this is the w. news live from berlin a dubai or boyle disappears after an escape attempt on the high seas princess latifa has not been seen for months in a video released after her disappearance she says she was fleeing torture ordered by her father the ruler of dubai we have a special report also coming up on a path of destruction lava from a hawaiian volcano moves in on

a geothermal power plant raising fears of toxic gas emissions that could prompt a mass evacuation. and arsenal have their man spain's emery as the surprise choice to take over at the english club the former said coach has big shoes to fill after our sandbaggers twenty two years in charge. and literary giant philip roth dies at the age of eighty five roth explore the tragedy and comedy of the jewish american experience we look back at the life and works of the pulitzer prize winning novelist. i'm sorry so much comic good to have you with us a missing emma roddy princess a french spy a yacht seized in international waters it has all the hallmarks of a bestselling geo political thriller but this is no novel princess. by disappeared

after she tried to escape her family and her father the ruler of the emirate she had made it to the waters off india before she was apprehended human rights organizations are urging dubai authorities to reveal her whereabouts. reports and you are watching this video it's not such a. thirty two year old. want to flee from her father the ruler of dubai and prime minister off of the united arab emirates shaikh mohammad bin rashid al maktoum. to. teach us friends released this video after she was abducted attempting to escape they want to raise awareness of her disappearance these messages were the last that they ever heard from her the last people to see what he thought were those who helped plan her escape from

a french spy herb's your bear and the friend from finland your him then. some. or i don't have to. fled to dubai in february twenty eighth together with tino they drove to a monster capital muscat and then sailed on a small boat into international waters there as waiting for them on his yacht one son board they sailed for go on in india. after six days at sea they noticed they were being followed their pursuers then board their westfall. we heard some noise. that sounded like gunshots. because very very scared and we looked ourselves to the bus. and soon after their whole campaign started dealing with this we were

basically mix with. men dressed in black. who use our don't. like. they were going to killers later on and i saw let's see following on from that she was repeating that she wanted to see what wanted to get asylum. but they were not listening to her and she said shoot me you're just don't they don't take me back. that was the last time. they claim their wessell was boarded by any ready forces assisted by the indian coast guard but the authorities are not admitting anything. think we have real concerns about the issue of inforce disappearance so to force disappearance is what a government detain somebody and then they refused to confirm that that person is

in detention. seen here skydiving has disappeared without a trace and ready media are keeping silent about her disappearance and anyone who asks questions has risks reprisals. we've got bomb threats i had surveillance outside my home i had people you know coming into the garden banging on the windows anyone who would dare to criticize you eat or you could face arrest could be disappeared. you know the situation there in terms of respect for basic rights respect for the right to free expression free association for use and. it's . lucky for us lawyers have filed a complaint with the united nations in the hopes that it will help free her or. if the teacher is alive and we can get around the magnitude of this women's rights in the whole of the middle east he's groundbreaking. changes about lity for was aiming

for and she wanted to flee to torture and control of her country especially when it comes to women's rights and basic freedoms. that report from date of these paula you still beach's she's with us now to tell us more hi paula thanks for joining us you followed the story closely a lot of people might think this is a princess who might have a privileged life what was it that made her attempt to flee well most importantly she wanted to live a life of her own not restricted by her father and his conservative rules we spoke to her lawyer who said that she couldn't for example just go out with side lay under discards alone she was always chaperoned and this is something that we take for granted while this isn't uncommon in these countries to have such security measures for prince this is what's made latif is life really unbearable within the family is this is what she saw happen to her sister so her sister broke these rules

that were put there by her father she tried to escape and then she was jailed and she was tortured for that for that so far really saw the true face of her father and she wanted to live somewhere else so that's what she tried to do how are you able to confirm that the details of the story about latif are true so we have the witness reports from the people that i spoke to they showed the messages from latif from the time when she was on the boat and also the g.p.s. data from the boat which we verified and it corresponds to her story and also what latif i spoke about in her video she talked about her experiences in the past about the church or in the past so it also gives credibility to the most recent events where do things stand with latif and now is there any hope that she will be freed well her friends have real concerns about her well being since no one has seen of her they think she's probably locked up somewhere in dubai heavily medicated obviously without any access to the outside world but that being said there is

