thank. you this is deja vu news live from berlin climate change moves up the corporate and political agenda in germany school strikers confront bosses at one of germany's biggest energy protesters as a city in the southeast declares that aligned to emergency. voters punish britain's main political parties for the gregs the chaos ruling conservatives and the opposition labor are taking hits in the local election. campaign.

in her last race before a controversial rule change in track and field caster semenya blisters the competition to be eight hundred metres. and german investigator shut down the second largest criminal trading platform on the dark now to arrest three of the suspected mastermind behind. thank you. i'm sumi so much gun it's good to have you with us we start with grassroots initiatives around the world that are putting climate change on top of the agenda now the environmental youth movement started by the sixteen year old swedish activist gratitude has inspired young people in many countries more than a million students have taken part in school strikes to demand action against climate change and one group of german students turned out today to pressure bosses

at the annual shareholders meeting of the power generator r w e. these students are skipping school for climate protection with posters and chants the fridays for future youth movement as well as environmental activists trying to rock up the pressure on german energy company r. w. e. today the protesters didn't go unnoticed by the company's top management in essen freitas for future a fridays for the future is adding a topic to today's agenda it's making everyone aware of the issue but making demands also means doing something unfortunately it seems to me that feasible action gets short shrift in many debates are w e s corporate leadership plans to restructure the company in fact it's supposed to purchase solar and wind based electricity provider and on this year this should help r.w. ease investment value and polish its image for louise annoyed by our it's a step in the right direction but it's not enough she was able to express her view

in a speech given to top management and shareholders during our w e s annual shareholders meeting every martelly has been saying it wants to be greener for a long time but hasn't been doing anything instead it's continuing to invest in coal based energy and robbing people in villages of their livelihoods and. the young protesters are demanding that our w e completely exit coal based energy by twenty thirty and shut down a quarter of its coal powered energy stations by the end of twenty nineteen r. w. e. counters that it is providing jobs that the older generations need so as this new generation of climate worriers having any effect miranda is a professor of environmental and climate policy at the technical university of munich and she joins us for more on the story home around is there any conclusive evidence that these fridays for future rallies are really affecting government policy. i haven't seen that kind of attention given to climate movements that

this movement is getting in a long long time and i think that really suggests something is happening we've seen the british parliament recently announce a climate declaration of climate emergency the city of constance in germany has just added its name as the first german city to announce that kind of emergency receive a whirl going transit is los angeles think. they're also going in the same direction and so i think we really see and movement here that has caught on in a way she weather movement. you mentioned the british parliament how much do you think that was attributed to the climate activists like big things should rebellion movement that we've seen disrupting public transport there for example. well i think i think that's exactly right that the disruption is caught the media's attention and i think that's really the strategy that both of these groups are taking their their cash three media attention and forcing the media to pay

attention it to an issue that's really soon very beginning or end but often gets pushed off and everybody can so we can worry about this about this later and i think with these these groups are same is no extinction extinction rebellion when they're talking about what's the future of the planet and can humans survive on it if we don't hurry up into something about climate change and in the i'm trying to use the future there we're talking about the same thing they want to know that they're going to have a reasonable quality of life in the in the future and not be constantly impacted by hurricanes and storms and in super hot temperatures in the summer time water drought so they're looking at a bleak future if we don't very often take i mean change seriously and as you said miranda a lot of momentum behind it is that grassroots initiatives what about the other side of the debate we heard our c.e.o. saying that carbon based technology is necessary to keep older workers in jobs what

do you say to that. i sympathize with those workers but i'm sorry this is been a discussion we've been having for decades and are w.e. and other big energy companies have known that their time is running out and actually it's a run out it's really really time to make this change and the number of workers in the coal industry is not that large anymore we're talking about thirty thousand workers in germany maybe a few more if you have the truck drivers who are transporting the coal but realistically this isn't a big industry anymore not in the way that renewable energy is for energy efficiency we need to be shifting into the technologies of the future and maybe finding compensation for those who are in the wrong. industries today but we need to need to take these kids seriously and recognize climate change is a very very serious problem randy said that they're we need to take these kids seriously but what is needed to change the more general attitude towards climate

