this is d.w. news live from berlin human rights on trial in turkey to formulate is of amnesty international's turkish broncho sentenced to jail on terror charges we'll hear from a german activist cleared in the same case is a response a crisis in relations between turkey and germany also on the program the coronavirus rages unchecked in the u.s. with little to celebrate in the run up to this year's independence day officials are scaling back the festivities and urging americans to remain cautious. and

german lawmakers fact plans to phase out coal as an energy source find 2038 climate activists say 18 years is just too long to wait. and the mysterious fate her faults one is elephants and investigation is underway into what's killing hundreds of. i'm rebecca written welcome to the program and is stand court has sentenced a form a formal later excuse me of amnesty international atomic kits to 6 years imprisonment on terrorism related charges the harsh verdict has ended what critics say was a politically motivated trial targeting opposition activists in turkey the court also sentenced 3 other turkish activists. to prison 7 of the 11 defendants were

acquitted german activist and i was among them and his arrest in istanbul 3 years ago triggered a crisis in relations between germany and turkey. and i'm now joined by human rights activist that one of the defendants in the trial was also arrested in 27 tane and spent more than 100 days in pretrial detention but was returned to germany later that year paid it thanks very much for coming on the program you have been acquitted today 4 of your turkish friends and colleagues will go to jail what do you say about today's verdict well we would have expected the acquittal or all 11 of us this would have been a good foundation for human rights in turkey but we saw the opposite 4 of us receiving jail sentences we hope that we came go into the appeal court with it so that the sentences will not be legally binding by ensued.

still i'm happy about my career it will but it also gives me the energy to know a campaign for the left over for it to be created and how i view managed to be able to do that this trial has been ongoing since 27 st how closely have you been able to follow the proceedings from berlin well i'm quite closely linked was my lawyer isn't here that you stumble 10 in turkey. we have been really close close contact and they inform you about everything is going on i was supporting into an international campaign in public work here in germany and doing also some low be requisite german government and other 30 so hopefully this pressure we can continue to the left over for. now all of the 11 who stood trial the 2 foreign nationals yourself and karami from sweden were acquitted were among the acquitted what does

that tell us. well it tells us about the if it is efficiency of international pressure international political pressure and sure enough priests are 5 or 5 more of the turkish activists also being acquitted so i hope that we can mount up international pressure german government pressure because nomic pressure that human rights get implemented further in turkey and that means that the other 3 or 4 will go free. broadening this out somewhat this is one wouldn't admit another setback for human rights in turkey what do you say for the future of human rights in the country their goal to have a very limited scope on turkish human rights because what i'm only involved in at this in 3 years ago. i can see 2 strings in a way one would be that yes human rights are under attack in turkey stronger than

ever but there's the same time i see also that within turkey civil society in the united network is stronger than ever energy towards preventing the people who are detained and these are not just the for is the will 10 atomic age it's also as and many other journalists politicians human rights defenders the urgency of the energy is area think with more creativity was more solidarity we can reach further . speaking to us on the day of your acquittal thank you very much for speaking today damage in u.s. welcome. turning now to some other stories making news around the world another court in turkey has opened the trial of 20 saudi nationals for their role in the $28.00 tame killing of dissident journalist jamal khashoggi at the saudi arabia saudi conservation is temple the suspects of being tried in absentia since saudi

arabia has rejected extradition demands. officials in turkey say more than 50 people have been killed in an explosion at a fireworks factory in the northwest of the country an estimated 150 workers were in the factory at the time the rich explosions have been hampering efforts to bring the fire under control. killing maxwell the former girlfriend of the late finance here and convicted pedophile jeffrey epstein has been arrested in the u.s. on 6 trafficking charges maxwell is accused of recruiting goals to give epstein massa during which they were sexually assaulted maxwell has previously denied any wrongdoing here watching data over the news still to come the mystery deaths of hundreds of elephants in botswana investigate is trying to find out what's killing them. but 1st the u.s. has reported a record number of new coronavirus infections 55000 new coded 19 cases were logged