still hope her friends would be doing what they're doing right now if they had lost all hope so there they have been talking to the u.n. this is an organization that has been successful in pressuring hughey to release their detainees. before so there certainly is hope you mentioned her sister she so this has happened before yes exactly even though these cases don't always involve the royal family members such disappearances of government critics in the u.a.e. are quite common as human rights watch has reported on such cases so what is most concerning is that usually these people who are detained they don't stand a chance for a trial or a fair fair trial at least and this is actually a violation of several international treaties. paula you still richard thank you very much for keeping track of that story for us. now to some other news making headlines around the world a court in india has halted the expansion of

a copper smelting plant as protests against it turned violent at least eleven people have been killed in two days of demonstrations demanding the closure of the site and i will not be activists and residents say the plant poses a health risk due to pollution emissions. officials in sri lanka say heavy rains and landslides have killed at least nine people and displaced around a thousand authorities are asking people to take precautions as forecasts suggest thunderstorms are on the way hundreds of police and soldiers have been deployed to carry out rescue operations and relief work and dramatic pictures have emerged of the moment a sinkhole swallowed several cars in china the incident happened early saturday in the eastern city of hungry state media say it occurred following heavy rainfall and as repair work was taking place on drainpipes nearby. a group of foreign journalists are on their way to north korea's remote nuclear test site ahead of the planned dismantling of the facility among them

a team of south korean reporters after the two koreas resolve the diplomatic spat over their attendance reporters boarded buses in the north korean city of one sound from where it will take them around twenty hours to reach the nuclear site young yang is portraying the dismantling as a goodwill gesture ahead of its planned summit with the united states. the white house on a god stretching their stuff on tuesday but will they get to attend the plan's june summit in singapore between the u.s. presidents and north korea's leader concerns that might not happen tops the agenda when donald trump hosted his south korean counterpart in the two discussed efforts to convince pyongyang to denuclearize and accept the last in peace deal but the north has reacted angrily to u.s. demands in recent weeks. it refuses to completely dismantle its nuclear program with kim jong un saying he. needs it to guarantee his political longevity well we're moving on we'll see what happens there are certain conditions that we

want and i think we'll get those conditions and if we don't we don't have the meeting and frankly it has a chance to be a great great meeting for north korea and a great meeting for the world. if it doesn't happen maybe it will happen later maybe it will happen different. if the summit is canceled this newly minted memorial could be the closest trump and kim get to each other at the korean border tourists from the south are hopeful of a face to face meeting. where you can make peace without forcing came from into a corner. of a political party or group we belong to. house sitting on a hug city a tongue of haydn's i certainly feel this time that's different from the past that there is a center change so i really hope it goes well that but at some point i have downs about the result and whether kim jong un has good intentions or not talks in young

. there's no doubting optimism about the summit has hit a roadblock with the historic meeting now looking a bit further off than it once was. authorities in the u.s. state of hawaii are scrambling to protect a geothermal power plant as they kill we have ok no continues to spew lava the fiery flow has entered and is now stalled in the facilities property there are fears that the lava could mix with the chemicals on site to produce hazardous gases and that could prompt a mass evacuation. a spectacular show of nature's force on an island known for its tranquility and beauty more and more fishes have appeared around mount killer whale and the volcanic activity is becoming increasingly intense lava has been bubbling up and forming rivers at several kilometers in length. geologists say more is installed here we're going to see increased activity

potentially higher fountains more flows. among the risks people face who are also flying rocks. see what i mean don a mother and her family have decided to leave it's just too dangerous. it shows me the power of the power of our. lab is also pouring into the pacific ocean setting off a chemical reaction and sending plumes of steam into the sky laced with hydrochloric acid and particles of glass vats very bad belongings of skin and eyes. a number of roads are blocked including evacuation routes lover is also threatening a geothermal power plant that usually generates a quarter of the island's electricity it's had to be closed down. geologists say the volcanic activity around mt killer whale is likely to continue for several

