the prisoners were civilians but just how murky off the sports world in reality. is starting june sixth t.w. . tuesday don't you news life police open fire. on a cathedral are you saying officers should also man inside the church one officer is reportedly injured will go straight to one reporter sent up to see him so coming up the cost of only result the florida school shootings will pass a graduation sounds of take to the streets in the us which used to protest. and

call for stricter gun laws we report from new york. and fresh allegations that angle of medical news about programs at the german refugee agency the german chancellor is accused of failing to react or a clue could be agency was struggling to process a sign of a. time helena humphrey glad you could join us here in berlin police have showed some wounded what they termed a rampaging man in the city's iconic protestant cathedral a police spokesperson said the fifty three year old austrian man was wounded in the leg when police find out to say there is no connection to terrorism and he said now cordoned off the cathedral one of the city's top tourist attractions. and for the

latest on this i'm now joined by dummies rebecca ritter's who is at the scene for us rebecca bring us up to date with what we know so far well helena at around four pm local berlin time the softer noon a man entered the dome carrying a knife he was wielding the knife aggressively police say he was shouting and screaming and threatening tourists causing quite a scene the staff here at the bell in a drone behind me they called police police came in they tried to arm the man the man apparently approach police with a knife and was then shot at by police he has been taken to hospital he is injured he's in a stable but. he's in a stable but critical condition and in the incident another police officer was also shot rebecca give us a sense of what the area is like where you are we can see that it's cordoned off at

the moment but this is normally a busy tourist spot isn't it yes it is hell and there are at least a hundred people inside the dome i mean this is one of the ins biggest tourist attractions it's here on museum island right in the heart of the city it's frequented it's a sunny sunday afternoon it's frequented by lots of people behind me behind the camera i can see lots of tourists lying around on the grass etc this would normally be full of people up until well into the evening but police have said that it's going to be cordoned off and completely closed at least until tomorrow rebecca do we know anything more about the suspect at this stage well police can only say that he's a fifty three year old man he's from austria. he was not known to police and they don't believe there's any terrorism either islamic or otherwise there's no he's no connection to terrorist that's what they believe at this stage but obviously

they're still investigating the incident and that's all they've been able to say at this stage rebecca riches reporting for us in the heart of berlin thank you very much for that. and now some of the other stories making news around the world a power blackout at hamburg airport has grounded hundreds of flights and left thousands of passengers stranded airport officials said the source of the power failure was a short circuit but were unable to say when electricity will be restored. london is marking the one year anniversary of a terror attack on london bridge eight people were killed and forty eight injured with three men drove a van into pedestrians on the tourist learn lot memorial services so that cathedral has been held for victims and their found lease. ty officials say a whale that died had eight grams of plastic trash most of it shopping bags in its stomach the animal dies despite a five day effort to save it they said the plastic made the whale sick and unable

to hunt. a russian soyuz space capsule has landed safely in kazakhstan carrying three astronauts from russia the u.s. and japan they're returning from a one hundred sixty eight day mission and the international space station another three astronauts. to the station later this week. while the former head of germany's refugee agency says he warned chancellor angela merkel early on about problems dealing with an influx of migrants but the chancellor did not listen frankly as an adviser says he wound last year about the strange stuff we're under to handle asylum cases admitted last increased migrant numbers this comes as the federal office for migration and refugees faces an internal review after officials at its braman branch recused of accepting bribes to wade through more than a thousand asylum up occasions. well i'm joined in the studio now by g.w.

political correspondent report rip it there are reports that chancellor merkel knew about the difficulties that the agency is facing quite some time ago one would imagine then that this could put pressure on her and her migration policies will it do you think absolutely because the right migration policy in the refugee policy closely linked to anglo america as a person there is the refugee policy over uncle americal house been under close scrutiny now for several weeks now as we've seen the house being a scandal at the federal migration office already and if we now have a look who has made these allegations the it is troubleshooter i think you're going visors not just some of the official of the migration or has it is the chosen mount of under self himself uncle americal chose fungurume buys it to cope with the problems in the migration office and when he is now in saying this office was in

