over these coming trade talks and it looks like we're having some technical issues here we'll try and come back to william later on to drivers in australia the united states england and south america say they've gone on strike the demonstrations are actually more of a protest given that over drivers are not unionized and that's exactly the point with over set to raise billions in cash from public markets friday drivers say the ride sharing firm must do more for them providing livable incomes job security and regulated fares and to date it's the biggest internationally coordinated effort against the right helling start up. as you're funny saying just has been driving for since twenty fifteen. but today she switched off her app and went on strike. because of the low rates or pays she can no longer make ends meet. live for us.

you know it was good that i could i was able to make probably. i would say. he's over a thousand dollars so we can still have two days off. so. it seem to make sense at the time but steadily decreased her income so she's been on the road in los angeles every day since the beginning of the year no weekend off no vacation as to funny is demanding the same rights as employees such as a minimum wage overtime unemployment insurance and paid sick leave but labor and rival lift say their business model would be quote adversely affected if drivers were classified as employees and not as independent contractors. both left have said that the greatest threat to their investors is driver

dissatisfaction they know that they're paying too little to keep drivers satisfied and keep their industry functional and so in in new york. both over and left have been mandated to pay twenty dollars an hour they're still in operation there we think they could do it in los angeles and in other cities. but even in the big apple there are protesters the independent drivers killed organized a caravan of drivers across the brooklyn bridge here many slammed move to develop driverless cars afraid of losing their jobs. as tokens of goodwill goobers offer drivers cash bonuses ahead of going public but that hasn't been enough to appease the broader pool of workers here in new york or esther funny in los angeles. and let's talk to our financial correspondent frank for conrad conrad how about there in germany we have been taken over to work this morning. no

stephen i ride a bike to go to work and you know i only recently learned that over and it's right hailing service have returned to frankfurt for quite a while the service have been bad here as well as in the other major cities here in germany and ober has only been allowed to return back after accepting a number of rules to the effect that over at its right hailing is not really competitive to traditional taxi services so the service here in germany is too small and too irrelevant to create angry drivers that would be willing to stage any protests and it's important to note that the right healing firm has adjusted to different governments across the world sometimes more regulation sometimes less and what about the i.p.o. expected for tomorrow conrad how big an event is this going to be for markets people in frankfurt for example. it is going to be

a very big event has made sure that the public relations mill is really very very active in financial centers all over the world and you know over has to do this because desperately needs the money from this i.p.o. not only did it make roughly ten billion u.s. dollars in operating losses last year it has a massive cash burn of nearly two billion u.s. dollars. some people on the market say without the i.p.o. the company would really risk of running out of money the venture capitalists who have financed over so far. are said to have become very very unwilling to continue to pour money into. so all eyes are going to be on this i.p.o. it's more a contribution with the latest from frankfurt thank you. in the u.s. china trade is taking its toll on one of the u.s. is key industries the tech sector american companies complain about intellectual

property theft and market restrictions in china but they also rely on china for manufacturing and china's burgeoning tech companies want better access to the u.s. market. naaman sends this report. enjoying silicon valley and the openness of the google community with developers from all over the world you who and her colleagues are from china and very excited about attending this conference for the very first time. a good chance to. develop her. very very special. the you asked china trade war is here in mountain view california. but many you ask tech companies already caught in the crossfire. especially those relying on manufacturers and suppliers in china companies like apple president trump's latest

terror threat could hit hard to detect giant and even forced to move its i phone production out of china silicon valley is affected like the rest of the country says alan sykes professor at the stanford university but he also acknowledges that the sticking points in the negotiations are important to the tech companies sure they are a bit ambivalent in many cases they would like to see u.s. strategy succeed in getting a spitter access to the chinese market better intellectual property protection but they're worried that it won't succeed and that will end up in some sort of protracted trade war which will hurt everybody a better market access to google once in china google and he blocked in china just like facebook or instagram china's restrictions and tougher regulations make it hard to. american tech companies to reach more than seven hundred million chinese

internet teasers relaxing those restrictions is seen as crucial for the future of the industry. many in the industry here are so committed to their jobs they brushed off trade concerns are still very alike very passionate about our work and so what happens over there is not going to impact our the quality of all work or our product trying to make the best as we can and then it's what the developers wants to focus on new hard to are that a software solutions and not politics. the rest of while ways financial chief officer among one joe was unlawful that's according to her legal team presented their arguments at a court in vancouver and say they will ply for a stay of extradition proceedings among is the daughter of the chinese telecommunications companies founder she was arrested in canada six months ago at the request of u.s. authorities is currently on bail. u.s. government wants money extradited for trial in the u.s.

