this is the dubliners life from poland its only ushers in a new government the country's president. takes his approval to become prime minister 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 confronting china's human rights record as germany's chancellor sets off for talks in beijing activists pile the pressure on i'm going to america to meet with imprisoned with. love from hawaii's caraway a volcano closes in on

a geothermal power plant raising raising fears of toxic gas emissions that could prompt a mass evacuation. of one of america's literary giants philip roth first aged eighty five his works explore the tragedy and comedy the jewish american experience we look back at the life of the field it's a prize winning novelist. welcome to the program. president has approved the appointment of just become the country's next prime minister a little known noir and political novice he's a controversial choice he's also facing accusations of embellishing his academic record it's a content was put forward for the post by it's nice to make populist potus the far right leak and the anti stablish went five star movement during his acceptance

speech he vowed to form a government of change that he said he was aware that he needed to on a european and international commitments. let's get the latest from rome then with they don't get correspondent to bad rigorous welcome back and so the president has not said yes what happens now. the new prime minister already gave a short statement and the palace after the talks behind me he promised to lead the government of real change as he said real change for the people he wants to be a kind of a defense lawyer for the people and to be a lawyer is that what he knows to do and he says he will also cause all obligations italy has in the european union and even on of the european the italian constitution. and then he went away to move into pallets of kiki the seat of the prime minister and the two parties also reacted to this approval.

the leader of the cristela the protest party said this is a real revolution a historic day and vini the head of the league of the right wing right extreme party said of cause mr condit will act independently because he's not a member of either party but he said we have the majority of the two parties in the house in the two houses of parliament so of course mr condit has to do what the two parties want and the president's decision does not need to be ratified by parliament. there will be a vote of confidence next week in the italian parliament but it's quite sure that mr conne to believe in these votes has a broad majority in the house of representatives and a slim majority in the senate but those parties the league and the movimento promised to organize this approval and then mr condit can start to put

together his list of minutes this is still not decided specially the minister of finance is still there still a fight about him the candidate for the mistress of own a is a. die hard euro enemy if you want he always says the euro the currency is bad he should get rid of it so it's not clear if this really is the right choice for finance minister . but a tennis ball that about this this prime minister with no political experience and whom few italian voters have heard of. but he is he used to be a professor in the florins and he was lecturing the law he's a specialist in the administration and he's also a specialist in bailing out failing companies so that might help him also to reorganize italy has a long wish this on his pay from both parties one tax cuts one more social benefit

or want to spend more and also to get rid of austerity they have made many promises to their constituencies and now this may be very difficult you know to to get this in motion and italian politics used to be a punt of shocks and mr condit is just a little fish ben really gets in a row thank you. now the five star movement and the lead both ran fiercely anti immigrant immigration election campaigns now foreign as an excellent starting to wonder about that prospect they snooped government. how mudroom is learning italian through games like this one origin only from mali he comes to this school in eastern rome four times a week along with other migrants and refugees but that might change is the new italian government has its way. you know. students are definitely

aware that something has changed here people are starting to give them strange looks are they getting a first hand experience of the shift in italian politics. the head of the right wing populist league party. wants to push through a hardline anti immigrant agenda italy's next interior minister he and coalition partner luigi de ma you're from the five star party want to deport half a million migrants as part of their agreement but experts say that might not succeed. they will try to do things but i don't think they will be able to do really effective things the common basis of this part is is these idea that they are both. parties. i do not expect. a very long long time incorporate. after months of uncertainty there's

a sense of relief among the general population polls suggest six in ten italians are ready to welcome a populist coalition government. that we've had very little substantive progress in politics over the last few years i hope this alliance if you can call it that will make a positive difference. also most tension that i feeling nervous about this. we're taking a big risk. on kevin o'donnell. i think change is good italians have had enough of traditional politics and we haven't got much to show fours. and we don't yeah. but many refugees in italy like to come out to and from mali have reason to feel uneasy no. i think it's crazy that they actually want to send us back i can't believe i've been hearing

