but this is d w news live from berlin people in germany are urged to wear a traditional jewish skullcap today in an act of solidarity and to defy intolerance to demand living with rising incidence of anti-semitism in berlin. also coming up another mass shooting in the united states a public utility employee in the state of virginia killed 12 people with a handgun the gunman then dies in a shootout with police. and there is an english invasion of madrid as spurs and

liverpool fans flock to the city for tonight's champions league final the fans without tickets have been warned to be paid or else a brisk arrest. by marion evanston it's good to have you with us here in berlin demonstrators are gathering to show solidarity with the jewish people against a rising number of anti-semitic incidents across germany they're responding to a call by the government's commissioner for preventing anti-semitism to wear a traditional jewish skullcap today we'll hear from our correspondent who's at a march in berlin but 1st here's one resident who wears the skull cap or a keeper but feels he has to be careful about being seen in public with it.

david pearl wears a skull cap and a prayer tussle as part of everyday life but when he goes outside he puts the tassel in a pocket and he hides the skull cap with a hat 3 david his wife and children have lived in berlin for 5 years after spending some time in israel there are many things he can't take for granted anymore he's experienced too much hostility for my whole city sometimes is a traffic jam on the street where i live and one time 3 arabic looking men got out of a car and they started spitting at me and harassing me saying you dirty jew to stab you today. his experience is far from unusual police statistics show that the number of anti-semitic crimes in germany rose from 1504 in 2017 to 7999 a year later an increase of nearly 20 percent the overwhelming majority are attributed to far right perpetrators. of. the rise in anti-semitic

acts as a result of the coarsening of discourse the readiness to act out in a racist way and against minorities. who hates the spread of movements like biggie . and a large part of the alternative bird germany have. on. that all adds up to a decisive change the. people who used to hold back now say it's time to strike that's the danger. and that's why we have to act decisively and make a clear statement that we want no hate crimes. germany guarantees freedom of religion but for some expressing that religion can be dangerous. you don't feel free you don't feel look then take fish because it belongs to your. way of life that it's not just a religious symbol it's also the symbol of a way of life. that's something david wants to be able to hand down to

his own children. my kids it's hardly normal to wear it and to run around in it it's very hard to explain to a 3 year old that you have to cover it up because someone might run up and speak on him or harass him. that david would like to wear his skull cap all the time in public not just on the way into the synagogue. well as we mentioned demonstrators are gathering in berlin today to show solidarity with jewish people over the rising incidence of anti-semitism in germany well joining us now from one of those events is de w's correspondent test of alter so tessa tell us a bit more about the event where you are right now. yeah we're right here in the middle of it then and as you sat 2 different

demonstrations are happening today there is not just. praying a lot of jerusalem by the muslims. and they are. demonstrations happening just behind me and you can see people have gathered as around 209 out of many more expected to come. basically people talking have a holding speeches and i talked to some of them and they told me. to show solidarity with the jewish people not only in israel but also. for them it is a hole in that they have the feeling that they can live in peace and they've been don't have to be fearful as our history you know john is that we wouldn't you they say to show solidarity they want to show it stands today as well to say you mentioned the rally which is also taking place today in berlin and also in other cities elsewhere in the world now we know that these rallies have become quite notorious for displaying the flag of iran's proxy terror group has been

a law along with various anti-semitic signs and banners do we know what the situation is this year here in berlin. so the actual smash hasn't started yet it's about to start a 230 and people are expecting to you have the banning of flags again because it has happened in the past of the sea we're hopeful that it will be peaceful but there is a lot of police here today too you call for the restrictions to be upheld some of the mother you can't ban any flags you can't show a hezbollah flag you can't do any chanting because all of that has happened in the past and for a lot of germans that is unacceptable especially the supporters behind us they as you mentioned before they look at the report that says anti semitism has been rising hand germany and they say especially because of that we have also you support israel and. germany not as much to have as

much as a publicist and not have a count of them although this is where they. will test it al quds march is so controversial why hasn't it been banned in berlin well. that's a very good question because here in the freedom of assembly the freedom of the free speech is something that is very dear to us it is written in the constitution and in the past. various other a tear in her jeans we have seen what happens if you are strict these rights the senate up and then i'm responsible for the mosque they respond to for allowing that mosque had to make a decision between protection of jewish communities here and the freedom of assembly and i decided to go for the freedom of assembly but with these very hot restrictions but critics rising and we will see whether it will continue that way. correspondent has a vulture in berlin for us thank you so much. let's

get you up to speed now on some of the other stories making news around the world. families of the victims of the river boat tragedy in budapest have arrived to visit the scene at least 7 south korean tourists died when a sightseeing boat sank on the river danube a search is under way to find the 21 people still missing but high water and fast currents are hampering the search efforts. a top mexican official says his government wants to sharpen existing measures to stem a flood of central american migrants to the u.s. border this follows a threat by u.s. president donald trump to improve tariffs on mexico if it did not substantially halt illegal migration more undocumented migrants have been detained in recent months the numbers reaching the u.s. border have still continued to rise. new chinese counter tariffs on u.s.

