whoops i d w comes to join us on facebook t.w. . place. this is deja news coming to you live from berlin french unions call for a general strike to protest against the policies of french president their money and mccraw the course of not much crawl comes as a call for action comes as mccraw tries to cater its critics by holding town hall style meetings across the country also coming up. full france is

a celebrated mass in abu dhabi the capital of the united arab emirates during the service the pontiff knowledge the hardships faced by migrant workers in the country it was the first visit to the region by a reeling pope. and new revelations in the so-called football leaks as the ellipse source behind the largest leak in the history of sport goes public for the first time through pinto discusses his role and his uncertain future following his recent arrest in budapest. how don't work i'm under thought she might thanks for joining us unions in france of course a general strike to protest against the policies of president a man in the crawl demonstrations are set to take place across the country some representatives of the guillot vests for. this movement also expected to join the

rally now our correspondent is in paris and to report for us max what more can you tell us we can be here that the country is very sinful protests action today what can we expect. it's the. one of the biggest unions in france that has called for this general strike in paris to be fair some unions have abstained from this but the interesting part here is how many yellow bus will participate in this strike because they are at a crucial juncture yes they have the same topics as this is it did as the union it's against social injustice but in the beginning the yellow vests especially were proud not to be affiliated with the unions not to be affiliated with any political parties but now some of them have other plans because they feel like this movement as we have for the last month has run its course that's why our reporter catherine

martin went out there to speak to one of their leaders to find out what their plans are. well jack keane will no longer takes out her yellow vests to protest she was one of the founders of the yellow vests movement but now she's moving on at age fifty one she's founding a political party lism actual all the emerging ones the goal is to fight for greater social justice and equality. this week i'll continue to do my part but we have to develop a network across the region. it will be a lot of work i will think. for now the party headquarters are in her kitchen don't go that lester is over to also there's no time for lunch and the afternoon coordinating with supporters and dealing with legal questions she's

a composer but her face is known across france as one of the leaders of the yellow vests need keys but what's the money for. hi you tube video against president emanuel am a cornfield tax hikes went viral and stirred up the yellow vests protests but now she says it's time to move on a. real need all of the movement has reached rock bottom it's becoming nonsense. they've radicalized tonight these people think the oh and the whole yellow vests may have meant. to no one can own me or hold me hostage. more gore isn't alone and denouncing the yellow vests. the more than ten thousand people took to the streets of paris that message to the yellow vests that's enough they feel increasingly alienated from the movement it's the first rally in months

that's for the government. twenty one million people voted for the president. that if not every time defending freedom and democracy in. the structure and trade also hurts people as it looks more cycle between. back in move towards village and brittany many people support her rejection of violence and also back a party that's critical of the government. i think it's a moderate and constructive way to propose ideas. but they don't want to get rid of the president is enough we believe it's better to deal with the current government and try to improve things rather than to kick them i hate brutal could reveal their. names to stand in upcoming local elections she wants to play a different political than my clone.

actually his report while the baby was taped on land and they had no vest moving now was to create her own political body what do you think this means for present money and mcconnell i read a maybe we'll even see more than one party emerge from the yellow bus movement because it's really never been such a unified movement but there are some cross points with the far right because in the beginning the l.o.'s weren't affiliated to a party some of the far right movements tried to take advantage of that for example that i saw him on us in the formerly known as for us and i from not even look ten but what might happen now is that they will take a away votes from the far right now in current polls it looks like the far right like the us and on the us and is an head of you know one of my call for the european elections but that might change with the yellow vest parties coming into the picture is too early to say but there is an actual possibility that it might

have been my call might win european elections here in france because of the yellow vests which would be quite a contradiction so this could actually play into his hands a max but in monaco meanwhile is on his town hall meetings in a victor connect with the people how's that going on. well it's all part of the strategy what he's trying to do on the one hand is to reach out to the people to give them the impression that he has abandoned his top down approach his vertical approach of the one of the first years of his presidency that was didn't go down too well with the french so he's listening he's listening to the mayors he was concentrated on the rule areas now he's going to the city she's going to the suburbs hard to say if this is really working out because we don't have any numbers on that it seems that some mayors some officials are impressed by that the yellow vests aren't impressed they say still the same it might have been a call his government is not listening on the other had to strain to get tough on

