the. only. place. to play. this is g.w. news live from berlin italy's government plunges into christ says as the leader of the far right bleak party matteo salvini says a coalition with a populist 5 star movement has collapsed over policy differences he's calling for a vote of no confidence and snap elections also coming out. not just another fridays for future demo the movement to end a week long forum in the swiss city of luzon with the adoption of a climate declaration calls for climate policy to be based on the best scientific

research and. from political and known to rush us all for experiencing ruler blood in your putin marks 2 decades in office we'll ask our moscow correspondent what's behind this staying in power. plus and the footsteps of the bad new reports from abbey road 50 years after the beatles created one of the most recognized album covers and music history. on the welcome to the program. italy has been plunged into a political crisis after the far right league party said it would go ahead with a no confidence motion against its own government that's after the party leader deputy prime minister matteo salvini announced that his coalition with

a populist 5 star movement had collapsed over policy differences the prime minister accuses salvini of fabricating a potentially destabilizing crisis. this is not an election rally but it looks like material salvini is already gearing up for a vote your thought should i do my job with my heart with with pride if i can do it freely until the end if i realize that someone is trying to stop me then the decision must go back to the italian people with no ifs and buts. you decide you and no one else is. so finis leader of the far right league party currently in coalition with the n.t. establishment 5 star movement but after the 2 parties failed to agree on the financing of a multi-billion euro train line something called for fresh elections although he

has no power to do so. italian prime minister's reset picante is not a member of either party but he did criticize salvini. it's not up to my tears salvini to convene parliament. it's not up to him to set the timeframe for a political crisis where now other institutional figures will have to step in. the rain. on the country it will be up to him as a senator a leader of the league. explained to the nation and the justify a front of the voters who believes in the promise of change. the reasons why he has decided to disrupt the work of government ahead of time. but the main coming let's move but conti has agreed to convene poem and for a vote of confidence in the government as for south in its coalition partners fellow deputy prime minister luigi denial from the 5 star movement says they want

to do the job of government then go to the electorate make them or not at all overnight when our time in government with some good work can be done by senators and deputies voting to cut their numbers and saving italians 500000000 euros then everyone can go to the polls. the coalition has only been in existence for 14 months in that time south ynys lake party has doubled in popularity close watches of italian politics will be wondering if that has more to do with the timing of his demands than any internal bickering. let's pass this question on to my job he is a researcher at the university of oxford mr carwell the i thank you so much for coming in tales of a knee has triggered a no confidence vote against. is this anything but a power grab in short yes it is a power grab the reason behind our numbers when it went to vote in march 20.

first party the party got the most votes on the up to be the 5 star movement that caught the 2 percent of the vote they leak but there's a 17 percent vote and to get a deformed government now if you could you can you you'll see the foster movement is struggling to get 1617 percent of the move vote while but those of you could get anything between 30 seats and 38 percent of the vote of course who wants to go to vote he wants to be an experiment so how come he's so popular among italian because he's been extremely successful developing narratives he made a big deal of bringing down immigration into the country now this is not much by the numbers there's no evidence for that actually give arrival of migrants and refugees on the following coast. did the numbers drop before.

he came into your minister and came into government and yet he made it look like he was the water that brought down the numbers so he played very much the migrant refugee card as well as the law and order security guard there despite the fact again the numbers showed that the crime rates in ably have been decreasing consistently for a number of years so what's the likely outcome of this no confidence well 1st of all we shouldn't we shouldn't assume immediately there was a general election and indeed there are some reasons why do you personally hold a republic that had low who is the only one that has actually to to call for new elections to. facto he decided to. nurture the creation of a caretaker government for. 6 months up to generally february 2020 why because in the coming months in the fall of 2019 the tolling government has to pass the budget law for 20 twentieth's and everything lection that would have to

