everyone has the right. to everyone has the right to say. this is g.w. news live from berlin explosions and gunfire in the capital approaching a fossil police say the prime minister's office and the french embassy are under armed attack in downtown water dubai suspected the islamist extremists there are also reports of a separate explosion at an army headquarters also coming out migration dominates the debate as italy heads into its final day of campaigning before the general

election on sunday the divisive issue could pave the way for a stunning comeback party former prime minister silvio berlusconi in a shaky daily ceasefire fails to offer relief to people trapped in syria's eastern guta german chancellor angela merkel and u.s. president obama trying to pressure russia to do want to stop the bloodshed. and it is decision time for song for in the future of video assistance will you still see referees on the pitch requesting help from video technology we'll tell you about the decision that could affect top tier football including this summer's world cup . time sumi so much gonna welcome to the show we start with some breaking news authorities in burke enough fossils say an armed attack is underway in at least two locations in the capital walk a dupe witnesses say they heard machine gun fire immediately before

a blast at the army headquarters in the west of the city thick smoke could be seen coming from the site meanwhile the french embassy said it was under attack there are reports of five armed men heading towards a building in a truck there are no there is no word yet rather on any casualties. for more on the story we can talk to d. that he was adrian krishi joins us from lagos in nigeria good to see you bring us up to date on the latest developments. well the situation appears to be still on going we just learned that there's no gunshots anymore in the area but as you said smoke is visibility appears that at least one building is on fire and we've got the reports from eyewitnesses that some men came out of a car with guns and this was in the area where the military headquarters of the forces of faso are based but it's also the same area where where we close by you

can find the french embassy as well as the french culture center and all thirty s. have warned residents to avoid this area for now and also to avoid the main road in the city now is there any indication at this point what or who could be behind this . well because faso has seen a number of jihadist attacks in the past last year there was an attack on a restaurant where nineteen people were killed about two years ago a hotel was attacked by a jihadist thirty people were killed back then including many foreigners so a lot of people believe that this could be another attack however there's also some speculation on twitter right now that it could be politically related because there is a court case that is due to start very soon against two former allies of the former president less come power you might want to recall that he was in power for almost thirty years and in two thousand and fourteen was chased out of his office by angry

protesters after wards the country faced a serious political crisis there was a failed coup d'etat for example so but this is speculation that this might be political related has no evidence so far and we just need to be patient at this point of time as more information are coming in to these adrian creek krishna reporting on the latest developments for us thank you very much. now today is the final day of campaigning before italy goes to the polls in sunday's general election and the result is anything but a foregone conclusion the election pits a right wing coalition led by former prime minister silvio berlusconi against a center left alliance led by another former prime minister material renzi the other main player is the anti establishment five star movement as our correspondent mark saltzman reports from migration has been the biggest issue driving voters.

father and knows this neighborhood like no one else. has taken me to the market and institution in the old town palermo i'm trying to get a feel for what matters to people in this election migration seems to be at the top of the list. the tone of the current campaign is very harsh i'm afraid that the topic of migration is being exploited from the left and from the right these people don't understand the value of migrants and migration that can bring into a country then they need to get out and get it i mean it's. this is really has always been an island between two continents many africans that make it to europe spend a lot of time here some learn italian in charity sponsored classes like this one right next to the market hoping to be granted asylum others move on.

there are approximately five hundred thousand undocumented migrants in italy and one man italians are very familiar with this calling the situation a social time bomb. that man is a good ballast going the former prime minister and billionaire eighty one years old and the centerpiece of many scandals involving among other things an under-age call girl named ruby and tax fraud yet there is a good possibility she will be forging the next governing coalition once again it would be one leaning strongly to the right capitalizing on the current anti immigration in italy. in spite of his checkered past fellow party members think he's italy's best hope for reforms. you can lose in the time at the bank john

prescott i'm going to risk going you has extensively proven his dedication in the past he's a good businessman and he's achieved a lot for himself and his partners his strength of purpose and his passion are the reason why we sicilia and i hope italians as a whole are turning back to his incredible man. minutes a week to kino uses jani and despair on can you tell jani. and he has special ties to palermo it's here that he laid the foundation for his comeback in regional elections last year. at the market. lots of fans especially among men. when they were going to school and he was in power there were more jobs. not eating what i mean he's the perfect person that it's even better that he wants an alliance with the far right my young. but i think schooling is the only one who can save us. it's like the old italian political saying if you

