interactive content to inspire people to take action global audience the series of global 3000 on t.w. and online. this is dave dobbyn years lie from russia's government resigns the president asked him to stay in place until he will form a new government following the resignation of his prime minister the speculation that this is part of the president's plan to secure his political future we'll bring you more from moscow also on the program too will challenge donald trump for the u.s. presidency in november the top 6 candidates in the democratic primary faced off in

their final debate before the iowa caucuses foreign policy global trade and health care the top issues. china and the u.s. prepared to start phase one of a deal led to trade war with major issues still under solve what is next for the world's top economists. i'm storming the start of east germany secret police were feared and hated today marks 30 years since citizens of the former communist regime forced their way to start their headquarters in east berlin and prevented the destruction of millions of files in the last months of the eastern dictator. i'm sure a welcome to the program we start with breaking news from. russia where the prime

minister dmitri medvedev has resigned apparently to make way for president putin's proposed changes to the constitution president putin has reportedly asked the cabinet to continue to work until he appoints a new government resignation of follows president putin's on your state of the nation address used the speech to propose a series of constitutional reforms including granting parliament the right to choose the country's prime minister a proposal is seen as part of his office to come faster a new position for himself after his term in office and in 2024. years straight to moscow to join t.w. correspondent really should have been welcomed by a movie more here. well the timing of this move was rather unexpected in some ways there hadn't been reports about it at all before on the other hand himself has been for

a long time an unpopular figure in the russian political landscape he has been the subject of a lot of jokes of means he's been shown repeatedly kind of falling asleep at official events and he also has overseen a rather difficult time in the russian economy and also unpopular reform such as the pension reform so in that sense it's not a surprise that he's kind of. leaving that at that particular post but the timing of this resignation is rather unexpected he announced the changes apparently sitting next to putin and he said that he was trying to give space for vladimir putin's proposed constitutional reforms which he announced today ok so we see these 2 events that clearly connected president putin announces a range of constitutional reforms and his prime minister resigns this is this is part of a grand aplomb. well at the moment we just don't

know what we know is that. the kind of transition or his government will be in tahrir in charge still of the government for a kind of transition period apparently will receive some kind of new role in the security council in charge of defense or security in some shape or form but we don't know much more they these 2 events could be connected in fact some experts have been talking about the fact that medvedev may have resigned kind of in protest against what putin announced today after all he has announced a huge range of changes to the russian political system which give much more power to both houses of parliament including giving the lower house of parliament the duma the power to appoint the prime minister and the government so it could be that that has kind of connect won't upset made vegas and has maybe led to his

resignation but that is just a theory at the moment that some russian experts are circulating are circulating online is it's too early to speculate about its placement for medvedev. i think it is this news is very fresh and as i said what we have heard is that maybe just may take on some sort of role in the security council but at the moment we don't know much more. of a show in moscow thank you for the race to decide which democrat will challenge donald trump for the u.s. presidency this year is heating up former vice president joe biden and sentences of bernie sanders on the lisbon war who were amongst the top 6 candidates for 2 parts of the t.v. debate on tuesday night it was the last debate before the democratic primary season begins in 3 weeks post suggests the race will be tight. the last chance for 6

remaining candidates to make their case before the democratic primaries begin and the candidates used their chance to attack president trump on his foreign policy decisions and right now what i fear very much is that we have a president who is lying again and could drag us into a war that is even worse than the war in iraq trump offered his own counter programming at a rally in milwaukee in battleground state wisconsin he defended his decision to kill soleimani. saw a man who was responsible for murdering and wounded thousands of americans it was actively planning new attacks but we stopped them cold was. and frankly they already started the attack as you saw in baghdad on our very large embassy in baghdad that was already started you know a moment to remember was

a standoff between bernie sanders and elizabeth warren warren accused sandor still have said a woman could not be elected president of the united states look at the man on this stage collectively they have lost 10 elections the only people on this stage who have won every single election that they've been in are the women but bernie sanders rejected the allegation the real winner did not emerge good news for joe biden who avoided a blunder this time and that can consolidate his position as the front runner of the democratic party. let's get more on this from doris foreman who is professor of politics and to college and welcome to the steer your professor i mean how do you think how the best of last night's debate it's hard to tell i mean this has been the 7th debate so people are aware of it the. viewership has gone don't over time so we don't even know whether it will have much of an impact. the way that it's