about this since i got here it's just insane. man shuffle. that's why people in classrooms like this one on the edge of rome hope the new government won't accomplish all it set out to do at least when it comes to migration. i will just take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world court in india has halted the expansion of a copper smelting plant as protests against it became 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 are a dangerous health risk. officials in sri lanka say heavy rains a lot slides have killed at least nine people and displaced around a thousand of these are asking people to. precautions as more thunderstorms are forecast interest 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 hungary state media say followed heavy rain as repair work was being undertaken on that nearby drainpipes germany's chancellor leaves today for talks with the chinese government i get a medical strip clubs as europe and china grapple with increasing u.s. protecting him and washington's withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal however despite their current common difficulties relations between berlin and beijing are still complicated. relations between china and germany are nowhere near as fluffy as spacings representatives at berlin zoon 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 closer 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 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 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 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 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 are totally different level of complete under the credit after more than a decade in office machall has learned how much germany needs good relations with china and that those usually come with strings attached so just like the pandas that palin suit which on loan and not a gift those new common interests may not be here to stay. or as chancellor

merkel heads for china activists are calling on her to pressure beijing over its human rights record chinese dissidents want her to meet prominent political prisoners like unusual as she's the widow of china's first nobel prize winner a pro-democracy campaign. one of his closest friends has been speaking out ahead of the chancellor's visit if it is the worst if she isn't released soon. 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 her condition has worsened a friend has released extracts from a race and fun call not. remember we're going to.

embed lin 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 see is no sense and continuing to be a lawyer. she. weighs only. you has been kept prisoner in a home for nearly a year is 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 to. like when she witnessed a court try and jail her brother for fraud. it's about me

why did the authorities do it some of them they want to break one leg and then the other but i'm determined not to be afraid. bill enright at liao says his friend broke with the death of the husband for much of their marriage luzhin and lou szabo 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 was devastated her husband meant everything to her. they used to write one another. love had nothing to do with politics.

after that last year the chinese government packed up flu shot to the provinces for 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 why she is and seek treatment somewhere else. regularly via skype one of the very few contacts she's permitted. he believes her best hope now is immigration to germany she's been repeatedly promised she'll be allowed to come but nothing has happened so now he's plaiting with angela merkel to

take up blue skies in china. for nice then she could perhaps visit. 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 you. for decades. husbands greatest champion but a campaign with inviting he was never afraid now supporters worry that lose. become a symbol of the fight of those who speak out against the chinese communist party. i did i did send questions about case to china's embassy here in berlin so far they

have not responded so i mean it's all forces of previously said that her rights are protected in accordance with chinese law. this is d.w. news life from birth and still to come the destructive power of hawaii's volcano now power plant is in the largest path prompting fears of an environmental disaster . that a winter is here with more and more big changes at doesn't go by without something falling off for years and they've got a new plan every single month or now they have a new c.e.o. so he's sticking his all in it seems germany's biggest lender looks set to slash ten thousand jobs in an effort to reduce costs reports say one in every ten families is facing the chop with cuts likely to extend to twenty nineteen new c.e.o. christian saving has previously said the bank is scaling back its present presence in the u.s. market and will place more focus on europe that was making vendors expected to

announce the measures ahead of its annual general meeting on thursday. and monitoring the developments at deutsche this week for us is our financial correspondent john l. de mello on in frankfurt. well the reporting so far seems to indicate that the cuts will be everywhere and all the regions where dortch operates across all levels of the operation so retail banking investment banking assets management at its subsidiary of post the 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. u.s. president donald trump shocked america with plans to roll back banking regulations

and now congress has approved a bill to dismantle pockets of the post financial crisis legislation but large lenders will have to continue as before. the u.s. congress voted to roll back dog frank rules is a big win for the small and midsized banks who have more freedom and less bureaucracy big banks with more than two hundred fifty billion dollars in assets will still be subject to the post financial crisis regulation. until now banks with more than fifty billion dollars in assets was subject to strict financial rules. these included higher capital requirements more protection for consumers and stress tests measuring banks ability to survive a major economic downturn proponents say loosening restraints on banks will boost lending and spoke growth critics say it could lead to the next financial crisis. a crisis is voted for now in

a surprising emergency meeting the turkish central bank has heights one of its key interest rates around thirteen percent to sixteen and a half the step was taken to bolster the lira which had plunged to historic lows against the u.s. dollar earlier today the measure showed an immediate effect of turkish currency gaining more than two percent after the announcement. now it's back to fill in that unstoppable volcano in hawaii phil yes it is in the u.s. state of hawaii are moving to protect a geothermal power plant as a killer whale a volcano continues to erupt lava has entered and is now stalled on the facilities property and there are fears that lava flows could mix with the chemicals on site to produce houses 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 here 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 god and the power of. love 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 belongs 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. our job as national football team is arriving in northern italy for training ahead of the world cup in russia or stop all of the twenty seven players in iraq and professional squad will be there by the weekend but for fans hoping to meet their favorite players they're in for a bit of a letdown. world champions bus approached as several hundred germany fans cheered their team on. the trip to northern italy and waited for hours to greet the stars at their hotel but the bus didn't stop for them. get it safety first and if they came out they would be too much commotion too few told to shut up is that i'm kind of disappointed not to see any players but maybe