weeks longer. you're watching news still to come the unlikely defenders of free trade germany's angela merkel heads to china to fend off u.s. protectionism and discuss the iran nuclear deal. and then we'll have more on how the u.s. china trade dispute is hitting markets but first then some big changes at door to bank yes this news just in sumi dodge a bank could be eliminating up to ten thousand jobs in an effort to reduce costs reports say one in every ten employees is facing the chop with cuts likely to extend into twenty nineteen you see okas don't see being as previously said the bank is scaling back its presence in the u.s. market and will place more focus on europe the loss making lender is expected to announce the measures ahead of its annual general meeting which takes place on thursday. u.s. president donald trump is eager to sign a bill dismantling a chunk of the rules for banks introduced to help prevent another financial crisis

he tweeted big legislation will be signed by me shortly the changes are significant but they don't apply to the largest lenders. the u.s. congress voted to roll back don't front rules is a big win for small banks major banks with more than two hundred fifty billion dollars in assets we still grain stockpile has returned to the u.s. soybean market a sign beijing is preparing to resume purchases agreeing to buy more from the u.s. to lower its trade surplus on the other hand president donald trump says he's not pleased by the talks with china he's worried about compliance with the weekend deal but china is moving fast it's already announced it will slash tariffs on imports from twenty five percent to fifteen and the german carmakers up wasting time in muscling their way into the world's biggest auto market b.m.w. is looking at lowering its prices considering a board have to pay so much in judy's audi as well and the american economy tesla

says its model x. will cost four teen thousand dollars leds. amber will be the first german city to introduce a diesel bad due to high air pollution from thursday of next week all the diesels that is models that do not meet the so-called your six emissions standards will be forbidden from driving in certain sections of two therof is. thousands of german cities were found to have exceeded emissions limits several other german cities similar bans. one way to produce emissions is to get people out of their cars and into public transportation and ideally that should run on electricity to one polish company is at the forefront of the shift towards green of public transport. here in the polish city of poznan heavy traffic and poor air quality are part of daily life that's prompted authorities to set their sights on electric mobility first stop

public transport one company at the forefront of the industry is so lara's. the buses aren't necessarily one hundred percent clean whether or not they can be described as such depends on the kind of electricity that powers them still they're much greener than their diesel counterparts and many european cities have been investing in them despite their higher cost. so. i wanted to eat buses have an advantage over eight cars. we know the routes how often they operate and what distances are involved. so we can plan accordingly to ensure that it operates like a diesel run password. it's certainly an efficient system but on the downside it's not very flexible and then there's the problem of charging up just as it used to be with mobile phones not all eve buses can use the

same charging equipment despite those challenges there are ready to size indeed buses on the roads in europe one hundred fifty of them come from the celebrity factor in your pas none with the order books full and demand rising the company needs funds in order to expand that has that to develop invest. that we need investors because innovation is expensive. right now we have a huge potential for growth we might not be perfect at what we do but we're good. customers want our busses but we don't have enough money to build as many as they need. she's looking for an investor to take over a majority stake the hope is that this will enable the company to stay ahead of bigger competitors. more and more venezuelans of fleeing poverty in their oil rich country inflation hitting fourteen thousand percent and while you're worthless the

next day with the socialist regime of president having been reelected many observers and opposition officials call the election a sham. it's a riches to rags story ed gary graham a deejay used to be a renowned chef in venezuela sixty five cooks worked for him at a beach resort and he regularly appeared on television as well as crippling economic crisis forced him to move to neighboring colombia where he earns ten dollars a day. people need to rely on the van as well and outside the country who can send something in order to survive. and gary story is not uncommon more than one million venezuelans have left the country in the last two years according to u.n. estimates the country's minimum wage of two dollars a month is now worth close to nothing millions now rely on relatives abroad much

