bridge. the trip. reports are starting to leverage on g.w. . this is news coming to you live from their lives his mission to the international space station has blasted off it launched on time from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan. alexander gets to ask the copilot of the three man crew we carry out dozens of experiments in preparation missions to mars. also coming up.

in guatemala the dead still reaches to seventy five kindle fire again he cannot forced to flee their homes through a landscape blanketed with hot ash and mud. and she didn't like the idea of germany's chancellor angela merkel has finally submitted to direct questioning by. we find out how the grilling by a. mock match canceled because of fears of protests disappoint israeli fans as. argentina out of the world cup wall op match in jerusalem has been in groups it was the right mills to go. on with the cima the latest mission to the international space station is now on

its way. three to. feed their. people and come blasted off from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan german astronaut alexander guest is scope on it officer is spacecraft taking the team up to the i s s it will be his second mission to the space lab he take over as commander later this year. their son going to do the obvious science correspondent as a body he's at that european space agency's event in berman's zisa planetarium. so if you go you will be watching the takeoff right there with thousands of other people there must have been a great sense of excitement when liftoff finally happened. and it was an absolutely amazing sense of excitement here the planetarium. for it was

in the baikonur cosmodrome but we you know it was absolutely palpable to use our cliche here lots of kids here lots of adults people from all sectors of society as i could sort of pick out you know real enthusiasm and about the whole launch and what's coming in the next couple of months now with i was on a guest mission and actually right now of course is an out of here crew peroration the engineer with the dia law center tell me what was it like if you mean you followed this mission this long for some time now so how did you feel like you've launched as well kind of i do yes so we used to put it. since i guess she years so it always starts a crew support support when they're assigned to a mission the action out and then restart preparing and throughout the mission and post flight so. you get to know him quite well and then if you like i have launched as i was kind of nervous sitting there that everything was to go really well for alex i mean that almost sounds like it's a behavioral like a personal system but it's

a bit more detailed now isn't it you know your you're really looking after the well the well being of the astronauts on you that's correct so it sounds like a person or senses would read you prepared a mission for him so it's kind of for example. compared to food because it's kind of important to them to have something from their home with them that remembers reminds them where they're from and so on so this is quite a lot of work before and then when they launch we'll go there with them as well and their family because it's been. a week full of. excitement and mission so it's really exciting for the family and for the. food come on could you give us a secret recipe the secret meals and what isn't there. a chance. i don't know for the other two for. alex taking some pieces with him from from of course for those who don't come to shrug and what is that i guess oh yes i was rome

i said he wouldn't be. no worse i don't know there is a peace now by a hug but for sure he takes some. recipes with him and says ok so tell us a bit about the science that's going to take place because you're also involved in helping out with the science missions on this mission the risings mission show us another part of my chop besides supporters being a euro come in the fly control team and that's where we all support the astronauts on board every day so they have a timeline the schedule which toast i'm ok today we're going to do this experiment after this experiment there's the other one and then to do some exercise after so we follow through the entire day and before we go on consul relook at it ok there's to experiment. anything and we look at it ok what i understand to procedure isn't really clear to me because if it's not to me maybe yes the same questions as i do so we go to the trainers or we look at their hardware and say ok i'm going to try

the procedure myself and see where i have troubles and then. the trainers before i go in council and we look for things with those results as i know i was a mover thank you very much and reserve banks in the studio if you could talking about eating alexander guest seems to care about what he's been tweeting what he had to egypt before he went off the cost model and it was a russian dish elk sure. enough about his eating habits but detailed voice. of his body you know there's been a lot of buzz about the fact that alexander guest is on this mission is going to take over as commander in a few months from now how important is that for germany and for a european space exploration. i think it is very important. i have a german not to have a german as a commodity i assess but it is very far that is important for jew for germany that

he happens to be german expert about why it is a very prestigious roles a very important role i mean you know a command will go about his business and let's not forget there are also female commanders peggy whitson being one in the past that i can think of right now but the role is if they do this stuff but it's when things happen when somebody has to take control on the i assess that you have somebody actually there in space who can help sort out and communicate directly with ground control because a mission like this is always controlled from the ground you do need to have somebody on the i assess who is a commander who can deal with the other members of the team in a more direct fashion so it is it's like it's important because it is just important for a mission to have a commander but it is a very prestigious role because there have been so few say from europe but also from germany you know this is the first. big thing. the will to give any thank you very much for sharing all that excitement with us as well as your scientific expertise that is as they say rocket science thank you.

