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 an 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. europe gets nervous as italy's populist parties move closer to taking power are they planning to tear up the wrong book on the e.u. austerity. and

a tragic anniversary. one year ago today twenty two people were killed and eight hundred more wounded in the terrorist attack in manchester we meet friends of one of the victims who is being remembered with a new play. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us north korea's kim jong un has asked a small group of foreign journalists to witness the dismantling of the country's nuclear test site the journalists arrived in pyongyang earlier today kim promised to destroy the facility as part of efforts to create a positive atmosphere had a plan summit with u.s. president trump next month but experts are divided on whether kim's plans to dismantle the site will actually achieve what he claims and there's also been concern that south korean reporters were disinvited at the last minute. 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 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 yury was announced after the historic meeting between the

north 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 beyond 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 fall into to special day for the occasion. the nuclear activities

at the side however continues. 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 were 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 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 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 jason there is a skepticism whether dismantling the site will achieve what kim jong un has claimed does yang have other testing sites if kim decides to continue developing atomic weapons. assuming we just don't know 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 it's 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 the summit with u.s. president trump in a few weeks what could be rail 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. has 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 let's catch up now on some other stories making news around

the world in afghanistan sixteen people have been killed and dozens injured after a minivan packed with explosives detonated while security try to diffuse it officials on the southern city of kandahar said the area around the bend had been cleared when it exploded the death toll is expected to rise as rescue workers search the rubble no one has yet claimed responsibility. scores of people are feared dead as an intense heat wave smothers the pakistani city of karachi authorities are urging people to stay indoors with temperatures hitting forty four degrees celsius there are concerns of widespread heat stroke as muslims fast during the holy month of ramadan the palestinian foreign minister has referred to israel to the international criminal court following recent bloodshed on the gaza border palestinians are calling for an immediate investigation into alleged israeli crimes more than one hundred people have been killed in recent weeks israel says it is

defending its border against terrorists. and iran has dismissed u.s. threats of sanctions calling them bridge to killis iranian president hassan rouhani was responding to the u.s. secretary of state mike calm pale pompei a war in iran to expect the strongest sanctions ever if it did not stop enriching uranium a court here in germany has rejected a move by prosecutors to rearrest the catalan separatist leader carlos pushed him up the german prosecutors argue new evidence from spain showed the exiled catalan leader was provoking violence against spanish authorities who still has been in germany since he was arrested on an international warrant two months ago the court said he can remain free in germany pending a decision on his extradition to spain facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg is set to face a grilling from lawmakers in brussels today they want to know how data from millions of facebook users were leaked to

a political consultancy employed by donald trump they also want to know why facebook feels revealed that leaked despite being aware of its existence as early as two thousand and fifteen the meeting comes three days before a major new data privacy law comes into effect 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 watched well congressman congressman congressman congressman congresswoman building at the grilling in congress politicians were at times blunt your user agreement shocks 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 bills zuckerberg says it to brussels comes just days before a massive reform of european privacy rules is rolled out the ultra bureaucratic sounding general data protection regulation the g.d.p.

our will cause headaches for social media platforms with european customers as it greatly strengthens the rights of users it forces companies that exploit user data to seek explicit consent and it adds teeth to regulations so that enforcement is easier with tougher penalties for companies that don't comply so i can expect plenty of questions related to facebook's compliance with the g.d.p. are plenty more related to the alleged misuse of facebook data by cambridge and a little the now defunct british consultancy that worked on getting us president donald trump elected zuckerberg will have little privacy himself during his time before parliament all of the action will be live streamed from brussels. for a big day ahead in brussels teri schultz is standing by for us there hi terry will mark secretary 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 of 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 the 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 terry beyond our privacy what other issues as 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 very teri schultz reporting for us from brussels thank you terry you're watching d.w. news still to come in sports person dortmund announce their new coach but will loose in five years bundesliga experience be enough to help provide germany second biggest football club. but first analysts in france and here in germany they're sounding the alarm of the new government being formed in italy

that's right they fear the new coalition made up of two populist parties will go back home if least commitments to debt and threaten eurozone stability the two parties the nationalist leader and the anti establishment five star movement come one step closer to throw off the nominating a prime minister. this 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 to it during our election campaign. we will respect everybody who put. some 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 costly campaign promises such as tax cuts early retirement and 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. now all that talk about debts and plans to free a billions of euros the tax cuts and welfare of the coalition agreement why has that analysts so worried well let's just have a look at how deep in the red internee really is and has a figure for you italian debt already stands at two point three trillion euros let's put that into a pan european perspective that italian debt debt makes up almost one quarter of the total debt of all eurozone countries combined for any state when you consider that the country only makes up to fifteen percent of the euro zone's total economic output now that's brandi w.'s band heda who is covering this story for us from rome

