this is d.w. news live from thought i'd leave u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o says nato must grow and change or risk becoming obsolete visiting germany for celebrations marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the wall and that with chance of i'm going to macro unwelcomed a planned increase in german defense spending. just part of the special coverage of the out of her she will take a look at one of the darkest chapters in each chapter pastry forced adoption and children sometimes taken from parents considered disloyal to come an easter break

we'll hear one family's personal story of renewed also on the program a vigil in hong kong for a pro-democracy demonstrators who died of his injuries after falling from a building chaps and lockets the 1st to die since the start of the anti-government contact activists say they will ask giving their protests. time forget welcome to the program. u.s. secretary of state mike pompei is concluding a 2 day visit to germany and some of the 31 of her show of the fall of the boat and all his latest office button then for a meeting with johnson i've been a makeover at a joint news conference secretary from palin chance and back will stress the importance of addressing conflicts around the world and the relationship between the 2 countries for sets of our goals but a great friend of the united states germany it continues. to be an enormously

important partner for us i saw the defense minister statement about increasing germany's contribution to nato over time we think that's powerful because we think that relationship with nato matters and we need everyone working together to make sure that it remains a potent force for good in the world to stand i'm all for them for once today we have other tasks before us and again we are addressing them as partners and friends we have to face up to these tasks in the world. god knows we'll be talking among other things about the conflict in afghanistan and the conflict between ukraine and russia we'll be talking about the future of syria about peace in libya these are some of the issues on our agenda today but let me assure you and we intend to continue to play an active part in helping solve these conflicts let's get more from d.w. chief political adviser mikhail are not welcome because when one of we heard of that discussion so far. well they're holding talks as we speak and we heard from

the german chancellor there the long laundry list to go through but against the backdrop of nobody less than the french president in monarch or having questioned in nato having basically called it a brain dead. it was very interesting that secretary of state pompei o mentioned germany's defense minister i think it's catherine bauer who also wants to eventually succeed angle americal as german chancellor so clearly he liked the sound of that very firm commitment to the 2 percent spending target but also what she marked out this week a much more involved role potentially also of the german military which so far is a no go for this current government and particularly german chancellor angela merkel so very interesting that there was almost a 3rd person in the room there which is the german defense minister one person who wasn't in the room was the u.s. president should be read anything into the fire the secretary of state is here in

germany for the celebrations rather than president. well having spoken to people here in i think everybody is reluctant to read too much into anything that the u.s. president does or doesn't do but clearly here we saw that the reception is somewhat different if a president meets the german chancellor this you see a proper press conference and they meet in the proper press room here it was more kind of in the situation clearly here in germany he would have been welcome but there's plenty of references to pasta presidents as we heard in angela merkel statement but also a statue of ronald reagan who once called on the show to go but off to tear down this wall is being unveiled almost as we speak on the roof of the u.s. embassy just a stone's throw away from brandenburg gate so relations between germany the u.s.

have been i see now how has this visit done anything to patch it up. well they are very tricky particularly when it comes to trade also when it comes to the outlook on china where the german chancellor still wants to leave the door open to huawei the chinese communications giant the u.s. simply rules out as a potential partner in the future so there's a lot of issues on the table but also between the lines at the same time we saw a very pouncey secretary of state pompei o here being on memory lane and also. really good chemistry here with belen. political editor for the crew for the thank you. and one of the darkest activities of the former east german regime was forcing parents considered disloyal to give up their children for adoption 100 such cases

have been documented they doubly reporter on your car has been speaking with a woman who spent decades searching for her daughter 'd. whenever sabine except feuds despair she takes a walk in the forest during the past 35 years she's felt this way off. those years i always had it in the back of my mind i have 2 children and how are they and whenever i saw people taking a walk with older children or a mother with her pram or playing with her child all these things would trigger that feeling by me who. gave birth to 2 daughters in the former east germany in the 1980 s. but her joy was short lived if you use earlier she had tried to flee east germany but was caught and convicted reason enough for the youth welfare office to come to

