this is g w news live from berlin china us while weight 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 and also coming up natural beauty and a manmade conflict the himalayan valley of kashmir takes center stage again and a long running dispute between india and pakistan our correspondent needs people there who say that all they want now is peace. a german court hands prison sentences to four man accused of operating one of the world's biggest child

pornography platforms on the dark net. and a new future for facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg says the company will focus on private messages that even facebook won't be able to see but will that help the platform shed past scandals and ward off government regulators. i'm sorry so misconduct thank you for joining us chinese tech giant far away is suing the u.s. for limiting its access to the american market for telecom equipment while way 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 spike on consumers. a shift in tone from defense to accusation the us government has a long. way. it has helped our servers and this story are you merits and this source told allegations of the 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 jones from deed 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 it just gets more and more interesting by the day so me 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. be heyst spying on customers stealing corporate secrets and so forth i mean very strong allegations so far away was sort of very you know almost gentleman like about it a 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 way then it might just have to resort to the chinese market and obviously that's not its interest or into the rhetoric as ask 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 to soirees move mean for those. 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 adviser 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 lashing out 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. a political party linked to thailand's former prime minister thaksin shinawatra has been dealt a big blow just weeks ahead of national elections talent's constitutional court ordered the chart party to be dissolved after finding it guilty of an act hostile to the monarchy last month the party nominated princess obo rocked as its candidate for prime minister she later withdrew after her brother the king declared her

candidacy inappropriate the court has already banned two other parties linked to what he did every years correspondent floria know she has been following the verdict from bangkok. verdict did not come as a surprise after all thai rocks the job 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 prince's rubbed head we now need to roll tide long ago and was there for eligible to run but when 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 tocsin camp to win less than three weeks before thailand's long awaited general elections the country's political future is up in the air. now 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 cardinal phillip home 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 trying to later this year. the e.u.'s top court has ruled the blocks food safety agency must disclose details of studies on the controversial we kill or life a state lawmakers had sued for the studies to be released the european commission had classified life as it is safe but declined to make the studies available critics suspect the crisis that can cause cancer and harms the environment. and aid to hungary and prime minister viktor orban says controversial billboards put up by the ruling suggest party will come down next week but fidel has refused to apologize for it and to anti e.u.

and anti immigrant rhetoric the posters prompted european conservatives to push for a few days to be expelled from their group in the european parliament. a u.s. senator says she was. raped by a superior while serving in the military martha mc sally told a congressional hearing she didn't report the incident them because she didn't trust the system but sally was the first a female combat air force pilot she was appointed senator for arizona in december after her predecessor dr port. and 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 our leader afghan chief executive of dual of do and former president hamid karzai attended the event but were not harmed. here watching the news still to come on our program child sexual abuse images on the dark night a german court and sound prison sentences to four men convicted of running one of

the world's biggest child pornography rings. at least one person has been killed and more than a dozen others wounded in a grenade attack in the city of general in indian administered kashmir the blast targeted a busy bus station and comes amid heightened tensions between india and pakistan since an attack on indian troops in the region in february kashmir is that the heart of a decades old dispute between the two nuclear powers the latest spike in violence is taking a toll on life in indian controlled kashmir our correspondent sonia follicle reports from the summer capital of jungle and kashmir state. push me if the bad guys patrols visitors from all over the world. but ever since a major terror attack and strikes by india pakistan they've stayed away quickly reagents key to his ministry. has been ferrying people across.

into chicago a typical meal bought since he was a young boy. the recent oh boy has scared away his clients and dismayed to the openings. for second the hundred there are about four thousand here five all lost business is a terrible situation. shop even sprains 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 held parts of the 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 same funnies 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 special. here in downtown train about shops and businesses open today after days of intermittent strikes and . causing major disruptions to public life. rio's bonnie's first thought was to stock up on rice if you will when tensions erupted over kashmir last week. who has been through decades of shutdowns and go fuse. and even started his own kitchen garden in his 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 it is the very first days were very scary for us jets funded overhead we heard the news that one or two jets were brought down and people got killed maybe but you can choose what talk now that would be better for everyone. the conflict in kashmir has dragged on for decades. for people here remains elusive in this beautiful coast. a german court has handed down prison sentences of between three and ten years to four men accused of operating a dark knight platform for child sexual abuse images the platform was called elysium and it was one of the largest such websites in the world. it took prosecutors months to gather the evidence the four men work used of setting up and

operating a child pornography platform on the darkness and investigators said the men had managed the illegal pornographic content on the elysium network just not to the out of us of the material posted on elysium showed every kind of abuse imaginable of children and teenagers 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. our political correspondent hans front is following

this case for us is going to victim and received sentences of between three and ten years why is there such a big difference in the length of these sentences. well first of all this is a sense that there's a significant because it's the people who are around this network who have the service who have ministered the whole thing who have been convicted not in law and the other was not simple uses. and the extent to which they were involved the extent to which they. actually were involved in the administration of this network is some reflection of the severity of the sentences they high highest sentences if you're a sentence was given to a man who is also being convicted of himself abusing two children by an abuse that was arranged through this network so that's the that's the gamut of. convictions that was that was passed today the investigation into this platform comes from a cooperation between germany and australia what can you tell us about that. well

this network was of initially set up apparently once another network of similar nature had been shot down by the australian police and the australians managed to attract on this network and in fact to some extent kept it going for a while and set a trap to some of its uses a so-called honey trap to attract people and to try and track the actual people that were involved and there were in fact in australia able to find out then that the service of those network were positioned in germany were in germany and then passed on the information to the german authorities so it was very important in this case that there was an international cooperation amongst the investigating with or to use rights an important vest a geisha in the prison sentences are significant but this network had more than one hundred thousand users isn't it likely that the platform has already been replaced with something else that's very likely yes indeed the demand for this kind of

material appears to be there and it's likely that there will be further such platforms being set up and one has to say that this kind of abuse takes place almost daily in fact in germany there's a very big case being investigated at the moment of children that have been abused on the camping side in western germany so yes this kind of thing has to one has to say it continues and the prosecutions obviously have to continue as well. our political correspondents front thank you. the european union says it hopes that venezuela will reconsider its decision to expel german ambassador daniel crean are correct s.s. he is a persona non-grata and as a man in that he leaves the country it's accused creator of interfering in venezuela's internal affairs after he expressed support for opposition leader while germany is among a number of countries backing why those bed to oust president nicolas maduro.