take place that could take place at the very earliest you know if not we make the impossible. the budget low this would be a catastrophe because it would immediately come under fire on the financial markets and also because effectively do would be no way to satisfy all the requirements that italy has to fall field with in europe in conflicts motels i mean he has been campaigning even though and officially. for quite some time to become the next prime minister how likely is he to get there eventually maybe not in october maybe not in january but eventually you know i don't want to speculate generally fabray don't know the long period of time in politics especially even saw him pull things but. let's say that if there were to be an election he wants that to take place as soon as possible because the numbers are extremely good for him we could get 3 types of results he could try to alone just

a leak it would do extremely well probably get something around 3839 percent of the vote he would have a relative majority but not an absolute majority 2nd option he could try to form an alliance other before author of the elections with a political party that is called for the lethal you know broader is obviously the are around 7 percent old that's what they would get that to get i would allow them to get more than 40 percent of the vote and if you cross the threshold 40 percent of the vote you're automatically given extra m.p.'s extra seats in parliament in that case they would have an absolute much more 3rd and final option. he could try to form an alliance with these brothers really as one would as well as we are totally a super tuesday party in that case they would get probably more than 50 percent of the vote but crucially to turds of the m.p.'s in both chambers of parliament that would allow them to modify the constitution you would have been decades an alliance

of the new civil but was corny and effectively brought us really which is a new fascist party being able to alter the constitution. of the university of oxford thank you so much for your notes thank you let's now take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world pro-democracy activists in hong kong are staging an airport sit and as they move to gather international support for their cause the group plans to demonstrate in the terminal for 3 days protests began months ago in response to a bill that would have allowed extradition to mainland china. malaysia has filed criminal charges against 17 executives linked with goldman sachs the wall street titan is under scrutiny over an embezzlement scheme run through the malaysian development fund prosecutors allege over $2700000000.00 were spent on luxury yacht villas and art and one of the biggest banking frauds in history.

authorities in indian controlled kashmir have announced they will ease a strict curfew and the main. ghar for friday prayers the muslim majority region is under an intense security lockdown after delhi announced it was revoking its autonomous status both pakistan and india lay claim to the region. after a 5 day student summit in switzerland around 450 activists from the fridays for future movement have unanimously accepted what they are calling the climate declaration of the announcement comes as hundreds of thousands of students skipped class to join the fridays for future protests taking place in more than $120.00 countries around the world a global fridays for future movement was inspired by the lone action 716 year old environmental campaigner gratitude in sweden. joining me

now from los done in switzerland is sophia lehmann she's one of the organizers of this friday's for future protest sophia thank you so much for joining d.w. you and 450 other activists and 5 days debating international climate policy what's the result of your meeting. i think the most important thing that came out of our meeting the laws on declaration is that basically we've decided that despite all of our different backgrounds and all of our different countries the most important thing right now is that we all are standing in for climate justice and that is a problem that climate change the problem that affects us all equally and i think that that's a really important message also to sons of the world is that it's not just a problem in germany or in switzerland or in sweden it's a problem for the entire globe and i think that's something that we really felt coming out of this declaration for and that in 50 people traveling to switzerland isn't that bad for the environment to. i think that you could argue that about a lot of things i know it's very easy to get along with the train from where we are

in germany and i'm sure that as many people who could took a train or maybe even bike who knows to get to the conference together of course nobody is perfect and you can only do as much as you can so if there are activists who arrived with airplanes sometimes that's all you can do but i think what's important is that we were coming there for a really important reason and i think what came out of it was worth a lot of struggle and hassle trying to get there because we've set a really important global message and i think that that's really worth something. young people all over the world are protesting for a change in climate policy but the 2 biggest polluters china and the u.s. seem unmoved how can the movement have an impact with beijing and washington refusing to listen. i think that it's a really important question we deal with this question a lot you know when the politics are not really reflecting what we're standing for that's the whole reason we're on the street and i think one of the most important

things about friday's future and the the protest form that we choose is that it really reaches the population on a level that politics can always get to i think that something really special about our motive protest so even if washington and beijing are not practicing the politics that we would like to see the students the school children the young people in these nations they're thinking about these things and we as young people are showing society and the communities in general that these things are important to us that we are fighting shoes and that when we have the chance to vote most of us can't vote yet we're under age where we have the chance to make politics ourselves that this will be a priority for us and i think that's really important i don't think that i really think that that is worth something on its own is to say yes we're showing this we're making this a societal issue we're raising these questions and even if that's not reflected in the capital that's reflected in the minds of all the you across the globe who are participating in our strikes i think that's something we should really be proud of