the house and take the children away. and in the 1st moment i stood there paralyzed then i ran out the door after them and yelled where you take you my daughter give me back my child the officer turned around pointed a finger at me and said if you don't quite down now i will call the police and you will have to go to jail. you. they have given me 3 years' probation so if i did anything i would go to prison i just stood there and asked myself whether i should protest or stay silent. and happy. sabina tap initially gave up but after the burden wall came down she started gathering evidence in the 1990 s. she managed to connect with her older daughter but the years apart had created an estrangement too big to bridge and they broke off contact just one year ago her

younger daughter suddenly made contact that he had stopped was unable to cope. it's as if he were not to forget that 1st phone call i will never forget that i think of the neighbors heard everything but i didn't care. i vampire and then on we talked on the phone every day and it kept growing from there then after more than 30 years of separation mother and daughter finally met i . had a yesterday i thought my heart would burst. before i couldn't handle the situation

i was hugged and cuddles and i didn't know how to respond suddenly this person was standing there to what was related i think i only realized that part nature on it the section the letters to his ear did you immediately recognize whoa yeah you don't get your child's. my biggest this. now is i mean it's up can take walks in the forest with the youngest daughter and she has plans she will finally be able to need her grandchildren and to make up for decades off the last time. it will take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world firefighters have rescued about 35 people after an explosion at a mine in eastern germany honest were trapped 700 meters underground near the city of cholera they were able to shelter in

a safety area but 2 of them are already to be in danger. an earthquake in northwestern iran has killed at least 6 people and injured more than 300 others the magnitude 5.9 events struck me on friday in the country's mountainous eastern azerbaijan province it was followed by more than 60 aftershocks. 10 am to government protesters have been killed in iraq's capital baghdad for city of basra security forces used live ammunition and tear gas in the ninety's disturbances which began in october of a government corruption and the lack of jobs. for the hong kong university student who reportedly fell from a building during clashes between police and protesters has died other students have now held a borel events leading up to the incident is still unclear but it's believed that charge said law fell from a parking carriage after police fired tear gas during

a protest last weekend his protest leader joshua walk. when morning together and we urged holland people wear black tissue to get her today and tomorrow we show our side our teeth and unity and now is that high for the government to set up the in the band as investigation on the clash we need to know and see for truth and justice and which is really in saying and and reasonable for how the government allowed the police attempted murder hold on people. joshua correspondent mathias building in hong kong the place where a child said not found and where people are gathering again behind me you see this parking deck where the student fell from last week when we had clashes in this area here no there were long queues before queuing up. for the

site where he felt a light laid on flowers light candles here you can still maybe see a few candles burning but most of these people have left now and those who are now here on the scene left are the more radical protesters they have set up barricades you may notice that around me everything is dark they have set fire to electric disabused boxes stations so the street lighting is off here and now they are waiting for the police to arrive. for another round of clashes here in this area we have also reports from other areas in the city that clashes have been happening reportedly live rounds have also been fired it and materials what is known of the circumstances leading up to chalk said luck staff. well we know that it happened in this garage down from one of the parking decks and. that's about what we know. there are rumors that he

was fleeing from tear gas hiding from teargas inside the parking deck there was so rumors that police were chasing him inside the police are denying this but these rumors are still on the security cameras they have not captured the moment when he fell so we pretty much do not know what happened but people anyway do blame the police yet so given that well the police promise to fully investigate this satisfy protest. they have promised it as you say that they have already. altered their version of the events that timetable of the events after some footage by passes by dashboard car footage showed that their 1st version that they had not been inside before he fell was wrong so this did of course not contribute to more trust in the police and we've

just heard what joshua long saadat is the opening of many people here and it's one being one of the demands for a long time now people want an inventor independent investigation into what the police has been doing that day and the weeks before and anything else will not satisfy the protesters they will continue going on the streets as we can see that people have no trust in the police they have lost all trust which is building here in hong kong thank you. now despairing which is to hold another general election on sunday the 4th in 4 years in the last round of voting in april the socialist party of prime minister petro sanchez won the largest share of the vote but fell short of a majority in parliament having failed to form a government he hopes to increase his share of the vote this weekend. mcgann. is fighting to defend his future he's campaigning for the socialist party

