not an option peace. my mom and brother are stuck in the spanish border area alongside other young people there waiting for a chance that will probably never come. shattered dreams starts june 18th on d, w. i o . this is the w news, and these are our top stories. polls have closed in iran after fridays presidential elections, where voter turnout was reportedly load. iranian officials extended voting to encourage light coming to cast the ballad. but many said they didn't support anyone in the race after most reformist, or moderate candidates with bob from running. many voters also say they are angry over the impact of international sanctions and rising unemployment. jim and

chancellor until america has welcome french president, manuel mack calling to berlin. the 2 are discussing franco german cooperation. ahead of next week's european council meeting in brussels, pandemic restrictions mean, this is the 1st time this year. the chancellor has welcome to visit from abroad. it's likely that this will be medical and my last formal meeting at the chancellor is not standing for reelection in september from the united nations general assembly has elected antonio good terrace to a 2nd 5 year term as secretary general taking you at the office. mister terry said he would work to build trust between large and small nations and promise to draw on the lessons of the cove at 19 pandemic. this is dw news from berlin days more now website t w dot com. the iranians went to the poles to pick a new president on friday, an election that could mark

a crisis in the regimes legitimacy if disillusionment drives the turner to below 50 percent. and to that, an economy brought to its knees by corruption and us sanctions. people might be moved to wonder, is there any point in voting? i'm fil gail in berlin and this is the day. oh, the radio are contrary to any. i'm going south free and fair election moment. people know how important these elections are for the country, for their own fate, and will be around the group of iran and then the woman who will benefit the people themselves. so i go out,

make your decision. my name is ryan that i did it for years ago. things got was more and more welcome to the day we begin in iran where people have been voting and the presidential inaction that despite the queue at this pulling station to that's expected to be low as widespread apathy among voters after hundreds of candidates, including prominent moderates, were borrowed from standing. the front runner is ultraconservative clinic abraham, racy, but he voters are also angry about the impact of international sanctions, unemployment and hotline rule. jamal pro vc is on his way to a construction site and northwest here on. he has been on his feet since 5 am. he runs errands for the workers and transports construction materials around building

sites. for all this work, he gets about $140.00 euros a month. the minimum wage and iran whole, he can be, my expenses are greater than my income to be able to buy a meter fruit. i would have to earn 20 euros more per month. it is especially difficult for someone who has children, you know more, more, really talking to me. he says he's glad that at least he and his colleagues still have a job. the unemployment rate in iran is constantly rising. but the feeling of little reward for a lot of work is growing to isn't to get well, i would like to be able to save some money on the pass and go to work on it. i'm only 40, but my hair's great is done with home wants. if it's, the pressure is like a wait on me from early in the morning to late at night on so show in iran, corruption, mismanagement, and tough us sanctions mean more and more people are falling out of the middle

class, disappointment and anger towards the state which people say does not support them are growing. now sir, they show that only about 35 percent of the people will vote in the upcoming election. say, well, i haven't been able to pay my rent for 3 months. now i'm sitting here with them. i don't have anything at all, i don't know. what? sadly the politicians lie all the time and just make empty promises. me on that, and i'm in the evening, we meet them all at his home. he lives in the south of tehran, about 2 hours away from his work by bus 5 years ago. the family will lower middle class all that is left from better times is the furniture and their small rented apartment. jamal is most afraid that he will lose his home, that and the future of his 2 children, which i don't need to do is why does it have to be like this?

i work every day from morning till night. why can't i even provide for my children properly with an a batch? i'm with timing on, on television, the leading candidate make the big promises to improve everything. jamal doesn't believe it anymore. he too is considering whether he will vote at all. oh, what we have always voted. we have never seen any improvement. in fact, it's the reverse. today our lives are more complicated than ever. well, that's a 10 issue. that's the feeling that jamal and his family share with many other arrangements to well, my 1st guest is a german, iranian political scientists for the focused on iran and the middle east. he's the author of the book, iran in an emerging new world order from the judge to honey and explores the country's foreign policy and international relations from 911 to the rise of outgoing president. has sunroof honey, dr. alley? itala?

