to create empathy and a medical context where i disclose more information to a person or to a computer in this case. if you listen let's feelings on the instruments that steer us and whoever can control these feelings has great power over us even possible l. the rhythms instead of feelings measuring emotion starting december sixteenth on t w. visited every news coming to lawn from berlin protests on the streets of kiev after a dramatic escape police or rouse former georgian leader mikhail saakashvili but

was forced to free him by angry supporters now he's more action to parliament to demand the resignation of a president he says is soft on corruption get the latest from our correspondent also coming up the fight to preserve historical landscapes in utah conservationists and native tribes joined forces to fight in order from president on the trump slushing national monument areas by up to ninety percent. and germany signal gaboriau urges europe to be less dependent on the united states he says it's time for europe to become more certain more. i'm sarah harman welcome to the show it's good to have you with us chaotic scenes today on the streets of kiev that's after police trying to arrest me fail

saakashvili is the former georgian leader who's become an anti corruption campaigner in ukraine and a full morning in the side of president petro poroshenko police detained saakashvili but were forced to free him again when his supporters surrounded the van that was holding him our correspondent nick connelly was there and we'll get an update from him in just a moment but first here's what he saw. early morning hide and seek in the rooms above here is my town square except the man being detained by on my special forces is a former president and one of ukrainian president petro poroshenko is most vocal opponents . as news of the rate spread on facebook within minutes a crowd had gathered on the streets below but still there was no word from the police as to why he was being detained. his arms tied behind his back second really had one last chance to address his supporters calling for president pershing

co to face impeachment. but it was one second he was bundled into a car that the confrontation between police and his supporters really got going. street on a month's rubbish bins even park police cars were all think game as the crowd tried to prevent second forcible departure. in the meantime ukraine's prosecutor general finally got around to answering the question on everyone's lips why no such a big operation and why now many he said they colluded with exiled ukrainian oligarchs preparing to subvert the country's government. well i'm joined now on the line by g.w. correspondent nick connelly in kiev nick dramatic scenes you describe there now report tell us more about how psychist really got away good evening sara was yes indeed extraordinary scene after about two or three out standoff with the crowd

preventing that car leaving the spot just if you want to be true. they've been worked through the police cordons and got in the car pulled them out of the police who were outnumbered and didn't seem to stop in the system during about it now that he marched down to my house why don't you have main square and there's not any of those in the parliament and one of the charges against him why was he arrested in the first place. real thirty's here be pretty tight lipped about it implies implying that really has been in contact with exiles ukrainian oligarchy even people connected person to get a covert agent taking money from them. all bringing down the current government by fortis action or force they so far haven't really expanded on the details that we're expecting more from the prosecutor general in the next few hours but this is all pretty soon as the as as attention happened there was no real explanation

please what was going on this all happened much later. give us a background to this is the former president of georgia what's he doing mixed up in ukrainian politics. that is indeed pretty extraordinary story he was present at the ending in late twenty's that was i do remember the time where the law my dog revolution picked off here in ukraine. using violence to bring his particular brand of. liberal libertarian reforms to ukraine use the make up of a very important region by causing poroshenko they were best mates for a while and then they fell out. but he says poroshenko is basically you're copping out he only got the system because before he's not really serious about reform taken against him and is now trying to bring about his impeachment all right interesting times there in kiev the state of your correspondent nick connelly thanks for your reporting. spain's supreme court has withdrawn an international

arrest warrant for catalonia as former leader carlos pushed him out and four of his cabinet members pushed him on address to supporters via video link from brussels on monday where he's been in self-imposed exile since october is illegal declaration of cattle on independence the court in madrid says it's withdrawing these arrest warrants because the politicians have shown a willingness to return to spain. is a brief look now at some other stories that are making news around the globe the red cross says at least two hundred thirty people have been killed and hundreds more wounded in yemen during nearly a week of fighting saudi coalition warplanes led at least twenty five airstrikes in the capital sanaa overnight on monday the country's former president ali abdullah saleh was also killed. the us supreme court has allowed president donald trump's travel ban on six muslim majority nations to go into full force now the court's decision lifts injunctions that were issued by lower courts

in this ban prevents most travelers from iran libya syria yemen somalia and chad from entering the u.s. as well as some people from north korea and venezuela germany's largest lender joint your bank is being made to disclose some of president trump's financial records as part of an investigation into russian meddling in the u.s. presidential election special counsel robert muller has reportedly subpoenaed data on accounts that were held by the president and his family because they loaned the trump organization millions of dollars for real estate ventures in the past. well staying with the u.s. now president trump has ordered the biggest rollback of public land production in the nation's history as a result two wilderness national monuments that were created by pass democratic presidents in the state of utah will now be shrunk one by half one by a massive ninety percent it's

a move that's got pro development lawmakers pumped and environmentalist saving. some of the most glorious natural wonders in the world those are donald trump's own words to describe this federally protected land hundreds of thousands of hectares that make up bears ears and grand staircase escalante. on monday trump took the rare step of massively shrinking these two national monuments the move could open up vast spaces for mining and grazing trump argued the lands protected status is federal overreach. because some people think that the natural resources of units of should be controlled by a small handful of very distant bureaucrats located in washington. and guess what they're wrong. the.

