this is g.w. news live from berlin on the markle a sworn enemy barking on our fourth term a german chancellor an operation puts an end to months of political paralysis but she wins re-election by just a slim margin and hint of the friction she is likely to face book find out what might be in store for her. britain's prime minister theresa may expose twenty three russian diplomats in the rolla over the poisoned expiry they each get just

a week to leave the biggest expulsion of russian diplomats in thirty years in u.s. students get ready to walk out of classrooms across the nation for seventeen minutes spurred on by the killing of seventeen people at a school in florida four weeks ago. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us high school students across the united states are walking out of their schools to protest gun violence and to call for stricter gun laws they have been preparing for this day since the florida high school shooting last month or seventeen people were killed at the mass shooting at marjorie stoneman douglas high school is being seen by many as a turning point in the american gun control debate student survivors have dedicated themselves to fighting for stronger laws they've been the son joined by others around the country. are trying to push for tougher. and let's see if

we can bring our correspondent alexander phenomenon on line she's there in washington covering this protest for us in front of the white house or it looks like we've lost our line it too alexandra we will try to get her back on a little bit later in the program should be covering that student walkout in the united states for a south will return to that story in a little bit for now though moving on to one of our other top stories here in germany months of political gridlock coming to an end as uncle marco was sworn in as head of a new coalition government michael took the oath of office from the start president off guard shortland front of lawmakers who had earlier narrowly voted to reelect her as chancellor her inauguration comes after a near six month struggle to form a government michel securing her fourth term after finally convincing her conservatives and the center left social democrats to come together for another coalition government. the bundestag vote was tighter than expected well

doctor i'm going to marry the doctor who has the necessary majority of it at least three hundred fifty five votes and has been elected chancellor according to our sixty three paragraph two of the constitution you've written do you examine the result. yes mr president. would that merkel was officially elected to the fourth term miss chancellor. it's her third time in a grand coalition the social democrats. it took a while for medical to win over the s.p.d. but in the end the junior partners offered their congratulations. on the chancellor remains the chancellor and that's cause for happiness and i think this is good news for the citizens of our country and good news for europe. who do not wish to open. but at least thirty five members of merkel's coalition failed to support her in the

end her margin of victory was nine votes including her own in a parliament of seven hundred nine deputies that's hardly a dream start to the latest magical government. husband. put in a first appearance at such an election and merkel's next cabinet is also new in many respects the numerical government is noticeably younger and includes more women than previous ones its main priorities. we need to ensure domestic security and the welfare of society we need to figure out how to positively tackle the challenges of global competition. after the bring the stuff vote machall was sworn in by german president trying. to one hundred seventy one days after germany's national election last september the country finally has a new government. and they say. for now for more on the story let's go to our correspondent christopher spring gate our political correspondent

christopher thank you for joining us the vote this morning comes after months of gridlock here in berlin this must be a sigh of relief for both the chancellor and her government. that's a very good way of putting it definitely a lot of relief to be seen on the faces of german parliamentarians this morning a lot of smiles many of the new ministers clearly thrilled at taking up their new posts medical herself beaming as she accepted her post of chancellor her fourth term in office and you know it's taken one hundred seventy one days to get here that's double the previous record german coalition negotiations are always long but this one hundred seventy one days is particularly long now everyone is sworn in work can finally begin. she didn't have the support that she might have expected christopher a lot has been made of that how will that affect this upcoming new term do you think. well i think that's a sign of or

a symptom of the fact that chancellor merkel although she's beginning her fourth term in office is a chance with less standing less or thorough t. . she you know up to thirty five members of her own coalition voted against her so i think it's a sign is going to be a more fractious coalition. the social democrats as you mentioned had to be convinced to join this coalition there are also a lot of conservatives within chancellor merkel's party who are pulling to the right so the social democrats pulling to the left it's going to be a difficult coalition to keep together lots of centrifugal forces and chancellor merkel is going to have to juggle a lot of conflicting pressures in demand she'll have to draw on all her political skill to keep this coalition together over the four years of its term all right the next step for the next german government our political correspondent christopher

springy thank you very much you're welcome. we're turning now to that story we brought you a few minutes ago high school students across the united states are walking out of their schools to protest gun violence and to call for stricter gun laws they've been preparing for this day since the florida high school shooting last month where seventeen people were killed in the mass shooting at marjorie stoneman douglas high school is being seen by many as a possible turning point in the american gun control debate student survivors have dedicated themselves to fighting for stronger laws and they have been joined by others around the country. and we can go to our correspondent alexander phenomena who is standing by for us now there are we see that a lot of people are gathered what's been happening. here in front of the white house hundreds of high school students health coverage to press the president. and or the people killed in the parkland shooting with seventeen minutes of silence.

