this is deja vu news live from berlin foreign journalists are heading to north korea to witness the destruction of a secret underground nuclear test site it's being billed as a goodwill gesture ahead of an historic summit with the united states but is it all a show for the cameras also coming up. and all straley an archbishop becomes the most senior roman catholic cleric in the world to be convicted of covering up child sex abuse archbishop philip wilson concealed sexual assaults on two boys by

a priest in the one nine hundred seventy s. . plus europe looks on anxiously as italy's new government begins to take shape to populist parties move closer to power after nominating their choice for prime minister but are they planning to tear off europe's rulebook on austerity. on. one year ago today twenty two people were killed and eight hundred were wounded in a terrorist attack in manchester we meet friends of one of the victims who's being remembered with a new plan. i'm brian thomas great to have you with us we begin this program in north korea where a small group of foreign journalists has arrived to cover the dismantling of the country's nuclear test site later this week. gang is allowing the limited access to

the site to publicize its promise to halt on the ground tests and launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles now it's unilaterally announced the moratorium ahead of a summit between leader kim jong il and president donald trump that's scheduled for june twelfth in singapore. in a notoriously secretive country this is one of its most secret sites north korea's main nuclear research facility is hidden away in a system of tunnels several hundred meters underground. situated in the north east of the country sixty kilometers from the chinese border the site has been central to kim jong un's nuclear ambitions it's where all of north korea's six million nuclear tests are taken place. the latest one in september last year pyongyang declared as its first successful test of a hydrogen bomb. a bomb that could be used on an

intercontinental missile to carry a nuclear weapon as far as the united states is north korea has threatened in the past the closure of perm yury was announced after the historic meeting between the north's leader kim jong un and south korean president in at the end of april in which the two pledged to work for the complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula. north korean state television carried the news saying that all of the tunnels at the site would be collapsed and the entrances blocked it also announced that foreign media would be invited to cover the event. however some analysts have said that the closure of the site doesn't prove kim jong un renewed plans to denuclearize and so far north korea has not responded to pools to let independent experts verify the shutdown. skeptics have

pointed to the destruction of the young nuclear complex by kim jong un's father ten years ago the cooling tower of the plant was blown up in front of foreign t.v. camera teams and fell into to special occasion. the nuclear activities at the site however continued. let's bring in correspondent jason strother joining us from the south korean capital seoul for more jason looking at the deception of the past we just saw there is what's coming up all spectacle and no substance oh well brian i think the fact that north korea has only invited journalists to the destruct to watch the destruction of the. test site perhaps is indicative that it is just for camera video and photo ops north korea had indicated when it made this announcement earlier in the month that it would invite experts but those invitations were not sent out other invites that were

declined include south korean journalists seoul had been told that the north would accept some reporters from here below the border to attend the demolition this week but those that request to have them accredited by the north korean authorities was the client so while american and british and some other foreign reporters are there the south koreans seem to be stuck in beijing ok now it's not just about the site. does telling young have all their testing sites if kim decides to continue developing nuclear weapons. more we really don't know bryan i mean north korea is a very mountainous country many of its weapons sites whether it be nuclear or conventional arms are hidden in some of these mountain ranges it's completely possible and there is speculation that the north might have some secret

testing areas for that matter in terms of denuclearization north korea could easily be hiding even if it says it has given up all of its weapons and of course that's way down the line for now but it very well could be storing nuclear material and some of the secretive location so we just don't know you know jason all of these questions and doubts certainly are not lost on the south korean president and he's in washington today what is he going to be looking for in his talks with president trump he is going to try to ensure president trump that north korea really is serious about denuclearization but that it's all been called into question just a week ago said that it was not going to cave in to washington's bullying to have complete and unilateral denuclearization and that's something that washington really wants to see happen. experts doubt that the north will

