vote on constitutional reform that could allow president putin to stay in power for another 16 years but what would change if he left i'm phil gale in berlin and this is the day. we're supposed to go and vote on these amendments when in fact they've already been approved without asking. the question isn't so much about the constitutional amendment of celsus i just think it's dangerous to go to the polling station because obviously be a lot of people there feel there's a russian need for some sort of a fresh start that's what i think we need different people to be our people are just tired of it all. it seems to me that nothing will ever change i don't remember any changes i'm 72 years old and there have never been changes your.

day just days from insolvency shareholders the german government's 9000000000 euro rescue package for the german avar. we have run out of money well living from the reserves was set aside in good years without support bankruptcy is looming. the russians have begun voting on constitutional changes that would allow president putin to stay in office until 2036 the president proposed the changes in january and they have already been accepted by both houses of parliament and the constitutional court despite this mr putin has insisted the changes be ports to a ballot the vote which is not legally binding will take a week to complete it was originally planned for april 21st but was postponed because of the coronavirus epidemic. i. was a massive surprise during the state of the nation address in january russian

president vladimir putin stunned the country with his plan for constitutional reform. proposal envisages strengthening the role of the state council as well as expanding powers for parliament and creating new entrants hurdles for presidential candidates there a foam would also allow putin to stay in office until 2036. hours this speed with which the changes were rushed through parliament position to actually signal to the elite that he's still the main person in russia who can guarantee a broad majority for such a broad 4 and the 3rd. argument i would say why it's really important for him to have to vote by the people is external we have seen this opinion by the venice commission of the council of europe which has criticised specific provision on. international law and based in russia many argue of the people so no matter what

external actors say its role for the people so we need to have. city command ok so as i understand it this is an actual and rather than just being about president putin this is a yes no vote on a package of something like 200 changes the people didn't actually know what they're voting for. well exactly it's a package for a vote and actually for this kind of the package would has been precisely such. i mean the people in general we know that amendments the popularity of mint amendments is highly different so for example social policy the pension but also minimum wages and so on they are highly popular also issues concerning state sovereignty and territorial integrity of the russian federation these are highly popular but others are not so really important for the population. i mean the

separation of powers issues and also i would argue the ideology for example. conservative values and so on that's really a priority of the elite not so much of the population so it's a package vote and basically. these social issues diggers wieters for for the core amendment which is the ziering of putin's term terms as such which is really. not really popular but much your journey to contain in favor of these amendments by by the criminal and state media ok we started to focus on this idea of president present potentially staying on for 16 years do we know that he wants to do this and b. is any woody imagining a russia without him in charge. what we certainly don't know i mean what we can say for sure is that he created options for himself i mean he can

now if there's really no doubt that kind of these kind of amends will be that the by the the population but so he creates his option for getting reelected there are other option he could still choose step down appoint my successor or just step down and take up another position in the state and so on i mean there are some amendments that actually create some enhanced immunity for. ex presidents and so on but i mean the basic assumption is that the 3 of personalization of the regime as such is said to such a height he created the likelihood that he will step down it's really low because i mean he did the merger of basically political power and economic capital and so on he says. there is cause for a high for a quite a number of people to lose much as power but also economic assets that both put an end and kind of the the courtly tirant in there they are really interested in

basically keeping him in power as long as possible and so briefly if you would mind is there any chance that he will lose this. well i don't really see any option that he can actually use does. this kind of popular vote i think for me the main questions is at what cost like how far the supreme and need to mobilize the population actually to to get the i mean the majority they actually want to talk with you thanks so much for joining us. from the german institute for international and security. it's. enough to answer shareholders voted to accept the german government's 9000000000 euro rescue package for their life and the bailout will make the german taxpayer the biggest shareholder in the country's largest carrier with a 20 percent stake love chancer has struggled to stay afloat as the coronavirus

crisis and disrupt the air travel sector around the world the shareholders weren't exactly happy about it but you turn it it was bankruptcy for the company and its 138000 employees the reason was clear. we have run out of money well living from the reserves we set aside in good years without support bankruptcy is looming earlier in the day the european commission approved the rescue plan then the shareholders gave their blessing including lufthansa's biggest shareholder billionaire heinz him until who had been skeptical the deal clears the way for a 9000000000 euro government rescue plan the state will receive 20 percent of lufthansa shares berlin can also increase its stake to avoid hostile takeovers it's a heavy price to pay. because the bill is asian package is not a gift we have to work hard to pay it back it will be an enormous burden to pay the

interest and pay back the loan. this is particularly true because no one is expecting a speedy recovery in the aviation market 80 percent of lufthansa's airplanes are still grounded experts say it will be at least 3 years before the crisis is behind the industry and things will be different on the client who will be a smaller loved ones a group then with around 100 fewer aircraft and a much slimmer structure to the tons and has already closed some of its subsidiaries and has warned it will have to slash thousands of jobs the company is negotiating wages with unions cabin crew have agreed to take a 17 percent pay cut through the coronavirus crisis pilots will have to make similar sacrifices. let's get more from business reporter rob what's. so is that it now crisis averted back to business as usual well there's