like at gary's mother the money he sends her allows her to buy basic requirements like food. without the remittance i wouldn't be able to buy anything but not every venezuelan has relatives abroad who can help however with the country's hyper inflation then as well as economic and humanitarian crisis looks like it is set to worsen. sunni and delicate mission for beijing that's right band of the german chancellor is set to leave for beijing today for talks with the chinese government her trip comes at a time when both europe and china are grappling with washington's withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal and increasingly less protectionism that could mean berlin and beijing find some common ground the relations between the two are notoriously complex. relations between china and germany are nowhere near as fluffy and spacings representatives. that's despite china's president xi

jinping and german chancellor angela merkel discovering more and more common interests since the g twenty meeting in germany last year. u.s. president donald trump's exit from the iran nuclear deal is only the latest in a series of u.s. policy turnarounds that of machall close the fact that merkel made her china trip the subject of her weekly podcast highlights beijing's importance in such testing time is she not sure the in germany accept the rules of the w t o nevertheless we'll discuss reciprocal trade issues that exist questions of intellectual property and we want to strengthen multilateralism. german industry is almost as worried about chinese efforts to acquire technical know how as it is about trade barriers but only almost we are already in

a trade conflict we don't want this conflict is escalating. one good thing is that it brings us together china and germany china and the european union that we speak together about how can we progress free trade germany hopes that china will use its economic clout to stop the u.s. from further undermining the very free trade it used to stand for it there are no illusions in berlin that beijing can ever become the kind of ally washington will always be. but. when you talk to china we are aware that we face a partner whose values a political model of far from what we perceive to be right civil society is unable to articulate itself as it can in north america and europe so talks at a totally different level are accompted under the credit after more than a decade in office merkel has learned how much germany needs good relations with china and that those usually come with strings attached so just like the panda is

that bell in the soup which on loan and not a gift those new common interests may not be here to stay. chief political editor michel are goofier is in our studios with us are covering the chancellor strip to china michelle or is donald trump pushing berlin into beijing's arms he is partly because all of a sudden particularly since he came to office there's a lot of a lot more common territory than usually could be suspected between china and the european union which of course is responsible for economic policy we saw in ping at this davos conference suddenly pledging free trade global free trade with everybody of course knowing that china is notorious for being rather restrictive on foreign companies entering their own markets but in comparison to donald trump who put america first who says that that means

a lot more bilateral deals and who family believes in a zero sum game meaning that if other countries prosper if china grows very fast if the european union does well if germany does well which has this knowledge trade deficit with the united states that must really be at the expense of the u.s. that the united states then must have done a bad deal so in a way a trump sees these other countries as complicit and that suddenly finds these unlikely allies germany and china seeing a lot more commentary charitra them for so what is that common territory so what does beijing gain for example from trying to save the iran nuclear deal and where does bill lynn stand on those policies well it certainly gains a lot of stability and it gains an iranian market because china too is looking for new markets china also has the economic clout to really engage with iran and a much larger scale than european country companies are likely to do

controls its own companies it controls the investment there so it can still policy through the economy whereas here in germany certainly and in the european union. concern now is with the iran nuclear deal being told p.t.i. from washington and the united states really saying that those companies still engaging with iran will have a very tough time in the united states while the united states is still is the largest global economy depending on how you count as figures china is the second largest and the big fear really is that europe germany could find itself in the middle the iran nuclear deal was living proof that diplomacy can work that it can restrict nuclear proliferation that iran can actually have a credible kind of restriction on its nuclear program and get something in exchange that's going up in smoke really undermines the the credibility of such diplomacy

for the future particular also looking to the korean peninsula where we see the first in this in this saw. steps that trying to achieve by escalating to deescalate and now being really paid to a lot of question marks once again he said it's an unlikely relationship so what are the sticking points they could do rail this deepening of a relationship between germany and china it's unlikely that those relations will really do belive the german chancellor angela merkel is well known for having established a very solid foundation of relationship with china despite this very long running issues particularly about intellectual property chinese companies buying into european german expertise here at the same time one things she wants to avoid is suddenly the europeans and germany with it being trapped in the middle in this potential much larger conflict between those big players china and the u.s.

