this is day eight of the news live from poland america's intelligence agency clashes with the white house the f.b.i. says it has grave concerns about the accuracy of a secret memo on the russian investigation the president trumps administration is pushing for the documents released also on the program because of arbitration for sport reverses lifetime dozens of russian athletes accused of doping but it's not known whether they'll be allowed to take part in next weeks of winter olympic games . getting ready for blastoff d.w.

george german astronaut alexander guest as he goes through final preparations for his next mission into space. until gale welcome to the program. we start in the united states where the f.b.i. has condemned plans by the white house and house republicans to release a secret memo later today the memo alleges that the f.b.i. abused its surveillance powers when it investigated the trouble presidential election campaign the agency contest the documents accuracy while democrats say its release could undermine investigations into russian interference in the twenty sixteen election. that's really. not what i thought of. a quick exchange overheard after donald trump state of the union speech on tuesday night the us president reassures

a republican lawmaker that he has every intention of putting out the memo that's polarizing washington. if you. just wrote the memo was commissioned by devin newness chairman of the republican house intelligence committee and it describes alleges surveillance abuses by f.b.i. and justice department officials looking into possible ties between the truck campaign and russia investigators are accused of failing to disclose that their probe was partly based on research financed by hillary clinton's campaign republicans claim this shows anti trumbo bias at the f.b.i. they're calling for the memo to be released. there may have been milf eason's at the f.b.i. by certain individuals so it is our job in conducting transparent oversight of the lead of the executive branch to get to the bottom of that sunshine is the best disinfectant and so what we want is all of this information to come out so that transparency can reign supreme and accountability can occur but the f.b.i.

has warned against releasing the dossier in a rare public rebuke we have grave concerns about material admissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memos accuracy for their part democrats claim the memo cherry picks and i'm a classified information in an effort to discredit the russian best again led by robert mueller. this is not about the facts this is about the narrative that the chairman wants to put out misleading there it is to undermine the f.b.i. undermine the department and ultimately undermine bob gentleman tensions between the trump white house and investigators has been mounting days ago the f.b.i. his deputy director andrew mccabe quit and now an open confrontation looms between the head of america's top domestic intelligence agency and the administration. let's get more on this and from washington correspondent michael welcome because if

a memo is released on the allegations against the f.b.i. off on to have substance how would that affect the motor investigation. well it does not have any direct influence and connection to the probe but it is important to say that democrats and many others here feel that basically the whole the whole the whole goal of this this memo affair is basically to discredit the f.b.i. and the special counsel's investigation into a possible collusion between the trim campaign and russia and some say that that probably the end goal is not just to undermine the f.b.i. and smaller but eventually lay the ground for the fourth to perhaps fire or. talk to us about timing there were democrats and republicans on the committee that produced this memo so why is this being pushed for by the republicans now.

well the timing is certainly interesting given that we know that the special counsel's office is trying to schedule an interview with president trump in the coming weeks and while trump has been saying that he looks forward to talking to a mole or also in person his lawyers are hedging their bets little bit and are trying. to set the terms and the format for this interview so it is interesting that republicans and the trump white house push for the release of this memo just shortly before a possible interview between the special counsel and fred and trump and talk to us about history the f.b.i. and white house in open conflict this is how to be full. well it's certainly highly unusual and has hasn't happened in a while that the white house would say would go ahead if it does and released this memo against the clear urging of the f.b.i. not to do so but we have to remember that that this white house basically i think

it's fair to say views the f.b.i. as a partisan actor and has been treating it that way since the beginning of trump's tenure . can you get in washington thank you. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world a day after a turkish court decided to release the national head of amnesty international from detention the ruling has been reversed this after an appeal from the prosecution human rights activist todd akin it has been in jail since last june on terror charges he denies the allegations un special envoy on human rights in myanmar said the military operations against her him to muslims bear the hallmarks of genocide in the seven hundred thousand for him to have fled to bangladesh since the army cracked down after last year's attacks by ranger insurgents. can use the high court has ordered the government to end its shutdown of three private t.v. stations the outlets were taken off air after they covered opposition leader rather

