the jewish in europe, the 2 part documentary starts july 5th on d w. i choose this is the w news coming to live from berlin. german football club say yes to the rainbow, a pride after you wait for said no stadiums across the country will display rainbow colors rebuking european soccer, governing body for blocking munich wished to do the same for the german hungary match. also coming up the world powers gather in berlin in a new push for a lasting peace in libya,

hoping to keep the war torn countries on track legs. ah hello, i'm terry martin. could have you with us. german football clubs are bending together to display rainbow colors during the countries match against hungry at the european championship on wednesday. that's after european football, governing body away from rejected. host city mimics plan to do the same. the issue is threatening to overshadow germany's preparations for their crucial group f matched and night. after a tricky 1st game, the germans looked strong and a win over defending euro champions, portugal. now the team has to finish the job to push through to the round of 16 will take a look at what germany needs to do to advance shortly. but 1st, here's more on your way for this decision to refused music's rainbow request.

because of what it calls its political context. pictures of the leon serena from january take counts in rainbow colors in memory of the gay men and women killed in the holocaust. this week munich, man wrote a letter to you wafer asking to use the same color scheme as a statement against homophobia and trans phobia. when hungary comes to play germany . but you said it was declining the request because it would be a political message to protest, a new hung gary in law, the rights groups have described as anti l. g. b t discrimination. the decision has provoked outrage him munich if it is shameful. that forbids us here in munich, and from sending a signal. so cosmopolitan ism, and a tolerance for respect and facility charity with the l. g. b, c, i q community one facility, it hit the head of the german parliament. sports committee has also weighed in,

in an interview with d. w. she accused of having noble goals on paper, but no intention of standing up for those values in practice. i think the city of munich really offered a great opportunity to fight against discrimination over time. my eyes wave really does not show ambition to pound up for a quality. they'd just claim you. i had suggested alternative dates for the rainbow colors in the later rounds of the tournament when hungary, who were lost in a group unlikely to be playing well, joining us for more on this story is chris harrington from d w. sports cress. what's the latest in this controversy? it seems there's been a lot, a lot of backlash against the way from. yeah, well the biggest backlash has been the actions we see through several stadiums here in germany that have decided to shine rainbow colors at their stadiums. you have cologne, frankfurt, berlin and wolf burg, outburst all over germany. and, you know,

i think it's a way to show that it's more than a political decision, of course, that you a call. they're going to remain behind this organizational idea. but this is an opportunity to show that we're all one person the human caught it. it really speaks to intolerance, and i think it's very good that clubs have stepped up and just one thing there might not be allowed to have rainbow colors at allianz serena. but they will be distributing $10000.00 rainbow flags. so inside the stadium, i think the rainbow will be very well represented. and i send the message, they want to send us a hungry. what about the players here? are they becoming more vocal on these issues? yeah, you know, just with politics and sports, i mean you could dated back to the 1960 the lympics, you know, but fast forward here. now, there have been, you know, some players outspoken, the coach, national team coach yogi love one, you know, obviously the leadership position. he spoke about it say that he would have liked to see the stadium, you know, illuminated in these colors. you know,

it does show the importance that we're all one and another player, his defender that he recalled on the team ma, hummel's also had some positive word of support to say about the matter. and here they are. now let's take listen scope as a buyer. i believe any time we discuss these issues in public and someone if it's a success for so does, does this is i believe it's long overdue for this is that homosexuality is entirely no longer treated as a big deal. but and instead of seen as a normal part of sport is coming in, when man goes to most of the seals and gloves like i'm some i believe that even small gestures and signs are step in the right direction. planet size and they don't demand shit noodles to go storms and ok. so that's the rainbow part of this which is getting a lot of attention, but we are still talking about sports. let's look at the game itself. the football . what to germany need to do tonight to move 3rd will be the ultimate goal is to

give yogi love a good farewell and the way they do that is they advance in the only sure shot of im advancing is leaving each other on their own performance. they need to pick up all 3 points that guarantees passage to the next round, but then with a hungry, you know, who's been very tough, a draw is a possibility. and even if germany were to lose the match, then they'd be dependent on the other fixture that's taking place in their group. but at the bottom of the day, you know, the bottom line is they're gonna have to perform like they did in a 2nd match. and not like their 1st match against france, going to have to have the intensity. all of their players are going to have to perform. big question mark is thomas merely, he's very instrumental in that when it gets portable. so hopefully he is active tonight, you know, but the tell us they are the german side. i think they'll get it done. you know, despite all of the build up into this match, germany hoping to carry that momentum through from the game against portugal, cross harrington from dw sports. great to have you. thank you. so you look at some

of the other stories making headlines around the world today. united nations representative enough dennis, dan has warned a territorial gains by the taliban ahead of us troop withdrawal. general lions says more than 50 of afghan, a stands. $370.00 districts have fallen to the taliban since the beginning of may says taliban is positioning itself to seize regional capital cities. once american soldiers have gone on calls pro democracy newspaper. apple daily will stop operating this weekend after national security. police arrested another employee of the besieged paper. it's closure has increased concerns about erosion of media, freedom and other rights in the chinese world sitting in brazil. indigenous protesters armed with bows and arrows have clashed with police outside congress. the violence force, the suspension of a debate on a controversial land reform bill. campaigners say the bill will open protected