this is a very powerful image as you can see hundreds of high school students from maryland virginia and the district of columbia have coverage here many of them told me that their motivation is genuine fear

a fear that they have to live with every day it's their school that the shooting like the one that happened in the parkland can happen in their home town so therefore they have coverage here hoping that they can press lawmakers to tighten gun control legislation. that has been discussed. more checks for gun buyers. raising age for people who want to buy guns for measures but he. also told me that what they want to see is. as you said alexander a very powerful image there a student marking seventeen minutes of silence there for the seventeen people killed in the florida high school shooting last month alexander phenomena there for us in front of the white house in washington thank you alexander we'll come back to

you in a little bit. well after russia did not meet a deadline to explain a poison attack against a former russian spy and his daughter in the u.k. britain is now imposing a new set of sanctions against moscow in a parliamentary session in london british prime minister theresa may outlined the u.k.'s reaction she announced the expulsion of a number of russian officials and wants to limit the bilateral contacts with moscow later today the u.n. security council is going to discuss the case in new york nato too was promised to help the u.k. during the ongoing investigation and here's what may have to say earlier in the comments. she might look to see what. could i just point out to the right on the agenda when it was there is no alternative conclusion other than that the russian state was culpable for the attempted murder of mr script powell and his daughter and for threatening the lives of other british citizens in salzburg including detective sergeant nick beatty this represents an on more full use of force by the

russian state against the united kingdom. under the vienna convention the united kingdom will now expel twenty three russian diplomats who have been identified as undeclared intelligence officers they have just one week to leave this will be the single biggest expulsion for over thirty years and it reflects the fact that this is not the first time that the russian state has acted against our country through these expulsions we will fundamentally degrade russian intelligence capability in the u.k. for years to come and if they seek to rebuild it we will prevent them from doing so . let's bring in correspondent emily sure went in moscow in bergen mass in london both covering the story for us good to see you both burkett let's start with you in london how much do we know about these twenty three individuals who are to be expelled we don't know any details we don't know who it's going

to be but us the reason may has laid out she wants to target the russian intelligence network and she had to identify diplomats so they would be associated with the russian embassy in london to diplomats to expel basically which is of course something that is quite unprecedented that it happens only in very very severe cases and that many of them we have to think back to the case of alexander litvinenko who was a former russian spy who was then. here in london here in central london and russia was in an inquiry found out to be responsible for that just for diplomats were expelled at the time so this is definitely an escalation and it's going to be a real strain on the russian u.k. relations because of course russia is going to retaliate and really with such an escalation what's been the reaction so far in russia. well there hasn't been an official reaction from the kremlin yet but i can imagine that the

reaction would be defiant as it has been so far we have had word from one of the members of the committee for international affairs in the federation council that's the upper house of parliament here in russia and he said that the response could be more than tit for tat it could be even harsher and it could be that russia would expel even more than twenty three diplomats but that's not official word yet that was just one of the members of the upper house of russian parliament saying that the russian embassy has also responded they said that the u.k. has full responsibility for the deterioration of relations between the u.k. and russia and they also called this move just not just hostile but also short sighted the foreign ministry has said that there will be an official reaction soon so we'll have to watch out for the berg and can you put this in context for us what does this mean for british russian ties. well of course it's

a new low point for british russian ties the relation has already been strained particularly since the death of alexander litvinenko and since it was found out by the inquiry that russia is responsible and most likely this was ordered directly by by the kremlin this was the for the death of the former british spy alexander litvinenko so already that was really put a real strain on russian u.k. relations they haven't really recovered since then but now we are seeing this and we're also seeing the foreign minister lavrov is being disinvited to the u.k. we're seeing that the u.k. is not intending to send high level officials at all to russia not to the world cup the royal family is not going to go to the world cup so we see quite a lot of measures and of course the u.k. also wants to rope in the allies it's looking for it's looking for support with the western allies it has the support of the e.u. they have said they stand in solidarity with the u.k.