one or two will come out later. i was. in the end they didn't the team remained inside the team manager did make an appearance but only for journalists. that it's finally starting it's at hand and you can get to work otherwise it's all in theory and now we can come together and try to evoke team spirit concentrate and do detail or. buy in munich players still have a few days off after their loss in the german cup final on the manuel neuer is here and working on his comeback not all fans believe he can do it. let's see how manuel neuer fares in the next few days here and then we'll see if it'll be neuer or to stay. playing a couple of friendly's we'll see how it goes for neuer. noir or test agan it's not the only question the coach will have to answer behind these walls he has less than

two weeks to decide on his final squad. let's go through that final squad that well it's a final you know the sort of seven final semi final sort of squad you know i'll be he does he's popular with us from sports let us go through the latest happenings from the the derby camp. he's got to still got a couple weeks to decide on his final final squad. decision it certainly is i mean at the end of the day let's not forget like you said earlier it is twenty seven players have been included in this provisional squad yes to whittle it down to twenty three so he has to get rid of four players. june the fourth which is when the final squad has to be announced and that of course is to team that will travel to russia for the world cup finals which will begin on the fourteenth of june now he has twenty field players probably will be included along with three goalkeepers and there's a lot of talk in the media about who will and who won't be travelling and about

twenty seven others obviously the typical sort of names which are going to be included i'm going to list them all but the ones who does a lot of talk that perhaps they won't make the cut is the p.s.g. keeper kevin trapp defenders nicholas and jonathan. uncuffed forward of neil's pictures and now this is what's being said of course what happens is one day when they all come together and they're getting ready for the world cup what they need to do is prove their worth so sometimes there can be a little bit of a surprise because somebody who has been consistent throughout the season perhaps isn't so isn't shining so bright when they get together a national team so interesting times over the next couple of weeks that's for sure we heard in the reports manuel neuer is everyone's asking about about the munich goalkeeper what are his chances but we're like well undoubtedly manuel neuer is one of the best goalkeepers on the planet but of course let's not forget that he's barely played this season fact he hasn't really played at all because back in september he injured himself and broke his foot when i was

a fracture hairline fracture and kept him out. all season and he was included in bar munich's squad for the german cup final but he didn't actually play and this is somebody who is so important to the team so it'll be interesting to see whether he is included if he is included and it is what's being said that he probably will be he might just take sort of a secondary role as he won't be the main goalkeeper and we may see him appear later in the tournament that is a possibility the first world cup game isn't for more than three weeks we got lined up we're going to very busy couple of weeks like we've seen there now in northern italy and they're going to be there until basically at the start of june on june the second playing a friendly against austria in cliveden fourth that's in austria and then on the seventh of june they will be leaving at the northern italian time that they're based in the be come back to germany for another friendly against in laver koos and a few days later they'll be flying from frankfurt to moscow and the team comp and

then of course let's not forget that their first game will be on the seventeenth of june against mexico it's going to be a very exciting clash makes it very much a public. now german prosecutors have charged three former german football federation officials with tax evasion this is in connection with the country's successful bid to host the two thousand and six world cup a former presidents of both god not near as bad as fans they go on to form a general secretary post schmidt are accused of hiding the real purpose of a payment of six point seven million euros the football's world governing body fee for the payment was declared as an operating expense but investigators believe it was actually the repayment of a loan made three years earlier the world cup organizing committee chief fronts back about three men deny the charges. this is date of leaving his life still to come to us literally yet giant philip roth has died aged eighty five his work

sings with portnoy's complaint and american pastoral will reflect on the life and works on this film it's a prize winning novelist this is the death toll in this. blessing . and a curse the force of nature and an inescapable state. monsoons the tropical downpours that shaping life in india are the soul of the subcontinent the source of life and cause of enormous destruction. in foodies like double. hijacking the news. where i come from the news is being hijacked journalism itself has become a scripted reality show it's not just good versus evil us versus them black

and white. in countries like russia china turkey people are told this and if you're a journalist there and you try to give. you know on that you are facing scare tactics intimidation. and i wonder is that we were heading as well. my responsibility as a journalist is to get beyond the smoke and mirrors it's not just about being clear and balanced or being neutral it's about being. funny. and i work in. good politics for the white house. the ground is shaking the books who is your favorite to. bring them.

