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today i am concluding my as the emperor. but we now bring new deepest respect and gratitude to you. i am very thankful and happy. that i have been able to fulfill my duty sempra. with trust and respect for the japanese people for the last thirty years. that i think it is the people who should be thinking. i want to tell them thank. you together with the empress i hope from my heart

that the new ray would. be peaceful and fruitful. also coming up tonight he led liverpool to a heartbreaking loss once before this time around coach you're going club plans to take his team to victory and he tells d w how he's going to do this all so many games from out of teams ago because i will play them in a competitive game and i saw the many times i was a failing by doing it that's how it is because they are so good. and i always thought it would be interesting to try to do a sort of wants. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all the around the world welcome we begin the day with the end of an emperor's raid today inside tokyo's imperial palace japans in her hito formally step down he's the first japanese emperor to abdicate in more than two

hundred years but two centuries are just a blink of an eye in japan's along royal history according to legend the first monarch ascend of the throne in six sixty b.c. the hereditary line has never been broken meaning emperor akihito was the one hundred twenty fifth monarch of the same royal family to occupy the chrysanthemum through. a simple ten minute ceremony and during a thirty year vein and breaking with japanese imperial tradition for the first time in more than two centuries. against an unpretentious backdrop emperor akihito performed the main ritual at the imperial palace to hand over what's known as the chrysanthemum throne to his son. the ceremony saw the emperor of relinquish an ancient sword and jewel sacred regalia that tradition dictates should be seen by no one but the emperor. addressing those assembled in the palaces room of pine

akihito paid tribute to his subjects. so. i am very thankful and happy and i have been able to fulfill my judy's emperor with trust and respect for the japanese people for the last thirty years. prime minister shinzo they had warm words for the outgoing emperor reflecting on some of japan's recent challenges that included the two thousand and eleven tsunami and earthquake and i think. you and the empress were always there for the victims of disasters and gave them hope and courage for the future. to fight. back and he too was granted permission to abdicate on grounds of age and declining health for the japanese people it's an emotional moment. but

i think what are you honest i don't think it's settled in that he's abdicated so there is a bit of sadness in me so you think even before he ascended the throne he was always thinking about the people he was an emperor that really cared for the people . so i think it's the people who should really be saying thank you to him. but hearing his last words today it really shows his personality and kindness so i'm happy to hear that. the eighty five year old remained emperor until the stroke of midnight local time on april thirtieth the throne now officially passes to his elder son crown prince no hito. and the country ushers in the new imperial era of. beautiful harmony.

beautiful harmony or people from all across the country gathered outside the emperor's palace in tokyo for the event today it was an emotional day for still. there and i feel grateful. i wish him good health but i feel emotional i have a wound on. them or i'd like to say one thing to him thank you so much that it did to the family same as this year is coming to an end it makes me feel a little sad that the city be here in this moment as an important experience i think that person is saying that we saw the emperor and empress were very keen on visiting the affected areas after the devastating earthquake in northeastern japan . to the media should be we felt they were looking after us. here and we felt that compassion start. something for the kind empress symbolized peace.

and so i am a little sad that he's after katie thank you but you must have a thing that i believe the next ten preble carry on his legacy that it's all us strongly believe that. well akihito was japan's first pacifist long arc in his thirty years on the throne that he did much to transform the image of japan's imperial family and to improve relations with japan's neighbors let's have a look back. emperor akihito 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 in 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 japan take on a more assertive role on the world stage driven by concerns over his own failing health he too is education will make him the first japanese emperor to leave the throne without leaving his country into war. a legacy he reflected on during his last official appearance his japanese emperor as his country marked the anniversary of its wartime capitulation go then note the still 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 nation's further development.

well a family affair with plenty of lawyers that is how you can describe new developments in the ongoing battle to find out what is inside us president donald trump's wallet trump and three of his children are taking their own banks to court to ensure the trump family's financial assets remain private on monday trump and his three eldest children sued deutsche bank and capital one the only banks that lind money to the trumps they are also the banks which the u.s. congress has subpoenaed as lawmakers seek information about trump's business dealings at home and abroad congress wants to find out if trump's earlier business deals could compromise his role as u.s. president trunk argues that lawmakers are harassing him in an effort to hurt him politically. the lawsuit is a trump family affair with the president's three eldest children also filing

against deutsche bank germany's biggest lender was a major financer to the trump organization when other banks were put off by the president's multiple bankruptcies what the congressional committees are interested in is whether secret russian sponsors were involved or it bank was expecting to win greater influence in u.s. politics germany's flagship plan to help the trump organization financed multiple projects to the tune of more than two billion dollars that includes trump hotels and casino resort in atlantic city the trump international hotel and tower in chicago the gulf resort in miami almost a billion dollars for a forty three story skyscraper in new york and the trump hotel in washington d.c. the congressional committee ordered deutsche bank to hand over documents saying they're a necessary part of the probe into potential foreign influence on the u.s. political process however lawyers for the trumps and the trump organization say the