and it almost makes relations with russia suddenly feel rather straightforward all right a lot of angles to the story did have us political chief political editor michelle akers know with us in our studio thank you michelle. you're watching d.w. still to come on the program driven to despair in the case of chinese poet new shop the widow of activist leah szabo has been under house arrest for eight years without charge now activists are calling for german chancellor merkel to intervene during her visit to china. and u.s. literary giant philip roth's has died at the age of eighty five his parts include portnoy's complaint a complaint an american pastore all over slept on the life and works of the pulitzer prize winning novelist. that's all coming up in the next thirty minutes.

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welcome back you're watching news our top stories at this hour princess dubai has disappeared after a failed escape attempt from her family and her father the ruler of the emirates she had made it to the waters off india before she was seized human rights organizations are urging to reveal her whereabouts. and pulitzer prize winning novelist philip roth has died he was eighty five years old roth was best known for exploring the jewish american experience a novel such as american pastoral and portnoy's complaint. we're turning now to a michael's china trip and activists are calling on the chancellor to pressure beijing over its human rights record chinese dissidents want her to meet a prominent political prisoners like lucia she's the widow of china's first nobel prize winner pro-democracy campaigner lu szabo one of lucia's closest friends has been speaking out ahead of miracles visit she said of lu isn't released soon he fears the worst. driven to

despair this is lucia a poet an artist who can no longer write or draw she's long suffered from depression but now that condition has worsened a friend has released extracts from a race and fun call. we're going to. embed lean we make the man who made that recording exile chinese writer and poet yeah yeah. he's desperately worried about the nobel prize winners we dog. situation is much worse than in the recording she has become completely hysterical . you sees no sense in continuing to be alive.

two thousand. ways only. you has been kept prisoner in a home for nearly ikea's her friend says she's suffering from acute claustrophobia the chinese police erected barricades around her apartment in twenty ten just hours before her husband won the nobel peace prize since she's really been allowed out in public they have been exceptions thought. like when she witnessed a court try and jail her brother for fraud. it's about me why did the authorities do it somehow they want to break one leg and then the all that but i'm determined not to be afraid. bill in right at liao says his friend broke with the death of the husband for much of their marriage luzhin and lose out both sort of a just once a month he was often in jail and later on she was under house arrest.

but suddenly last year the authorities let them see one another every die. by then jabo was suffering from terminal live accounts. when he died. devastated her husband meant everything to her. they used to write one another. hugo love had nothing to do with politics. after that last year the chinese government packed up flu shot to the provinces the nearly three months she was kept isolated as a compound run by the security service that's why she. says leave you with much sick and when she returned to by jing he's calling on china to honor her

husband's last wish and let her go abroad. psychologists have always said that if she's to have any chance of survival. she has to be allowed to leave way she is and seek treatment somewhere else. yeah yeah. regularly via skype one of the very few contacts she's permitted. he believes have best hope now is immigration to germany she's been repeatedly promised to be allowed to come but nothing has happened so now he's plating with angela merkel to take a blue skies in china. merkel concert. for a nice thank you could perhaps visit her home. you is a simple chinese poet who has neither been charged with anything nor found guilty.

the only thing she has done wrong is fall in love with me. for decades was the husband's greatest champion but that campaign was in vain he was never afraid now supporters worry that lucia could soon herself become a further symbol of the fight of those who speak out against the chinese communist party. lawmakers have demanded better data protection and privacy measures from facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg face questioning at the european parliament in brussels in the wake of a massive data scandal at the company but a complex committee process meant second part of a tit answering touchy question even if he made sure to apologize for the social media giants worst failures. lots of fake zuckerberg demonstrating in front of the

european institutions. but inside the parliament not so much the hearing of the facebook c.e.o. was supposed to take place behind closed doors so that gave some the impression that the privacy of mr zuckerberg was more important than the privacy of facebook users but some you parliamentarians fought back and managed to have the hearing that took place right here in this room live streamed. so everyone could see how mark zuckerberg apologized for digital facebook tools causing real world problems once again we haven't done enough to prevent these tools from being used for harm as well and that goes for fake news foreign interference in elections and developers misusing people's information. we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility now is a mistake and i'm sorry for it to the start of an interesting debate not really

