the prize winning documentary from the forest starts people first on t.w. . this is d w news live from maine investigators recover the black boxes from the crust ethiopian airlines flight they could reveal why the a draft went down killing all one hundred fifty seven people on board the weather was clear the plane was new so what went wrong also on the program. reports of looting and people dying in hospitals as venezuela's catastrophic black content is

its fourth day on the country's self declared president calls for lawmakers to declare a state of iraq. prosecutors struck charges against an indonesian public use of assassination of the half private of north korea's leader kim jong un so where does this leave the investigation. i'm phil gail welcome to the program. crash investigators have recovered the black boxes from an ethiopian airlines flight that crashed outside of ideas about on sunday morning the boeing seven three seven knots eight bound from nairobi went down six minutes after takeoff killing all one hundred fifty seven people on board and raising concerns about the safety of boeing's best selling new design. after daybreak red cross workers retrieve the personal items of those on board the

flight. while investigators recover the wreckage. a large crater marks the spot of impact a cattle farmer who was heading to the field witnessed the crash. i heard this big noise. the village said it was a plane crash and we rushed to the site. there was so much smoke that we couldn't even see the plane parts of it were disintegrating and exploding so we couldn't get any closer. ethiopian authorities are leading the search aided by the u.s. kenya and others as the country held a day of mourning the airline announced they were grounding their seven three seven max fleet other countries are following suit because the same boeing model crashed just five months ago in indonesia. the victims of sunday's accident include people

from thirty five countries in nairobi the united nations environment assembly paid tribute to their colleagues who died on the way to the conference. is to be more let us to be frank that i welcome. to travel and work far from their homes and local ones who have made a bet the place to live there you know that nation's ofis at nairobi is ready to support all dispatch by this tragedy the crash has affected people across the world they are hoping the investigation will tell them why their loved ones didn't make it home. let's go to nairobi or find a topic correspondent to. welcome melanie so a day what is the mood that. yes i'm here at the airport where the five eighty three are two was expected to arrive yesterday of

course it didn't and here as well as in the rest of the city you can really feel that all of kenya is mourning asking the question what happened we've been waiting for updates all day long but the has been very little information because there hasn't been a major development we have learned though that the families will be told later this week when the bodies of their loved ones can be returned and buried and of course the two black boxes have been found in ethiopia so now that those data recorders have been recovered what happens next. yes they have been recovered that was the flight data recorder and the voice recorder from the cockpit but an official told us that he is not sure how much information can actually be retrieved from them because they are partly damaged international forensic experts will be helping but the investigation in the meantime as you've heard in our report earlier if you open and as well as other and have grounded the boeing seven three seven max and until we know what caused the crash

a melody we're learning more now about the people on board. information is trickling in on the people who were on the plane or who were part of this tragic accident who died some of them for example ugandan christine she was a police commissioner under the banner of the african union mission in somalia and colleagues called her a very important part of the force who was always loving her job very dedicated we also had a german pastor on board his call his name was norman tenders he died at fifty one years old he was on his way to the u.n. environment summit and cedric. who was kenyan was on his way to nairobi because the mother of his fiance had died and these really are just a few of the personal stories behind the numbers. the nairobi airports i think you

. well it has been forced to hold most of its oil exports following a power blackout that is paralyzed its main export terminal an oil processing facility along with much of the rest of the country on the fifth day of power outages the people of the country are struggling to cope and that of reports of looting with horses have been unable to say when the problem will be resolved country's president blames it on an act of sabotage backlog united states critics however say that the outage is a result of corruption i'm from mismanagement. and as you can imagine venezuelans have been using social media to share their experiences and to do what they can to help each other at the digital reporter i mean i see first been looking into this force welcome i mean what if you found well are using social media as a media first and foremost just to share stories journalists there have been reporting that if you turn the t.v.

