look now. t.w. . above. this is do we news live from berlin edley takes another step to freeze migration to matures interior minister met there so he closes what was once europe's biggest reception center in the nail sicily but will it will be determined from embarking on a perilous journey to try and cross the mediterranean also coming up hong kong's a leader and curial am says her controversial extradition bill is dead but

activists about to return to the streets until she was formally would toss it away . while our thank you so much for your company everyone. italy has closed what was once europe's biggest reception center for migrants in the nato sicily hard line interior minister might they are some of the new presided over the sides closure he said shutting down the center would save money he also said he wanted to replace it with smaller and quote more controlled facilities all back in 24 to mean a 0 house to over 4000 people in a complex once used by the united states army. on the w.'s onion as cif is in many or sicily and i asked him a while ago why the authorities have closed the migrant center and why. mr sally

was doing that. well it is unclear why they closed it in fact there was conflicting opinions of course on the one hand it had been underfunded for a long time and it was it became a place of criminality and there was drug busts and prostitution here now that wasn't everything though at one point at its height there was classes for people to take classes in different topics so it was on the one hand a place of criminality but on the other hand it could have been an example of how refugee centers could have been run if you can see here the houses were built for american troops and it was a place for american troops families until 2010 so it had a lot of resources so activists say that selby me wanted to close it as a symbol to send to the public that he's taking a hardline stance against immigration now what's so striking about the closure is that when it was announced there was a lot of opposition to the closing of the refugee center even from some locals can

you explain the back story on that. well there were 2 conflicting protests here actually there was the activists who came from outside the area the activists who wanted this closed because they felt that the refugees needed to be integrated into society but they also defended this as i said as an example of how a refugee center could be run because of the classes because of the resources but on the other hand there was a separate protest of the people who worked at the center they were locals they supplied 400 jobs to the area so people who may have been salvia supporters people who see selby as a populist giving people jobs they were against the closure of this facility saying that he didn't care about their jobs he wanted to close it as a symbol because he's more concerned about immigration than actual italians very interesting there. of course all of this is happening in the backdrop you've got to rescue ships that are continued to be turned away by at least do you expect that more rescue boats hoping to dock in italy will be turned away. i think it's clear

salvador has made it very clear that his primary goal at this point to stop immigration into italy and stopping closing the ports at lampedusa is the primary way to do that he gave a decree little over 3 weeks ago saying that n g o ships these are the private ships that go to north africa and pick up people who are trying by boat to get to italy they pick them up and taken to lampedusa which is the closest european port he said he wants to stop them and he just recently after 2 boats successfully made it into lampedusa defying his order he made it he wants to make it even harder so the fine will now be a 1000000 euros instead of 50000 and he's even considering putting warships out there to physically block the boats from coming in but again there's been many deaths out at sea over a 1000 year 1000 people this year so the people from the ngos that i talked to see it as a matter of life and death and i'm sure we'll see more standoffs as they try to

save lives on the mediterranean. sea for porting from sicily italy thank you. i want to tell you now about some of the other stories making news around the world . the lower house of the french parliament has passed a landmark law to fight online hate speech it will force social media networks to or move content that is found offensive within 24 hours and make it easier for users to flag such offensive content while the measure must now be taken up by the senate. in northern spain at least one person has died after a flood swept through several towns overnight the downpours caused to local rivers to burst their banks all the government in a vera province is now warning people near the flood zone to stay home because heavy rains are expected to continue. china has demanded that the u.s. immediately cancel a proposed sale of more than $2000000000.00 worth of arms to taiwan the deal

includes battle tanks and anti aircraft missiles it would be the 1st big ticket u.s. military sale to the island in decades china considers thai want to be part of its territory. and we stay in the region because protesters in hong kong have vowed to take to the streets again and that's despite the territory's leader declaring her controversial extradition bill dead for sisters fear that the bill which would allow extraditions to mainland china would erode hong kong's judicial independence chief executive carrie lamb has offered some concessions but demonstrators want the legislation to be were drawn for good. a further step in the climb down by hong kong's chief executive until june curry lamb had vowed to press ahead with the legislation then she delayed indefinitely now this. but there are still lingering doubts about the government's sincerity or worries whether the government will

restart the process in a legislative council. so i we each treat here. there is no such a plan the bill is that. that bill to allow the extradition of suspects in criminal cases to face prosecution in mainland china triggered a series of massive protests that began in march with hundreds of thousands taking to the streets and some serious clashes with police this rally was on sunday. for the protesters carry lands latest announcement is simply not enough they don't believe her statement that the bill is dead as a prominent activist told d.w. that's ridiculous life especially now the extradition bill is in the legislative program and asked a fact and a beer will still continue to exist in a poll ground until next year july so the french will continue in the next trials months for the protest as more is at stake than the fate of this bill they say the

probe aging city government is seeking to cut tail freedoms guaranteed under the treaty that saw the united kingdom return its colony to china in 1907 a pro-democracy movement has formed but sees very different groups in hong kong come together students lawyers and bankers united at least for now. now would started as a diplomatic embarrassment is threatening to blow up into a full fledged crisis between the united states and its historic league closest ally the u.k. follows the leak of diplomatic cables from the british ambassador which were critical of u.s. president dollars from suffice it to say the criticism has not gone down well with the u.s. president and he. is here with more on that story because the plot thickens i believe for those of us who haven't been following the blow by blow account of what happened remind us what exactly that the u.k. ambassador to do that cost such a fence well. it's one of the top diplomats criticized the u.s.

