this is g w news live from berlin tonight the fridge president tries to make the yellow best protesters stop seeing red and hold on to his job at the same time in my new macro unveils a list of reforms in response to months of yellow best protest peacefully protest that have challenged his authority he's willing to cut taxes but he's also making demands on french workers also coming up joe biden hits the campaign trail to become the next u.s. president the former u.s. vice president warning that the soul of the nation is at stake if donald trump wins

a second term trunk reacted with a tweet calling by didn't sleep egypt and what i mean who is in him kim jong il and tows their new friendship at the summit in russia's far east but can russia do what the u.s. has not persuade north korea to abandon its nuclear arsenal. i'm burnt off to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all the around the world welcome the president of france today presented reforms hoping that they will end months of yellow vest protest protests which have challenged his authority in a bid to restore order to the country emanuel is pledging to cut income taxes for the middle class and to make it easier to hold referendums but he also says they'll be no tolerance for

a repeat of the violent protests of recent months. will be. today above all public order must return it's essential that we come together. but i don't want the actions of some people to eclipse the just demands that were put forward at the start of this movement and that we're broadly supported. or join me here at the big table was my colleague in montreal that shunts she's been covering this stage and she's been covering the yellow vest for just force there for quite some time it's good to see you again so the french president he said he's willing to cut income taxes what else well if i thing he's talked tonight was quite significant is the first time he holds a press conference on domestic matters we know he's not a fan of the exercise he doesn't like tennis match and he's been answering questions for the whole for most of the the evening and what's interesting is that yes he promised he would tax cuts he actually acknowledged the end of s.

movements by saying by by calling it a movement and he has to say he has learned a lot about him that there is those. six months of protest you know so defined french people as a children of enlightened the interest is very micro ness as we say in french he likes he uses tens of phrases that you know these children you know what it meant to did he say that he acknowledged that their demands are valid. yes and no he acknowledged that the men's however he's unapologetic on his politics he's not going to carry on the reforms he has so say that that he believed in elected officials and he believed in digits mysie of people in charge to carry out those reforms so yes he acknowledges the demands that he's carrying carrying on as he was doing for two years to you know we've seen these these images here of the protests will the overs that he's making tonight will they be enough to send the yellow best

protesters home for good well the problem with a man and i cry is that he's very good at such speeches has begun making promises and that's why he was elected that's why sixty percent of the french people actually. voted for him but now his popularity rate is at thirty percent because people do not trust him anymore and he acknowledged. parents people with disability people living in rural areas also pension e.s.a. said he would do something for pensions with that be enough he has been completely deaf to those demands for two years and he's running he's looking ahead full twenty twenty twenty two for he was the second that did rights men date exactly so he's trying to you know mend the house be done so exactly what about his relationship with the german chancellor angela merkel he was asked about that and he admitted things have not been as good as maybe they should he did acknowledge that and he

used that at the time in their lives he also conceded discrepancy discrepancies as particularly on the scenes of pranks it climate saying he said however that the confrontations with the german chancellor where faith for a tie and so it is room for improvement in those relations let me let's see what happens are right in my worse off as always thank you thank you. and here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world french forensic specialists have entered notre dame cathedral for the first time together evidence on the cause of last week's plays a fire devastated the roof and destroyed the spire of these centuries old gothic masterpiece police are treating the fire as an accident more than seventy protesters are injured after moroccan police used water cannon and baton to break up a teachers' protest in the capital thousands taking to the streets of robots on wednesday to protest their employment terms. former nice on boss carlos ghosn has left

jail after a took you court upheld the decision to grant him bail he has been released paying four point five million dollars gold was granted bail back in march but rearrested in april he faces four charges relating to financial misconduct but denies any wrong doing. the former u.s. vice president joe biden has officially announced he is running for the white house in twenty twenty ending months of speculation biden made the announcement on twitter saying that the so of the nation is at stake with donald trump's bid for reelection seventy six year old joins an already crowded field of nineteen other democratic hopefuls competing for their party's nomination biden is the most experienced of the democratic candidates he served as president obama's vice president for eight years and he has been a u.s. senator since the one nine hundred seventy s. . are for more on this is go to washington our correspondent all over salad is on