and the importance of climate change among the more general population. and i think one of the things that's changing now is more and more people are becoming aware that climate change is a bigger problem in that they realized and the other thing they're starting to realize is that there are ways that we can deal with it in the climate change is a it's a big problem but it's a solvable problem and there's going to be a lot of new industrial activity around climate change so there's going to be new jobs in this field are already seen it there's more jobs in renewables and there are a whole there's more jobs in energy efficiency in building efficiency than there is in coal in actually if we don't take these kinds of tax problem seriously other countries little and that will affect the long term competitiveness of our countries as well china's moving fast and furious on the development of electric mobility we need to be doing the same thing all right rhonda shreyas a professor of environmental and climate policy at the technical university of

munich thank you very much for joining us on. q. . well as we heard politicians are increasingly taking note of these grassroots movements constance in southern germany became the first in the country to declare a climate emergency and to follow similar moves in canada britain and switzerland in consonance the local fridays for future demonstrations had a big role to play in moving climate change to the top of the agenda. will strike until you act since february these students in konstanz had been on strike to demand the declaration of a climate emergency yesterday that happened the city council said it would put climate issues before political decisions overdue said the students who held their first press conference today. as i am a bit long going on is not enough is being done it's urgent but much more should happen in constance's a rather prosperous city a city with no money fracturing we actually have the ideal conditions to be

a pioneer but that's not where we are yes so something needs to happen the city of constance is a popular tourist destination on lake constance with climate change it now wants to tackle its traffic problem the city council has also set goals for climate neutral energy supply and energy efficient construction the mayor wants an annual report on the progress made in climate protection and its polices under glass yesterday we made a unanimous statement that is crystal clear politically the council and the mayor are fully behind it and will not back down because i think our political commitment will be the decisive factor even though it will cause us headaches and there will clearly be conflicts conflict against climate protection as the top priority something the students and politicians in constants now agree on. cyclon funny has said india's eastern coastline with winds gusting at more than two hundred kilometers per hour it's one of the biggest storms to hit the region in decades and

it's claimed at least three lives so far the cycle is also set to batter neighboring bangladesh where more than two million people are said to be moved to safety. they knew it was coming. india's coastal states of addition was braced for the worst of. more than a million people were evacuated ahead of the storm but the coastal resort of poori still suffered extensive damage. the storm brought down trees and power lines as it moved inland in bhubaneswar odisha state capital the streets were deserted the storm left behind it there is expected to weaken over the coming was still warning people to be careful along the coastline. just don't prevent the people not to go inside the serious study done right because if you do know your high since you do so just answer the police that you see a son to be out of the will that if you go all the local people and the viewers not

to go inside the c.v.s. go to that and that is very generous for now it seems that the evacuation plans have paid off but once the storm has died down people in addition will have to be ready for a lengthy cleanup operation. let's go to round up now some other stories making headlines around the world spain is refusing to hand over venezuelan opposition politician leopoldo lopez despite a warrant to detain him lopez has taken refuge in the spanish embassy in caracas after escaping house arrest in two thousand and fourteen he led the first major movement against president. turkey's coast guard says nine people including five children died when their migrant boat sank in the aegean sea the vessel was reportedly carrying seventeen people at least five have been rescued search and rescue crews are looking for the others including a suspected people smuggler. the u.n. human rights office says it is alarmed by reports that failed asylum seekers in

hungary have been deliberately deprived of food a spokesperson dismissed budapest's argument that migrants could leave voluntarily and go to neighboring serbia and called on the government to fulfill its human rights obligations the right to steal britain's major political parties have taken a big head to in local elections in england and brags it is to blame teresa mayes governing tories lost hundreds of council seats and control of several local authorities but the opposition labor party led by jeremy corbyn also lost support smaller parties made big gains the anti brags that liberal democrats and greens are writing a wave of public anger with the chaotic brags that negotiations at a conservative party conference and wales prime minister may face sometimes hostile audience. thank you everybody. there. were out there.

well when she was finally allowed to speak to reason may have this to say about her party's heavy losses now this is a difficult time for our party and these election results are a symptom of that we have the privilege of governing our party it's a momentous time and we have a responsibility to deliver something truly historic which is momentous and historic is sold a simple and straightforward. now today is world press freedom day and we're looking at the health of the press around the world in nigeria the country's constitution guarantees freedom of the press but in practice that freedom is difficult to protect some parts of the country or conflict sounds like the northeast which is dominated by the muslim extremist group boko haram reporting from that region can be deadly your correspondent funny for char travel to borno state in nigeria and spoke with journalists working in challenging conditions.