but not everyone in utah is cheering over trump's clawback the. thousands of protesters lined up outside the state capital to protest the announcement environmentalists say it's an abuse of presidential power and native american groups say the move places ancient cliff dwellings and other sacred sites on the land in jeopardy they have filed lawsuits to block the order. trump has already called for a review of twenty seven other national monuments with the aim to slash them to. german foreign ministers ignore gabriele has urged his country and europe to become more assertive on foreign policy issues and less dependent on the united states' traditionally close ties between berlin and washington have soured since u.s.

president donald trump took office at a foreign policy forum in berlin gabriele said that the traditional view of the u.s. is having a protecting role is beginning to crumble let's invent he was owns of he's there to buy an apartment block missing the skip guns buy food is that in these a pot the shaft of both of them three big is a puppet shaft with a line in which to take action and presence of. us let's look at least of the politico and his answer then president look if it's as of now if the next move on is going to be and stuff this have all kinds of effort of unleashed in this direction and it will be and as if he's a log a few mia tool involved in this in a specific. apparel the german foreign minister there saying this isn't just about donald trump for more let's pull in political correspondent kate brady kate if this isn't about trump what is it about. well exactly where this wasn't directly aimed at today but was more gabriele highlighted and that is

a symptom of what's happening right now in geo strategic strategically and this is also a call of from gabriel full germany and the e.u. to take more responsibility for their own interests and to also unite and so cooperate more so we could see a clear message from today that germany has also recognized elements of competition in that relationship between germany and the u.s. and that this could also continue after time in office in the white house but what does this mean concretely are we going to see a shift in german foreign policy i mean how realistic is. well this it really isn't anything new if we think back to earlier this year we had comments from german chancellor angela merkel when she said as well that the days of when you could rely on others over and these were comments that were very much in directly referenced today by gabriele when he said that there is no longer

a space on the sidelines of global politics so we're not going to expect any massive changes overnight and we also have to remember of course that germany's foreign policy is very much based on working with other countries and that's the consensus of foreign policy here and of course germany still currently without a new government is not going to be pushing through any major foreign policy changes in any to any point soon of cape verde thanks very much well turning now to a bit of sports news byron munich have a serious score to settle tonight in the champions league they're facing per you saw your main and wall the super star studded french side are most likely to win group b. byron would love to grab that number one spot and make up for the humiliation of their last encounter. it's not quite mission impossible when byron play host to parry says your man on tuesday night but it's close after losing three nil in paris

in september to top group b. the bavarians need to win by at least four goals p.s.g. have conceded just one in europe all season so no one's expecting a miracle. about a month after if i use two teams will level at the top of the table and have the same goal difference i'd say we were playing to win the group. think but we need to stay realistic we're not so presumptuous as to say we're playing to win the sofa miss and as long as it's been in the open sea it might be about something else for kingsley come on as a native parisienne and a former p.s.g. youth player would love to get a result after delivering a largely ineffective performance as a second half sub at the parts of plants so much opposite a match is still one that goes through our heads and we'd love to get a little revenge but it's nothing against p.s.g. we want to show europe that we're still here and we're still one of the big teams in the champions league. for p.s.g.

who have done nothing but post blowout wins in the competition thus far that question answers itself they suffered a shock loss in the french league at the weekend albeit with a weekend start of levon and they still believe they can have the last laugh in my . staying with some sports news the international wembley committee is meeting inspector one right now to decide whether to ban russia from the twenty thousand winter olympics there are just ten weeks before the games begin in south korea and i.o.c. president thomas bach and the executive board are set to decide whether they're going to ban russia from taking part in this asian on russia's one big fate is expected in a few hours time we'll bring you the news and analysis just as soon as if it breaks . well a new world record has been set for you guessed it the world's longest rainbow not longest in length but longest in time this beauty appeared in taiwan on

thursday and stayed for almost nine hours university researchers are now submitting photographic evidence to the guinness book of world records if accepted this rain will knock out the previous record a six hour long rainbow record in england more than twenty years ago on that note we wish you a great day thanks for watching we'll be more news coming at the top of the hour and don't forget you can always find the latest information on our web site that address is d.w. dot com i'm sarah harmon in berlin our whole team thanks for watching will be a sing.

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