i'm the judge. welcome to the day, let's start with the question i posed at the start of the show with hand pick candidates, send a corrupt economy in taxes. is that any point in voting well, this time around? for many iranians, there was no point in voting. the thing was true and last year's parliamentary elections, which also so as story we low voter turnout, there is widespread disillusionment among the average iranians. these are the all aspects of the regime. be the clerical or military be the reformist, or hardware. and also it's all the reports that we are also seeing from inside iran, including yours, just confirms this cut and this kind of voter apathy is quite widespread. ok. i also said that the are they regime needs a decent to turn out in order to maintain its credibility. i,

i wonder actually if i was telling the truth because it seems like it just so long as it's empower. it doesn't be much care. one way the other well, in the past it did actually care about voter turnout. so during the past presidential elections or to turn out was quite hard about 70 percent. but this wasn't the framework of the choice given say, ronnie, and that they can choose between what iran is commonly referred to as a less or a larger ego. the lesser he will be a reform his candidate, a larger being hartline canada. but this time around the situation is different. now it's only because of the 3rd for a monopolizing power of the hotline is which we can witness. but also because that people have no more trust in the reform or the mattress that they are. they actually have would have some credibility and delivering on those promises that they will be made to the iranian people in socio economic and political terms. so the capital of trust, the trust and confidence into those margaret ford of margaret fort this,

we have to say it's totally banished. and this leads us to the fact that actually the largest group in today's iranian presidential elections are those were not taking part or white part of the election. and there has been quite a strong of course, quite a strong campaign to by this time abraham racy is the man who people are looking at has been likely to, to win. who is a well, i mean he had a long record of serving in the song republic when he was about 19 or 20 years old . he, after the revolution in 1979, he had physicians in the judiciary and he was implicated in the mass murder. everyone visited and at the end of the 1980s by the end of the iran iraq war.

he was part of a 4 man committee appointed by maybe the leader of the comic revolution. so he has a lot of blood on his hands for sure. and this is why he's also on the un un sanctions. more recently he was that had one of the most important economic empires in nissan republic, the austin was said as a v in the east of the country appointed by the supreme leader. and he was very much, you're very close to the supreme leader and the r g c. and there affiliated the center of power. and currently for about 2 years, he serves as the chief justice of iran. so he's considered to be very, very loyal to the most conservative elements and the internet man, i went to j, i mentioned that a corruption, fading economy. and of course, the american sanctions which have further pushed the knife and have any of the candidates proposed credible remedies for iran,

severe economic hardship. i indeed can anyone fix the economy while the u. s. is applied so much pressure? well 1st of all, and who said at the beginning you're wrong. the konami crisis did not come up with the us sanctions. it got worked with us sanctions. so the bulk of the problem is hom, homemade and is those understood by a lot of iranians? so none of the candidates had a credible policy program. so during those 3 categorize the base, you didn't hear much soft. and the only thing is that everyone in writing see the front runner. he was making a lot of populace economic sledges focused on eradicating poverty and fighting corruption. but this is, you know, very clearly economic populism. there is no indication that the regime hotline, as after a whole, have privileged access to the well some of the public will choose to provide this

well, in order to prove the situation for the people. ok, thank you for that. that's very clear. dr. lisa teller, jack. thank you. that's marla holmes, the in the last time you saw the french president up there on the screen when we had a new kind of press conference, decided that he is here in person. once again. my name is manuel macross is the 1st foreign guests i have received the chance flurry this year and santa miss coleman. thank you. chance to la engler on these ladies and gentlemen. i am pleased to visit germany once again one year after i was last here with the super high found on the panoramic, kept as a part of it, but we kept in regular contact. people sitting near the stones come to the national

city. yes. it's really rather lovely. i'm just shocked with going back to that welcoming the french president, the manual macro to been in the holding talks ahead of next week's european council meeting in brussels condemning restrictions. mean, this is the 1st time this year, the chance of welcome to visit from abroad, and it's likely that this will be their last formal encounter. there lean 4 years ago, newly elected french president emanuel mccall makes german chance. the angle america goes south to strengthen the bond between france and germany. a year later, emmanuel mccaul received germany's prestigious charlemagne prize in often in recognition for his services to europe. and in 2019 france and germany renewed the treaty of corporation in a show of unity, unity, 30000000000 unity, solidarity cohesion song. these are the points of the treaty. europe would not