those yellow vests that are still on the streets especially those that are violent actually today the something else or not so the parliament here in paris will pass a law that allows officials to be tougher on those that are demonstrating or even altogether tell them that they're not allowed to demonstrate also highly criticized move but part of the dual strategy on the one hand listening on the other hand getting tougher right maxell fun in paris thank you very much for that. a sting in paris police have arrested a woman in connection with the fire had a residential building in a venti part of the city at least ten people were killed in the blaze police suspect it may have been set deliberately. paris is wealthy sixteenth district early to die residents say they heard a woman scream sin there after flames began shooting out of the top of a night story apartment building the five and through the night first responders

described what happened here as a scene of incredible violence many survivors were torn from their sleep and fled the flames any way they could. you know i live on the eighth floor so i tried to climb from balcony to balcony to get away. eventually we had to huddle in a corner other people clint up to where i was to escape the fire. hundreds of firefighters were called in they took hours to bring the blaze under control and several of them are among the dozens injured in the fire. i want to pay tribute to the huge response by paris's firefighters floor by floor they climbed eight flights of stairs and saved as many lives as they could fifty people with saved that way you know this is. the search vance's has now begun authorities have detained

a forty year old grosset into the building over the incident she said have a history of psychiatric problems. and the search for victims has been continuing as firefighters reach the top floors. with the death toll likely to rise the sense of shock and grief in paris will only increase the city of watch again this morning . if we now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the wind british prime minister to resign me will visit northern ireland later today in a bid to reassure people with border issue tourism it wants to renegotiate of brics a deal with the e.u. and sequel turnitin to the backstopped proposal with avoiding a hard border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland. a new study warns that two thirds of the glass is in the hymn malia's could melt by the year twenty one hundred if emissions are not reduced scientists say even if global

warming there were limited to one point five degrees celsius a third of the glasses would still disappear the region's last year's supply of billions of people with water. german chancellor angela merkel has helped possibly her last meeting with the japanese emperor akihito in tokyo the eighty five year old akihito will abdicate in april michael has been visiting the country to promote a wide ranging free trade agreement between the e.u. and japan that came into effect last week. was billed as a log just show of christian worship ever seen on the arabian peninsula pope francis celebrated mass in the muslim majority united arab emirates more than one hundred thirty thousand people attended the event in the capital. it wrapped up a three day trip to the country the first ever by a pontiff and francis said during his visit his main aim was to promote family intolerance between christians and muslims he also condemned war.

joining me now from with dobby is anjan shankar she's a bit of a chief with the college times newspaper welcome and she not quite an unprecedented event they have a you are you were at the open air mass what was the atmosphere there like. yeah hi thank you for taking me in on the show. feels that we have seen. something which i have never witnessed in my journalistic. which i have been in the country for more than sixteen. this is one line you know. from the moment we walked in which was around eight thirty in the morning the boss stopped that country. packed with people passed away just. wanted to make an entry and go around and it has been the people who are chanting.

you know they will way we flag. it was a moment that i would think would go down in the history of the way and also most people who attended and especially the christian community everyone that we have been tracking this story for you know almost three weeks everyone that looked at they said this is unbelievable because they are getting to see their holy father who they consider you know head of the camp in the muslim country in the opening phrase conducting. and i'm good at it but apart from the absolute truth you said it was incredible asked me to say what if anything this visit has achieved apart from that. i was trying so because you know u.a.e. is a country where more than two hundred national if you listen. to you know more than two hundred nationalities all these people just to lead this kind of event which is all the night by the government and promoted by the government to send out

