bialik asked trying to. manage by truck bomb. this is d w news live from her land cycling fanny slams into the east coast of india more than a million people have been evacuated from their homes to rental grain and violent winds of more than two hundred kilometers an hour are affecting the weather across the entire system top two and. also coming up on world press freedom day we need

a journalist in slovakia who says that growing right wing extremism there is a threat to journalism and the personal safety of reporters and a stark warning that north korea is running out of food the united nations says that without international aid ten million people will go hungry after the worst harvest in decades. i'm sara kelly thank you for joining us cycling finally has battered india's eastern coastline with winds gusting above two hundred kilometers per hour it is one of the biggest storms to hit the region in recent years the cycle made landfall on the coast of odessa stayed at around eight in the morning local time close to the seaside resort town of puri at least three people were reported dead forecasters say that the site clone is now weakening although they are warning.

people to remain cautious authorities evacuated more than a million people in coastal areas ahead of funny's arrival fearing storm surges could in danger their lives. let's bring in now our correspondent who is covering all of this for us from our delhi bureau so let me should just walk us through what is happening right now. the storm hit at eight am on the southern coast of the state of what a shock but it was predicted to walk outing on with high winds and danger the sea conditions for six hours those six saws are now over and the storm the cyclist's is has been downgraded since the morning now of course the greetings of cycles depend on when speeds and from extremely severe it has already come down to severe the storm is in the cycle it is moving into north northeast and that action so from the state the southern part of the state of course it's moving towards the state of west bengal a bit is expected to reach to morrow morning and then if we proceed on to bangladesh however as it keeps traveling it will keep weakening but authorities are

putting out warning saying that people should not become complacent just because the storm is weakening because winds are still expected to be above one hundred kilometers per hour and there has been damage so just walk us through what that has been so far. but already casualties have been reported while the storm is weakening for the casualties could be reported and that has been extensive infrastructure damage people while the central authorities mobilized and were able to evacuate many people in the course were predicted to be very wild to believe that all the images coming out of just how inundated these areas are houses have suffered damage has been trees being uprooted all across the stage and of course communication and moved out of phone calls have also fallen and so that to our assessment of the damage we're going to be possible once the cycle has passed through but already reports are coming in that the course leaders especially have

suffered heavy damage ok so there's not only that death toll there's also a significant number of displaced people as well just walk us through how things are likely to develop now over the coming hours over the coming days. well it's already pretty hard to predict exactly when these people will. i'll be able to return home because conditions will be valuated on the ground at a regular basis but on that front essential authorities have deployed many forces now that india's national disaster response force is actually one of the largest in the world the engine navy and coast guard are all deployed taking care of people on the ground the indian army and air force are also on standby a medical sources have been deployed as well as a generator does out there to provide electricity because of course there have been pockets so that has been a serious effort from the center from authorities to ensure that people who are just stuff they can get off but when it comes to when they might actually be able

to draw home there's no predicting right now let me see just well with the latest from delhi thank you. now let's get a quick check now of some other stories making news around the world spain says that it will not hand over venezuelan opposition figure leopoldo lopez despite a warrant to detain him lopez has taken refuge in the spanish embassy and after escaping house arrest he led the first major movement against the president nicolas maduro back in twenty fourteen. thailand's king has proved been performing rituals in bangkok ahead of his coronation he lit candles and incense sticks at the coronation hall and temples of the grand palace and gave ceremonial fans to venerable monks of important temples the three day coronation officially begins on saturday. and partial results from britain's local council elections show a dramatic fall in support for the two main political parties the governing conservatives have lost around four hundred forty seats and opposition party labor

nearly eighty commentators say that the results reflects the public's frustration with the deadlock over bribes. a man who plotted to bomb the new york city subway could be released within days after spending nearly a decade helping u.s. authorities identify and prosecute terrorists he became radicalized in the u.s. and received explosives training from al qaeda in pakistan back in two thousand and eight it faces up to life in prison after pleading guilty to terrorism related charges. today as world press freedom day a day for remembering the importance of free press and for reminding elected governments of their duty to uphold the right of citizens to communicate without fear we're going to take a look now at slovakia a country that was shaken by the murder of an investigative reporter and his girlfriend last year the killings led to mass demonstrations and forced the prime minister to stand down but the journalist and spoke with say that they still don't