really denuclearize expression when you have folks like john bolton saying that he wants a libyan style denuclearization and of course we all know what happened to colonel gadhafi after giving up his nascent nuclear program in the early two thousand he was killed with the support he was killed by his own people after the u.s. and nato allies bombed libya and that is certainly something that the pyongyang regime would want to avoid at all costs jason strother faurisson sole following the story thanks very much jason thank you. now for some of the other stories making the news today iran has dismissed u.s. threats of sanctions calling them funny and ridiculous arraign president hassan rouhani was responding to the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o ok a war duran to expect these stronger sanctions ever if it did not stop enriching uranium. u.s. president donald trump has been using an official mobile phone that is ill equipped

to defend against hackers or surveillance white house insiders say the president has gone as long as five months without having his phone checked by security officials the president has reportedly resisted through changes phones once a month saying it was too inconvenient. authorities in a y. say the lava flowing from the killer way of all kaino is producing toxic clouds as a reaches the pacific ocean residents are being warned to remain away from the fumes a dangerous mix of hydrochloric acid steam and extremely fine shards of glass lava haze or lays can cause lung damage and i and skinner titian's. also in our court has found a catholic archbishop guilty of covering up child sexual abuse in one nine hundred seventy s. sixty seven year old thought paulson could face two years in prison for failing to

report abuse carried out by a pedophile priest in his diocese. the archbishop said he was disappointed with the verdict and was consulting with his lawyers victims welcomed the courts for. a very significant day for all victims and their families. it's a decision that will hopefully and rival the hypocrisy of the state. and the abuse pal and trust the church has displayed and. the fact that on behalf of all victims because that is a very very significant day thank you. most roger maynard he's following the case for us in sydney good morning to you roger i can you tell us more about this case and what exactly archbishop wilson was

convicted of well basically this case goes back to the mid nineteen students is when another priest of the name of james fletcher was accused of six years using a fifteen year old boy about the name of. this alleged the crate went to philip will soon know not to push it further don't bitch about adelaide to tell of up what happened that did nothing at all about it he subsequently claimed that the conversation was laid up and down on the net read was what much of this case it's been about could he remember this conversation if not why and who is telling the truth roger archbishop wilson is a leading figure in the australian church what is his top position in the church hierarchy mean for this case. well this has enormous ramifications this can he said it's a decision that really could undermine the little authority or fabric of the church

to a certain extent he as you say is a high ranking member of the australian clergy he's charged with concealing child sexual abuse now he's been found guilty and it devil opens the way for other prosecutions of a similar kind against senior members of the church who are also accused of a similar nifty turn course today's ruling is very much very much since a legal precedent ok but philip wilson archbishop wilson says he's talking to his lawyers where is he going with the case and what else is he saying about what he's going on but at the moment he says that he's been suffering from dementia has only had added to the issues involved in this case but he issued a statement later on this afternoon late this afternoon the australian time and saying that he was always it very disappointed at the ruling by the court in newcastle in new south wales the magistrate said that the fifteen year old boy had

no motive to deceive or make up this conversation and that wilson did not go to the police about the allegation of sex abuse because he wanted to protect the church and is reputation well we have the we don't actually have a penalty or sentence in this case yet the magistrate could sentence him to two years in prison but we await that decision to be made at a later date meanwhile the archbishop is out on bail. that was journalist roger maynard joining us earlier from sydney this is deja vu news still to come on the show in the bundesliga play all full spriggan keel fought for the last open spot in the top flight both burgle won the first leg three one find out if they could finish the job. first is over garden analysts and politicians in france and germany are sounding some alarm bells right now and they fear about the new coalition in italy made up

of two populist parties that have made robock on italy's commitments on debt and threaten euro zone stability the two parties the nationalist league and the anti establishment five star movement have come one step closer to power off the nominating a prime minister. depict a close relationship between luigi demaio and me but they certainly weren't allies during the election campaign now the populist leaders of the league and the five star movement have asked italy's president to approve their new alliance. today we can say we are faced with a historic moment i also say this to our international partners let us begin then you will criticize but at least let us begin first this is perhaps an unexpected government but it has been elected. nobody has anything to fear.