on you're more likely to see a soap opera than actual coverage of this crisis that's going on there so people are sure sharing stories of their experiences reporting on lootings water shortages in certain areas we found a photo of somebody posted a phone charging station where they were charging a dollar for ten minutes to charge your phone you can take a look at that here if you don't mind the dollars the u.s. dollars it's not very easy to come by in venezuela so quite expensive just for ten minutes and also just to note we also have this photo that a woman posted of her son trying to study by candlelight to do his homework there and she said that hopefully venezuela is nearing the end of this tunnel here. so even though there's a vest no power that's no excuse not to do your homework and people offering help yes that's right people are also using social media to to offer services to one another so for example hospitals are having a lot of they have power shortages just like the rest of the country they have to deal with patients who need dialysis so anybody who doesn't have emergency medical

condition is getting pushed to the back of the line so we found stories of doctors who had posted on social media offering their services free of charges we also found an example of a chef who posted on instagram. the thing is that food shortages are a problem preserving food is something a lot of people are having to do with out of frederator now so chef posted this video on instagram explaining how to preserve food. we do to preserve our food well we have no electricity proteins in silt pushing sultana bowl and covering the protein with us to keep the protein in the fridge to stop us absorbing to my chair. be kept in. if there's no water and cover it with cloths to keep it cool that's how it can serve us i want to do it isn't me. that's a very sweet video but obviously there's

a tragedy there that a chef is not posting on instagram about her favorite recipe how to make her favorite sauce or whatever she's posting on the basics of survival so that clearly that the situation is that desperate but you found something uplifting as right a journalist. gonzalez posted a video of a wedding that she attended in caracas almost completely in the dark we can see the video here actually it was a touching moment the one had with the wedding you know there was no lights and she wrote that in the midst of the chaos and pain that all venezuelans feel this image shows that no one can stop our determination to overcome adversity. so of course there's a lot of stories out there of people dealing with this crisis in creative ways but of course as this crisis continues if it continues things are going to get worse and we also may not be hearing as many stories because the internet usage has gone down ninety percent people are not able to charge the phones as we've seen so

social media is going to become less and less practical as this crisis continues safe with reports from venezuela thank you so much for. well take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world japan is marking the eight found a version of the earthquake and tsunami that struck its north east in twenty eleven officials and members of the imperial family attended a memorial service in tokyo the disaster killed more than eight hundred thousand people caused a nuclear meltdown the fukushima power station. spain has been marking the fiftieth anniversary of the terror attacks that killed one hundred ninety three people in the capital literate prime minister petter sanches and city officials later braith a memorial on the eleventh of march two thousand and four bombs planted by al qaeda terrorists exploded of crowded commuter trains. several people have been left

injured after powerful storms swept across parts of southern poland gale force winds tore down roofs toppled trees and power lines and damaged railway tracks hundreds of thousands of households suffered power cuts. and indonesian woman held on suspicion of killing the half brother of north korean leader kim jong un has been freed after charges against what dropped a city. was accused of poisoning kim jong un with a nerve agent at kuala lumpur airport two years ago the trial against her vietnamese codefendant a dog t. while a still shuttle to continue. the relief. even a smile a city i'm sure is finally a free woman often murder charges against her unexpectedly dropped. they often have you so happy. i didn't expect it. today

is my freedom day. today by the way. it is. the engine the shim was one of two women held on suspicion of killing came jong nam these strange tough brother. of the north korean leader kim jong un. c.c.t.v. footage from february twenty seven teen shows him a kuala lumpur international airport in malaysia at this point it's alleged the women smeared the deadly nerve agent expe on his face here he's seen describing to security guards want to happened and is a schoolteacher to the medical clinic at the airport just minutes later he collapsed he died on the way to hospital. the city i sure has always denied murder claiming she and another woman were tricked into carrying the nerve agent by north korean spies part of a prank for a reality t.v. show the stooge truly believe she's merely

a scapegoat and she's innocent. there was no direct evidence that she had played anything on you don't know the fact that those that will follow you do not have to be in the city i shall vote for don t. one of the other person accused of kim jong un's assassination no such reprieve the vietnamese seen here on the left is sent to be traumatized that she has not also been freed. it's still unclear why city i sure has been released but having faced execution she can now enjoy getting her life back. here in germany the leader of the conservative christian democrat party has put it down for all calls from the french president to reform the european union but here the german newspaper devout. about rejected key points of emanuel macross vision of