to the entire country the champion of free insurance for the last sixty years. for mines. this is news live from the. top story this hour the president has approved giuseppi called saints become the country's new prime minister and a relative newcomer to the company will head. off a five star movement and the lead. a group of foreign journalists is on route to north korea's remote nuclear test site to witness it being dismantled north and south of result differences so the group will now include south korean reporters after boarding buses in the north korean city of. travel for twenty hours to the point ged test site in the mountains of the country's interior. decommissioned

suggestion of goodwill had a plan summit with the united states. the white house on. tuesday but with a. singapore between the u.s. . president or 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 il saying he needs it to guarantee his political longevity well we're moving on 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

it will happen it is different. if the summit is cancelled 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 king john into a corner whichever political party or group we belong to. anyone it was sitting here talking about heightens i certainly feel this time that's different from the past that there is a center change 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. 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. a chocolate covered marshmallow

is at the center of a rout of a racism in germany the company involved a super dick tweeted this picture i had of meghan marco's marriage to prince harry at the weekend the confectionary company deleted the tweet and apologize to users denounced it and accused them of racism german commentators and media outlets meanwhile also being criticised for their coverage of the wedding for focusing on meghan marcos african american ethnicity. and more from political correspondent thomas sparrow welcome thomas tell us more about these allegations of racism amongst t.v. journalists while we're talking specifically fail about germany's public broadcast d.f. and its coverage of the royal wedding at the weekend and certain comments specifically on social media by the us who believe that that focus that you mentioned that focus on meghan markle zx african american ethnicity was inappropriate or in some cases

even racist said the f that said that it took us concerns very seriously however this has become important in particular because as a public broadcaster it is funded directly by taxpayers and as such many in germany expect its standards to be very rigorous so that's the reason why this has become a big debate here in germany and what are they said to have done well comments that were published during the coverage of the royal wedding i'm not going to repeat all those comments but according to viewers those comments were particularly inappropriate is resident a big problem in germany. well it is indeed and indeed it has indeed become bigger problem in recent months in recent years or at least a more visible problem and that is something i've done an authority are certainly trying to deal with were you talking about violence against certain refugees or

perceived raisina rise in anti semitism and has been described those are all issues that german authorities are trying to deal with for example with a commission for anti semitism or against anti-semitism or spending to raise diversity in germany those are all issues that are certainly very important here in germany at least for german authorities as well tom aspire thank you. both with the first german city to introduce a diesel baton let's get more from that new winter oh really really early so i thought that go there you say the better when you can stay there let me finish telling you about this deal about this is to be introduced because of high air pollution first of next week all the diesels various models that do not meet the so called the euro six emission standards we forbade them from driving in certain sections of to service last year dozens of german cities were found to have

exceeded emissions limits several other cities are now considering similar about this. now it's time for daniel winter and he's going to talk to you about kenya going to extreme measures to ban plastic bags i talked enough about diesel gates i can understand why you can associate that with me phil but this time something completely different while the e.u. is still trying to convince europeans gently to reduce their use of plastic bags the items have long been banned out right in some african countries in kenya manufacturers shops and customers caught using we're distributing plastic bags can face high penalties including a prison sentence. now you keep macquarie watts is an environmental inspect every day on the streets of nairobi it's had job to make sure nobody is using plastic bags out there protect what is happening. even though we can circumstances and

without it percent but. if we are maybe giving ourselves maybe about three hours to grieve the last three two months ago she found a pile of plastic bags and this meat market ten bitches were arrested as a result once a month they chose does away with. it to be a good friend so well i. know we are friends and we're going to know and this is compounds who's going. to fall back on even the trees which choked up the plastic bags cows what i just in the waste and dying. the shock could last almost fifty of. the situation improved their view of plastic bags the food used to be covered by plastic bags and now it is a lot to go you know. shops like these used to hand their customers over one hundred million pastika bags every year today people use sustainable bags for that