turning out to vote them all out fresh flows of superheated ash and much in the volcano fire has forced more people to feed their homes officials now say that at least seventy five people have been kids in civil kinna began evaporating at the weekend and almost two hundred are still missing you just look at the scale of the devastation authorities have now issued a new evacuation orders and residents have begun to panic about what's to come. fleeing a disaster zone. people left their homes as fast as they could taking with them only what they could carry on their own. many hoping for a quick escape or slowed down by clogged roads. authorities issued evacuation orders for half a dozen villages after increased volcanic activity on tuesday raising the threat of further lava flows and hot ash. there were reports of panic but others tried not to

. like the truth is you don't know what to do. i think what we have to do is to be calm and traded. not. want to feel those made homeless have been turning to emergency shelters there depending on authorities to take care of their immediate needs. it's a pity and we're hoping the government will help us we don't have anywhere to stay we've lost everything our land our homes we couldn't take anything with us. back in the disaster area many homes have been buried by ash. rescue crews are looking for survivors and victims but they acknowledge their progress has been slow to do to the dangerous terrain. that they. are manual say that the first response is supposed to be within seventy two hours. what hasn't been taken into account is

the factors holding back our work. like volcanic material at high temperatures we're talking between four hundred seven hundred degrees celsius. the area around the volcano is normally lush farmland but where the ash has fallen it now looks more like a lunar landscape. they've been having some of the stories making news around the world in the u.s. state of hawaii dozens more films have been destroyed by new lava flows from the killer whale. because he said some visitors who chosen not to evacuate had to be rescued by helicopter the killer who has destroyed almost two hundred properties since it began erupting on why's big island last month and. people in jordan have had a second day of nationwide strike to protest against a controversial plan to raise income tax jordan's prime minister had already

stepped on a via against the hike the king has asked the new prime minister to view the tax system. and present time i had at least a wreath at the monument commemorating the jewish uprising in the warsaw ghetto during the second. it's the last day office two day trip to poland by the german head of state during which he stripped potence of democracy and the room of. the german chancellor long force against it but now it's finally happened and the american has become the first ever german head of government to face direct questions from the star make us the chance that was great about the upcoming g. seven summit in canada from her place on the gottman banks and not from the time she kept her composure of an os to buy the right wing populist f.t. party when she was. in the refugee crisis she answered questions from

stock you'll make us three times. and joining me now for more on this is a crew fresh she is the chief political editor. now michelle for the first time in german history a head of government has directly answered questions posted by members of parliament what were the most controversial issues. well of course the most controversial issue as there is currently also in the german debate is the very issue of migration you already cited that at the far right if he basically asked when she would resign but she was also asked more specifically about that moment in twenty fifteen and she once again reiterated what she has actually said before that this was a humanitarian act that it was an exceptional situation but that it would not be repeated that the german government has taken many steps so we saw exactly the attack that the f.d.a. had announced actually on election night it would launch when it said it would hunt

this government and we saw machall decidedly calm and rational as we know how very different parliamentary debates and speeches before going through rational points of argument and making isn't exactly known for being a spontaneous politician what did you make of her performance you said she remained very calm and composed. well actually the public got a glimpse of what it's like to talk to her and background meetings she is not somebody who likes to talk about very irrational issues or feelings or anything like that and she was very composed and in fact she got one question when she was asked by the green party why did refuse basically block the e.u. making the adherence to the climate deal mandatory in any kind of business agreements or any kind of business partnerships with other countries and this is something which does raise question marks about germany's came up and then she said

well the door to having any kind of negotiations with the united states and that she felt that that was not and interest so frankly i would say that she actually did was surprisingly well in this and you kind of asked why she didn't engage in this kind of transparency before which of course was the result of the coalition deal where both parties agreed to hold this three times a year question time is a well known part of the u.k. parliamentary procedure wasn't established here in germany why did the german coalition decide to include this in their coalition agreement as you said they did . well there really was a feeling that there needs to be more transparency there needs to be more explaining and tony blair the former british prime minister he once said that he never stopped fearing going into question time because it is something very spontaneous that is really holding the feet of the head of the government to the fire there at the same time it gives german chancellor merkel and whoever will

