this is g w news live from berlin and austria's coalition government faces a potential funding scandal after the vice chancellor and leader of the far right freedom party is caught on film allegedly offering government contracts in exchange for campaign money. also coming up saturday marks 10 years since the end of sri lanka's civil war many families still have no idea what's become of loved ones to pledge missing in the brutal complex but they have not given up hope and the climate concerns at the forefront of many minds just don't meet before european

elections while the woman is waging her own battle against plastic waste in the baltic good. i'm sara kelly welcome to the program german media have uncovered possible evidence incriminating the austrian far right populist freedom party of austria to promise of promising state contracts in exchange for campaign donations now the outlets spiegel and suggests high tone have published extracts of secretly taped a video allegedly showing austrian vice chancellor heinz christian straka of assuring a woman who's posing as a russian investor the possibility to invest in states of road building projects if she helped his party win the $27000.00 election he also suggested donations be made

to a fake nonprofit instead of his party the meeting on the spanish island of his pizza lasted 6 hours and seems to have been staged to expose him and his party's campaign politics. let's get more now we're joined by correspondent klaus pumpers who is standing by with us for envy n.s.o. what exactly do these allegations mean now. if we can trust those reports from ludo to tighten entropy good then that would indicate 1st of all of the. how to buy a stake in the biggest newspaper of austria cornered sidetone because the lady is seems to offer a quarter of $1000000.00 of whatever euros to invest in austria and 2nd thing they seem to offer she should spend money to can pay enough to try out the apartheid and whether this is what it should be cannot really judge in the moment because even the speed and 2 daughters i don't don't know who they are discounts

from speaking names it's even it's a crisis for slaughter and it's really a crisis very true in the next days because today we only have the reports of those 2 mega zients and it's not proven who is the lady it's approved as this video camera is a little bit strange because this video is obviously filmed as several cameras so that's made a little bit suspicious whether the results are really relit because we don't know why it's and not publicize it before that election took place in 2017 it was made some because before they indicate say it is trial what could this mean for the current government. i think then it would mean for all hands just in shock as well as for you who dana was who was the translator in this thing and he is the leader of the party in parliament in the moment and he is the one who visited crimea several times already still when he was in parliament that could mean that those of

the him would have to leave office if it's proven but it's not yet proven just the contrary they say it was a lot of alcohol or it in these 6 hours there was a meeting but it was a lot of folklore and friends asked. the lady to give money to the party they indicated it has to be done in there is in the rules of the austrian government of the austrian judicial system so that is the one saying something and he has a saying is would do it he would he knows and shot her say we didn't do it in a way that might somehow have hampered the additional system the rules so laws which exist in austria. the latest with the story on which is just breaking and certainly we will i imagine get more details over the coming days thank you so much for your reporting. there are coming. let's get a quick check of some other stories making news around the world the humanitarian organizations the watch says that it rescued 65 migrants from

a rubber dinghy off of libya on wednesday the charity says that its bessel is for now stranded at sea because authorities haven't allowed it to dock anywhere libya's west coast is a main departure point for people hoping to reach europe. iran's foreign minister has called on the 5 remaining signatories of the 2015 nuclear deal to take concrete action to save and around previously warned that it would scale back some of its commitments under the deal a year after the u.s. left the pact and were imposed sanctions and buckingham palace has released the birth certificate of the british royal family's latest addition prince harry and mega markel son archie harrison it reveals that he was born at the private cortland hospital in london there had been speculation before the birth that the duchess had planned to have her baby and home for. to london now and talks between the u.k. government and the opposition labor party aimed at finding

a brags that compromise have collapsed labor leader jeremy corbyn end of the negotiations saying that instability within the prime minister teresa mayes government have sown doubt that any deal between the 2 sides would be kept talks have been underway for 6 weeks and an effort to break the deadlock on the terms of the u.k.'s departure from the european union and here's what the 2 had to say after those talks and. well as jeremy goldman says actually these talks have been constructive and we've made progress the areas where we have been able to find common ground but other issues have proved to be more difficult and in particular we haven't been able to overcome the fact that there isn't a common position in labor about whether they want to deliver bricks it or hold a 2nd referendum which could reverse it the government has not moved its position from the bank to the fundamental disagreements we want to have a customs arrangement with the european union that protects jobs from trade and we want to have a dynamic relationship on rights we put rosaries very strong into the government we

would not rule out physical for the but it wouldn't be a referendum to something 16 times it would be a referendum french and no 2 you castro protects you from the european. let's turn now to sri lanka tomorrow saturday it will be 10 years since the end of the country's long running civil war but for some of the country the scars of the conflict are still to heal the conflicts broke out in 1903 pitting the largest single his military against the tumble liberation tigers now the tunnels were fighting for a separate homeland in sri lanka in may of 2009 the sri lankan army defeated the thomas of protests but at a huge human cost it's estimated that some $50000.00 fighters and 100000 civilians were killed many of them tumbles today at least $200000.00 people are still missing their fates unknown. with us on went to northern sri lanka where survivors have taken the search into their own hands. 10 years of demanding