on thursday just as the country gives up for the 4th of july independence day holiday weekend let's look at data showing daily new cases from the beginning of the outbreak in the u.s. after rising steadily to begin with the flattens from the end of april to need june as the lock down restrictions a new infections have shot up again. and as the pandemic accelerates independence day events have spain scaled back and officials are urging caution at both public and private gatherings that washington bureau chief in his paul visited a popular brand is a lot to gauge the mood. for many americans this is the 1st time out of 2 months and. they are hungry for fun and some want to celebrate this 4th of july weekend as they normally do. to keep moving on do the fireworks continue normality as much as we can moving back to normalcy is what we'd like to do i think if you

take the right precautions there's nothing to be scared they don't want your party to know what you enjoy yourself but you have you know how many thousands in a group when it protests how to deal with the pandemic is highly politicized some fear that the restrictions are taking away their personal freedom of those just seeing the responsible actions. i expect here in our community in maryland because it's tore season now that these cases are going to come back as people do not socially distance or where there are mass while visiting our beaches i don't think president prop will do anything i think he will continue to say it's a hoax and not believe in the science that is there so many cases and. this lack of guidance creates for business owners between health concerns and remaining competitive. once in the bar and grill in the 5th generation.

we want them to wear a mask but if they don't want to wear a mask we can't tell them where i'm at because it's their right to wear a mask or not i don't feel safe with them around at night when i'm at you know that's why i wear my map. but yeah i would rather that where. you can make it or you could make it a law that you know that we have to wear it to recommend it if there are 3 we are hell bent you know i need to make it where you know you get fined $500.00 if you don't harm. the united states are facing a new record high of with 19 infections because little would you know here at the boardwalk in ocean city maryland the majority of the people is not wearing a mosque they tell us we are here to fund we want to celebrate we are done with this why was the business owners obviously do have a different approach they fear that after the reconned they will face a new wave which will lead to a new locked all in and that would bring them to their knees in 2 weeks' time we

will know whether the right steps were taken the people celebrated this unprecedented growth into life in a responsible way or the worst fears of the next wave. to come to. a you has approved the use of rendez a via an antiviral drug that's been found effective in the treatment of covet 9 taint the approval comes after a u.s. decision to buy up all global stocks of the drug now the e.u. is in talks with the company that produces rendez of it to obtain its own doses but with stocks dwindling it's far from certain just how much it will get. good set to ease symptoms and reduce the length of the illness it might even save lives and easy via was developed to cure a ball are but is now the biggest hope in the fight against covert 19 but who gets access to the drug the us department of health and human services has bought up 90

percent of u.s. truck making production over the next few months. we were not informed by the u.s. government about it and we learned about it through the media to commissioners now as i said a few months ago. having discussions we get. to reserve a sufficient number of doses for the e.u. member states. this one of the most profitable pharmaceutical companies worldwide with sales reaching 22000000000 dollars last year the e.u. commission has now approved them dizzy or for the e.u. and had promised to deliver as soon as approval is granted but since the us government bought up most of their product there is doubt. if words fail and pleading with doesn't work we do have the option to give the german another in lieu of drugmakers a license to produce the drug even without its approval for an appropriate field of

course. according to the department of health the german government has already bought and short enough those of them dizzy via. let's bring you up to date now with some of the other developments in the corona virus pandemic japan has confirmed more than 200 new coronavirus cases the highest daily increase in 2 months as fears grow of another wave of infections china has banned mate imports from various processing plants in several countries in the past month as the pandemic hit the world's top meat processes and the u.k. government says that from july 10th it will lift its quarantine requirement for people arriving in england from some countries including france spain italy and germany. but it's all change for the french government a new prime minister has been named he is. a senior but low profile bureaucrat it's

the 1st moved in an expected cabinet reshuffle castigates for save the handover from handover from outgoing prime minister edouard phillipe who had earlier turned in his government's resignation to president emmanuel back home most recently cast x. was responsible for coordinating france's reopening strategy after its coronavirus lockdown. let's go straight to paris now a data correspondent lisa lewis is standing by lisa what do we know about sex. well he's 55 years old is very well known as a senior public servant he's been working with former governments as an adviser to several ministries for example he was the deputy resect is that deputy secretary general at the el easy when nicolas sarkozy the former conservative president was in power and more recently stakes was working together with the now former prime minister philip on the strategy to bring