she's accused of bank fraud money laundering and potentially contravening u.s. sanctions against iran. and many think of artificial intelligence as a technology that will transform our lives in the very near future but in fact artificial intelligence is already all around us providing us with information directing our behavior and even helping us get our mail. gloves are mandatory here but not for hygienic reasons this mail center in berlin the gloves have a scanner attached to them with its help workers can register and sought specially marked items so their traceable errors are registered immediately. nevertheless many here don't see the new glove as a threat but rather as an aid. to. the scanner makes work easier because employees don't have to go to stationary scanners and it can be used anywhere we don't have to work from one location so we

can react flexibly to any restructuring needed the intelligent work glove was developed by the munich startup pro glove the idea behind it is that the scanner should use the built in sensors to detect objects that collect and process information the companies approximately three hundred customers worldwide from the automotive aviation and retail industries can collect the information in a cloud evaluate it and then optimize work process is. just having these software interfaces and the cloud connection to enable further analysis for the companies and for the employees is a big challenge it all sounds simple and even when you see the glove you think it's just a glove but actually there's a lot of technology and intellectual property involved by the end of this year two hundred employees should be working here on the startup is aiming for profits in the tens of millions this year. the startup so is also located in munich the

founders noticed how complicated and cumbersome scaffolding is currently eighty percent of scaffold this time is used to transport the parts and in germany alone around six thousand accidents occur every year during erecting and dismantling the industry has three main challenges labor shortage seated in an efficiency. today seditions provide adequate solutions to this challenges and us and as for wieber what we develop everybody can debate or we can improve the work of people today. thanks for watching.

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indoctrinate but to listen. plus ninety connect to an unbiased agenda subscribe now on you tube. hello and a warm welcome to news from the world of arts and culture is what we have in store today the discovery of a hidden talent in a young painting has sent shock waves through the op world and changes what we know about the dutch monster. a controversial german satirist is now setting the all syrians a we'll find out why. and in our continuing series europe correspondent

matters is baking bread once again this time it's in china. now yesterday we talked about a sensational discovery by restores a med a gallery a picture by the great. had actually been partially painted over after his death so why was the painting changed in the background of the painting is now appearing the figure of cupid there are a number of theories emerging as to why this happened and it seems femina must be looked at in a new light. for the past three hundred years this is how we have known goal reading a letter an open window with beowulf the long ass question of what the young woman is reading now has an answer i love letter as suggested by the presence of the roman god of laughter cupid he was painted by for me at that covered up by someone

else following his death. deko you best go into the discovery of the cupid which was painted by vermeer and then painted over by someone else tells us it was from years intention that cupid be part of the painting and it this of course fundamentally changes what we know about for me or so we have to rewrite the way we understand his work. some it was more colorful and playful than previously thought the eyes of experts from all over the world are on the man responsible for the paintings restoration who is following a particular strategy. is trying to gear plan is to restore the painting to its original state so the picture will be how it might have been when it left the artist's studio to be its inventor the need is concerned for. the whole process started two years ago with an analysis of the material results showed definitively that the layer of paint covering the god of love was applied after

phineas death but the real work is in the removal of that paint which is only a fraction of a millimeter thick crystal shirts will expects the job to take me years to complete this is. this work color of microscope that magnifies by around one hundred thirty to one hundred fifty times. if i make good progress without being disturbed too much and i can do up to two square centimeters. in the middle and that's per day a lot of effort for a painting that was worth so little after its creators death that it could only be solved with the help of deception it was offered as a rembrandt which may explain why it was painted over so i know madame clientele is strange allowed cupid wouldn't have fit with a rembrandt this could be the explanation that someone wanted to make the supposedly rembrandt painting more rembrandt like the arctic voyager today even

