this is d.w. news law from berlin russia's government resign president vladimir putin will form a new cabinet after his prime minister steps down some analysts say it's another power move by putin as he seeks to secure his political future we'll get the details from moscow also coming up china and the u.s. prepared to sign phase one of a deal and it ending their trade conflict but the major issues are still on the results what's next for the world's top economists. as well it's a rough won't it we need people saying the top all volcano in the philippines they fear we're turning to scenes of complete devastation. and storming the stasi today

marks 30 years since citizens of the former east germany forced their way into the headquarters of the secret police and prevented the destruction of millions of files in the final months of the communist dictatorship. i'm assuming so much down there it's good to have you with us russian prime minister dmitri medvedev and his government have resigned to make way for a constitutional reforms that president vladimir putin proposed today now put in has reportedly asked mr get a cabinet to continue working until he appoints a new government the prime minister's resignation came as a surprise after putin's annual state of the nation address wouldn't use the ok zhen to put forward a series of constitutional changes that would shift power from the presidency to parliament analysts say these proposals are part of putin's efforts to shape a new role for himself when his presidential. term ends in 2024 now this is what

dmitri medvedev had to say. as he did we use the government of the russian federation should provide the president of our country with the opportunity to make all the necessary decisions to change the russian political system. in these conditions i believe it would be brunch that the incumbent government of the russian federation resigned. to or we can bring in our correspondent in moscow emily sure one hi emily tell us more about what has happened while the meeting individual made these announcements of his resignation and of the resignation of his government at a joint press conference with vladimir putin he made the comments directly after putin's state of the nation address which called a huge shift in the balance of power putin for his part said that make video

would eventually take on a role as the deputy head of the security council and he would be in charge of security and defense affairs in that council it seems that this announcement has come as a huge surprise including for gluten and i want to ask you about that clip that we saw just a moment ago with dmitri medvedev saying he wants to provide the president with an opportunity what did he mean by that. well there's talk of an of an opportunity to make the changes that putin proposed and this talk also of a shift in the balance of power many experts here in russia think that made video may just disagree with the changes that putin announced after all those sweeping changes that we heard about today in the state of the nation address that the president gave today those really give the president in the future less power and the parliament both houses of parliament more power including the duma the lower

house of parliament will in or could in the future have the power to appoint the prime minister and the cabinet and it seems that video of could disagree with the duma holding such power over the prime minister and emily who might replace the prime minister well we don't know at the moment yet putin has asked me to defend his government to be in charge of a kind of government for the transition period and medvedev will be building into the security council it seems and we're looking at all of this all this movement today what does this mean for vladimir putin's own future well the short answer to me is that we actually don't know but since putin came into power for his last term in 2018 there have been a lot of discussions about what will happen in 2024 when this current presidential term of letting their putin ends and this shake up some experts say are many

experts say could be him kind of paving the way for a transition in power and some experts say that the fact that he talked about this big role for the duma could even mean that putin could switch into the parliament he could even become the speaker of the parliament but we at the moment just don't know what will happen right our correspondent and later when reporting in moscow thank you. let's check in now in summary other stories making headlines around the world sudan says it is put down of rebellion by a former security agents linked to al sadr ruler omar al bashir at least 5 people were killed in fighting late on tuesday in the capital hard to the security agents have reportedly rejected a government restructuring plan. lebanon's capital beirut has been cleaning up after a night of protests in which almost 70 people were injured demonstrators calls heavy

damage to banks which many blame for driving the country to its worst economic crisis in decades protesters are staging what they call a week of wrath to demand an end to a months long political vacuum. police in italy say they've broken up a large mafia operation that been defrauding the european union almost 100 people were arrested in early morning raids in sicily italian media say the group of stolen 10000000 euros intended for farmers. and people in the australian city of melbourne are breathing a little easier after heavy rains and storms swept over part of the state victoria much of the region had been shrouded in haze from weeks of wildfire the trade dispute between china and the us could soon be a big step closer to resolution when the 2 sides signed what they're calling phase one of a trade agreement as part of that deal beijing says it will buy more from the u.s. including energy and agricultural products and both sides are holding off on

imposing further tariffs on each other but many other hot button issues remain unresolved. china's leo who is in washington to sign a cease fire in a trade war that has slowed global growth i.m.f. managing director chris telling a georgia reminded the trades are this was only a truce not a permanent peace deal leaves in place tire of some 360000000000 dollars worth of chinese goods it doesn't address technology transfers china's huge subsidies for state owned firms and cyber attacks. these terrorists will stay in place until there's a phase 2 if the president gets a phase 2 quickly consider releasing terror says part of phase 2 if not there won't be any terror away from what this modest deal does is prevent escalation us is agreed to stop labeling china as a currency manipulator beijing will buy $200000000000.00 worth of u.s. farm products manufactured goods and services asian markets were lower on reports

