everyone. this is d.w. news live from berlin germany is president gays and lesbians full forgiveness from my apologizes for decades of suffering in the nazi era and in post-war germany also coming up. police opened fire and brilliance iconic cathedral authorities say an officer shot a man who was brandishing

a knife inside the church one officer injured and we'll bring you more from the scene. and in school it's in germany recruits at their training camp after the shock defeat to australian saturday they go into this once world cup hoping to defend their talk to. you could join us gemini's president has apologized to homosexuals for the persecution they had to endure during and after the second world war president. was speaking on the tenth anniversary of a monument to homosexuals victims in the nazi era he also asked for forgiveness for decades of official silence. people who were arrested convicted and imprisoned in post-war germany for their sexual orientation have been waiting a long time for an apology too long says germany's president that's going to undo

what has been said about other victim groups has so far been denied them. so today i ask forgiveness for all the suffering and injustice and for the long silence that followed. after world war two there were allegedly some sixty five thousand prosecutions of homosexuals in west germany alone and last year the german bundestag decided to reverse the convictions and rehabilitate those affected it's been there for all of these and i'm very glad about this apology it really is a strong signal to the bundestag has apologized for the persecution for us that the federal president has the highest representative of the state expresses this so clearly. for lesbians and gays and trans and intersex people this is very very valuable for at the event homosexuals victims of the nazi era were also

remembered. condemned statements by politicians who play down the crimes of the nazis. anyone who denies the singular break of civilization. set down or relativize as it. is not only marking millions of victims. he's also deliberately ripping open old wounds. and sowing new hatred and we must oppose this together good minds and. only those who remember what did happen can take responsibility today. well here in berlin police have shot and wounded what they termed a rampaging man in the city's iconic protestant cathedral a police spokesperson said the fifty three year old man who was austrian was wounded in the leg when police fired at him authorities say there's no connection to terrorism they also have cordoned off the cathedral one of the city's top

tourist attractions. earlier we spoke with a reporter a better written as outside the cathedral and i asked her what we know about the man who was shot by police and knife wielding man ran into the cathedral behind me the berlin atone he was said to be behaving very aggressively witnesses say he was dazed and confused and acting quite threateningly towards the other guests in the dorm police were called and they arrived at the same they tried to calm the man and this him but believed he lunged at police and then they shot him in the leg now during the incident another police officer was also shot both men are injured and are in hospital he's a fifty three year old austrian man he's not known to police and it's not believe he has any links to any terrorist organizations now obviously berlin has been the target of some terrorist attacks in the last couple of years leaving police on high alert but they're not investigating this as

a terror attack at this time. porto rebecca ritter's at the berlin cathedral and staying in germany a power blackout at hamburg and porters grounded hundreds of flights and left thousands of passengers stranded and airport officials said the source of the power failure was a short circuit but they were unable to say when the electricity will be restored. chaos across the concourse where travelers at first didn't know what was going on without power the p.a. system couldn't function. nor did the lights and for security reasons even the backup power system which could have functioned was switched off as well according to airport officials that was necessary to determine the cause of the blackout before long travelers were told to evacuate the building until the problem is solved germany's fifth largest airport is closed for business. we were up there getting ready to board and then suddenly they told us to get out

it's chaos hundreds of people standing around the air conditioning is down so now we're all sitting here wondering what's going to happen next what argued stranded passengers got free water and look to kill time any way they could while all flights remain grounded. how long they'll wait to get off the ground is anybody's guess. as to have a look at some of the other stories making news around the world italy's new interior minister matteo salvini has visited a migrant attentions scenting sicily a week before municipal elections on the island region outside the center protesters chanted slogans against salvini unhealed banas reading welcome refugees slovenia's head of the far right party which has demanded a crackdown on migrants and refugees. london is marking the one hand your best story of a terror attack on london bridge eight people were killed and forty eight injured

when three men drove a van into pedestrians on the tourist landmark a memorial service at southwark cathedral has been held for victims and their families. ty officials say a whale that died had eight kilograms of plastic trash most of it shopping bags in its stomach. despite a five day effort to save it and they said the plastic made the whale sick and unable to hunt. in slovenia the country's right wing opposition appears to have won parliamentary elections of nearly all votes counted the southeastern european country which used to be part of the form of the former yugoslavia has been led by a center left government for them the democratic party's strong showing is a blow to the party led by young as young one just over a quarter of the votes of to come painting on an anti immigrant platform and outgoing prime minister niro surat came in at fourth place. as no go to