heavy military presence in many parts of my degree city the capital of borno state in nigeria often it's news about terror attacks that dominates people's daily lives today it's positive excitement. president bihari is about to arrive blessing to know we'll cover it she's a television correspondent here and her office is this car on a normal the kind of begin to feel the military alone in a deal like this when you have the president and i mean you can get through with almost anything now she's rushing to school the hard ones to commission the president's convoy is passing by a billboard picturing malala yousafzai a symbol of education for girls exactly what islam is terra group wants to fight. was very very. very lessons reports usually reboard around the

militant jihad it's in the military operations to fight them at home blessing the mother of a one year old is relieved today she doesn't have to comp through footage of yet another explosion she must only added haris visit but just how far can she push the envelope with the government this is so special and the all the how all these requests and i mean no matter how science story you are doing is. you will have to write though why you are doing. story that makes a very have you know two stories especially especially for you in on your own blessings job usually involves many constraints in terms of press freedom nigeria is currently ranked one hundred twenty years by reporters without borders that's one hundred twentieth out of one hundred eighty countries despite the government's official obligation to protect the freedom of the press but as human rights

organizations point out the reality on the ground is different jonell it's a subject of violence and the are denied access to information. this is with my car in january his newspaper office was raided by the military because of this article that got him in trouble a story about our operation against boko haram why shoot the office berated just because we covered the reports that reporters should be free we're all still called us we're all we are all shareholders in the enterprise crowd who were meeting with man says the raid made him only stronger and even more committed but in order for change to happen in nigeria biharis priorities must also include press freedom he says is should be on his priority list because we are total of democracy the press is the only part of instrument the society uses to check excesses

iniquities injustices our family is committed by any of these arms of government with my beliefs the limits for the press are rooted in the country's military past he says nigeria must live up to its commitment that the country's ruled by the constitution and not by decrease. 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 on their platforms facebook has now taken some headline grabbing action it's banned accounts from what if described this far right figures but the move is also reigniting a debate about the role internet companies play in regulating online speech and journalism. is called osmond's been looking into this for us hi carl what and who is facebook banning this is a ban it applies to facebook and instagram both of those platforms and these are people that the company is calling dangerous individuals they have repeatedly

violated policies against promoting hate and violence on those platforms and there's a lot of big names that you probably recognize from the far right media scene we're talking about alex jones and his site info wars will you not bullis paul joseph watson just to name a few and facebook actually also banned the leader of the nation of islam religious group louis farrakhan it's not clear if there was a single event that led to this wide spreading ban against these individuals but we can get a clue by listening to what mark zuckerberg had to say on monday that's when the facebook developers conference the f eight took place and 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 like as you mentioned soon as i could work facing a lot of criticism for just not doing enough over the years to crack down on this

issue so maybe now he decided to axe and act forcefully what about the other side of the debate which is freedom of expression i mean facebook could be accused of suppressing conservative voices here yet we've heard that even from u.s. congress they were looking into whether social media companies had a bias against conservatives it turns out a lot of that criticism is unfair. sounded but it does seem like a lot of these bands tend to disproportionately affect those on the right on the far right and in fact that's what a lot of these people today were saying who were just banned by facebook they're saying hey wait a minute i'm being targeted i'm being censored because of my beliefs in fact one person a british media figure paul joseph watson he posted a video on his you tube account is still active there he's essentially saying he's a victim. you know why i'm dangerous someone who makes mean video is 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 and corporations dangerous what's more dangerous they put me on the list with terrorists human traffickers serial killers

because i criticize mulden or multan all conjecture because i decorate the size of mass immigration because i decorate is a belief system ok so interesting to unpack that a little bit i mean of course this will will severely limit his ability to spread his ideas to a large audience but it's not he's not been banned because of his views on modern architecture as he's insisting there i mean he along with info wars and all these related sites they have been banned for doing things like spreading fake news including misinformation about the safety of vaccines about instigating violence against minorities and women they've even claimed that mass shootings were fakes and that the victims even children who were killed were hired as as quote crisis actors that's what this ban from facebook is about it's not about something like modern architecture writes a facebook in the past accused of not doing enough now it's taking steps to move forward do bans really work that's a question i mean that's

