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this is deja vu news live from berlin at the end of an era in japan emperor akihito abdicates during a solemn ceremony in tokyo's imperial palace it is the first avocation the country has seen in more than two hundred years. also coming up u.s. president donald trump files a lawsuit against germany's biggest lender it's supposed to stop deutsche bank from complying with subpoenas as congress investigates trump's financial dealings. with the so-called islamic state releases a propaganda video that they say shows the group's leader abu bakker on baghdad and
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he claims to easter bombings in sri lanka where the group's revenge for its just seat in syria. and in football with the champions league semifinals looming we sat down for an exclusive interview with liverpool's much loved coach jurgen klopp ahead of the clash with barcelona he tells us why the spanish club will have a big challenge on its hands. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us japan's emperor akihito has formally stepped down from the throne in a ceremony at the imperial palace in tokyo akihito is the first japanese emperor to abdicate in two hundred years his fifty nine year old son will officially become japan's one hundred twenty sixth emperor and a short ceremony tomorrow now the emperor holds no political power but japanese
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people revere him. as a symbol of the country's tradition and history in a spinal speech as emperor the eighty five year old thank the people of japan and said he would pray for peace and happiness in japan and around the world. so. how do you i am very thankful and happy and i have been able to fulfill my judaizers emperor with trust and respect for the japanese people for the last thirty years. but that i thank the japanese people who have accepted and supported me as a symbol of japan. because it. he. is following the story for us she grew up in japan and reports from there for us hi kiyo put this into context for us what does this event need to the japanese people it is a very big event basically nobody. who lives today has ever experienced an abdication the last one was two hundred years ago and it is
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a complete change of era imagine now in the western world in two thousand and nineteen and tomorrow it's the first day of something completely different so it is a very very big event and it is marked with celebrations in japan social media is completely full of it if you pan is this incredible combination of a country that is so future oriented and high tech incredibly developed but also really steeped in its own history and tradition what did you make of the ceremony this morning it was very formalized it was incredibly short it was just ten minutes it was over before you really could concentrate on it basically and i found it very interesting because it was very very. big. basically and it showed also the mix of the japanese traditional garb that. you can see in the background in the morning and he was also very in the modern
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western dress like about you know we see those images there of him wearing those modern western clothes i do want to talk to you about this new era that's being offered in a moment the new emperor but first let's take a look back at the reign of akihito. and he took greeting his people for the first time after ascending the chrysanthemum through. his reign would see him modernize japan's tradition bound monarchy and extend a hand of peace to those harmed by his country's imperial ambitions. it was in his father's name that japan committed many of the atrocities that shook the pacific during world war two. and akihito spent most of his early life and diplomatic trips where he expressed his deep remorse over his country's wartime transgressions in modern times his frequent calls for peace have been seen by many as a quiet message to forces within his own government ones who would like to see
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japan take on a more assertive role on the world stage. driven by concerns over his own failing health he too his education will make him the first japanese emperor to leave the throne without leading his country into war. a legacy he reflected on during his last official appearances japanese emperor as his country marked the anniversary of its wartime capitulation. thinking of the peaceful times that have extended for many years after the war reflecting on our past and with a deep feeling of remorse i earnestly hope that the ravages of war will never be repeated i also pray for world peace and our nations for the development you must. care we saw glimpses of it there but archita really has been an incredibly popular emperor has any yes he has i think more than eighty percent of the population is in
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support of him and i think about fifteen to twenty percent basically of the rest is indifferent there's almost no opposition to him tell us about the new emperor now his son now he to fifty nine years old what can we expect from him. he is more of a more the emperor just because he's also younger but he's also the first emperor to study abroad actually in oxford his wife as well and he's also known to subtly have criticized district court traditions on the which his his wife suffered a tremendous lot because she's a commoner and she had to basically. adjust to life and maybe in the new era it's going to be a more approachable royal family so we could possibly see some changes being brought to brought to the throne we mentioned that the emperor in japan doesn't have a political role but does have thinking political significance doesn't he is especially