survive if we were it would die. germany and france have a new but to create, to kill, to realize european sovereignty donated remote assess wendy france and germany intensified collaboration between the podium and as a result. but i'm out of my call. wanted to go further. he thought to reform the us own, but he got a 9 from fiscal, conservative angle america, who's seen the objects any plan to have a proper budget for the european union. the pandemic last year made her cave in to some extent when gemini agreed to an e. you recovery found a 500000000000 euros. an important win for my call on death. most recall to recovery find has to make a contribution to ensure that all states in europe can react accordingly. and that also requires an exception of one off efforts to which germany and france are ready to pay. but i said, when it came to diplomatic issues,

market and my home mostly. so i to i, paris, and berlin revived no money for math to find a solution to the walk in the dumb bus region of ukraine. they are still together to maintain the iran nuclear deal. and when the relationship between padding and washington was at a low, harris acted as a mediator. but a difference in tone became clear when it came to russia with a manual, and my co much more compromising was letting me put in. then i'm going to merkel and with friends way more critical of the notes tween to gas pipeline project in the baltic sea. a project always supported by berlin. today's reunion in berlin, between the 2 leaders might be the last of it's kind of bank of america will lead her office in september. but those 4 years of corporation did give a new impetus to grow the relationship between the 2 countries. as talk about the relationship between the 2 countries with emanuel shells is report you've just been

watching. welcome, man. well, we do here and talk a lot about the great bonds between germany and france. but in that report that you mentioned, the big international issues on which the 2 countries have worked together, ukraine and russia, and iranian relations with the united states. and it's hard to see how any of those could be described as a success. so is there really anything more to this relationship than was well, you've seen overdose power for years between him. i am not going on gala america, that the digger glee mostly on foreign policy. today's talk tonight, so between the 10th and the french president, we'll. c talk about russia, we'll catch up on turkey, for example. under america, the german chancellor. acknowledge that russia was still a major challenge for both france and germany, but that the dialogue was very necessary with, with russia, which is europe direct and geographical neighbors. she did acknowledge that

dialogue with loving me put in was difficult, but also highlighted the importance in fact, of maintaining that dialogue. so thank you with president joe biden, for his recent encounter with me through to him either in my car also usually has a toughest stance when he comes to russia, but said that shed line between france and germany must be found to be cooperation . may be found to deal with russia, so that's a common ground. there's also a common ground found into dealing with the pan then even areas of agreements. and you've talked about the common ground that which, which we get. but in terms of big relationship between germany and, and france, they may agree on lots of things, but how they actually achieved anything. well, just like i say they achieve, they do chiva dialogue with. but that's a diplomatic solution to some of their conflicts when i'm in pain to dialogue with

russia. when they maintained a dialogue with turkey, that gives a window for you up to solve issues. for example, the migration issue can only be solved when does a dialogue between car and paris. when does a dialogue between ankara and lena, with an, even if the interest of the 2 countries my diverse, even if the tones diverge between the 2 leaders. well, there is a come on line and a do succeed in one c, and that's the diplomatic approach to in foreign policy in general, given the chancellors implacable resistance to president macros, grand division for european reform. i would be secretly glad to see her go well again i thing to do. see i to i in international instances, for example, in the g 7 in a to meetings. i think that an appreciation between the 2 leaders, even if the tone is different, like i was saying. and let's not forget that. even mercelli stepping down from the

chancery in, in september was in my michael, we're also face elections next year. so this will only give him a window of a to mom's, to give again an impetus to, to europe, to try and set in motion some reforms that he couldn't lead because of america reluctance so far. i think the political cause wanted and manual shots. thank you. the international effort to raise money for betters whether refugees and migrants begins today. more than 2 years after the country was plunged into crisis in 2019 us sanctions against the regime led by socialists because my daughter contributed to an economic meltdown worse than food show fish and sent millions flame to neighboring countries such as columbia. then the pandemic case and through those countries into turmoil as well, things got so bad that many and now returning home,

oscar shlang reports they come in and take a walk as millions of them have left venezuela fleeing the country's humanitarian crisis. now, some of them are going back depend demik and political turmoil in neighboring columbia has prompted a wave of his williams worn down by economic hardship to make the journey home with the goal of succeeding in helping my family. but now in that price of the 2 high in columbia, i could not make an add. he has just made it back to venezuela after walking for 2 weeks with his family, from the columbia in capital bota. they survived on goodwill along the way, but that dried up when they cross the border. the situation at home is dire, and g o say that the country needs much more international aid to stave of crippling hunger financing way below what is necessary in regards to the