a strong message to all the communities living in the u.a.e. and i'm sure that for people who are outside of the u.a.e. the message is very clear that it. has an open door policy it's a welcome people of all nationalities color creed religion that is a message that has gone out and i think this kind of creates for the you know the idea of safety and security and peace and harmony that people feel here so i think that is very important especially for the rest of the country but angela to what extent does this message reflect the reality for christians living in the u.a.e. and more generally on the arabian peninsula. i would say that. as a journalist was well in this country you know there are. various churches that are built in the u.a.e. even during the specifics you know they have find that called to build to

a church and the. christians on various denominations. the freedom of worship there are more temples to temple to are there clinical people worship so that is what is important i think you know sending out this message of tolerance especially in the fact you really have dedicated your tolerance. i think the ground reality is exactly what you have witnessed here people who live in harmony. discriminated against religion or race. and you know shankar with a college times in me thank you for sharing your perspective with us. thank you not too a problem occupying germany's policymakers how does europe strongest economy stay strong in the face of billions of chinese investment and the u.s. is a dominant position in digital tech germany's economy mississippi to lie has just given

a speech outlining the country's industry strategy here's what he had to say. i mean we are achieving a turnaround as germany moves from being a passive reserve and the development of a switch or influence swing in the u.s. japan and selling them all to after that mark the article and we must approach it in an impartial and confident way the determination to succeed was a little. bit. of. ok joining me now is my colleague monica jones from business says welcome monica before we talk about the strategy first tell me i mean jelly is the largest economy in europe why does it need an industry strategy what if you've mentioned some of the things in your introduction already i mean for one there's this huge competition obviously and china's big appetite for german technology and the competition when it comes to the new technology especially it did digitalisation in the united states and there germany is lagging behind dreadfully i remember and you will remember that just

a couple of months ago we heard and industry survey cut which was released by the o.e.c.d. which actually said that germany was. had the highest innovation level of all the industrialized countries but that is misleading because that only refers to research and development to the amount of peyton's that we put forward which is all brilliant but when it comes to implementing the most innovations real business ideas real products that is what germany is lacking behind and just to give you an example of which is it's always the same example it hasn't changed in germany we still have vast areas where fast internet access is not possible and that's a big problem for the companies there they can't you know develop a. intelligence which is something that the economy minister likes to quote and mention an awful lot or autonomous driving which could be key for the german car industry is impossible in those regions and that needs to be tackled though we heard a bit of what the german economy minister had to say peter briefly some of what do

you think is the strategy is going to be well one of course is to develop key technologies in germany and that brings us back to the digital infrastructure right now the germany has a competition for companies to bring in their bits for the roll out of the very fast five g. internet by the way chinese away the very controversial company is also allowed to to submit its bid and this is exactly the problem already here way already holds some sixty percent of technical infrastructure which is currently needed for our mobile phones here in germany if we said all right we want to have a law on national champions which is what the strategy is all about what that means you would have to separate she away and that means that would throw us back something like two years which we would need more in order to get five g. so. that national strategy still has to prove that it's actually working monica just thank you very much and i'm sure you have more on that story in business news

. may was known in india as the king of good times vision the owner of the indian kingfisher beer who also known as the kingfisher airlines but now the billionaire business tycoon effect to return home to face charges of money laundering and fraud this off the u.k.'s home secretary approved a demand for his extradition. this is the man the indian government has been trying to get its hands on for two years t.j. malya shown here on his way to course in december moved to the u.k. in twenty sixteen he left behind him in india over a billion. alors in unpaid debts among the lenders to come ashore see india station owned idea. monday's ruling which malia can appeal means he can be extradited to his home country to face charges of money laundering and fault for. responding to

the decision india's finance minister our own jackley tweeted modi government clear is one more step to get extradited going on to accuse the opposition of supporting scam stories in an unrelated matter. the case has become the focal point of indian prime minister new ranter modi's pledge to crack down on what he calls crony capitalism. t.j. malia and michelle made his fortune from kingfisher beer after inheriting the company that makes it from his father he later branched into formula one racing state in control of the force india formula one team until as recently as june of last year but it was aviation that was his downfall the charges against him relate to the collapse of kingfisher airlines in twenty twelve. india's government accuses the tycoon of conspiring with bank actives to obtain large loans he had no intention of repaying malia maintains the airlines demise was

