bridge. losing reporter started journalism on g.w. . this is deja vu news live from berlin north korea invites foreign journalists to witness the destruction of its nuclear test site it's being billed as a goodwill gesture ahead of in historic summit with the u.s. but is it all a show for the cameras. also coming up facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg prepares for a grilling by european politicians over the global data scandal engulfing his

company's. europe becomes a nervous as the italy's populist parties move closer to taking power are they planning to tear up the rulebook on u.s. spirity. one year ago today twenty two people were killed in eight hundred wounded in a terrorist attack in manchester. all along. we need to have friends of one of the victims who is being remembered with a new client. i'm sumi so much going to good to have you with us a small group of foreign journalists has arrived in north korea to cover the dismantling of the country's nuclear test site showing and promised to destroy the facility as part of efforts by kim jong un to create a positive atmosphere ahead of a planned summit with u.s. president trump next month but experts are divided on whether kim's plans to

dismantle the site will achieve what he claims. 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 sits now the nuclear tests have 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 as north korea has threatened in the past the closure of perm yuri was announced after the historic meeting between the

north's leader kim jong un and south korean president mincha in at the end of april in which the two pledged to work for the complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula. the. 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 really plans to denuclearize and so far north korea has not responded to calls to let independent experts verify the shutdown. skeptics have pointed to the destruction of the young beyond nuclear complex by kim jong un's father cheney years ago the cooling tower of the plant was blown up in front of foreign t.v. camera teams invited especially for the occasion. the nuclear activities at

the side however continued. let's bring in correspondent jason strother who's in the south korean capital seoul covering the story for us hi jason was this a or is this a show for the cameras and why we're no experts invited. right well it would indicate that this could be just a big photo op for the north korean regime since no independent analyst or nuclear experts were invited to observe the demolition of the pungo a very site so we've had you know a team of mostly western journalists enter north korea however despite pyongyang saying south korean reporters would be allowed eight south korean journalists were denied entry to north korea of and were more or less left in beijing hoping to get on that flight south korea's unification ministry has expressed regret but hopes

that the demolition of this nuclear site later this week will. will back up what will it will help support the ongoing talks that need to plan summit between president trump and kim jong un for next month in addition there is a skepticism whether dismantling the site will achieve what conjunction has claimed does have other testing sites if kim decides to continue developing atomic weapons assuming we just don't know what north korea is a mountainous country the poetry site is located under a mountain even north korea's conventional weapons systems are often hidden behind many of its hills and mountains so it's entirely possible that there are other testing facilities that we just don't have any clue about jason everyone looking towards a summit with u.s. president trump in a few weeks what could be whale it at this point. pretty much anything sumi i mean

it's just last week north korea said that because of ongoing south korean and u.s. military exercises it might consider calling off the talks it also said that washington's insistence that come young denuclearize unilaterally could also call off the talks as well as pointing out that some of what national security advisor john bolton said. that he'd like to see a libyans style denuclearization take place in north korea of course moammar gadhafi died after giving up his nuclear program in the early to thousands on young is said that could also be rail the talks so but despite all that there there is no indication that they are there's no indication that they are off the table now all right correspondent jason strother reporting for us from seoul thank you jason.

thank you now to some other stories making news around the world iran has dismissed u.s. threats of sanctions calling them funny and ridiculous iranian president hassan rouhani was responding to the u.s. secretary of state mike pump ale pompei a warrant iran to expect the strongest sanctions ever if it did not stop enriching uranium. authorities in hawaii say the lava flowing from the kellaway a volcano is producing toxic clouds as it reaches the pacific ocean residents are being warned to stay away from the fumes a dangerous mix of hydrochloric acid steam and extremely fine shards of glass the lava haze or leis can cause lung damage and eye and skin irritation. an australian court has found a catholic archbishop guilty of covering up child sexual abuse in the one nine hundred seventy s. philip wilson is one of the most senior catholics in the world to be convicted of the offense he faces two years in prison for failing to report abuse carried out by

a pedophile priest in his diocese in the us president 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 trump has reportedly resisted efforts to change his phones once a month saying it was close to inconvenient woman. facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg is making a rare appearance in brussels today he's being required to answer questions from lawmakers on a host of subjects including the leak of the personal information of eighty seven million facebook users to a data company employed by trump the trump campaign in the u.s. presidential election the question and answer session also coincides with the rollout in a few days of a new data privacy law in europe. if his two day appearance before the u.s. congress last month was any indication members of the european parliament can

