this as you know we do is live from berlin can you hold the fort to italy's stop gap prime minister pro story the economist carlo carter rarely is appointed head of a caretaker government by the italian president after a populist party's grip to form a government collapses all have the latest from world also coming up here on to the rescue an undocumented immigrant saves the life of a young boy in paris the french president personally sinking the twenty two year old for his astonishing rescue after he goes viral his bravery earns him french

citizenship and a job plus the saving the world or at least the european union from plastic plans for getting major change in the block banning a whole range of products that would cut the twenty six million tons of plastic waste that you generate every year. and while abroad great to have you along everyone italy's new character taker prime minister has promised to do all he can to steer the country out of its political crisis the president of italy asked carlo a call to rally to form a government after the collapse of what would have been italy's first populist administration really doesn't plan to stay in office for a long he's promised new elections by the beginning of next year lee has been without government since march. this is the man with

a mandate to form italy's interim government a moderate and former official at the international monetary fund he is a firm believer in the european union and the single currency. of the north a dialogue with europe to defend our interests is essential we can do better than we did in the past but it has to be a constructive dialogue for the acknowledging that as a founding member our continuous participation in the euro zone remains essential. after the coalition parties put forward a staunch euro skeptic as their economy and finance minister the president pulled the emergency brake rejecting the formation of a new government. it's the establishment versus the new kids on the block an italian politics. the president trying to keep it away what he considers to be change of his populist policies leaders of the coalition parties in turn accuse the

political old guard of acting autocratically. it seems anyone who has criticized the euro or europe is considered to be no good as a minister. if this is the case we have a big problem in italy. it's called democracy this is not a free democracy. the league in five star parties had spent days drawing up a coalition pact aimed at ending a stalemate following inconclusive elections in march. their agenda is to tear up the political rulebook but they may have gone too far shoppers in rome seem to side with the president. i'm absolutely pro european and i believe that italy is connected and must have a connection reviewer for future. at

a certain point the president who looks after the constitution sees that things are moving in a direction that he doesn't want in my opinion he simply applied the constitution. some took the political turmoil with the sense of humor you know laugh at prosecutor coup it's the same old minister but we are totally and so it's normal we managed to get by so viva italia. if conoco to really is confirmed by a majority in parliament he will plan for new elections next year if he fails to go near enough support italians could be heading to the polls again much sooner. well let carlo carli faces an uphill battle and correspondent is a covering developments from rome good to see you as seema occur look at that only it wants to reassure the markets and the e.u. that italy's position in the euro zone is not in question but does he have the

backing of the government. well what he has to do now is to present a list of ministers to the president which it's likely that he will approve of the list probably it's going to contain many technocrats an academic's and then yes to present his program to the lower house of parliament as well as to the senate for a vote of confidence now at the moment it would appear that he doesn't have the numbers in order to get that vote of confidence to move forward and to rule all the way till the end of this year and so it is very likely that there will be fresh elections after all those as he has already said he for him for his part has said that he has no plans to run in any elections but you can imagine that the populist parties the anti establishment five star movement as well as the far right eat party both of whom have a few reus with what the president has done in vetoing their choice of the finance

minister or i seem to that point let's talk a little bit about the role that the president has played in all this there been calls for the president's impeachment the two your skeptic parties trying to form a coalition government say they are being cheated out of their mandate i mean that it begs the question isn't the president's position at least simply ceremonial is he allowed to play such a significant role. well he does have a meaning the ceremonial role but he is in control of certain things and he's well within his constitutional right to a polls of particular minister and it's not all that unprecedented it has been done on a few occasions in the past as well by other presidents and so that's what he's done these eat believes that this finance minister that they put forward is a euro skeptic and he doesn't believe that italians and the savings of italians see under such a figure and so he's rejected it indefinitely into the populist parties have stepped down put aside their bid to form

a government and so you have this situation right now some believe perhaps the league party has decided to take this as a tactical move because in this way they can blame everything on the establishment's forces on the e.u. on the ratings agencies and said they wanted to do their part in forming a government and will decline and so you have a situation right now we expect fresh elections all right sima group were pouring from rome thank you and now to paris where the heroic efforts of an undocumented immigrant from mali have earned him a fast track to french citizenship without missing a beat twenty two year old mahmoud who were some of climbed up an apartment block and plucked a child dangling from a balcony to safety well now the bravery of the real life spiderman has been honored by none other than the french president. with no thought for his own safety mamadou kasama begins to scale the facade of this apartment building in paris above