the story for us good evening to you. so we've got joe biden announcement bringing the field of democratic candidates up to tween now do we know why did biden decide to join the race and is he joining kind of late. well brandon his video announcement today he said that the american values would be at stake and that will be the reason why he's running now he also said that the crucial moment when he decided to run was back in two thousand and seventeen when at a far right protest in a child's villa a counter demonstrator counter protester died and donald trump at the time refused to condemn these neo nazi protesters joe biden really focused his video announcement on these events and said that was the moment when he decided to run to avoid another term of donald trump literally but of course there is more behind

than that. joe biden has been dubbed like something like the eternal candidate for about four decades almost she ran in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight she ran again in two thousand and eight almost ran in two thousand and sixteen but then made way for hillary clinton this time around will be different though because he was already in paul's came out as the most popular of all candidates even before officially announcing his spirits so now he will certainly also make the case that he's the most likely want to defeat donald trump and twenty twenty years certainly has the advantage particularly because everyone in the united states knows him or work you know uses his name how does biden's bid change the competition in the calculus of that competition. well we're witnessing a very interesting moment drive now in the run up to the primary election so the whole party the democratic party shifted to the left we have a record number of candidates running minorities are represented

a lot of female candidates many candidates are young also but joe biden is long enough that he's seventy six years old a white old man if you will and yet very popular figure in politics he's either considered something like an elder statesman or an old school politician that has passed his time so waters will have to see where they see themselves when they support him but the crucial point here is that he's got credibility among blue collar voters and that can be crucial this time around. that's a very good points in his political record some people have said is a living record of how old the democratic party itself has evolved over the west fifty years so all over we've got joe biden gives john would try it would that be the choice that americans would look forward to on election day what do you hear. potentially yes i mean it will be interesting because he will not be an easy

opponent for donald trump donald trump has been trying to paint the democratic like a bunch of radical socialists and that would probably not work with joe biden he considers himself rather a moderate politician a centrist stance and he's got great chances. you know especially because of that he's got great chances to get support in the industrial midwestern regions of the united states if you speak to voters the air of democratic voters who supported trump in two thousand and sixteen they would actually tell you that really depends on who is running hillary clinton back at the time was a hate figure but joe biden is not joe biden is really able to speak at eye level with the working class that can make the difference but first of all of course he has to win the primaries next year that's right the nomination could be actually for good biden a bigger battle than it actually winning on election day we'll have to see oversell

in washington is always over thank you the leaders of russia and north korea have wrapped up their first face to face meeting president vladimir putin and kim jong il and discussed issues including security on the korean peninsula in pyongyang controversial nuclear weapons program is follows domo drums failed to persuade him to abandon his nuclear arsenal at a summit two months ago. it was the face to face meeting for russia's vladimir putin and north korea's kim jong un the body language suggested it was set to go well. talks took place on an island off the pacific coast near flooded boss dock and went on for two hours a little longer than expected but statements after the meeting didn't really give away any substantial news but. of course we spoke about the situation on the korean peninsula we exchanged views on what needs to be done so that we can improve the

situation in the future ali and i don't this is just the korean peninsula and the regional political situation which is garnered the urgent attention of the world and we also held deep discussions on strategic ways to pursue stability in the regional political situations and on matters of jointly managing the situation. but later in a press conference putin revealed how he expected to play a further diplomatic role. spring from your. ass i'd ask to inform the american side about his position. about the questions he has in relation to the processes that are happening on the korean peninsula and everything that's happening around these process is pretty simple. word of the summit then has offered putin a chance to push russia's agenda of opposing u.s. influence north korea's talks with president trump on the country's nuclear arsenal

broke down without a deal in february. sure lake a has lowered the death toll in easter sunday attacks down by around one hundred officials now say two hundred fifty three lives were lost the health ministry blamed the discrepancy on the calculation error of this comes after the defense secretary resigned in following intelligence and security lapses ahead of the devastating attacks there have been further arrests of people who may have been involved in the suicide bombings related police have appealed to the public for information on a further six suspects. one bitter legacy of the bombings in sri lanka has been an upsurge of violence against refugees from other countries both christian and muslim as you double use the wall reports people who fled violence in their own countries find themselves targeted once again natasha fled to sri lanka

