this is d.w. news live from berlin hong kong leader of backs down on extradition chief executive kerry land says she's indefinitely suspending debate on a divisive law that would have allowed people to be handed over to mainland china for trial after massive street protests and the worst political violence in the territory in decades. also coming up iran casts new doubt on the future of its nuclear deal this follows u.s. accusations that these pictures show iranian forces attacking an oil tanker in the

persian gulf the u.n. calls for an investigation. and will have pilots from the women's world cup to pin playstyle for scotland at the tournament in france we're told side looking to seal their 1st win. or welcome to the program after days of unrest and street protests in hong kong against a proposed new extradition law to china the country's government the city's government has climbed down and decided to suspend the proposed law yesterday bill if passed into law would have applied only to the $7000000.00 people living in hong kong but also. yeah. please forgive us we're having some technical issues but we're back. in hong kong would go along hong kong would

also apply to chinese nationals who travel in and out of the territory the bill caused widespread concern that it would threaten hong kong's rule of law and financial status a number of hong kong's probation politicians supported shelving the bill the city's chief executive kerry lamb address concerns over the bill and proposed an indefinite delay when she announced the climb down off so repeated internal deliberations over the last 2 days i now announce that the government has decided to suspend a legislative amendment exercise restocked all communication with all sectors of society do more explanation work and listen to different views of society i want to stress that the government is adopting an open mind to heat comprehensively different views in society toss the bill. did of his might as well injure is in hong kong for us following the situation so much he has why do you think kerry lamb

relented and postponed this controversial bill. i think in the end the pressure was too high he's big he's specially after the pictures from when you say nice to see we have clashes that has never seen this most of you but he smiled and saw so firing rubber bullets on the backs into the crowd these pictures of jordan speaking here guys i think the pressure on the world stage is too high pressure was also very high on beijing now to allow her and i'm just trying to snow but imagine that she would have made such a decision would you meet with g m i think nobody just at this point want to duck much attention to this. so it's hard for you now he's away these tensions here. so would this be considered

a clear win for the protesters. i don't think it is a clear win i think it is a win for the protesters but it is not what the protesters had hoped for the protesters wanted just this bill to be scrapped not to be withdrawn or delayed until further notice i think in the near future we will not see a revival of this bill this conflict has been too sharp for this country for this city people are too emotional now for this to be discussed any time soon plus there would be some a break and then after the summer break no police actions would further. find political atmosphere and the probation camps definitely wants to get this out of the news before these little elections but the protesters demand a promise from the government not to put this bill back on again the march that was

scheduled for tomorrow protest this bill is still going to take place although we have to see whether the turnout will be asked high as it would be if the bill was still on the table and the protesters happened no. demand no they wanted an excuse for the government from the government for the police violence on wednesday so this conflict might be calming down in the next days but it is not over at least not in the eyes of the protest they did of usenet is voluntary 40 from hong kong thank you so much. iran's president hassan rouhani says his country is backing away from its nuclear deal this as u.n. secretary general antonio is calling for an independent investigation into thursday's attacks on 2 oil tankers in the gulf of oman the united states has released a video that says it prove that it says proves iran is responsible to her and says

the allegations are baseless tensions between the 2 countries have been running high since president trump told the u.s. out of the international nuclear deal with iran last year the united states says this is the video that proves iran was behind the attacks u.s. military claims it shows iran's revolutionary guard removing an unexploded limpet mine from one of the oil tankers it's also published a photo purporting to show damage and a mine attached to one of the ships president donald trump called into fox news to declare iran guilty. they are a nation of terror and they've changed a lot since i've been president i can tell you they were unstoppable and now they're in deep deep trouble jacketed me but he also said he was open to talks with iran. and we want to get them back to the table if they want to go back yeah i'm ready when they are the incident was sparked early on thursday when a fire broke out on

a norwegian oil tanker following explosions the crew radioed for assistance. they had. helped report them by want that over on top it was probably not a question that stuck with the back weapon. that got to. him hours later a 2nd tanker japanese owned also called for help the crew said they saw a flying object hit the ship before hearing a blast the ships had passed through the strait of hormuz a strategically important waterway which carries a 5th of all global oil supplies. iran has rejected the u.s. accusations and says its navy came to the aid of one of the ships iranian state t.v. broadcast images of the rescue crew members the foreign minister said the incidents were suspicious. as a reminder of the potential for the incident to escalate globally iran's president hassan rouhani has met with russia's vladimir putin russia has cautioned against