we want a government that puts national interests first and foremost as we proposed to it during our election campaign. we will respect everybody who put italy in the. front of the league and the five star movement spend two weeks hammering out a program it calls for the speedy deportation of half a million migrants costly campaign promises such as tax cuts early retirement and a basic income are to be paid for with new debt. this contract is the heart of the government of change i see many people concerned about the international and european context they have nothing to fear the contract is the will of the italian people who want change. italy's european partners are alarmed the euro zone's third largest economy is already among the world's most indebted countries but the coalition hopes

a political novice giuseppi country will ease the concerns of italy's partners the law professor has been proposed as prime minister the two party leaders agreed on the unknown technocrat as a compromise for the top post now italy's president has to approve the new coalition's choice. now why has all the loose talk about death and plans to free a billions of euros for tax cuts and welfare analysts and politicians worried well let's see just how deep and the red italy really is shelly is a figure for you italian debts already stands as two point three trillion euros that's trillion with a t. that's put that into a pal european perspective that italian debt makes up almost one quarter of all u.s. own countries combined that's pretty steep when you consider that the country only makes up fifteen percent of the euro zone's total economic output.

so other government making promises it can't possibly deliver on within euro zone rules let's bring in general de milan our financial correspondent who joins us now joins us now from the frankfurt stock exchange janiero i invest is getting a dish of their. yes and of course it's because we've been hearing before and said of greece we have one of the founding members of the e.u. having fiscal aims that it would be hard to afford so it's hard to see how they would be able to deliver on basic income on tax cuts on pension rules without having without running deficit levels that they're not allowed to have within the eurozone back reform of course is also a cause for concern italy's banks big and ailing as they are threatening the stability of the financial sector as a whole now we have to bear in mind however that italy is a much larger economy than greece the rest of the eurozone members would be hard pressed to put pressure on italy the way it did with greece that time around at the

height of the debt crisis by say threatening to withdraw financial support from the country at the height of the greek crisis europe was fairly optimistic that it would be able to weather the consequences of any exit now that would be different this time around experience of course being the best teacher but there is the small matter of context. sticking to the euro but all the talk about iou it doesn't it doesn't spark confidence does it. well no definitely not now italy's promises to stand the euro don't mean very much if in the end its activities guarantee that the euro is impacted so much that it causes a string of consequences for the other member states let's remember that currency levels affect imports and exports affect how the e.c.b. is supposed to react at this stage it's hard to know how it will play out to but what we already see friend here is the capacity of all the players to come together

and be able to stick to agreements made in a transnational context independent of whichever government happens to be in place and that is what you definitely need for the euro project to survive. in frankfurt thank you. was a little over a month before the next election in turkey president obama is trying to create an image of a country with a strong economy on first glance he is right she d.p. grew by more than seven percent last year but growth is not the only number that accounts for a strong economy other figures count as well and some paint an entirely different picture. many young people in turkey can't find a job a sure sign that the boom years are over one in five in that age group is no juggler's the country's economy has taken several hits in recent years one main reason more and more foreign capital is leaving turkey an emerging economy

especially dependent on outside investment. those factors have sent the country's currency the lira tumbling by twelve percent since mid april alone it's lost seventeen percent since the start of the year. to stop the trend and to attract foreign money again the central bank would have to raise interest rates even further it lifted one key rate to thirteen and a half percent in april. president richard tie a bad one recently called interest rates the mother of all evil and pledged to force the central bank into lowering them seen by many as an election bribe to indebted citizens and companies. to ones plan to influence this ostensibly independent institution is only likely to further deter foreign investors the. meaning new jobs could remain a pipe dream for many for some time to come. the u.s. says impose new sanctions on venezuela in response to the reelection of president nicolas maduro washington is now restricting the country's ability to liquidate