him and shell dangles from a ledge and a neighbor looks on helplessly unable to reach the little boy using his hands feet and sheer determination to get some of whose unself from balcony to balcony. within a minute the migrant from mali has reached and saved the four year old boy who was crying and had to ingest food. french media claim the boy's father is being detained for parental neglect no wonder kasam has been compared to the fictional hearer spite of and and now he's been personally thanked and on it by french president and you're michael. so i came out and i saw a child on the fourth or fifth floor i didn't think about myself a tool. i ran across the road to save him. although some i was said to be living illegally in france he's to be given french citizenship and he's been awarded for his courage was some of the i'm very happy is

the first time ever the go anything like this before so thank you he will go along with you. back outside the apartment a neighbour's com belief dishonest bravery. has not yet because it was impressive it's not something that you see every day and that's why people were impressed he said when he came from far away to rescue someone who comes from him. but was also in the neighborhood it's something that makes us very happy. and to make the most of his climbing and rescuing skills to some is also landed himself the job to working with the fine brigade. now for parents it's the stuff of nightmares for more on the care of the day to w.'s lisa luis a joins me now from the french capital paris his actions there could be compared to those of a garden angel he was right there at the right moment but is it true that not everybody welcomed the honor bestowed by the president on memory ducasse sama.

well obviously he's being criticized because iran and al kong one hand he says we need to on of this person and give him french nationality but on the other hand at the same time the government is pushing through a very very tough immigration no law that will shorten delays for immigrants to apply for asylum and also increase the time that can be put into custody before being pushed out of the country so he's been criticized for that because it looks like he's trying to steal the limelight from this hero whereas in general he will not be around the same owner obviously to all the other immigrants who are hoping to have a future in france right that's actually a very good point that you're making there because i mean this is a great story where the great outcome and we don't want to take away or for anything from the horrific acts actions that took place but it begs the question is

it do immigrants now have to perform heroic acts to secure a residency permit or citizenship in france absolutely you could very you're very right to ask that question and many people here are wondering that especially as this president is actually tightening the grip on migrants a lot more than his predecessor on the socialist president and for example police apparently you know we are hearing reports from colorado where migrants are waiting to get through to the u.k. so that can't even actually during the night to sleep sleep as a whole night's sleep because police is to are taking away at that tends and that's leaping back so it seems like at this attitude is to say the least a little bit hypocritical. do we know how the child is doing very briefly. apparently he's doing very well you know with the foster family and the government all rob the prosecutors looking into his father's situation if that was actually

a one off situation or if the child should rather stay with his foster family because the parents or the father from whom we have heard so far and can't really care for him aren't thankfully he's our right to use the so he's reporting from the french capital paris thank you. our i want to bring you up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world. colombia is headed for a runoff presidential election in june after no candidate secured fifty percent of the votes needed in sunday's ballot conservative first place even duke a will face off against leftist former fark rebel gustava petro u.k. has vowed to rewrite his country's peace deal with the rebels saying it was too lenient u.s. authorities have declared a state of emergency in parts of maryland after communities where hit by severe

flash floods in elliot city the water carried away cars and engulfed homes and businesses one man is still missing since the second major flood to hit the area in two years malaysian officials have seized over eight tons of crystal meth the largest seizure of the drug in the country's history all the hall was disguised as tea and shipped in a container for me and maher it's been valued at age eighteen million dollars six people have been arrested. brazil's government has cut the price of diesel in response to a weeklong strike by truck drivers that has paralyzed the economy truckers barricaded hundreds of roads in protest at rising fuel prices the strike action has led to nationwide fuel and food shortages. all right want to take you back to our top story italy in limbo ben how worried are markets about the e.u. states well the eurozone start largest economy i would say very the volatility is