lonely freedom says this lawmaker thanking germany his words applauded by deputies in venezuela is opposition controlled national assembly with. germany backs one venezuela's 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 that is used to power has no right to declare anyone persona non-grata this is simply a threat that's how it should be seen by the free world the german ambassador and his country have helped bring in humanitarian i. think it's aims to madeira regime won't tolerate anyone who wants to help them that's why law. already is with the german envoy was among a group of diplomats who met at the airport on his return to caracas on monday

helping him of a direct. 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 they go had the german 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 position prime minister live. and quite is most important back stepped up its campaign to topple maduro. 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 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 maduro and his opponents abroad. as venezuela's political crisis deepens facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg says his company plans to shift its focus to private messaging services and a post on his own profile page soccer burge said the company would encrypt conversations on more of its messaging services and make them compatible he said people increasingly want to connect privately in the digital equivalent of a living room. and our digital reporter jared reed has been looking into this for us what is mark zuckerberg up to here what is this all about good christians we all know facebook. networks connects people around the world but now mocks like

a bird has his sights set on what we say in private on the messaging platforms the facebook on and so the platforms like what's up instagram and facebook misson just like you said it wants to make those platforms compatible with each other so if i chat to you on facebook messenger and you reply on whatsapp you know that they can sort of talk to each other and it wants to add a layer of security by making missa just sense on these platforms encrypted so that means only able to be read by the person they're intended for and that means facebook itself can't get its hands on those messages. and it wants to copy something that's not doing whereby messages itself delayed after a certain period of time and basically the messaging market is growing a lot at the moment it's growing faster than facebook's traditional business of being a social network so it's trying to tap into that as well and be more privacy for privacy friendly but that's nothing facebook is really known for is it facebook set

a pretty shocking to use i mean we've had the cambridge analytical scandal where the daughter of some eighty seven million users ended up in the hands of a political consultancy that works for donald trump and then we've had you know interference in that election from from just like russia and just more generally misinformation in general extremism hate speech abuse they've all found a place on facebook and had to go to the u.s. congress and to the european parliament and explain himself and i guess the real challenge for him and everyone that works at facebook is trying to convince everyone that they are actually serious about privacy and to calm these coals up every so often that facebook should received. some sort of regulation what i need to point out too is that even if facebook does encrypt the messages we send in private on it's platforms it's still got everything else so whatever we do on facebook and on the internet as well it can still. not doctor and work out how to

best sell ads to us so this is just one one part of it we're just talking about messaging specifically us right so what are critics saying about this latest move well people are pointing out that just two years ago facebook said that its goal was to be more open and connected and suddenly now we're supposed to believe that it wants to do the exact opposite some people are saying it is trying to put the competition regulators length because by merging the compatibility of the messaging services into one. stop competition regulators trying to limit how much dot facebook shares between each of these messaging services and people are saying he's kind of jumping on the privacy bandwagon if you like by trying to keep facebook the dominant player here because we have to keep in mind you know billions of people use facebook services in some form or another i saw one funny tweet that said

facebook putting a focus on privacy is like a fast food giant prioritising healthy eating so still a bit of skepticism all right our digital reporter jared ranger thank you so much. now israel's hebrew university has released a new collection of albert einstein's manuscripts from a private collector in the u.s. the documents have never been displayed in public before and experts say they could shed new light on the mind of the nobel prize winning physicist head of what would have been his one hundred fortieth birthday. the precious cargo arriving at jerusalem's hebrew university the gift from a donor in the u.s. has arrived just in time for albert einstein's one hundred fortieth birthday. over one hundred documents and letters penned by the physics genius will now be made available to the public for the first time they let the people here. really reflect him as a mensch and he says this letter is signed papa einstein wrote it while in exile to

his son in switzerland in the letter he expresses his great fear the rise of the nazis. but he maintained a knife hope the change was about to come even in germany. blot the young some then did. einstein never return to germany in one thousand nine hundred fifty one he here mercifully wrote a close jewish friend who had conferred to christianity telling him you certainly won't go to hell sometimes he expressed his views bluntly he was a man with two feet of me on the ground most of the new documents are working notes among them one hitherto unknown one stemming from his decades long search for a unified field theory the trove will complement thousands of documents already in the hebrew university archives and studied was one of the university's founding

fathers and intrusted his intellectual legacy to it. sports now and manchester united are through to the quarterfinals of the champions league after a dramatic finish against persons or mom united took advantage of the defensive laps in the first half or middle cockle scoring twice responded through one or not but then and stoppage time the referee checked the replay of the handball incident and gave marcus rushford the chance to win it with a penalty kick which he did pressure to manchester united are through to the final eight of the champions league. tuesday's other champions league game also had a dramatic ending porto got past thanks to another controversial penalty roma led the match up after the first leg but porto managed to push the match up into extra time and in the waning minutes alex tell us scored from the penalty spot to put the portuguese team through. are minor now of our top story here i d

w chinese telecoms giant while way is suing the u.s. government it says along 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. coming up conflict zone temp sebastian sits down with philip plummer a member of the european parliament stay with us. to

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