this is. an x. spa reportedly in critical condition tonight in a british hospital police say they're investigating an incident involving a sixty six year old man media reports say that he's a former intelligence official who spied on russia for the u.k. he was said to have become ill after exposure to when unknown substance we'll get the latest from london also coming up a united front from two men in scandal israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu

meets u.s. president donald trump there are reports that truong could open the controversial u.s. embassy in jerusalem we'll get more from our washington correspondent and italy's former prime minister matteo renzi he steps down as democratic party leader that after record numbers of voters deserted the political center in sunday's election they flocked instead to immigrant and euro skeptic parties he will have to battle it out now to form a new go. off it's good to have you with those there are reports tonight that a former russian spy in the beginning is critically ill after being exposed to an unknown substance. was granted refuge in britain after a spy swap deal back in two thousand and ten he was convicted in russia. of

betraying russian agents to british intelligence police have confirmed that two people a man and a woman were found unconscious on a bench on sunday in the city of cells there both are receiving treatment and an investigation is under way to determine what caused their condition a police gave a press conference a short while ago they say that they are keeping an open mind about the nature of the incident this has not been declared as a counter terrorism incident and we would urge people not to speculate however i must emphasize that we retain an open mind and we continue to review this position we have access to a wide range of specialist resources and services that are helping us to understand what we are or aren't dealing with at this time the focus at this moment in trying to stop what has caused these people to become critically ill and we are working with partners to prioritize this diagnosis and ensure that they receive the most

appropriate and timely treatment arliss pulling our correspondent in london good evening to you beer good we've heard from the police what more do we know tonight about the victim this man and woman and this situation. well we know that the man is in the sixty's and the woman a woman is in fatties we don't really know the identity of of the woman we do know that the man in the sixty's was somebody who was convicted in russia for having spied for britain so he was then imprisoned in russia and came to the u.k. years later hundred thousand and ten as part of a spy swap now we don't really know what has caused their critical condition we know that they're in hospital but the hospital is also cordoned off so they have taking it very seriously they declared

a major incident and they are trying to find out have they taken any substance what is it that caused them to be in such a bad condition however the police are also saying that it's not it's had arisen an incident at this point. and what's been the reaction there we know that this is not the first case you know involving a russian national being exposed to possibly exposed to an unknown substance. we don't have any official reaction from the british government because it's something that's really only you know the story only broke just a few hours ago but of course there are parallels and people will think about the case of alexander litvinenko he was somebody you had worked for the russian intelligence services who then became a critic of the kremlin and subsequently he looked for asylum and found asylum here in london where he was eventually poisoned in two thousand and six in central london he was poisoned by polonium and it was

a long speculation that the russian state was responsible for it his widow marina for long and hot for an inquiry and it did find out that probably he was or that by law to be put in to be killed but nobody was made responsible nobody was put into jail because of that but of course it's something that's really in the mind of british people because it's something that happened not so long ago and the inquiry it was also just a few years ago. over the corresponding bigger mass on the story for reporting on the breaking news story a former russian spy in england exposed to an unknown substance and in critical condition tonight you can thank you. the embattled israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has met with the u.s. president at the white house the visit comes amid corruption investigations that could threaten netanyahu is political survival talks were expected to focus on

curbing the regional influence of israel's arch rival iran as well as the stalled israeli palestinian peace process tensions have been high in the region since trump recognized jerusalem as the capital of israel back in december and announced that the u.s. embassy would move to jerusalem. despite those tensions trump told reporters in the oval office that he thinks there is a good chance for peace in the conflict here's part of what he had to say a little bit early what better if we could make peace between israel and the palestinians and i can tell you we're working very hard on doing that and i think we have a very good chance and the biggest difficulty that anybody said you look over twenty five years nobody could get past number one jerusalem they couldn't get past it we've taken it off the table so this gives us a real opportunity to peace and we'll see how it works out that the palestinians i

