the friends family housemates

and neighbors of any infected person. and let's get more now from kinshasa we're joined by journalist of the lease and luis we know that the world health organization is called the scar development a major game changer it's obviously a very worrying situation or the essential emergency measures happening. yes good evening so those aren't easy indeed since the outbreak was declared on may eighth they said they did have police towns in the province of acritical where the outbreak happened they have placed count on just a day and they have said to exploring dispenses in schools and they're encouraging parents every want to take their their temperature and to monitor their situation that and of course the w.h.o. that will help them get organization and i'm not sad that other n.g.o.s deployed to your area set up isolation tatts ports protection suits and other equipment

is the response that is in place and it's already is you know really telling us that and they believe the situation can be managed and they are telling us that so far the situation is under control and we know that this is the ninth time that a ball has been recorded in congo since the one nine hundred seventy s. what lessons were learned from the previous outbreaks and are they being applied. sure so last year there was actually an outbreak in me and it lasted for about forty two days the government is saying that they are quite used to dealing with these kinds of emergencies and the big difference here is that they have vaccines as if this is a new element obviously there are just sickle challenges because the vaccines need to be kept in freezing temperatures that serve five thousand years as a vaccine have arrived in the capital and are currently being sent to the area where the government and help are news for now are pretty confident that the

situation can be managed and that they are better prepared then if all. of us joining us with the latest from can thank you. well who has not heard of me too and time's up the hashtags that many have been using to draw attention to the sexual harassment assault and abuse of power that they face in all walks of life despite all the debate there are still some who doubt the scale of the problem where's the proof they might ask well one victim a university student has managed to film her assault at work and posted online for more let's bring in our social media editor frederick about you who's actually standing by for us here on the set as we see so tell us a little bit about the background here so the alleged victim of this incident is a master's student at the national university of colombia in bogota and the alleged perpetrator is one of her professors who is also her tutor and she said that the

unwanted attention from this man indian wanted touching had been going on for quite a while to the point that she had come to such a level of distress she was considering to quitting her studies until the point where she talked she spoke with a fellow student and that's when she realized she was not the only woman who had been a victim of this professor and that's what prompted her to take action and she decided to film one of these incidents secretly with her phone and post it on the left she says that the professor began making intimate advances the woman can be repeatedly heard saying no while the tutor ignores her and continues trying to trying to kiss her and touch her and goes on several times she tries to push him away he just keeps going and releasing this video she hopes that this will stop happening to other cars the university reacted to this well i mean looks like they're taking

this very seriously they have issued a statement on their. website which was signed by the dean in the statement they say they obviously condemn any form of sexual harassment and. they write as soon as we receive the complaint from the student we started taking action according to our regulations this includes taking the secondary measures against the teacher in question as far as we know so far the professor has not been fired yet but i mean there obviously the investigation exams the official reaction how are people reacting though and social media was mixed actually we have seen some people questioning the authenticity of the aggression of people saying the woman should have done more to defend herself maybe she should have fled the scene we see one woman tweeted for example i don't agree with the assault but i can't see any physical resistance verbally the woman says no but in the end they carry on as if they were in their relationship and we've seen other others also saying that she

should have shown more determination although these critics seem to have missed the point that she was if she had fled the scene she would not have been able to document the whole thing which was the whole point of taking this video and we see also somebody. responding to that criticism and saying what is even the point of saying this like in any case no should be enough. for the men to understand he should stop this is of course a hot topic and there have been numerous sexual alleged sexual assault and harassment cases. in academic institutions over the past few months or all over the world in latin america that has often been a perception that the lack of adequate measures forty's and this is often also prompted protests by students and we've seen just this week of protests in chile for example we have to see how this incident and how this case develops at this particular university but no matter which way it does it's definitely clear

that we need to and time's up sparked a debate which continues to rage on frederica baggio with the latest developments from a social media fest thank you. on the. now to a look at closer financial relations are closer look rather financial relations between russia and germany helena humphrey has a story sorry you're right potentially close to potentially also not very intriguing find out sure relations you would be forgiven for asking just want chancellor angela merkel's game plan is when it comes to russia so on the one hand maintaining sanctions against russia an exciting ukraine while simple taney say assisting the country to build this new highly profitable gas pipeline while the united states is starting to punish companies and countries working on the pipeline but it pays it could be too late to stop its. these pipes are supposed to double the amount of natural gas that russia consent to germany a project that both countries are pushing to complete but it could hurt others

