Facebook says it wants to empower billions of people yet again and now its fledgling cryptocurrency libera faces more scrutiny from both sides of the atlantic also coming up find out what happened to nike ambassador calling kept her name criticized a controversial new line of sneakers and well take you to sunny portugal over the aagaard the region wants to reduce its dependence on travel savvy brits amid looming bricks. Welcome to the program. U. S. Lawmakers have urged facebook to halt its cryptocurrency plans they want time to investigate the risks libera poses to the Global Financial system it comes as regulators in europe call for closer scrutiny a senior official of britains financial watchdog says the issues raised require deep thought and detail. Introducing lead for
a new global currency designed for the Digital World facebook has promised finance for the future with its new Crypto Currency and im saying its arrival Mark Zuckerberg said libra would empower billions of people ev
Irreconcilable. Rock n roll. Storage june 17th w. This is d w news live from burbank protesters keep up the pressure in hong kong organizers estimate 2000000 people in the city streets calling for the resignation of hong kongs Probation Leader thats after she gave in to demands to shelve a controversial extradition bill also coming up police in germany arrest a man on suspicion of murdering a politician soon weeks ago the victim
a member of chancellor on the americans 1st and democrats german media say the suspects may have ties to albright. Im calm assman thanks for joining us nearly 2000000 people took to the streets of hong kong on sunday to demand the resignation of the citys Probation Leader kerry lamb she bowed to pressure and apologized to the public for handling of the proposed bill that would have allowed extraditions to Mainland China or democracy demonstrators want that bill scraps completely they worry the bill is one of many steps to chip away at hong kongs freedoms and le
Our consumerism is causing a radical depletion of. 425. Percent. Or has it. Forests and money. Tragic reality behind the exploits. Starts july 24th. Hello bond ya know and welcome to a very Special Edition of Focus On Europe coming to you from the heart of the italian capital row and it was here back in 1957 that history was quite literally
made with the signing of the Treaty Of Rome that would lead the way to the creation of the European Union as we know it today alongside thats another dream came true the dream of Freedom Of Movement for all of europe citizens so we joined one young man for a very schuberts to see how that freedom of Movement Works today. This summer Friedrich Schubert is exploring europe from west to east by train. Hes already covered over 2500 kilometers. In the country from paris france i travelled to italy so this is my 3rd country. His next stop is below new a University City in central italy. The us given no 27000 free for weeks into rail train tickets to europ
Light artist who creates out of this world images with natures help. So the 1st semifinal of this is your vision song contest has taken place and 7 countries are already out of the competition including former winningest portugal but all straight yes i know theyre not anywhere near europe but any country can apply to join in there through with an amazing performance which goes with the title of the song ciro gravity and they certainly seem to define that on stage anyway there are some great performances some totally kitschy performances and there were some right bad ones in the 1st 70 final so it seems your vision could be back to its best this year really. Correspondent tanya kramer centers this report from tel aviv where its all taking place. Beach sun and music as the
e. S. C. As its known to its legions of followers hit tel aviv. On the beach a mix of tourists and fans await saturdays grand finale with anticipation of eve is this cd when its its always fun and when people from thei
D. W. This is the w. s lie from palo europe the e. U. Is false in waiting sweeps and the Defense Minister also off on the line vague said debut in the European Parliament the mission to win over. Twitter debuts also on the program at least 40 migrants killed in an asteroid as they seek safety in Libya United Nations says the attack amounts to a war cry. And in football the Womens World Cup heres a drama with the 2nd semifinal sweden take on the netherlands even match contest to
see who will face the United States in the final. Time for galle welcome to the program europes new leadership is taking place after days of wrangling over the top jobs members of the European Parliament elected an italian social democrat david thats their new president a new leaders have nominated candidates for 4 other posts with German Defense minister also to fund as their pick for Commission President shes made her 1st appearance at the European Parliament fashion trying to convince skeptical members to rat