from pakistan four years ago she left her home country ritchie young children and her husband because they were prosecuted for being christian. her husband baz but mox to prove it. but amid gamble where she ended up she could practice her feet freely last sunday she applied hair on her hands and feet to get ready for easter then the blasts hit. mob descended on her neighborhood of pakistani refugees attacking homes and threatening reprisals even going on her you have all or your landlord told us not to return don't even return to you're not safe here save yourselves and leave we can't offer you any protection but we're also a christian we're also grief stricken because our brothers and sisters were killed in this blast but we can't do anything mother and her now natasha and over one hundred other refugees are hiding out in the parking garage of this police station

women men children christians and muslims of dance and box. the all male one similarity they are not true long can. give a job as a little one if you cannot imagine how they behaved after the blasts sixty six hours of people came into my house and attacked us. our landlady said i cannot protect you it will be better if you leave. according to refugee rights activists over twelve hundred people have been displaced from their homes and the attacks. they have taken shelter in mosques and police stations refugees in the course to the city of nick gamble include minority m. of the muslims and christians fleeing persecution in pakistan and of guns fleeing insecurity in their own country now however they are all being threatened and displeased because locals view all foreigners with suspicion activists have begged

georgia's armed civilians for help but to norway that already life as a fugitive tree lunker is extremely challenging and they cannot work so they undergo a lot of depression to do good deeds because the children and children for many years do not get to school. and people cannot work very talented people real professional people jobs and working you know. precious by latasha mrs pakistan she's also grateful for her life in true lanka but for now home is this parking garage and she doesn't know when that will end. or crowds have converged on army headquarters in sudan's capital khartoum demanding civilian rule the protesters say they're answering calls for a million strong march to demand the country's new military government step aside

that ends military kildall so power earlier this month after deposing longtime president omar al bashir. they've come from far and wide to take part in the million strong march opposition groups are relying on their strongest weapon the power of the street they're demanding the military step aside. i didn't want to be any we want civilian rule it's a simple as that my this should be jobs for everyone we have to get this country back on track that's anything. the protesters are trying to keep up pressure where it counts outside army headquarters in khartoum last night three controversial members of the military council step down a concession to the opposition. the military says the two sides already agree on many points a joint committee has been put into place to work out unresolved issues but the opposition remains skeptical. and the goals of the revolution are not negotiable

with the time and to implement them in full well only discussing how to reach these goals at the v's distrust runs deep after thirty years of dictatorship the protesters say they'll stay here until their demands are met. or merger talks between germany's two biggest lenders georgia bank and commits ponk have ended in failure the decision to ditch the talks reopens the speculation over the future of the two banks banks that have struggled to recover from the global financial crisis over a decade ago. beilin wanted it to happen but that wasn't enough to unite the two german giants but yes george bank said right from the beginning we would only go into these this which are if it makes economic sense if it is beneficial for shareholders and for the stakeholders this was not given here after very deep

conversations and talks with comments but we came to the conclusion if we put chances and resist against each other that we should stop the talks about this merger know the government's hopes of the two banks combining to raise a powerful national champion for germany's finance sector the proven out of reach bank and comet's bank have concluded the benefits would be outweighed by the risks the restructuring costs and the capital requirements they both struggled since the global financial crisis with the german state still owning more than fifteen percent of comment bank the argument for merging was that it would cut costs for the pad and the taxpayer but opponents argued combining two troubled banks would just create one larger troubled bank after a month and a half of talks those troubles haven't gone away now they'll have to get to work to find separate solutions. well

a new poll shows that more than half of germans feel hostility towards asylum seekers or that's one of the key findings of a study by the friedrich foundation and it comes despite falling numbers of white groups and refugees arriving here in germany the study finds little difference in opinions between older and younger people or the issue of migration but it did determine a clear for why between what used to be east and west germany. this is the eastern german city of cabinets scenes of senate fallback riots last year were beamed around the world this year a study finds people across germany deeply unsettled about refugees. as in previous years nearly two thousand people were surveyed the findings show attitudes toward refugees are increasingly hostile in two thousand and eleven a few years before close to