as has nato now it's of course a question of what's going to follow are there any more sanctions that can be agreed with other allies so there is more to come and that's for sure and that's going to determine of course then also the russian reaction. as we heard there there's a series of measures that are being taken by the british government how harsh are they likely to be seen in russia. well the british government is clearly sending a signal to russia and as bigots said this does of course show that relations are deteriorating but from the russian point of view i think these resists reaction could have been much tougher if we look at what actually has happened this boycott of the officials of the world cup that has been kind of laughed off in recent days here in russia i think if there had been a more widespread boycott including the actual teams that could have actually affected the world cup much more but as it stands it's just

a few officials on the royal the royal family and of course the question is how important is the u.k. to russia at this point after breakfast i think that russia will be kind of laughing that off as well all right our correspondent emily sure win in moscow and burgers must in london thank you both very much. all right let's go back to a story that we were covering a little bit earlier for you students high school students in the united states staging a walkout and holding a moment of silence in front of the white house we have our correspondent alexander phenomena standing by for us there alexander bring us up to date on what's been happening. well as you can see behind me the students are still sitting here in front of the white house two on there are seventeen people killed in the parklands mass shootings later on they are going to march towards the capitol here to try to press lawmakers in congress to.

be stricter on gun control people here sudanese here told me that they hope that this is the right moment to get involved state told me that they believe they can make a difference then they can convince a lawmaker in congress to pass stricter gun legislation what kind of changes aleksandr are we talking about what changes to the gun legislation do these students want to see. of course they have different opinions about what happened right now but there are different proposals being debated right now so we're talking about. attempts to stricter gun control people who wants to buy to purchase guns have to be checked more carefully but there are also as you can see in. the seventeen minutes of

silence our. students are standing up. so now we can expect. to continue and as i said the government here to march to capitol hill. no there is going to be protests trail either it's speakers maybe we will see a number of lawmakers attending and coming back to you questions there have been also proposals aiming and raising the minimum age for gun purchases and there is of course proposals express. presented by president's trump who suggested that it would be a good thing to our teachers however students that i talked to told me that they think that this proposal is ridiculous because that's the thing they don't want to

see in their classrooms more ganster center a very emotional moment where you can see after seventeen minutes of silence as they now move their protest as you said to the capitol do they feel like the government the president is listening to them. because they hope that this is their moment and they told me that they don't want to give up they have social media they know they know how to make their voices be heard but of course they also told me that they understand how politics work and they know that they have been there has been similar situations after avar mass shootings nevertheless they hope that they can be changed and they told me that if they just don't listen to them they are going to vote them out in future. alexander phenomena for us in front of the white house

a month after of the florida school shooting where seventeen people died students staging a walkout across the u.s. in a protest in front of the white house alexandra thank you very much. you're watching d.w. news still to come we're now on physicist stephen hawking has died at the age of seventy six he'll be remembered as much for its synthesizer voices for his groundbreaking theoretical work well look at his life and legacy. but first the trouble jitters continue monica's business now well the good news sumi shares in europe at least are solidly in positive territory this afternoon but it was a rough day in asia that has u.s. president trump's firing spree signals political uncertainty in the white house the new secretary of state by pump ale is an advocate of taking a hard line with china on trade in hong kong the hang seng index lost more than half a percent here investors are worried about donald trump seeking to impose tariffs

on up to sixty billion dollars of chinese imports in the near future that's according to a reuters report in japan the stocks fell as well breaking a four day winning streak the nikkei index lost almost zero point nine percent to twenty one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven points. the president of the european council done a task meanwhile tries to calm emotions between the united states and the e.u. saying the last thing we need is a trade war but will that calm investors nerves over to the frankfurt stock exchange conrad what's the mood like at the moment. i have to say monica all this talk about trade wars is casting a very dark shadow over the markets which without those fears would have really reason to be upbeat many companies are reporting strong earnings like for example i did us today here in germany and we haven't seen as many i.p.o.'s in

