this is t.v. news live from berlin at least two people are now dead after cycling funny slams into the east coast of india the cycle has brought parental rainfall and violent winds and set to pass over the homes of one hundred million people will get the latest from our correspondent also on the show. on press freedom day we meet a journalist in slovakia who says growing right wing extremism in the country is

a threat to journalism and a personal safety of reporters. and our correspondents kate's right into the thick of thailand's roller derby madness and meets a team with big ambitions. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us one of the biggest storms to hit india in years has made landfall it battered the east of the country with winds of up to one hundred eighty kilometers per hour cycling fani striking the coast of odisha stated about eight am local time close the seaside resort town of perri local police have confirmed that two people have died although forecasters say. cyc loan

has now started to weaken authorities evacuated more than a million people in coastal areas ahead of all these arrival fearing storm surges could endanger lives. let's go straight to to be sure jarvis walsh is covering the story for us from our delhi bureau good day to you can you give us the latest on the cycling well as you mentioned the cycle needs landfall at eight am local time and the impact is expected to last at least six hours there will be strong winds as well as a danger to see conditions in which the central authorities have put out warnings about and the cycle is moving in and not northeast to a direction now as a tall grasses it's expected to weaken and it's heading to was another indian steve the state of west bengal all the landfall happened on the southern coast of the state of what they saw and really when she pasta was bottom of the spot to prove it because at that point of time i mean one hundred million people are going to be affected by this cycle and how how one of the affected regions been preparing for

this scale of event. well central parties have already evacuated one million people from call serious and it is worth noting that while the lawsuit was like no one was in one thousand nine hundred nine in the region that's two decades ago the region is not unfamiliar with these kinds of weather conditions in the past as well people have been evacuated and casualties have been brought down as a result india has one of the largest national disaster relief forces in the world and the indian army as well as the air force is on standby the navy and course two dogs are already already on the ground trying to help people and to ensure that the need for rescue operations can go on smoothly for food and medicines have already been deployed and if you mention that this is the biggest storm since ninety nine so it's been two decades for authorities to prepare is there is a sense among the people in the affected areas that it's going to be better this

time around if the authorities have learned their lessons from the events of two decades ago. but there have been others like loans that have hit in two thousand and four two thousand and five even two thousand and seventeen i'm also actuation similar to this one look at it out there then as well and casualties were brought down thousands of people died in ninety nine but around forty were in the last cycle and that was about eight of you a few years ago and so on tons of human casualties of course that has been a positive response from central authorities however infrastructure is expected to suffer severe damage because already central authorities are saying that the patched houses as well as get to the people as communication in mumbai also will be affected roads will be affected really as has already been disrupted so the truth of infrastructure damage and want to become clear once the cycle of boss is over. thank you very much for that michel. it's to venezuela now where officials have

ordered police to detain influential opposition leader leopoldo lopez days after he escaped from house arrest and led a rally with self proclaimed president won the well known opponent of venezuelan leader nicolas maduro has now taken refuge in the spanish embassy. he's a symbol for venezuela's opposition leader has led the first major movement against nicolas maduro that was of a five years ago the protests ended in failure and lopez's detention fast forward to tuesday lopez escapes from house arrest he says so just frayed him it's the beginning of the latest military uprising against madeira one that so far has again failed to dislodge finnis while it's laid right now once more leopoldo lopez is confined this time to the spanish embassy but the opposition leader says he stay they won't be long because that is why this leadership he believes is poised to

switch sides you know you can come on down and i've been meeting with commanders. with generals i've been holding talks with the different factions of the military you know and we agreed to put an end to this use of patient of power. but nicholas maturer has been trying to show he still commands the troops loti. he dressed scores of them at the caracas military academy. on stage with him some of the leadership a signal that they're literally behind him but the leader also sees rebellion in the ranks but. we cannot give one inch to the traitors to the conspirators we must go on the offensive and be active everyone must follow the command and detain any traitors and then it will. still mature our supporters our pines to sound a harmonious night after days of turmoil camels. put gas in from the government