president in a series of cables calling him inept insecure and incompetent and he sent this to downing street which is the home of the british prime minister now those memos which date from 2017 to pretty much now was supposed to be secret however they ended up on the front page of a british newspaper the mail on sunday which is extremely embarrassing for both the ambassador and also for the british government because don't trump has just been in the u.k. for a state visit to try to improve the so-called special relationship between the 2 now the british ambassador himself is highly respected his job is to be politically neutral but also to give the on vondish truth about what is going on in his host country what she did it just wasn't supposed to end up on the front page of a newspaper exactly to count it from the front page basically now of course president trump is not happy at all with these cables you know and he started

tweeting about it yesterday where he was saying that the white house didn't want anything to do with this british ambassador and he also criticized theresa may for her handling of bricks it is being back on social media today and he's been tweeting the wacky ambassador that the u.k. foisted upon the united states. is not someone we have thrilled with a very stupid to guy and he went on to say i don't know the ambassador but have been told he is a pompous fool no love lost there are so i'm just wondering i mean the top diplomat in the u.s. is this position now untenable i mean can he still work there while it's becoming increasingly difficult for him he's already had an invitation to the white house a withdrawal not with a dinner last night and today the commerce secretary wilbur ross has said that he would not meet with the british cabinet minister because the ambassador was jus to be there so that makes it awkward downing street at the moment is saying they fully

support their ambassador there standing by him but the problem is that to resume a the british prime minister is jus to stand down in just a couple of weeks there were 2 men who were a jew to one of them will replace so it could either be boris johnson or jeremy hunt jeremy hunt who is the foreign secretary has just very recently tweeted in response to what the president said he said these comments on disrespectful and wrong to our british prime minister and my country and he said that if he becomes prime minister will stay in post but we have not heard yet from boris johnson he is the favorite to become the next prime minister so we need to find out what he will do about it if you were to become so but in the means are you've got the foreign secretary using very clear language in this case whole what about the timing of this leak yeah it's a very good question because obviously the u.k.

at the moment is trying to get a special trade deal with the with the us post bracks it and you have to look at who is behind this now the journalist who broke the story is it breaks it it has self and she is an ally of nigel for raj nigel fraud is that you're a skeptic politician who is actually friends with trump him. self and back in 2016 trump himself put out a tweet saying niger fraud will make a great british ambassador to the us there are though other conspiracy theories floating around talk about a hostile state being behind this leak maybe even russia we don't know any of that of course but what we do know is that an investigation is already underway there's so much more to this story than meets the eye thank you so much sir alex for alumina some of the things that we know. some sports news now for you in the massive law enforcement bust coordinated by

agencies around the world has led to the seizure of tons of illegal stary power millions of counterfeit drugs and the closure of underground labs that produced performance enhancing drugs for athletes while the security agency europol is calling it the largest series of raids of its kind and a short while ago we spoke to hale sepals a doping expert and journalist who has broken a number of stories on the topic of performance enhancing drugs and he said the drugs seized were probably meant for amateur use usually most of the drugs anabolic steroids on the market are. determined or are for athletes which are for example that shouldn't studios or body builders or current kind of powers or not it's not so much at least there are always some which he was and was sold for competitions in our home and sports but this is an

exception used it is the usual experience i mean. well speaking to us a short while ago well the united states women's football team has arrived back home with the world cup trophy in hand all after beating the netherlands in the final the champs one welcomed in new york while they were happy to pose again with their prize and sang know what else we are the champions a ticker tape parade is planned through new york's financial district on wednesday . on display at the victory team usa appears to have been snubbed by president donald trump the white house usually receives teens who have reached the peak of their sport but the u.s. team's co-captain says it hasn't bothered her teammates most of the team if not everybody i think everybody is with me we don't want to go to the white house so i figure that's why the invitation hasn't hasn't come in the sense of my mail and it's just sort of slowly to get here but i doubt it but i think we will at some

point be going to washington we've had so much support from so many politicians from so many people there meghan rypien oh there you watching it when you are is up next to africa's and fishes plans for a single currency that's with the business steve alford is up next and roland thank you for spending part of your day with me i'll see you hopefully at the top of the hour. good. to. believe.