reserves for mining towns and development. at least 2 protesters were hurts in the fighting. here berlin world powers are gathering for a new push to secure a lasting peace deal in libya. in the talks lead by germany and the u. s. leaders will be discussing their pledges to withdraw foreign fighters from the north african country and also want to ensure the war torn state stays on track forwards . it's december general elections. libya has been unstable since a nato backed uprising toppled and later killed a long time dictator more marked duffy in 2011. the oil rich country was divided between the us for the government in the capital and viable authorities faced in the countries east before a transitional government to a power review this year. german foreign minister, hika must said many challenges still lie ahead in the pursuit for stable libya. that's what i'm mom and then this is the man moma gadhafi, who is brutal rein,

kept libya together for 40 years. and 2011 protests against his rule quickly grew into a country wide rebellion. in september 2011 gadhafi was captured and killed by a militia group. the country soon fell into chaos. farm to groups that had been active against his regime refused to disband, and regional rivalry grew elections failed to bring the country together. and soon rival governments were set up in the western and eastern parts of the country. the general national accord in tripoli was recognized by western countries, led by fires, sir rodge, but it had little power over much of the country. the rival government and tow brooke in the east was allied with a faction called the libyan national army, led by strong man kelly for half time. the 2 sides fought

and attended multiple piece conferences in europe and continued to fight. meanwhile, people smugglers took advantage of the lawlessness to use libya as a transit route, bringing migrants and refugees to live in the mediterranean coast. the european union cut deals with libyan forces to try to keep the migrants back, leaving hundreds of thousands stranded in the country. in january 2020, the 2 warring sides came to berlin with an array of international leaders to try to come to a peace agreement and foreign involvement. and finally, in october 2020 the warring sides agreed to a cease fire in all areas of libya. this led to the formation of an interim unity government that is set to stay in place until the elections planned in

december of this year of war now joined by the w. cheap international editor, richard walker. richard, another round of peace talks on libya. what's the focus of these talks now will carry the overarching goal is to try to make sure that the progress that has been seen in recent months and that has been progress doesn't derail in the months to come. now if we look at that progress, we just saw that there is now a government's national unity in place. there is now a ceasefire in place. the economy is beginning to grow again. oil is beginning to be exported again in, in larger amounts. and also there is that goal of those selections happening later this year. now, there are 2 parts to this real kind of what they want to do in concrete terms today is 1st of all, try to make sure that those elections actually happen that none of the factions we

still exist in libya, try to derail that process. maybe we can talk about that in just a moment, more detail than the 2nd issue is this issue of foreign forces which are there. and that's one big part of the conflict in libya in recent years, is that you've had all of these other countries waiting in to become something of a proxy conflicts. you've had russia in there, you've had turkey, and you've had the united arab emirates in there. you've had a mixture of, of the official army forces, but also large numbers of mercenaries on it. any number of payrolls involved in this conflict, 20000 or so foreign fighters said to be in libya at the moment as part of the sci fi deal. they were meant to be pulled out. that hasn't happened yet. so getting that process to actually happen is a major focus of today's conference. ok in december, as you mentioned, libya supposed to hold national elections, they would be the 1st elections in 7 years. what needs to happen, richard,

to even make that possible? well, this is a combination of internal and external factors. there is a fear one or other factions that we saw described in the report just earlier could try to mess with the election date, say the know, do we need a different process that we need to approach this differently and try and push elections back seeking their own vantage key to this is that there's not even get a legal basis to hold these elections that that is a high priority trying to get that legal underpinnings for an election into place. and even that is a very difficult process to achieve. so you can expect a lot of support for that, and the other part is getting the foreign powers to really give an absolutely concrete commitment to getting those elections to happen. well, libya is a huge transit country for migrants and refugees headed to europe. i understand that they now make up a 10th of living as population. how important is that factor in the use efforts to help stabilize libya?

it's absolutely crucial. i mean, if you look at libby as geography is an obvious starting point for to try to migrate into the european union. the instability is being the real driver of that though in recent years stable d. b a could be a real game changer there. but also from the european perspective, they want to show that they are in a position to take care of security issues in their backyard. tony blink in the us, extreme state will be here to show his support today. partly what we're seeing today is a message from germany and from the europeans. more widely is that we are ready to take care of security in the region as part of the western security alliance. richard, thank you so much shar, cheap international editor, richard walker. now to the germans city of cologne, cities zoo has welcomed a pair of endangered lemurs meat ziggy and just their types of lemurs usually found in the forest of madagascar. but their species is threatened by hunting and

by the destruction of their natural habitat. zookeeper, se ziggy and history are likely to become star attractions, not least because of their human. like all of us with your watching d. w. news up next. we've got a documentary looking at the very real danger that nuclear weapons still pose. i'm terry martin from me and all of us here at the w. thanks for watching the news in the green. do you feel worried about the i'm neil of the on the green and we need to change. join me for the size of the green transformations for me for you.