all italy's political stalemate is nearing three months striving financial markets mad they cheered on the president's refusal to appoint a euro skeptic to finance minister you'd think naming an economist could already to lead the country until new elections would be to set a bit even further. there was relief among traders in milan when markets opened the leading italian share index leapt by one point eight percent the euro saw an upswing too after all a new government dominated by euro and germany skeptics could have seen italy step out of the euro zone but now watch who will end up governing italy this uncertainty made indexes slide again over the course of the day. whatever. the markets don't know who will end up governing italy or more likely there will be a temporary technical government but we don't know for how long we've had many of

them a very in length but the markets need just one thing certainty. new elections won't be called before the fall and whoever wins has a heap of challenges ahead italy is two point three trillion euros in debt that's the equivalent of one hundred thirty two percent of its g.d.p. should the european central bank and its low interest rate policy italy would face higher interest payments which could lead to financial collapse unemployment is at around ten point two percent but in areas like calabria sicily and sardinia youth unemployment is over fifty percent. labor market reforms are only slowly being implemented and several governments have already proved unable to get a handle on the vast state debt the latest from frankfurt over to a financial correspondent conrad booze and conrad three months of political uncertainty and we could have another three months ahead of us that's something

that the buckets just love. only if you really love volatility if you really make your money with betting on you know heavy ups and downs swings but serious economists have become more concerned again they predict that all this will have a negative impact on business sentiment in italy that italian companies will likely to spend less and vest less in the upcoming months sure and says by early the man who was appointed to lead this new entering government italy have not done much day to help you know encourage investors let's take a listen to what he had to say today. they used to join me. in the last few days tensions on the financial markets have increased however the italian economy is still growing and public accounts are under control but won't roll if people i can

absolutely assure you that a government led by me would ensure a careful management of our public accounts. which will cover let's see if he can convince markets over the next few months if he stays in power as prime minister designate that that long that is tell me though at the same time what's happening with the e.c.b. how does this all affects the european central bank because it's been buying up a lot of italian bonds. absolutely and the discussion is heating up again whether all this will have an impact on the phasing out of quantitative easing on the end of those bond purchases that the european central bank for now has planned to happen by the end of september many traders here are saying that the e.c.b. cannot proceed as planned of course everyone is aware that it's only needs the support from the central bank the economy has needed it for years and will continue

to do so and there's the contagion risk the risk that investors start losing confidence in other countries of the eurozone because of the fact that they lose confidence in one country in this case italy oh there's another word the markets love conrads not just political uncertainty but contagion thank you very much for your analysis. i can still smell the fumes of the diesel gate disaster it looks like dime has picked up where b.w. left off germany's transport minister has summoned the head of the luxury carmaker to his ministry in berlin to explain new accusations in the emissions cheating scandal. time to post details such as it was hoping to clear the air at the ministry so far his company had managed to keep out of the emissions cheating scandal but last week authorities said they found illegal defeat devices and diesel powered let's say does veto events they already ordered the recall of around five thousand more could follow dima has so far denied any wrongdoing and not much to

add after today's meeting. with a good talk with each other again in fourteen days. by then they would have to clarify the issue with the ministry and also by then it should become clear if the emissions cheating scandal will hit yet another german kamaka. had turkey goes to the polls in four weeks time especially after president rich of tired to one a call snap elections presidential and parliamentary elections a year and a half ahead of schedule ed one is the clear favorite to win the presidential race but he's facing opposition from an alliance of parties that includes the republican people's party known as c h people did it when you spoke to my arm in shade the see a h.p.'s the presidential candidate and one of turkey's fiercest opposition voices the shmuck my focus is on three things first making peace second economic

development and third fair distribution of resources that you own your numbers then to accomplish these things i offer three principles first direction in which direction should return to the european union second what will be the means a marker so you're an individual freedoms and third what will be the administrative structure called the administration won't be based on a one man regime and his operetta chicks but i'm a strong leader with a capable team in charge called ready. well one issue that still sparks controversy in turkey are the gasing park protests that took place five years ago hundreds of thousands of people rallied back then in the streets of istanbul against plans to build over the small greenaway says in the center of the city but as you know we use reports people were concerned about more than just protecting a park i am on taksim square right now in istanbul city center and right