a company france out of the cove of 19 lockdowns is very well known amongst politicians amongst senior public servants but not that well known amongst the general public right and does his appointment as prime minister mark the beginning of a change of policy in france. while not really he is from the center right party leader people a car and in my car came to power the president came to power 3 years ago saying that he would implement the left wing and right wing front you know the center left and center light center right wing policies and so far he's more or less focused on the center right policies and market orientated policy so it seems that he's going to follow through with this strategy until 2022 when the next presidential election is coming up in one of my clouseau talk to regional newspapers this morning in the you said he underlined that he would do other reforms he would help young people to find jobs he would help the elderly who needed assistance but that he would also

stick to what he has been doing so far you will not drop the very. controversial pension reform that french people had been demonstrating against just before the code lock down and he looks like he's not going to change course. why did the government resign at this time after all. well it was very clear that that there was a reach out for coming up because the president had been talking about that moment of course quite low in the polls at the moment in the you know opinion polls he's only he's got only 38 percent of positive opinions is former prime minister philip he had 50 percent or more so who's stealing part of the limelight and wanted to seemingly take back control of the situation and give a new impetus and show the friends that he's reforming that he's refreshing things 2 years ahead of the election in 2022 so that he gets

a chance of winning that election really places the us in paris thanks very much. chairman will make his has backed plans to phase out coal as an energy source by 2038 the government is trying to enjoy and his dependence on fossil fuels in favor of renewable supplies such as wind power parliament is promising billions of euros in aid for regions whose economies depend on coal but climate activists say 18 years is too long to wait. for coal in germany centuries of coal mining will come to an end not more than 18 years from now together with the switch off of nuclear power production set for 2022 germany. shift in its energy mix. and his tortious that this really is a historic standing in germany is one of the 1st industrialised countries to end both coal and nuclear electricity generation at the same time the way has been

prepared by a commission including many different groups and parts of society this is now been turned into law and that's a great success. it is the result of 3 years of consultation a process almost as laborious as the ground jewel scraping of open cast mining itself the aim to reassure industry that it will still get reliable power and at the same time to persuade people in the affected regions that after inevitable job losses new opportunities will emerge more than 40000000000 euros to be spent on infrastructure such as road and rail projects in neglected corners of the country should help leaders of the mining regions in eastern germany are nervous of protests. this is a clever and balanced compromise but i think it's important that we do not have a repeat of what happened before when the commission produced its report namely

that those who are directly affected coal workers and the regions will support this compromise but other people start to demonstrate against it. in fact demonstrations are already happening climate activists say the exit plan is not ambitious enough the compensation being paid to mining companies is too generous some say coal was on the way out anyway as renewables become cheaper but the exit strategy which germany hopes other countries may follow has now passed into law giving clarity to firms and workers and leaving the coal in the ground. and i'm joined now by helena marshall of friday's future activist here in berlin helena thanks for coming on the program this new law provides support for the transition to renewable energy and also for workers and regions his livelihoods are dependent on coal why are you protesting against it. because to keep our climate goals and to

be in line with 1.5 degrees we need to exit cold at the very latest in the 2030 so we're seeing that almost a decade long cold is being sustained through this lot and we're seeing also that earlier colette's that is scientifically necessary is scientifically possible and is we can finance that finance so honestly that the snow was more of a cold the long long because coal is not is not only very much money in germany anymore 90 percent of coal power plants couldn't cover their own costs last year so to be honest if we could if we just let the free market rule for actually for once coal power plants would probably shut off on their own instead we are paying billions of euros for companies that are not earning anything from coal anyway in order for them to keep power and coal for another 18 years the government says this is a project that will take a generation if you were in government how would you do it more quickly or we how

studies that show that we can leave coal by 2030 and we have other governments in europe showing that they can exit before 2030 so obviously it's very possible and we can shut off coal earlier we can put more money into nuclear energy and we can still make sure that the regions that are you know dependent on on cold and and so on can get proper. investments in their structural change. germany's wealth depends on its industries and industry depends on a secure and affordable supply of energy how would you guarantee that in the coming decades. well the thing is that coal is not a huge part of the market in germany and it's not a huge part of the energy market either so in the 1st quarter of this year coal is only between 16 and 20 percent of the energy mix which is totally possible to face that out very quickly and the number of number of jobs depending on cold is somewhat under 30000 so compared to what we can create in the new bills and what we