germany's response didn't come from chancellor merkel perhaps signal that berlin has little appetite for change. if the manual mccrone was expecting an answer from agel america to his vision for the european union he may be disappointed last week mccrone launched an e.u. wide media blitz his column outlining a more integrated e.u. appeared in every one of the blocks twenty eight member states but merkel didn't write back instead she left that to her likely successor as chancellor on a great credit cowan bauer who already took over for america as leader of the conservative c.d.u. party in a column of her own krakow and our agreed on the need to strengthen the e.u. she backs mccrone proposal to process asylum claims that the e.u. has extra no borders but she came out against an e.u. wide minimum wage and she has little interest in a common euro zone budget her points are coming under fire especially from the social democrats to see the use coalition partner. we'd like to see more boldness

in this debate aiming for a european minimum wage was part of our coalition agreement and we're sticking to that. view no fest america is facing criticism for not being the one to lay out germany's position but in a press conference today she framed the issue as a matter of politics not policy. i think it's very good that i think they've come as head of the c.d.u. posse has stated the c.d.'s position for the upcoming european parliamentary elections. in via come from. but without agreement in the government the french president may have to wait for germany's position which mccrone has been doing for much of his time as france's leader let's get over political correspondents a mechanic welcome michela how different are these two visions of your. well they are different in certain areas some of which we just heard in that report

another one is a more fundamental one is that come cousin bar the conservative c.d.u. leader believes in the euro where nation states also play a role where the whole notion of subsidiarity agreeing things at the lowest possible level should prevail over what was much more grounds talk that came from the french president here it would have hardly though been of surprise for him that the whole idea of having a euro zone budget and blunt rather blunt rejection by germany of sharing debt standing in for each other's debt was something that germany would be opposed by but of course the really important issue here is that we hear this response from the conservative c.d.u. party to not the german chancellor that we're looking at a rift between germany and france or is this just part of the political discussions

that will inevitably happen is not a rift only a couple of weeks away from germany and france renewing the vows under what's known as the treaty where both actually commit themselves to work towards joint foreign policy in the future also standing in on the side of france for a permanent seat for germany in the u.n. security council which would be a rather big step where i think they'd come cambo i hear depart from that saying she wants to see a seat for the european union that was essentially potentially in danger france's see that so it is a toughening of tone and probably a signal of what could be to come if and if they have to come calm bar was to become chance and as we heard in there for the response from from a cake a rather chancellor merkel the chancellor that's saying something to do with me what do you make of this. well i think is the clearest indication we've seen yet

that there is a sarah and notable sharing of political power here already going on within not just the c.d.u. part of but party but also projecting into the future so it's no secret that i'm going to machall backed a.k.k. as she's known from day one as a potential successor and this is yet more indication that we might be a lot closer to that than twenty twenty one when the current the final term of ungrammatical runs out but you have a carefully thank you. ten years ago today a seventeen year old gunman and a small town a vendetta in southwestern germany stormed into his former high school and opened fire on students and teachers killing fifteen people and then turning the gun on himself it was a rare and shocking act of violence here in germany which has seen only three school mass shootings since the one nine hundred sixty s.

a decade later relatives and survivors of it and then still babie emotional scars and many are calling for tighter gun control. this being the place where her daughter was gunned down ten years ago is still incredibly difficult for gisela meyer the day she heard the news of her daughter's death and the other view high school her life changed forever. my world just fell apart and it pulled the ground out from under my feet i absolutely couldn't grasp what happened it took months for my to understand that she was done i kept resisting the very thought of . her daughter nino was one of fifteen victims that a gunman shot at the school and during his askin. she was a student teacher in the school and buried under twenty fifth birthday. the seventeen year old shooter had stolen his father's gun from an unlocked bedroom cabinet. in the end he killed himself.