feel safe. back in journalists and hands all over and out of our church visiting a memorial to their colleague john park 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 who checks killing shook slovakia in the news room of the country's biggest newspaper it is still one of the biggest stories especially since a new development involving this man tycoon marrying kartchner he march he was charged with ordering the murder of the journalist who is investigating allegations of fraud against him the tycoon was known for his efforts to intimidate reporters he deemed threatening one method was to spy on them i don't validate it was also a target. i suspected since last year that caution i was having me observed that was when he suddenly released private things about me my childhood my health but the police has only now officially confirmed and.

despite the threats budget continued his investigation into coaching his dealings and his alleged contacts within the police and judiciary but for him and his colleague counsel over the tycoons reported efforts to suppress the truth representative shocking new love you knew that modern culture was crazy but we always thought that he's like. he's dangerous but not their dangers we always thought that it's all about money and business the newspaper editor is now worried about the safety of journalists but she says a motive to check is a watershed not just for journalism but also for the future of the country this was such a defining moment in slovakia's journalism because we realize that the country is on a crossroad and it's not only these in order needs to be investigated but that we have to tell the story how we got to the point she says despite their charges

that they have also been advantages she says many slovakians value the work of the reporters more and are prepared to spend money to support it on the good side we. 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 alive 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 you can learn more about world's press freedom day that's on our website w dot com. well now facebook and other social media giants have been under fire recently for not doing enough to stop the spread of misinformation and hate speech crawl assman is here to report on this now because yesterday facebook took dramatic action banning several accounts of what it called far right figures but the move is also reigniting

a debate about what role internet companies should play in regulating speech online so carl tell us first of all who exactly is facebook banning and why yes i mean these are some pretty big names actually the ban applies to facebook and instagram so it's pretty wide sweeping here these are people the company called a dangerous individuals they have repeatedly violated facebook's regulations when it comes to promoting violence and hatred their big names especially on the far right we're talking about people like alex jones and his outlets info wars my lawyer an op lists paul joseph watson among others facebook also banned the leader of the nation of islam louis farrakhan and it's not really clear if one single event led to this decision but we can get maybe a glimpse or a clue into what mark zuckerberg was thinking because he was speaking at facebook's developer conference on monday here's a bit of what he had to say. we're very focused on making sure that our recommendations and discovery surfaces aren't highlighting groups were people

repeatedly sharing misinformation or harmful content and we're working hard to completely remove groups if they exist primarily to or to violate our policies or or do things that are dangerous as you mentioned it means like a bird has really been facing a lot of criticism on this issue maybe now deciding to act and really i think forcefully just completely banning these people from facebook but one has to wonder i mean where does freedom of speech play into this of course it's in trying to in the u.s. constitution facebook coming under fire as you mentioned you know really especially for suppressing conservative voice we've heard from congress on this haven't we have yeah i mean and it turns out you know a lot of that criticism from congress experts say that that's mostly unfounded but it does seem like these bans tend to disproportionately affect those on the right and in today you know a lot of people that were just banned there saying exactly that they were victims here censoring us because of our beliefs and in fact the british media figure paul joseph watson who was banned he posted today on you tube where he still active and

he said look i'm a victim here here's what he had to say in the video so i'm dangerous someone who makes mean videos laughing at social justice warriors or is handing the power to decide who gets to have free speech to a handful of giant politically parties uncool poor russians dangerous what's more dangerous they put me on the list with terrorists human traffickers and serial killers because i criticize modern or modern all kids because i decorate the size mass immigration because i decorate the size of belief systems ok so sure i mean this was the thing limit his ability to spread his ideas but this is not about his views on modern architecture as he says that i mean look he and info wars the outlet that he is associated with have done things like spreading fake news including misinformation about the safety of vaccines they have instigated violence against minorities and women. they have claimed that mass shootings were faked including that some of the victims who died were just crisis actors so that's where