can create in other places it's really not that big of a deal what would be an ideal time line for you and your fellow activists well scientists we always leave for one and a half years since we've been standing on the streets and we've had millions of people join us we said that we need to unite behind the science that science says that to keep the climate global climate change between under the critical tipping point of 1.5 degrees we need to leave cold by 2030 so that's obviously what we want as well we need to leave call before 2030 helena marshall from friday's for future thanks very much for coming on the program no problem. while people across the globe are grappling with the coronavirus pandemic another of the world's species is being afflicted with its own sudden wave of unexplained deaths or thora he's in botswana trying to figure out why hundreds of elephants have been found dead in recent months one conservation

a says it's alarming because there doesn't seem to be any clear sign of what's causing the deaths and a warning to you you might find some of these images in this report up setting. the elephants are dying hundreds of carcasses scattered across the beautiful landscape of botswana the cause still a mystery it doesn't seem like they died at the hands of poachers their valuable tusks have not been removed the 2 most likely explanations for their deaths poisoning or disease several elephants were spotted by locals in the area looking weak and disoriented or have difficulty walking whenever they went out there were they would see more and more old ones. and also. ones who were you know. what heroes you're about to appear. and it seemed they were even dying you know very suddenly and some of those were animals that had fallen down while

walking there are more than 130000 elephants in botswana the world's largest population to some they've become a pest but the government saying such high numbers have led to conflicts with humans as they eat farmers' crops last year they became targets again when our thirty's lifted a 5 year ban on elephant hunting sparking outrage among conservationists worldwide but today authorities in conservationists alike are focusing on the mysterious deaths they're hoping to find out what's happening so they can stop the elephants dying. some sports now and the death of george floyd in police custody has sparked an ongoing conversation about racial injustice in the united states now fed ex has called on the washington redskins to change their name following pressure from investors the shipping giant is a case sponsor of the n.f.l.

franchise and has the naming rights to the stadium but the team name is same by many as a racial slur against native americans who've been advocating for change for many years now redskins owner dan schneider has previously said he refuses to rename the franchise despite the offense. it's official manchester city manchester city easily roy santa is joining bundesliga champions byron munich santa has signed a 5 year deal for a reported fee of $50000000.00 euros by and were interested in signing a last year but an injury put the transfer on hold the german when it becomes bryant's 3rd signing for the new season. meanwhile been displayed a side bet of braman were held to a draw by 2nd division heiden i'm in the 1st leg of their playoff the 2nd leg is on monday with the winners getting a spot in the german top flight and the loses having to settle for the 2nd tier.

florian coalfields further blame and produced a stunning 61 win over cologne last weekend to keep alive the hopes of staying in the league or confidence was there fought hard for the home 1st leg of the play off against 2nd tier hiden time both it was the visitors who had much the better chances in the 1st half maurice multiroom screwing this shot wife a hard time who have never been in the windows league. let loose the braman were mainly reduced to long shots as the rain poured in the 2nd half. and they had nicholas moore stunned sendoff later on. pardon her and continued their strong showing an almost dropped a lead at the dare 3 team will bear. nil nil it's ended harden time has a population of less than $50000.00 and will be one of the smallest places ever supposed to men's bones as they get team but the dream looks very much wrong in monday's home leg when 4 times beyond as they get champions braman risk only

a 2nd ever relegation. while many festivals around the world have been cancelled this year because of the coronavirus pandemic one event in belgium managed to find a work around the paradise city electronic music festival reinvented itself to adapt to physical distancing rules by putting party goers on small boats of 8 friends but it was much smaller than usual only 400 people were able to attend the festival which usually draws around 10000 people a day. as his date of unease in his art i'm reminded of the top stories we're following for you this hour a court in istanbul has sentenced to formulators of amnesty international's turkish branch to prison critics say the case was politically motivated. and a replacement has been named for french prime minister edouard chalets who resigned earlier today paving the way to a government reshuffle will hand over to his old cast sticks

a top civil servant who coordinated from says exit from its coronavirus lockdown. that's it from me and the news tain we'll have more another update for you at the top of the hour don't forget you can always stay up to date on our web site that's where he's dot com follow us on twitter and instagram as well at any news i'm rebecca reaches in thanks so much for watching.

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