a legitimate business failure trip and largely by high oil prices. and to a new development in the so-called fourth for leaks the whistleblowing platform that has revealed some of the key aspects of the global football business group into a major source for the stunning revelations has now gone public for the first time after his recent arrest speaking to the german broadcaster. secret location in budapest it's here in this modest apartment building we're told wants to give his side of the story. on january sixteenth last he was arrested in the hungary in capital in response to a portuguese arrest warrant on charges of attempted extortion and cyber crimes. he's under house arrest wearing an ankle monitor while awaiting a decision on whether he is a whistleblower who legally obtained the documents which could exonerate him or

whether he is a cyber criminal. which could lead to extradition. war what matters for me and for football leaks is the documents are authentic i don't care about the origin i'm a whistleblower so i have i have to expose and we have to jordan. the real deal and among those documents are details of confidential plans for an elite superleague or for president john you frontino helped top european clubs get around the financial fair play rules who have been also admitted to contacting sports investment company under a false name a meeting was organized which led to accusations of attempted extortion. i think i was naive if. i did. i mean something stupid i decided to play with them and basically said that yeah i have some documents.

and they wanted i wanted to see their reaction i wanted i wanted to know. how. how valuable were these documents for them i want i wanted to know what for how far they were ready to go. into faces up to ten years in prison in portugal if convicted. i have beaten or both. because i'm a target and. and i feel that at the moment i will enter portuguese jail mostly ollie's been jail. i can end up that. i'm aware of. a home gary in court times until march nineteenth to decide if peter will be extradited to his native portugal. with me now i

have chris had intended from these thoughts welcome chris it is a little bit about the football or listen the background to what sort of revelations have been coming out over the past year well first off the history behind it it started as a website twenty fifteen you know the biggest story the most recent revelation is has been surrounding krishna rinaldo this alleged rape case he's dealing with it's on going to the united states specifically las vegas nevada so that's the biggest states continues to make headlines you know but as we heard of the report you know that alleging that gianni if it's you know if president was involved in helping clubs evade the financial fair play rules you know these things obviously caused a lot of outcry of justice you know in the public but it really changed when spud locations such as desk beagle and just a network of investigative journalist started reporting on these issues and that's

why it's come to light and what's going to be no a budget. situation and the allegations that he's facing well the allegations are quite. serious you know he's dealing with the portuguese government you know are trying to charge him with extortion violation of secrecy and also accessing information illegally you know and i think that's the biggest issue that he'll have to deal with but he did give stiff spiegel and investigative journalists seventy million documents of the information so we haven't had enough time to go through all of these different types of things that might come to light you know soon enough but there's a lot of information to filter through and as of right now it's just very interesting and peculiar case and i really i feel fearful for what could happen to paint oh absolutely and so is he we heard in our report that he says he is a target how serious is the situation for him well for him in portugal specifically one thing that he's accused of doing is excessive information that

suggests been fico portugal's most successful club was dealing had some misconduct and they ultimately were charged with corruption and portugal you know being a hotbed of football fans if he is extradited that's what he's waiting for two for it to be decided if he is extradited he's received death threats via facebook authorities have told them take those quite serious he basically describes the situation in portugal is being the mafia is everywhere those are his own words so i think you have to take very seriously what we heard last from him in the report that his life could be on the line and i do hope you know for the best in this particular outcome and if you then you see this going chris given the number of documents how much is it going to thomas what we all call the beautiful game i think the gilded age is over the the idea of having heroes and putting them up on a pedestal is over because once we find out this instrument aiding information about someone obviously we're going to look at them in

a different light so i think reputations are at stake and in terms of what he will be classified will also warn future people you know whether or not they should follow in his footsteps so i think that's in march that should happen so we have to wait and see what the courts in hungary decide dr chris huntington must fall assess thank you very much ok. do stay with me now for kickoff and with the bundesliga highlights of match state twenty five.

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