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in a time of such uncertainty in the real. yes especially of the emperor akihito he was known to be to travel a lot he wasn't diplomatic missions a lot and he also apologized for as we also saw for the atrocities that japan committed during the war and that was a very new stance and i think also that his son is going to follow in his footsteps to try and make amends or also speak in the diplomatic matter without all of the politics included because that is a quite a difficult matter but as a symbolic figure he can be more neutral but also more unifying i think all right well the end of an era in japan as we said is that he advocates our reporter kyodo thank you so much for your insights. now to some other stories making headlines around the world sri lanka's president has lifted
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a nationwide social media that was imposed after the easter suicide bomb attacks that killed more than two hundred fifty people then have blocked facebook whatsapp you tube and other popular sites the government said it blocked social media to curb the spread of misinformation in the wake of the bombings. the chief executive of boeing dennis miller and berg has defended the company's safety record and declined to take any more than partial blame for two deadly crashes of its best selling plane the seven thirty seven max a speaking after the shareholders meeting in bird said boeing had almost finished an update that would make the plane safe for. the united states deputy attorney general broad rosenstein has submitted his resignation he is the official who appointed special counsel robert miller to investigate president trump's election campaign and he also supported the justice department's conclusion that the president had not obstructed mahler's investigation the resignation has been expected for some time. now president trump is suing deutsche bank to stop it
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from handing over financial records about his dealings with the lender congressional oversight committee subpoenaed the documents in march for years the german lender has been and sometimes only creditor financing many of his construction projects democrats in congress say they want to investigate possible financial ties between trump and russia and gain general knowledge of the president's finances trump has been secretive about details of his finances and has refused to make refused to make his tax returns public. let's bring in our correspondent in frankfurt is standing by for us hi i should toss now the president of the u.s. is suing germany's biggest lender what does this mean for deutsche bank. well to me it means that your bank will wait and watch and see how the key is that plays out in the court at this point of time. said that it is committed to giving
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any appropriate information to the investing for any investigation relevant investigations and. it says that. the it was it will abide by the court ruling and there is a band which has already begun actually handing over most of the documents and it says that it will again keep doing it and donald trump has argued that most of these subpoenas were actually used to have and and the fact that it could be used to cause him political damage going forward but his opponents say that this actually lacks any merit and it would be it would actually fear in the courtroom i should or should we should say that torture bank has been hit by various scandals of late it's been making headlines for all the wrong reasons is this lawsuit another blow to the lenders reputation. well i feel that most of the bad news has all their living factored in the bank shares the
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shares actually trading a quarter of the company's book value which means that this is not really something that. investors at this point of time would be too disturbed about. as to what actually comes out of the documents if the dutch bank actually goes ahead and continues the summited. of course it's going to be a major blow to the position of the bank as in many if some thing damning comes out of those documents and. also the fact that there would be a lot of question that would be asked from the german lender is of course going to be asked as to how would german lend get bankrolling a u.s. businessman out of bankruptcy even when the u.s. banks would not touch him and then there was all there would be also questions about whether there was money laundering involved here. and there are suggestions that if it wouldn't have been for dirty bank president from wouldn't have been the
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president today because he used most of that money to erect his buildings and plaster his name in front of them and then project himself as a credible business been doing the presidential campaign all right our correspondent reporting for us there in frankfurt thank you very much. now he's been presumed dead more than once but the leader of the so-called islamic state could be alive a propaganda video released by ass shows abu bakar al baghdadi praising the easter sunday bombings in sri lanka he says they are part of the group's revenge for its losses in syria. if this is who islamic state claims it is that it would be abu bakr al baghdadi is first appearance in five years. in the video shot in an unknown location he acknowledges the group's recent defeat in its last syrian stronghold of bugaboos he also refers to other i.a.s.