only partially restored the familia is expected to draw many visitors to the old master's picture gallery but only for the next two weeks after that the painting disappears back into the workshop. my colleague michael kruger because a famous german comedian called satirist i should say called young. coles a bit of an international incident in australia who is this guy. well young man has his own show here in german t.v. and pushing the boundaries is part of the game he always playing so what he did is he gave an interview in the public t.v. in australia and in it well he tested the limits of freedom of speech there you might say he was actually there to promote his exhibition in gods which has the very provocative title. this is an historical illusion that

during the and the spelling mistakes of course tension. in the interview he criticizes the situation austria there is a far right party in the coalition government and for example he said the following about the tense of the crew it's just quite funny a thirty two year old chancellor that's just not an insurance agent with a lot of hair out jail and. yeah. yeah and of course this is a critic of the politics of the government in general don't since if you wanted to give the views a lesson in democracy a bit of a warning he said what is identity politics some kind of excuse for being racist with an academic and economic foundation what is it then to the anyway doesn't even exist so what was really a joke in the end of the interview was what the t.v. presenter set after the interview that the tenor this census itself from the

contents of the interview and to german is this sounds really very very strange. khalidi actually now this is not the first time a man has created an international incident is it two years ago it was president of turkey who. all right but to tell you preston sense of dignity against right to free speech. i guess it was just what comes next is something you're not allowed to do if this is performed publicly it would be from britain and germany almost called abusive criticism. what followed was a minor international scandal that screams german turkey sure lation. this guy showed up with a message typical of the man who has taken over is to. thank.

some of his other work includes parodies of german stereotypes. is making fun of the german hip hop scene. when it. was not the first time boom a man has cause contrive a scene with his show. he claimed to have faked a video of greek finance minister yanis varoufakis showing the middle finger only to admit later that he's fake was a fake the move was seen as an ingenious commentary on the often superficial nature of the modern media. is controversial now mark a part of the current problem in austria where does it go from here well he survived even worse than that and beside his plan seems to have paid off because he

wasn't even sure that they are going to broadcast this interview they did and now everybody's talking about the situation in austria so here we go well it's exactly what he's going to x. second arctic ruga science very much for bringing is that story. time for our europe correspondent york masses to show his talent for baking once again and indeed his talent for making politics interesting and amusing your stress is to make the local bread of all twenty eight e.u. countries combining it with a look at the country's relationship with the u. this week it's the buckwheat loaf of slovenia. if you think it's hard work leaving the european union wait till you see what it takes to get into the club so when you became a member fifteen years ago. and soon was a role model for others wanting to become part of the european union why well

it's got europe written all over it slovenia's recipe for success is a lot like the recipe for this buckwheat loaf. the most important ingredient isn't flour or water it's time. now i don't like all good either one of these needs time to mature for decades sylvia was part of multiethnic communist yugoslavia. after the fall of communism its rise from independent states to do you remember took fourteen years and this salad bowl takes fourteen hours to rice. now for the other key elements if you want to join the e.u.

some things are non-negotiable the free movement of goods workers services and capital represented here by four types of flour buckwheat rai plain flour and hold me now at bordeaux for regulated fisheries sold for social and honey. for environment. the taste of sweet success. belongs to the area frontrunners is an excellent position for the accession but during the accession goshi ations there were some nuts the e.u. didn't crack like the sticky links between slovenia bangs and politicians when the financial crisis hit the economy took a beating when it comes to baking as with joining the e.u.

you should measure your progress with precision. if the doa little poke if your first impression is short lived utah isn't ready like serbia. which has been trying to join the club for the past ten years if the whole you've made sticks you've left it too long like the excess in talks with turkey formally started in two thousand and four there's been stalling for years. but if the dense lowly bounces back your bread will rise beautiful the like hot air balloons on the days live in your joint with nine other states the biggest expansion in e.u. history. time to enter the e.u. and the other ten minutes at two hundred fifty degrees celsius then reduce the temperature to two hundred and bake for another twenty minutes. slovenia really does have it all the mediterranean the alts great athletes and small guy

make fun whichever way you slice it it's a european all round. and baking bread we'll be back in september with the alcohol of the series finally billy joel turns seventy on may ninth and he's actually playing new york's madison square garden on his birthday where he has an all new going residency having played that every month since december twenty eighth seen once a month i leave you with one of his classics piano but.

