this is the wu news live from berlin a contract killing in the german capital sanctioned by the russian government prosecutors say the kremlin ordered last year's model for the georgian man in a central berlin bar the german government is now mulling further steps against russia over the matter. and chancellor outlines and vicious goals for the upcoming german presidency of the european council bank lou the coronavirus income for a package and a bigger budget to get the e.u. through what she calls the biggest crisis in its history. plus

sending rice by the sea and leaflets by balloon the anti north korean propaganda campaign that's young young taking drastic action an expert on korean relations weighs in on why it's happening now. for us welcome to the program german prosecutors say the killing off a georgian man in berlin last year was ordered by the russian state the german government says it's taking the prosecutor's statement seriously and that it may take further steps against moscow all of the matter including imposing sanctions the victim was a georgian citizen of chechen ethnicity who fought against russian troops in chechnya he was shot dead in broad daylight in the german top of the last august

following the prosecutor's statement the russian ambassador to germany was summoned to the foreign ministry in early. for more this on the russian side of things are now joined by moscow bureau chief. what has the reaction been in russia. well we haven't heard any official reaction so far we have contacted both the russian minister of foreign affairs and to the leadership in chechnya but they haven't heard back from them get them out we can expect russia to definitely deny any involvement in this nada that has been moscow's line so find it seems unlikely that they will change calls the moscow congress really was primarily a terrorist that means the whole story is being told in a completely different way than russia the state controlled media here have been turning to the victim congress really into a criminal named congress really in particular his past as a separatist fighter fighting against the russian forces in the 2nd tension war is

being highlighted here. russian president vladimir putin has listed congress really alongside tension 5. who has claimed responsibility for some of russia's worst terrorist attacks put in cold by the way congress a fighter very cruel and bloody who told against russians sovereignity officials in moscow have sat they had to wanted to seek mr congresspeople extradition from germany to russia germany for its part in december last year accused russia of being reluctant of its in its efforts to cooperate russia once again consequently colter those accusations strange and untrue. relations between russia and germany are not great as it is what effect will this have on those. well 1st of all the nation has been compared to the poisoning of set against the power in the united kingdom with an f.b.i. agent that has this nation deep freeze in the relations between london and moscow

as for killing of congress really in germany in december last year germany already kicked out 2 russian diplomats after german prosecutors said 1st investigation suggested that moscow could be behind that killing russia however cold of the accusations from german prosecutors groundless and hostile in a tit for tat step russia ultimately expelled to germany thomas so now when it comes to russian german relations generally the traditionally close relations are all of the damage to not only by congress really killing but also by several hacking attacks on the german bundestag which believes it was carried out by russia just this me german chancellor angela merkel south that russia had even targeted her she said she had concrete proof of outrageous spying attempts she has also told of the alleged russian involvement in the situation killing a disruption of corporation and trust. w.'s. thank you very much

for germany's chancellor angela merkel has urged the e.u. who agree on a pandemic recovery package for the block before the end of july made the call as she laid out for the bundestag her vision for germany's e.u. council presidency which begins july 1st she said europe's recovery plan will be limited in time and will involve borrowing on international money markets. the economic fallout from the pandemic is the biggest challenge the e.u. has faced in its history. you mean seen this in with no mission for them to accuse of for t.v. . that the medical and economic consequences of the crisis have deepened inequalities within the european community the pandemic has shown us our europe is vulnerable and that's why i am saying and i really believe unity and solidarity in europe is now more important than ever. you know musical correspondent in one of the shows

has been following this story for us among l. how much damage has the covert 19 crisis done to the you both politically and economically well chancellor angela merkel say dubbed the national interests came 1st when the outbreak began in europe and that that was in reasonable and in fact showed how unprepared the e.u. was to face such a sanitary crisis to get a decent unity of europe will depend on agreements about money some e.u. countries would prefer to give away subventions other one the money to be lent to countries which needed and i got america say that the economy collapse of the european union is the greatest challenge in its history and that's these dramatic state of the e.u. economy also require immediate access action so it leaders of the e.u. member states will meet tomorrow in a video conference they're not expected to see the deal on the budget and on recovery for example but they need to see how the money will be distributed and to