a million refugees arrived in germany less than half of respondents had negative views about migrants in general that number dropped in two thousand and fourteen but today it's higher than ever over half of those surveyed look down on migrants and refugees. my sense of fear that's taken hold in the past few years that's what we're seeing in people's attitudes it might be an explanation for the growth an anti american sentiment. researchers say nazi terms such as duke and class which is similar to fake news have entered mainstream discourse and germans are becoming more skeptical toward the media and the state almost half the respondents believe secret groups influence political decision making about one third believe politicians are the puppets of other groups and nearly a quarter say politicians and journalists are colluding with one another. belief in conspiracy theories seems to be growing divinity i can definitely confirm this i

often hear my friend saying things like that. and they play with people's beliefs it's kind of stupid for a kernel of truth there's probably there but then it gets exaggerated and grows more popular i think that's dangerous despite the skepticism toward the german government the study shows clear support for democracy a strong majority also supports the european union it's the tolerance of refugees that has decreased. for bring in our political view of all he's been looking at the study good evening to you rupert so is it as bad as this study says the media is the political center in germany has it been lost. yeah this is a rather dramatic title of this study indeed and it is all about a little of the god of the attention the study makers wanted some of the findings in this so the so quite alarming for instance if we see that the number of germans

who say that they are in support of democracy but at the same time say while minority rights something is something we need to abolish that this number is rising at the same time we can also see that there's a rising mistrust of state institutions and and a growing feeling of powerlessness among the people many people here in germany have the belief that they convert the change anything even if they live in a demoted democratic state but there's also good news here the study also says that the majority of germans still believe in democracies and that they are resilient to right thing extremist views and attitudes so the more appropriate title of the study probably would have been times are getting rough but it's not quite as bad as you might think you know i mean it is interesting a majority say that they support the european union they support democracy at the same time zina vote is on the rise at how did those two things go together. it sounds a bit contradicting at first but the researches of this study say this is

a clear evidence that the that extremist views have and to the political center of this country that they have become more social acceptable within german society they say that nearly everybody here in germany says he's in support of democracy but at the same time these values are not really filled with life for instance one third of the people have been awful the surveys say that the concept of equal rights should be abolished if it's in the national interest. the such a the researchers call this a modern day cherry picking one picks the values value that suit spawns based while denying these values to others for instance minorities ethnic minorities yet another finding us rebirth is people believe that politics and bill in the media like us are controlled by dark forces how do we explain that or how do we

tell people that's not true. well this is really one of the rather dramatic findings of the study as it means that people who believe in conspiracy to conspiracy theories also believe in their own politics in this they believe in some super power powerful enemy for instance jews islam or even the media oped the political elite so it's all about prejudice and about creating an enemies and this is the actual dramatic finding of the survey that people don't feel like they are part of the democratic discourse anymore. corresponded with disturbing numbers there richard thank you you're welcome. our german football now and by your dashed braman dreams in the second semifinal of the german cup thanks in part to a very controversial late penalty by one three two in

a fast and furious match with some acrimonious exchanges between players buyers now in the final in may where they will be rb life saved by your looked set for an easy victory following goals from robert of and else. but a burst of energy from host braman told them scored two goals in two minutes to level things out that was until eight so the suspect penalty call involving the video assisted led to live and a.t.f. made it when their framing coach florian ko fell was extremely angry at the penalty decision but was magnanimous in defeat. really brutalist i think that at least nine times out of ten a referee wouldn't give the penalty no way and if the facts might not call i wouldn't have blown the whistle i want to be clear by an equal call that chinese team deserved to win if it didn't. here's a reminder of those top stories we're following for you french president emanuel has presented his long awaited reforms in a bid to quell months of widespread protests the yellow vest movement is demanding

more income equality saying mechelen favors the rich and former vice president joe biden kids the u.s. campaign trail after announcing his candidacy for u.s. president he joins a crowded democratic field in faces questions about his own past. watching t w news live from berlin after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around for that.

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