purchases but not everybody a base the local ny oki macquarie controls a company that makes plastic packaging strict rules apply here as well. it was like binding can now put that flavor you know about the food you have beyond that which reveals that the back and go. oh that into a i that was you know finding that bad that i know people will take you to court. the thing can have to be like drugs make your phone with cocaine or it's utterly legal to have p.c. to kenya breaking the law all comes at a cost. with fines of up to thirty thousand euros or four years imprisonment and the manager of the offending company taken into custody it's a big price to pay that kenya hopes it will help them be rid of plastic waste for good. now to the soaring trade in illegal animal trophies it's thanks to the

internet you can forget any progress that conservationists thought they were making the demand is digital and your purchase of an exotic parrot or some rhino horn is just a click away around one hundred fifty years ago africa was home to millions of rhinos and allison's 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 internets. staff of 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. and earlier we talked to an author of the report on the alarming numbers or but class asking if the illegal trade in wildlife is not only affecting biodiversity but it's a threat to our existence to. it is the online trade isn't significant part of the global wildlife trade and this trait fueled the poaching and fueled city mont for exotic animals such

a big snake spot parrots are. reptiles and. demand for products such as ivory so the online trade is the digital threat for the city and for the survival of many many parts of species. and that's it for your business and have you back to film going to the congo thank you so much done. these are children branded as witches and cast out of their families and communities and this fate is heartbreakingly widespread in some areas of sub-saharan africa our children's home in congo is doing what it can to heal the physical and psychological wounds. pencey is a therapist she asks clary's to draw a picture. clarice was accused by her family of practicing sorcery

and being a witch. the therapist asks who's that. and she answers the person who burnt me who should be burned to. the therapist says it's a sign of great progress that call reese can express her thought. the have been rejected by the community. the attitudes the self it for physical violence and all the years be a very small children. we need to regain confidence in two people. close reese was blamed for all her family's misfortunes and torture as a result. she still has painful wounds where molten plastic was dropped on her legs her mother was unable to protect her. curries now lives in bukavu in the east of the democratic republic of congo a region devastated by decades of armed conflict families have been torn apart many

people are traumatized. here traditional religious beliefs are blended with catholicism. this is a facility run by the church where girls accused of being witches find shelter and support. they've created a play about their ordeal. a father comes home from the war with a child from another woman his wife rejects the girl then she's branded a witch that's what happened to alice who plays the part of the wife. as one of one of our parents should not accuse their children of such things they should look after them love them and listen to them. i give them alice makes a shocking statement. she says i think i really am a witch because my aunt had an accident and died. two days tries to comfort alice and says she's there to help her many more therapists are needed in

eastern congo. the war came to use those customs to reinforce was in was the situation of remember especially in children in. the suburbs the whole community can become very poor. leads people to believe in which. at this church run home the girls live together like the family they help out with household chores alice does the washing clothes reese cleaned the floor. together they can share a love that was missing from their families. what's chinese for big brother well residents of a wrong chang on the country's east coast might have the answer but they can pass in a rather radical social experiment in which their every move is watched by surveillance

cameras are awarded the points for good behavior but they're also ducted for bad behavior the best performing residents social and economic rewards. at first glance wrong chang on china's east coast looks like a tranquil idea liks seaside city but a closer look reveals a cluster of surveillance cameras at almost every corner wrong showing has become a model city for a vast social experiment that could soon transform the country city or thora t's use a point system to score citizen behavior those who help their parents and sing patriotic songs gain points their commended in public and get easy access to loans and jobs but people who commit traffic violations lose points and could be banned from traveling by train or plane in front of the cameras wrong chang citizens are all smiles washington and sammy all tell you how unique i think there are only good people here now and far fewer bad ones. that's how it should be right.

i don't want to live in echo tech society. and i want honest people to suffer. that's why i think people who are dishonest and untrustworthy should be punished by the state. it's fitting that the name of the place where citizens are observed and rated translates to integrity square the points are added up in this round glass office. those who enter may not know their point status but they need a certificate to buy a flat or register at a school in wrong change. the state council wants to make life difficult for those who misbehave. could this social experiment be expanded to all one point four billion chinese thanks to artificial intelligence and data harvesting near total surveillance is now possible at this cross walk in beijing those who disobey the

traffic light i shamed on a large screen. i don't know where this data goes. if it's not used for commercial purposes but only by the police and it's ok. so where is china heading maybe this man can tell us here donald trump is speaking fluent mandarin thanks to artificial intelligence putting words in his mouth. you know this company can read your lips i fly tech scans telephone calls in real time and can recognize every voice i question for their spokesman are they working for the state. these poor no i actually i do not know the details but it's on your website your website says you're collaborating with public security ministry yes we have we have department using ai technology and speech acknowledge e two for public security issues in one district of wrong chiang the