a long time or announcements of i.p.o.'s at the end of this week siemens will go it's health care technology department it's a big i.p.o. a big deal reason for traders to be partying but i can tell you nobody here on the trading floors is in the mood to party right now but at least we have the german government in place now if you think berlin will be able to help revive the e.u. u.s. trade talks. well that's what everyone here is hoping for now now that has been confirmed as chancellor she has the full power and the full backing of a majority in parliament our finance minister can get to the job as early as next week when meeting is scheduled of the g twenty finance ministers and governors of the central banks in argentina of course everyone here is also well aware that on the other side of the negotiating negotiating table seems to sit someone donald trump

who is a disrupter who doesn't really want to do business the traditional way so everyone here is also skeptical or a continent who isn't in frankfurt thanks so much for this. well german comical folks are getting serious about the production of electric costs of the manufacturers pick partners to provide battery cells and related to knology worth twenty billion euros the carmaker plans to equip sixteen production plants for the production of electric cars by twenty twenty two a strong increase from the three that are currently able to produce them in hopes to produce three million electric models per year by twenty twenty five. and the world of course bits for well to a much loved much admired site that's right monica stephen hawking a renowned british scientist has died at the age of seventy six his family says the

physicist passed away peacefully in a sleep in the early hours of wednesday hawking will be remembered for his groundbreaking work and black holes in general relativity he also defied expectations living for more than fifty years with a motor neuron disease let's take a look back at his life. stephen hawking showed the world the limitless possibilities of the mind trapped in a body crippled by illness he was one of the most well known scientists of our time from the seat of a wheelchair and with the help of a speech generating device the theoretical physicist and cosmologist fascinated people worldwide. talking faced his difficult physical condition with courage spirit and his trademark to drive. a superhero i worked on everything.

stephen hawking was born in oxford england on january eighth one thousand nine hundred forty two the oldest of four children. at seventeen he was awarded a scholarship at oxford university he studied physics and chemistry he also joined the school's boat club and loved science fiction then at the age of twenty one destiny dealt him a cruel blow. each to. the dark circles diagnosed me with big o. s. or older who were individually all three of. years. all of my life i would read up on early. hawking focused on subjects he knew best and could manage he began working in the field of theoretical physics at cambridge university he researched areas that combined science philosophy and religion such as the origin of the universe. he was especially

interested in black holes and studied the mysterious phenomenon for years. he looked at what happens to the material sucked into these holes. he developed numerous theories but no definitive answers. one of his greatest discoveries was that black holes can disappear this revelation turned the scientific world on a ten. in one thousand and eight he published a brief history of time the book sold millions of copies and was translated into dozens of languages stephen hawking became a high profile public figure. he used his popularity to warn of the dangers of nuclear war and climate change. he sought a public debate to search for answers to other pressing questions of our time.

hawking was actively interested in peace between israel and the palestinians. he called the u.s. led invasion of iraq in two thousand and three a war crime even inspired a hollywood film about his relationship with his first wife. hawking received numerous awards and honors for his research and his efforts to open science to a broader audience. in two thousand and seven he fulfilled a dream when he went on a zero gravity flight it was the first time in thirty seven years that he could move without being in a wheelchair. if what he did was. fire could have gotten off it appears earlier. you're watching the news still to come a book about the norway massacre of two thousand and eleven has won the european prize for understanding we take

a look at. the exhaustive account of one of us. plus russia's elections this weekend are expected to be a foregone conclusion but flattener could easily winning another term but what is it like for russian journalists covering the vote and politics we have a special report coming up in the next thirty minutes. to. start the stars he made a plan to stop. the representative. architect of east germany's police state i. explained if i had my way the face germany would still be. playing and you know obviously.

