this is t w news coming to you live from berlin germany five g. mobile frequencies go up for auction who will build the ultra fast works and can it be done with hardware made by the chinese tech giant huawei. also coming up a devastating cycle puts much of a city of half a million in mozambique underwater it's feared the death toll in the country may

top one towns in neighboring zimbabwe they're already picking grapes for the day. plus store shelves are going to says she will fight to the last minute to secure an orderly exit this as a close to crisis looks as if it may force britain to request a little late in its withdrawal in the. oh i'm sorry martin welcome to the program the german government has started the bidding for who will get the right to build germany's next generation mobile phone network telecoms companies have been invited to bid for radio frequencies to operate ultra fast five g. mobile networks the technology could have far reaching implications an enabling autonomous driving for example on a wide scale. and there all the auction for the next generation mobile phone

standard five g. started with an old fashioned clock. even during the very first round of companies taking part big nearly three hundred million euro but the time the auction ends they're forecasting revenues in the billions on the expected technology that will change the world to intersect an enormous but it is enormous potential here because we want to be a part of the gigabyte society at the forefront of the industry four point zero era and it's therefore extremely important that these frequencies are brought to market quickly so that industry can create a new business model. step by step the new mobile phone standard will replace the current l.t.e. technology and transmit data one hundred times faster than the tech is good for technology such as video conferencing live images and medical data can be transmitted through the ultra fast five g. network. technology for the network is built by china's while away there is a route whether this company should be permitted to provide the technology to

germany critics fear that the chinese could use it for spying also huawei remains very faithful to the government in beijing. once the auction ends in a couple of weeks then the battle for investment begins. stephen beardsley from our business team is here with us to help us put all this in perspective so even if it's really important this auction that's taking place for the five g. frequencies but what the bidders are they when it comes to huawei are they going to be allowed to to rely on the way technology when they hand in their beds yes that's the way to peers right now and because the bid stipulations weren't drawn up so that they prohibited any particular network hardware provider that would in one way to prohibit while ways to say to the bidders you can't use the following sub contractors or services that didn't happen and then if there are any questions today on the america will actually said we're not in the business of prohibiting one particular business. the. from business here in germany and so that seems to

settle at least in the near term that does not mean however that the skepticism over huawei is gone from germany you know we've even seen germany's intelligence agency saying that they see a threat within the company potentially and that i think it's widely known also across the security structure in germany that it would not be unheard of for this to be an avenue for espionage or for some sort of state role should china be involved in while way and so it's there still is a lot of controversy about the company itself how difficult would it be for telecoms operators to roll out five g. in europe in germany in particular without while way other alternatives there are alternatives there are companies like ericsson and nokia even samsung is getting in the business now none of them have quite the heft of huawei and for these bidders who are now getting these frequencies they're going to start their their build out and they've in fact promised as part of this bidding process to have i believe their coverage a certain amount of coverage by i want to say the twenty twenty one or twenty

twenty two their estimates are built around fall way and having that network here cost wise meeting deadlines it's built around while way they have the heft they have the size they have the lower costs and so it would be a lot different to use ericsson or nokia or a newcomer they might not be able to rely on getting the hardware so fast that means that would delay this rollout which would not be good obviously for the politicians here always seems to be at the head of the game here what about the rollout of five g. in a realistic perspective timeframe when can german consumers and companies expect to actually be using five g. i think it is really good to always know that five g. is such a massive massive build out that the infrastructure that's required is so expensive and it's going take some time to build it out it's going to be available in industrial applications first there's not going to be some curtain that comes up and suddenly everyone has magical five g. and they're all in autonomous cars it's going to be a procedural. incremental process i should say and it's going to be expensive

