already. digital. storage portrayed on d w. this is d w news live from berlin china's far away goes on the offensive the tech company is suing the us government it says that a law limiting its access to the american market is unconstitutional. also coming up a german court handed down prison sentences to four man accused of operating one of the world's biggest child pornography platforms on the dark net. persona non-grata

out venezuela's government expels german ambassador daniel creamer for backing opposition leader one why don't you germany says why though still has its unwavering support. is glad to see it really as harmless as producers say and e.u. court now says officials have to release studies on just how safe the controversial weed killer really is. i'm serious i was gonna thank you for joining us the chinese tech giant way is suing the u.s. for limiting its access to the american market for telecom equipment one 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 hurt our servers and the story are you merril's and this. 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 wild ways chief financial officer among wang jew 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 an already 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 that all risk it also adds tension to an already complicated trade relationship between the world's top two economies. monica jones from good of you 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 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 sing 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 writer 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 does were always move mean for those top. 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 folks 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 d.w. business following this thank you so much for your analysis. now a german court has handed down prison sentences of between three and ten years to four man accused of operating a dark net 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 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 and i was playing 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 brunt is

following this case for us these convicted men 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 the sentences are significant because it's the people who are around this network who had the service who have ministered the whole thing who have been convicted no no no in other words 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. high highest sentences severest sentence was given to a man who is also being convicted of himself abusing two children by which it was arranged through this network so that's the that's the gamut of. convictions that was that was pos 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 sort of try 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 a strategy 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 or it's an important best again 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 to 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 brian thank you. you're watching the news that still to come an about face in hungary as the ruling party and their party they're a greaser a place a controversial set of anti e.u. billboards a correspondent and would ask explain. first first let's catch up on some other stories making news around the world french cardinals phillipe back at home says he will resign as an archbishop of new york she announced a decision after a court found him guilty of failing to inform authorities about sexual abuse

allegations against a 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. a u.s. senator says she was raped by a superior while serving in the military martha mcsorley told a congressional hearing she didn't report the incident then because she didn't trust the system like sally was the first a female combat air force pilot she was appointed senator for arizona in december after her predecessor stories or 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 of the company would encrypt conversations on more of its messaging services and make them compatible but he cautioned that details of his plan could change as facebook consults experts throughout this year. to lawmakers from india's governing party b j p have apologized for fighting during a hearing in the state of with our probation footage of the problems gone viral in india one of the men hit another man with his shoe

a weapon considered unclean and especially offensive in india. hungary and prime minister viktor orban reportedly wants his ruling party if it is to stay in the conservative european people's party bloc in the european parliament that's according to or bonds chief of staff the aide also said that few days would replace controversial billboards that prompted european conservatives to call for the party to be expelled from the e.p. . the billboards link commission president shanghai juga and u.s. billionaire george soros to an alleged plot to destroy european civilization through mass migration about fitness has rejected demands that it toned down its anti immigrant rhetoric. let's get more on the story with journalist stefan bosu standing by in the budapest hi stephanie so tell us more about what is behind this dispute between hungary's siddhis and other european conservative

parties. parties or do people support you really believe marks. you're right it is a. yard's for the evening. and time migration campaign we keep most of the suggest the one you see behind me against the european commission president jumped out at you as well as the gallery and american billionaire george soros they say it's no longer acceptable in our party we already have been under pressure over news to break down on the media and the poor it's so they have hated mr prime minister viktor orban and they want to him to basically change his ways and he says apparently that he will does it mean that he's changing his tune as well. no absolutely not because to date there has been no just a statement that the suit by the hungry alien moving scene just party tents and

they have made clear that they are not going to change their ways they see they will want you to i want a cool party discipline they say this is more important to protect europe against an influx of migrants then party discipline so they have made clear that's done you know you run it has to be the orbán then to be so willing to just party will see you the way to do right now so i think people will come to a youngster to be tough battle on the march the twenty eighth when their d e p p s summit is going to take place so they're not changing their tone you're saying step on what is behind this decision then to change these billboards. i think will what is good and decent is denser you know your prime minister viktor orban a believe so honestly in his view that that we set a threat to europe or we've seen what he calls an invasive mostly migrants that's

why he wants to stop that now at the same time he just already did counts that the current campaign will stop all boxed the team bought and now since he won't be changed there will be a lot of calls to get they a whole thing defers vice president holds the european commission bronstein for months so they will call to you and of course from statement he said the main candidate for the socialist so he did european election so he will continue we so he skipped thing and said they are not going to change their way. general staff on both speaking to us from budapest thank you. the here opinion says it hopes that venezuela will reconsider its decision to expel german ambassador daniel cranor cracka says he's a person persona non grata and is demanding that he leave the country as accused cranor of interfering in venezuela's internal affairs after i express a port for opposition leader why the 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's opposition controlled national assembly. germany backs one quite 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 the disease power has no right to declare anyone persona non-grata this is simply a threat and that's how it should be seen by the free world the german ambassador and his country have helped bring in humanitarian i. mean it's seems the madeira regime want tolerate anyone who wants to help venice why la. i wouldn't say that

