this is d.w. news live from berlin china's far away goes on the offensive the tech company is suing the u.s. government it says that a law limiting its access to the american market is unconstitutional. also coming up natural beauty and a manmade conflict the heavily in valley of kashmir takes center stage again a long running dispute between india and pakistan our correspondent meets people there who say that all they want now is peace. persona non-grata and as well as government that spells german ambassador daniel printer for backing opposition

leaders want why the germany says for those still has its unwavering support. and is glad to say really is harmless us producers say and each of course now says officials have to release studies on just how safety controversial retailer really yes. i'm sunni so much going to thank you for joining us. chinese tech giant while way is suing the united states for limiting its access to the american market for telecom equipment huawei is challenging a u.s. law that labels the company a security risk and bars federal agencies from buying its telecom products always legal challenge comes at a critical point for trade negotiations between the u.s. and china. for years while way has sought to reassure the world of two things

that it is not under the control of the chinese government and that it doesn't spy on consumers. a shift in tone from defense to accusation the us government has a long. way straight it has helped our servers and this story are you merits and a source told allegations of american government interference and theft of corporate secrets while ways message to the united states we can play the blame game two hours before the announcement the backdrop to what's becoming an ever escalating dispute while waves chief financial officer among you leaving her house in canada for an appearance in course she's been detained in the country since december accused of helping her company violates u.s. sanctions on iran she claims the arrest violated her rights and is politically

motivated. while ways decision to sue the american government to a ready high cost conflict the u.s. effort to get allies to shun the firm threatens to bar the company from major markets and puts billions of dollars of investment in super high speed five g. networks out of risk it also adds tension to an already complicated trade relationship between the world's top two economies. monica johns from date of your business has been following this story for us hi monica this is now going to the courts far away says it's being unfairly discriminated against what do you make of that as just gets more and more interesting by the day so mean this whole you could surmise like what goes around comes around i mean that is an interesting shift in tone certainly so far because these accusations are not new and so far away has taken a very defensive stance even though it was accused of having far too close links to

the chinese government's you know doing everything at beijing's. behavior spying on customers stealing corporate secrets and so forth have been very strong allegations so far away was sort of very you know almost gentleman like about it very quiet dramatic shift in tone now it's suing the u.s. government saying that the ban the u.s. government has implemented is unlawful pointing out rightly so that the u.s. has so far failed to actually provide any evidence for the accusations and i think that is very interesting also saying that the u.s. is with its actions misleading the public and i think there we get to the core of what's happening now because your way knows what's at stake is a very successful company it is the world's largest or second largest smartphone provider and it is the leader in five g. technology which is highly sought after the whole world needs it just remember that five g. fast internet absolutely necessary in order to have smart mobility smart cities

automated driving without five g. you can forget about all this so all the big nations of course want to have five g. she way is the market leader there but doesn't do any good if the world doesn't trust she a way then it might just have to resort to the chinese market and obviously that's not its interest to the rhetoric as ask elating we can't forget this comes at a time where the u.s. and china are trying to talk their way out of a trade dispute essentially what does what ways move mean for those talks well. officially they are not part of those talks but of course if a chinese company is suing the u.s. government at any time not just now doesn't go down too well it is very sensitive and it is highly political and it will certainly weigh on those talks the former advisor of the obama administration i think only last night even sort of almost

gave donald trump a compliment that he's sort of having an edge in those talks over china so let's see how this now moves with this new element of your way basically signaling hold on you know you can't just go on now against us because we have an ace up sleeve and that is the five g. signal logy and we're not that forgiving so you might need us as much as we need you all right monica jones from business following this thank you so much for your analysis. now a political party linked to thailand's a former prime minister texan shinawatra has been dealt a big blow just weeks ahead of national elections thailand's constitutional court ordered the thai rak such party to be dissolved after finding it guilty of an act hostile to the monarchy now last month the party nominated princess as its candidate for prime minister she later withdrew her after her brother became declared her candidacy in appropriate the court house were already banned to other