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a slim margin in the german parliament just nine votes for but her an operation today and six months of political uncertainty. and britain's prime minister teresa mayes to expel twenty three russian diplomats in the row over the poisoned axe by they get just a week to leave in the biggest expulsion of russian diplomats in thirty years it was a case of that poisoned expiry circus cripple and his daughter comes ahead of russia's presidential election on sunday some are calling it the no surprises poll lattimer putin is all but guaranteed to clinch another six year term the russian media are firmly behind him and there's little in the way of criticism in the two thousand and seventeen reporters without borders survey the ranking of one hundred eighty countries of press freedom russia came in at number one hundred forty eight part three in our series russia votes takes a look at some of the difficulties faced. i russian journalists.

reporter powerful new coolant dared criticize the kremlin's policies in syria now he risks his freedom. i open the door to armed police officers and two plainclothes secret service agents were standing there. dimitris go to the top was an editor at a state owned t.v. station until his employer fired him now he's breaking his silence. everything is centrally controlled with notices and bans state television cannot show that the state has problems of. the two used to belong to different political camps now both are in danger. in moscow only a handful of journalists like the coolant are willing to investigate and address taboo topics human rights violations harassment in the military terrorism the secret service first noticed mccool in when he interviewed

a russian member of i.a.s. they accused him of justifying terrorism in general they took forty copies of this magazine as evidence. but it doesn't mention syria or terrorism. and apparently their only reason was that my brochure that dealt with completely different topics had a black cover. scoreboard tof was a news editor at the state owned broadcaster rosia one day he says his boss was drunk and beat him up when dmitri tried to take his boss to court he was fired. apparently the station wanted to cover up the incident dimitri feels betrayed and has started to fight back against a system he once supported. as an editor i get these so-called stoplight. certain people in topics we weren't allowed to report on. for example when people were protesting and we remained silent for nearly two weeks it was only towards the end

of the second week that we were allowed to mention the protests but we had to dismiss them as harmless child's play we weren't even allowed to mention the name of a political opponent no bonnie and we weren't allowed to report in the demonstrations even though they were happening in one hundred two cities. on march eighteenth russia is set to go to the polls many expect the outcome to be rigged but there will be little mention of that on state controlled media where the election will be portrayed as honest and fair ponens claim governmental agencies suppress any criticism of the system. for example from news or as a supervisory agency that makes our lives difficult. and critical articles. and they claim it's to protect children. even for younger generations but television is the most important source of

information fifty four percent of the viewers between eighteen and twenty four prefer news from rosia one. but insiders say the russian state controls almost all broadcasting stations and uses them as an important propaganda tool and their power expands beyond mere reporting. when i show it first my lawyer didn't believe just how powerful my station was she thought i was exaggerating but when the court rejected our case for the fourth time she started to realize something was very wrong with. the way agencies treat us journalists how they deny us access to courts arrest us at protests search our homes. it all goes to show how little regard the state has for us. in the past years this is your version is only. it so bad that everybody who decides to take up this job can expect maybe murdered somebody. as different as new coolants and score of

botox experiences are they both seem to show two sides of the same coin the same principle play along keep your mouth shut or find a different job as the saying goes in russia either you're with us or against us. right now the european union is taking more action against the big players in silicon valley monica and i'm sure you can guess which players those could be sue me france is threatening to take legal action against technology jains google and apple for abusive business practices now that could result in fines of several million euros french finance minister who know they have said on wednesday that france accuses the internet giant of imposing terrorism developers who hope to sell their apps to them the lawsuits would be an effort to protect startups and developers from modifying contracts without the consent of the other party. i mean

while google's biggest growth markets like latin america africa asia a big hurdle in common people outside of the big cities and many even in the big cities are very often have no real liable access to the internet so the tech giant is helping the development along by setting up its own public wife i hotspots. in mexico why fire is not always easy to come by although the number of people with access to the internet rose by twenty million between twenty thirteen and twenty sixteen the country still lacks behind other o.e.c.d. nations. to improve connectivity in emerging markets and increase its customer base the tech giant has tied up google stations and network of wife i hotspot mexico is google's first latin american market to be a corporate this technology and it's the third country in the world. these next billion users are not coming from the u.s.