bound italy's finances are as we've seen pretty much a shambles petitions in france germany are worried that the new government will rip up italy's commitment to europe on debt will it. but you rating agencies are already warning that italy is a risk for the whole of the eurozone and if it will even not able to grow over its stead or to serve as its stead then it would plunge the eurozone and the banking sector in europe into a deep crisis because italy is heavily indebted with their job and banks is french bangs was banks all over europe and of course with the european central bank so that's this is really a risk of the euro zone and the commission in brussels reminded today than you could actually in italy that they should regard this risk and the onset was swift and blunt they said just basically shut up we don't care we will do our own things

and maybe we will not you know all the commitments we have and then we will see what happens the new government is very euro skeptic of the currency the common currency is seen as a kind of a rope through. on the neck of italy keeping down is a leader and this is really this attitude is a risk for the whole of you of the euro zone now there's debt on the on that one hand but are there any other issues that can put this government on a on a collision course with brussels. where the several issues let's mentioned migration for example the leg of the legal ones to push out as many americans us possible and the you is trying to him out and you deal on the doubling rules on the asylum procedures in europe this is now the stalled june vote for seen as a date to find

a solution that is not possible any longer and on the economic side the u.s. also trying to negotiate a new budget for the years twenty twenty one to twenty twenty seven and italy is now saying we are paying too much italy is a net pay in this budget pays about to two billion euros a year but the. cristela movement has already said that is too much we want our money back basically even like my maggots just said in the eighty's and this would be a very interesting negotiation to come and see how that plays out italy of cause is a key player in europe and has to play its role in it if it doesn't then europe has really a problem talk about having a problem can this new government deliver on its promise to roll back austerity and at the same time saying within the deficit spending by law is mandated by brussels . this is the big question also here in italy because the the wishlist

of this coalition treaty is very long it sums up to one hundred billion euros in the next five years if you have to pay the pensions if you have a tax cut if you have no social benefit programs and it changes then it says the road. is cut some expenses somewhere around thirty billion but they don't say where are they going to lend thirty billion of fresh money and this would also add to the deficit and would put the fiscal policies of italy oh it's into disarray with the european. standard so it's very difficult to see how they would do that it would be as small miracle if they can do that thing that in rome thank you very much for this is it. and that's all your business today is one the one year anniversary of a rather tragic attacks of me think again have all people in the northern english city of manchester are marking the first anniversary of a terrorist attack at

a concert by u.s. singer ariana grande some twenty two people were killed and hundreds injured when a twenty two year old briton of libyan descent blew himself up as fans were leaving the venue prince william and prime minister theresa may will join survivors and the families of victims at a remembrance service at manchester cathedral today the debt for young concert goers as well as parents picking up their children one year on t.w. met up with a friend of one of the victims twenty nine year old martin had. with a penchant for typing. and then it became clear. on our side of it was the bar i. think. and i became very ill the sloth. martin head was just twenty nine when he lost his life inside manchester arena. you know it's really grow really love play. out.

person. that's my favorite picture of here. 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 there was absolutely no. 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. who to fear love bearing the attention. it was thought in the spotlight with wanted him for.

the oscar. it's with unity and passion that manchester is choosing to remember it's dead a mark of the resilience of a city shaken by tragedy. and will be following the commemoration of the manchester attack your indy w. thought the day. now more allegations of sexual abuse have surfaced in the world of u.s. sports olympic swimmer arianna kook or smith has now suit usa swimming alleging the organization failed to protect her and later covered up the abuse course smith

alleges the assistant coach of the two thousand and eight olympic team sean hutchison sexually abused her over more than five years she added she was inspired by victims who came forward to confront larry nasser the former u.s. gymnastics team doctor hutchison denies the allegations and has not been charged with a crime. well the worst kept secret in german football is out lucy and father has been appointed as the new coach on a two year deal the experienced swiss manager is leaving french club nice to return to the bundesliga but he has a big challenge on his hands at one of europe's best supported sides. fiver is the man darkman fans hope can revive their club after good start to the season one slid into a real crisis and repeat to wash she had to go in december impetus to go was brought in to try to fix things in the end dortmund narrowly managed to secure a champions league spot in the bundesliga but it was far from elegant now five has

been tasked with putting the former european champions back on the right track he already has been a sea of experience having managed to berlin and. where he turned things around. with five at the home the one for merely being relegated to the champions league playoffs within four years. after a bad run though five are suddenly resigned in september two thousand and fifteen and later joined nice where he impressed the sixty year old has long been linked with a dominant job and will be presented in july and things are bound to get interesting father is known to be a real perfectionist so dominant players will have to improve hugely on last season and he has a reputation for making his offensive players incredibly efficient another characteristic government will need if they want to challenge for big honors next term. all right we just have time for a minder of the top stories that we're following here on d w a group of foreign

journalists has arrived in north korea to witness the destruction of pyongyang's nuclear test site it's being billed as a goodwill gesture by kim jong il and ahead of an historic summit with the u.s. but critics say it is a largely symbolic act. and a facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg is set to face a grilling from the e.u. lawmakers in brussels today they want to know how data from millions of facebook users were leaked to a political consultancy employed by donald trump. you're watching t.v. news follow us on twitter for the latest after t w news will be right back here at the top of the hour. to. move.

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