drink a self-proclaimed presidential inauguration on tuesday journalist say they have been sleeping in the news rooms to avoid being arrested outside. twenty eight russian athletes have successfully overturned lifetime olympic bans for doping offenses the bags were overturned by the court of arbitration for sport a move condemned by the international olympic committee it's now uncertain whether today's ruling will allow the russians to compete in the pill on chang winter games which begin next week. the russian doping scandal has dominated the sporting headlines for almost two years after an investigation into state sponsored doping the international olympic committee banned a host of russian athletes from the olympics full life. forty two our rights took their case to the court of arbitration for sport thirty nine had their appeals up held on thursday. the cast arbitrators unanimously found that

the evidence put forward by the you see in relation to this matter did not have the same weight in each individual case cas overturned the bands of twenty eight athletes due to insufficient evidence that doping violations were committed. this does not mean that these twenty eight actually saw the clear innocence but in their case due to insufficient evidence the appeal so held the sanctions and old and their individual results achieved in such reinstated those athletes could now take part in the pyong chang winter games which start next week but they will have to be cleared to do so by the i.o.c. first the remaining eleven athletes however. for the olympic games in south korea the sports court found they did commit. but their lifetime bans have been revoked.

well allegations of systematic doping by russian or thorson. first made by investigative journalist heigho so what did he think of this ruling. because of the crate there curation of bankruptcy of the anti-doping fight globally because you see that we have here really big cover up scheme running for years in russia and it is not disputed by the international court of arbitration of sports but at the end the message is this is not sanctionable which means it's a bottom line we are. facing the olympic games is the message is you can do what you want you can't cover up was a secret service you can dope. and present unprecedented scale for years but at the end you cannot prove it on the level of individual athletes it means they are allowed to eligible what message sends it to the whole world that you can do what you want but at the end you are allowed to compete and germany's parliament

has today a great a new policy on refugee family reunions while the far right f.d.a. party is criticizing the changes as being too liberal many others feel they don't go far enough currently asylum seekers already in germany who don't face political persecution at zero and are not covered by the u.n. h.c.r. refugee convention on not allowed to bring family members these include many syrians who fled the civil war today's new policy will reopen the doors to up to a thousand people a month. get more from political correspondent kate to brady welcome kate so what does today is the new law mean for people who are already here in germany. so basically fell from the first of august one thousand people per month will be able to be reunited with their families here in germany provided that they had direct relatives over effigies already living here in germany and on top of that one thousand people will also be exceptions what's being described as cases of

extreme hardship now it's not exactly clear just yet exactly who will be included in those cases but it is worth pointing out as well that there is currently a suspension in place on family reunions for refugees who have subsidiary protection or limited refugee status here in germany now that usually applies to refugees who have fled civil war and would usually have to return to their home country when the civil war is over and that suspension was jus to expire in march but as part of today's law which was passed today they say as being extended until july thirty first ok so this vision new rules that is coming from all this because i'm looking is the thinking well if the system is already overwhelmed will it be able to cope. well this is all part of the strategy to kind of reduce or take more control over the number of migrants coming into germany but as

we've seen in the last couple of years the number of refugees arriving in germany has decreased dramatically when we compare to the numbers that were see him back in two thousand and fifteen at the height of the refugee crisis so it certainly will act as a measure but it's also a compromise as well we have to remember in these ongoing coalition talks between the social democrats and the concepts are conservatives take a very much more robust stance against a more migrants coming to germany and so they kind of see this as a limit but at the same time the s.p.d. has managed to get the exceptions for these cases of extreme hardship but it's interesting the numbers there because we heard just last week these discussions between the two would be coalition partners were taking place and the big heard a little bit over was allowing family when you can reunifications this figure of

a thousand people per month i'm just now the german parliament is debating it so something has come out of this exactly i mean this is a crucial development in these coalition talks and certainly a win for anglo-american who is desperately trying to form a new german government now and mobile in four months since the german election and where expects an if these talks so to see a deal on the table as early as sunday but they still have quite the large obstacles to overcome especially when it comes to domestic issues in germany so we'll just have to hold tight a little bit longer and wait for the weekend to see what really happens. very much for that. turkey meanwhile is home to more than three million syrians who fled the civil war more than a third of them receive aid from the e.u. as part of the refugee deal between the e.u. and turkey but the aid programs only shuttle to run until the end of the year and

brussels will have to decide whether to extend it. shopping at her local supermarket it's a special moment for houda a refugee from syria. finally she can afford the basic necessities needed for her and her family and if i'm getting sugar vegetables cooking oil and diapers for the children that's what i usually buy here that. the money comes from the european union one hundred fifty euros transferred to a special debit card every month twenty five euros per person for her husband and their four children it's not much but it's enough to cover the rent and provide enough food for the first half of the month. the family fled aleppo two and a half years ago as the syrian government and rebels battle for control of the city . friends who stayed behind told them their home was destroyed in the fighting.