next to the famous d.z. pock this is where it all happened five years ago the mass protests against the edge of tie of our the on back then prime minister and now president and his ruling islamic groups it's a party the area since then has been totally reconstructed so there is not much left that reminds people of these weeks of protest the areas of limits to demonstrators now and there's a lot of police around here twenty four seven trying to make sure similar demonstrations won't happen again but that doesn't mean people are not talking about the gaze the events today especially on this anniversary they do so in private and on social media they share the dio's they share photos they of course remember the people who got killed back then gives a for these people who were part of that movement was about political change about democracy and freedom so memories are still very vivid especially had of the

elections coming up here in turkey in just four weeks time. dobies yulia han reporting there from istanbul and you can find a lot more on our website we talked to artists who were part of the movement some of whom have in the meantime left turkey their story at d w dot com our head now to the european union which is planning to ban a whole range of products made of plastic from color e two straws and q-tips the e.u. generates a staggering twenty six million tons of plastic waste every year and the e.u. commission says it's time that that changed the proposal still need the approval of the european parliament and the individual member states and in the meantime one grocery store in the german city of minds is wasting no time by leading the way. everything you would expect to find in a supermarket but nothing that is packed in plastic. instead customers bring their own containers. this store in the western german city of mine's open three years

ago and since then the customer base has tripled iconically they bring in their own jars they've had to reorganize things a bit and i would say they've evolved and this evolution has happened quickly. this pretty much nothing i'm missing and i've stocked up on everything i need for the next week or two for that in the cove pollution through plastic waste has reached dramatic levels especially in the oceans prompting the european commission to act. a new directive aims to prohibit single use plastic straws plates and cutlery e.u. member states than expected to turn the directive into law but a great part of this initiative is to initiate a discussion about plastic mice that we end up burning most of the plastic that gets returned to us that very little of it actually gets reuse and it's not like we're avoiding using it just the opposite there is more and more plastic it will take years for the new laws to take effect yet time is of the essence experts are afraid that within thirty years there will be more plastic than fish to be found in

the oceans. well power capped a fine weekend for australian waters four by becoming the first australian driver to win the prestigious indy five hundred well after his compatriot said daniel ricardo one formula one's monaco gone pay earlier in the day how repeated the trick in the media. it's the most famous race in the u.s. motor sport attended by fans and celebrities alike australian actor chris hemsworth was on flag to start the indy five hundred an omen of what was to come this legendary oval circuit makes for some high speed action and dramatic crashes while policies are at carpenter and will power behind him kept out of trouble early on tanika patrick didn't. trick the only woman to win an indy car race last control a third of the way through she'd already announced she'd be retiring after this race groundbreaking career sadly ending in a puff of smoke. now

a fairy tale for patrick was at the front power had moved into the least taking advantage when his rivals needed to stop for fuel their straightly and suffer disappointment here in twenty fifteen when he was picked to the weigh in the true to his name he showed well will power to put all that behind him. i was wondering if i would have a winner and thoughts went through my mind during the month of. my career i've had so many wins so many polls that i've always talked about the five hundred and i won an icon i just couldn't imagine winning a race in front of a crowd like this five so power finally getting his hands on the win this race and it wouldn't be the indy five hundred if it wasn't all washed down with the traditional bottle of milk i. now to the fallout from the pools champions league final defeat on saturday has taken

a nasty turn with police in the english city saying they will investigate online death threats against goalkeeper loris carious the german made a huge blunder that led to real madrid opening goal in kiev and then made another big error that brought about the third goal in reals a three one win in kiev kerry is crestfallen by the mistakes apologized tearfully. john i used to fans on the pitch. all right staying with the soccer in germany phase they're under twenty side today as they continue preparations for the world cup at their training base in northern italy well all eyes will be on the performance of goalkeeper monorail neuer who has been out since september with a broken foot midfielder julian there draxler will also be hoping to impress coach for your shin move with a sturdy position in russia next month looking uncertain. before i let you go remind you of our main headlines this hour. pro austerity economist

carlo carli has been asked to lead a caretaker government and italy and follows the collapse of what would have been a country's first a populist administration. oh roic act by an undocumented immigrant saves the life of a young boy in paris and earned him a meeting with president in many ways my call my mood. is also being fast tracked a french citizenship and has been offered a job with the fire brigade. to bring us to the end of this so bulletins thank you so much for spending this part of your day with us so on behalf of all of us we hope to see you again at the top of the hour.

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