subpoena has no legitimate or lawful purpose. bank has said it remains committed to providing the appropriate information to all authorized investigations indicating it will comply with a subpoena leading democrats say they won't be deterred by the blocking attempt. hard to talk about what might be inside the wall with the president trump i'm joined here the big table by tyson barker from the aspen institute here in berlin so we've got efforts by the u.s. congress to execute its one of its basic functions its oversight and the president says there overreaching and harassing him he's telling the truth well i've been i guess it's where you stand is where you set a little bit it's all about perspective and the truth is that you know the mother report had some pretty big holes in it and one of them was the red line the president said of course that's what that's not why they didn't go until it was the president's finances because there could be conflicts of interest there not just dealing with the russians but also money coming out of the middle east money coming

out of china and other places which could lead to could influence his decision making with foreign affairs and of course congress in its oversight role and the new york state attorney's office and their seven district of new york are all interested in making sure that there are no conflicts and nothing going on here legally what they're doing there because when he was a candidate in the early days of his administration he basically gave you know the middle finger to the tradition of a u.s. president revealing his income tax reforms and divesting from businesses that he may have been invested in he didn't do any of that right is that now is that coming home to roost i mean this is the other side of the ledger because you know congress has also asked for demanded his his tax returns the house ways and means committee is looking into statutes that would allow it to compel and has already submitted those to compel the treasury department to provide those but which the treasury

department reports to the president so that's not something that they have direct control over but they can work with these intermediaries including bunch a bank which has lent the trump family three hundred million dollars plus they owe it he owes three hundred million dollars plus to his family to launch a bank over twenty years so that is the best way to do. what happened in the watergate scandal which is to follow the money if you want to figure out intent if you follow the money and what about the fact that it's the father and his children in this in this lawsuit it's. just the business that they're all partners in or they're invested in and yet the president has said time and time again leave my children out right i mean those are his two red lines right his finances and his family but the truth is the two are inextricably linked because it is a family business it's not a publicly traded company and because of that it's not subject to the rules of the securities and exchange commission in the same way that

a publicly traded company would be. a lot of the. the departures from tradition that this president as engaged upon are breaking norms not breaking laws necessarily but the behavior of behavior exactly but you know the family if there is. a conflict of interest the family's going to be wrapped up in that because in many ways it's hard to tell where one ends and the other begins the good point. i was just looking at the titles that have been given to his children since he became president and his daughter ivanka trump she has no special advisor to the u.s. president is that they are right there is that a conflict of interest i mean is it matches in many ways the structures of the company itself because you know he was the president c.e.o. and his three children were the executive vice presidents responsible for different departments and she is now playing the role whichever is most convenient for her either senior advisor to the president an employee of the u.s.

government or first daughter just a family member and so it's again this kind of muddling of the waters between those roles it seems to me and correct me if i'm wrong but it is seems that the momentum for impeachment that we saw right after. the publishing publication of the report it really has waned is this type of investigation subpoenas investigation into his finances is that going to maybe be what the democrats in the house used down until twenty twenty to find out as much as they can instead of taking the road to impeachment i mean even vice president biden today came out and said you know if you are going to obstruct congress's ability to perform its oversight then this would be grounds for impeachment so we're already hearing the calls even from mainstream centrist democrats like joe biden so i wouldn't say that that's necessarily out of the question. what congress wants to do is see if there's any

there there i mean if the president has nothing to hide then why not provide these documents because there's no better sign of intent and incorruptibility and integrity and playing by the rules than providing these fighters into you know if you don't know the minutia of the story the president his children are suing their own beings basically right to intimidate them not to reveal anything that these subpoenas require them to do right that's part of it and it's also a stalling tactic and they're trying to run out the clock so their goal is to say ok look with that election in fifteen months if we can push this past election then we can say that this is already been adjudicated by the american people if he's able to win reelection and this is null and void they might also get a republican house of representatives so they would no longer have the statutory authority to seek the stock and that's a good point and to ask you about the the race for two thousand and twenty i mean we're still a long way from that but even today the latest polls have concerning joe biden and

he's very strong obviously the front runner there is so much talk right now in the u.s. about this presidential election is anything if any governing is any legislating going to happen between now. oh and of imber twenty twenty well you know the democrats on the hill and president trump. at least optically laid some groundwork for some constructive action you know they had a meeting where they talked about a two trillion dollar infrastructure deal yesterday i heard yesterday and they said that this was a very constructive meeting now the next meeting that they'll have is how do you pay for it and that's going to be a lot more acrimonious at least between the democrats and the trump white house the other thing is the republicans in congress are not necessarily willing to go along with the trillion dollar stimulus bill so we'll see if that can occur but you know this is a very early presidential cycle but it's already started and in the summer it's going to be kind of wall to wall and united is there's an eternity between now and