look ahead for the future of europe. that has also pointed to number of forces inside the e.u. that would be working against unity who does he mean. well she did say that the rift that's run between some of the e.u. member states politically do profit 20 democratic forces and radical authoritarian most men since she was brewing has speech by the far right of the d.d.l. tentative for germany and and of america say that populists are waiting to create social anxiety and insecurity and that by working towards a sustainable development in the regions of europe then the european union will also work against populists and radicals in germany take so the presidency for 6 months on july 1st what does chancellor merkel hope to achieve during that time in addition to dealing with the 19 prices she announced the moto of the european union which will be make the e.u. stronger again during that german presidency and it will be important to see how

you read fares compared to other parts of the well she say that that will determine the prosperity of the repaints and also the role of europe in the world. views political course one of the most shots thank you. now to some of the other stories making headlines this hour the european court of justice has ruled that a law in hungary requiring n.g.o.s to disclose their foreign donors is illegal the court said the law breaches the use fundamental rights critics say the legislation aims to silence any opposition to the government. every. year has been inaugurated at birth as breweries new president is taking office 2 months earlier than planned after the sudden death of former president. constitutional order announced last friday that the new president would take charge immediately. the u.s.

supreme court has just ruled that president donald trump cannot reverse a program that offers protections for undocumented migrants who came to the united states as children commonly known as dreamers program was enacted in 2012 under former president barack obama the troubled ministration had argued it was unlawful . france has criticised the u.s. decision to quit international talks on how to tax big digital companies finance minister when all is now called washington's move a provocation indicated that france would impose a version of the levy next year this year. will primarily affect u.s. companies like google amazon and facebook. the work of a group of north korean defectors is raising tensions between north and south with the land border closed the defectors to the air and sea to send messages and medicine to the north supporters say that efforts are raising awareness about the

plight of people there but critics say the group's plans are complicating efforts to promote dialogue between the 2 koreas w.'s frank smith reports. north korean defector park has been sending rice and medicine to north korea in plastic bottles using ocean currents for 4 years now following pyongyang's recent complaints south korean officials have vowed to stop such activities but poc is undeterred. i don't know why the government is trying to stop this now they should say that there is nothing they can do because this is a nongovernmental group activity. think it would be wrong to suppress such organizations because of what was said by north korea's kim. i'm confused whether i live here in seoul young. journos brother park sung hack has been sending leaflets critical of the kim regime by balloon over the

border for more than a decade the 2 brothers fled north korea some 20 years ago in call for south korea to push back against pyongyang critics though argue that actions like theirs only provoke north korea. activists like those gathered here today outside the blue house so chris presidential compound show the stark division in public opinion over how to deal with north korea some advocate a hard line approach while others like most of those gathered here today favor renewed efforts at engagement and peacemaking. this civic group is calling for president mungy him to implement the deals he made in 2 landmark summits with north korean leader kim jong un in 2018 which includes spending in cross border propaganda. now. no matter what kind of non-governmental organization is involved the south korean government can stop them

and the south korean government should stop them from sending flies to north korea and should implement the punjab declaration. even hand in that was only. after north korea tuesday blew up the joint liaison office in gay song just inside north korea south korea offered to send an envoy a move which was rejected by the north defector who is against any further attempts at appeasement and wants so korea to stand up to north korea. who has if we kneel north korea will continue to move in the same direction that if we stay strong. 50000000 people can be free from threats. that we need to have the confidence of a sovereign state. i think. as the tension simmers in despite warnings police will interfere poc still plans to monitor the

time in sin right to north korea. more on this story. pocky is the director of the korea project at harvard's kennedy school center and joins us from cambridge massachusetts john north korea is threatening to move its military into the demilitarized the area are we heading for an escalation we are going to keep in mind is that each of these steps has been already announced by the north korean side one way to make sure that it isn't this type of sudden shock but also there's a pattern here this is an unraveling of the internet. starting in 2018 and so there is a much thought of unwinding of each of those landmark agreements and the next one is the movement of north korean troops back to their border guard areas along the border especially in the d.m.z. the demilitarized zone is this unwinding only coming from the north pole so from the south it's actually