stick around long enough you can become a saint. but father vote deals in real estate and has a different view of the premise going to primarily because of his attitude towards migrants. what it is fairly obvious on our. allies are very tough and want to get rid of migrants this is a demand that's completely outside of reality. what are the lot of. my impression is reality has never seemed to be a big concern of balance going he's especially in campaigns and especially regarding migration. my know was the reporting of from palermo last week he joins us now for more on this story hi max what is the feeling that you got from talking to people why is migration such a divisive issue here. well their facts and perceptions to me the facts are pretty

clear italy of course is the centerpiece of the whole migration route especially from the northern africa through the mediterranean and then from italy towards the rest of europe it has been like that for years but of course the numbers. perked up in the last years although we had a slight drop in two thousand and seventeen twenty percent approximately down to one hundred and nineteen thousand still pretty high numbers there that's one thing the other thing is that there were some high profile incidents in the last weeks and months involving for example drive by shooting by right wing extremists who shot six african migrants then there was the case of the murder of an italian girl where some african migrants are now being scrutinized over so all of this of course made the press all of this was instrumental lies also especially by the right wing parties and that's why this has gained so much traction something that would have been this is fairly expected in fall but yes migration is definitely one of the

most important topics in this italian election and we saw in your report that silvio berlusconi of south a said migration is a social time bomb and he will likely be the one forging the next government how worried is brussels. likely you will see the polls are pretty unreliable in italy but at least he has a pretty good chance of doing that and if you had mentioned that only a couple of years ago nobody really would have believed it and what's so bizarre in this is that luscombe actually might be the best hope for the european union to get things done in the next months even years because as you know the us situations have very emissions plans to reform the euro zone and the rest of the european union and what they really need is a functioning government in italy in belize tony seems to have like i said one of the best chances doesn't mean this is actually going to happen but one of the best chances of forging a government and they know what they get with the disco any yes he's a populist but he's not radically anti european union and that's worth something

for the e.u. institutions looking at the polls right now max it would show that the anti-establishment five star movement would come out of the single largest party what can europe expect from the five star. probably nothing because the five star movement will not be in the governing coalition by all means they don't have any partners nobody wants to go into coalition with them but if they really were in the coalition and the most powerful party in there so hard to explain to see what exactly to expect in the past they said they wanted italy to leave the euro as a currency but they've toned down their their rhetoric and often with these populist parties. once they get to the government it becomes clear that their program is not very comprehensive that they don't really have answers to the complex realities of governing they just have answers to the emotions that many people have for example towards migrations and that's where the successful once in power it's a different story but like i said they probably most likely won't be part of

a governing coalition. covering italy's upcoming general election for us thank you max. now to some other stories making news around the world israeli police have reportedly questioned the prime minister benjamin netanyahu for the first time in a corruption case involving communications giant bezdek they're alleging the company provided positive coverage of netanyahu in exchange for favors he's facing allegations of corruption in several cases but he denies any wrongdoing a fire at a drug abuse treatment center in the azerbaijani capital baku has killed at least twenty five people at least four others have reportedly been taken to the hospital officials are working to determine the cause of the blaze. us president donald trump and german chancellor angela merkel have urged russia to persuade the syrian regime to abide by a proposed thirty day cease fire merkel and trump spoke by phone late on thursday almost

a week since the un backed the truce the rebel held area remains under daily assault russia has organized a daily pause in hostilities meant to allow aid in and residents out but there is stalemate on the ground and distrust on all sides in eastern kicked up by the bombing blocks out the sun. each day paramedics pick up more dead and injured. there is a sensibly a truce in place here and eighty five al a pause in the fighting organized by russia but empty streets give voice to the nervousness here many residents say they've seen no sign of a ceasefire. this is the ceasefire look at the destruction ten days of can tell you the shelling has been tending to repeat in the basement airplanes and bottle bombs and we're sitting in the basement what kind of ceasefire is this what kind of regime is this i hope god will avenge these government organized ambulances stand

ready for residents evacuating eastern ghouta but they remain unused a mark of the distrust felt by civilians here the humanitarian corridor out of the rebel held area untrodden. now to a decision that's making ripples around the world u.s. president trump announcing new tariffs against steel and aluminum christophers more on that that's right sumi allies of the united states by germany for example have rejected the move i'm going merkel's spokesman saying a trade war would be in nobody's interest well apparently the euro as president things differently donald trump tweeted last hour trade wars are good and easy to win while the u.s. administration's plan is to levy a twenty five percent charge on steel and a ten percent charge on aluminum is more. trump's primary target is china and its massive overproduction of steel and the minium that he says drives

