this is g.w. news live from berlin italy plunged into political chaos again designated prime minister just happy conti has given up on forming a new government after the italian president rejected the coalition's euro skeptic choice for your ear economy minister we'll have more on that in just a moment. also coming up germany's far right takes to the streets and so do its opponents the anti immigration alternative for germany has staged a rally in the german capital with multiple counter-demonstrations trying to block

its progress through central berlin thousands of police were deployed to keep them apart. and voters in colombia are choosing a new president and a vote that could have an impact on the country's peace process we'll find out what's at stake. and and welcome to the program italy's prime minister designate just that the conti has given up on efforts to form a government after talks with the president over his cabinet collapsed his coalition's pick for finance minister was rejected by a president that alah over fears his views on the euro could have shaken markets hante says his efforts to form a government failed despite his best efforts followed leaders within conti's would be coalition have condemned the president's decision to reject their candidate for

finance minister calling it an unacceptable and unprecedented move. i've listened to a part of what conti told reporters just a short while ago. but as you just heard i have given back the mandate the president gave me on may twenty third to form a government of change. i thank the president for offering me this mandate. of the five star movement and material vinita of the league for nominating me as candidate. i can assure you that i undertook the attempt to fulfill this mandate with the greatest of care and effort and in a climate of mexico incorporation into political parties that nominated me to this post. to talk about what's unfolding this hour did always barber available joins us

from brussels studio barbara what's happened here why was savannah as finance minister so problematic for the italian president. you are so problematic because the president believes that someone a really wanted to lead italy out of the euro sivana is an eighty one year old economist who has turned out to be a rather sort of valiant enemy off the euros throughout the last years and he talked about the euro as a prison that was made by germany and sort of in closing of the countries in this cage of the euro and he was always attacking germany for having being the only country that would profit for a moment and everybody else sort of was pushed down by it and suffering economically so italy would really have to leave the common common currency and that was so strong this trait in him that even though the the two leaders of

the parties involved in the coalition salvini and dimaio had taking out this clause out of the coalition contract much a rather the president believed that italy was on a disastrous course he said in a tweet i needed to save italy he had to save italy and this man savant as you mentioned deeply opposed to the european union and the euro did brussels play any kind of role in getting his nomination overturned. of course not officially however we known for days that there were warnings and when several know was nominated we've heard the french finance ministers we heard several high officials in brussels sort of with warnings and saying don't do that you have to stick to the rules and sort of stay within the framework of the european contracts and don't do anything rash because everybody knows italy is one of the most indebted countries

in the world hundred thirty billion euros public debt and that is such a huge mountain of money that everybody knows that if he would really go rogue it could bring down the whole european union and could bring down the whole euro zone so brussels was quite scared and of course there have been contacts behind the scenes as usually happen in those situations uncertainty there barbara potentially further on certainty to come as new elections has already been talk about what happens next briefly if you can. what happens next is. to the leaders in parliament and they will think about when they can snap how quickly they can have snap elections we also might have a constitutional crisis because the two party leaders. say that much of overreaching but what we have at the moment is a situation of chaos in italy that even full italian conditions really somehow

explodes everything that we have seen before or probable for as they say in italian . correspondent barbara vessel in brussels thank you. germany's far right party took to the streets of berlin earlier today supporters of the anti immigration alternative for germany or f.d.a. gathered for a demonstration they've called a future for germany they showed up in the thousands but counter demonstrators were out in even greater numbers. go away go away they chanted demonstrators marching against the a.f.d. an alliance of political parties labor unions and other groups organized the counter demonstration together they move allies to an estimated twenty five thousand people to take a stand against the right wing populist says it's a good thing that the f.t.c. which pretends it represents the majority sees it doesn't we they came to our

demonstrators are the majority. and they represented a broad cross-section of german society. this. law does well i think people should be taller and. they should accept people the way they are. but it's not don't think it's right to spread hatred which is what the f.t. does. for me this gets against it and i think it's great that there are so many young people i was afraid they might not be as politically active as before this is great but one thing is i think the. police came to debate five thousand a.f.d. supporters. and distaste none of this was the land of our fathers and mothers and we wanted to stay the way they left it for. the. a.f.d. speakers warned against islam i's ation of germany and criticised the government's refugee policies supporters shouted americal must go more yes get out of the year

