it's ridiculous grandma there you go it's all that out there. i'm rachel join me to meet the germans on the w. paused. this is due to have been years coming to you live from berlin the german chancellor credits young people and the fridays for future movement for spurring on in our environment policy and we are michael says the activists have driven out to act faster on climate change and after being seen shaking on 3 occasions she answers questions once again about her health also coming up president trunk claims a u.s.

warship passed shot down an iranian drone in the gulf trying to say is opposed to a threat to the warship but iran's foreign minister zarif says he has no information about losing a drone. and in japan mourners create tribute to the victims of an arson attack on an animation studio 33 people were killed in the blaze. under that she well thank you very much for your company. german chancellor merkel has credited the young people in the fridays for future movement for spurring on her environmental policy she said the activists have driven her to act faster on climate change mickey was speaking out to andrew salmon news conference where there was plenty to talk about after a turbulent. book coalition government among the issues was the election of course

on the line as the next president of the european commission. the german chancellor arrived ahead of schedule to answer the many questions of the international press. after a turbulent year within her coalition and concerns over her health there was much to talk about. she began by addressing the election of a lion as new president of the european commission and welcome to vote of the european parliament. she was the 1st woman to head the commission and i'm very glad it was possible to avoid a conflict between the institutions because europe must be able to act. on a personal level and couldn't avoid a topic that was on everyone's mind her health after 3 bouts of shaking at public ceremonies sparked concerns about her ability to govern she stated that everything was fine. i cannot move from illness function

and secondly as a human being i am also personally very interested in my health. after all as already mentioned in 2021 my political work will be finished. but i hope life will then go on and i would like to live it in good health those movies don't know. isn't the food talking about her climate policies merkel expressed support for. the young swedish climate change activist who was speaking at the friday for futures rally in berlin today the chancellor said her government was committed to the paris climate agreement and also wanted to implement a tax on c o 2 emissions. by inserting the 2030 goals we don't know the exact details yet but the experts say and i agree with them that the most efficient path to achieving these goals is to tax carbon dioxide

emissions but we must also take into account the social impact of these taxes. throughout her annual press conference on american answers often remain in general . but she was very clear in expressing solidarity with the u.s. congress women attacked by president donald trump i reject trump's comments and stand in solidarity with the congresswoman he attacked. strong signal that the chancellor often healed as the leader of the free world hasn't given up her job just yet. our chief political editor was at that press conference and joins me now in the studio welcome in the shayla a short and may decisive statement on trump their bungle american foreign policy came up quite a bit in this press conference what were your key takeaways yes absolutely and just after we heard that label as leader of the free world that's something to be

completely reject in the european context she also said to those who fear more german europe now with all that often underlying condition chief that germany can't do anything on its own it can't solve anything and it can't block anything and on the issue of iran she was asked i mean as these tensions are really heating up in the region particularly between the u.s. and iran she actually called on iran to still for phil the so-called atomic agreement that jay c.p.o. a unilaterally after the u.s. pulled out the reason she said being that that would have can be a constructive or positive sign towards the international community interesting point there but it also shows that she is firmly banking on diplomatic ways of resolving this issue also backing french president in manama corn his efforts to get both sides of the table and those calling for a porsche more closer work with dropping those sanctions she said that they should really take

a cold hard look at reality that was kind of the foreign policy quick right through the issues that climate change policy was also a focus during her. press conference today and she says she was inspired by a teenage activist like a good a good here's what she was asked specifically about twitter tune back and she was trying to stress that don't you done a lot also before greta merkel had an else a lot before creator 995 she was a vironment minister she had called climate change a very pressing issue now where in 2019 and on the do. where there were yet more fridays for future demonstrations here of berlin her governing coalition is still struggling to actually pin down how exactly they want to tackle the c o 2 emissions issue here in germany not just america was looking and sounding very good there were questions asked about her health but she's still realty after this press conference how stable is her government is this what sense did you get there while it's by no means certain that she wore be able to remain chance until 2021 health