think you are wanting to come back to the table for thirty days and. if they don't you don't have peace if you don't have peace if they don't you don't have peace and that's a possibility also i'm not saying it's going to happen everybody says. are there is the u.s. president there donald trump let's go to washington now we're joined by our correspondent carsten phenomenon could evening to you carson analysts are describing this moment as the dawn of a new era for u.s. israeli relations with me where does this leave peace negotiations considering that trumps mideast envoy his son in law jared kirshner has lost his security clearance . well the fact that the security clearance of jarrett cushion has been downgraded from top secret to only secret is of course a major blow to cushion. when he wants to be seen as a serious power broker on the international stage and in this whole process of

course he still has the president's ear and the president can give him any sensitive and from asian that he wants and i think the bigger problem really is donald trump's decision to officially move the u.s. embassy to israel to jerusalem because with this move in contrast to what the president just said in that clip clearly it has destroyed the notion of the united states as an honest broker as a neutral broker in this whole discussion postilion leaders do not even want to be seen with the talking with the americans and clearly they think that america is now openly siding with israel and so in my view there is no peace process and jerry question also hasn't even presented any peace plan or even a roadmap to revive the peace process on not quite sure about the optimism of

president trump comes from incursion both of these leaders there in hot water domestically we've got the israeli leader facing corruption allegations the white house is in turmoil the president possibly starting a trade war so how is this face to face meeting how is it going to help both of these leaders. well it helps both leaders indeed in the way that benjamin netanyahu can demonstrate he is an important player on the international stage he will he is seen next to the most powerful man in the world and for donald trump also it's good for him on the domestic stage to be seen as someone who sides with israel who is a good friend of the israeli prime minister because that pleases an important part of his domestic base the pro is where lobby and the christian if angelica is who are supporting israel and so for those two leaders definitely this was a feel good event. and it has do we know his prime minister netanyahu has he

extended an invitation to president trump to attend the opening of the u.s. embassy in jerusalem at least the two have been talking about this when i asked about this possibility by the white house press pool in the oval office president trump i may go to jerusalem for the official opening of the u.s. embassy there of course because the date has been moved forward to him it's made the official date for the relocation of the embassy to coincide with the seventieth anniversary of the declaration of the state of israel on may fourteenth of course the americans will not be able to build a new embassy by that time so what they're doing is upgrading the existing consulate the american consulate invest jerusalem changed all signs and move the ambassador there and yes donald trump is one all right our correspondent in

washington carson a phenomenal story forced like carson thank you very much. the ramifications of italy's national election are starting to unfold its once promising leader former prime minister matteo renzi has resigned as head of the democratic party after a bruising defeat in the polls frenzy made the announcement moments ago his party won less than nineteen percent of the vote that is an historic low hundreds put the result down to frustration with a lagging economy and rise the anti immigrant sentiment more than fifty percent of voters cast their ballots for far right or populist parties a right wing alliance made up of the anti immigrant league party and former prime minister silvio berlusconi's forte's. got the lion's share. has been covering the story for us in rome and we asked him a short while ago what's next for italy and the centrist left democratic party.

well at least the democratic leader that he said that he will not withdraw immediately so we can expect him to remain in the position as the leader of the. left party until the congress would vote somebody new and and so it's interesting when he says that he now ruled out any coalition with a populist party in italy and basically thereby rules out a coalition which experts told me is the most likely would have been the most likely scenario with the five star movement for instance so it just adds to the complicated situation of a hung parliament and though we'll have to wait and see what kind of horse trading the next couple of days will bring our game of mosses there reporting from row. to syria now and a relief convoy has crossed into eastern guta outside of damascus it's the first

aid brought to the region since government forces stepped up their bombardment two weeks ago but officials from the world health organization say syrian authorities stripped their convoy of crucial medical supplies before allowing it to pass through thousands of syrians many of them injured remain trapped in goot. five. after weeks of waiting a glimmer of hope for the sick and wounded of eastern. dozens of aid trucks have been clear to cross but the united nations say syrian authorities have seized crucial life saving medical supplies according to officials much of the aid was not allowed through. what we were hoping to enter without shelling because the ceasefire must be respected as this is a humanitarian convoy heading towards a large number of civilians. convoy isn't