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losses in libya and in iraq. but he tries to justify the defeats by saying doesn't have to win just has to continue carrying out to jihad. urges his followers to carry out revenge attacks around the world. he goes on to praise the deadly bombings in sri lanka on easter sunday which killed two hundred fifty people saying they were ordered in revenge for what he calls the brothers in. despite his threats analysts say the purpose of this video is to show that he's still in charge and at large and has managed to evade capture. since this moment back in twenty fourteen when he announced the establishment of a caliphate in the iraqi city of mosul. but he remains the world's
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most wanted man the us has a twenty five million dollars bounty on his head and they say they will continue to hunt him down until he's found what. let's get some analysis on the story now we have with us from the german institute for international and security affairs thank you for joining us first of all do you think this video is authentic yes absolutely it looks like him it sounds like him and the video contains information plus it is. it contains the logo of the traditional media production company of the islamic state and for i've never seen any video produced by them that was not authentic it's the first time we've seen him in years now what did you make of his message about the easter sunday bombings in sri lanka well. under pressure in iraq in syria and they have to prove to the supporters that they are still relevant they have
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done that perpetrating the attack in sri lanka the. he's also claiming an attack in his own fee in saudi arabia that was foiled on easter sunday so this is obviously a concerted effort by perpetrating attacks and by becoming active in the propaganda war again to show that in spite of its defeat in iraq and syria is still a force to be reckoned with and very much to show that al baghdadi is still at large and as we heard in our report still very much in charge where could he be at the moment and how has he been able to run this network if he is in hiding well yes has been an underground organization between two thousand and six and two thousand and eleven so in a way the organization has gone back to its former self he was already one of the leaders of this organization in this area. when the when the organization was
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mainly based in. north iraq i believe that he's in hiding either in iraq or syria i suspect that is that it is iraq simply because the. conditions for the organization are much better in iraq than in the neighboring countries do we have an idea of what role he still plays in the islamic state how powerful he still is in the organization i don't know i don't know maybe our intelligence services know more many people said that he was not in charge for a long time simply because the there was so many ex military officials of the saddam hussein regime in his surroundings all these people are dead i think that he's the leader of the islamic state in iraq and he seems to have an influence on the affiliate network simply because he gave away so so much money in recent years it is no coincidence that the latest information from two thousand and eighteen
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talked about money transfers from iraq in syria via turkey to eastern asia and that is part of the reason why we have seen an increasing number of attacks in asia including sri lanka recently what do you think this video tells us about i asked this strategy going forward as it has lost its territory in syria well it's globalisation the organization has built an affiliate network with affiliates in the caucasus the philippines yemen libya. and if you look at if you watch the video carefully you will realize that most of his message messaging concerns the affiliate network even talks about a new affiliate that he accepts into the organization in mali and book enough so the organization is broadening the front in a way now that they have problems in iraq in syria they want to mobilize their
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supporters worldwide but especially in the affiliate provinces to perpetrate attacks not the chilling message from the german institute for international security affairs thank you for your now thirty. you're watching news still to come on our program today he sits down for an exclusive interview with liverpool coach we ask whether his team's fans would rather win the champions league or their premier league this season stay tuned for that and is this russian operatives that's what people in norway are wondering after a beluga whale wearing a camera harness turned up in waters near a russian naval base. but first to mozambique which is struggling with severe flooding in the wake of cycle in kenya more rainfall is forecast in the country's north where the powerful storm made landfall on sunday so far thirty eight people have lost their lives the poor weather conditions have been
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complicating aid efforts flights are grounded it is the second cycle to hit the country in as many months six weeks ago. the region further selfs. they can't get rid of the water quickly enough the rain here in pember in northern mozambique keeps on coming. wrote snarr resemble rivers were actual rivers have burst their banks leaving huge areas underwater. aid agencies say psych loan kenneth's will bring twice as much rain is e.t.i. entire crop fields have been whites out and people a shortage of food. you know the business of making these because these people need is needed but i think there are some things that the
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people here. the sheer amounts of water on the ground is making it difficult to access the affected areas rescuers from brazil are on the scene they've come with boats because at the moment it's too dangerous for helicopters to fly but helicopters are what's really needed with many stranded without supplies. and want to help. police people young people men to help. until help arrives or they can do is wait counting the cost of the latest tropical disaster to land on mozambique shores. for more on the floods today views adrienne krishna spoke with the prime minister of mozambique carlos. she asked him what needed to be done to help the affected regions we lost about two setting eight people are all over the capital god. and but we still still have to have to move into to make
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sure that you. know no more people have been are lost lost a day life. cos there we need more and more will just give instead of that look here's a look up there is a look here at the boats because some someplace like you believe not possible to produce that in the world by letter words because of a disease has been cut and cut off and do we need to have a. ford in the union another another and other stuff to be. left in the e-book to evil then to use on the soul or in the public is infrastructure and in private if such things as well the bill is the dunnage we have know and process to really be good. for the people we need to have a step in the people that we need there were they say the construction of the house for them still in the clear roofs and so on and do so things are moving out of that
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. that was the prime minister of mozambique carlos. speaking to me and creech. to football now and then to suppress his reaching fever pitch ahead of the champions league semifinals this week tottenham take on i.x. tonight the english team will be without some key players striker harry kane is sidelined injury and forwards on him in will miss the first leg due to suspension i x. are hoping to continue their fairytale after knocking out around the dread and you ventus the last time i x. won the european cup was in one nine hundred ninety five. while on wednesday liverpool coach you're going clock takes his team to mighty barcelona club is desperate to win his first champions league title after losing in the final with dortmund liverpool in the past but in an exclusive interview with g w club proved to be as relaxed and unflappable as ever barcelona be warned.
