this is d.w. news live from berlin it's late on the brink of a radical new government the country's president meets likely a new prime minister just 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. lava from hawaii's chloé over a volcano closes in on the geothermal power plant and raising fears of toxic gas emissions that could prompt a mass evacuation. on one of america's literary jobs philip roth dies at the

age of eighty five and these works explore the tragedy and comedy of the jewish american experience we look back at the life of the pulitzer prize winning author. i'm still gail welcome to the program. is presently holding talks with italy's president as he tries to convince president that he can lead the government but the country is the controversial choice for prime minister it's at least to offer this party is the far right leader of the anti establishment five star movement a little known lawyer and political novice he's also facing accusations of having embellished his academic record. d.w. corresponded banta regas is following the latest developments from its place capital welcome bat i well can you tell us about the meeting going on in the palace

behind you. is that the country still in the current al palace the seat of. the president of the retelling republic this is the most important job interview of his life i would say and such about that the president is asking him of course are you fit for this job because he's a non politician he's a university professor and he has to bring together. an extreme populist right wing party the league and also a populist protest movement. and the question is is he up to his job and the both parties want an anti-establishment government and untie e.u. government and thai authority government and he everything government if you can say so and they have a long wish list is that qantas has now to fulfill and the question is can he do that many experts say it will he will stay on for most of the backs in one year and

then we will have new elections in italy so given the doubts around the mr mr contest abilities does the president actually have to offer him the job. whether here he can refuse to approve mr condit but in practical terms of contrail leave because this was considered a constitutional crisis missed some of the rhetoric and check if mr condit is acting constitutionally that mr condit has the right approach to this but he is not for example proving his says records all his c.v. and he contradict him on political terms this is not his job and those coalition partners want mr conti and he has. a majority in both houses of parliament they could vote. the defense will be next week and so much that i can do anything although he indicated that he's not very happy about the choice ok so as well as

all these criticisms i was the country stands today accused of embellishing academic record. yet of us much. noise about this in the italian media after it came out that mr condit may have studied in new york paris and london that's the said in and over the c.v. that mr condit did not say anything about this you just wait at the crowds and he arrives here and the italian public is not very concerned about this because in italy you have to know that it's very common you know to brush up your c.v. a little bit and so i don't think that the president or rather be considered this as a hindrance for approving him so if this strange coalition of fall left and far right does form a government briefly what what sort of changes are italians likely to say. where they can expect a huge tax reform a tax cut it's flat taxes they can expect hot stands against migration

but they can also expect opposition from the e.u. from france and germany also issued warning that italy has to abide by the rules and this is they're still in for a fight in europe. bent riggers in the 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 turned 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 a dangerous health risk. officials in sri lanka say heavy rains and landslides of killed at least nine people and displaced around a thousand authorities are asking people to take precaution more thunderstorms are forecast hundreds of police and soldiers have been deployed to carry out rescue and

relief work. dramatic pictures of emerged of the moment a sinkhole swallowed cars in china the incident happened early on saturday in the eastern city of hangzhou a state media say it followed heavy rain and this repair work was being undertaken on drainpipes nearby. germany's chancellor leaves today for talks with the chinese government. say europe and china grapple with increasing u.s. protectionism and washington's withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal however despite the current common difficulties relations between beijing are still complicated. 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 and mackel 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 that you 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 that 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 if there are no illusions in berlin that beijing can ever become the kind of ally washington will always be. but. when we talk to china we are aware that we face a partner whose values a political model are far from what we perceive to be right the civil society is unable to articulate itself as it can in north america and europe so talks at a totally different level of content and what it it 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 pandas that balances to which on loan and not a gift those new common interests may not be here to stay. now krupa

foreign journalists is all route to north korea's remote nuclear test sites to witness it being dismantled north and south of nab resolve their differences so the group will include south korean reporters after boarding buses in the north korean city of travel for twenty hours to the test site deep in the mountains of the country's interior. is to train the decommissioning as a gesture of goodwill ahead of a planned subjects with the united states. the white house on a guard strutting their stuff on tuesday but will they get to attend the plans jeanne 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. 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 a different. if the summit is cancelled 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 can make peace without forcing kim jong un into a corner whichever political party or group we belong to. how can one o'clock see the tongue of haydn's i certainly feel this time that's different from the past that there is

a center change and so i really hope it goes well that but at some point i have doubts about the results and whether q has good intentions or not talk to me and so . 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. or forces in the u.s. state of hawaii are moving to protect a geothermal power plant as a killer way a volcano continues to erupt lava has entered on this now stored on the facilities property and there are fears that lava flows could mix with the chemicals on site to produce hazardous gases. 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 install we're going to see increased activity potentially higher fountains more close. among the risks people face who are also flying rocks. see what i mean donna muller and her family have decided to leave it's just too dangerous. it shows me the power of the power of our earth. 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 for the lungs of skin and eyes. a number of roads are blocked including evacuation routes larva 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. german prosecutors have charged three former german football federation officials with tax evasion in connection with the country's successful bid to host the two thousand and six world cup former presidents volved nears back and tails fans or the former general secretary hall's trades are accused of hiding the real source of a payment of six point seven million euros to the football's world governing body favor the payment was declared as an operating expense but investigators believe it was actually a repayment of a load made three years ago three years previous. so the world cup holder rising committee chief runs back about three by denying charges. and one of america's greatest writers for the brothas died was eighty five years old his work to push literary and social boundaries with explorations of sex death and

assimilation and they won every major u.s. literary award including the puget surprise 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 destiny 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 that is roth was the author of more than thirty novels and short story collections spanning seven decades his 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 a strong as it was his 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. but visiting with your business updates in just a moment i'll be back on the top of the hour. to learn german with. any time any place. with or with jo jo and her friends. it's going to give. mr spitzer some sort of see.