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for those grandmothers down to you it's all about ok bob knew i might show join me to meet the german fundy w. post what's the connection between bread. and the european union he knows gilberto d.w. correspondent at the bakery can stretch this back and live with the words sex by the demon. tots. stepping recipes for success the strategy that make a difference. baking bread on d w.

this is t w news coming to you live from berlin tensions escalate between iran and the united states says washington imposes tough new sanctions on tehran the move comes after iran said it was suspending parts of the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal would greet with world powers which washington abandoned last year also coming up a show of strength russia holds its annual military parade in moscow we're looking at live pictures from there down there celebrating the soviet union's victory over

nazi germany in world war two. all during the day a female defeat artist is making a mark in sudan as the country's military remains in power and protests continue. after another night in the champions league in another stunning comeback to get into the final this time it was london team tottenham scoring in the last gasp of injury time to turn. victory over some fans from. oh i'm terry martin good to have you with us there's been a sharp escalation of tensions between the u.s. and iran u.s. president all trump has announced harsh new sanctions after tape. john said it would no longer comply with parts of the nuclear deal signed with world powers in

two thousand and fifteen from which the u.s. withdrew last year tehran has also issued an ultimatum to europe saying they must find a way to provide sanctions relief for iran within sixty days or face the consequences . patient says run out read the headlines of iran's newspapers president hassan rouhani says he's not trying to destroy but rather to save the nuclear agreement by leveling an ultimatum to the five countries that are still signatories. but that if these five countries return to the table have in sixty days and we reach agreements on oil sales and banking then we will uphold our side of the nuclear deal. under the twenty fifteen nuclear deal iran agreed to let international atomic energy agency monitors into their nuclear facilities and only enrich uranium for civilian purposes in return economic sanctions on the country were lifted the

international atomic energy agency says iran has been meeting its end of the bargain but that didn't prevent the u.s. withdrawing from the deal last year and reinstating sanctions now iran is threatening to enrich its uranium closer to weapons grade levels the move comes as the u.s. has been stepping up its anti iran rhetoric secretary of state mike pompei all made an impromptu visit to iraq this week accusing iran of posing a threat to u.s. soldiers in the country just days ago the u.s. deployed a carrier to the persian gulf the trumpet ministration policy is to exert maximum pressure on iran and their sanctions are hitting hard iran's oil exports are down and their currency has taken a dive things are getting tight for tehran. correspondent teresa tropper is with me now in the studio tracer good morning to you you spent a lot of time reporting from tehran for us where do you see this going do you see

a chance of compromise between the u.s. and iran well that's of course very hard to tell right now because donald trump has ramped up pressure ever since this country left the nuclear deal but iran on the other side so now now perhaps surprising amount of frustration so far. because the government and the people want to keep the nuclear deal in life there were a few supporters of it in the first place so they don't have any interest in escalating this conflict any further but as we heard where the u.s. washed up on the way to the persian gulf and also that all the economic hardships that have come with latest round of sanctions rouhani is also under a lot of pressure domestically it's to retaliate in some way at least so. the crisis that had been contained for the past few years back again and it's more dangerous than ever so the arrhenius would like to keep this you know clear a deal alive but the u.s. has pulled out there they're an important player obviously europe wants to keep it alive too and is still doing its best to maintain the terms of that agreement where

does this leave europe in its effort to keep iran nuclear deal oh well in a difficult position that's for sure because all the other key players have clearly position themselves washington has pulled out and impose sanctions on russia and china if that they want to keep the deal and they don't really mind the sanctions and europe also wants to keep the deal but at the same time it doesn't want to end guards in washington and that's a balancing act that it's getting difficult now so they might to have to take sides and they try to do so with instax that's a mechanism that would allow iran and europe to still do trade even under the sanctions they promised to do that but they actually failed it has never really come into effect so now they have their deadline of sixty days to make it work and that's not a lot of time so the pressure is on europe right now so europe is between a rock and a hard place as it were now there is also a military dimension to this confrontation here you mentioned the aircraft carrier