been do. cust is that biden did well in knots as we just saw having any any blunders there was a rift that many saw between war and and senators but i think the real default lines of the argument like lie elsewhere and it's mostly a question of whether the democratic party wants to return to a status quo and to so with the party establishment line of hillary clinton which would be biden's line or if it wants to take a new direction and i think this is what the caucuses and the primaries will be mostly about. the last couple of weeks we've seen. any rand build up the debate opened on foreign policy what do we know about the candidates positions well again i mean this is interesting because the foreign policy normally is not a very important issue in american politics it tends to be discussed at the very end so there was a bit of a shift here but we didn't learn a lot of new things the positions of the different candidates the candidates were

relatively ambivalent most of them emphasized we're going to do it differently from trump but the proposal it's been remade relative be fake. this is the last t.v. debate before the start of the primary season so how significant are the iowa caucuses and who to polls suggest will win well the polls right now look as though sam sanders is leading in the polls for the i walk caucus it's important symbolically mostly because obviously there will be a lot of caucuses and primaries all the way into the summer and the decisions in iowa aren't aren't final but it is the 1st of 1st encounter a 1st real encounter with the candidates and their chances so whatever it takes iowa has at least a lead in the beginning money is just speaks loudly in these elections on the body count sign this campaign says it raised $1700000.00 yesterday from a $100000.00 donations that best fundraising day since the campaign was launched.

we can't confirm this figure but if it's true what does this tell us well it's surprising 1st of all because he's one of the oldest candidates in the field he had a heart attack so that people would bet for him and put money into his comparing is a signal it's important in american politics it's very expensive to even become a presidential candidate so the money really doesn't matter and many of the candidates the dropped out of the race cory booker and and others coming out harris dropped out because they ran out of funds so it is very important for the senator's campaign it's also some bollix sign ok and briefly much is being made of elizabeth warren's apparent refusal to shake bernie sanders hand what do you make of that i think in 2 weeks' time nobody will remember anything about his former professor of politics at bard college at bennett thank you. now after 18 months of damaging economic conflict the united states and china do you decide what they say is phase one of a trade agreement that would see the u.s.

eases some sanctions on china ahead of the signing in washington the u.s. has agreed to stop labeling china a currency manipulator for its part beijing increase its purchases of u.s. farm products manufactured goods like at kraft and services economists are describing the deal as modest but that is that it will prevent a further escalation of a conflict that has slowed global economic growth hurt u.s. exports and weighed on the chinese economy. clifford could and from d.w. business could lay this all out for us welcome cliff some details have emerged china committed to buying energy agricultural products an 80000000000 dollars more of us manufactured goods doesn't work i think it looks workable but i think a big factor is going to be how this unfolds we're going to have to see how they get some force for example china has committed according to the americans john has committed to buy a lot of these products and this is going to be a question of whether they actually do and if if for example they don't buy enough

in one sector what will the americans do then so i think that's going to be the big question isn't force means ok does this deal what we know if it does does there look to be a big winner in this i think you'd probably have to say the americans you know there are if you look at the body language of yoho the chinese negotiator the way it's been sort of presented in china in a very low key way i mean the signing is going to be in the middle of the night in china for example so this is you know i don't think it i think america you'd have to say has been the big winner so what does china get out of this well i think what they've they've always they've always had most to lose and i think because of the fact that the uncertainty has really hit them the tower of severely hit their products. their economy just isn't as developed so they were coming from a weaker position i think what this gives. and now is certainty and it gives them it gives them a position from which they can start to rebuild the economy economic growth has slowed quite a lot and in china now they have