the german envoy was among a group of diplomats he 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. i dodged a bullet so you'll have to determine government has decided to recognize quote god or 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. and quite is most important backing stepped up its campaign to topple maduro. 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 ta 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. they use top court has ruled the blocks food safety agency has to release details of studies on the controversial weed killer glass to say the european commission had classified classes it is safe they start scientific studies presented by private companies but when a lawmakers demanded access to their studies their request was denied on the basis that it could harm those company's interests. easier to apply cheaper and effective life as a destroys ball unwanted vegetation the only things it leaves growing other crops it's meant to protect the. market and the name around up the herbicide is

a bio monsanto product it's in use on forty percent of germany's farm and. it's also used in over one hundred fifty countries worldwide. since it was introduced in the one nine hundred seventy s. overturn 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 leifer set for the disappearance of many plants which ones grew wild in nature and a corresponding loss of bird and insect populations. when they say trickles down into the groundwater scientists have found traces of blood for certain humans which is crypt into the food chain the world health organization classifies glyphosate as probably carcinogenic to humans. let's get more on the story now with

heidi how tyler one of the lawmakers in the european parliament who had filed the suit she joins us from brussels this hotel a thank you for joining us on g.w. the european food safety agency according to today's ruling now does have to release the studies on life to say so that must be a victory for you did you get what you wanted. yes yes we actually got more than we expected because it's a total victory in the key questions there's an overriding public interest which goes above the commercial interests of the companies in terms of disclosure so health and environment are more important than a company's financial and commercial interests this is wonderful and then the court actually defied the defined the emissions into the environment which was a bit of a key element in the dispute as real that not something which would be just hypothetical so we have a landmark ruling also on the or who is going winston on on public access to

environmental information and which now confirms that when a substance is released into the environment by virtue of its function it will have real emissions and they have to be covered by public access to information so the very good judgement for health and safety nets out why is it so important to find out what is in the studies what you expect to find out about plastic. obviously none of the four of us is a toxicologist and the whole point is that the science by nature has to be peer reviewed and seen some of the data and studies remain confidential according to the previous decision which was now a nod it's impossible for the scientific or community to conduct a peer review and now this is all going to be possible and this will definitely trust the decisions that public offering these are taking but do you think european

commission already declared this weed killer safe are you saying you don't trust that decision. yeah that's that's the whole point that of course if we have access to that information which then can be reassessed and double checked by the scientific community our researchers then then i would say that the trust will be there so as as it was mentioned there was a controversial assessment by two different bodies in this question and that of course raises questions and questions that must be addressed by by further scientific assessment and i believe that if site actually also understands that transparency is key to public trust and. it's a very important public or thore and i hope that they will take do you attention to do this meant so this is about transparency about public interest what do you think this ruling today could actually change on the ground in the way that glyphosate is

used. i don't think there will be any change on the ground unless there's a very strong public attention and maybe more national every street since through the use and there have been national restrictions on close to kindergarten seen public places but the real thing will in my view come when the commission has to to look at the continuation of the permit of life state and that comes in in a few years time so then certainly this ruling has an importance because then the scientific community will have a much better chance to to see that things go right and that the scientific assessment of life is it is correct right heidi hotel or member of the european parliament for the green party thank you very much for joining us. thank you.

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 ahead of what would have been has one hundred fortieth birthday. the precious cargo arriving at jerusalem's hebrew university the gift from a donor in the us 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 us hear . the reality of reflexion 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 naive hope that change was about to come even in germany which. blocked the lung some. and stein never returned to germany in one thousand nine hundred fifty one he here mercifully wrote a close jewish friend who had conferred it 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 compliment thousands of documents already in the hebrew university archives and study was one of the university's founding fathers and entrusted his intellectual legacy to it. in sports manchester united are through to the quarter finals of the champions league after a dramatic finish against paris on germar united took advantage of pearce cheese

defensive lapses in the first half a little cockle scoring twice history responded through one pair not with them in stoppage time the referee checked a replay of the handball incident and gave marcus rush for 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. our mind off our top story on g.w. chinese telecoms trying to our way is suing the u.s. government it says a lot 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 on do you get your news asia people in kashmir attempt

to return to normality after tensions between india and pakistan last week will look at the situation in srinagar. and the images of hate proving popular with the fashion pack in thailand why is nazi iconography the latest range in the country. direction or she will have those stories coming right up on the beat of the news asia don't go away.

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