a much more for their lives because many diseases shortcomings called the self aging because they're called the records or a large degree a little but they held for a longer period of their life. this is due to the news coming to mind from berlin protests on the streets of kiev after a dramatic escape police arrest for georgian leader michel shock us really but are forced to free him by angry supporters now he's marching to parliament to demand

the resignation of a president he says is soft on corruption and bring you the latest from our correspondent also coming up. german foreign minister is ignore gabrial urges europe to be less dependent on the united states is says it's time for europe to become more assertive in the world. plus a fresh twist in the trunk russia tsonga u.s. investigator robert muller demands that georgia bank released data want to count held by president trump that's just part of miller's probe into russia's influence on the presidential election. i'm sara harman welcome to the show it's good to have you with us. chaotic scenes on the streets of kiev today that's after police tried to arrest mikhail

saakashvili he's the former georgian leader who's become an anti corruption campaigner in ukraine and a thorn in the side of president petro poroshenko police detained saakashvili but were forced to free him again when his supporters surrounded a van holding him our correspondent nick collie was there will have an update for him in a moment but first here's what he saw. early morning hide and seek in the rooms above kiev's my town square except the man being detained by un mark 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 bush and co to face impeachment the but it was one second he was bundled into

a car that the confrontation between police and his supporters really got going out . the street don't know months rubbish bins even park police cars were all thank game as the crowd tried to prevent second species forcible departure. in the meantime ukraine's prosecutor general finally got round to answering the question on everyone's lips why no it's such a big operation and why now seka sweeney he said they colluded with exiled ukrainian oligarchs was preparing to subvert the country's government. well i'm joined now on the line by g.w. correspondent nick connelly in care nick dramatic scenes you described there in that report tell us more about how psychist really got away. good evening sir well yes indeed extraordinary scenes after about two or three hours standing with the crowd preventing that car leaving the spot just

a few hundred meters from me. they even broke through the police cordons and got into the car pulled them out and the police were outnumbered and didn't even see themselves in the position to do a thing about it now he marched down to. main square and is now currently at all the parliament. and what are the charges against him why was he arrested in the first place the real thirties here being pretty tight lipped about it basically they implies implying that really has been in contact with the exiled ukrainian oligarchy even people connected to the president picked the other courage and that he was taking money from them. all bringing down the current government by far to sack him 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 little background here this is the former president of georgia what's he doing mixed up in ukrainian politics. that is indeed a pretty extraordinary story he was president. ending in late twenty's that was as you remember the time where the last my dog revolution picked up here in ukraine and he was in use invited to bring his particular brand of western liberal libertarian reforms to ukraine using him a couple of very important region by causing poroshenko they were best mates for a while and then they fell out actually says poroshenko is basically you're copping out he only got the system or 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. here's a look now at some of the other stories that are making news around the world lebanese prime minister saad hariri says he's withdrawn his resignation after

reaching a deal with rival political parties the decision comes a month after hariri announced his shock resignation in a saudi arabian capital riyadh moved through lebanon into a political crisis. the us supreme court has allowed president donald trump's travel ban on six and muslim majority nations to go into full force the court's decision lifts injunctions issued by lower courts the ban prevents most travelers from iran libya syria yemen somalia and chad from entering the u.s. as well as some from north korea and venezuela a fast moving wildfire in the u.s. state of california has forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes the blaze in ventura county near los angeles broke out on monday and was fanned by strong winds authorities say it could soon threaten a city of more than one hundred thousand people the cause of the fire is not yet clear. we're turning to europe now german foreign ministers ignore gabrial has

urged his country and europe to become more assertive internationally and less dependent on the united states ties between berlin and washington have soured since u.s. president on trump took office at a foreign policy forum in berlin gabriele said the traditional view of the u.s. as the world's policeman is beginning to crumble. but. the u.s. will nonetheless have to remain our most important global partner there's no doubt we will need and will cultivate this partnership in the future but it alone will not be enough to protect our strategic interests of the us withdrawal does not stem from the policies of a single president and the situation is unlikely to change even after the next election so there should be no doubt that germany and europe will need to do and risk much more than in the past. well with me in the studio is sir julian king he is the european commissioner for the security union surgery and thanks for being