the european parliamentarians used up most of the time to ask dozens of questions with zuckerberg sitting there quietly for nearly an hour in the end this questionable procedure worked to his advantage because he got to pick and choose those questions he answered now what we're doing is taking a much more proactive approach rather than waiting for people in the community to flag for us that there may be issues we are going through in investigating ourselves up front all the different apps that had access to a large amount of information but with time many parliamentarians felt like they didn't get the information they wanted i am quite disappointed by his appearance here in the european parliament and i think that his company did the european parliament serious and told him to come but he didn't really took the question serious which we had to pose and i think that he lost a lot of credibility tonight and the ability to also reste or trust with european

consumers in the end the hearing left a bitter aftertaste for the way the european parliament handled it and for the answers it got from zuckerberg. italy looks one step closer to having a new government and prime minister the country's president has summoned to seppi country for talks to see if the law professor is ready for the job condi was nominated to be premier by at least two populist parties the anti-establishment five star in the far right party they're looking to form a coalition government together with conti at the helm but he's an unknown in italy and some a telly answer wondering if the country really is what he claims to be. just that the economy hasn't even taken office but controversy has erupted already the relatively unknown attorney who's supposed to head the new italian government is suspected of embellish in his resume with false qualifications for example he claims to have studied law in new york university but n.y.u.

says he was never unrolled there so what do italians make of him i've never heard of him. i don't know him he's a newcomer but. gravel bit we'll just hope for the best italian presidents or has expressed skepticism about content competence the new prime minister will have to deal with the new populist coalition and its stridently anti e.u. rhetoric. european institutions have been warning italy over the last few days because they fear iran could change its position on existing a huge contracts. italy's national debt already stands at two point three trillion euros that's almost a quarter of the total debt in the eurozone but the coalition says it wants to lower taxes and pay for other campaign promises with new debt still many italians say they're willing to give the new governing coalition a chance. the important thing is that we start to see change because we're pretty

tired of politicians that only think of their own interests if they think about the citizens and the country will be happy but. we need to see the facts in the lead i've been talking for quite a while but see what i do now. we still need to see what happens we need to give them some time and then we'll know more. if the coalition manages to dispel the president's concerns the new government could be sworn in by the end of the week. back to bed now with the soaring trade in illegal animal trophies and guess what it's all thanks to the internet search make you forget any progress the conservationists thought they were making the global demand is there and your purchase of a lethal snake or an exotic parrot is just a click away. around one hundred fifty years ago africa was home to millions of

rhinos and elephants since then their populations have been devastated and now due to a surge in poaching they're facing extinction in the wild national parks have to employ security guards to protect the animals from hunters but they're often too late as in the case of these elephants killed for their ivory tusks ivory's in high demand globally it's used to make religious figurines artworks and jewelry and it's often available on the internet. stuff at the international fund for animal welfare spend weeks surfing through more than one hundred internet portals targeting users in germany france britain and russia they found thousands of offering life wild animals and animal products worth millions of dollars. it takes just a few clicks to purchase rare animals like exotic birds reptiles and primates the legal wildlife trade is estimated to be worth at least nineteen billion u.s. dollars a year when it comes to criminal activity only drugs kind of it products and human

trafficking are more lucrative if the hunting isn't halted in a few years there may be no rhinos or elephants at all left in the wild in africa. let's see if we can prevent that. is an author of the report and joins us from hamburg you've said the illegal trade of wildlife is hard to control what's the hard part. yes indeed that is the big problem that most of the online advertising months have not included any. proving supporting documentation so. to decide if an offer an online offer is actually legal or illegal that is really very challenging. the case is that most of the online advertisements we found have no verifiable proof such as such as for example