this ban from facebook is coming from in terms of the real damage that they've done not about views about modern architecture and when we're talking about this balance between you know safety ally freedom of speech these bans do they actually work are i mean i don't even effective i mean that's the question right can you just ban stuff that you don't like out of existence and it's important course to point out you know there's no right to freedom of speech when it comes to private companies like facebook and instagram or twitter they can make their own rules and they can enforce them but you know alex jones or paul joseph was you know we just heard of heard from you know they're going to go maybe somewhere else they might be banned now on facebook but they're going to take their views and their videos and their speech to maybe a darker corner of the internet where it's more difficult to regulate or keep track of what they're talking about we've seen a lot of violence now coming from places like four chan and eight chan these are kind of shady or back rooms where you can post things on a message board those have been linked to those views have been linked to shootings in christ church in the recent synagogue shooting in san diego for example so there

can be some real world consequences from what happens when you ban speech it's just going to go somewhere else i personally think it's a good thing to be enforcing the rules and regulations of these platforms but facebook and twitter they need to do more in terms of investing in programs that will help improve media literacy help improve education so people are less likely to believe these conspiracy theories and these hate speech to begin with you can't simply ban a problem out of existence they're controversial conversation that is happening right now and they want so much. well german police have announced a breakthrough in the fight against the shadowy cyber world the so-called dark net three suspected masterminds of an extensive criminal network have been arrested they were allegedly behind a platform dealing in narcotics and stolen data. the shutdown of the second largest online platform for illegal trade is a massive blow for the dark net just about everything traded on the black market

from drugs to fake passports was available on wall street market. three germans who allegedly operated the illegal portal were arrested more than a week ago which it is i. would like to express my gratitude to the representatives of the investigation was a success it has provided a glimpse into how such marketplaces often conceal a complex infrastructure that is spread over numerous countries and continents of continent as for type items on wall street markets were not purchased with real money but with so-called crypto currency digital seemingly anonymous currencies getting access to these spheres required great expertise on the part of the investigators as well as much patience and luck. i'm very appreciative of our german hosts and for all of the international law enforcement partners represented here today the investigation into wall street market was truly

a collaborative effort between prosecutors in the united states germany and the netherlands thanks a lot investigators in the u.s. have also brought charges against the three suspected wall street market administrators. now in a few weeks' time elections to the european parliament will be had held across the e.u. the results of a new survey by polling company in protest the map indicate that most people in germany will be watching the outcome closely germans were asked how interested they are in the european elections fifty three percent say that they are either very or strongly interested as compared with forty seven percent who say that they are either less or not interested in the vote. joining me now from the polling company that conducted that survey for test dean math he is the head of it for testing out reinhardt welcome to the program to you and i'd like to begin by asking you because you know as we can see there a majority of germans are either very or strongly interested in the european

parliament elections how does that compare to the last time that the elections took place. so that's quite interesting since we have to for a year or year nearly a year the discussion in europe especially in germany about the brics and the interest in the house increased we know three weeks before the european elections we have a higher interest in the election than we had in the last election in twenty fourteen one just the week before the election there it was less than half the population who said close to the election they were interested in it and it's not the only thing that this poll is looking at i'd like to just pull up some figures actually on germans views toward the european union because respondents they were asked whether they think that germany's membership in the european union has benefited the country forty six percent said that they thought that it had been to germany's advantage whereas thirty seven percent said that the pros and cons of

membership were the same fourteen percent believed that being in the e.u. was cheap germany's disadvantage so i mean we can see here that slightly less than half of germans think the e.u. membership has been advocation is to germany itself does that indicate some sort of your of skepticism growing in germany would you say. well i would look at the results differently and say it's only fourteen percent of the population who say the has been this is very and is as it was was not an advantage to germany if you look at the other two it's the absolute majority as has a good attitude towards the european european union and when you continue to ask what's good for the european union you need to have three quarters of the germans who say the european union secures safety in europe and it's