state assets and debt in the us american companies and individuals are also prohibited from purchasing debts owed to venezuela the new u.s. sanctions aimed to limit financing for the socialist leaders bankrupt government majoris reelection has been met with widespread condemnation across the globe and as well as main opposition had boycotted the election in which two popular leaders well prevented from running and today is the one year anniversary of a very tragic attack front your heart it has been one year since an islamist terror attack in the british city of manchester killed twenty two people and injured hundreds more a suicide bomber detonated his explosives as at manchester arena's people were leaving a concert by the american singer ariana grande day one year on d. w. met up with friends of one of the victims is being remembered with a new play. on. earth with

a penchant for tight. and then it became clear. in our thought that it was a boy i. think and then it became very ill the fourth. thing. martin was just twenty nine when he lost his life inside manchester arena you know i really love play. out. my fair share of it are. for friends like harry jones the first anniversary isn't just a time for grief it's a chance to reflect on the lives of their loved ones. and for martin's friends that means tributes to him need to be just as larger than life as he was and it was

those who didn't know. it's only fitting then that martin's life is celebrated with a touch of showbiz a new play written in his honor tells the story through the eyes of his friends its message the more like martin. a huge pay low paying attention. who thought the follow it with wanted him for five. feet or so. it's with unity and passion that manchester is choosing to remember its did a mark of the resilience of the city shaken by tragedy.

and we'll be following the commemoration of the manchester attack here on d w throughout the day. now it is essential for our survival but climate change lack of conservation and over you have left the world's water supplies depleted today nasa is launching a mission to find out how much water is there really on planet earth a pair of satellites will analyze h two o. on and beneath the surface of our planet. the satellite pair will unfold their intended as soon as they arrive in space if all goes to plan they will pass over antarctica half an hour later and send their first signal back to earth. one of their tasks is to measure the changes in water distribution on and below the earth's surface using microwaves the distance between

them will be continuously measured down to a thousandth of a millimeter while orbiting different gravitational pulls caused by the different sizes of mass below cause the satellites to move apart or closer together this data is then used to calculate the water content below. the satellite pair will send a snapshot of the mass distribution on and below the earth's surface every month. the data will help us better understand the effects of climate change. for example how much ice on the north and south poles is actually melting. now says forerunner mission grace revealed that the mass of ice in greenland saw an overall decline between two thousand and two and sixteen around two hundred seventy billion tons of ice that misha's there every year. the satellites will enable researchers to monitor the global water supply they will also examine how

over use of water has affected the height of the water table or how climate change has affected the distribution of water across the globe through changes in precipitation. both satellites are carrying a newly developed laser system created by researchers in hanover and the u.s. . it will be used for the first time during the mission to test its capabilities. it should be able to measure the satellites range ten times more precisely than conventional technology this could in time help provide even further insight into the constantly transforming physical processes on earth. football now and in the german bundesliga playoff hole steinkuehler hosted balls ferg in the second leg on monday the walls had a huge advantage after winning the first leg three one last week could kill beat the odds and win promotion to the top flight that's fun. it was struck

first. eunice molly. was offside as keeper kenneth turan home rightly pointed out and the video assistant referee agreed. that it was keels turn to put the ball in the net became somebody hitting the target but it turned out the play had been blown dead. it stayed scoreless until the seventy fifth minute when the rules finally made it one nil. robin conoco heading into maximillian on old corner. she'll seem to answer in the eighty eight but be ruled out the rafael seacoast goal for handball. one nil the final score score when the playoffs for one on aggregate and stay in the top flight while keels fairytale season comes to an end.

quick reminder of our top stories right now a group of foreign journalists as arrived in north korea to witness the destruction of nuclear test site is being billed as a goodwill gesture by. the head of an historic summit with the united states but it is largely symbolic. and in australian court has found the catholic archbishop guilty of covering up child sexual abuse in the one nine hundred seventy s. archbishop philip wilson is the most senior catholic cleric in the world to be convicted of the offense he faces two years in prison. this is interview news live from i'm brian thomas for the entire news team thanks very much for being with us.

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