the trumpet ministration was preparing to further tighten controls on technology exports to china sua way i think it will be a fight she will fight to the fight a cycle between china and the united states and so both sides. continue to try to build a strategic advantage or. no solution can be expected any time soon on the strategic rivalry between the world's 2 biggest economies u.s. presidential elections are coming up in november and the chinese side feels it has enough domestic strength to avoid major compromises. ben fizzling from business is with us to break down this story for us what does this mean is the start of a new partnership between the u.s. and china that would be nice but i don't think it is it's more about china or the u.s. drifting a pub i mean these moves that the u.s. have made this change in its relationship with china. has basically meant that it's

speeding up the whole process of china becoming more self-sufficient china is now urging more farmers to to grow more it's moved from being the globe's factory and creating so much cheap plastic stuff it's becoming a high tech leader and he is now leading in so many high tech fields and that's happened basically overnight so we're going to see possibly more conflict in the future between these 2 sides what about you know president trump is always talking about getting the best deal possible in phase one of this agreement who has gotten a better deal he has. he's got a firm so it's all about trump i mean he's the one who's created this chaos in the 1st place and he's been trying to clean up the mess and touting it as something fantastic that he's achieved i mean sure he has clinched managed to clinch a promise of more u.s. energy products and i were cultural products that plays drums voter base of course he's been out there saying to his goodbye big a big tract is the i.m.f. says this is just a truce not peace as we mentioned in that piece analysts say this is far from

a comprehensive deal prevents escalation so it's a huge relief for businesses they were expecting even more tariffs. but it's really hard to know for businesses where to produce which countries when they're going to get hit with tariffs or not and you can't make decisions like moving from china it's a vietnam to avoid tariffs overnight there are still so many tariffs in place i mean that's hurting consumers ok so it's far from comprehensive and also there are a lot of issues that remain unresolved for example one of the big issues of points of controversy has been a chinese subsidies for sale in firms what about phase 2 could this fall apart when we get to negotiations for. i don't see it falling apart what would be disastrous if china suddenly changed its economy overnight that's impossible i mean we're talking about communist capitalism those 2 don't really go together china has managed to do that much and is profiting from that in a huge way so there's no quick fix this is going to take years to see what actually

does develop as far as the economy goes what we don't have is a level playing field and trump has every right to fight for that this 2nd phase would have to include things like tax if subsidies i'm told it will include cybersecurity but trump's record on brokering deals isn't all that good i mean a lot of people talk about so much pain for so little game all right something to keep an eye on for face to their benefits on from d.w. business thanks for that analysis meanwhile also in the u.s. so the impeachment process against president trump has moved another step forward house speaker nancy pelosi has just announced the prosecutors or managers for the president's impeachment trial which is expected to begin next week the house will vote to send the articles of impeachment to the senate later today and here's what policy had to say about the choice of prosecutors the emphasis is on litigators the

emphasis is on comfort level in the courtroom the emphasis is making the strongest possible case to protect and defend our constitution to seek the truth for the american people i'm very proud and honored that the 7 members distinguished members have accepted this serious responsibility again to protect and defend for the people defending our democracy. due to these problems folio is in washington watching all of the latest developments for us there hi pablo so the impeachment managers have been selected what happens next. well what happens next is 1st i should mention what the impeachment managers are essentially what they are is they act like if this were a court of law like the prosecutors so they'll be the ones who'll be arguing the case for the impeachment to impeach president trump for him to be found guilty of

those articles of impeachment before we get them out of course the next stage is that nancy pelosi she's to speaker of the have severe upper sensitives will sign these articles of impeachment to of course one for abuse of power and the other for obstruction of congress it's a sort of a ceremonial aspect in some respects because what once they have been signed and the sergeant of arms as he's called will bring those articles of impeachment physically from the house of representatives to the senate and that marks the next stage in this process which of course is the senate trial so the impeachment managers are like prosecutors will there be an actual trial or we're going to see witnesses. well that's the big question here at the moment once. we have to see whether it's actually agreed to democrats have been really pushing for a witnesses to be called in the trial republicans have been very much against

a bit of what's happening is that behind the scenes democrats have been trying to find republicans who would vote with them in favor. of actually having witnesses and also having further evidence which has come to light being included in this senate trial which is going to be taking place but like i said republicans have very very much against it but we'll find out this week in the end whether those witnesses are cold and because it needs to be voted on in the senate and will happen sometime this week with the trial expected to start and what's being said here next tuesday because monday here in the united states is a holiday. pablo this all comes with a presidential election looming in november how is all of this playing out across the country among americans. well sumi the united states of course is now getting into a period of we'll save you election campaign in some respects and the country is

very much divided old the polls are indicating that this is split partisan lines over publicans very much against the impeachment democrats are very much in favor of it and when you actually look at the figures in all those polls conducted it's practically 5050. there's a sort of very little difference between those in favor and against it which are very much so the feeling here in the united states over president trumps presidency did have these problems fully ileus reporting there in washington thank you so much . you're watching the news still to come on our show. the fight to save the stars the file we hear from one of the activists who stormed the headquarters of communist east germany's feared secret police 30 years ago today. but 1st in the philippines tens of thousands of people are still fleeing be erupting top all full kaino as you can see your seat from the video here many of

the villages in the surrounding region are covered in a layer of ash authorities are warning that a massive eruption could happen at any time the volcano is around 70 kilometers south of the capital manila it's in the middle of a lake and it started spewing ash on sunday now rescue teams have been working around the clock to get people to safety. 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 boat can make a 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 its a ruptured 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 in the full cannick 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 while they can log on to say that the army we decided to evacuate today because we had that things may get worse with the whole kaner the safest thing to do is to leave. 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.