telecom c.e.o. recently estimated three hundred to five hundred billion euros to roll it out across europe profitability will be in the distance for a lot of these carrier companies and there is skepticism that they will be how profitable they will be so that's more incentive for them to makers to really build out the applications for five g. high stakes game and stephen beardsley from t w business thanks so much. now to southeast africa and the devastation caused by a psych loan is finally becoming clear more than five days after a tour through the region in mozambique eighty four people are confirmed dead but the government fears that the death toll there could rise to more than a thousand or it crosses cycler damaged or destroyed ninety percent of buildings in the port city of beirut meanwhile in neighboring zimbabwe around three hundred people are dead or missing. survivors dig graves for the

victims of psycho need i. remind me is the worst hit district in zimbabwe. scores are dead and still many more are missing my mom my mother my father my two younger sisters including the one who had brought us food earlier and the one with the child the whole day. my house was destroyed in the floods and i was buried underneath my daughter who was in bed with me was washed away from me a big a flood carried me further away. that it's been open and that is what with aids. the cycle has wreaked havoc on zimbabwe's infrastructure making it hard to assess the extent of the devastation. think human cost. i'm going to see my family i don't know how they're doing because there's no

communication and the roads are inaccessible because of the heavy rains and i'm not sure how will find my way. rescuers are struggling to reach people in the afflicted areas. these boys were trapped for two days but they are among the lucky ones a boulder crashed through their school dorm killing three people. use privilege moves fan here he says many more lives are at stake. this situation in zimbabwe and mozambique in the aftermath. that affected two neighboring countries is getting desperate particularly. when people are having to walk long distances because they've been cut out from essential services have been washed away vehicles kind to reach those areas where people need assistance in this area you can see.

these police taking in the mud we have spoken to. people along the way we have doctors without borders while also trying to reach people we affected but they can't reach those areas because it's virtually impossible. for the president of kazakhstan has announced he's resigning from office after three decades in power and. said in a televised address to the oil rich central asian nation that he had taken the difficult decision to step down without giving a specific reason the seventy eight year old has led since nine hundred eighty nine when he was still part when it was still part of the soviet union. says he will continue to chair the security council and remain the leader of the main party in parliament. you're watching the news still to come harnessing the animal kingdom some amazing powers of regeneration we'll be taking

a look at a new study that aims to discover how animals are able to recruit body parts and how this might one day benefit us here. now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today dutch police arrested a man suspected of carrying out a shooting on a tram in on monday three people were killed and five others wounded in the shooting prosecutors say they are now investigating a possible terrorist motive behind the shooting after police found supporting evidence in the attackers getaway car. new zealand's prime minister just send our dinner and says she will never utter the name of the gunman who killed fifty people in last week's attack on two mosques in christ church she urged the public and the media to avoid giving him recognition instead focus on the victims and survivors of the attack. and heavy flooding across the u.s.

the american midwest has left at least three people dead officials said two hundred ninety others have been rescued after the missouri river flooded much of the state of nebraska the region has suffered hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage the brush is governor described it as the most widespread disaster in the state's history. here in berlin german chancellor angela merkel has said she and other european leaders will fight to the last minute to secure an orderly brags that she was taking questions after addressing the global solutions summit here in berlin is being held to prepare policy recommendations for the g twenty summit in japan in june here's part of what the chancellor had to say about rights it. fight until the last hour of march twenty ninth for an orderly brax that. woman we don't have a lot of time but it's a few days until then i need to talk about that at this moment i cannot comment on

what my position will be on thursday because it heavily depends on i want to research. what the situation will make like what will happen in the british parliament to all that we as twenty seven countries will come up with a unified reaction but let's go to live to our chief political editor mikhail a who is attending that global solutions summit and followed the chancellor speech for us became a can we infer anything for what chancellor merkel said there today about bragg's it or is there still hope do you think in her mind at least for an orderly brags that. well there certainly still seems to be that bit of hope and also the willingness to do whatever it takes to keep the process going of avoiding a you know deal and if that means more time she hasn't said it in as many words but we also heard from people around her that it was quite clear that we certainly