expect a suited respectful guest a minute so what well congressman congressman congressman congressman congresswoman building at the grilling in congress politicians were at times blunt and perhaps fail to grapple with how facebook actually works your user agreement shocks as a facebook user are you are you willing to give me more control over my data there were also replies certain to get likes from facebook lawyers as someone who uses facebook i believe that you should have complete control over your data zuckerberg visit to brussels comes just days before a massive reform of european privacy rules is rolled out the ultra bureaucratic sounding general debts of protection regulation the g.d.p. are will cause headaches for facebook and other social media platforms with european customers as it greatly strengthens the rights abusers it forces companies that exploit user data to seek explicit informed consent and it adds teeth to

regulations so that enforcement is easier across the e.u. with tougher penalties for wayward companies zuckerberg can expect plenty of questions related to facebook's compliance with the g.d.p. yar and plenty more related to the alleged misuse of facebook debt held by cambridge analytic the now defunct british consultancy that worked on us president donald trump's election campaign zuckerberg will have little privacy himself during his hours before parliament all of the action will be live streamed from brussels for a big day ahead and proselyte teri schultz is standing by for us there hi terry will mark zuckerberg get more of a grilling from the europeans than he did from the u.s. congress. well it will certainly be a shorter session the entire zuckerberg appearance in the european parliament will only be about forty five minutes long compared to the two days he faced on capitol hill but that doesn't mean it will be less of substantive grilling of course the

heads of the political groups could have looked at the testimony that zuckerberg gave on capitol hill and really refined their questions also europeans are known to be much more strict about data privacy than the americans so but just by the fact that he'll get questioned by fewer than ten people doesn't necessarily mean that he'll get off more easily also in the room will be on full of albrecht who is known as the data privacy guru of the european parliament and claude maries the head of the civil liberties committee so those two are definitely going to be asking some very pointed questions of mark zuckerberg and as you as you heard in that piece this was going to be a closed door session and after a huge huge outpouring of of anger from the general public and from members of the european parliament it will now be live stream so we will all see what mark zuckerberg says a lot of pressure on him and on the heads of the political groups who will be asking the questions love that pressure terry coming from the cambridge analytical scandal do e.u.

leaders think facebook has done enough to abide by their privacy standards. everything will change given the general data privacy protection regulation that comes into effect on may twenty fifth at that point there will actually be repetitions for not following european data privacy rules so i think that he may have a few more days before facebook could be called called to account for this but i don't think anybody feels that facebook has done enough to protect their their private data we hear that all the time we've seen that with facebook users abandoning the platform but that will certainly be front and center in the questioning that we see here tonight you mentioned that new data protection law coming into effect here in europe terry what exactly is that going to mean for facebook. facebook says that it already has upgraded its user consent forms it has had to reform the way it uses data and the permission that it

gets from users this is not just facebook but any any company that uses private data across the internet so it's not just facebook but all the major platforms cannot get away with it anymore in addition users will have more control they will have the ability to go in and look at what these companies are doing with its data and say no if that's not ok so it's not just facebook but certainly mark zuckerberg is for many people the face of both the misuse of data privacy and the need to do better and to read beyond data privacy what other issues of the european parliament want to see facebook and mark zuckerberg address. facebook is well known to have been a major propaganda tool in the us election when he was on capitol hill zuckerberg said himself that he wished he'd been more aware of how facebook facebook was being used to spread false information and he wants to do better with that that will be something that european union lawmakers will be very interested in hearing about of

course there was the threat of the misuse of facebook and other social media in european elections we've of course. the european parliamentary elections coming up as well so they would like to see those kind of activities reined in before election campaigning starts in a year or teri schultz reporting for us from brussels thank you terry. you're watching d.w. news still to come in the bundesliga playoff both burke and kiel fought for the last open spot in the top flight. one the first like three one find out if they could finish the job. but first analysts and politicians in france and germany they are sounding the alarm of the new government being formed in italy there's not a sunni they fear the new coalition made up of two populous parties will roll back on italy's commitments on debt and threaten you his own stability the two parties the nationalist league and the anti establishment five star movement have come one

step closer to power after nominating a prime minister why has loose talk about free news talk about debt and plans of billions of euros. yes this graffito may depict a close relationship between louis. 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 during our election campaign. we will respect everybody who put italy in the center. from food to 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 are 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 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. why has loose talk about debt and plans to free up billions of euros for tax cuts and welfare analysts warry well let's just have a look at how deep in the red italy really is here is a figure for you italian debt already stands at two point three trillion euros trillion with a teeny let's put that in to a pound european perspective italian debt makes up almost one quarter of the total eurozone debt is pretty steep when you consider that the country only makes up fifteen percent of the euro zone's told full economic output so we have a government there making promises it can't possibly deliver with in euro zone