p.s.l.e. it's leading the polls but likely to fall short of an outright majority. either stands for the aspirations of us young people who want a world with more social justice. or with fighting for better working conditions against climate change and we support feminism. the 30 year old has been an activist for 8 years he feels that these elections could be more crucial than previous polls. show men. are sent to write p.p.r. overtake us and come 1st the likely team up with the far right vox which is predicted to come in the 3rd. and that's really scary as they would put in place inhumane policies against women our g p t people and migrants. we need to convince as many

people as possible to vote for us. but that won't be easy especially since a supreme court verdict on catalan separatist leaders led to violent backlash by independent supporters it looks like voters are set to punish the socialists conciliatory approach and to reward the tough stance of the far right vox party that's especially pealing to many young people. who now after the 40 years ago we handed over catalonia to the enemies of the nation who are now controlling its education system police and media. we need to send in all our available police to suffocate this revolt take back control and suspend colonias autonomy status. but. we feel it really is. things vox is just what spain needs not only in catalonia.

we finally have a party that speaks its mind without fear and ignores the rules of political correctness. we own people can finally see out loud again that we love our country . doesn't bow to this false feminism which is so one sided that we are the real feminists even though we're right wing we are pro-life and defend family values. the 24 year old is still hoping right wing parties will get the upper hand in these elections meanwhile miguel is optimistic that the socialists can still boost their share of the vait he's banking on the roughly one 3rd of voters who haven't yet made up their mind and if that isn't enough a different approach might be needed. politicians will need to take their share of responsibility if we aren't able to form a coalition the other party should give their tactical support to the front runner so that the party can work as a minority government. that might indeed been acceptable compromise for many

spaniards because the one thing that voters seem to agree on is that the political deadlock in spain finally needs to end. well let's go straight to the spanish capital then and join the news at least in madrid welcome last day of campaigning today and what's been going on. well there will be the closing rallies by the different parties later today either here in the capital madrid or in barcelona in catalonia which because living in an independent has overly of the been a very important topic in the one week election campaign leading up to the elections on this sunday the idea of this is obviously to convince the voters that one 3rd of voters who still and still haven't made up their minds and those who still don't know they're going to turn out to vote some analysts are fearing actually that this sunday could see

a record high in abstention hand spain so aside from catalonia independence clearly as you say that's going to be a major issue what else is on voters' minds. while the spaniards are quite proc apart a few things really 1st of all the economy which is slowing down unemployment is the 2nd highest in europe and there's also a gender equality in gender violence pain has been mulling over updating its legislation legislation to better protect women this has been a topic in the various t.v. debates leading up to the election with may so if the mission of hotties really being in favor of better protecting remaining women against such gender violence and one party sticking out the far right folks that's actually saying we should back to protect women we should better protect men but obviously the more one main issue of this election campaign there has been overstretching shouting or shadowing

everything as you said is the catalonian independence that's divided not only the country but also the parties that have been lining up on either side of you know either a conciliatory approach or very tough sons throughout the independent supporters in catalonia and for many people it's not very difficult to see how these parties after the election can come back together and form stable government yes let's pick up. point i mentioned there this is a 4th election in 4 years so how likely is it that this time a stable government will emerge. well the idea by interim prime minister pedro sanchez when he called snap election a few weeks back was obviously to get more votes in parliament that now looks rather less likely so it might be actually really difficult for him to form a stable government is specially as there will be more parties represented in parliament mr lewis in madrid thank you. to

australia where i don't president a number of bushfires is threatening large areas of the states of new south wales and queensland more than 90 places are burning out of control many of them in drought hit areas some of the fires are so intense they've created their own weather systems including lining firefighters say the bushfires are being whipped up by strong winds. surreal the scenes on the eastern coast of australia bushfires turn an apocalyptic shade of orange for residents and wildlife is an early warning of approaching danger. many communities in the path of the fires have been ordered to evacuate in other areas people are taking no chances. fire crews are battling dozens of inferno is raging across queensland in new south