a permit issued by authorities which reflects yes this legal is this offer is legally. ok so it's hard to prove if it's if it's legal but i mean you just assume that it's illegal if it's something like rhino hole. no rhino home that is the heart of the truth to buy illegal the problem is that it may happen to buy legal protected species such as a parrot if this animal is for example in a breath in captivity not the precondition is that this breaking has to pass for a time as part of the year for the thirties you have to get permission and if you can prove this then it's possible to buy legally such animals. on line train on the on line train this documentation is very often not attached so it's open if it's

wild caught bird for example or it's a rat in captivity ok what what's being traded a lot of the time is ivory according to your report your welfare organization was set up back in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine what about the education to people actually connect the dots here do they realise when they're buying ivory that it's killing elephants. yes that's hard to understand that still obviously people do not understand every means at that elephant and possibly some people think ok that's an antique term what does that where's the link to poaching but we know i for one know that. when ever there is that offer i very often when ever there is on the market this fuels the demand and in the end this fuels also the poaching on elephantine africa because legal trait still existing in

germany and europe the legal trade and illegal trade are very closely connected and of course we're not just talking about elephants sorry to butt in here but we are talking about the earth's the planet's bio diversity i mean this is a huge threat not only to other animals existence but i guess also to well. it is and the unlined trait is an insignificant part of the global wildlife trait and this trait fueled the poaching and fueled city mont for exotic animals such as big snakes parrots are. reptiles and the demand for oil products such as ivory so the on line trade is an indigenous threat for the buyer he wants a t. for the survival of many many species. class therefore as the report

and author of that report thank you very much for joining us there from hamburg. facticity now and another heated debates this time gun control in the u.s. that's right than a well the lawmakers in texas are holding a special session on gun violence this follows a mass shooting last friday at a high school in santa fe but there's little chance of the lawmakers will agree on any serious reforms unlike those who pushed for stricter gun control after a shooting three months ago in florida the friends and families of the santa fe shooting victims are largely opposed to gun control more now from didn't use clay richardson. an increasingly common scene in the united states makeshift memorials for victims of the mass shooting this time at santa fe high school in texas where. there are prayers for the eight students and two teachers who lost their lives. but amid a nationwide debate over how to stop such massacres this community thinks it's not

about guns and most say stricter controls are off the table. i think right now what i just really want to focus on is it is this this city healing i don't i don't have the quick answers for this i don't know that anybody does knowing our town probably not or they think are going all the way there are. a lot of things just need to be seen for the bigger picture than what it is and not these political reasons that all these people keep bring you know about these guns. because they have a. person those. no other developed country in the world comes close to the levels of gun violence in the united states and many in santa fe believe it's not been legislation but society that's broken texas has some of the most relaxed gun laws in the country but many here don't feel that changing that would help prevent tragedies like the massacre that took place at santa fe high school the response stands in stark contrast to the student led activism that arose after

a shooting in parkland florida but it represents attitudes in many parts of the united states that guns are not the problem. sixteen year old marcel mcclinton is trying to find a way to connect with communities like santa fe he is also a mass shooting survivor two years ago a man opens fire at his church he says sharing that grief is a first step to bridging the divide how can march for a lives how can people who agree with going to reform reach rock conservatives in a way that doesn't offend them it isn't you know that i speak for them. it's the unanswered question that has gone to so many students traumatized and others fearing that they won't live to see graduation. football now and english premier league club arsenal have appointed overnight emery as their new head coach the spaniard replacing are said venner after he stepped down following twenty two years in the role and we have only rushes from the sports

with us and you probably weren't even alive the last time arsenal point to coach i was probably in diapers but yeah that was definitely unusual that when mr at the club so long it was exciting times for the world of football is a big change for arsenal so every support point and rather it comes as somewhat of a surprise actually as just last week reports that former arsenal captain make i take seems certain to take over instead the london club have gone for emery's greater experience he won three europa league titles with sylvia as well as the french league and cup with paris on her mark last season. so what does a night emery bring yeah so he's made a name for himself in europe over the past five years or so he's relatively young and he's obsessed with tactics so much he loves video analysis his former players even complain about that he uses it so much and he was already good in his first ten years as a head coach with smaller spanish sides such as on media but his he really made the headlines with sylvia when he won the europa league three times in a row from twenty fourteen to twenty sixteen no other club has managed to win the competition back to back like that so he brings