or other developed markets they're coming from countries like india like indonesia and of course mexico. with wildfires own scattered across highly frequented places such as airports and shopping centers google will connect many mexicans to the worldwide web and its own services. now here i'm about to give away my age because when i went to school we used actual books pencils and notepads not to forget chalk for the blackboard but that's a thing of the past today computers and wide boards dominate the classroom and schools need to upgrade constantly germany is still making average progress where digitalization in schools is concerned but countries like japan are actually leading the way and it seems they have a lot more in the pipeline. these high school students in tokyo testing out the new digital desks they'll be using come april. their school is part

of a pilot project run by the university of tokyo and the i.t. company future. without a conventional pen or notebook insights they write straight on to the table or on to digital boards using digital pens. it's more effective than if i want to share my notes with classmates. i can explain the process of my thinking that if i can show my notes to the whole class. the system can record students nights and project them via camera on to other tables or boards it should also help teachers to assess students. if the project is successful the fully digital classroom may soon spread to other schools in japan and around the world. part time to talk about the leipsic book fair it opens this evening lives in the eastern part of the country and we have our culture editor adrian kennedy with us

here in our studio adrian this also this book fair bestows one of germany's biggest prizes book prizes this is the top seed book prize for european understanding and this evening it will be presented to the norwegian journalist. for her harrowing documentary novel one of us the stories of private and the massacre in norway now. has written for many years from the war zones afghanistan syria chechnya but here she is writing about a bomb attack in her hometown also and about the brutal massacre of young members of no win or slow around the corner from the author hence the title one of us and we will talk with the author in the norwegian capsule but first we have a reminder of the shocking events. oslo july twentieth levon eight people were killed when the right wing extremist

does varying brave it detonates a bomb outside a government building. bridges then travel to the island of and killed a further sixty nine mostly teenagers who had gathered for an annual labor party youth camp. journalist as no zionist had sat through the ten week trial what started as an article would turn into a five hundred page book. from the moment x. they were breivik entered the room it's you feel of it's kind of a fucker it's cold less so in a way the room was packed with conflicting emotions. for a few days i realized that this is not an article this is the whole book. the story of one of us does strike very close to home for zion that brave it for a time having lived only a few meters from her house. he comes out of the society

he was on the surface a very ordinary person he went through the same school system we have the same experience so what made him into this worry are of you know believing that this country is being islamicized in the basement of the bombed government building a memorial to the victims the mobiles and cameras from the murdered children who tried to contact their parents during the attack. bridgette himself denied an interview her sources come from brave extended mintz police and psychiatric reports talks with friends and with the killer's mother what emerged was the tale of an extremist loser someone who was rejected from childhood on and desperately sought recognition it was important to me in the book never to use. tapes around him even the word of evil is not in the book is just his actions what it did what it

was thinking like when he's calculating how many people he need to kill the get famous i just put it in his words i just i don't describe what i mean about that because god is suppose that's the work of the reader business zion starts one of us is an exhaustive account that confronts norway's greatest peacetime trauma. as you said this is a documentary novel so is this an entirely factual account of what happened. is a journalist but everything in this book is based on testimony on witness accounts is being carefully constructed in a very literally literary style so it does feel sometimes like an awful science that manages to get inside the minds of the victims. gives us the thoughts of brave it but again here everything is taken from things that he said to the police to psychiatry join the trial or to families in the quaint and says so it's

reconstruction. but it's one that is based on very meticulous research for her book one of us and she has another book that's come out and that also looks at radicalization and using the same approach that's why i say is that brave didn't succeed in changing no way no way is remained an open liberal tolerant society and one that welcomes migrants and refugees from all over the world so her latest book is called two sisters tells the story of two somali teenagers. and who come to norway is where she's they seem to be fitting in but into n.t. thirteen they choose to leave safety behind and go to syria as i guess islamic state brides is interested in what makes you feel rejects liberal democratic values but she is she presents the facts and leaves the readers to make their own judgments it's also the story of the father's search for the his two

daughters they are still missing in syria sounds like a very good read all of this against the backdrop of the leipsic book fair more on our website a story w dot com slash the full interview with the author. and full coverage of the leipzig book our adrian kennedy our culture editor thank you very much thank you. ok now to a money trail linked to one of the biggest uncut diamonds in the world nearly a year ago the so-called peace diamond was discovered in sierra leone the government promised of poor some of the profits back into development projects but the small town miners who discovered the precious stone say that is not the case he has this exclusive report. five feet had traveled for an hour through the jungle of sierra leone and the more wanted to show us the mine that is known the world over and the more is the head of the nearby