wales the states are experiencing a long winning drought and it's feared the fires will continue to burn unless rain finally comes forth or just say of a hotter and faster than anything they've seen before. unfortunately we are in uncharted territory this afternoon we've never seen this many followers concurrently mergence the warning alert level we've got 94. walls 50 of them are mine and. satellite images show you the scale of the bush fires from space cameras capture of a plumes of smoke the fires have consumed thousands of hectares of farmland in bush . one of the devastated areas is an important breeding ground for koalas it's estimated that $350.00 of the animals were burned alive here as show 2 is caring for those koalas rescued from the fire zone many suffered burns climbing down from smouldering trees here they are being nursed back to health. very

distant victims of fire experts believe the blazes in australia may have killed millions of animals. as a regarded as a growing problem in many countries that children glued for hours to computer or tablet screens neglecting their homework and ignoring their friends as they play the latest online video games now china has decided to tackle the problem head on by imposing a curfew and time limits on children's access to the games d.w. reporter are in tilton is here to talk us through this welcome i don't. most of us would think this is this is a. responsible to see so talk us through these restrictions what they entailed and how it became a government issue well basically the restrictions just say that during the week school children not be allowed to play video games after 10 o'clock for between 10 o'clock and o'clock the consuls and computers have to be off now they only be allowed to play 90 minutes per day and on the weekends of a bit more time be able to play up to 3 hours and they've also introduced

restrictions on so inept transactions and loot boxes and micro transactions it's a lot of the little little add ons you can buy for games that cost a lot of money and which can add up over time now the this kind of became a governmental issue because there has been this campaign over the last several years where state media has been calling video game addiction a poison that's kind of rotting in the minds of chinese youth what they're actually saying that it's responsible for falling grades and then also something like the epidemic of shortsightedness that they claim is is really kind of affecting the population now criticisms like this aren't exactly new restrictions as well as we've seen something similar in south korea tried several times and actually when it comes to these micro transactions in these loot box purchases you know that criticism has been echoed by members of parliament here in germany in throughout europe as well saying it's tantamount to gambling for kids ok so china say ok we've had enough this is what we're going to do about it so how do they enforce these restrictions in practical terms well that really is the big question so far the

onus is on companies they have to come up with a scheme which will then allow them to reinforce these restrictions and you know that could be something like touching an account to a cell phone or for a credit card where they can verify the age but the thing is you know kids are creative they're going to be able to find a way around this i mean my mother tried to trick me in the ninety's when i was playing online video games and i always found a way around that there will be able to get around this so i mean it really kind of remains to be seen how practical it will be to reinforce these restrictions online gaming is big it's big it's big everywhere but it's a big industry in china how likely are these restrictions and to affect they called . well that is also kind of the $1000000.00 question i mean china is the largest video game market on the planet but it's not just the largest video game market on the planet it's the largest media market on the planet and it's also one of the most restrictive media markets as well so i think at the end of the day it's not really going to hurt a lot of these studios bottom line because if you think about it it's kind of the

price to play they know that when they're getting involved in bringing a party to the chinese market that they're going to be facing a lot more restrictions a lot more red tape than they would be facing elsewhere and also when it when it really kind of comes down to it i mean what does your average video game player look like what do you think it's touch and i die i have nothing to do with the ok well i tell you it's not like a 12 year old kid your average video game player an online video game player is going to be a man in his thirty's with a job so at the end of the day it's kids are producing a lot of money but they're not necessarily driving the market that's people like me . good to there until to thank you thank you. on the football on former u.s. president and michelle johnson he has made a splash following the end of his 4 year suspension from the sport due to ethics violations a 3 time ballon d'or winner is demanding compensation for legal fees and back pay for his suspension he was stripped of his presidency and suspended by fief as independent ethics committee in 2015 for accepting bribes

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