slow and steady wins the race sophia lemon and loads on twitter i thank you very much thank you. the fight is for a future movement was started by a high school student in sweden but it has quickly gathered momentum around the globe here's how d.w. correspondents are experiencing the use driven green revolution in the countries where they're based. here in the united states fridays for future and other youth led environmental groups have seen a steady increase in support and in the number of protests but they face many challenges most notably from u.s. president donald trump who said that climate change is a hoax and of course pulled the united states out of the paris climate accord the protesters remain on deterred and they say that they're going to make sure that their voices are heard to coincide with the u.n. climate summit taking place in new york in september. was.

a spot on the global future movement india saw some of the 1st school strikes against climate change earlier this year hundreds of students across several cities came out to protest the government take steps to reduce carbon emissions before it's too late india's pollutants haven't reacted so far to these protests but activists have achieved one object contributor to it's raising awareness about climate change and that's sorely needed at a time when india is grappling with has a distribution drought the waste floods in the east and water crisis in the south many of these phenomena a believed in extreme weather patterns which explicitly only intensify because of climate change. in europe and especially in belgium the fridays for the future protests attracted shoes. although they took place on thursdays in belgium for whatever reason the students managed to

put climate change on the political agenda again. although in practical terms nothing has happened did the european union was not able to agree on additional measures to protect the climate the new e.u. commission president phoned the line promised to table the new law by the end of the year the fridays for future protests are set to continue after the summer break . it was 20 years ago today that russian president vladimir putin came to power at the time he was a relatively unknown figure he was singled out by post leader boris yeltsin no one knew back then he would have an iron grip on the country for the next 2 decades for public support by cracking down on separatists in chechnya and during his 1st presidency the economy grew for 8 straight here playing on his hard man image

he won a series of election victories his current term runs for another 5 years and 2014 he was widely condemned internationally for russia's annexation of crimea he walked away from a key nuclear missile treaty raising fears of a new arms race and despite solid support at home opposition to putin is growing over his authoritarian repression of political opponents for more i'm joined now by our moscow correspondent emily sure went and we thank you for joining me glad i'm here putin came to power in the midst of a highly turbulent times in russia did people back then believe he'd still be around today. well letting your putin was largely unknown when he became prime minister 20 years ago today in fact so much so that when he became president just a few months later one famous one journalist american journalist famously asked who is mr putin now he has always represented the stability

he was very much in contrast to boris yeltsin yeltsin his predecessor as president who was kind of known as a bit of a drunk putin represented a fresh face he didn't drink he represented stability particularly because he came to power just after the ninety's which was a decade of huge social upheaval and economic chaos here in russia just after the fall of the soviet union it's a decade that many here in russia still see as traumatic and vladimir putin was aided kind of in his 1st few years in office by rising oil prices which brought a broader economic an economic up upswing of sorts but that really still that sense that he has raised russia from his knees as many people say here in russia repeatedly about him that really is still at the core of his popularity today you

know one of his main goals as a president was to restore russia as a world power how has that shaped his foreign policy. absolutely i think it's been central to his foreign policy the soviet union was seen as a world power and it's been a lot of your putin's goal to kind of show to the world that russia as well is a great power that has driven his foreign policy in the beginning when he came to power he was very much trying to forge a close relationship with the west he was one of the 1st leaders who who expressed his condolences to george w. bush after 911 in 2001 and observers say that he was kind of in a way rejected and not taken seriously or that's at least how he perceived it in those 1st few years and not kind of defined his policy going forward we've seen very much a policy of defiance on the world stage towards the west including in the annexation