today this memorial room pays tribute to those who lost their lives in this former classroom the gunman shot the students at random. gisela meyer is active in the against violence in schools foundation to prevent such acts from ever happening again. one small step forward is stricter laws on private individuals storing firearms. trauma counselor i'll bet b. singer was one of the first on the scene after the shooting he helps students who had lived through the horrific experience process their emotions. and try to talk with them so they could process what they went through. that's a principle of trauma counseling people to express their feelings can because it's far more harmful to suppress them to let them cry and scream if they need to buy an inch. in the decade since the shootings security measures in the school have been

stepped up doors are more difficult to open from the outside and teachers try to identify challenging students early on. for example we have a school social worker people involved in a school. project and aimed at social cohesion with and getting along with other. relatives of the victims try to somehow to go on with their lives. gisela meyer has finally managed to find some inner peace that also taught this point child his shooter came across as a monster but he was really just a young boy full of a lot because he didn't have the life that other said but that image of him really helps me understand what made him commit such an evil. spirit that. this memorial called the broken ring symbolizes the suffering in winnenden a brutal cut a contemplate of place and the shadow of a fateful day. now the east german city of chemist's made international headlines

last year after a series the far right demonstrations now the city is back in the spotlight after football fans commemorated the death of a local hooligan and neo nazi. rest in peace tommy read the banner behind which some four thousand spectators devoted a moment of silence to a recently deceased local fund thomas hello was responsible for stadium security in kenneth's until two thousand and six he was also a known neo nazi and the founder of the group who now an abbreviation that stands for hooligans nazis racists the group has operated openly inside the stadium in the past. i. can strike at daniel from celebrated his goal on saturday by sprinting to the bench and holding aloft a t. shirt bearing the slogan support your local who is the motif is a favorite of the far right in germany. the club has fined for on but defended the

pre-match moments of silence claiming it was in no way an indorsement of thomas howlers views all behaviors but the local authority in chemist's owner of the stadium in which saturday's controversial memorial took place was quick to condemn the proceedings it announced in a statement commits is and remains a cosmopolitan tolerant and peaceful city we therefore distance ourselves explicitly from all racist and far right actions and statements still endeavors to create a cosmopolitan image of candidates were dealt a serious setback on saturday. let's get more on this rumor of mooted from date of . how could something like this happen well sadly this shows the influence that hooligan group has over his local football club and indeed an influence that now seems to be tearing the club apart it does seem that some officials some club representatives at least facilitated this tribute we had the picture of thomas

hollow going up on the big screen the stadium announcer called the minute's silence and indeed the first statement that the club put out after the tribute they defended it they said it was not about the politics it's about the fan it's about a human being but now we're seeing that narrative from the club flip people have been removed from from their positions the club administrator is said we have to clarify how this could happen and also said actually the club the staff were threatened with riots by fans will have to wait and see whether that is confirmed but it does certainly say that as some club representatives took part for one reason or another in this tribute as you saw in the report there one of even one of the play of holding. some resignations and investigation what are the consequences of receiving well the resignation was the sea of the club thomas which is already a pretty big step of course that was before the weekend was even now on sunday so clearly action has been taken fairly quickly that now we've also seen the stadium announcer and employee of the club fired and on top of that fan representative

there's also a city councilor with the social democrat party she has been removed from her position at the club after posting on social media a message of condolence thomas hala the northeast football union is also invested in this to get the club so we could see more consequences for then in the in the regional league that they are participating and but i think we can expect the fallout to go on for much longer. this is on top of not having a particularly savory reputation outside the city so exactly i'm reminded immediately of the. marches that took place in the city of candles last year and club. groups were involved in mobilizing people for those much as well thomas holly himself was allegedly involved in some of the riots that took place around this what we're seeing is i think a reflection of social issues of this is you can it's being portrayed in the

stadium here we have a local government said in the report there that they want to project an image of tolerance about the city of candidates but i don't think sentiments like this are limited to people in state in a limited fan groups i think it's something that extends beyond that into society in tennis and so that really needs to be dealt with as much as the club itself and as much as the fan group. all of the different to do spoke to the thank you. as a reminder about top story this crash investigators have recovered the voice and flight data recorders from the ethiopian airlines flight that crashed outside ideas ababa on sunday morning the boeing seven three seven eight aircraft went down a minutes after takeoff killing one hundred fifty seven. coming up next on news africa look into the practice of illegal signing demining which causes environmental problems and this divide in local communities in kenya. take to preserve africa's traditions will be

a cultural enthusiastic doing everything they can in the face of the many many challenges. those stories of all coming up but next with that i mean michael should know i'll be back at the top off the top of a good day. we

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