election day right so as markers always they hew thank you. soccer now liverpool coach you're going cluck takes his team to mighty barcelona on wednesday club is still waiting for his first champions league title after losing in the final with dortmund and liverpool in the past but in an exclusive interview with g w news clip proved to be as relaxed in unflappable as ever barcelona the warrant. liverpool coach your gun club is on the cusp of possibly the most important few weeks of his career as 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 jos a marine yo once labeling himself the special one book club is special his team are enjoying

a dream season and now look holmes the favorite spots alone or 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're 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 club they lost the previous two but he would still be proud of the feat. impressive. 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 in sports so if you're in the dems you should try to win and of course that's what they will do and we are not a dream draw i'm not the only ones occupying the former dalton boss at present

manchester city top the premier league by a point from little and the priority for fans is clear. on wednesday we. will hear from a leak tuesday he went into his league and then suddenly after that or so on the i think probably so. becoming a decision you have to play our best football in each game but if you are so people that's. very. obvious also from the people who would be winning the league liverpool of not won the english title since ninety ninety. the glory days back there's nothing noble about european club. there's nothing normal about your club and i think you meant it as a compliment when you agree you know. i mean yeah it's special that i'm not so sure there is something special about him he's taking on giants barcelona for the first time in his career right. how do you rate his chances i think this is probably up

there with the biggest test the cloth as i said in his career without a doubt boss alone have been one of the best teams in the world if not the best team in the world over the past fifteen years also one of the joints of football so it's a massive test for cloth but what he has liverpool is something special in spain is truly behind him that really bought into his game plan but his stall of play and you can say that on the field and you can say that they execute sometimes to perfection they've got midfielders that. they fall across game plan and it works and they pressed the pitch i play not attacking football they're also very solid in defense and you know you you really sense that everyone in liverpool is getting behind and not just pressing forward even more and so although he hasn't faced before he'll be raring to go in this to be fascinating to see how his and his team mean we saw in the interview there he's got it he's got the right attitude but there's still

a chance he could end up empty handed right exactly like the past few seasons and unfortunately that's the nature of football only a few teams can get their hands on the trophies. and in the premier league heat they've had a great season but they trailed man city by one point with three games to go so that trophies out of the hands of the champions league is truly the one where it's all in their control obviously too tough games against barcelona coming up and then a final and that's where it gets tricky for klopp he's played in seven finals as a manager but he's lost six of yeah that's what we're talking about he's got lots of losses to his name is it possible then that you know if we look beyond the beard in the glasses i mean maybe maybe he's a little overrated yeah i guess it depends who you us there are people out there who think he's the best coach in the world and pull fan and you probably get that answer. you'd have to say they're wrong on that count because he simply as you mentioned hasn't won enough trophies to be considered one of the best in the world he's up there that's no doubt about it he's worked at teams which perhaps have

another resources of other bigger clubs when he was a dog when he did a great job taking on the benefit is by in munich who have will cost by as always a top coach always involves resources anyone too late totals we're told and now he's come a little pool and yes he's had a bit more cash to spend but he's competing against the likes of manchester city who probably the best in the premier league seen in the past ten years and have the best coach in the world pep guardiola so he really is doing a great job keeping up a source of clubs and he's really moved lupul up to a new level. i don't think so if you're saying he's the best coach in the world then yes yes i've read it but i think he does need to win trophies to really cement his reputation the game. is barcelona overrated going into wednesday if there's one thing that's not overrated as muscle and they just wrapped up their leg a total in eleven years of some dominance in a in a league way to hitting against real madrid and they finished eighteen before

points ahead of real madrid at the moment so that's an amazing start there and the twenty two games on being so they are looking pretty pretty good going into the semifinal clash and they're also desperate. a champions league trophy because their rivals from injured of won the last race so they'll feel that really d.c. is their year and of course they have the greatest player in the world leo messi he scored forty six goals forty five games and you would say that who outside of mr messi will be a key player would you say in this titanic tussle. well i guess i mean if you're going to stop us lenny you need to stop messi so that's where. liverpool center defender will really come into play as well as he is his fullback robots and they really need to be on top of closing message down and then you course have new pulls attackers who need to be on top of their game. will be katie and then boss line on they'd probably have one of the upcoming goalkeepers in the world to stake in the german and he'll be a colossus in goal so it's all up in the air plenty of plays that can change

a game you want your diction for your game wednesday the first leg and the only two one to two numbers alone all right. we'll see what we're talking about come thursday. boortz is always that if you just. well the day is almost done the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter either g.w. news or you can follow me at work got t.v. don't forget to use our hash tag the day every member whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see that everybody.

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