parties linked to show what. is correspondent floria know she has been following the verdict from bangkok. the verdict did not come as a surprise after all thai rocks that shot is already the third party affiliated with ousted former prime minister taksin shinawatra that gets the boot by thailand's constitutional court many party supporters view the ban as politically motivated they argue princes rudd had we now know to roll tide long ago and was there for eligible to run the. the king voiced his dismay there was little room left for maneuver with today's sentence more than two hundred fifty m.p. candidates have been removed from the race reducing chances of the talks in camp two when less than three weeks before thailand's long awaited general elections the country's political future is up in the air. florian nish reporting for us there you're watching the news still to come natural beauty and

a manmade conflict our correspondent visits the himalayan valley of kashmir once again the backdrop for the decades old animosity between india and pakistan. but first let's catch up on some other stories making news around the world a french court has found the country's most senior catholic cleric guilty of covering up sexual abuse allegations leon cardinal phillip was handed a six month suspended sentence for failing to inform authorities about accusations against a pedophile priest that priest has confessed to abusing boys in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's and will be tried later this year. facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg says his company which owns whatsapp and instagram plans to shift its focus to private messaging services and the post on his own profile page dr burke said the company would encrypt conversations on more of its messaging services and make them compatible but he cautioned that the details of his plan could change just facebook consults experts throughout the year. the so-called

islamic state has claimed responsibility for an attack that killed three people in the afghan capital kabul the blasts targeted a ceremony marking the anniversary of the death of a prominent leader afghan chief executive of do a doula and former president hamid karzai attended the event but were not harmed. and two lawmakers from india's governing party the b j p have apologized after fighting during a hearing in the state of what are president bush footage of the brawl is gone viral in india one of the men had another man with this. to a weapon considered unclean and especially offensive in india. now at least one person has been killed and more than a dozen injured by a grenade blast in indian controlled kashmir police say that the grenade exploded after being thrown under a bus at the main bus station in the city at least four of the injured are in critical condition there has been no claim of responsibility but the incident comes

at a time of heightened tensions in the region india and pakistan edged close to a full blown conflict last week after an attack on troops in indian controlled kashmir in february our correspondent sonia found a car sent us this report from srinagar the capital of indian administered kashmir . me it's a bad guys visitors from all over the world. but ever since a major terror attack and strikes by india pakistan. region key to his may disagree . moment has been fairly across. in chicago a typical. since he was a young boy. the recent has always clients and dismay to this. there are about four thousand here five business is

a terrible situation. springs have seen the income wax and wane over the years. in line with the militant attacks protests and crackdowns that inflame tensions in the indian him region. i don't know what the problems are between india and pakistan kashmir is passed between them like a football is just used politically. it's a sentiment shared by many on the streets of srinagar indian administered kashmir soldiers are everywhere the recent war games between india and pakistan have added to the sense of unease no one was willing to speak out on camera why tensions between india and pakistan are winding down after last week's aerial strikes a climate of fear prevails in the heavily militarized. here in downtown chicago

shops and businesses are open today after days of intermittent strikes and. causing major disruptions to public life. rears bonnie's first thought was to stock up on rice if you will when tensions erupted over kashmir last week because the us. has been through decades of shutdowns and go fuz . lives and even started his own kitchen garden in this backyard to prepare for an emergency. the father of two was terrified for his family when india and pakistan engaged in retaliatory aerial strikes last week just a few hundred kilometers from here but in the entire region and age there is these are the very first days were very scary for us funded ifa had we had the news that one or two jets were brought down and people got killed maybe but you can talk now

about the better for everyone. the conflict in kashmir has dragged on for decades. for people here remains elusive in this beautiful coast valley. venezuela's government has declared germany's ambassador persona non grata and is manning that he leaves the country the foreign minister he accuses danielle cramer of interfering in venezuela's internal affairs that's after he expressed support for opposition leader. germany is among the countries backing by those bid to oust president last month a little. lonely freedom says this lawmaker thanking germany his words applauded by deputies in venezuela's opposition controlled national assembly with. germany backs one. as well as legitimate leader. it seems that's one reason the government of his rival nicolas maduro has