such a state i haven't seen before and it was totally unfit to tackle the task it was made for and i told you several times and you didn't do anything this puts close parsha not only and i'm glad michael but also on the former interior minister to most of his yeah and the corruption scandal at the office that in but i mean can you explain this for all international view is absolutely the. the office for migration and refugees split into several branches which are all of the branches of the german state so there are there's a there's a broad to bremen there's about want to believe in there's one in bavaria to this specific braman branch must have waved through more or less more than one thousand saddam see because giving that granting them asylum although there was no legal ground for this and there's even talk that some of them bribed their way through to their sodomy. replication and this of course is a huge scandal at itself we've already seen very inquiry last. where the acting

interior minister a whole see whole thing has already said we have to closely look at everything and you already started pointing the finger at his predecessor thomas de musea so there was already some motion towards the government towards putting pressure on anglo-american so this scandal is adding up now it is a huge scandal have we heard from the government how are they responding to all of this was i just said the house being ready of parliamentary inquiry last week and this will be going on the acting interior minister horsley over who is not in himself responsible for the scandal as he just got into office this year he already said we have to look closely at this he already started pointing the finger at his previous us and there the opposition is already calling for a parliamentary inquiry commission which they want to bring in during the next weeks it's still quite sure that if this is going to come but especially the far

right opposition the a of d. party they have always wanted to make some sort of a troop withdrawal of our going back as refugee policy so if this committee would come then we would not only talk about the scandal at the migration office we would talk about the refugee crisis as a whole and this is something i'm glad michael doesn't want our political correspondent made about thank you you know up and saying in germany president to stein my eyes all stick to gay people for forgiveness for decades of suffering and injustice in germany in the notes here and also to world war two he spoke at a ceremony marking the post occasion of gay people and i told him but he also condemned antigay knows that remained in place in post-war germany and led to thousands of prosecutions. the students who raise their voices they must killed seventeen people at their florida high school in february now as the scene is that marjorie's stoneman douglas high school is set to graduate

and looking ahead to their futures while mourning those who cannot do the same and the nationwide movement that they survive is in spite of the 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 of course one of the nicks on the phenomena reports now from a march in new. they were among contreras this march is a personal issue together with his friends an average to vist 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 afraid to go balance and i felt you know. when i was in a moment i felt like some people are really needed to be a power be when you hear about this. contrast 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 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. but they believe no it's a time to ban assault weapons to strengthen background checks for gun buyers enough is enough after 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 of. this students about to continue their protest and to make their fight for gun control

a voting issue hoping that the midterm elections in november will show that their movement has staying power. aleksandr fun a nominee reporting there in new york now it's not often that poetry causes a public debate but a poem written by an acclaimed believe in swiss writer has done just that students in berlin had called to one of his pieces painted on the side of the school to be removed calling it sexist but the author's adopted hometown in southern germany sees the work differently and offer the po a new hope and it now don't say public building in bavaria. i've been in the us has a new home the poem by oregon going out now decorates the facade of the city museum in the german town of i.a.o. 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 to float as you

move ahead as you are not made out or born english avenues and flowers and women and an admirer 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 and the halo city council rallied to defend the poem for them it has nothing to do with massage. your album doesn't sort of we believe our women here are confident enough to like being admired and we simply can't relate to the debate going on in the early and up saluting the stuff would seem the tensions over public art are bound to continue but for now the poem has at least found a wall to welcome him. germany's top men's tennis player and the number two seed at the french open has done it again alexander's that if today claimed his

third straight five set comeback win and that means he's into his first ever grand slam quarter finals let it go pos russia's cut and cut channel as head will play seventh seeded dominic team of austria on choose day in team. cases she cordie in four sets and just her mind and out of the top stories that we're following for you here on day deputy. in berlin police have shot and wounded what they termed a rampaging man in the city's iconic protestant cathedral a police spokesperson said. t. three year old austrian man was wounded in the leg when police pointed out to him although say there's no connection to terrorism. thousands of people have taken to the streets in u.s. cities to protest gun violence on cold the street to god knows this comes as students who survived in my shooting at a florida school prepare to graduate. you're watching d.w.

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