succeed her vent city the chance to explain and to actually read reach a much wider audience so definitely this is a step forward in opening a direct conversations with the chancellor and arguments there more up to the public right at me here at the german bund star thank you very much for that. you're watching the news coming up ahead disappointment for israeli fans of soccer style and messy argentina canceled their world cup wal-mart matching losing them because it took tests from palestinians we talked to the leader of the campaign against the masters. the first danielle joins me now. taking a hard line in the stones to new us to have senate right tit for tat measures going on it here on route to the block will impose import duties on a roster of a u.s. products beginning in july it is announced today do you penalties come in response

to increased u.s. shootings on imported steel and alum minium that took effect this month about three point four billion dollars worth of u.s. goods are expected to be hit by the new measures ranging from agricultural products to steel and above and whiskey that list could also be expanded with time and you official say. and only boxes following this for us from frankfurt only we've talked a great deal about the impact of tariffs on the states and big business levels but will the average person on the street be affected. well the united states perhaps not quite as directly as here remains to be seen whether for example car manufacturers pass on higher costs for steel and aluminum when they produce their cars but here in the u. that seems a little bit more likely because when you look at the list you already mentioned some of the items that are on the list like bourbon consumer items are basically

mostly consumer items along with bourbon and harley's you know not everybody buys a bottle of bourbon every day or even drink such here in germany for example or buys a harley but you know there are also items like orange juice there peanut butter jeans u.s. jeans very popular. items that a lot of people wear here and if indeed there are tariffs here to the tune of some twenty five percent and i talked to a trader here just a little while ago he thinks it's just very unlikely that the manufacturers and retail also the retailers will stick that in their own pockets at last and they will pass it on to consumers and then people will feel it and it might even. instigate competitors to also up their prices just a little bit because they have that leeway now because u.s. wares are getting more expensive again staying in europe the european central bank is set to meet next week to discuss its bond buying program everyone's getting

ready for them to start dialing that down what are we expecting. well i think one can now expect that the e.c.b. will talk about it because the e.c.b. as chief economist said today that. inflation is moving towards the target of the e.c.b. close to but not above two percent and he sees encouraging signs from growth so it could be that the e.c.b. just can't wait any longer. when it will go out because the markets are just expecting this with the development the way it is. and these opening words relatively open words for a central banker from peter pratt that contributed to the euro really going up today which is not that great for equities and we'll be looking ahead to that meeting next week leave us thank you very much for the. tesla a boss a long mosque is still fully in charge of the company he helped found that's despite a proposal by shot some shareholders to strip him of his role as chairman of the

electric car maker the move that test this annual meeting would have left must holding only the title of senior care that comes amid worries over the new losses of the company but no overwhelming majority of shareholders voted against it after must said test that was on track to meet production targets for its new mass market saddam a model three he also promised the company would open its first gigafactory outside the us in shanghai. the c.e.o. of the cattle alway's has apologized after saying his job was too difficult for a woman act biled backers known for his controversial utterances this time he raised eyebrows at the annual meeting of the international transport association. into a out of it asked about the issue among middle east airlines in particular and why his job as head of his country's flag carrier couldn't be done by a woman the qatar airways chief executive gave

a typically provocative answer the qantas c.e.o. alan joyce seated next to our backer tried to make light of the comments. well you know of course it has to be led by a man because it is it is a very challenging position and show that you know i'm sure that. and. i said i said he was going to stop saying controversial to even ask you on it. and it was god we've got to get i don't know where i'm going to. sort of you know i have to little bit of. fireworks and i want too much of it people more questions. defended his remarks saying that qatar airways was the first airline in the region to have women pilots and that sixty percent of all student pilots at the airline were women the issue of gender imbalance in aviation