wouldn't stand in the way of giving britain more time despite critical voices namely france really asking the question what would that be for because the problem clearly lies in britain so this is an open question and i think it highlights how open the situation is with going into that summits later on this week chancellor merkel was clearly addressing many of her international partners here many of germany's international partners also regarding defense germany has gotten some criticism for its handling of its defense budget the chancellor once again defending that see. yes clearly germany is late also doing its homework it was late handing in its budget papers for nato this year and it is really struggling to put that new box and out that really entails what germany has promised which is to aim towards that two percent goal by

twenty and twenty five germany wants of reached at least one point five per cent but the budget currently which she is preparing with a coalition partner the social democrats which have been skeptical of this rise in defense spending all along appears to be rather difficult but we're talking about a moving target because these two percent goal is measured measured in g.d.p. now with indications that the growth of the german economy might slow down these figures could change once again but it's a clear signal across the atlantic to donald trump and it will be read as such that once again is not doing its homework on defense. chief political editor make him a thank you so much. there just ten days to go before britain is due to pull out of the european union but now as we suggested earlier there's a new crisis in london the speaker of the house of commons has announced that

a third vote in prime minister teresa mayes brigs a deal will not take place because it breaks british parliamentary rules only a deal that different substantially from the previous versions can be put to the vote the speaker said the speaker's ruling is based on a long standing convention but it took both the government and lawmakers by surprise but yet more confusion over bragg said we asked berliners how they thought the e.u. should handle it. i think you should be tough because i think in england the punch and judy show is taking place on the other hand there is a good side to this because those who are against the e.u. are now seeing want to happen it acts as a deterrent. you don't have to stick to hard deadlines just because they're there you have to see what's best for the e.u. . and the best option would be to consider how you can help

a country that maybe should come back to the e.u. . postponing it helps they should postpone. the cinema so you make a point of being tough and not make it easy for the u.k. i mean. i prefer the idea of pushing ahead diplomatically by negotiation that way there's the possibility of a positive outcome if you haven't found the right solution yet then you can't leave the you you have to sit down and find a solution to force a decision just because the deadline is now i don't like that. i think we should act in a consideration manner so we can persuade the british to rethink. and unite the european union again after all it's not good for either side if we. were not on. now to yemen where civilian casualties have risen despite a three month truce in her day to aid arrives the norwegian refugee council says that sniper attacks have been growing one of the region's most affected is that.

the war is back on many fronts in yemen including the south these images from the rebels were filmed south of the ports of who died last week there is no sign of the cease fire agreed upon between the east and the saudi military coalition last december fighting died down for a few weeks now both sides are focused on victory. i know when i will finish you off in the valleys in the mountains in the deserts. yemen's lifeline seem non-existent now the porter who died there was supposed to be under un supervision to allow urgently needed humanitarian aid into the country. but only small ships are able to dock and only after i creating inspection. to drive into town is a life threatening mission fraught with attacks destroyed streets and bridges and

countless checkpoints. a deliveries take days according to the u.n. . those who need it most in the besieged city get only a fraction of it. fish was once in abundance in the markets today it's an affordable for most food prices have more than doubled since the war began and hardly any fisherman take to the sea the stace. are only the most likely a fisherman risk because of the airstrikes. many of the movement killed. a few weeks ago a missile hit four of them on the fly. half of the health clinics are shut down those that are open but overwhelmed they treat about eight hundred patients per day many of them wait for weeks to see a doctor in the dialysis section more than forty machines have stopped working because no replacement parts are available it's one of many shortages that leaves

people in despair. ladner was. at the am i'm feeling really bad sometimes i come here and ask for treatment but i have to wait up to ten days because it's so full here and they want let me in. ok have. put abdullah arafat has a new lease on life his mother brought her weakened man the irish baby boy here. i don't have a full sufiah the doctors said he had sections all over and was on the fet so i can't nurse him but they gave him a look and now he's doing a little better. than a hundred left of center. but hey it hardly ever arrives in yemen's remote areas of to four years of war and thousands killed many were hoping the peace process would bear fruit instead bitter disappointment prevails.

