bridge. the truck to see reports starting june eleventh on g.w. . it's lay on the brink of a radical new government for a country's president to meet some likely new prime minister to use every contact for talks but will this little known political novice be able to lead a government of diverging extremes we'll bring you the latest from rome also on the program. the aftermath of america's latest school massacre texas debates gun control but the lone star state has little appetite for change. and one of america's literary giants philip roth's dies at the age of eighty five his works

explore the tragedy and comedy the jewish american experience we look back at the life of the poor it's a prize winning novelist. i'm phil carré and welcome to the program. has just arrived at the office of italy's president for talks he is the controversial choice for prime minister of its least two populist party is the far right league and the anti establishment five star movement a little known lawyer and political novice he's also facing accusations of having embellished his academic record. let's get more from the t.w. correspondent bant rica to joins us from its nice capital from welcome back and what do we know about they sat meeting that's going on behind you. now the long awaited meeting between the president of the state to. and candidate for prime

ministership is still ongoing behind me in the criminal career in the palace the seat of the state president some lots of media of course have gathered here lots of by stand as it to italian voters and also tourists who have watching history in the making because this be billed be the first all populist government in italy and does that the country even have a very difficult task to do be his to form a government with a populist movement and right wing is extreme poverty and the judgment that i love it of course all skin how will he do that and if he has enough support from the parties and also contests to answer questions he has he the clout all the stuff to govern he never held public office he was a university professor from law he's leading to what's been teaching cristela but if he didn't say a word he just gave very shy it to the cameras so given all these patent troll

backs to them and who they want as prime minister does the president actually have to give him the job is there another option. well in theory yes because he said you know that i love the president has the right to to to nominate the prime minister but in practical terms he doesn't have a choice because the man is chosen by the two coalition parties he has a majority in the parliament he can you know take it a little bit longer and to appoint some ministers he'd like there's a role about the finance minister at the kind of that but he cannot. really avoid nominating. mr condit today. and as well as all the rest of it does what is all the rest of the controller said today we learned that the this would be prime minister is accused of embellishing his academic record yes that's

true that was a lot of hype in the media in the last two days because obviously the content stated that the vote was studying or working at several universities in europe and in america and these universities couldn't find any records of his being there. but the condor didn't clarify what that's all about and the party said it was just it's just just complained by the media fake news and said you must read it doesn't take this into consideration he's not looking on c.v.s. his spokesperson said he's just looking at the person and italy maybe it's a little custom to over do you do your c.v. a little bit this is not so unusual and people don't cast so much about this but really gets in row thank you. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world a court in india has halted the expansion of

a copper smelting plant as protests against it against it turn violent at least eleven people have been killed in two days of demonstrations demanding the closure of the site in tamil nadu activists and residents say that emissions from the plant dangerous health risk. officials in sri lanka say heavy rains a landslide difficult at least nine people displaced around a thousand authorities are asking people to take precautions as more thunderstorms are forecast hundreds of police and soldiers have been deployed to carry out rescue and relief work. dramatic pictures have emerged of the moment a sinkhole swallowed cars in china the incident happened early on saturday in the eastern state of hunger a state media say it followed heavy rain and this repair work was taking place on train pipes near by she. a group of foreign journalists all route to north korea's a remote nuclear test site to witness it being dismantled north and north and south

of now resolve their differences so the group will now include south korean reporters after boarding buses in the north korean city of they'll travel for twenty hours to the poor jean-marie test site deep in the mountains of the country's interior. just patrolling the decommissioning as a gesture of goodwill head of a planned summit with the united states. the white house on a guard strutting 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 it might not happen tops the agenda when donald trump posted his south korean counterpart moon jay in the two discussed efforts to convince pyongyang to denuclearize and accept a lasting 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.

and 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'll happen later maybe different. if the summit is canceled this newly minted memorial korean 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 are we can make peace without forcing kim jong un into a corner whichever political party or group we belong to you know more the more we did our house sitting there getting on their god city it's home got highlands i certainly feel this time that's different from the past that there is a center change going on and so i really hope it goes well but at some point i have doubts about the results and whether kim jong un has good intentions or not talks

in youngstown and what they're. 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. germany's chancellor leaves today for talks with the chinese government i'm going to trip comes as europe and china grapple with increasing u.s. protectionism and washington's withdraw from the iran nuclear deal however despite the common current common difficult his relations between berlin and beijing remain notoriously complex. relations between china and germany are nowhere near as fluffy as spacings representatives at berlin zoo 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 broad she machall close at the fact that merkel made her china trip the subject of her weekly podcast highlights beijing's importance in such testing time is he not sure that germany accepts the rules of the w t o nevertheless will 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 the 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. cino when we talk about china we are aware that we face a partner whose values a political model from what we perceive to be right civil society is unable to articulate itself as it can in north america and europe so talks about a totally different level of compared to under the quite heated 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 pound of the berlin suit which on loan and not a gift those new common interests may not be here to stay. but report from v.w. chief political editor. who joins me now welcome so what does germany want from china