madeira is still number one but would the law fall from a should she states discord could very well be reprised. now for some of the other stories making the news at this hour in washington political tensions are flaring after attorney general william barr missed a congressional hearing into his handling of special counsel robert miller's russia reports his absence was due to a disagreement over allowing staff lawyers to ask questions democrats are also reportedly considering holding the attorney general in contempt of congress after he declined to provide lawmakers with an unredacted version of the russia report. malaysia has released the last remaining suspect being held in connection with the killing of the a strange half brother of north korea's leader kim jong nam died after he was smeared with a nerve agent at kuala lumpur airport in february of two thousand and seventeen. that facebook has banned a number of figures from the far right and far left the band includes all right

commentator mia low in aa plus nation of islam leader louis farrakhan and alex jones a right wing talk show host mark zuckerberg said the decision was made to promote safety but many users are calling the move censorship. well today is world press freedom day a day for remembering the importance of a free press and also for reminding elected governments of their duty to uphold the rights of citizens to communicate freely without fear we're going to take a look now at slovakia a country that has been shaken by the murder of an investigative journalist and his girlfriend last year those killings led to mass demonstrations and forced the then prime minister to stand down but the journalist d.w. talked to say they still do not feel safe. they see it as a battle in the fight for slovakia's open democratic society the high court in bratislava is deciding whether to close down the people party hours slovakia the

state prosecutor says the party is too close to fascism it should be banned. journalist adam ventured fields party like this create district polls show the slovak extreme right on third place in the lead up to the e.u. elections scrutiny of a special democrats. does not. it's dangerous for democracy this rise of right wing extremists because these people go against us for the right wing spectrum anime's in any case the other cheek. for through. the court decides against the best the party can continue. adam or accept slovakia's because. they are still absorbed in another side of the country story or the guard marian kartchner is now at the center of the quick check case slovak media report that the men who admitted shooting the journalist said the only dark himself had ordered the killing that hasn't been proven but it is confirmed that question organized

a full scale spying operation against investigative journalists. suspected since last year that i was having me observe that was when he suddenly released private things about me my child told my health but the police has only now officially confirmed it for all. and i'm also received threatening emails but undeterred he spent all of last year to go after his financial dealings and his political connections in government. it's about transparency the surprise has been renamed. it is from a journalistic work and the fight for freedom of information. so how do adams colleagues feel about the spying operation and the new accusations against the oligarch you know was crazy but we always thought that he's like. he's dangerous but not the dangers we always thought that it's all about money and

business. the newspapers editor in chief is worried for journalist safety but the stress pushed them to work even harder and she says return to the essence of the job this was such a defining moment in slovakia's journalism because we realize that the country is on a crossroads and it's not only that these murder needs to be investigated but that we have to tell the story how he got to the point she and her team i determined to continue uncovering corrupt networks in the country and that is the feeling often initial and political intimidation goes on on the good side the. support from the public we do have readers who are really into the bay who are speaking to us because they understand that that this is important despite all the political and financial pressures the press in slovakia is

a life and fighting on journalists message to the country's oligarchs is you can buy a paper or a news room but you can't buy us the people in it and many of them after last year's murder of one of their own see that event as a particular call to arms. on their way through practice love us was on and adam often passed by the memory of their dead colleagues young could shock when i see picture i still cannot believe that he's not here anymore we will never forget him and. it's very sad and i think of him almost every day. let's find out more about the state of press freedom with scott griffin deputy director of the international press sensitivities in ethiopia capital addis ababa for the main celebration of world press freedom day joins us from there thanks for joining us the report out today points to eastern europe we just saw

a report from slovakia as being of special concern can you fill us in on why that's the case. sure good morning and let me just say it briefly that i'm ethiopia for the main celebration of world press freedom day and yukio is one of the few countries in the world where we can say that press freedom is actually improving there are few bright spots where through this eastern europe i think we heard already from some journalists in slovakia that main problems of beef is there the sort of smear campaigns and just information campaigns against journalists are critical journalists are regularly. smeared are described as enemies of state and the double impact in our view on the one hand it's a calculated way so we public distrust of the media and blunting be impacted the work that the media the critical media do so it's undermining the role in a democracy and on the other hand of course it puts journalists in doing it as if that journalist somehow targets and the other thing i think that must be met with

