these reports are starting to militants d w. w w news line from berlin fresh allegations that chancellor angela merkel knew about problems at the german refugee agency which is under fire after allegations she didn't react to reports of mismanagement and corruption at the agency as it struggles a process as silent applications also coming up. as survivors of the parkland

school shooting prepare to graduate thousands take to the streets in u.s. cities to protest gun violence and call for stricter gun laws through imports from new york. and in football coach your team lives germany team suffers a surprise lost in austria in a pre world cup friendly. and welcome to the program in germany a scandal over the improper handling of asylum requests is threatening to embroil chance langley americal she's now facing allegations she knew about problems at the country's refugee agency since early last year but failed to take action to rectify them a former head of the agency if you're going to this says he twice warned her about major problems within the agency including the heavies trained staff were under

prosecutors are currently investigating claims agency officials in the city of braman accepted bribes to wade through more than one thousand asylum applications. i'm now joined by d.w. political correspondent rupert reader about rupert there are reports that child flying americal knew about the difficulties the refugee agency was facing was the situation here when what we have heard right now is that. knew about the overall situation at the office for migration and refugees but that doesn't mean that she actually knew about what was going on in bremen this is be have to make quite clear here but what we can say is that what was going on at braman was only made possible by the overall situation in the whole office and what funk you advise of the former head and president of this office said or what he must must have said to do that to the german newspaper billet is that he already told on the medical several times

that big problems within the agency problems more or less everybody knew of everybody in germany knew that the agency was more well overwhelmed by the whole refugee issue and by the whole refugee crisis the reason why frank you advise and became president of this office was because the whole agency was unfit to tackle this toxic and he himself sit in one of the reports that. that the office was in such a state none of us and he means all the people who are his partners and allies within the agency none of us would have full possible in the german news due to sion so that means that the whole agency wasn't fit to tackle the tolls of refugees doesn't really mean that the government knew about the bribe allegations brehm now specifically about the allegations embracement he explained is a bit further for our international audience what happened here the office for migration and refugees has several problems in the german states one of them is the

city of raman and in the branch of braman the head of the office for migration refugees. must have more as way fruits several thousand of several hundreds. over thousands of refugee asylum applications and even allegations that she was bribed. that refugees moralists had to pay several hundred euros and that they would be then equipped with false papers and on the half of these false papers that they were granted to sonam in germany this of course is a huge scandal and the scandal has already put much pressure on the government especially on the interior minister holds the wolf of wasn't in office then when this gamble happened but who is in charge of clearing up the whole mess and it's putting quite a lot of pressure on his predecessor too must be museum who's also who was the one who was in charge of the whole refugee crisis interior minister during the last

election period what happens next not just pacifically in brain over for the overall situation with the refugee agency right now we have to discuss discussion in germany if there should be a parliamentary committee on the situation and braman i think the discussion today will put more pressure on the government and on the political parties and parliament to bring forward this parliament very common to right now that was in the majority in parliament for this committee. i think this is going to change well it's quite likely that this is going to change and of course what mean in the end that the opposition would have the opportunity to discuss the refugee policy of anglo machall at large and this is what especially the far right wing parties in parliament especially the a.v. want to do they want to. pull on go in front of some sort of a tribunal and this is going to put much pressure on the government to w.

political correspondent rupert reed of all thank you very much. they're the students who raise their voices after a mash you think killed seventeen people at their florida high school in february now as the senior is that marjorie stoneman douglas high school are such a graduate they're looking ahead to their futures while mourning those who can't do the same and the nationwide movement the survivors inspired for stricter gun control in the united states shows no signs of slowing down thousands rallied across the country on saturday which was national gun awareness day our correspondent alexandra phenomena reports from a march in new york. were among contreras this march is a personal issue together with his friends of over exodus a ninety year old student organized this event mens to address school shootings but also gun violence in communities of color.

supports me because last year i was the freds ago and i you know. when i was in a moment like some people are really needed to be a power people need to hear about this. country and us became active in the wake of the school shooting in parkland florida earlier this year since then more and more students in the u.s. have begun to raise their voices for gun control students like jordan in twenty twelve she survived the shooting at sandy hook elementary school in newtown connecticut. i witnessed one gun violence not just one singular person but for the entire community and the nation and if there's any chance that what we're doing like protesting in marching will save one kid i'll do it. they believe no it's a time to ban assault weapons to strengthen background checks for gun buy enough is enough of their slogan orange is do a color. so far you as lawmakers refused to take meaningful action on the federal