old style neighborly snitching is still in operation i notice board with citizens reporting on each other the authorities don't want to talk about it. elsewhere wrong chang marches on towards a new level of surveillance. american all the philip roth has died at the age of eighty five the grandson of jewish immigrants here thirty books robin there from the culture desk is welcome robin one of america's greatest yeah without a doubt i think a giant of american literature indeed he may have his critics this is kind of bound to happen because of the way he wrote forcefully he wrote very explicitly about subjects which certainly divide opinion about sex about death about politics. so he was bad people as well as other people finding him

a literary genius really i mean this was the nature of his writing he wrote a great american novel so i would say i mean a good. sample is american pastoral which is the book the one in the pulitzer prize is the story of a sort of classic successful american family on the surface but underneath lots of things are going on and it's all set against the social upheaval that happened in the nine hundred sixty s. in america it's just one example let's hear more about the man himself who is quite a private. 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 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 my strong his interest is the 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. now we saw in the report him talking about writing about men and their experience sometimes he was accused of being a massage and yes he was and as he said his subject was very much men and women

were portrayed and i quote from he said i sometimes portrayed the most vicious but alluring in his books i mean when he won the man booker prize by the way comic khaleel one of the jury members actually resigned because she was didn't like his portrayal of women in his books i think it's a bit unfair because he didn't want to as they said in the reports he didn't want to sanitize anything and he wrote sort of pretty brutally generally what is well documented in his real life is his marriage and divorce from the actress clear blue not mean she wrote a very scathing memoir about him after they divorced now perhaps that's a bit of a mistake to write a memoir when you've got a novelist as an ex-husband because of course he replied a couple of years later and wrote a book called i married a communist which isn't where i'm but and he sort of portrayed her rather nastily in that book. obviously not using her real name. being the great american novelist

of course some of his books were made into hollywood movies yet they were indeed i mean his bestseller portnoy's complaint is about and again i quote a lost written mother addicted young jewish bachelor which seems a great fit but unlike the book it wasn't successful at all his starring richard benjamin incidentally. another this is year mcgregor who directed and starred in american pastoral just two years ago and twenty sixteen so about daddy's perfect little go on the surface but in fact she. brought up in the american dream with dad but in fact she'd be a terrorist as she is blowing up a post office. and finally the human stain a film made back in two thousand and three the story of a white man with a secret which is actually that he's an afro american anthony hopkins and nicole kidman starred despite these big stars being in it none of those films were told

successful box office so philip roth wrote great american novel but they didn't integrate american film they say he wouldn't he wouldn't have written the screenplay he'll just take the money and said a few go that said he did win pretty much every every major award except the one yeah that's true about booker grudged evolve the pulitzer he won every american literary award but he didn't win the nobel prize but he was so often on the sort of short list that everybody was expecting to but he joins a list of people like marcel proust james joyce who also has been the no doubt here he's receiving an award for national humanities from president obama in twenty eleven. perhaps we will give him the nobel prize or they will give him the nobel prize perhaps next year posts to mostly because this year they have been awarded one. to anybody because of problems that as we know about but in fact next year

they're going to award two i don't think they've ever awarded one post you mostly perhaps next year will be on the other hand in the current political climate perhaps not. more on the website absolutely at the w. dot com slash culture robin we thank you. for many parents dread the day when their grown up offspring finally fly the coop or not so for one new york couple who were forced to take legal measures to get their thirty year old son to leave home a new york state supreme court judge ordered michael tondo to vacate his childhood bedroom after repeatedly ignoring please we parents to move out he says he will appeal the decision. let me remind you of our top stories at this hour it's always president has approved giuseppe content to become the country's new prime minister

a relative newcomer to politics see him had a populist coalition of the five star movement on the lead. germany's chancellor angela merkel is having to china for talks to trade the iran nuclear deal or expects to feature high on the agenda in function the activists want the chance of that to pressure the chinese government overreach human rights record. that she's just been hearing the american the writer for the roughest died at age eighty five portnoy's complaint of american pastoral has been hailed as one of the world's greatest novelists especially for his take on the jewish american experience. to check up today there you'll have a more top off each hour and that long there is of course always the web site that's the new book called. i'm going to.

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