certainly going to be an enormous sense of relief in the management. ahead of this vote had more or less begged the shareholders to back this deal they said that they were voting on nothing short of the future of the airline and its potential collapse if this deal it didn't go through so a lot of relief they got to get this 9000000000 euros deal on the in looking for those 6000000000 in funding from the german government another 3000000000 in public loans if you get it for free not completely they're giving away 20 percent of their shares are to the government giving it away they get to 90 big and billions for it give it away now so that actually it's interesting the real sort of controversial part of this deal is the 20 percent stake that the german government is getting for that actually only accounts for $300000000.00 euros of the amount of money that. lufthansa is getting from the government that said heavily discounted price and that's why there was some opposition to this deal they were saying that actually

you know you know we could hold out here we could get an even better deal from the german government here don't this is what i'd there was a reading list today i think 90 percent of the shareholders backed it so i should think so because is this or nothing but as you say that it was it wasn't certain until today no it wasn't in fact the fences biggest shareholder at least before this deal because this deal now makes the german taxpayer the biggest shareholder but the biggest shareholder before that heintz teela who has a 15 percent share looked like he might vote against this and that would have been enough to stop this entire deal because of the you know when you work out the number of people who are actually going to vote a number of shareholders would register to vote he would have enough in his own right to scupper it completely ok huge sums of money why is looked on so so valuable to the german government that wants german taxpayers to bail it out of this way when of a flag carrier is also is always a significant symbol of

a country but you've also got to bear in mind that this is not just an airline in its own right it is also an airline group you know it's responsible for austria nowadays it's all brussels airways yoro wings swifts it employs more than $130000.00 people so a lot of jobs on the line here as well as reputation i mean it would not look good if the german government was unable to save such a such a big symbol of german calmness when it was possible so that briefly then should we presume that trade unions are happy about this well actually sounds a strike a deal today with the. crew union called the u.f.o. somewhat musingly to agree to cut the hours for their staff to try and save some of this money so the unions are on board with the restructuring plans that lie ahead but there's still going to be a lot of jobs lost probably for some of this please rob i'd like your thoughts on

that of a big business story here in germany this concerns the payment provide why a car which is now filing for bankruptcy protection. it was a historic day at the frankfurt stock exchange and not for the most positive of reasons for the 1st time a company from the elite club of german blue chip stocks the dax is filing for insolvency. wire card shares have plummeted by 98 percent within the past week following the revelation that the company had a gaping 1900000000 euro hole in its books. that news came out after the company's auditor refused to sign off on its $21000.00 accounts this in turn led to the resignation of wire card c.e.o. marcus brown prosecutors are now charging brown with market manipulation and tampering with wire cards books he's been released from custody on 5000000 euros bail. the insolvency filing does not automatically mean the end of the company though wire card could regain solvent c. with the help of outside investors should not emerge the company will be dismantled

and creditors paid by the sale of whatever assets wire cart own. shareholders however will come out empty handed so what's this is an astonishing fall yet it's hard to overstate it to be honest i mean this is a case of a german company going from darling of the dax to the dustbin in the space of a week in just 2 years since it joined the index of germany's 30 biggest country companies with a value of 25000000000 euros and over the past week at share price has gone from being in fear 3 figures to today being in the single figures and has been described by the german government as an unparalleled scandal there's a lesson for us all in there somewhere and i know rob what's thank you. people in the lockdown in germany are complaining that conditions in lockdown are inhumane local movement restrictions were reintroduced in the state of north

rhine-westphalia because of a cluster of infections linked to a slaughterhouse but many of the people say that now suffering. locked in and desperate 5 days ago these people were placed under quarantine to stop a corona virus outbreak that originated at a local meat processing plant but instead of just ordering the close to 700 residents to stay indoors and practice so sial distancing the authorities barricaded them in. i feel like a pig like a pig in a small hole and we have a family we have a formal. official say the fence is meant to give residents a chance to get fresh air while in isolation but it also means those infected with the coronavirus are quarantining alongside those who tested negative the living conditions inside the buildings make disease control practically impossible.