an answer j. have anything still doesn't know what happened to her missing daughter the war was winding down she says when masked men tore 16 year old jeromey from her arms and fled. not get wouldn't. let go of her hand i was lying on the ground and a man stomped on my back with his boot i screamed and when i looked up a launch vehicle carrying my daughter was already a column of dust in the distance that's how fast i took off work. many people haven't heard from their loved ones for even longer in some cases several decades their stories might be different other families share the same sense of suffering without proof their children are dead they hold on to hope. when i hear other children calling for their mothers i have my daughter calling for me i hear her voice and i immediately look thinking she's come back to me. the task of finding

out what happened to people like jeromey will land here at the office on missing persons or m.p. it's a new commission being set up by the current administration to independently investigate the disappeared the chairman understands some people are skeptical it is extremely challenging because there have been many institutions many commissions established in the past to address the issue of the missing and for the families feel that they have had no oncet as we do not want to give people false promises or false hopes and we need to be clear that we try to review strive to establish itself we would try to find to have been defined on service but that is going to take time building trust between state institutions and the people especially in the northeast has been no easy task human rights lawyers to bodge make his show and. says the o. m. p. could gain the public's confidence once they set up local offices but she also says

some families are afraid. people may give testimony today but may have a fear that it will fall into the wrong hands so some families have said they may have more faith in the process if a foreign government or international body works with. some others like jay about the past say they will only accept an independent and foreign led investigation. they did not have and there's a v.o.m. people come and start from the very beginning it's been 10 years and more time will go by and that'll be that. the civil war may have ended a decade ago but the families searching for their loved ones are still waiting for closure. now in the run up to the e.u. parliamentary elections many voters say their concerns about the environment will decide their vote next week some member states have called for the european union to become carbon neutral by 2050 a germany feels that goal is to ambitious effects of climate change and the

pollution of the seas has prompted millions of young europeans to take to the streets we have this report now about one woman trying to take up action herself to help the health of europe see. some final instructions before the dive that was how do the nets look. i know dozens of old fishing nets are caught on a shipwreck off lithuania's coast sabina care and her crew are going to bring them up. is a pharmacist and one of germany's most experienced divers. in 2016 she noticed a particular kind of waste in the baltic sea all trolling and fishing nets. a study revealed that thousands of nets are lost in the baltic every year. and europe has to lay the foundation for plastic to be protected as far as possible by. 10 percent of the plastic trash in the seas consists of ghost nets. and when they degrade they

release micro plastics and vast quantities. every year care cowan or fellow divers set out from lithuania to bring up the ghost nets on a voluntary basis they finance their operations mostly out of their own pockets. once at the wreck the divers find no shortage of nets to marine animals their deadly traps. on the other divers try to cut the net away with simple knives but make no headway eventually they abandon the operation. some of these nets are decades old aren't about to give up easily. they're made of all kinds of materials and they're all different ages. these are enormous and very very heavy. heavy from the lead water and sand and everything that's been washed into them over the decades. we have to cut them up into little pieces to bring them up

to the surface. to the process of turning old fishing nets into beach banks is complicated so being a character house team has finally succeeded in bringing parts of the enormous trolling net to the surface but they still have to keep it aboard their boat. as a group we've achieved fabulous success and i'm overjoyed. i think it's wonderful that we've managed to get this done and that everybody worked together so well let's keep it up. if. they all agree that many more people and especially governments will have to join in their battle against the ghost nets. the few countries at least want to introduce a tagging system for fishing nets so in future their owners can be traced so being a caricature sees it as a 1st best my for you know if we can prevent 5 to 10000 that's getting lost again this year then we'll only have to worry about the ones already underwater. and we

won't have to worry that for every net we bring up $100.00 more are being discarded . cares about the baltic sea she'll soon be back. she says the battle against the ghost nets has just begun here in the baltic sea and all the around the world. of the internet is in mourning today that's because the frown that launched a 1000 means has passed away social media sensation grumpy cat has died at the age of 7 the cats famous cow calls by feel i've worked as have shot her to online fame and even prompted his owner to quit her job and to set up a company promoting her star who made numerous t.v. appearances and starred in her own crisps. it rushing to interview news still to come on the program g w business africa disease founded civil unrest congo's had to deal with it all but he can't get

i.m.f. help because of another problem corruption it's a new leader hopes to change that. all that more is coming up with monica johns i'm sorry kelly and berlin thank you so much for joining us have a great day. to terrorism. yourself border the new girl next. door don't miss our. action packed life. anything is possible as long as our coffee and his friends can drink. this movie in kenya has done refugee camp.