rules to know them along joins us now from the from france talking to change general our investors they're getting deja vu. yes the star in fact this morning we saw italy's ten year bond shoot up to two because on negative investor sentiment precisely because they had greece on the line we saw the same thing happen to greek bonds at the height of the debt crisis now bond yields have started to ease off those highs now and we're seeing stocks that italy's bores that it's hell ya know stabilize as investors sort of adjust to these new to this news but this kind of negative sentiment of course dies hard it's not like they weren't already spilled in the turbulent days of the campaign or the uncertain alkan that followed and the days of political deadlock now that nervousness of course has only carried over as it seems that a circumspect attitude towards fiscal policy doesn't seem to be in the cards but a collision with brussels over euro zone rules does seem to be. gentle even if we

may have said it sticking to the euro but all the talk about the ious which in effect is a second currency it is not really inspiring confidence is it. no it's definitely not and we've already heard from the likes of ratings agency fitch that has said that saw the government and weightings inclination to run up more debt could negatively impact its credit rating we know that last year they already downgraded italy to b.b.b. that's two levels saw you junk status so further downgrade would obviously not be good news for italy now in terms of staying in the euro that's all very well and good if it so happens that we don't get a situation where italy's fiscal slippage would cause the euro to depreciate and that of course would impact on the other members of the bloc in terms of trade in terms of monetary policy so really what's at stake here again is the ability of all the players to come to the table again and stick to fiscal agreements made and that is something that is of course of paramount importance if the common currency

project is going to work. you know that in front for that thank you. we are a little over a month away from the next elections that in turkey president. is trying to create an image of a country with a strong economy on first glance he's right g.d.p. grew by more than seven percent last year but growth is not the only number that accounts for a strong economy all the figures do 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 united states has imposed 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 debt owed to venezuela the new u.s.

sanctions aimed to limit financing for the socialist leaders bankrupt government. action has been met with widespread condemnation across the globe as well as main opposition have boycotted the election in which two popular leaders were barred from running. fanta the day is the one year anniversary of a very tragic attack sumi that's right gary hart it's been a one year since an islamist terror attack on the british city of manchester killed twenty two people and injured hundreds more a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at manchester arena as people were leaving a concert by u.s. singer ariana grande one year on it up you met up with friends of one of the victims who is being remembered with a new play. called on i mean obviously the therapist on the phone touched him. and then it became clear like an hour or so that it was a boy i. think

and then it became very ill a sloth. thing. martin was just twenty nine when he lost his life inside manchester arena you know it was a stroke or really low play. out. of my fair share of terror. 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 i didn't know there was there was another. 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 be more like martin. each be loving the attention. who thought it was going to turn four or 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 and you

throughout the day. time to catch up on some sports news now and listen five for has been announced as the new head coach at dortmund for ever has signed a contract until twenty twenty no take over from pay to get favre has been asleep experience having managed percy which i'm glad for resigning suddenly in two thousand and fifteen after a bad run the sixty year old has long been linked with the dortmund shock media reports say the swiss coach will leave french club nice for three million euros will be presented by torque at the start of july. in the bundesliga playoff kill hosted both berg in the second leg on monday the wolves 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 let's find out. it was ball sport who struck first and she like you leveled each evening up eunice molly but do you have to read he was offside as keeper ken is probably home rightly pointed out and the

video assistant referee agreed. then it was heels turn to put the ball in the nets 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 world's finally made it one nil. robin cannot get heading into maximillian arnold corner. people seem to answer in the eighty eight but v.a.r. ruled out that rafael seacoast goal for handball i was i one nil the final score goals scored when the play off four one on aggregate and stay in the top flight while the keels fairy tale season comes to an end. now more allegations of sexual abuse have surfaced in the world of us sports a lympics swimmer arianna cook or smith has now sued to usa swimming alleging the

organization failed to protect her and later covered up the abuse cook or smith alleges the assistant coach of the two thousand and eight olympic team shawn hutchinson sexually abused her over more than five years she added she was inspired by victims who came forward to confront larry nasser the former us from nasa team dr acheson denies the allegations and has not been charged with a crime. reminder now of our top story here on g.w. a group of foreign journalists has arrived in north korea to witness the destruction of john yang's nuclear test site it's being billed as a goodwill gesture by him john one out of an historic summit with the u.s. but critics say it is largely symbolic. thank you for watching g.w. please stay with us.

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