a very stark contrast in south korea they want to move forward with the enter korean agreements but they're held back by sanctions and those sanctions are closely tied to denuclearization which is a function directly between north korea in the united states there are now reports coming out of washington that president may not have invested that political capital in denuclearization talks and that he was more focused on the photo ops and the publicity of having these high profile leader to leader summits and so right now there is a big question mark about any of the summits of took place and i think with that north korea has come to their conclusion and i think it was from a while ago that there was no serious focus or goal or intent on the other side and hence the unwinding of the various agreements is that but also to do why the escalation is coming now the timing of all of the was. there is a big question mark for many analysts related to the timing of this but one thing to keep in mind is that towards the end of last year in late december kim's owen

mentioned that north korea would be going in a different route and that they would be unveiling a new strategic weapon we all pause and we're all waiting to see what that may be but then if you recall in january north korea voluntarily shut down its own border with china because of concerns of covert 19 and so many respects we think of it as piecing together of the events of last year now the delay of some aspects of the north koreans believing now covert 1000 maybe under control or there is this possibility to focus on the moves related to making sure they are back to the position they want to be in at the jump and see the face off of last week's escalations not been north korea's leader kim you know on as one might expect but probably his sister kim jong why is she playing such a prominent role now she was one of the key architects of this interview and a breakthrough she was the one who led the north korean delegation representing her

leadership group the one that she has with her brother at the 28000 winter olympics in south korea and the subsequent meetings in the things that she facilitated were her brother met with president moon and then in young itself all of those type of entered korean agreements are closely intertwined with her reputation and her image and credibility and so in many respects now i think what you're seeing is a way to reclaim for her the sense that she is in control and that she has not been duped by the south and some of the statements coming out direct comments against president moon by community on the sister of condolence jump box and you very much for this analysis thank you. over the past decade the number of people forced to flee their homes around the world has almost doubled mostly due to conflicts political and religious persecution and effects of climate change a new report by the u.n.h.c.r. says that more more than one percent of humanity is affected by force displacement

that may not sound like much but it amounts to almost 18000000 people who've been a protest with little being done to tackle many of the root causes fewer and fewer of those with me i will return home. hours waiting in line just to get something to eat in a refugee camp how many i want is from south sudan millions of people all around the world are in the same situation and their numbers are growing political persecution moves and climate catastrophes are forcing people to flee their countries. in the past year a total of nearly $18000000.00 people fled their homelands that's an increase of almost $9000000.00. 3 quarters of all refugees are taken in by a neighboring country like this family from syria now living in lebanon. but they've

lost all hope of going back anytime soon for years home has been a makeshift camp in the car valley. turkey has taken in the largest number of syrian refugees totaling 3600000 colombia is now home to 1800000 venezuelans while pakistan has taken in 1400000 afghan refugees and uganda 1400000 who fled conflict in south sudan and germany has taken in 1200000 refugees. the number of internally displaced people has risen by more than 4000000 this refers to refugees who have fled their homes and sought safety in other regions of our own countries usually the capital. last year more than half a 1000000 people left their villages in the west african state of the kenya faster to flee ethnically motivated violence and attacks by islamic extremists. issachar sourdough go left his village in the north of the country and now lives on

the outskirts of the capital we're going to go. housing is overcrowded and there's no electricity water or toilet. it will only. back home and to a good mayor we planted crops. when the harvest was good that we could stockpile a lot of produce. back then we could never have imagined would ever go hungry let alone not live in our own village. the situation in refugee camps has worsened since the onslaught of the corona pandemic 1100000 ethnic ranger fled to neighboring bangladesh from myanmar so far 3 cases of coronavirus and one of the overcrowded refugee camps have been recorded and one man has died. physical distancing is impossible here aid organizations trying their best to uphold the most basic hygiene regulations but it's an endless struggle. a new book