ukraine relies heavily on transit fees for russian gas that passes through its territory. i'm going to merkel has now promised that gas will continue to flow through ukraine on flow about soy going from dutch i think that's what the of the german viewpoint is that ukraine will have to keep its role as a transit nation after nord stream two has been completed it's a matter of strategic importance so at the front i think shut the doors off putin agreed to this despite political tensions with ukraine but he also tied his concession to a condition that you'll discover things are as i would like to say that after the launch of the north stream to the transit of russian gas to ukraine it's not going to be suspended richard but i would like to emphasize that the deliveries will continue if they prove to be economically justified which is going to mislead you. to didn't say what would happen if sending gas three crane should not provide any

more especially ones not stream to is built so despite the progress made of sorts the pipelines problems may not be over yet. mass tourism is something of a modern day dynamo with budget lines and cheap accommodation like b. and b. it's much easier to travel some cities that are being overwhelmed by an influx of visitors and have introduced countermeasures venice for example has twenty two million tourists a year and crowd control could be a major problem not a city has set up gates at the entrances to the historic center to help control the flow and prevent bottlenecks venice is a lot lots of small winding alleyways and tourists tend to concentrate in certain areas. while i'm suzanne has also decided that enough is enough new shops banned from opening in the historic center as they may be cater to tourists. this is the amsterdam cheese company's top product a ten month mature gooda also available in

a gift box with a well known dutch painters name on it could in calls open the fifth branch of his store last october in central amsterdam but at the same time a band came into force that prevented the opening of new tourist shops people she stressed i don't know if you're going to sold anything by closing a chain store i think what you need to do and those are very serious and difficult discussions is to look at the demand side how are we going to manage that so many people come to these european cities how is it possible that so many flights coming in at so many out till bookings are made and the decisions need to be made on that level i'm certain i am is a vibrant place with a lot to offer which is why seventeen million tourists come every year the city is now trying to stem the flow renting apartments to holidaymakers there's no subject

to registration and no new hotels are allowed to open. the city has also stopped advertising. and there's a new strategy. so what we've decided about a year ago is that we're have implemented a new zoning policy which basically says that we are reducing or we're limiting the number of shops that cater exclusively to tourists so no more new shops that cater to tourists and the cheese company is an example of that. the myriad of souvenir shops and fast food places have become a thorn in the local side many welcome the move that's been coined operation nutella for the countless nutella stores. i think just perfect because today ruined us an explosion of new tell us toss. and that's one of the reasons why i don't know normal stores where you can buy stockings or just grab

that to bed because. the shop soulful. soil if you're forty is forty four years the first twenty years were quiet and ok that's the last ten years. it's very very busy in the cities and where do you draw the line about what exactly is a tourist chopper that might be up to the judge. cheese for all that's why i say over to sarah now with sports too much to tell and she is who knew that was about a major and an absolutely it has to be controlled right now thank you so much for sharing now to the football world environ munich will battle frankfurt in the final for the german cup at berlin's olympic stadium on saturday night biron have won this title eighteen times and are once again the clear favorites and after winning the one to say they are gunning for a double this match is expected to be coach yes this is last frankfurt have

surprisingly reach the cup final for the second year in a row they need to beat biron in order to qualify for the europa league next season . so how is going to shake out with. emily rouse votes for who's joining us from our sports desk so for once the headlines are not about the players this is sort of interesting here is it gets your point is last season then surely who want to go out on a high he came in in october when the club wasn't doing so well they kicked out until they brought on high kids and things turned around now he's won the league already and surely they're going to want to finish on a high by winning the trophy as well ok so you know what let's see how that might work out we're going to listen. it's and this is definitely one of the highlights in my biography i have saved by aaron m. my players and i have such a wonderful relationship. with don and i've rarely felt like this with a team. similar to byron from twenty eleven to two thousand and thirteen or