regards to do so in europe is the one dairy and model which is what we've just been hungry is a combination of sort of economic censorship in which media are targeted by there tonight state advertising we have sort of ownership networks you know friends of prime minister are bonded by up an independent media and so what we have are basically an independent media which are encircled by a state need in and the model is being borrowed by by other leaders in the region so these are the developments that we see is see is that concerning in eastern europe and of course you know investigating killings of journalists like that of young groups actions like yeah yeah the killing of journalists is of course very disturbing for anyone interested in and getting information that's that's unbiased and this report shows that. violence against reporters is also increasing

what are the forces of work there what countries are especially at risk. and we have an countries where violence against journalists unfortunately and demick where we have a cycle of violence that's very difficult to stop if you look to mexico outdanced and we're thirty in journalism last year what's possibly even more thrilling for us at the moment is that journalists killings have emerged in countries where we did not think they were possible it was our slow. or the keeping of daphne carline it deletes yet malta or even the murdered off madrid saints wiley and god it was a colleague of i'm ever journalist i'm not and what we have to say in cases of is that it's extremely important to stop the cycle of violence and impunity before it be as i said if you look at kind in mexico so difficult to get out of this to get out of this cycle and you know get the case to mult a particular it's a scandal that there's been no progress in this investigation yesterday and you know you had a speech someone called a multis government an agent of impunity for blocking the investigation and into

a death is murder and i think that's right and i think it's an absolute outrage that we have kind of had cases in the european union of journalists killed it's terrible signal globally scott thanks so much for that roundup scott griffin for us deputy director of the international presence there joining us from ethiopia so i thank you very much this is news live from berlin still to come on the show do you ever use of a charles charles until explores the growing popularity of an all american contact sport in bangkok. but first a german troops helping train security forces in mali have thanked chancellor merkel for her support the chancellor was in that country as part of a three day trip to west africa germany and a number of other e.u. countries are trying to boost stability in the region in an effort to reduce migration to europe. for security reasons german chancellor angela merkel traveled

from bikini afonso to mali in an aircraft of the german military the book is fear in gallo she visited german soldiers stationed their most important role in mali is information gathering doing patrols using heavy vehicles and drones it's tough work and roughly fifty degrees heat the essence my first few days are very very stressful you just have to keep hydrated stay in the shade and climatized missions i'm sure and i think it's nice she shows her appreciation for the soldiers by coming here. the chancellor thanked the soldiers and said their mission was currently the point has been as most dangerous if this is not the in you can clearly see that the african nations here in these religion are reliant on external support with base material supplies and training on the blenders bases mandate for the mali mission finishes at the end of the month the german parliament will consider an extension next week earlier in the day merkel also visited the university of. students were curious about german investments in the country but

concerned about german weapon exports to the region merkel said on the one hand countries have to be restrictive when it comes to exports but. that the movement on the other hand we also have to make sure your opinions or your own african forces have the equipment they need if there is acquittals terrorists that would be bad. in the evening the chancellor headed to new which he's due to visit the woman's project that she personally supports. huge crowds of demonstrators have joined what's being called a million strong march outside sudan's army headquarters there demanding the ruling military hand over power to civilians talks between protest leaders and the military remain deadlocked he'd have used a far bill karim and then a group of women in khartoum who told him how the protests have affected them and their families. the women who

live in the al body district of khartoum in sudan are overjoyed the regime has finally been overthrown their sons helped accomplish this even though they risked being beaten up each time they went to demonstrations lignite is the mother of three sons who took part is among our allies swear to god if tortured and beat our children not to learn how you. live now invites us into her house one of her sons greets us the others are striking in front of the army's headquarters they want the old regime to disappear security forces were regularly sent to randomly search houses in their districts without any regard to their privacy. now as they came in here and looked under the beds i said no one's hiding under there then they went into the kitchen in the bathroom and why they were looking for rebels. the bullet holes document the violence the security forces use in this district.