with us today actually dr you we just heard gabrielle there calling for a loosening of foreign policy ties with the united states not just for germany but also for the e.u. what's your reaction to that you were at the forum where he made this announcement or this speech traditionally european security has been quite closely aligned with washington is that that change where he spoke quite powerfully about the role that the e.u. can play in the world and it's true the is growing faster than the u.s. or japan or latin america at the moment do you mean population wise not to the economy and he spoke about the role there for the e.u. play as a pole for stability and we see that at the moment people are coming knocking on the door in brussels for the trade deals. people are coming to talk to brussels about climate change in the lead that we've been giving on climate change including of course representatives of various states and cities across across the us but he

also underlined the need for europe to be willing to step up and play a security role in the future and therefore i think it's very welcome that we've taken some decisions to build the capabilities that would be needed for europe to play that role on security and on defense what do you mean specifically what could well we've we've just taken some decisions that twenty three of the of the member states of undertaken commitments to build capabilities in the defense field and we've come for military use of military capabilities and we've come forward with some plans for funding that and helping the member states to build those capabilities both research and procurement in something called the european defense fund which is starting small which is going to mobilize some serious money after twenty twenty and those are the practical steps that i think he was pointing to. at the same time terror attacks are a very real threat in many parts of the world including in europe and it's been just a year since the christmas market truck attack in berlin can european commission

security union really do anything to reduce the threat of terror attacks reduce the threat yes completely eliminate the threat to live a zero risk no i think that's a misleading jetted to put out there but what we've done in brussels in the commission is come for with the serious proposals to help the member states who are in the front line in dealing with these threats whether it's terrorism or indeed cyber threats so we've we've worked for the member states to squeeze the space the terrorists have and deny them the means that they use we strengthen controls on firearms we've strengthened controls on explosives we've come forward some proposals for strengthening public spaces where people gather that the targets of some of these attacks and we're working with the big online platforms to try and spot and take down the kind of radicalizing propaganda that in particular so-called islamic state of been using to try and radicalize vulnerable young people across our country is what about intelligence sharing because that's something that's been criticized in the past on

a european level that individual countries aren't sharing the necessary intelligence with each other well information sharing so police forces sharing information law enforcement information is going is going well we've built a big e.u. why database called the sharing information system and more and more is being shared on that between police forces nor enforcement agencies the amount of information shared last year went up forty percent it was consulted four billion times last year and it's not actually the case that there's no intelligence cooperation between our intelligence agencies if they go to headquarters outside of the hague where intelligence agencies from across europe all european countries sit together every day and work to help and support each other. let's talk about the bumpy road of brock so here for a second assuming that a deal between the u.k. and the european union is done in the u.k. leaves in march of twenty one thousand one of the implications going to be there for security well i don't speak on breaks and i have a colleague michel barnier who does that ok but on security both the british

government and the representatives of the other governments in the you have said whatever else happens in the brics it negotiations they think that on these issues countering terrorism countries serious organized crime and tackling cyber threats we should find a way of continuing to cooperate unconditionally we need to see what that means in practice but i take it to mean that everybody recognizes that on these challenges we have better working together and that's true today it's true the next eighteen months to be true after twenty nineteen as well right time will tell sir julian king the european commissioner for the security union thanks for being with us on day one thank you you're watching news live from berlin still to come on our program the fallout from a wave of deadly violence in the you meaning capital sanaa that's after the killing of the country's former president. but first

a german linked to donald trump's alleged dealings with russia gearhart has that story as well and sarah germany's largest lender dacha bank scuse me has been dragged into an investigation into russian meddling in the us presidential election last year a number of media outlets are reporting that special counsel robert muller who's leading the inquiry has asked to release data on accounts held by president donald trump and his family the information was demanded by subpoena after the rejected demands to share the data from us how the house democrats in june citing privacy laws the bank lent the trump organization millions of dollars for real estate ventures in the past. now to shed some light on what this means both for the bank and the investigation into the trump complaint i'm now joined by our financial correspondent contribution in frankfurt and our washington correspondent kasten phenomena constance to you first why this subpoena now what does it say about the stage of the investigation into rushed meddling in the elections