well first of all germany wants reassurance that free trade is really what china is in for we've heard those pledges from siege and ping also various public conferences where you stated that china would become the new temptin of free trade in the world of course with the backdrop of the u.s. withdrawing being much more interesting bilateral deals but the actual business that's being done does rather different languages german companies complain of tight restrictions of having to find co-investors if they want to launch a company in china and at the same time they're consensus here in germany that china is on a spending spree to buy up and snatch up know how here in europe in germany and that's something of an imbalance that the german chancellor is always pressed to raise when she visits ageing ok so none of that is new so that just sort of forms

that the backdrop of of the of the trip yes i mean there's no issues that have been raised time and time again the has been a certain amount of progress we've actually seen germany become more cautious in allowing tiny's companies to invest here at this. same time is china giving slight bit of ground particularly when it comes to companies there but the mood amongst german companies has been a survey recently put isn't particularly good now one has to bear in mind that china is the most important trading partner for germany and it's the second largest a common economy in the world and this of course is where u.s. president donald trump starts coming in he's the president of the largest economy we're talking big business here and we're talking at the same time geo strategic interests and to bring all that to together both germany and china both have been specific targets of donald trump's trade anger could you see the two countries coordinating the approach towards the united states i think that is kind of

unlikely i think that they will most likely reassure themselves that in principle they're in favor of free trade now the e.u. currently enjoys an exemption from those threatened steel and other minium tariffs we've seen the chinese actually reach some kind of deal with the united states the details are still to be fleshed out in terms of avoiding punitive. payments there really but there is the big bigger overarching concern here in europe that if the two largest economies engage in a fight in a trade war that the tough where this will be fought could be the european union and this is where germany's business interests would certainly be hit profoundly with both of those largest markets potentially waging an economic a trade war on each other germany it can only lose if it comes to something like that jerk germany china also of course the signatures to the iran nuclear deal.

interests i mean more aligned than just wanting to see the deal stay alive well actually wanted to see that deal life is a major interest for two reasons first of all this deal with of or. was the largest diplomatic success really in preventing nuclear proliferation historically it was also seen as a potential roadmap to potential future deals now the united states backtracking out of that has created a lot of insecurity in the world why should north korea's leader of believe in any kind of such steel if this can be dropped at any point in time which is exactly what the united states are doing and china has no interest of an escalation on the korean peninsula right at its doorstep so that was seen as a potential way ahead to resolving that conflict there was an initial success with escalation to deescalate that conflict that seems to be pretty much up in the air again so there is a lot to lose on both sides there's

a lot of common interests but still when it comes to values when it comes to how a society is run the traditional is and remains washington that's what you hear from all the experts here you know here for you. zoom in has more on china's trade dispute with the us which is shaking global financial markets thank you phil equities are tanking today investors not too sure the china u.s. trade war is over on the one hand reports of chinese state grain stockpile that has returned to the u.s. soybean market beijing is preparing to preview purchases after 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 slashing tariffs on oro imports from twenty five to fifteen percent and german car makers are wasting time in muscling their way into the world's biggest auto market b.m.w.

is looking at lowering its prices considering it won't have to pay so much in judy's audi as well and the american economy could tesla says its model x. will cost fourteen thousand dollars less. and raring is setting by for us in singapore on this story is trump slowly beginning to realize that maybe he didn't get quite such a good deal after all. that quite the first reaction he is posting and it is worrying a lot of investors in the markets he's concerned me the with the structure of the deal that said he did show optimism seeing that things are moving along nicely with the negotiations with china but it's not as simple as it looks bear in mind there's still the east sanctions that is proving to be quite the delicate issue and his administration is advising against settling for issues juicy deal.