told the german ambassador to leave the country. this regime the disease power has no right to declare anyone persona non-grata this is simply a threat and that's how it should be same by the free world the german ambassador and his country have helped bring in humanitarian i. think it's aims the madeira regime won't tolerate anyone who wants to help then it's why law. the german envoy was among a group of diplomats who met quite the airport on his return to caracas on monday helping him evade arrest. so far is the only one of them to be expelled the government accusing him of meddling in internal affairs germany says this kind of pressure won't work. dodging bullets we go had the chairman government

has decided to recognize one guy do as interim president who should bring about free fair and democratic elections in venezuela this. is completely income prehensile reaction will in no way change our positions kind are still. and quite as most important back steps up its campaign to topple madeira. the united states will revoke seventy seven visas including many officials of the duro regime and their families we will continue to hold them a durable regime accountable until labor target is restored and venezuela. matures expulsion of a western diplomat and the tightening of u.s. sanctions it's just the latest round in the battle between madeira and his opponents abroad. as venezuela's political crisis deepens

our political correspondent hans brandt is tracking this story for us i hands of the german foreign minister has said is in comprehensible that mother was regime would declare the german ambassador persona non-grata but is it because germany has been very vocal with its support for one by both the opposition leader. yes indeed in the last few weeks couple of months germany has again and again criticized the duras regime and emphasize that it sees one guy joe as the legitimate interim president of venezuela that was also reaffirmed by the foreign minister in his reaction to this expulsion of the german ambassador that leaves germany in something of a bind why don't himself in an interview with the german media has said today that germany should ignore this decree by my dura because it does not recognize the doura as president if germany does that obviously it leaves the ambassador in a very difficult situation so what germany has done now is it has saved so many

that it is recalling its own ambassador from venezuela for consultations back to berlin that's the compromise that's been taken at the moment but hans germany is by far not the only country to publicly support those so why is germany here being singled out in some basket or being expelled i think it has something to do with the role of the ambassador himself when more than a dozen ambassadors makes a wide door at the caracas effort in venezuela on monday well coming back to venezuela and preventing him basically from being in a race that by supporters of dura the german ambassador in some sense emerged as a kind of spokes person for that group of investors and i think the venezuelan government and or the of the dora's side of the government needed to find some way of reacting to that situation at the airport and basically that picked on the german ambassador in a first reaction as their. punishment basically for what happened in month on

monday at the port why has venezuela's political crisis become so important to germany. well germany sees itself here very much as part of western alliance the european union in the first row and then of course cooperation with a large number of other countries including of course of the united states canada and a number of south american countries one also has to see that germany is in the united states a united nations security council at the moment where a number of resolutions from the waist criticizing them with their own government putting pressure on it has been blocked has been vetoed by russia and china so what we're looking at here is basically an international confrontation around a country that after all is quite strategically important we have to remember that venezuela is one of the very largest producers of of oil in the world so it's a confrontation that goes way beyond germany and venezuela it's a confrontation between the west and china and russia internationally. reporting

there thank you very much a german court has handed down prison sentences of between three and ten years to four man accused of operating a dark platform for child sexual abuse images it was called elisia and it was one of the largest such websites in the world with more than one hundred thousand or using one hundred thousand user accounts. it took prosecutors months to gather the evidence the four men were accused of setting up and operating a child pornography platform on the dark net investigators said the men had managed the illegal pornographic content on the elysium network was meant to be out of us of the material posted on elysium showed every kind of abuse imaginable of children and teenagers being bought and always played on the victims included newborns and babies the platform was discovered in twenty seventeen and immediately shut down the case made international headlines due to the large number of subscribers investigators found one hundred twelve thousand user accounts paedophiles around

the world were offered photos and videos of the worst kind of child abuse on a platform operated from germany prosecutors said the network allowed the exchange of illegal material to be as easy as online shopping investigators will continue to sift through the evidence and work with international authorities to bring additional prosecutions. the e.u. is top court has ruled that the blocks food safety agency has to release the details of studies on the controversial weed killer to say the european commission had classified sake's based on scientific studies presented by private companies but when you lawmakers demanded access to those studies their request was denied on the basis that it could harm those companies interests. to use or to apply cheaper and effective life as a destroys ball and wanted vegetation the only things it leaves growing other crops