athletic bilbao. it's something i'll be glad to look back on later at the. you know that. this is also a very special game not only five s. but also for his replacement. and he's almost half so he's this young talented german coach is going to come into the to buy in munich and he's had a great season with frankfurt which will surely want to top off by qualifying for europe as we heard earlier and it's going to be interesting to see because all views are going to sidelines how to react will he be able to leave on a high as well ok and this is what he had to say. and we haven't be at our best tomorrow we have to call on everything that has made us so strong this season. and at the same time we have to hope that by year and don't have such a good day as they normally do. and talk of the then i think we can accomplish

something tomorrow. if with both teams are at their best it's going to be very very difficult for us. ok so it's going to be difficult but you know still some optimism some hope fer we've already heard some big news from the veyron camp what's happened there yeah minor annoyance popped up on the team sheet and that's great news for bion fans it's great news for germany fans because everyone who want him to be fit for the world cup in june has already said he's definitely not going to be in the starting line up but you know this is a huge boost and he also added that germany can rest assured that moir will not only be fit but he'll be a great support for the german national team during the world cup so you know everyone will be looking at the sidelines will he get in a few minutes at the end depending on the result that's really what it's going to be about as an absolute in a specially because he's the germany team captain recovering from entering there i think that a lot of people will will be quite happy about that one thanks so much. joining us

from sports with the very latest we appreciate. the clip there from an italian film called dog man one of the movies of the running for the top prize at the cannes film festival the palme d'or this will be awarded this saturday wrapping up this year's festival. and our very own robin merrill is joining us from our culture desk he has been covering cad all way and we have to mention that this fell if it's a contender of course for the top prize but it's already won a prize hasn't it has indeed it's won the poem don't cry is a very important price which is being awarded in cannes and for the best performance of the festival by man's best friend overseas just

a bit of fun but i should remind you that the has been the dog in the artist the all still winning film the artist also won this prize so there's hope for a dog might go on great things anyway it's been an interesting and generally in many ways let's have a look at three of those in top contention for the main top prize many starting with many what many consider the top favorite for the paul. spike lee's black klansman is based on the true story of a black police officer from colorado who infiltrated a branch of the ku klux klan in the one nine hundred seventy s. but the film also functions as a commentary on the current state of race relations in the united states the gods years i really hate those black rats he has a great chance of winning the palme d'or here he's likely hasn't been in the can in many many years and way way back he was here with do the right thing which in my opinion should have won the palme d'or it didn't didn't vendors who was present the

jury did not give the spike lee the palme d'or it's likely still hates him for it he said if he ever sees the inventor's will come out of with a baseball bat but another front runner is happiest lazzaro directed by. one of only three women filmmakers in this year's competition. a feat. her film is a magic realist fable based on an actual incident involving illegal sharecropping in italy the title character lazzaro is a kind of holy fool who winds up being exploited by the farm workers who are themselves exploited by a landowner the story functions as an origin myth for modern italy in the throes of corruption decline. another film about people living under precarious circumstances is shoplifters by japanese director hirokazu this

compassionate story is about a makeshift family trying to keep afloat by resorting to petty theft in order to supplement their meager income. some observers have criticized this year's confound festival for lacking enough glamour and star power but the critical consensus seems to be that the crop of films in competition was strong. so a lot of great films this year a lot of controversy within those films as we saw there and speaking of controversy we have to talk about lars von trier because he's back on the red carpet as any he is now or he's back with a film called the house that jack built starring dylan this is said to be a black comedy now when it's it's black black black black comedy we're talking about and i was reading know people walked out of the actual first press screening

of the film i mean this is the sun talking about. they certainly think it's this is a senseless provocation this is a film about a guy who's a serial killer and it's very violent i have to say. all the subject matter in all his films is always controversial it always divides opinion. reporter in kind did see it actually he nearly walked out at one point but he decided to stay i think and he did say that there's. lots of leaves a lot there aloft in this film. but it's very very very strange. ok so maybe taking it a little bit too far there are a lot too far and meryl joining us from our latest thank you so much. and with that you're up to date on. n.p.r. len after a short break it's like the rocks. the. european

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