this is due to the news coming to you live from berlin police have detained russian opposition leader allotting of all me he also broken kremlin critic was arrested after making a short appearance at an mc you couldn't rally earlier today police raided of all news all this also coming up another day of heavy fighting in syria's alfre in the region turkey claims a diplomatic success x. and its offensive against the us backed militia. and the sights and sounds of carnival in venice millions of revelers come out of party among the city's story

can now use. their harmon welcome to the show it's good to have you with us. washing with already have detained opposition leader alexina volney he's expected to be charged with a public order violation which could carry up to twenty days in jail police arrested of only after he made a brief appearance at a moscow protest one of dozens of rallies being held across the country the ball in the end his supporters are calling for a boycott of the march eighteenth presidential election that on himself has been barred from running against putin due to a previous flawed conviction a conviction of only says it was politically motivated. alexei no vonnie violence goes. as his supporters try in vain to pull him free from

police who arrest the opposition leader and press them flooding me a push and smoke a prominent rival. huddled into a bus and taken away from protests that he told. the gazans but it did suffer a thousand turns out in most polls one of dozens of releases been held across russia authorities say demonstrations are illegal to protest just want to boycott of what they say would be a break to presidential elections this march expected to extend president putin script on power now vonnie a spot from standing. yet 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 change is willing government to be

possible because the zon history now has been that for too long. the finnish police raided they had courtis 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 really likes it alex i know vonnie supporters want at least to discourage russians from voting in the hopes of undermining the ballot with a low turnout i think they're well g.w. correspondent near drunk sorts joins us now from moscow mia drug you were at a protest so they wanted to say. well sarah oh well i think it was remarkable of the german young people were there was a lot of police in the streets around to our square our square and pushkin square as protestors knew that alexy not only was arrested in the afternoon but they did

not back down and they showed no sign of fear. and one is expected to be charged for violating a law against calling public demonstrations what more can you tell us about that both or it is a milestone to be just refused to give permission to the protest served today nevertheless nobody asked his supporters to demonstrate not only in other cities were it was about to demonstrate but also in moscow and st peter's square and death for another only broke the law and i think police want you to really see him today or even in the days to come i think he may stay in jail for the next two or maybe three weeks and this is in the end a political decision made by the kremlin we will definitely see more demonstrations in the week center weeks to come yes today's protests are a small compared to some anti-government protests that russia's seen in the past do

not only supporters have a chance of actually in flowing this upcoming influencing since may this upcoming presidential election. for the remarks what you mean by influence not only in its orders will be able to change the result we know that president putin is going to win the next christiane szell actions approximately seventy maybe eighty percent of russians are going to vote for him but corruption is a big issue here in russia it resonates very strong and you shouldn't forget that the vast majority of russians make now less money than a couple of years ago and there is this not going to change and we will have a discussion of the weeks to come. more sanctions coming from america so if the financials nation situation here russia is going to deteriorate if people are making even less money in the months to come they will blame somebody for that and this is going to be mr putin all right now jack starts reporting now for us from moscow thank you very much. turkey's president russia temporarily one has

vowed to quote clean its entire border with syria of terrorists on cora's nine day offensive against a kurdish why p.g. militia in syria shows no sign of letting up turkey's demanded that the us pull its troops out of the northern syrian town of man bitch turkish forces and want p.g. clashed again over the weekend. edition other activists say saturday's fighting concentrated in the north west of the african region in this video could his fighters target turkish helicopters with small arms fire activists say turkey is making slow progress on the ground. president richard type rather one ready to support is just over a week into the campaign he claims turkey has inflicted heavy casualties on the attorneys. three hundred ninety four terrorists have

been neutralized. there and we have twenty martyrs from the free syrian army and our military the lives. of. the figures are disputed and cannot be verified in the pen and the turkey took journalists close to the front line in syria on saturday here protesters militia watch over territory they've controlled for the past two years overlooked by white p.g. positions on a nearby hill. so you can show it to the re continues to show why p.g. forces with support from the turkish air force more and more tanks are heading into the region as the offensive enters its second week he looks it for the long haul. here's a look now at some of the other stories that are making news around the globe film star and activist angelina jolie has called on the international community to find a solution to the crisis in syria she only made the police during