wise she seemed rather bouncy she's not that terribly adept at once she speaks usually anyway but coalition is under acute threat the social democrats are having a very diverse a difficult time on the green party here in germany in the latest polls is coming within reach of 2 or 3 percentage points with her own c do you party so under pressure absolutely is tremendously under pressure but you got a chance to put a question yourself to chancellor merkel tell us about yours i really wanted to get her assessment of what we takes to be german chancellor for almost 15 years into having done that job and this is what she had to say. although most money. you need a realistic dose of optimism. for what you do why don't. you have to be open to reevaluate in situations. that in my view i don't have

a constant curiosity for people. mentioned. so maybe some advice on it could come carbon bar the new defense minister and the heir apparent certainly on track to potentially becoming uncle americal successor there we have to see where that goes thank you very much for bringing us up to date on this press conference the summer press conference which is quite an institution there here in germany thank you. it was indeed of news coming up ahead tensions in the persian gulf the u.s. claims one of its warships has shot down an iranian drone but iran's foreign minister says all of its drones are accounted for. but 1st let me bring you up to date but some other stories making news around the bond the top court in the netherlands as opposed to ruling that found the dutch state ashley liable for the deaths of 350 bosnian muslims in the 199570 it's a massacre the men were executed by forces after being expelled from a u.n.

base dutch troops have been guarding the base. german sea captain. has left italy after facing questions in an italian court on thursday she returned to germany before heading to an unnamed destination is accused of aiding illegal immigration after docking in italy with 40 rescued refugees on board she says it was her duty to see lives. a strong earthquake has hit just north of the greek capital athens the 5 point one magnitude tremor send people running into the city streets phone and wireless connections were also knocked out a 2nd tremor was spread 40 minutes later. former south african president jacob zuma says he continued to give testimony to a public inquiry looking into corruption allegations against him zuma had earlier

pulled out saying he felt he was being pressed questions too harshly provide written statements to questions from judges. iran is denied a claim by u.s. president donald trump that a u.s. warship shot down an iranian drone on pasty trump said the unmanned aircraft had come close to the warship in the strait of hormuz and accuse iran of a provocative and hostile action but iran's military says it has images that. trunks claim it says all its rules had returned safely to base and there was no confrontation with the u.s. warship. this is the ship that the white house says brought down an iranian drone the u.s.s. boxer an assault ship sent to the persian gulf just over a month ago u.s. president donald trump said a drone had come within a 1000 yards of the u.s.s. boxer and ignored calls to stand down. this is the latest of many provocative and

hostile actions by iran against vessels operating in international waters the united states reserves the right to defend our personnel our facilities i think trysts and calls upon all nations to condemn iran's attempts to disrupt freedom of navigation. and global commerce. iranian foreign minister mohamad jobs are if there was a new york for u.n. meetings said he could not confirm the possible downing of a drone. to the group. that's what i said you know. how do you make too much you know senator paul this is the latest scrape between the 2 countries over who is provoking whom in the strait of hormuz. on june 20th iran shot down a u.s. drone it said had violated its airspace just days ago the iranian military seized

a foreign tanker in this strategic strait saying the ship was smuggling oil they released this footage allegedly showing the incident the united nations has urged restraint on all sides to avoid an open conflict. the u.s. to make a boeing is to spend almost $5000000000.00 compensating and lines that have been affected by the grounding of $77.00 max the announcement comes of week before the company is due to having this quarterly results and there's still no full time table to bring the planes back into service. it's the company's best selling plane and a model that's become synonymous with tragedy regulators granted the 737 mocks in march after the deaths of 346 people in 2 crashes blamed on faulty software the move led to the cancellation of thousands of flights for which boeing is now