some of the apartments i lived in were very clean but there were exceptions as well it was always very cramped sometimes there were 1012 or even 14 people in a single flat. the 10 year slaughterhouses widely blamed for the outbreak that originated in their local plant and led to the area wide lockdown authorities demand they take full financial responsibility for the crisis the company is currently providing food for their workers trapped behind the fences only a slight relief for a worried community. yet they ask questions of course and i would do that too if a fence suddenly appeared around my house for how long we tested negative why should we suffer as well they ask about tanya's and many also ask i don't work at tonya's i work somewhere else why am i included to. our budget of chronic quite a few maternity out of under. concerns that grow louder every day to make the

situation more bearable for this neighborhood local authorities are building recreational areas and jason fields but to the hundreds of people feeling like prisoners inside their own homes this gesture is of little consolation. for the killing of george floyd by police in minneapolis last month and sparked a wave of protests that had racism across the united states and around the world this focused attention on the issue of police reform in the u.s. where local forces are often distrusted by communities and say this hostile recent efforts to introduce national legislation to deal with this remain deadlocked because of differences between republicans and democrats but local example shows that before work. when officers on xander baldwin and his colleague natalie paris patrol the streets of camden new jersey people greet them in a friendly way police and local residents have an affable but above all mutually

respectful relationship all know would be the longer you know the merrier and will bother the. desert the day with the ball. it's taken a lot of effort to get to this point the solution has been building trust all officers here have to commit to that. when officers graduate academy there put a foot. put in neighborhoods to meet people of the human level the key for us is being in the community before crisis happens in meeting people on a human level and building relationships and partnerships now they're not so long ago things were very different this city just across the river from philadelphia consistently ranked number one for violent crime in the u.s. for years 7 years ago camden's desperately understaffed police force was dissolved and then rebuilt by the county from scratch now police here focus on deescalation

and damage limitation they're experts in calming troubling situation is down camden receives 3 complaints per year concerning police brutality compared to $65.00 per year in the past. and on one problem with the police do good work here perfect not like in other states where they are violent. grateful that things are so peaceful here thanks to the police. since the police reforms camden has seen a 42 percent drop in crime compared to just 2 percent in the rest of the country there are now twice as many police officers here was before that training includes nonviolent conflict resolution. helps not being in their cars or just riding through people but actually getting an accord walking around is a benefit it improves their image and has a potential to improve relationships between 2 individuals one as a resident and the other one who happens to be

a police officer in the united states for my crime hotspot off as a role model for the rest of the country's often outdated frequently violent police forces. 70 years ago today communist north korea invaded the us backed south starting the korean war 3 years of fighting and with a 953 not with a peace treaty but a truce mading the technically the war is still logged. between the 2 neighbors continue to this day the latest tensions were sparked when north activists in the south launched balloons carrying propaganda leaflets over the border urging north koreans to overthrow their leadership so as you'll see in our next report on the mosque is between the 2 koreas still run deep. after 70 years korean unification still exists only on paper at an anti us

protest in seoul we meet a former spy from north korea park he song unmasked in 1962 he spent 27 years in prison and says he's now stuck in south korea a country that is not his home which it i've been here for 58 years officially i'm a resident of south korea but my loyalty lies with north korea the democratic people's republic of korea. parks' family members live in the north if they're still alive if there's one thing he can't abide it's people sending anti north korea flyers over the border. to their low lifes how is the north supposed to put up with that money if they. don't the man sending the flyers is also named park and he's also from north korea but he despises kim jong un's regime and wants it overthrown. the

activist has found refuge in south korea but even here he's under constant police surveillance he's seen as a troublemaker and potential target for an attack he agrees to meet us at this playground where he feels it's safe to talk. you know the north koreans need to know that the grandfather of kim jong un and his sister started the korean war that's why i've produced the special brochure for the 70th anniversary i will send it over in the coming days it depends on the wind. one of park sections in late may prompted the north to escalate pyongyang blew up an inter korean leader as an office just north of the border to prevent even more trouble the south now wants to stop parks activities to he says he's not afraid of either side. i would consider it an honor to be assassinated by

kim jong un himself king tut in day a few nights ago park sent his balloon with the brochures northwards but the winds were not favorable and his delivery fell from the sky above south korea. this group of former prisoners from north korea is happy it did parky song a former spy is one of them the men gather at this house in seoul run by kwan or healing. the group has 14 members south korea calls them unconverted prisoners even though all have been out of prison for years. you know and we just i think even those north koreans who are imprisoned after the war and have paid their dues should be treated as prisoners of war and allowed to return to the north.

but that's a nonstarter for the south and so the men are left with their memories and their belief that north korea is paradise. i don't regret coming to south korea as a spy for one second sure it cost me my youth but i don't mind. these men were released early from prison that's something that cannot be said about their south korean counterparts in the north. if you are feeling fit you can head to the eiffel tower in paris which has reopened after its pandemic closure the lift system out of fashion because they're considered a health hazard but you can climb the stairs if that's your thing about a month that's just over $700.00 steps managers say they hope to get operations fully back to normal later this summer but for the a magnificent few will cost you

a lot of sweat. that's always what. paris and that other day is nearly done but the conversation continues online you can join us on twitter the w news or you can follow me outside the film. i was watching have a good day. but . the 1st thing.

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to racism following the killing of george floyd of the hands of the police in minneapolis they have been weeks of demonstrations in the u.s. against racist violence and the black lives massive movement has inspired hundreds of thousands of people to take to the streets across europe to the protests have triggered a new debate here in germany on every day racism which figures show is on the rise and which has a long and troubling history so a question on to the point of racism and how to heal the hurt.