by donald trump's former national security advisor is rattling washington and especially the white house talking in a nearly 600 pages the room where it happens when saddam damning picture of the world's most powerful man as quote erratic and stunningly uninformed contained several explosive accusations including that asked china so help him win reelection this november. joined by reports of these are a who's looked into this story and but we know about this book so far what is it that we what else do we know so far well i think what we need to know 1st is you know this book has been kind of hanging over washington like an ominous cloud from months you know we 1st started hearing rumors about this book when the new york times obtained an appeal published manuscript back in january in the middle of the impeachment trial that obviously stoked a lot of interest and so since then basically the white house has been fighting

tooth and nail to try to stop this book from being published and when you hear some of these aki accusations in it you can kind of understand why let's have a look. at these pages contain claims which could rock u.s. foreign relations and significantly affect the u.s. presidential election in november they were written by john bolton who said he saw donald trump engage in fundamentally unacceptable behavior that you wrote at the very legitimacy of the presidency. top of the books list of bombshell claims that trump asked chinese president xi jinping to insure his win the election suggesting china find more american crops which would benefit u.s. voters trump also encourage she in his mass detention of mostly muslim weaker people in camps the book says bolton said trump seemed to give personal favors to dictators he likes while being ignorant of basic foreign policy facts such as

finland being a country and having nuclear weapons in an exclusive interview with a.b.c. news martha raddatz bolton said this your rights when you're dealing with somebody like putin who has made his life understanding russia's strategic position in the world against donald trump who doesn't enjoy reading about these issues or learning about them. it's a very difficult position for america to be in trump not only said the book was full of lies he also phoned fox news channel's hannity show to say this terrible terrible thing that he did but he broke a lot of very simple i mean as much as it's going to be brokered this is highly classified that's why is stage is highly classified information and he did not have approval but come out now very loud and very strong so no waiting to see if this book might prompt further investigation into the president it's also likely to be

a factor in this november's presidential election. dozen is a pretty strong stuff and that what's the reaction been well the reaction interesting as has been that you know the book out has somehow managed to do what you know impeachment couldn't and not as unite republicans and democrats the motives is obvious been different you know they're both blasting bolton democrats saying you know you had a chance to speak up when this mattered democrats inviting bolton to the impeachment trial will want him to testify he refused back he even threatened to sue to take this to court so they saw the democrats say is just too late not just too late that he's in this for the profit you know this is what the leader of the democrats impeachment trial said adam schiff in a tweet saying you know bolton's staff were asked to testify before the house to trump's abuses and did they had

a lot to lose and show real courage when bolton was asked he refused and said he'd suit a subpoena instead he saved it for a book bolton may be an author but he's no patriot and here's what the republicans at the white house deputy director of communications dance give you know say you know there's nothing worse than a disgruntled arrogant go to soko an all around mr bill warmonger who gets fired from their job and goes to write a book with classified information while being paid millions of dollars ford someone change their tune once he was fired so what we're looking at here is you know the white house saying that he's lying we saw that in the report again that's left a lot of people wondering you know what which is it is in line or if they're trying to block it the way that they have been trying to do then that suggest that it actually does contain information that you know that there's some truth to you can't have your cake and eat it too essentially the criticism that we're hearing here and so it's kind of. you know bolton is not

a particularly well liked man he has a raw. it has a very conservative kind of very hawkish type who does not make a lot of friends in washington he's been there for decades still not very loved but one thing he is known for is to take meticulous notes so the veracity of this may be a bit stronger than some of the other books that we've been seeing if one thing seems version of the gloves are off what kind of impact will this. in the election right i think well you know we've we've seen a number of these books so far come out to that you know by and large have painted kind of the same picture of term best you know uninformed not very curious erratic there's another book expected out next month by his niece called too much and never enough how my family created the world's most dangerous men and that promises to shine a bright light on the dark history of their family well so far none of these books

have managed to break trump and i would be surprised if bolton's book manages to to do that i think what we're looking at right now is a president who's under a lot of pressure at home we have protests we have a sinking economy those are the things that are likely determine the upcoming election not a book in philadelphia hugh very much for this analysis thinking about. i mean you go to introduce you to the newest star off son jay goes for a 2 month old pygmy hippo called kopi the youngster and his mother mabel have just moved from the zoo's maternity area to its main big me if i was asked and he became the 1st of his species to be born at the zoo in more than 30 years the robot language spoken in west africa his name means 1st of all.

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