the u.s. aircraft carrier on its way to the region tell us more about this yeah with a warship on the way there it's going well all the iranian military already is to the strait of hormuz to the persian gulf and iran has long. threaten to close that straight off that's the place where all the international oil shipments have to go through that's obviously a way to put pressure on the west although all segments so with the u.s. soldiers going there there's a potential that they actually might directly face off. with the lack of diplomatic channels between those two countries right now that's really dangerous because under the obama administration the foreign ministers used to talk so they could talk about any sort of confrontation right now that's not the case so. that could take of the conflict to a whole new level and that's not just in the persian gulf because those two countries also could face off in syria for example in iraq or even in israel recent

thank you so much for your inside state of your correspondent who is a trucker for well let's take a look at now at a place where both the u.s. and iran have military forces present it's iran's neighbor iraq and some analysts say that could become the site of a proxy war between the two run. in two thousand and fourteen iraq's ground i have told a cold and some ten thousand shiite fighters on taking up the fight against the so-called islamic state the hushed al shaab the militia was born they fought alongside iraqi government forces against i-s. but was supplied in trained by neighboring iran the self declared defender of shiites many feel more allegiance to tehran than to baghdad they're a group of battle hardened troops united in their hatred of the u.s. and. it's heading towards a proxy war in iraq. and how. the. militia

could play a deciding role iran could use them to strike american interests. here that's reportedly what attracted the attention of secretary of state mike pump a zero. his visit to baghdad on tuesday was seen as a warning to iran and an attempt to remind the iraqi prime minister are dead up to him on the up his commitment to protect u.s. troops in the country. are. some serious. serious. but not everyone in iraq shares that sentiment many deplore the tone coming from washington and considered home pay as visit imperio list in one. day just want to push their interests in iraq and force maki to do their bidding just like in saudi arabia they come list their demands and then leave. iran on the other hand has been working hard on increasing

its influence in the country for years it supplies energy and markets here a full of iranian products supporters can be found in various positions of power. after the us occupation from two thousand and three to two thousand and eleven and did iran has worked on strengthening its influence in iraq politically economically culturally and also through its intelligence services but that's where they're encroaching on the interests of the u.s. the. security is elusive in iraq war has left lasting and deep wounds here people long for peace and stability and want to avoid seeing the homeland once again becoming a battleground a foreign powers. take a look at some other stories making news around the world today a committee in the democrat led house of representatives in the u.s. has voted to hold attorney general william barr in contempt of congress for

refusing to hand over an unprecedented version of robert miller's and an redacted version rather of robert bowler's russia report committee head gerald nath lawyer said the us was now in a constitutional crisis as if the justice department has denounced the move as an appropriate political see a trick. but counting is underway in south africa after what's being called the most closely contested election since the end of apartheid early results show the ruling african national congress in the lead but it could still face a challenge from a breakaway opposition party amid public anger over the a.n.c. is failure to improve living conditions like you and venezuela's security forces have arrested the vice president of the country's opposition controlled national assembly and go some pronto seen here on the left is the deputy self-proclaimed president on why dove soprano is the first opposition figure to be arrested since

the opposition's failed attempt to spark a military uprising last. well at this very moment russia is marking the seventy fourth anniversary of the soviet victory over nazi germany and world war two russians across the country commemorate victory day with the biggest celebration by far taking place in moscow has rigged square relooking pictures live pictures of the parade right now from moscow in the lavish parade thousands of troops are marching past president vladimir putin and other high ranking russian officials sides the servicemen over one hundred thirty military vehicles and seventy four aircraft are involved in the display a three day commemorates the surrender of nazi germany in one thousand nine hundred forty five in russia and celebrated a day later than other countries because the official documents were signed after

midnight also time. let's bring in our correspondent in moscow mia drug surratt she's standing by there right in the thick of it rids square drawing if you can hear me this is an. nationwide holiday in russia millions are watching the military parade as they have for decades what does this parade mean for russians today. well this is a very important day for the russians when i visit russian families there it's all it's no family that does not go.