sufficient supplies for seventy thousand people were reduced to under twenty eight thousand people. some are still almost. the crippling siege has left civilian stranded as syrian forces expand their assault undeterred by the international outcry the un backed ceasefire has been largely ignored as president bashar al assad's forces advance into the last major held territory near damascus. as you know. of the lead and about i see no conflict between the truce and the military operations are recent advances occurred during the cease fire as i said it is possible to achieve a humanitarian objectives while striking the terrorists we then have to continue our operations while allowing civilians to leave government controlled areas holding. up our hundreds of thousands of civilians remain trapped in the enclave amid cleese for an end to

the brutal bombardment despite an agreement for peaceful aid delivery there have been reports of shelling near the crossing into kuta. we want to go now to ralph in beirut he is the regional spokesperson for the international committee for the red cross for the middle east mr hodges good to see you again we we've heard that the world health organization was able to get some supplies into eastern goober did you get all of your supplies in that you wanted to. yes hi good evening to you and to your viewers yes we were able to deliver our basically medical supplies which we managed to bring in i give you an idea of what this medical supplies contain the contained medicine for chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension as well as consumables for dialysis

patients in addition we've delivered much needed food and other essential items for the basic necessities of people inside you are in close contact with your colleagues who were on the ground with the convoy what are they telling you about the situation in eastern due to versa villian zimmy describe what you're hearing yes indeed what we've heard from our our colleagues who are just inside the duma and nice and good on our own are on their way back they've seen no men women and children who are pleading for for medical aid who are desperate for safety who just want the war to stop or just telling us that this has to end soon and that they want to get out of that area to to a place where they feel safe for their children where where they don't get injured we don't get killed that's what they want at the moment that's the most important thing the safety of civilians inside a minute darian aid is a secondary priority but the safety of people remains the major priority today and

is allowing the convoy into eastern good is that a first step or will this remain and exception what do you think. this is a positive step however perhaps it's just a little bit too late we hope not we hope that this positive step will be the first of further positive steps in which we will be allowed to provide more humanitarian aid through more convoys into duma and other areas in the cymbalta today we have around four hundred thousand people in this area and they are desperately in need of primarily medical aid and other support that humanitarian aid organizations must and should be allowed to delivered sides. with the international committee of the red cross for the middle east joining us tonight from beirut well thank you very much thank you fear some of the other stories now that are making headlines around

the world protesters have marched through washington to demand that congress protect hundreds of thousands of young people from deportation the deferred action for childhood arrivals program which shields some seven hundred thousand immigrants brought to the u.s. illegally as children is set to expire on monday and the government have so far been unable to agree on a replacement for the so-called dreamers what a moment president jimmy morale is has confirmed his country will relocate its embassy in israel to jerusalem in may just a couple of days after washington moves its diplomatic mission he told a program is really the move underscores guatemala's support for israel u.s. president trump announced last year that washington would be moving its embassy to jerusalem. you're watching d.w. news alive from berlin still to come was representing the biggest winner of this

year's academy awards after a purge of hollywood abusers tinseltown get set for a new era of. being inclusive. the first daniel is here he's always inclusive for trump of well i guess they've gotten europe's big industries a little word right you know bring all the political analysts are saying this is just a boggling tactic but of course it scared the wits out of corporations the u.s. president steel tariffs could be a double blow for european comic is not only will the factories that they own in america have to pay more for the steel to make vehicles but now trump has threatened big levies on imports from europe it's a topic on everyone's lips as the biggest brands of gabaa in geneva. as carmakers prepared to showcase their newest shiny ist models at the geneva motor show donald trump's threat to impose tariffs on vehicles made in the european union cast

a shadow over proceedings some experts maintained the move would backfire. from threat doesn't appear to be very well thought through if he really wants to impose import tariffs across the board that would affect over six million cars over all that would amount to a minor revolution in america because it would anger both car makers and consumers leading to a recession in the u.s. car market that's the opposite of what he wants. for if trump makes good on his stress the german car industry in particular could be badly hurt us for b.m.w. and mercedes have their own plants in the united states however v.w. subsidiaries and porsche don't and would be hit hard by terrorists the united states is the second biggest export destination for german cars after china last year alone german automakers exported almost half a million vehicles to the u.s.