a position where they can say we've resolved this issue which was a huge issue and we can start moving forward with with grote. these 2 economic superpowers they do this deal how do the rest of us benefit if until well i think the single biggest factor in creating global economic turbulence in the last 18 months has been this trade war i mean how many times have we discussed the ups and downs of it over the last year or so so i think what happens is the markets get certainty and that will benefit us all benefits benefit us all in europe for example we you know we've also been looking at what's going to happen there in terms of how china is going to behave with europe and and also had u.s. is going to behave with europe so i think what it does is it creates a kind of a basis again on which markets have certainty and this is one variable that people don't have to worry about on top of the other aspects that are affecting and roiling the markets and the global economy but some sanctions do remain and they're

still wish huge issue of huawei yeah huawei is still is still a major issue at the sanctions are still in place. for phase 2 they say so we're looking towards how that will unfold which while way there's rumors today in the financial markets were affected by this saying that the huawei might not actually that they might actually tighten conditions again for a while way and so this major issue for the chinese may not yet be resolved and there's been no confirmation either way whether this is going to happen but it's been a factor in the financial markets. and you know the u.s. has had an awful lot of things about huawei security aspects put pressure on governments like the german government for example about well we securities so i think. that story isn't going away yet either actually recruited from the daily business thank you. 1st we'll take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world the u.s. house of representatives will vote later on

a resolution to send articles of impeachment against president trump to the senate house speaker nancy pelosi has also signaled that she'll name the lawmakers will serve as house managers or a senate trial that. much. but he's in italy say they've broken up a large mafia operation that had been defrauding the european union for almost 200 people were arrested in early morning raids in sicily italian media say the group of stolen 10000000 euros intended for foreigners. that were on top of beirut has been cleaning up after a night of protests in which sadly 7 people were injured demonstrators caused heavy damage to banks which many blame for driving the country into its worst economic crisis for decades 1st testers are stationed what they're calling a week of anger to demand an end to a months long political vacuum. people in the australian city of melbourne are breathing a little easier after heavy rain storms

a swept over parts of the state of victoria much of the region had been shrouded in haze for weeks of wildfires. this is deja news live from berlin still to come. the fight to save the stasi files we hear from one of the activists who stole the headquarters of the communist east germany's most feared secret police 30 years ago today. further to the philippines where tens of thousands of people are still fleeing the erupting tala volcano as you can see many of the villages in the surrounding region are still covered by a layer of ash of artes a warning that a massive eruption could happen at any time the mulcaire now is about 70 kilometers south of the capital manila in the middle of a lake it started to expel ash on sunday. rescue teams around the clock to get people to safety. joined one of the missions.

clouds of ash covered this road in baton guess region but still the rescuers press on. determined to drive those trapped in this volcanic danger zone to safety. we're doing rescue operations to evacuate people to higher ground we've rescued a couple of people already this morning we're moving to another town to rescue more . detail though kaino has been billowing smoke into ash since it's a russian on sunday it lies in the middle of a lake just over 60 kilometers south of the philippine capital manila. although these filipinos don't live on the volcanic island they are still in danger of ashfall and the likelihood of more russians are making evacuations here

mandatory. others like claire and her sisters are choosing to get out they can log on and be paid the money we decided to evacuate today because we have that things may get worse with the pain or the safest thing to do is to leave me some areas are too difficult to reach by truck so these rescuers use motorbikes to collect the locals it doesn't matter how they find them they simply know they have to get people out of this region as quickly as possible. not just. a ship. 30 years ago today people in east germany stormed the headquarters of the of the country's secret police known as the stasi just weeks after the fall of the burden war they feared officials would destroy the millions of files i had kept on most of the citizens of the communist

regime german president from about this time visit the former starting headquarters in berlin to mark the anniversary he praised public access to the stasi files as deeply democrat as a deeply democratic app that allowed people to look inside to dictatorship presidents dima also vowed to do his part to keep a stasi archive open to the public. politics reporter next movie on akashic has been looking into this at welcome maximillian to. the stars he was one of the biggest secret police forces that in the world gives an idea of how they shaped east german society is this look at the idea if how big this apparatus was to understand how much of an impact it had for the east and jim society so 90000 officials have been working as part of the stasi another 170000 informal whackos who have been like spying on their neighbors and that even their families have been