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liverpool coach your gun club is on the cusp of possibly the most important few weeks of his career but a loner awaits in the champions league semifinals and a premier league title is on the line but the german still has time to fool around showing d.w. his normal worn mogue a reference to former rival josie marino once labeling himself the special one book club is special his team are enjoying a dream season and now look holmes will favorites barcelona something new for the fifty one year old i saw so many games from out of teams ago puzzling because i never played them in a competitive game and so many times i was a failing by doing it that's how it is because they are just so good and i always thought it would be interesting to try it yourself once liverpool overcame porto in the champions league quarter finals and are looking to reach a third european final in four years on the flop they lost the previous two but he would still be proud of the feat. impressive.
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i don't know we would see it's a pretty good team to face so it's possible and. that's a really good football team but i don't see how it is a sport so if you're in the dems you should try to win and of course that's what we will do and we are not a dream draw i would say it's not that you think yes since we were poor little messi and his barcelona team mates including clubs fellow german mark dagon are not the only ones occupying the form adult and boss at present manchester city topped the premier league by a point from little and the priority for fans is clear. on wednesday we. will hear from a link. after that or sunday i think we have probably so. become a position we have to play our best for bernie but if you are so people that's.
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very. obvious also from the people who would be winning the league liverpool of not won the english title since one thousand nine hundred ninety. the glory days are back there's nothing noble about europe and club. that was liverpool culture club talking with g.w. there you can read more of the in-depth interview on our website www dot com slash sports or you can catch the extended interview on our you tube channel you tube dot com slash steve you kick off now to the mystery whale spotted off the coast of northern norway fishermen were puzzled when they found the beluga whale because it was equipped with a camera harness but it turned out that the harness carried a not so mysterious clue about where the whale might have come from. this beluga whale is allegedly a spy. harassing fishing boats off the northern coast of norway the
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whale seemingly used to human contact has been fitted with a go pro harness so. there were clips like these that were on the whale we tried to reach those clips and open them my colleague and i tried to do this for quite some time but we couldn't do it once we touched the clips the whale reacted and took off . once freed from the harness the fisherman found the word saint petersburg written on the inside. experts are suggesting that this whale may have been trained by the russian navy and was either released or escaped captivity the whale was found not far from a russian naval base. and russian marine scientists say it's unlikely to be part of a scientific experiment but for the time being it's the region's remain a mystery. or minor now of our top story on d w a japan's emperor akihito has abdicated in a solemn ceremony at the imperial palace in tokyo to head over to his eldest son
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prince not a veto at midnight local time it is japan's first application in more than two hundred years. coming up a special d.w. documentary we follow two italian journalists who cover the mafia in their home country and what their lives at risk coming up in a few minutes. amount
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. in the face of danger. that every country elite and pound obama know too well what that's like. as their journalists who appoint the mafia which means that their son stephen is a constant head list of. other efforts really worth thinks to reporters take on italy's much. closer. on g.w.
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. take off. dortmund derby debacle they got red cards and conceded four goal. to the monster shall come storming the shock of the title. no because by a stumble in a dramatic match they managed to claw against leaving the in this league a title race why don't they. kick off in sixty minutes to dublin. some time in the twenty six to you my great granddaughter of people. but with the world being like in your lifetime in around half a century. the world will be around two degrees moment and.
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