this is d.w. news live from berlin police have detained a russian opposition leader alexina irani the outspoken kremlin critic was arrested after making a short appearance at an anti putin rally earlier today police also raided nobody's office also coming out of the group to another have it done another day of heavy fighting in syria offer in region turkey claims a diplomatic success and its offensive against a u.s. backed kurdish militia. and a seventh goal thriller in the bundesliga between table toppers fire in munich and

hoffenheim could the five could the variance of both the sides bring another upset to. maya schwager welcome to the program. russian authorities have detained opposition leader and outspoken kremlin critic alexina vonnie according to news reports he is expected to be charged with a public order violation that could mean up to twenty days in jail police arrested of any after he made a brief appearance at a moscow protest one of more than one hundred planned across the country the opposition is calling for a boycott of the march eighteenth presidential election which is certain to extend of lattimer putin's eighteen year grip on power now than has been barred from running against putin due to a previous fraud conviction that he says was trumped up.

aleksei novel any violent scuffles as his supporters try in vain to pull him free from police who arrests the opposition leader and preston flooding me a push and smoke a prominent rival. huddled into a bus and taken away from protests that heat cold. and suffer thousand turns out in most coal one of dozens of releases been held across russia authorities say to demonstrations illegal the protesters want to boycott of what they say will be a break presidential elections this march expected to extend president putin script on power now vonnie response from standing. yeah i want russia to have an elected government and not a pretty appointed one i'm sick of going to protests but i'll still go as long as i live in ways i dearly russia's isolating itself more and more from the world and is making demands but we're not living in

a country that can dictate anything. i want to changes within government to be possible because the zone history now has been there for too long. the. police raided the headquarters and t.v. studios belonging to alex a no vonnie interrupting a live program saying they were looking for a bomb. police also detained some of the vani stuff during the raid. so it's unlikely the wave of protests can stop flooding me approach and being reelected aleksei know vonnie supporters want at least to discourage russians from voting in the hopes of undermining the ballot with a low turnout. there was. earlier i spoke with did obvious emily share when and moscow and asked her whether the protest being held today around russia are likely to have any effect as the country gears up for the presidential election in march. ultimately in russia most people do support bloody mir putin he's running for

a fourth term now and it's likely that he will win and that that the majority of people basically think. that that's fine and and aren't necessarily in favor of what me is doing here are calling for a boycott. and turkey's president russia type out of one has vowed to quote clean his country's entire border with syria of terrorists it's a sign that there's no end in sight to akra so far nine day offensive against the kurdish y p g militia in syria turkey has demanded that the u.s. pull its troops out of the key northern syrian town of monday's turkish forces and by p.g. clash again over the weekend operation is aimed at clearing the kurdish militia from the turkish air from the turkish border area. in other activists say saturday's fighting concentrated in the northwest of the african region and this video could these fighters talk it took with small arms

fire activists say turkey is making slow progress on the ground. president rich of type rather one rather just supporters just over a week into the campaign he claims to he has inflicted heavy casualties on the attorneys. three hundred ninety four terrorists have been neutralized. this and we have twenty motss from the free syrian army and our military. the figures a disputed and cannot be verified independently journalist close to the front line in syria on saturday he approached militia watch over territory they've controlled for the past two years overlooked by white p.g. positions on a nearby hill. took the shot to the re continues to show why p.g. forces with support from the turkish air force more. heading into the region the

offensive fences a second week took he looks set for the long haul. and yemen separatists in the southern port city of god in have seized a government buildings after fierce clashes on sunday with the forces of president robert months or hobby dozens of people have been reported injured or killed yemen's prime minister accused the separatists of mounting a coup fighting erupted after government forces barred demonstrators holding a protest that is serving as the temporary government base with hutu rebels currently controlling the capital of sanaa. african heads of state are gathering in ethiopia's capital addis ababa for the annual african union summit fighting corruption and reforming the union our top goals of the two day meeting had headed by rwandan president paul kagame e who is taking over as the union's chairman african leaders are also expected to make a joint statement condemning u.s.

