this is d w news live from berlin germany its president gays and lesbians for forgiveness from. all of us for decades of suffering in the nazi era in post-war germany also coming up. still being his right wing opposition s.t.'s party has one parliamentary elections it's a major blow to the governing centrist and another gratian voice in the european

union. and in sports germany groups at their training camp after the shock defeat in austria on saturday they go into this month's world cup hoping to defend their title. me thank you for joining us germany's president has apologized to homosexuals for the persecution they had to endure during and after the second world war now president from. speaking on the tenth anniversary of a monument to homosexuals victims of 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 under 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 in there for a lot of these and find 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 is 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 or anyone who denies the singular break of civilization. or relativize as it. is not only mocking millions of victims. but he's also deliberately ripping open old wounds. and sowing new hatred and we must oppose this together. only those who remember what did happen can take responsibility today. here in berlin police have shot and wounded what they term around pitching man in the city's iconic protestants cathedral a police spokesperson said the fifty three year old austrian man was wounded in the leg when police fired at him now authorities say there's no connection to terrorism but police have cordoned off the cathedral one of the city's top tourist attractions. here we spoke with

a double reporter rebecca riches outside the barely a cathedral and i asked her what we know about the man who was shot by police i fooling man ran into the cathedral behind me the girl in a dorm 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 come 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 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 leading police on high alert but they're not investigating this as a terror attack at this time. at the bowling cathedral and

staying in germany a power blackout as hamburg 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 the electricity would 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 and. how long they'll wait to get off the ground is anybody's guess. and now to some of the other stories making news around the world is it is new interior minister matteo salvini has visited a migrant detention center in sicily a week before miscible elections on the island region now outside the center of protesters chanted slogans against salvini and held banners reading welcome refugees so really is head of the far right party which has demanded a crackdown on migrants and refugees. at least forty six migrants were killed when their boat sank off the news is solid and coast making it one of the worst migrant boat accidents in recent years sixty seven others were rescued near the city of facts according to tunisian officials. officials say

a whale that died had eight kilograms of plastic trash most of it shopping bags in its stomach the animal died despite a five day effort to save it they said the plastic made the will sick and unable to hunt. the russian space capsule has landed safely in ca's a stand carrying three us generals from russia the u.s. and japan they were returning from a one hundred sixty day mission on the international space station another three astronauts are to be launched to the station later this week. is the really other countries why bring the position has one parliamentary elections now the south eastern european country which used to be part 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 yes young one just over a quarter of the votes have to come painting on an anti immigrant platform outgoing

prime minister nero's there are came in fourth place. 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 hold what he designed to come pain based on the slogans in your first and based on the massive campaign against immigration not that slovenia would have any problem with immigration there are only a couple of hundreds every year here in this small country but young took the populist right wing hungry in prime minister viktor orban as his role model or been by the way supported the interest campaign must have fully 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 because 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. it's marked by the fact that the turn off is on a record low only every second slovene went to. fight over brown following that

election for us in slovenia thank you. classical music by european composers is popular in japan it's actually been taught in schools for the past one hundred fifty years there and now people are marking a key anniversary it's a century since beethoven's ninth symphony was first performed in japan by an unusual group of germany's. 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. from word. 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. will testify moved by the story i like singing today he joins forces i'm really impressed we japanese have always had a great deal of sympathy for the germans you know. the festivities brought together generations with the granddaughter of one former president making a special visit from berlin and my grandfather to the keeping here and in turn he learned chinese and dutch and also how to play the violin he played second violin haven't gone day. and there was music galore with several concerts including this one by an all male choir just like in the camp . one of the leadership of the camp's former commander

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 ensuring passion for beethoven one hundred years on. i was. holding a hutch on the melody affects us japanese just as much as the words do this now. and judging from these celebrations that looks likely to remain the case for a long time to come. out of. germany's top men's tennis player and the number two said the french open has done

it again alexander us vet of today came to his third straight fives. that comeback win and that means his into his first ever grand slam quarterfinals not of arab got past russia's karen catchin of variable place seven seeded dominant team of austria on choose day that team beat japan. in fourth fifth and germany's national team a rather special visitor to be a training camp on sunday chancellor angela merkel there she is stopped by to motivate the players now the squad was shaking off a surprising loss to australian the first of two friendlies ahead of the world cup and looking ahead to coach announcement of the final twenty three man squad on monday. off to being arrested for yesterday's friendly thomas 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 i the only silver lining captain manuel neuer proved his fitness coming back from an injury that had plagued him since september two one the final stool for the hosts i on sunday evening german chancellor angela merkel met the players for dinner which seemed to go down well. for them regardless of the match we're very happy that the chancellor came by the full board over the years there's been a special relationship between the tennis on and the national team as i know it. was one of the not much off there's always presentation of the team and i really appreciate her she's really down to earth and honest with us is interested in football but she's also interested in us as a people on and for us that's impressive inspiring of course she wished us all the best for the tournaments with. the chancellor left after dinner midday on monday four players will follow her back to germany has yogi live

announces his final twenty three man squad. with just eleven days to go until the world cup gets underway the trophy itself is finally in moscow off to touring more than fifty countries. formed a rerun of one thousand nine hundred by holding it aloft amid a carnival atmosphere now that trophy will be presented to the winning captain after the final in the russian capital in on july fifteenth. you're watching news in berlin wall at the top of the hour thank you for watching. they make a commitment. they find solutions. they meet in stronger. africa

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