helps to keep personal and industrial doing in europe and especially in germany and one aspect of the poll that's really sort of future look and like to bring that up right now this is when it comes to cooperation between e.u. member countries and german said the following they were asked how big thought that you should develop in the future fifty two percent were in favor of deeper integration of a with petitions sixteen percent said no major changes needed twenty seven percent saying that they wanted more sovereignty for individual member states in this decision making so i mean here we can see this fifty two percent of that's over half of germans want more e.u. integration. so what do you make of that i mean is it contradicting what we saw in the earlier response i mean where we're less than half of the membership has been to germany is the bench. not at all really again we have to look at those who say oh you want to have more responsibility for germany again this is twenty seven

percent but the rest of the population says either we want to know change or we want more cooperation and when it comes to the point when we are sick why is it like this that we find that nearly ninety percent of the population say that the you should concentrate of the common values in europe not only on the issues which separate european countries and so again i can only say. for the last twenty years we've never seen such a rather positive attitude towards the european union as we see now and last election five years ago we had a turnout just below fifty percent and with these numbers i think this could be could increase maybe to sixty percent that would be a very good result for the european elections here in germany and those elections

in just a couple weeks time with that gauge of the mood we thank you very much reinhard liker the head of in for test the math leadership pleasure. and german troops helping train security forces in mali have thanked chancellor angela merkel for her support the chancellor was in the country as part of a three day tour of west africa germany and several other even countries are trying to boost ability in the region in an effort to reduce migration to your. for security reasons german chancellor angela merkel traveled from kenya faso to mali in an aircraft of the german military the blues 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 on the essence by the first few days a very very stressful you just have to keep hydrated stay in the shade and climatized missions 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 blunders fears most dangerous to this north sea in the us you can clearly see that the african nations here in this region are reliant on external support with both material supplies and training on the blenders fears 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 a good. 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 all severely in the evening the chancellor headed to new jersey where she's due to

visit the woman's project that she personally supports. north korea is running out of food after the worst harvest in ten years that's the warning from the united nations experts who have been touring the isolated country over the past few months u.n. world food program says that without international aid as many as twelve ten million people excuse me will go hungry until the next harvest. farmers in the southwestern corner of north korea were planting rice when u.n. officials passed through in early april but shortages of fertilizer and fuel keep output low water is also scarce in many areas this irrigation canal was virtually dry. a few kilometers to the north officials found dehydrated burley fields the countryside struggling to recover after months of extreme weather. this has meant from the field they have spoken to households farmers local officials that

visited nurseries what is clear to us is that we're very concerned with the situation of food security nutrition korea what is clear is that the succession of drought wave and floods this year has about impacting the crop production. many people try to help themselves this woman has a small digital garden and resist chickens but most of the year she survives on a diet of rice and compete. it is estimated that about ten point one million people around forty percent of the population are considered to be food insecurity and in need of urgent food assistance. groups the social groups that are more a fact that in danger are children young children and women pregnant women and like dating women the world food program provides food aid to almost eight hundred thousand nourished women and children in nine north korean provinces some of that

food comes from local factories that produce cereals and biscuits using grains imported by the world food program but the organization says much more needs to be done if north koreans are to be saved from going hungry. quick reminder now the top stories we're following for you here and insights on funniest battery north east india lashing beaches with rain and winds gusting more than two hundred kilometers per hour authorities say that at least two people have died and more than a million people and evacuated. and that you have to do you know and he is coming up next indeed if you news asia it's a journey that can be done by bus. car or bike we will tell you why this royal found decided to go by boat to the thai king's coronation and journalists in asia are rostered jailed for doing them jobs we'll take a look at their cases on world press freedom to. all that and more coming up in

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but with the world be like in your lifetime and around half a century. when i was born there were three billion people if you will share the planet with nine billion. your world would be around two degrees warmer go and inevitably sea levels rise by at least one metre cintra and. we're going to have some climate impacts which are greater than focusing on many places. that's really frightening thought. thank you why are people more concerned. first w.

this is d w news asia coming up on the program cycling funny barrels through eastern india is the strongest storm to hit the region in five years next in its path bangladesh plus. journalism is not a crime on this world press freedom day we look at several cases of reporters facing pressure in asia and. a royal fan goes.