a visit to the zaatari beth u.g. camp in northern jordan does a campus hundred eighty five thousand refugees from neighboring syria. and yemen separatists in the southern port city of auburn have seized government buildings after fierce clashes with forces loyal to president. hadi dozens of people have been killed or injured yemen's prime minister accused separatist of mounting a coup odan is serving as a temporary government base as who's the rebels control the capital so no. swedish ikea found are involved has died at the age of 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 today the company has more than three hundred shops around the world that are also famous for their. african

heads of state are in ethiopia's capital addis ababa for the annual african union summit today summit is headed by rwandan president paul kagame e is taking over as the unions chairman african leaders are also expected to make a joint statement condemning u.s. president donald trump's reported slur on the state of the nation's correspondent catherine wando summed up some of the issues on the agenda. the thirtieth africa union summit was officially opened here in the if you can capital now the session was opened by president paul kagame who is the chairman of the african union now center stage is the issue of anti corruption and how countries can fight corruption using frameworks and institutions but the highlight of the day was the discussion on african union reforms in his new mandate president paul kagame is looking to see that the african union is more independent as it stands seventy four percent of its

budget is funded by the e.u. and the us there is a hope that this could reduce to fifty nine percent by two thousand and eighteen. but also another issue that was on the agenda was integration and how african people can have free movement of goods people and also a single airspace market the africa youth population stands at more than seventy percent present poor called on the youth to be more involved in development in their individual countries. turning out a bit of sports news in tennis roger federer has won the australian open after defeating martin church in a five set thriller in melbourne a surprise a secure his twentieth grand slam singles title after a nail biting showdown which saw croatia's chillers fight back twice to even the score federer held his nerve in the decider however to secure

a comfortable six one final set when federer is the first man to win twenty grand slam titles. and sunday's early bundesliga game buyer leverkusen reclaim second place in the table beating minds at home with young jamaican winner winger leon bailey open the scoring at the start of the second half with a superb long range shot brazilian defender when del converted a penalty twenty minutes later to round out the two no scoreline. got the better of hanover in saturday's late game scores were level for much of it until eunice mali put wolfsburg ahead after seventy one minutes one nil was how it ended. when away league leaders byron munich hosted hoffenheim the guests for unbeaten against biron in their last three meetings so could their coach mastermind another upset watch this. 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 case wasn't on the opposite page 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 but not respecting his pool the fleet of 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 seventy's parent club what they're missing to nails off to just trials minutes i also know even a to go head start isn't enough to be by an especially good robot levon just me leading the line if the whole top it's at the stage with these eighteen this season.

by and we're rocking and starting to smell blood red both saying with that reach a shock around the box he has it in his first league goal in four years all square is a match deadly a cool stripped away three. stage level until the break herself to that by and feeding frenzy she's determined but the champions in front for the first time and then moments later the terrific dial made it for. my own sports start now all but forgotten and there are still times the sounds are about it's about souls in the audience yet still sometimes strike i think in his accounts of his new club. not those men left to think why. by and by you get the better of that boat between. one hundreds of revelers lined the narrow alleys and bridges of venice on saturday at the start of carnival two weeks of fun before the rigors of lent begin and it's carnival is one of the oldest in the world so get

ready for feasts last fall's and festivities that will last until february thirteenth. for. the circus was the theme of this year's opening parade so of course there were plenty of other moles. on the tightrope 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 i love it's like the boats are like that giraffes. so far so good when jake very much we had a great time. the face musk's in the parade are a relatively cheap way to enjoy the colorful but doing a full round of policies must bulls and concerts requires deep pockets when each ticket can cost hundreds of euros around three million headedness descend on venice every year to join in the fun it's something to remember during the samba

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