scientists at harvard university in the united states have released a new study on how animals can regenerate their body as part of that research they've uncovered what they call a d.n.a. switch and just might one day lead to human beings being able to. regenerate their own lost limb so there are examples in nature some salamander species for example can read grow severed legs some lizard will shed their tail to escape danger and regrow it later other animals can even go further jellyfish for example can regenerate their whole body after being cut in half c.n.n. can do the same. of more on this research i'm joined by live from d.w.

so it's hello leo so this new study it focuses on a fascinating phenomenon the ability of animals to regenerate their own body parts so what does this new report actually tell us about that process. so the research is that it's not delhi fish not salamanders they studied a tiny warms the arms they can also be cut in half and then they regenerate their body and tiley this is called whole body regeneration and what they discovered is the mechanism that controls this regeneration it's a part in our d.n.a. so you can imagine it as a power switch that say so it can switch on and off which we can call it the master control gene. and then this gene can switch on and off the regeneration process so that's that discovery the master control gene i wouldn't mind having a master control gene so what i'd like cut the tip of my thing. or whatever to do

humans have this gene too we do we do have this power switch and our bodies as well but you know that when you cut your finger of it doesn't grow back right we don't have and your finger suddenly coming out of our of our hand so that's the question now why not why can't we grow. body parts back if we have this power switch and that's what the we said just now want to work on one explanation could be that our wiring is differently so that the communication our d.n.a. network goes along different pathways than address in the path of worms what about the possibility of re tweaking the human genome you say we actually have this gene but not sure how to get it to work could you could maybe the genome be tweaked to allow us to to have those same regenerative powers that's not sure i mean regeneration is a very complex process it's a process of stimulation action reaction on different parts and it's really

unlikely that if you change one part of this process which would be the wiring now of our networks of our d.n.a. networks that we can really really make humans regenerate if it's really unlikely ok so the scientists aren't promising that we're going to figure that out apparently this research is very important it is being widely reported it's at an early stage however what potential do you see for this research research moving forward well it's the research is now want to see of course they want to study more on those communication networks on how. you know those master genes communicate with other parts of the d.n.a. and then they want to show how that could work on other animals or humans even here you see the worm they they tried it on ok at the time the worm but further than that it plays a big role for our in the standing of the d.n.a. as a as a as a whole because it's it's like the basic building breaks for life in the end and we

don't know much about it yet but we hope to learn more from d.w. science thank you so much. for watching d.w. news. some sports for you now going to sleep club hoffenheim have finally announced their coach for next season taking charge will be. showing who is currently the assistant coach of. ajax amsterdam he'll succeed coach julian. who back in june had already agreed to move to leipzig at the end of this season before joining. in january twentieth team try to have spent two years as an assistant coach in hopes of. cycling though and team sky the winner of six of the last seven editions of the

tour de france will be taken over by britain's richest man according to u.k. media say chemicals billionaire jim radcliffe is ready to step in and save team sky after sky broadcasting decided to pull out of cycling the team has dominated the sport since two thousand and ten but it's also faced allegations of cheating without a new backer there were fears the team would fold. now to the story of a bird described as the lewis hamilton a pigeon this guy behind me is named armando he's a belgian racing pigeon and he's just made his owner a euro millionaire the sale has caused more than a flutter of excitement in the sport. this is no ordinary pigeon these are the wings of a champion meet the belgian whose success in the skies has netted his owner

a small fortune the pitching is regarded as the best distance race of all time and that made him the subject of a late bidding war between two bias in china the winning bid more than one and a quarter million euros three times the previous record. that was in office. we got up this morning and thinking is it going to rise a lot more or not and we hope for a little more as we've already broken the record and that was already a serious amount for he has more than doubled in value it's incredible. this on the low floor. but bridges across europe are benefiting from the popularity of pitching racing in china where the sport is considered something of a luxury. it's nearly time to let go of his prized possession for a mando soon to retire from racing and life in starter weights he'll be tasked with fathering a new generation of winners as his new owners try to wreak their investment.

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