level but activists like ramon contreras say this is just the beginning. this year didn't set out to continue their protests and to make their fight for gun control a voting issue hoping that the mid-term elections in november will show that their movement has staying power. the u.s. is facing widespread criticism for imposing steel and aluminum tariffs on some of its closest allies including canada and the european union critics say the move which was announced this week will undermine trade and weaken confidence in the global economy american officials face the backlash at a gathering of finance ministers from some of the world's largest economies the g seven meeting in canada didn't end on a positive note u.s. treasury secretary stephen miniature was of course part of the cheese seven family photo but he found himself very isolated at the same time he was heavily criticized

for his country's new steel and alum union judi's. that the united states of america have imposed on the european union are not acceptable to everyone familiar with the globally developed rules and regulations governing international trade agrees that they are incompatible and illegal. and that's why they must come to an end. everyone was very clear on this and i think that message was also understood. and it wasn't just tough talk coming from the other g seven nations along with the e.u. kind of the has now also filed a challenge at the world trade organization kind of also announced counter tariffs on other things including yogurt coffee and washing machines. we've taken a targeted and considered approach to retaliation our goal is to convince united states to move back from these tariffs which we don't think are

going to help either of our economies it which are going to actually hurt citizens in the united states citizens in canada. it was fairly clear that all of the nations of the meeting were moving to the b. to the same drone about one. times been tense and tough g seven and i would say to has been far more g six bruce one. just one but the embattled u.s. treasury secretary appeared undeterred by the other nations' complaints all of the threats of brutality or tariffs again our objective is to make sure we have fair and balanced trade and that's really what we're focused on so i look forward to following up on these discussions management says he's already informed his boss president donald trump of the criticism. now to some of the other stories making news around the world police in mali have used tear gas to break up a band opposition rally in the country's capital bamako

a coalition of political parties and their supporters were hoping to march through the city to call for transparency in next month's presidential election several people were taken to hospital as a result of the violence. thousands of jordanians have joined another day of protest against new austerity measures including price hikes and planned tax increases riot police got filled with demonstrators outside the prime minister's office as people demanded his resignation the government has refused to scrap a reform bill backed by the international monetary fund. and football germany faced austria in a friendly match ahead of this month's world cup heavy rain hail and thunderstorms initially delayed kick off but when the referees gave the all clear it was a chance for manual noire to show he was ready for russia. jepson men will neuer

was made to wait to get back in the german goal bad weather delayed the kickoff for nearly two hours delayed start did nothing to do germany's alertness ms it is a power sort of a stick from austria as keeper and put the world champs zero one nil. later in the first half it was neuer who was put to the test his own casual ball came back at him. and later florian british peppered his goal but by and keeper was up to the test. after the break germany's play began to drop a long corner found its way to much of him directly apply an emphatic volley to finish all alone at the far post neuer didn't have a chance it would get worse for the visitors i was on your show scored to make it two one to austria who hadn't beaten germany in more than thirty years. and those now have some decisions to make not least regarding manuel neuer. there are

plenty of other world cup finalists in action last night including germany's first opponent in group after mexico they beat scotland one nil and mexico city thanks to a giovanni both on those goal and other of germany's group rivals sweden drew nil nil with denmark termit dark horses belgium and european champions portugal played out another goal a stalemate and while england beat nigeria two one and iceland the last at home to norway two three and as we just saw there is germany's loss to austria one two it's not often that poetry causes a public debate but a poem written by an acclaimed bolivian swiss writer has done just that students of berlin have called for one of his pieces painted on the side of their school to be removed calling it sexist but the author's adopted hometown in southern germany sees the work differently and offer the palm a new home and now adorns a public building in bavaria. i've been in the us has

a new home the poem by again going on now decorates the facade of the city museum in the german town of heo where the ninety three year old poet lives you could say the poem moved in from berlin forced off its perch on the outside of a high school after students complained that it was sexist and massaging mystic their accusation focused on one line in particular about need us you flotus you my head is you're not made out for an english avenues and flowers and women and then admiring the students feel that the poem reduces women to objects on a list of things men like to look at the high school has promised to paint over the words. y'all yes it bothered me a bit but you know at my age you tend to take such things with a grain of salt there's really nothing new under the sun. to hail city council rally to defend the poem for them it has nothing to do with massage. because

we believe that women here are confident enough to like being at mud we simply can't relate to the debate going on in their lives and. the tensions over public are bound to continue but for now the poem has at least found a wall to welcome that. they're watching d.w. news will have more coming up at the top of the hour and you can get the latest news any time on our website dot com i'm quite often in berlin thanks for watching . my first boss taking mosul sewing machine. i come from women have. something as simple as learning how to write a bicycle isn't. since i was a little girl i wanted to have a bicycle off my body to whom we estimate.