dimensions of the crisis in the country. the numbers are shameful. even the age that does reach venezuela is hard to distribute activist effort, often hampered by fuel shortages, violence, corruption, and political meddling. according to the world food program, venezuela is among the 4 worst countries in the world with food and security. and the un predicts that by the end of this year, 7000000 people could have left venezuela making it the 2nd largest migration after syria. yet humanitarian aid for venezuela is that it's minimum and drain, a better mood is thought about joining the exodus, but says the risk was and is too high with young children. through her eldest daughter school, her family received food and educational supplies from unicef until december. now they're hoping more a can restart the program, you know,

one or 2. notice that when we received the aid, many parents were happy and thankful mostly for the food. because we could give the children in our school violence meal. and i still need to make ends meet the stay at home. mom relies on what she can find to be and maybe has extra eggs for sale. but the supply of cheap food is sporadic. we cannot buy important products in regular supermarket dollar prices. this is another we have to settle for small market home, vegetable merchants, and places that sell a better prices looking about giving them. michael normally cars. that is the venezuela becoming empty, the walking home to a country still ravaged by economic decline. its people still struggling to feed themselves, still waiting for international help. while the international donor conference installed a darcy with venezuela, refugees and migrants was hosted by candidates minister of international

development, the honorable green and gold and pe. she joins us from october. welcome to d w. let's start with a money chalet. what was your target and did you reach it? well, we are very happy with the pledges that came in yesterday. we raised $954000000.00 us in grap and $600000000.00 in loans from the international financial institution . so it was a 45 percent increase over last years donor pledging conference for graphs. and so we're quite happy with the concepts. what will the money be spent on oh, well, it will be spent on some of the things that you, you were talking about in your program earlier. i mean, food assistance is one of the most important and making sure that children and adults have access to healthy, nutritious food, also on health care services and education,

transporting humanitarian goods around, as well as working on livelihood support for venezuela, migrants and refugees, as well as working with the host communities, columbia, for example, and other countries in the region have dated that they are going to offer temporary protected data. and so enabling those systems to take place will also be where the funds are being sent. okay, and from what you said, this sounds like this is more about sort of urgent assistance dealing with a problem that is, that you can see in front of you now rather than sort of feeding future development . it's a bit of both. so there is an urgent crisis right now that we need to respond to and that is the humanitarian crisis that is happening inside venezuela. but also in host communities that are hosting, you know, 5600000 that as well. and right now in the region. but then there's also the longer

term support, so there were $600000000.00 in loans that were pledged by the world bank and the entire american development bank, which, you know, are designed to work with home country governments on longer term solution. so they're both, we know we have an immediate humanitarian crisis, but we're also working on that longer term development because even if there is a change in men as well, you know, things are going to get better media, right. president douro, though, would have us believe there is no crisis in the crisis, then that's because of us sanctions. so how do you work on those longer term projects with a government that is in so much denial? well, the focus of this conference was really about humanitarian assistance and from candidate point of view in the international community point of view, we really do try to decouple humanitarian issues with political issues. and

recognizing that there are 7000000 people inside been as wheeler, who are in high acute food and security. and so we work with trusted un partners and the international committee of the red cross, for example, to get that assistance to people inside of venezuela. but on the longer term development, that's really what we're working on with neighboring host countries who, you know, in columbia case have 1800000 venezuelan migrants and refugees and peru in ecuador have similar proportional numbers to their population to ensure that those and it will in migrants and refugees can have a more regular status, but also access to those very basic government services that they need to to be integrated. thank you for joining us. corrina gold and canadian international development minister. thanks for having me. the time for a quick line of football, danish midfield. christian ericsson has been denise from hospital. after nearly

a week, he's off the cardiac arrest during denmark's opening match up the euros and had to be separated before receiving further treatment plans and teammates gave him a minute's applause during denmark's latest match. despite successful surgery, it's not clear whether he will ever again that's it. the day is nearly done, the conversation continues online. you can join us on twitter. i've at d w use, but you can follow me at phil. gail, have a good day. the news the

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