of the crimean peninsula in 2014 which was widely condemned as illegal by the international community but is very popular here in russia he has though i think successfully managed to get a seat at the table in many ways for russia when it comes to for example the syria crisis when it comes to being kind of a mediator in the middle east and in the denuclearize denuclearization of the korean peninsula as well you hinted at it briefly there putin has always been more popular at home than he's been abroad what's his appeal to russians. his popularity over the last 20 years has been pretty solid even though a recent surveys show that trust me or putin has actually reached. a low of just over 30 percent we spoke to some russians here in the capital moscow to find out what they think they think about him 20 years after he was appointed prime

minister let's take a look. there's never been a tradition in russia the power of voluntarily 1st several hundreds of years ours ruled until this year so the traditions are. new. we have jobs. freeze on the rise the army. what else do we need. i quite like and i think the stability is a good thing as of today i don't see if it replacement for. stability has really been at the core of flooding here putin's popularity but now the economic situation in russia is far from rosy and his popularity has taken a bit of a hit there is rising dissatisfaction across the country which you can see in various protests about garbage dumps in the north of the country and as well in

moscow where people are pushing for free and fair elections to moscow's duma and russia the russia's russia's president vladimir putin has really kind of refocused his energy away from the international stage and back to domestic policy in this current 4th term and least our win in moscow thank you very much. berlin city government like others in europe is struggling with skyrocketing rents and a shortage of housing that's putting dramatic measures in place to deal with the crisis including a 5 year rent freeze but many renters continue to be worried about being priced out of their neighborhoods our reporter met a group of tenants facing an uncertain future. this is still a speck of plants in the fleece lined neighborhood of east berlin alexander pushkin likes this historic area the same area where his grandmother lived. things

from the shops this is my home because i grew up here and this is where i went to school about a kilometer away from here is where i graduated high school so i want to stay here because this is what i know and love. mock the few weeks ago he received a letter informing him that all the units in his apartment building will be sold now push is afraid he will lose his home they are already potential buyers will run into this kind of venue no they were foreigners or from south germany not from berlin. the potential buyers were nice and very friendly but made it clear that they plan on living in the apartments themselves. pushkin and the other renters are fighting back if the apartments are sold individually almost all of the tenants could be given notice to leave most of them can't afford to relocate within the same neighborhood so the tenants decided to join forces and find it by a for the entire apartment building they're looking for an investor with

a big heart. ok we want to find someone who says i just don't want the renters to have to move to the suburbs as is so often the case i'm someone who wants to give berliners a chance to continue living here and i'm here past year that's not so easy most investors are looking to maximize their profits when buying an apartment in berlin. expires a study with real estate prices are rising so buyers have to pay a high price for these apartments to get a return on their investment they have to charge more rent or some decide to use the apartments themselves because that's the best option from a financial point of view. this has resulted in the rents doubling over the past few years and berlin foreign investors have played a role in this but the short housing supply and large demand has helped push up the prices. alexandre pushed and his neighbors are hoping an investor will come to

their rescue but the price tag on the building is high almost $7000000.00 euros their time is running out they only have a few weeks to find a buyer. and then as rafael nadal's momentum continued to build ahead of the u.s. open as a crucifix or a at the rogers cup and. a spaniard is an action for the 1st time since losing to roger federer in last month's wimbledon final and she. easily dispatched of argentina's 6364 to advance to the quarter finals nadal has won his tournaments 4 times and now faces italy's fabio fognini. 50 years ago today 4 men crossed the road in london and a photographer took a shot that went on to become one of the best know images in music history hundreds of beatles and so descended on the famous zebra crossing nearly beat abbey road

studios that gave the album its name back and 969 photographer ian mcmillan chose the shot from just 6 springs and the photo shoot was over in just 10 minutes the iconic image graced the cover of the band's and ultimate studio album and fans have been recreating it ever since. and a reminder of the top stories we're following for you and plunged into political crisis after the far right party led by deputy prime minister matteo so that it will call for a no confidence motion in its own government so meaning says his coalition with a populist 5 star movement has collapsed over policy differences. russia's president vladimir putin has been marking 20 years in power he was a relatively unknown figure when he was singled out by post soviet leader boris yeltsin no one knew back then that he would have an iron grip on russia for the next 2 decades. you're watching t w news line from berlin next up is eco india

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