down global prices flooding markets with cheap products the u.s. president's plans tariffs however could backfire china is considering retaliation and u.s. allies like the e.u. and canada fear levies could be slapped on their steel exports to in his announcement trump referred to countries plural which could mean trump's meeting with u.s. steel and alimony and produces may trigger a global trade war. we have with us the biggest steel companies in the united states they used to go out bigger but they got to be a lot bigger again. we have the big companies in the united states and they've been very unfairly treated by bad policy by bad trade deals by other countries they've been horribly treated by other countries. the american steel industry is significantly weaker than it was at the turn of the millennium since then more than

fifty thousand people have lost their jobs in the sector. the industry now employs just eighty thousand people we know what it's completely unfair we are not protectionist we want a level playing field it's for our employees to support our customers and when we get this right it will be great for the united states of america the european union introduced tariffs on chinese steel a year ago president trump is following suit but if he introduces a universal levy against old steel producing countries the counter measures could be tough the e.u. for example is considering levies on american whiskey and motorbikes like honey davidson brazil and canada threatening to protect their interests too but consumers would lose out most of all with higher prices for motorbikes. and. markets have been plunging on the news coming from washington daniel kolb in

frankfurt our markets man there that says extended mourning losses there is the latest from the fighting for. yeah look at this christophe no thing got friday a feeling at all because of the fears of a possible trade war the blue chip index stocks has lost more than two hundred and seventy points it's now for the first time again since august under the magical mark of twelve thousand points and there is not a single share that is actually in the green at the moment those are big losses we have to remember that in january investors here celebrated even a new record high of more than thirteen thousand five hundred points just in court the german steel giant their shares are also down with one point seven percent. listed and the m.d.x. even down with five percent and looking over into the upcoming trading day on wall street it seems that even bear many are not so excited about those terrorists at

all the dell futures indicate that also the new trading day there start my start with losses so the overall mood might be sour but it's not clear yet if these terrorists actually apply to german or european products is it yeah that's true there are still lots of question marks just an open also that he has said that they are currently awaiting for more details to some said that they are also not that concerned at the moment because lately they have not been any more that active on the u.s. market but many in the industry are concerned some experts are saying that steel exports to the u.s. might go even down by more than fifty percent we are also getting word from chancellor angela merkel her spokesperson said that terrorists on steel and elam in you would be of wrong decision so yeah lots of uncertainty dos of questions and big losses here in the financial world then you're hoping for a verb thank you. britain's prime minister tourism a is scheduled to

reveal her demands for the u.k.'s future relationship with the european union today britain's decision to leave the block has left many companies worried about their business with the rest of europe one sector debt ceiling particularly an easy is the highly integrated pharmaceutical industry. these pills can help prevent seizures in adults and children who suffer from epileptic attacks the drug offender mike is manufactured in britain but can be sold across the e.u. how will all this work after breck's it europe without borders means that we have products which move present their components for use that phrase their ingredients will move seamlessly across europe many times to produce the final medicine this is our number one worry it's a complex supply chain sudden disruption means you can have medicines medicines for critical conditions not available for patients in germany in france and spain i say a japanese giant with its european headquarters near london is preparing for the worst it's european boss david jeffries does travel back and forth to brussels and

the help of hammering out common procedures south of brecht's it but i say also increasing their presence in germany to be able to duplicate their testing and approval process we will put in place all the measures we're spending a lot of money doing this we're having to prepare for the heartbreaks it so i think most of us are doing this we may have to stockpile medicines to make sure our patients are damaged pharmaceuticals are one of the most important industries in the u.k. they benefit from access to word leading universities like oxford and cambridge but bricks it has been shaking up the whole scientific community. at the moment many of the u.k.'s top universities receive a large proportion of their funding through the e.u. and they are benefiting from freedom of movement for its scientists there is a question about the funding for all the programs as we understand is guaranteed by the u.k. government to twenty twenty what happens there ofter if you kaizen to involved