and we'll have more coverage of the to kaino in the philippines coming up on news asia after the show. now 30 years ago today the people in east germany stormed the headquarters of the country secret police known as the stasi just weeks after the fall of the berlin wall they feared that officials would destroy the millions of files that they kept on most citizens of a communist regime german presence and by the time i have visited the former stasi headquarters in berlin to mark the anniversary he praised the public access to the stasi files as a deeply democratic act that allowed people to look inside a dictatorship and president stand my also vowed to do his part to keep the stasi archive open to the public. and simon young from d.w. politics has more on the story for us he's with us here in studio hi simon the stasi you know this one of the biggest secret police forces in the world tell us what impact they had on east german society i think the stones he was

a sort of state within a state and in 1989 when he germany fell there were about 300000 people working for it one way or another it operated it's a network of prisons and it had sweeping powers to deal with enemies of the state says opponents of the regime could be. and of course they carried out enormous amounts of surveillance including pressuring people to spoil their own friends and family so all of that i think is left a legacy of pain but one useful consequence of course of the habit of document saying everything they did is that there's an awful lot of evidence for people to go through even now well as we said it was 30 years ago today that activist stormed the stasi headquarters to prevent that evidence from being destroyed and one of those activists who is there talk to d.w. let's take a look. he was there both gang temp lean 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 itself is all yes i said so you know what we want this peaceful disarmament our actual takeover of the whole thing will happen a lot faster there's no placebo was open 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 preceding months several 1000 people now poured into the berlin headquarters was the stasi workers tried to destroy files up until the very last minute but the activists were able to rescue most of those files. from its border come from the our own things no longer news

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 at leats 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 full templin 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 1900 . 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 perpetrate a file. for 2 years templin himself was an unofficial status the 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 stasi but he still struggling to cope with what happened to this day. a lot of people say yeah 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. the stassi 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 fact. yes i mean we heard that activists there say a lot of people wonder this is already 30 years ago but yet it still seems like such an emotional issue doesn't it it is no i think it's a focus for

a lot of people even last year 2956000 people applied to read the stars evolves and since 990 when this archive was set up the there have been more than 3000000 millions of such applications will they be from journalists and researchers who want to find out more detail about people that are still people in public life in industry and so on in germany now who have a stars the connection who may have worked for the stars in the past but often it's just private individuals who want to know who said what about them and that just shows you how corrosive all this still is what about how germany has gone about coming to terms with this particular chapter of its past opening these files to the public is that seen as an example of how other countries can come to terms with their own experience of what a police state i think it is an example i think a lot of the former eastern bloc countries in europe have done the same now they set up very similar. accessible and

a well managed and they've often cited the german example but it's not only former communist regimes you know military dictatorships in latin america who are dealing with their legacy of injustice have also done the same in africa or in asia to the u.n. tribunals looking into the conflicts in rwanda or next yugoslavia even south africa post apartheid they've all been sharing information experience know how with the german authorities conferences are held because all of this is part of that process of truth and reconciliation it's important here it's important in many countries right simon young from good of you politics thank you for your analysis. now opposition parties in the west african country of gaming are calling for open ended protests against president off a con day's bid to seek a 3rd term in office in his constitution only permits 2 terms meaning that they

would have to step down at the end of this year but he's hoping to hold a referendum that would allow him to change the constitution the latest protests have already turned deadly 2 demonstrators were killed on monday. ongoing open ended protests in dozens of cities right across the country after hundreds of thousands turned out for mass demonstrations in october last year the opposition has now adopted a different tactic a complete shutdown of public life. unfortunately today i didn't get a single client so i don't know how the family is going to live today. with the opposition says good nanjing towns across the country followed that call. in a statement to d.w. africa the f n d c said this has resulted in a total paralysis of the main roads the closure of shops and businesses. it plans to continue the protests until president condé confirms he's not seeking

a. democrat the duty of democracy is alternation we're not against. against any system that fails to make democracy work must be a democracy to young demonstrators were killed on monday prompting attacks on the local office of congress party the government has warned that it will crack down hard on any disorder. stars from the world of tennis have played a charity match to raise money to help fight the australian bushfires players including ross on the doll and serena williams took part in the fundraiser in melbourne ahead of the australian open organizers of the rally for relief say they expect the event to bring in around $2000000.00 euros the global tennis community has already raised millions including several pledges to donate funds for every ace hit in australia. coming up next on news asia hated and exhausted are rare insight into how months of protests in hong kong are affecting

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