it's meant to protect the. market and the name round up the herbicide is a bio monsanto product it's in use on forty percent of germany's pharma and. it's also used in over one hundred fifty countries worldwide. since it was introduced in the one nine hundred seventy s. overturned million tonnes of life pursuit of been sprayed on crops enough to fill two thousand three hundred lympics swimming pools that makes it the most widely used weed killer in the world. it's also the most controversial environmental protection activists blamed life are set for the disappearance of many plants which once grew wild in nature and a corresponding loss of bird and insect populations. and they say it trickles down into the ground water scientists have found traces of blight for satan humans which is crypt into the food chain the world health organization classifies glyphosate as

probably carcinogenic to humans. let's get more on this story with regard to in brussels had dared to saw a court has ruled today that the european food safety agency has to release the details on the glass to see it on how toxic it is so what happens next. the defendant the e.u. agency can appeal this ruling or the agency can release the studies and publish the data which the plaintiffs want to have. on the ground nothing will change the famous can still use life was saved in the european union to twenty twenty two in this year then the next decision has to be taken if i sense folk life is it will be prolonged and already now e.u. member states can phase out the use of play for state and they can also forbid the use of life inside but so far no member state has chosen that option so bear why

did the european food safety agency why didn't they want to release this information was they were they trying to hide something. this is what the plaintiffs suspected because the studies are made by some of the companies that actually produce and sell. all around the by the used weed killer but the agency said we have to protect the commercial interests of these companies and there is no overriding public interest to publish these data but now the call it says otherwise the court says there is a public interest and you have to to publish but there is. no conspiracy theory as something that that is more a procedural thing that was not ruled on found it is the green party there the european parliament has launched this push to find out more details what do they find i expect to find out about privacy. where the greens at all they give me peace the filed the suit in luxembourg saying we want full transparency we will rebuild

we will have access to the original data and now independence time period can check if these studies are actually correct and the greens do not claim that the agency lied or that there is some hidden things there about life is aids but but these the discussion about drug life is it which is hard to put it together and highly emotional will surely continue to this ruling in those if you take into account that not only in the u. but also in the united states. as action suits running against life a safe ride no long right band record in brussels for a spare and good to talk to you just sports now and manchester united are through to the quarterfinals of the champions league after a dramatic finish against paris on her mom united took advantage of p.s.g. defensive lapses in the first half the male of the couple scored twice at p.s.g. responded through one pair not that in stoppage time the referee checked

a replay of a handball incident and gave marcus rash for the chance to win it with a penalty kick which he did pressured and manchester united are through to the final eight for the champions league. tuesday's other champions league game also had a dramatic ending porto got past roma thanks to another controversial penalty well ma led the match up after the first leg but porto managed to push the game into extra time and in the waning minutes alex tell us scored from the penalty spot to put the portuguese team through. are mind off our top stories here on d w chinese telecom giant twelve way is suing the u.s. government it says a law limiting its access to the u.s. market is unconstitutional the legal challenge comes with trade negotiations between the u.s. and china at a critical point. and venezuela's government has ordered the german ambassador to

leave the country that's after danielle cramer expressed support for opposition leader juan why don't germany is one of the countries backing by those bid to oust president last mughal. don't forget you can always get either you news on the go download or out from google play or from the app store that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as a push notifications for any breaking news you can also use the up you have to send us your photos and your videos. coming up our show focus on it europe will be taking a look at finland's a basic income experiment and we'll tell you why some syrian refugees are afraid to visit their country's embassy share in berlin that's coming up in just a few minutes on a focus on europe to say it was deja vu. i'm

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n turf the conflict zone confronting the powerful. my guest this week here in brussels is the belgian m.e.p. for legal lama who sits on the european parliament's presaged steering committee has the e.u. negotiated in good faith and is on famous for unity of the twenty seven again in chicago it doesn't look like. a conflict zone told. sixty minutes p.w. . players. to. the state can come up. in a poker game of power and money the competition keeps the league's most important natural resource bluffing. checking column what will they be able to play

and who will win this story we believe that renewable energy we play an important role in the future. of computing but you can't economists starting monday on t.w. . hello and a warm welcome to focus on europe glad to have you with us here in europe the number of syrian refugees arriving has dramatically declined after nearly eight years of civil war.