today abdicated emperor akihito japan's first pacifist monarch offered his gratitude to the people and nation he represented from what is known as the chrysanthemum throne tonight remembering the reign of akihito the japanese emperor who respected royal tradition and defied it at the same time i'm often berlin this is the day. today i am concluding. as the emperor. that we now know. deepest respect and gratitude to you that. i am very thankful and happy. that i have been able to fulfil my duties as emperor

. with trust and respect for the japanese people for the last thirty years. that i think it is the people who should be thinking to him. i want to tell them thank. you together with the empress i hope from my heart that the new railway era will be peaceful and fruitful. also coming up tonight he led liverpool to a heart breaking the waltz once before this time around coach you're going to pull up plans to take his team to victory and he tells d w how he's going to do this all so many games. because i will play them in a competitive game and. amenities i was a failing by doing it that's how it is because it's just so good and i always thought it would be interesting to try to sort of. well 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 japan's imper 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 ascent 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 throw. 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 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 it 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 the whole i.e. 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 and will use this incredible to the extent of. 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 now he. 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 so. not that i feel grateful. i wish him good health i feel emotional i have a wound. them all i'd like to say one thing to him thank you so much that it did to the pharmacy in the us this era is coming to an end it makes me feel a little sad but this said to be here in this moment is an important experience i think that's a sign of 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 we felt they were looking after us. for years and we felt that compassion. open for you to make the current empress symbolize peace. and so i am a little sad that he's after katie actually most of us have nothing but i believe the next ten prebble carry on his legacy. for us strongly believe that. well akihito was japan's first pacifist monarch 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 grieving his people for the first time after ascending the chrysanthemum for all. 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 rule on the world stage. driven by concerns over his own failing health he to his 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 appearances japanese emperor as his country marked the anniversary of its wartime capitulation. then 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 you must . 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 lindh 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 a golf 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 daughter 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. all right to talk about what might be inside the wall with the president trump i'm joined here in 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 are overreaching and harassing him who's telling the truth well i mean i

guess it's where you stand is where you set a little bit it's all about perspective from the truth is that you know the muller report had some pretty big holes in it and one of them was the red line the president said of course that's why 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 to this seven district of new york are all interested in making sure that there are no conflicts and nothing going on the likely what they're doing then it's because when he was a candidate it in the early days of his administration he basically gave you know the middle finger to the tradition of 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 of course 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 deutsche 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 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 they're all partners you know 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 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 and a lot of the. the departures from tradition that this president as engaged upon are breaking norms not breaking last necessarily but the behavior it's the 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 isn't there right there is that

a conflict of interest i mean 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 response and 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 i mean correct me if i'm wrong but it 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 you know 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 this story the president his children are suing their own being 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 the 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 these doc and that's a good point i have to ask you about the the race for twenty 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 are 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 a two 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 bright as markers always they q thank you. soccer now liverpool coach you're going cluck takes his team to mine to 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 and unflappable as ever barcelona be warned. liverpool coach your gun club is on the cusp of possibly the most important few weeks of his career

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 with favorites barcelona something new for the fifty one year old i saw so many games for a lot of teams to get a puzzle on because i never played them in a competitive game and i saw so many teams i was a failing by doing it that's how it is because i trust 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.

i don't know we will 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 a dens 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 andre tesh dagon are not the only ones occupying the former dalton boss at present manchester city top the premier league by a point from liverpool and the priority for fans is clear. on wednesday when. you heard from a leak tuesday he went into his league and then suddenly after that or sunday i think probably so. because i make that decision we have to play our best football on each game but if you are so people that's. very. obvious also from the people it

would be winning the league liverpool of not won the english titles he's ninety ninety. the glory days back there's nothing noble about your good. 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 and he's taking on giants barcelona for the first time in his career right. how do you rate his chances think this is probably up there with the biggest test the club as i said in his career without a doubt bus line to 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 caught but what he has here at liverpool is something special in spain is truly behind him that really bought into his game plan with his stall of play and you can see that on the field and you can see that they execute sometimes

to perfection they've got midfielders that. they fall across a game plan and it works and they can then press 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 rearing to go in this to be fascinating to see how his and 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 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 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 fondles as

a manager but he's lost six of yet 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 and 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 liverpool fan and you'll 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 at dortmund he did a great job taking on the benefit is buy in munich who have will cost by as always a top coach always and boss 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 at these sorts of clubs and he's really moved lupul up to

a new level. i don't think so if you saying he's the best coach in the world then yes he's overrated but i think he doesn't 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 must learn they just wrapped up their leg a total in eleven years some dominance in a league where you know 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 semi final clash and they're also desperate. a champions league trophy because their rivals for amateurs have won the last three weeks so they'll feel that really this year 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 see if you were to say that. 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 van dyke liverpool center defender will really come into play as well as his his fullback robots and they really need to be on top of closing message down and then you course have the pools attack as you need to be on top of the game. will be katie and then boss line up 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 players that can change a game or diction for the game with the first leg and the only two one to two members along all right. we'll see what we're talking about come thursday. would you give us boortz is always there if you just. well the day is almost done the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter either d.w. news or you can follow me it went off t.v. don't forget to use our hash tag the day every member whatever happens between now

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