imports went into effect on saturday targeting $60000000000.00 worth of goods beijing also says it's creating a blacklist of foreign individuals and companies to ban from supplying chinese firms the move comes in retaliation for washington's tariffs on chinese goods. in the u.s. state of virginia 12 people are dead and 4 others are injured after a disgruntled public utility employee opened fire on coworkers the suspect himself was also killed after a prolonged gun battle with police. workers that the government building were getting ready for the weekend when the gunman struck. employees barricaded themselves in their offices as the shoot him moved through the building the visioneer beach police chief described the scene his office is in counted as a war zone. we engaged with the shows

but. and i can tell you that it was a wall gun battle between those 4 officers and that's us but. we've recovered a 45 caliber handgun. with multiple extended magazines that were emptied at the time the suspect was reloading extended magazines and that handgun firing victims throughout the building and that officers. another us city in shock and disbelief that this could happen on that doorstep one woman who was inside the building praised the swift action of 1st responders. i'm just going through a lot of emotion because it's too way too much killing going on and i'm just glad that they alert. enough time so we wouldn't be outside when everything was occurring. at beaches mayor calls it a devastating day. today is virginia beach is.

a senseless. and impose tremendous grief upon the people of virginia beach the commonwealth and this country. a country where mass shootings occur with disturbing frequency one monitoring group said it was the 150th mass shooting in the u.s. this year. all right let's get you some sports news now and the champions league final kicking off today will see up to 100000 tottenham and liverpool fans fill madrid to watch the big match the vast majority are travelling without a take it some in the hope of buying one there are others just to enjoy the atmosphere but the number of take atlas fans is a worry for madrid police. the spanish city's security and emergency coordinator has advised fans to behave during the match or risk being arrested.

and mark oregon for his 4th is here to talk about the big match so marco we just saw from that piece the spanish police are really not taking any chances are they but is it necessary are they being overly cautious or do you think it's a good idea well they have a well one reputation for heavy handedness amongst will fans i would say the spanish police of actually experienced that myself i was and for the n.c.a.a. recently for the europa league tie. and i saw the police an auction and they were noticeably more aggressive than any police i've seen in other countries with football supporters and i think english fans as well have had a reputation over the decades for people for causing trouble i'm so that's probably in the back of their minds i think what's coming into play here is the on the number of funds that are troubling for tickets and possibly 100000 people there you look at $70000.00 nearly to take it so throughout the whole into the equation as well and it could be a heady mix hopefully everything goes off peacefully and the police don't feel the

need to wait and well yeah they're going to be doing a lot of crowd control i think also to light a scent so it's all right mark let's talk for a moment now about liverpool so their coach you're going club has lost 6 straight finals so just how significant is this game and how much nailbiting is he doing this is muster for him he's tried to play it in interviews he comes across as very he's very charismatic very. but this will be on his mind it's very strange for him on the last the last coach to when the been just legal with a club side bar in munich yet this man has a reputation as being a loser so it's something of a monkey wants off his bike and i think that the only facts of this different really with the previous finals is that we were pushed favorites going into this game and those previous finals he's been he's been under dog really even against all spoken dog played both spurred vosburgh and finished higher in the week they had the better side then so can his team handle the pressure of being favorites and can he handle it maybe maybe if they do them to morrow we'll be talking about him

as a winner rather than a loser well as for tottenham they've actually never won champions league do you think they have a chance to actually do it this time they must have a chance i mean the way they've got to the final is absolutely incredible these crazy away goals victories against manchester city when it looked like they were a. net against as well with the last kick of the ball so i think a lot of stars funs really feel that their names on the trophy this year just because of the way that they've got their spurs used to be kind of a by word for incompetence a club not being run well but really come on leaps and bones on the coachman's who pushed you know and i think you've got a chance certainly the thousands of sports fans there travelling to madrid certainly things so well i know you're going to be watching we're going to be watching at home as well this evening should be a very exciting match mark organ from dili's for it's always great to talk to you likewise thank you. to tennis now and carlino please call the has

been dealt a surprise at the french open following 2 petra markets in the 3rd round ranked 2nd in the world the czech star's already the 4th player to be knocked out of the tournament for markets the 6363 victory means she's just one win away from her best ever grand slam performance. you're up to date now on the news i'm married to evanston thanks for watching. with different languages we fight for different things that's fine but we all stick up for freedom freedom of speech and freedom of press. giving freedom for global news that matters w made for minds. i'm not laughing at the gym i just sometimes out of place and laughing when recent months.