counting the cost the company set aside $4900000000.00 to compensate airlines and their customers and as warned investors to expect profits to plunge as a result. the announcement comes just days after the u.s. house of representatives held a hearing on aviation safety among those who testified was poor and who lost his wife and 3 children and the ethiopian airlines crash in march or in should not be allowed to act like a mere investment company extracting world to supercharge shareholder returns at the expense of safety and quality their leadership should change in favor of engineering suited for course. earlier this month the plane maker announced it would be creating a $100000000.00 fund to support the families and communities of the crash victims the figure is around the same as the list price of a single 737 marks boeing says it expects the model to be back in the air by the

end of the year but the shadows of the ill fated 737 marks will be cast far longer than vast dozens of lawsuits are still pending and boeing's reputation for safety may have been tarnished forever. in japan people have been paying their respects to the victims of an arson attack on an animation studio that killed 33 people dozens more were injured investigators continue to scour the burnt building in kyoto for evidence in what was japan's worst mass killing in decades the main suspect is a 41 year old man with a criminal history who did not work for the studio questions remain about his motives the studio work is very loved in japan it produced a popular anime series about high school girls. for more i'm joined by journalist tim kelly he's standing by for us in kyoto can tell us for tim tell

us 1st about how people in kyoto are coping with this tragedy. well i was at the site pretty much all day today and there are a lot of visitors to the site people bringing flowers saying prez has been makes or all of. the may fans that arrived from various places in from the u.s. and china and also local people who come the people who come up in the seas they produce animation phones should t.v. the company the company coke to animate has kind of moved out recently in to movies just dances in there was absolutely. oh really 1937 hand collapse and 4 taps into minutes that's a new world record nobody's faster with their fast paced mix of tap and hungry and

folk dance has taken audiences from new york city to beijing by storm how did ganguly bolland pop and the others manage it. success or for being a professional is not is not how you doing seeing it so that the students. which includes plenty of self-discipline and at least 3 hours of practice a day can just many as 10 in the run up to performance. they used to work more on developing their muscles but now they concentrate on speed and endurance. the simpler rising tempo and all that slapping her debit. her majesty queen elizabeth the 2nd the same. just. off the stage and see about.

hands and and he said yes yes it's. pretty good 1st got together in 2009. to perform both alone and together with other groups with musicians or with anyone else who experiments with rhythms. not all 4 grew up in rule hungary they joined folk dance groups early on and they still study the traditional dance styles from the. normally they're performed at a more leisurely pace. energetic quartet is constantly working on new ideas in their shows that use the

projections their mission is to bring one carry on traditions to a younger audience. they're perfectionists that push themselves to their physical limits on stage and on the set of their new promotional video. they call to beat the image of the muscular man and they enjoy the enthusiastic reaction. to. what they observe one iron rule no dancing at political events which won't let anyone misuse their love of tradition for any political agenda they just want to dance and set new records and they are certainly not lacking in energy and enthusiasm. but absolutely every day a huge number of people use social media to share the ups and downs of the everyday lives the photo sharing platform instagram has more than 1000000000 users but

concerns a growing that social media use can contribute to low self-esteem and feelings of inadequacy and that's prompted instagram to launch tests to see where the hiding the number of likes on their posts could improve uses wellbeing and is at a bigger ritter's is here to tell us more about this welcome rebecca so tell us 1st remind us what this likes is about and where it came from family to everyone knows that social media and life go hand in hand until now in social means like so hearts in the case of instagram the content was actually introduced by the video platform video in 2005 didn't really take off until facebook created their own back in 2000 and. on now back then it was referred to as the awesome button i don't know if this is going to remember it i barely can make it all summed up in there and that was to sort of give people the option to give content the thumbs up the platform later added emergencies giving uses the option to be angry excited or love other people's

content they were to help the facebook algorithm rank posts based on popularity now other social media platforms quickly took up of the button and it's well now the rest is history really content. as i said it's anonymous likes social media from it on anything from twitter to instagram the truth so how has this like function affected the mental health of young people or well the number of likes post gets is really determine the measure of its success and studies show that the kind of instant feedback you get from social media can can boost people's moods and self-esteem but of course it can also work in the other direction and if a post is very popular it can bring people's moods down to researchers and warned that can lead to malicious envy and even increased cases of depression so that's why instagram started running this test case in april in april it chose to hide the number of likes

