post. this is the w. news line from the rescue teams hunt for survivors of the budapest boats tragedy 20 people are still missing after a tourist boat sank overnight on the river danube officials say they fear the worst and hope of finding survivors gross debt we'll take you live to boot past also on the program all strick gets its 1st female chancellor following the collapse of the country's last government top judge bed be alive and we'll have a can take a government austria protest for fresh elections. on the mothers who refuse to give

up in mexico and these women have taken the search for their missing children into their own homs in a country west 30000 people have disappeared. time phil gale welcome to the program. rescuers imputing past say there is a minimal chance of finding survivors after a tourist boat capsized and sank on the danube late on wednesday a place of also launched a criminal investigation the sightseeing vessel carrying more than 30 south korean tourists was hit by a larger river cruise ship in bad weather 7 people have been confirmed dead. as day broke in budapest most of the passengers who had been aboard the mermaid were still missing authorities have located the boat on the river bed of the danube

but they say it could take days to bring it to the surface in so south korea's president announced they were sending a rapid response team to budapest. hungary. government will work closely with the hungaroring government to investigate the cause of the accident for the child's correlated departments to do their best to support victims and their families. this south korean travel agency which hired the boat apologized but also defended the decision to conduct the tour despite the bad weather. 30 customers and one of us boarded the cruise boats for the past due to cool. down. at the time of the water level was high but other crews or it's operating is usual not just out of the 3 that south korea's

foreign ministry says the passengers were not wearing life jackets the youngest on board was reportedly a 6 year old girl hungary and authorities have launched a criminal investigation into the routine sightseeing trip which turned into a tragedy. straight to budapest we joined a w. correspondents both on the banks of the danube welcome staff and please press up to date on the rescue. very very desperate i can tell you they have so far not found any survivors and of course at least to people already confirmed. people. bought at least a life but. 20 people. very little. people are saying. and. very difficult.

it stopped raining but i can tell you doing to hold. that happened during tonight of course sent. very strong that makes it increasingly difficult. to rescue workers to. ration. to. the situation remains very dire and indeed. this was. a very busy stretch of the river. well

indeed it happened to new york market bridge where i'm standing now just a few meta it's literally behind me a huge ship coalition to place between the boat and huge ship cruise ship and that's happened between 2 to breach here behind me and of course what happened last 10 weeks in a few seconds literally that whole boat came down and you can imagine the water was cold people were of course desperate hanging on to whatever to have. not enough and many many are believed to have died and of course the question as being raised now how does what's possible. looking into possible failure or mistake by the by the captain and also they are of course looking into the fact that a lot of ships are moving into danube river i mean it's quite a pull pillar way of moving for tourists questions remain how this will be in the

future to hobo's in budapest thank you. now here's some of the other stories making news around the world hundreds of monks and their supporters have marched in minot to protest against the arrest of a high profile of british preacher known as the monk was charged with edition for criticizing the country's leader aung san suu kyi supporters say the warrant is an infringement of free speech. lawmakers in israel have voted to dissolve parliament paving the way for a 2nd election in september just 5 months after the 1st prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been unable to form a coalition between his likud party the secular nationalist party of i think born lieberman an ultra orthodox jewish parties the issue of military conscription has been a major sticking point. with arteries in afghanistan and states say at least 6 people have died after a suicide attack on the military academy in the capital kabul the ministry

statements and the attack at detonated his explosives after being approached by a soldier no group has claimed responsibility. no austria's president alexander found the bell and how is that named constitutional a judge a big get to be alive as the country's interim chancellor a judge be allowed will lead a caretaker government until snap elections judge will for september the interim government will probably not pass any major legislation over the coming months to get to be a line is austria's 1st female chancellor issue replaces conservative sebastian courts who lost the confidence vote after his coalition collapsed. let's go to correspondent steve shade in the austrian capital vienna welcome steve tell us more about austria's new chancellor. well as you just touched on there dr a brigade to be alone was until now the 1st woman to serve as the president of austria has constitutional court who is she she is a sprightly 70 year old whose politics are thought to be center right she has no

formal party affiliation and her appointment was reached upon consensus that's very important because if it had not been reached on consensus we could have looked forward to another no confidence vote. more about her a very impressive resume austria's 1st woman chancellor finished law school in just 4 years she became a judge at 26 a state attorney at 28 and an advocate general just a few years after that so highly qualified for the post so she has the job but now how she appointed the cabinet we know 2 of her appointment so far we know that our claimants are blown i will be serving as vice chancellor he is also a former head of the constitutional court and alexandre shaalan idiotic a career diplomat will be austria's new interim foreign minister as well as a very importantly the minister for european affairs so 2 other safe pairs of hands going forward there the rest of the cabinet appointments will be finding out about