right now i already feel like foreigners in our own country because we're afraid to go for a walk in the evening it's even arrogant to govern all. words authority can't even be a petri dish anymore and if you say you're proud of your country you get labeled a nazi. the f.d.a. ended its around the with the german national anthem. the counter-demonstrators still don't seem to take new into their day by taking to the streets. and to the officers. i'm now joined by d.w. correspondent thomas farrow who spent the day in the center of berlin monitoring the demonstration thomas you were there what was the main message from these demonstrators they want to differ and germany the demonstrators that i spoke to that if the demonstrators that i that i was told they oppose basically everything

that is happening now in germany whether you're talking about the refugee policy we're talking about integration we're talking about economic policy we're talking about social justice essentially the a fifty of the supporters of the a few that were there today against the way things are being humbled now in germany and that was absolutely evident today that from now we know in september the f.t. pulled in more than twelve percent of the vote just over twelve percent of the vote there were demonstrators there we also cite counter-demonstrators there are more of them is any kind of indication that support for the f.t. is actually waning no it's an indication that the if he represents exactly that around twelve percent of the german population you have the idea of the on the one hand you had a wide variety of other groups on the other hand it was not only cultural groups or clubs you had also politicians political groups so it essentially represents that and it represents obviously another important aspect in my opinion namely that germany is divided that was absolutely clear i was standing to day at one point on

a bridge over billions main river you had in the one hand the a.f.d. demonstrators on the other hand those who were against it and you can you could clearly see it was not only a clash of opinions but it was also a clash of visions of where they want germany to go in the next few years maybe in the next few decades as well did albeit correspondent thomas sparrow thank you for your insight. u.s. officials have reportedly visited north korea for talks on preparing a june summit between u.s. president doll trump and north korean leader kim jong il and that's according to a report in the washington post newspaper the talks come after south korean president in and his north korean counterpart how the surprise summit on saturday their meeting focused on keeping the korean peace process moving after president trump canceled the june summit then signaled it may go ahead after all. voters in colombia are going to the polls today as

a south american nation chooses its next president a key issue for voters is the landmark peace deal colombia's outgoing president signed with marxist fark rebels two years ago right wing candidate ivan do kay says the deal is too lenient on fark he wants to jail former rebels for war crimes leftist candidate gustavo panther on the other hand backs the deal and his party is also not ruling out entering a coalition with sparks a political party the treaty signed in two thousand and sixteen and a conflict that lasted decades and claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. on ophelia the truth is following the story for us from bogota ophelia it's good to see you who is looking like a front runner at the moment. well if you believe the latest polls would probably win today with more than forty percent but that wouldn't be enough to become colombia's next president and that means he would have to face the

second favorite. in the second round of vote on june seventeenth polls also say that if that was to be the case he even duke it would probably win the election but some others expect. to gather those votes of the other center and center left candidates that are also running today and interesting note to add is that for the first time the loser of the second vote of the second round sorry would become would would get a seat in the senate and its vice president candidate would get a seat in congress now the outcome of this result weighs massively on the peace process if ivan duque a wins the presidency how much could this affect the peace process well he has already announced that he wants to make major changes to the peace deal especially regarding punishment to former guerrilla

members which he wants to see in jail or even extradited to the united states but it has to be said that the deal in its current form is safe for at least three periods which means he wouldn't be able to make as many changes as he would like to but what we can expect is that the implementation of the deal would see further slowdown something that has already happened during the last two years we've only seen one third of the agreement implemented one of the six points that were signed and this could even become worse if it was to become president. correspondent of feeling harms a ruthie thank you. the spanish capital is gearing up for one big party as real madrid returns home after their three one win over liverpool in the champions league final defender sergio ramos was put in charge of looking after the trophy some have nicknamed big years and the captain and his team mates are getting to know it well with

a squad packed with superstars including chris downer and although reale have now won the champions league four times in the last five years. and a reminder of the top story we're following for you italy's designated prime minister just i think condi has given up on forming a new government after the italian president rejected the coalition's euro skeptic choice for finance minister. germany's leading far right party alternative for germany has held a rally in central berlin with some five thousand of its supporters turning up provoked thirteen separate counter-demonstrations with some twenty five thousand protesters gathering to block the f.t.'s march in the german capital. to deal with news live from berlin or back at the top of the hour having quite often join us if you can't.

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