was a hot topic among over two hundred a lines represented at the iata meeting joyce who care paying for marriage equality in australia said ensuring a diverse workforce in general could help drive profits if you're not tapping into diversity and inclusion you're going to be on a disadvantage you know we're all looking for the best talent out there and if some airlines and some companies are only looking for nails and those rolls are not going to do well because you give you get the best and the best people in the best job you're going to perform there he credited the turnaround in court as his fortunes in recent years as a partly due to the airlines diversity policy. i'm back down on the ground and it's back to amrita with sports news and controversy rages in the world of football that's right down to one match in particular argentina have canceled. warm up in israel following palestinian to test some of israel's leaders upset seeing donald

messi and his argentinian teammates us coming to threats but the israeli opposition has. the minister for politicizing the issue the match cancellation by the palestinians. argentina coach some poly was unhappy about playing a friendly in israel because of logistical reasons so close to the world cup now the game is cancelled but for very different reasons the match was originally switch from haifa to jerusalem angering palestinians the city has become the focus of controversy after u.s. president donald trump recognized it as israel's capital palestinians were further incensed because the jerusalem stadium is in the neighborhood of a former palestinian village having burned the argentinian flag protesters frightened to burn replica jerseys of argentina starlin oh messi. he will not under any circumstances agree to this match going ahead we've started

a campaign against the argentinian football association in which we will target a messy. a tweet from the argentinian embassy in israel confirmed the cancellation of the game and said the threats against messi prompted the solidarity of his team mates and fears of a playing the friendly towards israel prime minister binyamin netanyahu had hoped the game against one of the world cup favorites would be good publicity for israel he did not qualify for the finals in russia but moving the match to drew slim has backfired defense minister avigdor lieberman said argentina had given in to israeli hating agitators a blow to israel politically but also a blow to argentina with the game due to have been the last warm up before the world cup kicks off next thursday. joining me now from ramallah is foggy corral he's the only organization of us for the ground your organization was behind this campaign opposing the match taking place in jerusalem first briefly going to tell

us why. well number one i want to say thank you to argentina for taking a position that says palestinian lives matter and scoring a goal for humanity against oppression the reason we were against this game is that after over one hundred and nineteen palestinian civilians were killed and living fourteen children we thought and believe that it was an ethical for the argentinian team to play a game just miles away from where the north palestinian protesters were being shelled and i need to also make clear that this was a global campaign hundreds of thousands of people from argentina outcomes paid from around the world including people from palestine sent messages in fact to the argentinian team to leader not message to explain to him what i think this game was the wrong thing to do and we believe that the reason the main reason this came was cancelled was that the urgent indian team cut the fact this game to stadium even at

this game was going to be played on was on a billet of a story comes to an invalid and in the past the world had boycotted some urgent games in argentina because of the dictatorship and because of the debts and so again we thank argentina for taking this moral stance they have done this yet you may read further that they may indeed have not you said that you were targeting a one player in your campaign the much loved argentine and it was a security issue for them. no i would say i would say you should speak with people in one of their famous argentinian strikers and you should also team with the players on the team and with the cult the decision was made as a moral and ethical stance i think this is an israeli spent trying to frame it as due to threats but even just the other day they were urgent in the end protesters were speaking with the team and asking the team not to play and israel and the team didn't know there was play and israel had turned this into

a political match and that's why again this can't be ended not just target little message it spoke to the whole team messages of messages were sent to the argentinian federation football federation so it's important to keep teleport in mind and should remember that the argentinian team has taken a moral stance to save costs in your lives matter we don't want to be part of this is really propaganda political machine. that article and i'm sorry we just have to leave it there thank you very much for joining us from ramallah and sharing your perspective and that of your organization of us. thank you very much. damn now for just one item of sports which is tennis and there's been a huge shock in the french open with a market check and not to knocking on novak djokovic to make it to the semifinals kick it out to us from a huge surprise by taking the first two sets before joke of each kick back to win

the third but the momentous upset was completed in the fourth set checking our top winning a tie break to secure his place in the final four he now faces austria's dominic t.m. . on the women's side sloane stephens secured her place in the semifinals defeating russia's kena in straight sets she faced compactly at madison keys for a spot in the final. he watching t.v. news here's a recap of the top story that you're following few an international team of astronauts commanded by germany's on a sunday best has taken off of the international space station the so you space trying to launch from baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan we can dozens of experiments including some people painful future missions to moscow. and that's it of i.

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