a post can get only the person who posts the content privately can see how many posts something has is a graham says the ng is for users to concentrate on the storytelling rather than sort of feedback it gets in a twitter post instagram say we want our friends to focus on the photos and videos you share not on how many likes you get so no instagram uses the number of likes to determine the commercial value of for bush to know what it means for influences and how it affects them what do you what does instagram make of that then well you know influencers of people who get paid for their content on the day showcase you know sort of branded content if you like they're measured by the number of the social media activity they have that's likes and share is not the number of. followers that they have for instance so brands care much more about engagement as opposed to follower rate so the reaction to this test has mainly been about what's going to happen to the poor influencers instagram many influences themselves however have not been too concerned always thompson

a fitness blogger with some 1000000 followers tweeted i'm personally all for it i think it would encourage people to post more aspirational content versus straight up barbershops others haven't been quite as cool but experts say that to get around the problem people should focus on the other feature instagram stories which is more geared towards sales anyway the test is now being rolled out it started in canada it's now gone to 6 other countries including australia new zealand ireland italy japan and brazil so we'll see what is being what happened. because it is thank you very much in the office of misfortune tonight is the final of the africa cup of nations senegal has a chance to win over their 1st ever football title the lions of to run or other slight favorites against algeria but the engineering team has already defeated senegal in the group stages and will bring an army of fans travelling to cairo. algeria fans have filled chartered planes to see their side in action in egypt and

they are convinced they all claim a 2nd title after the triumph of $990.00 some even believe it's fate. of unusable so i can do to support our geo of course we've been waiting 29 years for this and 28 years old it's the perfect time so i'm going to represent everyone . it was a late winner from superstar that fired algeria into the final after the final whistle on sunday morez was full of the supporters optimism. we had already did not think this is going. to play the final. we have to to win it but they're confident to be jubilant senegalese supporters back home who watched their side triumph over in the semi it's only the 2nd time ever that they've reached a final it's total joy it's national pride we're all happy we've been waiting for

this since 2002 such your money and co have ended a long senegalese wait for a 2nd shot at the title and they're delighted to have come so far. we're proud because it's been 17 years since we last reached this stage since the generation of 2002. and it's thanks to her surveillance and the hard work of. but the hardest part is still to come and only one set of supporters will be celebrating come friday night. here's a recap of the top story that we're following feel. german chancellor angela merkel has privilege of young people and the fight is for a future move for aspiring environmental policy michael said the activist 100 the not to act fine still on climate change. coming up next in the news asia battling the scioto borne disease in southeast asia and update from the world

health organization a month and thank you fever created in the philippines. and. the answer to tackling toxic small look at a project in pakistan would drop the growth forest. those stories and more coming up on news asia and in half an hour phil good will have the news for you from me on the thought she might have a great weekend. eco

india. how can a country's economy grow and harmony 6 people and violent when there are doers look

at the bigger picture india a country that faces many challenges and whose people are striving to create a sustainable future clever projects from europe and india. in 60 minutes d.w. . robots are still in the development phase so for what's going to happen when they grow up. we'll schumann's admission in spain able to piece move coincidence to the fore are we on the verge of a remarkable oso for if we just bumble into this totally unprepared with our heads in the sand fusing to think about what could go wrong then let's face it it's probably going to be the biggest mistake in human history. artificial intelligence is now spreading through our society. looks is this the beginning of

a digital age. will we be subjected to continuous state surveillance. ai experts be able to agree on technical guidelines or will this technology create deadly new autonomous weapons systems. 14th on. this is. coming up on the program southeast asia combats deadly outbreak of. we take a closer look at the philippines which has declared a national alert after all the number of cases from last year we ask the. battle with the disease plus. japan after the country's

worst mass killing in almost 2 decades at least $33.00 die in an arson attack on in telling me in kyoto.