according to people who live here they detained protesters in this bus and interrogated them. here it is where the uprising started here in the heart that's why this street is called now the street of the revolution and dispose here is a symbol for the confrontations between the security forces and the demonstrators the first riots in khartoum took place in this part of town where about five thousand people live. kids used to play soccer on this field. now it's known as the place where a bloody fights between locals and security forces took place these clashes led to residents being wounded and arrested. more yet who's twenty five years old was one of those arrested. he has a certificate in business administration and works as

a salesman. the hard life as he puts it drove him to take place in the protests until he was imprisoned for three weeks he was released right after the regime was toppled. and then with a video that a lot of people a must for planning the protests in this district building the barricades and digging the trenches through as you know. here in the al border the district not only the men but also the women young and old played a central role in the revolution. whether they took place in the protests themselves or gave moral support and aid to the demonstrators but it wasn't easy. but you have been bitterly at it i ran from house to house to protect my granddaughter from the tear gas and bombs. i suffered with her. i never allowed us to do that amount so how did you help or i kept taking her to places where there

was no tear gas. at the time not a you know was three days old now she's all right she was born at the beginning of a new era. that i you know the protests that started in the old forty districts brought the women together now they meet regularly and they all hope that the revolution will change their lives for the better. they are that we hope that people here will be able to live in peace and that we will get a good government and that we can live in safety because if the situation becomes stable and secure then we will feel good about things again and this is everybody. here in the al bloody district people hope that the revolution will go on. we have some sports now in the euro police term and semifinals in england arsenal defeated valencia of spain three one and in germany frankfurt scored early against

visiting chelsea look at yo bitch having it in for frankfurt at the twenty three minute mark but there was little time for him and his team mates to celebrate that's because chelsea tired just before the break with spanish winger pedro's shot and that's how it ended i want all draw frankfurt remain undefeated at home the season in their openly the second leg is in london next week. now on to a new craze in thailand especially among young thrill seekers roller derby is gaining popularity in parts of asia there's now an interagency league. caught up with an ambitious team from bangkok they have their sights set on the next world cup. it still must frantic and full contact. welcome. to the game about pilot and free forward that. pushed off for what i meant to try and stop the run of like what the

next clearly this is no place to begin is. these guys are on a mission to set up thailand's first ever national team and skate their way into the biggest competition in the game is no doubt the world cup almost every roller derby player know as a dream of competing in the world cup and it would be great to bring a team from thailand with thai skaters. trained in bangkok that would be a dream. to do was come up it's going to say case in a few years time the race is on to plan a fight they already have the skills. and training from the chub rode on the legends the experience international should stop that's become team thailand's they need to recruit more type players. they're counting on roll the dhabi's growing proof fallen angels to help them do it i think people are hungry

they want to they want to help us find a way to be able to get out of their bodies in that space and that's the whole world the. guy that has. been on the. team bangkok are already playing in asia niek tonight's the big game the against rivals hong kong at last year's world cup the number of asian teams competing jumped from one to three. and with more bins like this thailand should be runs alongside the next time around those weren't many asian teams on the last world cup but everyone really enjoyed watching team japan and team korea and team philippines so i think the team thailand will be very exciting to watch the initial public yeah it's nice anything to go by these guys already six hand that into asian success international. by name on didn't explore

up. star were fans around the world are marking the passing of one of the brightest lights in the star wars universe peter mayhew the man who played to baka in five of the star wars films has passed away the towering actor became an iconic part of cinematic history after director george lucas cast them in the side. may he was seventy four years old. let's get your minder of our top story at this hour one of the biggest storms ever to hit india has made landfall cyclon folly is battering the east of the country at this hour with winds of up to one hundred eighty kilometers per hour. authorities say at least two people have died more than a million have been evacuated from low lying coastal areas. still to come in our business news turkey feels the pension economically as u.s.

sanctions on a rainy in oil take a fact. mark jones has that story straight ahead with business don't forget you can always find out more about these and other stories at our website at student news dot com for now though for me brian thomas in the entire news team thanks so much for being with us. the few.

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