president donald trump's reported slur on the state of their nations. and like many african countries ethiopia is struggling to keep up with a growing population and a staggering wealth gap our correspondent catherine. sent us this report. this sleek train could be in a wealthy country like germany but it's actually in a discover ethiopia local journalists and takes us on a tour of the city states the score hundred seventy five million dollar light railway was built with the help of china it began operations in twenty fifteen i could not come at a better time. to call. it of us played a big role to reduce. fuel for the tax year for us if we could reduce the what was the prosecution. speeding through the city you notice the numerous construction sites with a g.d.p. of seventy two billion dollars ethiopia especially its capital city is growing

rapidly. but this weekend or the last. two or fifty years but still as you can see there are or doses that. are waiting to be replaced with the new building. or the growth that's also been growing fast. it takes about fifteen minutes to get from the central station to mentally expire the old adage about. as we make our way through the area you can't help but notice the traditional ethiopian attire all handmade ethiopia hopes to build its cotton and textile industry and increase exports by one billion dollars and this is slowly becoming africa's textile industry hub. if european has over the recent years opened up its text out industry to foreign investors but if you look you'll find factories like these where people are still using traditional methods

to make textile. it is a practice dating back centuries and a skill handed down from generation generation to. twenty eight year old a yellow rope bell hopes the government keeps young people like him in mind as they expand a modernize the industry the end result is impressive and the men here take pride in the handiwork ethiopia is determined to spur economic growth however the gap between the rich and the poor is still warning citizens when the government to make sure the growth is inclusive. not just some of the other stories making news around the world afghan officials say the death toll from saturday's bomb attack in kabul could still rise more than one hundred people are reported killed so far at least two hundred thirty five were injured and some in critical condition the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack. chairman president from has praised jordan for taking in hundreds of thousands of syrian refugees during

a state visit he told the jordanian king abdullah germany had quote huge respect and admiration for the country's cooperation in the refugee crisis germany recently moved troops from turkey to jordan following a diplomatic route and has stepped up military and development aid to the kingdom in recent years. swedish ikea founder in viacom proud has died at ninety one he turned a small scale mail order business into a global furniture empire ikea's first department store opened in one thousand nine hundred fifty eight and today the company has more than three hundred shops that also serve delicious meat balls across the world. hundreds of thousands of revelers lined up the narrow our way alleyways and bridges of venice on saturday at the start of carneval two weeks of fun before the rigors of lent the forty days of fasting that precede easter the venice kind of all is one of the oldest in the world at the feasts mass falls and concerts go on until february thirteenth.

the circus was the theme of this year's opening parade so of course there were plenty of animals. on the tightrope orca who monies to avoid an early bus in the canal venice is carnival madness first began one hundred years ago but it was bound at the end of the eighteenth century the modern revival only dates from nine hundred seventy nine. like the boat said like you're out of your life so far so good when jake. we had a great time. the face musk's in the parade are a relatively cheap way to enjoy the carnival but doing a full round of pulses must bulls and concerts requires deep pockets with each ticket to cost hundreds of euros us around three million headedness descend on venice every year to join in the fun it's something to remember joining the samba solved with a lens that follows straight afterwards. and on or to sports now in tennis

roger federer has won the australian open after defeating marion chill it in a five set thriller in melbourne the swiss a secured his twentieth grand slam singles title after a nail biting showdown which saw croatia's chelates fight back twice to even the score federer held his nerve in the decider however to secure a comfortable six one final win federer is the first man to win twenty grand slam titles and in sunday's sunday's early bonus league game by are living close and reclaimed a second place in the table by beating minds at home to make young jamaican winger lay on bailey opened the scoring at the start of the second half with a superb long range shot and brazilian defender when del converted a penalty twenty minutes later to a to round out the two nil scoreline. in runaway league bundesliga runaway league leaders by munich hosted hoffenheim the guess were unbeaten against biron in their last three meetings and could their coach

mastermind another upset. hoffenheim know a thing or two about beating by and you need not go from inside of one to the last three encounters including earlier this season but then the man forty two years now has been senior pine cones was inch on the opposite bank crankcase must defeat the worst as hoffenheim came roaring out of the blocks it was just two minutes on the clock when the searching says canaveral was felled in the box no doubt about the penalty that's not respecting his pool but the lead to the visitors mark was on hand to finish the job. read awakening for by and in the right back yards and things were about to get worse mabrey online to hoffenheim from by sharing his parent club what they're missing to nail up just miles minutes. off a no even a to go head start isn't enough to beat by and especially with robert levin juste

leading the line if you hold top the tennessee with his eighteen this season. by and we're rocking and starting to smell blood so they're both saying with referees a shock around the box he has it in his best league goal in four years will square with the match badly of course with the way three. state level until the break but how after that bye and feeding frenzy can see come and put the champions in front for the first time and then moments later the terrific doubt made it for. by him sports start now all but forgotten and there's still time to sunder but that's about so isn't the williams yet still sometimes try carry from his account for his new club. not those men left to think well to buy and finally get the better of that team. you're watching news from berlin and more coming up at the

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