in the coming days and this is where i am a very important term that's been thrown around 5 presidents find a balance and to be aligned today is a government of trust that's what she hopes to find in the cabinet that's what she hopes to present to the president and the country in the days to come on once of the form a chance of us about how does losing the chance of a ship affect his chances for reelection in september. it certainly doesn't help him and today is a point that was interesting that were really doesn't help him at all either because the landscape has changed viewpoint of a woman as austria's 1st chancellor it's a new paradigm for this country and shows how this country can look and let's be honest about what there's no confidence vote was about when the social democrats in the freedom party teamed up. to oust him and his government they wanted to deny chancellor coots this so-called chancellor bonus as he campaigns for september so

the chancellor bonus is gone now there's a very qualified woman in his place he seems far far away from the prestigious chancellery the landscape is totally different. steve shade in vienna thank you. this is news life a burden still to come the mexican mother searching for their children in a country where drug cartels disappear thousands of people every year not just in the often corrupt police families are forced to take matters into their own hands but sometimes devastating results. first the german chancellor angela merkel is being honored by one of the country while one of the world's most prestigious universities harvard university is awarding her its honorary doctorate of laws degree chancellor merkel has been on campus in cambridge massachusetts to receive on the university for its commitments commencement ceremony later she's due to give the commencement commencement speech in less than 4 hours and we'll bring

you that lie. ahead about the joint washington bureau chief alexandra fall naaman outside harvard university welcome alexandra why did they choose the chancellor. the president of the university said in a statement when the announcement was made that a miracle is one of the most widely admired. and influential states people of our time that her leadership has done much to shave the course not only of her country but also the course of europe so these were very flattering words and so we also have to add that even more flattering was video that the university put together to announce some merkel as this year's commencement speaker let's have a look. well

that's very dramatic i'd like one of those myself what is going to happen today. so at the moment the morning exercises this is the actual graduation ceremony are

underway here on the campus our t.v. camera is unfortunately not allowed to stand there for we are standing here outside at the one of the gates so the morning exercises are about to assure a student orators were talking with their d. the dean of each school in should use is the candidates for their respective degrees it was a very solon but also cheerful ceremony and at the end of this ceremony honorary degrees are going to be conferred and that is also was. waiting for because she will be awarded and on the rary degree and then later this afternoon she will hold the commands events teach ok so i hear a lot of sirens where you are safe and everything there is well presuming you are and this is the chance of a likely to talk about the transatlantic relationship today. i would say that

we certainly can expect her to talk about that especially at this moment of time the transatlantic relations are strained we have a u.s. president president strong who is calling q ok so who is accusing germany in particular of taking advantage of you as offer you as trade so i would expect to address. the transom plenty of the problems in the transatlantic relations but i would also expect her to point robert to words is connecting the shirts values or do ways to bridge the gaps difficulties to differences one into our important point we have to made that normally we would expect the german chancellor visiting us to meet with the e.u. asked president this time it's not going to take place german diplomats told me

that this is due to scheduling issues scheduling difficulties thank you for now alexandra for nominate harvard university in the united states. and a reminder we'll bring you live coverage of chancellor merkel's commitments speech at harvard later addresses due to start in about 3 and a half hours. now to latin america the region we have the highest number of forced to disappearances in the world official figures estimate that about 200000 people have disappeared in the last 20 years so that is likely to be an underestimate the country with the most missing people is colombia where more than 100000 people are thought to have disappeared during 50 years of conflicts civil war in guatemala also led to tens of thousands of disappearances since the end of the conflict in 1906 the country's been criticized for failing to bring those responsible to just.

this argentina on the other hand has been praised for the way that it has handled its past during the days of dictatorship that's 976 to 983 security forces abducted about 30000 people government and military leaders have since faced trial. and so to mexico where the war between the drug cartels is now one of the main causes of death i'm just a international puts the number of missing at more than 34000 and the u.n. says about 30 percent of those the children or adolescents the w.'s that mario has been to meet a group of mothers who spend their days searching for their disappeared to children . that man amedee finally found her missing son after he disappeared without a trace 5 years ago i. thought i would be a no one day he was selling cell phone accessories as usual and he was just

kidnapped at a gas station because my son was disappeared in the author already said look for him i started my own search local police were no help she says but there was no surprise ordinary police officers are suspected of frequent collaboration with the drug cartels. man i mean do you know started to search with this simple tool that helps detect the scent of decaying corpses beneath the soil. over time other mothers looking for them missing children jointer they call themselves that that affidavit or us the trackers they relentlessly entirely search for traces of their missing children their treasures as i lovingly refer to them they can't believe they are dead until they have proof and that's exactly what their motto says they will scott i think that out of their search for you until i find you. for many women here this has become their sole mission the search often turns up the bones and skeletons in. the women's findings on this day become the top story for mexican

journalists now the stench of rotting corpses is overwhelming. time and again the mothers of the disappeared are confronted with a tormenting question could this body be my child let me go out of the mythology to look i'm going to hold it feels like my heart wants to jump right out of my body. i'm shaking my ears are blocked oh yeah i think i'm glad and sad at the same time because i don't know if it's my son or her son nothing not at all what's going on in the end it doesn't matter we're looking for them because we love them. man i mean dina and her group have already found nearly 500 bodies according to local media many of the disappeared a believed to have had ties to the drug trade victims are often young men who had no prospects for legal employment minima dina and the other mothers found the remains of 15 people on a single day neighbors who had observed suspicious activity gave them crucial tips