now they're feeling uneasy about what could be to come. here the sidelines of the geneva motor show carmakers are wondering what period of tariffs will mean for the especially dharmic carmakers have production operations in the u.s. and american manufacturers manufacture vigorously abroad as well so perhaps import tariffs will only apply to direct imports from europe but that would be a blur to the industry as well the u.s. is the world's second largest automotive market and the most important buyer for bigger and more expensive german cars tariffs or not in geneva the show goes on with a pun european panel crowning sweetens volvo x c four c. car of the year. but no awards can distract from the widely held belief that the trade war threatened by trump is unlikely to produce any winners in the european car industry. the world health organization is calling it the world's biggest

outbreak of listeria one hundred eighty people confirmed dead in south africa and the government there is pointing to meet produces the brands is fighting back south africa's biggest consumer foods maker saying there is no direct link between the company and the deaths tiger has halted production of its two enterprise foods factories as a precaution earlier i spoke to south africa correspondent asking why tiger brands is being singled out. well they're saying there's no proof of a link and they have actually said. two weeks ago when they did their own checks that they did find no levels of this bacteria listeria but they say that they've been checking regularly and that they can be responsible because the amount of that unit you mentioned is because this book terry has been going around already for a year and the ministry minister of health has now said that they found the source

because a group of three school kids got sick in the township of soweto near johannesburg after eating polonia it's this kind of sausage that can be made of pork or chicken and because they got sick a lot of these preschoolers got tests that they found this this bacteria that gave them full poisoning and they could pinpoint it down in a set to this point only from enterprise from tiger brands that's that they ate so that minister says if we are clear now this is where it comes from ok so how is the region reacting to all of this after all it's not just south africa effect no definitely not snow because this company also exports a lot to two neighboring countries so as so far we've seen now countries around us in panic mode as well maybe as botswana mozambique malawi they've all said that they're going to stop imports now and it's also removed all the products that they did have from their shelves and it looks like patients experience high

temperature flu symptoms vomiting diarrhea some even die as we've heard our consumers panic. yes no definitely and of course it's mainly to phone bill right it's old people it's kids that have been mainly effects of by this people definitely opened up freaks today this to check what is in my fridge what kind of process meat do i have because a whole new set now that we shouldn't just look at is put on it is one sausage basically a lot of the cold cuts and other processed meats that said that the specter has made that we've also seen people actually showing up with chocolate bags full of this meat going to to factories in the munging our refunds as well so people are scared supermarkets have been responding quick publishing lists of products that you should check for if you have it in your fridge or not and putting it off the shelf so all the kind of big supermarket change here shoprite pick and pay woolworths they have now said ok we definitely don't want this in our stores

anymore so you this is a is it's very it's a bear a very big crisis and people are in panic and of course very bad for this company that this has happened now a nightmare scenario for consumers that in south africa and us thank you very much for that. and. the ninety then you will academy awards and six months after the launch of the me too movement women look to seize the spotlight and more opportunity. i the highlight of the oscars fade away and warren beatty handed out the coveted best picture award. i it was guillermo del toro second trip to the stage having earlier picked up the oscar for best director. del toro's fantasy romance a quirky love story between a mystery merman like creature and a mutant cleaning lady was

a favorite throughout the awards season it took home a golden globe and a director's guild award before grabbing for oscars. best actor accolades went to gary oldman for his portrayal of winston churchill in the gritty world war two drama the darkest hour. old men had to endure up to five hours in makeup every day during filming to complete his transformation to britain's storied wartime leader. the best actress oscar went to frances mcdormand for her role as a grieving mother in the comedic drama three billboards outside of being missouri mcdormand use the podium to make a stand for more diversity. if i may be so honored to have all the female nominees in every category stand with me in this room tonight the actors marrow if you do it everybody else will come on third filmmaker the producer that's

right through the cinematography. thank you thank you thank you decided. to take a look around everybody look around ladies and gentlemen because we are stories to tell and projects we need finance judging by the overwhelming support in the room many here hope the call is too loud for the hollywood studios to ignore. i'll be back to take you through the day we're going to go to los angeles stick around for that.

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