or to be honest we can only speculate about that because the special prosecutor robert muller is keeping his cards very close to his chest but having said that it's quite clear now mr miller is interpreted in his mandate very aggressively he's not only looking into the issue of possible collusion between the trump team and russia during last year's election campaign but also into the conduct of those people involved for instance polman affords trumps former campaign manager was charged for text fraud and money laundering concerning money that he earned as a lobbyist for a pro russian party in the ukraine and not for what he did during the election campaign sent out so it's quite clear now that is not afraid of trump because a few months ago when there were rumors that trump was about to fire miller he was asked to interview whether miller would cross a red line if he would look into the finances of the trump family trump said yes

and it seems that miller has done now exactly that. is this just about wanting to have a look at the account or could dodge a bank itself be implicated in all this. you have that's exactly the question that everyone here is wondering about but of course we do not have an exact answer for that either what we do know is that the bank has had very close business relations with russia for a long time with companies with all of us and we also know that deutsche bank has failed to prevent money laundering it had to pay high fives for that here in europe but also in america what we also know is that trump has had relations with russia or at least his family people like jared and it via ivanka and don jr with russians also with russian oligarchs like the building tycoon. now the third thing

we know is that trump and deutsche bank have had business relations for decades the bank has given loans of several hundred u.s. south seven hundred million u.s. dollars to trump and the question now of course what people here are wondering about is whether all this is connected with that there is some chronic to vittie of the loans to the russian investigation or to potential wrongdoing of trump and his family. back to you what is the feeling in washington is the noose tightening around trump with the next step of the investigation briefly if you. well i wouldn't go that far yet but it's clear that there are people in trump's inner circle which are in the crosshairs know michael flynn his former security advisor has been charges mitt has admitted of lying to the f.b.i. he is no cooperating with the prosecutors the next person in the focus now seems to

be jared cushioned from son in law and let's not forget that also trump and self. looked. to question whether he committed obstruction of justice when he first tried to get the f.b.i. director off the back of michael flynn and then later fired mr coleman the f.b.i. director because he wasn't happy with how the investigation was going so there might be some uncomfortable months ahead for trump thank you very much cross phenomena in washington and in frankfurt. we are staying on the subject of shady dealings for the first time in its existence the european union has issued a blacklist of international tax havens in a crackdown on tax avoidance finance ministers meeting in brussels of proof of final list of seventeen nations considered bona fide a tax havens a further forty seven countries have pledged to carry out reforms and have only been placed on

a so-called grey list there has been criticism that none of the countries are european and that no sanctions will be imposed on them e.u. law doesn't pose additional disclosure requirements on multinationals doing business those which have been named and shamed. now let's bring in orszag the name she's a tax and inequality adviser at the charity oxfam one of the fiercest critics of international tax havens and oxfam wanted thirty five countries blacklisted including four e.u. member states or now there are only seventeen and no e.u. member states is on that list is that justified. well this finally you black lace is a bit disappointing because there are only seventeen countries on that i'm not least and mostly tiny countries or even they have a pink countries on the other side you have major tax havens who are just ending up on what is called a great list so where but wondering how that greatness is not going to be turned

into a white washing or very famous tax havens when it comes to either countries the e.u. never had the intention to even evaluate in the sest those countries and never said that a few e.u. member states if we were playing the e.u. on criteria to them there would clearly fail a criterion called fair taxation because it seemed there tracked a lot of profits which are not made in their territory let's my main aims were which countries are you talking about well i'm talking about when on tax seven such as arlen then evidence mata on looks and. well who do you blame now for the fact that no e.u. country is on that list maybe one of the countries you just mentioned well i mean none of the u. countries is willing to name its own member states they claim that you know the you can reform itself but it's been years we've been expecting for reform from those tax haven and think things are not changing there it's