an element of oklahoma i ran away for the sake of my oldest son one day an aircraft attacked us in aleppo and he hid in the closet instead of running outside he was that scared for. i don't want to go back there. to get a car but you're. the family of six now lives in an abandoned shop on the outskirts of gaza young tep in southwest turkey they don't receive any financial support from the turkish government and before the e.u. funding the family had to borrow money from friends and neighbors. they are. of course the debit card really helps us before we were always in debt. now we can pay our rent electricity and water bills we can have a better life. who does husband who didn't want to be filmed could only find work

as a junk collector but it's not a reliable source of income. their eldest son ten year old mohammed works in a shoe shop to bring in some extra money. more than three hundred thousand syrians have fled to gussy on tap in the surrounding area since the beginning of the war it's home to some of the most impoverished refugees nearly one in two receives financial aid from the european union were using demographic critical right now to identify the most vulnerable families that includes things like whether you have a disabled member or whether you have an elderly member of the number of kids that you have in your family as a humanitarian donor we are needs based organization that responds to emergencies so we are absolutely ready to respond if and when needed. the e.u. support programs are only shared tool to run until the end of the year european leaders now have to decide whether or not to extend them.

outta hopes they will for the sake of muhammad come spring when her husband begins to earn more money he'll finally get to start school. and then i thought after that he'll go to work until the end of this month then we'll send him to school so he can learn turkish he isn't very good at it yet. and that hundred eleven that. there are i want to go to school more often. huda hopes she and her family will have a future here in turkey but that depends on whether the european union continues to support them. now better soon how's your business updates and dima bosses are doing congress up and down the corridors today yeah i mean record profits they've never sold so many cars but the road ahead looks very different feel the german car make it clear is there a. vegas oh more cars than ever before and chalked up eleven billion euros in their profits the road ahead though looks

a little different as i mentioned stagnating profits as the financial burden of developing new technologies begin to bite and is the scandal of tests on monkeys and humans. the boss of di miller had some reason just smiled twenty seventeen was the best year in the company's history with sales of three point three million cars but this week's revelations of exhaust gas testing on humans and monkeys cast a shadow over the shining figures from the start of the press conference i tried to clear the air so much for such testing goes against our values that we're going to find out exactly how this happened. based automaker together with other german car makers finance the now disbanded e u g t research institute. tried to move on from the damaging allegations and refocus attention on the company's future he told shareholders profits would stagnate while dian learn vested mess of lead in new

technologies and yet are scoffed off from can shift and will be using the earning power of our core business to powerfully gauge with the future challenges our industries are facing we called this case that stands for connectivity autonomous driving sharing and. so this is about nothing less than reinventing the concept of individual mobility of individual in mobility. on the frankfurt stock exchange the high costs of future proofing dime look didn't go down well the carmakers shares were among the biggest losers on the blue chip index index on thursday nevertheless the company announced it would be paying the highest investor dividends in its history and was one hundred thirty thousand german employees to receive bonuses of five thousand seven hundred euros in april that's also the highest in the company's history. let's go to daniel culpa talk about all those records he's standing by frank for daniel tell us first of all about the share price reaction

it's is it doing anything amazing today. you know it's actually one of the biggest losers here today at the blue chip in the execs in general the blue ship in exact was quite struggling today we are down here at the moment with more than one point five percent it seems that investors at the end were not that's thrilled about the diamond numbers what about that profit though that's pretty amazing what was it eleven eleven billion yeah eleven billion exactly yeah i mean this number of course looks good and when you also talk about sales sales quantity of profit all that pretty much you couldn't even be better but stock exchange always means looking in the future as well and i'm there was also announcing that they're expecting higher costs now for two thousand and eighteen that's was making investors a little bit of war is that because of that their profit margin could down that

