this is news live from berlin fresh allegations that chancellor angela merkel knew about the problems at the german refugee agency the chancellor is under fire after allegations she didn't react to reports that the agency was struggling to process asylum applications also coming up. as survivors of the parklane school shootings prepare to graduate thousands take to the streets in u.s. cities to protest gun violence and call for stricter gun laws the report from new

york. and then football coach go team lives germany teams thought first of the pride long in austria in a previous world cup friendly. be quite often welcome to the program a former head of germany's refugee agency has pointed the finger at chancellor angela merkel frank you're going to says he warned her early last year about major problems and the strain staff were under to handle asylum cases amid vastly increased migrant numbers but he said she and the former interior minister failed to take action this comes as the federal office for migration and refugees faces an internal review after officials at its braman branch were accused of accepting 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 on american 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 we 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 funk you advise of the former head and president of this office said what he must must have said to do that to the german newspaper a bit is that he already told on the medical several times that there are big problems within the agency problems more as 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 from cuban visor became president of this office was because the whole agency wasn't fit to tackle this toxic and he himself said in one of the reports that. that the office was in such a state none of us he means all the people who are his partners and allies within the agency none of us would have full possible in a german news you to sion so that means that the whole agency wasn't fit to tackle the top of refugees doesn't really mean that the government knew about the bribe allegations brehm now specifically about the allegations embracement can you explain this a bit further for our international audience what happened here the office for migration and refugees has several bromst in the german states one of them is the city of raman. and in the branch of braman the head of the broad of the office for migration refugees. must have more as way frew several thousand those several

hundreds. over thousands of refugee asylum applications and even allegations that she was bribed. that refugees more or less just had to pay several hundred euros and that they would be then equipped with false papers. or on the half of these false papers that they were granted asylum in germany this of course is a huge scandal and the scandal has already put so much pressure on the government especially on the interior minister holst zeal for who was 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 thomas de musea who is 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 physically in brain of the overall situation with the refugee agency right now we have a discussion 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 in parliament to bring forward this parliamentary committee 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 this of course would mean in the end that the opposition would have the opportunity to discuss the refugee policy of uncle americal at large and this is what especially the far right wing parties in parliament especially the a if they want to do they want to. pull on the americal in front of some sort of a tribunal and this is going to put much pressure on the government to double your political correspondent rupert redeveloped thank you very much. they're the students who raised their voices after a mass shooting killed seventeen people at their florida high school in february now as the seniors that marjorie stoneman douglas high school are set to graduate

they're looking ahead to their futures all morning those who can't do the same and the nationwide movement to sue the reivers 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 march in new york. who are among contreras this march is a personal issue together with his friends an overactive ist a ninety year old student organized this event amends to address school shootings but also gun violence in communities of color. supports me because last year i was the friends ago and i you know. when i was in a moment it felt like some people are really needed to be a power be when you hear about this. constrain us became active in the wake of the

school shooting in parklane 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 violence does not just one singular person but for the entire community in 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 the time to ban assault weapons to strengthen background checks for gun buy us enough is enough it's their slogan orange is the 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 well under wine 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 mentioned was of course part of the g 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 there also announced counter tariffs on other things including yogurt coffee and washing machines. we've taken a targeted. 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 and what you can actually hurt citizens in the united states citizens in canada. it was fairly clear that all of the nations at the meeting were moving to the beat of the same drone one. has been tense

and tough g seven. and i would say to has been far more g six bruce one. but the embattled u.s. treasury secretary have head undeterred by the other nations complaints all of the threats of her tell a story tariffs this is 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 minucci says he's already informed his boss president donald trump of the criticism. and 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 scuffled 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. a german nationalist politician has sparked controversy after suggesting the nazi era was a mere blip in the country's history alexander golland the cold leader of the anti migration alternative for germany or after he was speaking at a meeting of the party's youth wing politicians from other parties have condemned his remarks. in 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 neuer to show that he was ready for russia. cuts in money will neuer was made to wait to get back in the german goal but the weather delayed kickoff nearly two hours late start did nothing to dull germany's alertness ms it was ill posed on the mistake from austria's keeper to pick the world champs zero one nil i later in the first half it was neuer who was put to the test his own casual ball came back out to him. then flowing in college paper his goal but the by and player was up to the task which we could be happy with his comeback after such a long absence that after the break germany's play begun to draw a long corner kick found its way to martin to eggo who applied an emphatic volley to finish alone at the far post neuer didn't have a chance it would get worse for the visitors of the sun to ship scored to make it

two one for austria the team for him beating germany on any occasion is a thrill i said even so this i rarely experienced such a self-inflicted defeat with a style of play like that. that was really bad. sore. nerves no has decisions to make not least regarding manuel neuer. 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 in berlin had 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 adorn a public building in the varia. 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 know 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. the halo city council rallied to defend the poem for them it has nothing to do with massage. dozens if we believe that women here are confident enough to like being admired we simply can't relate to the debate going on in their lives up saluting the stuff what seen

the tensions over public art are bound to continue but for now the poem has at least found a wall to welcome that. you're watching the daily news we'll have more coming up at the top of the hour i'm abbie quite often in berlin thanks for joining us. global inequality means. quality. connected well. when differences become disadvantages. you can tell me this at least right. now to the news.