a debate can you simply ban something that you don't like i mean it's important to understand here that freedom of speech the first amendment does not apply to private companies of facebook or twitter they can make up and enforce their own rules about what's allowed to say and do on facebook so the first amendment argument doesn't apply here but the question is so you won't be able to change the minds maybe of an alex jones or a paul dose of wants and you can't stop them from believing these things or saying these things so where are they going to go if you ban them from facebook they might go to another part of the internet a part that's a bit darker a bit more difficult to regulate and then you end up with situations like what we've seen recently with the shootings in christ church the recent shooting at a synagogue in san diego a lot of those shooters. actually inspired by what they were seeing and reading on places like four chan and eight channels message boards that are not regulated they're not controlled by a billion dollar corporation that's the issue here that's the danger here you can't ban a problem out of existence i think more investment has to happen in terms of media

literacy and education so so these users they don't believe these conspiracy theories in the first place all right congressman our reporter looking into this for us thank you so much german authorities have shut down the second largest criminal trading platform in the so-called dark net the wall street market as it was called delta narcotics and stolen data the three suspected mastermind behind it have been arrested it's a huge success for germany's side because their web second largest illegal trafficking platform is no more three germans who allegedly operated the portal where arrested more than a week ago oh it's everything traded on the black market from drugs to fake passports was available on wall street market which it is i've been on visit to express my gratitude to the representatives of the authorities involved for their support and cooperation and this was a good example of the fight against criminal activities in the digital world tunnel

. that up almost said to have had a turnover of more than forty million euros with one million off that ending up in a suspected operation his pockets unlike other legal platforms or street market did not offer weapons or child pornography. and it lists extremely difficult 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 continent as for tide. items and wall street market were not purchased with real money but were so-called crypto currency digital seemingly an ominous currencies. getting access to these fears required great expertise on part of the investigators as well if patients and look. 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 three suspected wall street market administrators . olympic champion caster semenya has won her last eight hundred meter race before the introduction of rules that limit testosterone levels and certain female track athletes were all she had challenged in court but lost on the track in doha qatar however she won this was the season opener of the professional track and field tour known as the diamond league and the south african was running in her favorite event she led almost from start to finish but if she wants to continue running be two hundred meters the world's now say she must take drugs to reduce her naturally occurring testosterone levels. let's get more of the story only most talkative did of his force is with us highly mum when you take away from this race it's indicative of just how complex this entire topic is i mean what exactly makes

a champion you know it's more than just having higher testosterone levels and you also have to applaud her mental strength i mean she won indoor two days after losing her appeal you know at cass at the court of arbitration for sport and i can't even imagine what she's going through i mean as a woman i mean you can also imagine imagine if you're thrown into the spotlight and people are questioning your gender your very identity your essence of who you think you are and for so many it won't get any easier because starting next week she will have to if she wants to continue racing in the eight hundred meters she will have to take the testosterone reducing drugs so do you think this might have been her last race is so much uncertainty right now regarding semenya i mean after the race she was asked if should take the medications and she would he cried give her very serious answer with a smile all she said was hell no that's an illegal method and then of course yesterday she posted this cryptic tweet where she hinted at possibly an early

retirement knowing when to walk away is wisdom being able to is courage and walking away with your head held high is dignity but then again today after the race when asked about that treat about the early retirement she said look i'm too young i'm only twenty eight. and then i see myself racing in athletics for another ten years but given that the rule does go into effect next week what options does she have exactly those she's left with not a lot of options i mean she could take the drugs but the drugs also have health risks i mean the word medical association which is made up of doctors from one hundred fourteen national associations even they. the associations not to implement these i w a f a testosterone limiting rules saw another option of course for men yet is that she could change events that mean she could switch over to the five thousand writers with these rules these new i w f rules don't apply they only apply from the four hundred meters to the one my in and interestingly the esthetics

south africa might appeal and they have thirty days to decide if they take the matter to the surface federal tribunals are at a very complex story there are only mottaki from day of these four thank you so much. you're watching d.w. coming up our environment show eco africa we visit our senegalese village on the verge of disappearing and we take a look at the growth of urban farming in nigeria stay tuned for that coming up on d w in just a few minutes. go

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