the slovenian capital of libya nowhere fight with brown is joining us so can you tell us who younis yasha is i mean we know he's the leader of the right wing democratic party but what else can be said of him. he's a long serving leader twenty five years already he was twice prime minister and you probably described him best as a conservative turned populist that's at least what he designed to come pain based on the slogan slovenia first and based on a massive campaign against immigration not that slovenia would have any problem with immigration they're only a couple of hundreds every year here in this small country but young took the populist right wing hungary in prime minister viktor orban as his role model or been by the way supported the interest campaign must have lead this time and yet slovenia is part of the euro and it does belong to nato and the shenzhen union and

by and large the country is regarded as a reliable partner so is it now joining in member states that are critical of the union. that's completely and completely open question at this moment it looks like the slovenes really opted for a classical stalemate so young she will get the mandate to form a government but it's absolutely unclear if he will succeed in doing so so far all the other parties of the center of the left have excluded to cooperate with him he offer talks but if that will really happen it's an open question what is clear is the slovenes. voted or showed a massive discontent with politics in their country with the political class and that also is. is marked by the fact that the turnout is on a record low only every second slovene went to. fight on wishbone following that election for us in slovenia thank you. germany's top men's

tennis player and the number two seed of the french open has done it again alexander vet of today claimed his third straight five said comeback win and that means his into his first of a grand slam quarterfinals very of got past russia's current. catch no variable play seven seeded dominic team of austria on tuesday that team beat japan's king corey in four sets and germany's national team had a rather special visitor to the a training camp today you can see the chancellor angela merkel stopped by to motivate the players now they played the first of two friendlies ahead of this month's world cup on saturday and that game against australia ended in a surprise defeats drawing criticism from fans and their coach. after being rested for yesterday's friendly thomas miller joined the coaching staff for a bike ride the rest of the squad stuck to some light training behind closed doors

. the night before had ended in disappointment as germany lost to austria for the first time in thirty two years to one the final score for the hosts. what i think it should is we still have a few things to work on but we fully confident in the team in the coaching staff will definitely sorted out. still there was a silver lining captain marrable neuer proved his fitness coming back from an injury that have plagued him since september the defenders in front of him didn't look convincing deficiencies that can't be excused by the team's tough training camp no player gave the coach a headache ahead of his final cut on monday and feed it and he said hide it much we've been training very hard and made a lot of changes if you look overall i think it's clear that we need to improve in certain areas of the coming fourteen days lawful person in the next fits in time of course we'll do that. midday on mondays when your he looks will submit his final world cup squad leaving for the current crop at home on sunday evening the players

got a pep talk from german chancellor angela merkel who wished them good luck in their title defense. classical music by european composers this population japan it's been taught in schools for the past for the past one hundred fifty years and now people there unlocking a key and invests every it's a century since beethoven's ninth symphony was first performed in japan by an unusual group of german ization. the audience in the southern japanese city of no ruto is hardly low brow beethoven has long been gazing over gatherings here far from being foreign his music is familiar. with. the. word good. this is where japan's love of beethoven began german soldiers were brought here during world war one after being captured in china by the japanese during their

internment they were allowed to play football form an orchestra and stage theater productions. this exhibition describes how the band a prisoner of war camp became a music school despite the reluctance of some. great deal of sympathy for the germans. the festivities brought together generations with the granddaughter of one former prisoner making a special visit from berlin and all five my grandfather to all but keeping hand in turn he learned chinese and dutch and also how to play the violin he played second violin higher in spirit. and there was music galore with several concerts including this one by an all male choir just like in the camp i. saw one of the leadership of the camps former commander of a monument to him was unveiled among the guests of the celebration was the former

german president christian wolfe a demonstration of international friendship the kind of declaration of japan's injuring passion for beethoven one hundred years on. i. was i. me holding a hutch on the melody affects us japanese just as much as the words do i see this now. and judging from these celebrations that looks likely to remain the case for a long time to come. out of. well let's take you now to the brazilian city of southpaw which is getting into the cannibal mood again and this time for one of the biggest gay pride parades hundreds of thousands of people gathered in brazil's largest city for the much rallying

under the sofa i will vote i will voice with elections for october activists say this year's gay. the pride parade is an important opportunity to call for better l g b t rights ahead of the vote. it watching d.w. news from berlin more coming on the top of the hour thank you for. global inequality and see. what quality mean in a globally connected world. when differences become disadvantages. sometimes the city strongly more prone to the media to join the discussion and have your say. don't have a list global media forum twenty eighteen complaints made from nine percent.