part of the stasi group and then of course 250000 people have been imprisoned by the last of the stasi not mentioning those who has been intimidated or otherwise being restricted through the walk office doesn't ok stay with us because it is a say 30 years ago activists prevented the struction of those surveillance files and one of them one of the people who took part he's been telling us what happened he was there both going templi mean a former east german civil rights campaigner 30 years ago he and other demonstrators pushed their way into east germany stars the headquarters it's still the resting place of thousands of files on citizens who were spied on. software is all yes i said so you know what we want this peaceful disarmament of our actual takeover of the whole thing will happen a lot faster there's no pussy oh my god was opened the gate the

storming of no man in street was a key moment after the buildings and other cities had already been occupied in the proceeding months several 1000 people now poured into the berlin headquarters was the 1st as the workers tried to destroy files up until the very last minute but the activists were able to rescue most of those files. was the methodical. but the fight to save the files was far from one that took a hunger strike extreme effort on our part to convince west german elites politicians and those who wanted to keep a lid on this for various reasons. after all nobody knew exactly how sensitive the information that east germany state security had collected was in the end the files were made accessible to the public temp lien applied to see his own.

it was certainly a unique experience i was part of the 1st group that got to see their files in 1930 . 9 u.s. an opposition figure it was highly unlikely that a very comprehensive file a whited me it was very thorough but there was also one from the 1st half of the 1970s that was classified as a pup a try to follow. for 2 years template himself was an unofficial stasi informant he ultimately quit and got involved with civil rights groups later he was arrested and kicked out of east germany. after the fall of the berlin wall he returned and took part in the negotiations to dissolve the stand but he still struggling to cope with what happened to this day. a lot of people say year well it was so long ago why bother. if we think about the nazi era and i'm not

saying that the same just comparing that to it took decades to process the monstrous things that happened back then. you have a role. the stasi files will be transferred to the national archives from 2021 as long as they remain easily accessible to ordinary people templin has no problem with that. so much really on a culture which 30 years on those files are still a sensitive and emotional issue yes because as we heard and as for it's like something that has impacted the lives the work of the stars is impacted life so many people in the former east germany and of course they like it affected how you thought about things what you were able to say who you said things to like were you able to trust your neighbors your friends in regards to this or where they informants and of course it also affects careers of people so for example still today if you are wanting to become an official for the german government you can be

investigated if you have been involved in the stasi even 30 years later and the same people who have been high in for with the stasi can still be discovered today and that of course reflects on how these people seem even if they were coerced to work with the stasi and so the way that germany has handled these files opening them up to the public is not in any way seen as a template for other countries who are trying to come to terms with their own experiences of a police state i think it's very unique so far in the sense that of course germany was at the forefront of dealing with this issue and like taking also in a lot of different parts of the german society dedicating institutions dedicating research to educating parts of the government to this issue up to the parliament and of course other countries have been looking to this person trying to gain from the experience but i think as we see this is always something that is very individual for each country and that is lessons learned but there's also a critic that for some of germany still needs to address there's

a lot of criticism for the fact that these are files another coming part of the national archives and as we've had there is worry that these files therefore will not be to public as much anymore and that they won't be treated with the same care and sensitivity and sums of recession in terms of protection of these funds because really only kasich thank you. in sport they ticket designs for this year's olympic and paralympic games in tokyo have been revealed in the japanese capital japanese paralympic canoeist monica took part in the unveiling the tickets come in fall colors and feature pictograms of each event the designs have been inspired by the kimono a traditional japanese garment games over the eyes and say nearly 4 and a half 1000000 tickets have already been sold. sass from the world of tell yourself played a charity match to help raise money to fight the australian bushfires the players

including the rafa nadal and serena williams took part in the fundraiser in melbourne ahead of the australian open organizers of the rally for relief said bank spread the event to bring in around $2000000.00 euros global terrorist community has already raised millions of looting several pledges to donate funds for every ace hit in australia. a drone camera has captured the dramatic rescue of the base jumper in thailand after his parachute got caught on a cliff rescue a save the austrian national spent about 5 hours dangling from jagged rocks before they managed to reach him the mountain is in time in southern province of pattern along with r.t. say it's the 1st incident since tourists started base jumping there a year ago. this is d.w. news live from bob i'm up next to news asia hate it i'm exhausted i read insight

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