on where to dick the search missions are a provocation to the drug cartels but the simply going to him who was caught they tell us we should stop looking yes it is proper otherwise the same thing will happen to us and we're going to then one day someone else will find us buried but in my case we're scared but love and the uncertainty are stronger i mean i said. it took 3 years for man to find her son at last she says he can rest in peace. now to some of the other stories making news around the world peru's president has threatened to dissolve congress unless lawmakers pass reformed aimed at ending corruption in a televised address martin vizcaya accused lawmakers trying to obstruct the fight against graft after they moved to be checked one of his post was a series of corruption scandals has discredited major political parties and institutions over recent years. colombia's president duke has failed to

reform the country's justice system he had wanted to make punishments for war crimes and to make it easier to extradite former guerrillas his reforms were aimed at dealing with the country's legacy of civil war with fox is being seen as a big defeat for the president. much of the bombing in the of france house have reportedly confessed to the crime explosion last week injured 13 people in the suspected bomber 24 year old algerian citizen was arrested along with other family members most being treated as a terrorist attack. by u.n. secretary general antonio good terrace being awarded the annual charlemagne prize which recognizes work done in the service of european unity the jury in the west german city of athens said they selected the secretary general for his work in reviving global cooperation last recipients of the army germany as the price of including french president in manama every chance will come back and pope

francis. one week it's vienna the other vanuatu as un secretary general antonio good terence has a punishing schedule meeting world leaders and market traders alike the 70 year old is a mediator in some of the toughest issues facing the world. terrorist political career took off in 1995 when he run for prime minister and his native portugal a former university lecturer and devout catholic he was an unusual choice for the socialist party and after winning the election he continued to break the mold seeking dialogue with all sections of society to this day he remains one of portugal's most popular political figures. in 2005 the un named him its high commissioner for refugees outspoken and passionate he managed

to win hollywood actress angelina jolie as his special envoy he focused on iraq and later syria criticizing european countries over their handling of the mediterranean refugee crisis in 2015 the international community has failed twice these large number of refugees failed 1st because it was not able to prevent conflicts or to time we solve them. a 2nd time because it is not providing the resources necessary to assist them to get their human dignity in october 26th seen the un chose him to succeed ban ki moon as its top diplomat. he took office at the same time as the new us president donald trump the multilateralist has often been the talks with the unilateralist trump not least on

climate change. and says all countries must work together to fight it if they don't go. so it's better to make it achievable. a constant campaigner who often appears the eternal optimist in troubling times. now the u.s. state of georgia has plans to introduce or vatican new anti abortion laws could cost it economically the state is a major film hub for the film and entertainment industry but some production companies are threatening to leave if the new laws are enacted. the story takes you to new york tokyo and even into deep space but this year's greatest blockbuster almost entirely in atlanta avengers and again this is just one of many movies produced in georgia the southern states it's one of the biggest production helps in

the u.s. even surpassing california as the state with the most feature films produced. but with conservative forces turning back the clock on abortion and threatening women's rights many of the traditionally liberal studios are threatening to leave many people who work for us will not want to work there and will have to heed their wishes in that regard right now we're watching it very carefully if it becomes law and i don't see how it's practical for us to continue to shoot there. with netflix also threatening a boycott the state's movie industry seems in peril and the potential damage huge business insiders pick the economic impact of georgia's movie industry at around $10000000000.95 jobs. meanwhile the fight continues and for georgia governor bryant camp it is more about faith than business

. we are called to be strong and courageous. and we will not back now we will always continue to fight for life georgia's radical abortion ban and similar legislation in louisiana missouri and other bible belt states is expected to be challenged in court. not to football and chelsea are the new europa league champions after an impressive display against aston all in the old anguish final olivier giroud gave chelsea the late in the 2nd half before eden hazard sealed the deal scoring twice to dash arsenal's hopes for one the final score the mood outside the olympic stadium in azerbaijan succumb to backrooms festive chelsea fans were over the moon as the blues one method european trophy in 7 years. for germany is that women's football team faces chile today in a final warm up for the world cup in

a days it's an opportunity for the 2 time world champions to experiment and make some final adjustments before the tournament starts in france next week when germany face china in that group stage opening a little some take on spain and world cup debutantes south africa. now his reminder of our top stories at this hour rescuers are searching for survivors from a sightseeing bug that sank overnight it's in the river danube in budapest $21.00 people are missing after a vessel was hit by a larger ship and bad weather officials say the chance of finding survivors is father in law. and harvard university is paying tribute to the german chancellor on the back of my awarding her on the record doctoress chances to to hold a commencement speech in just over 3 hours and will bring that she would not be all indeed up. coming up next a on d.w. focus on the europe puts a spotlight on people i'll be back at the top of the out of the day.

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