racing to judge iran stressed there's strong security ties. under the current circumstances with all the external pressure and foreign sanctions being imposed the necessity for cooperation between the countries in this region including our countries is becoming more critical each day. it's just weeks since the u.s. blamed iran for a series of attacks on 4 other ships in the same region those full details have yet to be released iran has also rejected those accusations. and that will bring you some of the other stories making news around the world thousands of venezuelans that rushed across the border before restrictions on their entry came into effect at midnight on friday many venezuelans have been fleeing their country's economic and political crisis under new regulations they must have valid visas and passports

to enter the. demonstrators rallied in the algerian capital for the 17th consecutive friday demanding the removal of all officials linked to the former president adel is used to flee resigned amid protests in april this week 2 of his former prime ministers were detained as part of investigations into alleged corruption. millions of workers in brazil have staged a general strike to protest planned pension reforms the changes would mean an increase in the retirement age and higher pension contributions results hard line president say your boss a narrow has warned that failure to overhaul the pension system will bankrupt the country. burning anger on the streets of sao paolo as protesters show their discontent at controversial pension reform plans being discussed in congress. demonstrators stormed concrete barricades and tried to block main streets in a bid to bring the city to

a standstill. the police responded by firing tear gas to disperse the crowds. public transit was also affected leaving people stranded at sao paolo metro stations. built on their own and my situation is such and i have no way to get to santa cuz a hospital public transport should run on the hour because shutting everything down without even buses going to santa casa is terrible how when i get them i want to be that at that point that the other method which i don't have a problem. in rio de janeiro banks were closed as part of the nationwide industrial action. as long as the government keeps the pension reform proposal that weakens workers and increases the number of poor people in our country at least date with the movement against pension reform that. critics say major reforms to

pensions and areas such as education would hit the poor hardest protesters are adamant they want their voices heard. spiralling rents in big cities around the world are a growing source of conflict here in berlin a petition is calling for properties owned by housing companies to be taken over by the state a controversial process known as expropriation the city government is also considering a rent cap but as you'll hear in the next report 2 artists have come up with a different approach. for more than 2 weeks this self-made construction of wood plywood and mirrors fall has. 10 tell us about a parasite is what he and his roommate an extended sock of a 5th called it a pentodes that occupies the roof of a residential building like a parasite. here in the center of bilin they want to highlight the city's housing crisis. crisis by going to mars is

a rising the usual path is to the suburbs or further away but in any case moving or your spouse is trying to resist saying no we're staying in the center and going up onto the roof of this while. another major german cities such as cologne or munich france if exploded in recent years. attempts by the federal government to stop that are being criticized by many as too lax. ousting policy was largely ignored for 2 decades and that explains why problems have piled up and grown. speaking at a nation by congress of german tenons chancellor angela merkel makes clear that she wants to take a different route and expropriating housing corporations are introducing a cap on rent. given softened and we want to successfully built 350 times new apartments in germany every year that's the best answer to a housing shortage just to create new living space i'm convinced of that creating

new living space that's what jacobo to not extend that cycle of a false or in their oh not quite legal way the landlord doesn't know about his parasite on the roof after consulting with lawyers the 2 artists have installed a mailbox so they can receive official mail from the landlord or authorities but as long as they've received no legal warning criminal law can't touch them. because i know such fix expection had topia on the one hand but on the other it's also real of course you can imagine small houses suddenly popping up all over on these roofs here and a city gets populated by small parasitic houses and of course the houses are so flexible that they can then disappear. until the legal warning comes they want to stay here for now maybe even with the roomie starting next week anyone can apply to spend a night in the pen tells tara site. at the woman's world cup in france japan got their campaign back on track with a win over scotland after a draw in their opening games and had now have

a more realistic chance of reaching the next round. japan but the skull scene and when june and dove pounced on a mistruth clearance mana it won't be cheap how much per cycle run i believe looking less than silver in the names more for to follow for the japanese in the 35th minute the referee was quick to point to the sport when great pools eat you because guess what down in the books a soft pool but a cool dispatch penalty parsa the south and japan went to. the break. the scots state they gave up in the 2nd house but japanese stop i got my sheets i was so bad the best efforts i said this one from la mcclelland in the 88th minute which gave the scots a glimmer i thought just 4 minutes later that was extinguished by the final whistle the 2nd defeat sees scotland on the brink of elimination.

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