a lot of experience but it still comes as somewhat a surprise doesn't it i mean we said that was being considered for this post yet because it's always packed to take over he the former arsenal captain is currently an assistant coach at manchester city under pep guardiola and he knows arsenal inside out so he was kind of the ideal candidate to step in but the thing about macau ted says that he doesn't have experience as a manager and they really wanted to bring someone in it seems that had more international experience and as you can see in the tweet where they announced him they said they specifically wrote head coach and not manager now the thing is emery really is supposed to focus on tactics and making the players perform unlike before wenger and probably attempt to would have also been really involved in the club decision making venture was in the role for twenty two years as we said and this club has stalled in many ways what can fans realistically expect going forward yeah a fresh start a clean slate that's kind of what the club was signalize ing by bringing in emery he's a he's a new guy with no affiliation to the club his new ideas he's supposed to make take

the players to the top of the premier league again all right emily russia covering this story for us from sports thank you very much emily. now with just over three weeks until the start of football's world cup in russia the host nation has received some good news feed by has declared there was insufficient evidence to prove that any anti-doping violation was committed by members of russia's world cup squad german media this week alleged atypical test results have been covered up by russia by following a preexisting probe fifa says no sanctions can be levied a landmark court ruling in february said positive tests were needed before athletes could be punished. now american author philip roth has died in new york at the age of eighty five the grandson of jewish immigrants he wrote more than thirty books in his lifetime robin merrill's here from our culture desk to talk more about philip roth this is one of the great american novelist oh yeah without it one of the johns for american literature i would say he certainly had these critiques but he was

this was bound to happen because he was wrote so fully and explicitly about subjects that divide does if you dark or divided opinion like sex death politics. is bound to upset people as well as amaze others with his the true genius i mean this is the nature of his writing he wrote a great american novel american postural is a good example of this which one of the pulitzer prize. that's the story of successful american family on the surface of the course. which completely falls apart in this whole set of gates a backdrop of social upheaval in america in the nine hundred sixty s. anyway let's find out more about philip roth who was actually quite a private post reclusive and often reluctant to give interviews to the broth was known for his provocative and uncompromising novels about the american jewish experience there's a certain odessa to writing books without the audacity you can't write the books

and perhaps there's even a certain recklessness in writing books. i think the society i live in can live with my recklessness which is that is rob who is the author of more than thirty novels and short story collections spanning seven decades is a work frequently blurred the lines between fiction and memoir and drew on his experience growing up in a jewish family in new jersey many of his protagonists were thinly veiled fergusons of himself my strong as it was his life. and i think my subject has been that. what what what is that what is what it what is the life of a man in my time roth was one of the most highly honored figures in american literature but for him a claimant controversy were inseparable he insisted writing should expose and not sanitize the human experience. you mention he had his detractors and some critics

accuse him of being a massage honest yes yes they did they did and he was just. i think is a big fat because he didn't want to as it didn't want to sanitize anything he was wrote brutally however well documented is his marriage and divorce from the actress claire bloom she wrote a memoir scathing memoir that after the event and then he's the writer he replied by caricaturing hours rather poisonous person in his novel i married a communist. well he won every major award except for one that eluded him tell us more about that yeah he did. it so he won the map man booker he was always on the list of the nobel prize but he never got it but he joins people like james joyce and proust also as they get it here he is actually getting a prize from barack obama the national humanities prize some last pictures actually resort of him because he he didn't meet with the press that sold in the last few

years of his life but there he was in two thousand and eleven they are actually awarding the prize twice next year so that's how she could get it posthumously but i think in this per politically correct world all right celebrating one of the great american novel is philip roth robin merrill from our culture desk thank you very much. you're watching d.w. news a phil gayle will be here with an update on your headlines in just a few minutes.

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