in favor of a long term one with bit of benefits for the ball is already rolling and i guess we'll soon see a whole lot of wealthy chinese driving around in more german cars. you might see that china has confirmed that it will lower tariffs on imported passenger cars from twenty five percent to fifteen percent that is quite a big drop this is a relief of course the chinese consumers as well as comey because of the consumers have thus far only had access to high end sedans and s.u.v.s which given the technology that these cars have carry a very high price tag equals a high tariff. germany and japanese come because exactly re joyce seeing at this good news it will mean that it has now a new market to end with the military driving in singapore for us thank you very much but your bank could be eliminating up to ten thousand jobs in an effort to

reduce costs reports say one in every ten employees facing the chop is cuts likely to extend into twenty nineteen new c.e.o. chris and saving as previously said the bank is giving back its presence in the us market place more focus on europe the loss making than was expected to announce the measures ahead of its actual general meeting which takes place thursday. and joining us from deutsche bank headquarters in frankfurt general duma launches on the stock exchange but it's the same city you know tell us about all these bankers out of work and what shareholders think about and usually they like job cuts. well remember that this really is the first shareholders benefit now benefit now the job cuts are there for the new c.e.o. to be able to show that he has what it takes to be able to take the tough decisions needed to steer deutsche bank a back to profitability as such dortch of bank shares jumped on the news although

they've since gone back down but how they really feel about this move will be made plain tomorrow during that shareholders meeting that you mentioned for now it's worth bearing in mind that one of the key reasons that his predecessor john cry and had to go last month was because shareholders were dissatisfied at the pace and the depth of the restructure i made three last banking years for deutsche bank so in the last years a signs of an excess in the last weeks rather signs of an accelerated restructure had been accumulating for example deutsche bank announced that it would be moving to smaller offices in new york that it would be shutting down its oil and gas consulting outfit in euston several senior level executives have also left the bank in the last week indicating that something big was on the horizon you know didn't know where the reported cuts are going to be is going to be the you way. well the reporting so far seems to indicate that the cuts will be everywhere and

all the regions where deutsche bank operates across all levels of the operation so retail banking investment banking assets asset management it's a subsidiary of post a bank it's also it's already working on cutting its activities on u.s. equities but it's also started to reduce operations elsewhere like in central europe africa and the middle east so the supervisory board is apparently getting together tonight in order to consult on these plans and these targets with the results being presented tomorrow at that shareholders meeting where i will also be monitoring the developments as they unfold ok i will be going over to you live thank you very much. they're all those crossed the board cuts. to the soaring trade in illegal animal trophies it's thanks to the internet you can forget any progress conservationists thought they were making the demand is there and your purchase of an exotic parrot or some rhino horns 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 week 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 counterfeit 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. i talked to an author of the report of a bombing numbers or but i asked if the illegal trade in wildlife is not only affecting biodiversity but if it's a threat to our existence to. it is and the unlined trait isn't significant part of the global wildlife trait and this trait fuels the poaching and fuels of the 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. to another heated debate over gun control in the us phil thank you. in the state of

texas holding a special session on the gun violence this follows last friday's mass shooting at a high school in santa fe despite the latest fatalities has little chance of serious reform however unlike the push for stricter gun control that followed the florida school shooting three months ago friends and families of the santa fe victims are largely opposed to gun control. an increasingly common scene in the united states makeshift memorials for victims of a nasa shooting this time at santa fe high school in texas. 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 have the

quick answers for this i don't know that anybody does knowing our town probably not they think the way they are. a lot of things just need to be seen for the bigger picture than what it is and not these political reasonings that all these people keep bringing about these guns. doesn't have a. person. no other developed country in the world comes close to the levels of gun violence in the united states but many in santa fe believe it's not gun 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 family. how can march for

a lives how can people who agree with governor form reach conservative unities in a way that doesn't offend them it isn't you know that it speaks to them. it's the unanswered question that has so many students traumatized and others fearing that they won't live to see graduation. now one of america's greatest writers for the prof has died he was eighty five years old for the rough push literary and social boundaries with his explorations of sex death and assimilation and he won every major u.s. literary award including the pulitzer prize reclusive and often reluctant to give interviews philip roth was known for his provocative and uncompromising novels about the american jewish experience there's a certain or dastardly in writing books without the audacity of 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 such as it 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 by strong his addresses a life of men 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 claim and controversy were inseparable he insisted writing should expose and not sanitize the human experience. it's time to remind you of our top stories at this hour italy's likely new prime minister is currently in talks with the country's president just becomes a is expected to be confirmed as the leader of the new government the coalition of

populist potus the five star movement on the leak. so to get you could all get d.w. news on the go just download out from google cloud for me copplestone battle give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news that also use it to send us photos i'm for the . i said show up today to have more for you at the top of the top of the day.

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a few. conflicts close to sixty minutes p.w. followed. global inequality. what does inequality mean. well. the road to the media. joining the discussion and how you're. going to balance a global media forum turns eighteen. but looking for the whitehall playground at stake you know about the election about who is your favorite team like. electability battling to bring them out to turkey to europe to college to the entire country championing free and fair and for the last sixty years. for mines.

i've always wanted kids they can be so cute they can also be terrors that's my sister and me a long time ago fast forward a few decades and i'm getting a little old to be making babies fast and married to a man that doesn't make it easy but it's possible here in germany still no matter the hurdles the costs can be.