their share price could be falling that their dividend at the end could be less so yeah that's why we're seeing this rather a negative reaction today here at the stock exchange it will let me ask you in a second about this next story it is also involves diana tens of thousands of germany's industrial workers have begun a second day of twenty four hour strikes of a pay and working hours the sectors union is threatening full scale industrial action if employers don't give it what it wants demands being a six percent wage increase as well as a twenty eight hour week for workers taking care of a child or a relative and it's that demand companies have rejected they say they'll only consider it if they can increase hours if necessary the union has been picketing companies like ford and since wednesday. they know what sort of effect of those strikes having. well actually we are seeing similar pictures all around germany today also saw them here in frankfurt standing and demonstrating gather one more

money they're saying that companies such as ford for example in cologne or. they should be egg giving their employees more money now pretty much the decision how all of this is going to go is at a record we are actually waiting for this final verdict and then we know if those strikes are really going to continue also in the next days ok keep us up to date daniel colp in frankfurt there. british prime minister the reason may is in beijing where she's been talking business with her chinese counterpart xi jinping she's hoping to forge closer trade ties with the world's second largest economy before the u.k. leaves the european union as you countries are expected to sign deals worth over nine billion pounds before the end of may's visit china has already agreed new measures to improve market access and to lift a ban on british beef exports to china. they feel about

a way first up in a way all right yes good thank you it was all about i was on the guest is going through final preparations for his next space mission the end of april he will join the horizons mission to the international space station it will be his second expedition and he'll be in charge of the orbital lab for six months to w.'s the euro shatter caught up with the russian space training center star city. these spacesuits aren't for lightweights invented the scales at around ten kilograms each once in space of ensure that alexander guest and his crewmates sergei prokofiev and syrian and chancellor can survive in a vacuum that will be the first time a guest will serve as commander on the international space station does not mind their own life if this is the same space suit i wore when i landed last time and you can still see traces of sort for my exit from the capsule i'm one of the few

walkie ones allowed to train in my own spacesuit i'll get a new one for the next flight it's tailor made for me and ready to go. i'm the guy . and this is the view alexander guest had on his first space flight. in twenty fourteen of the geophysicist became the thirty german to fly to the international space station during his next mission called horizons the crew will conduct about eighty experiments some a new others guest performed on his first flight. the splits and it'll be a little like coming home and i've spent around six months of my life there and have nice memories from the last time i'm really looking forward to this because it off for. the training center in the so-called the star city near moscow is steeped in history generations of cosmonauts and quite a few astronauts who when dr to here star city of this once top secret town was

built during the space race between the u.s. and at the union a trip to star city today is a journey of the past the present and the future of space exploration. the immediate future of space research belongs to these three astronauts to ensure their flight on the sixth of june goes smoothly they're doing takeoff blending and docking exercises in the reconstruction of their original so you space capsule. the ground control staff has installed some system failures to simulate up to twelve breakdowns a date. any one of them could be fatal if undetected and left on result that's why the astronauts say these face of the training is the most difficult demanding intense concentration and to rapid decision making capacity.

by sissy's equipment we know this involves more of a risk than travelling by train. but we're not flying this mission just for fun it's for scientific experiments. we're doing space research for the greater good and that's why i'm prepared to take this higher risk. sequence again. forty years after the first space flight by a german alexander guest will be the first german come under on the international space station. and the horizons mission will take off from the by canoe a space launch facility in southern kazakhstan this summer. i was reminded of our top stories at this hour america's f.b.i. has criticized white house plans to release a classified memo on his investigation into connections between russia and the trump presidential election the public inside the never reveal survivors abuses by the f.b.i. and the justice department the f.b.i. says it has grave concerns about its accuracy. and

a court of arbitration for sport has overturned lifetime bans on twenty eight russian out of the graphics accused of doping but the international olympic committee is warning the ruling could harm the future fight against it because it's . uncertain whether vacillates will be able to compete in the winter olympics which begin next week. of yet you can always get a d w news on the go just download out from google play from the op will still give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for i mean breaking news can also use it to send us a photos i'm sorry. that's it you're up to date i'll have more if you up the top of the hour in the meantime of course as always the web site that's t w dot com have a good day. good mood.

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