there will be less money what happens there overall programs in europe the european met since agency has so far been in london but it's in the process of moving to amsterdam the u.k.'s pharmaceutical companies so that they would stay closely aligned with all the decisions the agency will make in the future for the sake of their industries prosperity and also for the benefit of their patients. expect to sue me and it's a make or break weekend for the german chancellor angela merkel christopher it is this weekend that will find out whether a new coalition government under medicals leadership will get the green light of the social democrats the coalition partners are set to reveal on sunday whether their members have voted to approve the coalition deal there is a lot at stake including us christoph said chancellor merkel's political future but even if she could say yes to form a coalition with the social democrats it looks like germans have mixed feelings we could take a look at the latest survey by pollsters are in for

a test for germany's public broadcaster a.r.d. now posters asked german voters how they would view another grand coalition that's a coalition between the biggest political groups in germany and in fact only a minority forty six percent say their view of it is very good or good a slim majority fifty two percent are less positive or even say it would be a bad thing let's bring in our political correspondent simon young for more on the story hi simon so our grand coalition here doesn't seem to be very popular at the moment what does that say about stability. well if this coalition is launched it will have a good working majority in the bundestag three hundred ninety nine of seven hundred nine seats so it will be able to push through eight states programme of measures that have been agreed in the coalition agreement pushing forward policy on the uniting europe over forming in the education system and improving the digital infrastructure in germany and many other things is that as to stability you know

this is probably as close to a stable government as you would be likely to get given that six months ago german voters put six different parties into parliament and it's been very difficult to form a coalition out of that so german voters have mixed feelings what about the members of the social democrats the s.p.d. they're the ones who as we said will be deciding in their vote whether this coalition government is approved or not. that's right and that vote ends today and the counting will happen over the weekend we'll find out on sunday morning how the s.p.d. members a vote the acting environment minister who's an s.p.d. politician barbara hendrick she said yesterday that she's expecting sixty percent of them will approve the grand coalition and that's what a lot of analysts have said roughly that kind of number we've seen the opponents like the youth wing of the s.p. day making a very vocal campaign against but i think a lot of rain could fall s.p.d.

members will conclude that it's better to being government you could put through more of your ideas than you can in opposition even if of course a coalition means compromise a lot of people asking simon where all of this leaves chancellor merkel and let's take a look because voters were also asked about the chance of staying in office for another term in it's more or less a draw just fifty one percent of respondents saying this would be very good or good but forty nine percent are opposed to michael remaining in office as chancellor simon that is a drop in popularity if we compare it to figures from last year what do you think this means for a numerical government you know there's a clear trend as votes is slowly but surely fall out of love with angle americal you know her popularity was seventy five percent and more at one time sixty percent just after the election said they favored a fourth medical term now we're down to fifty percent you know three quarters of germans still say they see angle a miracle as

a competent leader he's capable of taking the country forward but increasing numbers are saying oh well you know she's not in charge of her party and i think what's happened over the last few months is increasingly the idea has become mainstream that if angle a medical does become chancellor again as we all expect that will be her last term in the geo. political correspondent assignment young first thank you simon. german soccer now in the bundesliga is back tonight and match day twenty five kicks off with mention against bremen that your team's ended their respective winless streak sless match day and they're looking to heat up their season despite the freezing weather. it's been bitterly cold across germany in the run up to match states twenty five but the permafrost hasn't put a damper on the bus pierrots. they head into their class for braman on a high after grabbing a one nil win in hanover last time out there by ending their four game losing hands

goal a streak and emphatic fashion the bow coach dita hacking thinks he's finally found the right ingredients to get his foals galloping towards the european places. the poor run is over now we have to keep it going it won't be easy against bremen. it was more we have to be passionate and fi is going into the tackles and play the ball forward when we get the ball into the danger zone we have to create plenty of chances and convert them. braman on society be under-estimated flow here and cool felts team have been very effective in recent weeks winning three of the last four games that's slowly clawing their way out of the danger zone even if some of their performances haven't had the braman faithfuls heart's racing. and that's what i'm saying the game last saturday was in our most attractive game to date but we won only what i'd much

rather win a game that isn't great to watch then supply well and go home empty handed what we did in munich somebody. attractive football or not both coaches will be gunning for results and hoping there's plenty to cheer about. even if it's for the sole purpose of keeping warm. and we just have time for a minor headlines here on t w breaking news that this hour multiple attacks have taken place in the capital of pretty enough authority say army headquarters in the french embassy appear to be among the targets. and campaigning for at least general election has entered its final day this after thousands turned out to protest. extreme right wing pound party as of wrapped up its campaign with a rally in the capital. thank you for watching.

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traditional broad based parties are increasingly coming under pressure from brushing.