a bit hard you know to ask for it countries to reform outside of the you while you're not even able to put your own house in order. is not blacklist going to have any effect whatsoever on corporate tax evasion what do you think. well when it comes to the black keys as i mention only seventeen tiny countries are really listed so far but what could be interesting is in fact what's happening with what they called the great list so about forty seven countries and on these great least and they kind of make commitments to reform and to change a few jurisdictions where none countries such as bahama. jersey. made commitments to put more substance and to check if there is more substance in their country meaning you know no more compendious having just. made books there so let's see how this is going to be money and how is this going to be followed by the e.u. but when you have a few e.u.

tax havens at the table deciding if they should finally end up on the on the black least you can be a bit worried right thank you very much or shall the name from some international and that's it for me it's back to sara and this civil war a genius that's very hard civilians are slowly begun to emerge in yemen's capital sanaa for the city was hit by five days of deadly violence bombed out chorus hint at the fierce fighting between former allies have now turned against each other the u.n. says saudi coalition warplanes led at least twenty five airstrikes on sonar overnight the country's former president ali abdullah saleh was also killed in the fighting with me here in the studio now is morocco trans film she's a middle east researcher at berlin's free university she has a special focus on yemen reichl welcome good to have you sell us on has reportedly called for revenge the arab league has warned sellars death could cause an

explosion in the security situation in yemen how much worse can it get. well. i would say that. this is first of all a rhetoric to to show that the coalition the saudi coalition is trying to get back to back at the with so it's a show of force. the saudis who lost dramatically with the death of the less. in yemen and and his son is now trying to take that place and to reorganize. their supporters in order to get back at the. after the having killed. this is widely believed to be a proxy war between saudi arabia and iran in yemen is there hope left for a solution in the country what do you foresee. this is really

a big loss for the saudis so the horses are now in a stronger position and i don't think that the saudis would approach the with is for talks now so i don't see in the near future that there is a political solution and as you said before before the so i did you now of the coalition is to escalate violence and and i think that's what we're going to see now more violence more airstrikes more. troops on the ground being supported by the saudi cooperation it's a horrific situation for civilians in yemen what can be done to support them to help them well the biggest problem is the air blockade and the sea blockade as no or little humanitarian aid gets into the country and also there's no commercial trade so this means that the human population has difficulties to access basic commodities such as medicine food water but also fuel so this is really where it starts where. the population needs assistance but as i said

before the coalition. now is escalating the situation further so it's unlikely they're going to lift this blockade and so the humanitarian situation is going to worsen from from here on very sad situation all right that's right the transfer of thanks for being with us tonight. well in the u.s. president donald trump has ordered the biggest rollback of public land protection in the country's history as a result to wilderness national monuments created by past democratic presidents in the state of utah will be shrunk by as much as half a move that's got pro development lawmakers pumped and are mentalists see that. 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 years 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 you to should be controlled by a small handful of very distant bureaucrats located in washington. and guess what they're wrong was. but not everyone in utah is cheering over trump's clawback. 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. read some breaking news coming in just now a spokesman for palestinian president mahmoud abbas says u.s. president donald trump has informed abbas he will move the u.s. embassy in israel to jerusalem it's a move that would be tantamount to recognizing the state of city as israel's capital abbas warned earlier this week moving the embassy were in danger of the middle east peace process and provoke an arrest in the region we'll bring you more on that as soon as we get it turning now to some other news a new world record has been made for the longest rainbow not the longest in length

but the longest lasting 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 and if this rainbow is accepted it'll knock out the previous record that was a six hour rainbow in england more than two decades ago. a quick reminder of our top stories this hour police in kiev had bungled the arrest of anti corruption campaigner mikhail saakashvili after detaining saakashvili police were forced to release him by an angry supporters. and germany's foreign minister is ignore gabrielle as urged europe to chart a new foreign policy course he wants the e.u. to be assertive and less reliant only u.s. . more news coming for you at the top of the hour and don't forget you can always

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