village one year ago biggest found a huge diamant the so-called peace diamant and the more himself held it in his own head. still put it i was so happy we all wear the diamond was so big and the people here were happy because they thought now we'll see some. seven hundred and nine carats no one had ever seen a diamond that large five diggers walking for past or whether once to find it first the past or brought the diamond to the district chief then together they personally delivered the diamonds to the president of sierra leone this was rare usually diamants us smuggled out of the region in december there was an auction in new york that raised six point five million dollars forty percent should go to the past or sixty percent to the government the government promised to spend part of the money to support the village and the district. the diamond was quickly labeled peacetime

and because it was supposed to be a game changer changing the way things work here instead of a few people who get the profits from the diamond the whole community was supposed to benefits but things turned out the other way. back in the village there is no electricity no hospital not even a paved street one of the three teachers in the village show us the school where two hundred children are taught this is just it is not it is not a school this is just a part of the young not even a school building look at it it's supposed to be a school as long as we are living in conditions like this that diamond shouldn't leave the country they'll have a great time in america with a diamond but what about us. a lot god should punish you all. were. good to spread you under more the village head shows us where the new school was supposed to be built but there's nothing to see no construction no development but

the pastor and the chief the traditional leader here in the region promised us progress they told us to find a piece of land and clear it in the name of the government but we haven't heard from them since we did that. in the provincial capital we were able to interview the chief he's on the government payroll he assures us though that he has not received any money from the diamond but he is certain the government will invest one million dollars in the region patience is required. reason to do hope right now . that two of them went to law that shows like this for example. fight anybody in the office. and so on and so forth but i do any reason to believe that there would be. in sierra leone's capital freetown we tried to interview government officials but no one would speak to us we

were able to get in touch with the pastor as well apparently he has built four houses in the meantime. in korea do they are still waiting waiting for school for electricity for a medical clinic they are waiting for justice and hoping a new diamond will surface some time soon for. time to talk football in the champions league round of sixteen plenty of drama tonight we have met harmon from d.w. sports with us to talk all about this that we have barcelona shall see these are powerhouses in the champions league but first let's talk about the best in the bundesliga by air and what's going to happen again specially cash they're going to go through to the next round a matter what the score is tonight well not all explained in this piece ok let's take a quick look here at that match up. biren have been making

a habit of it lately scoring goals by the bushel. in their last three which is across competitions the book variants have hit the back of the net fifteen times. coming off a six mil win in the bundesliga this weekend's buyers have a plan to make the second pledge of their champions league time against the sheikh to look much like the first five built victory. thanks so much you. will be the ones applying pressure they have to come out and try to score. if we just stay alert and we defend well i'm certain that we're going to get chances to counter chances we'll need to use. them. to shoot josh are well aware they dug themselves a deep hole in the first leg and might be tempted to save their strength for a tilt at the turkish super league title still their coach says there's no

alternative but to go for growth. is going to shrink it's difficult but we have to admit that our chances to advance aren't because it won't be easy but we are still in this race so we have to give it everything we have is if we play our best schools and i want he said as though there's the trouble is if biron played their best he will be sacked and very possibly on the wrong end of another big scoreline. ok byron is looking so strong are they just incredibly good or is it that the competition that they face until now in the bonus like the end of the champions league really hasn't been up to par well i mean c'mon if you watch byron yes they are very very good they are good enough to win the champions league this season they were good enough to get to the last four in the champions league three out of the last four years. and the only reason they didn't last year is because they had misfortune of meeting adventure winners real

madrid in the quarter final round maybe it is true that the bundesliga has had a bit of an off year aside from. our twenty points up. but that's not really a new situation. i actually think the buyers have been every bit good enough to win the champions league for the last eight or nine seasons they've only managed to do it once and make it to two other finals but that's as much down to luck as anything else it's a knockout tournaments remember that's there's a lot of luck involved in the champions this could be their year let's look at some of the other heavyweights that are in the tournament right now barcelona is always a big threat what's going to happen tonight when they face off against chelsea yeah i mean far as i'm concerned who's going to win the champions league is always barcelona maybe somebody else. i think that i could say you know chelsea put on a really good showing in the first leg they were unlucky not to win at home at stanford bridge but i don't think that matters i think that chelsea are going to be sent packing i think barcelona are too strong they are leading. chelsea is sort of

falling down in the premier league and we've seen this sort of thing form in barcelona get a bad result sometimes away in the first leg and they clean things up in the second like did it very famously last year in their out of succeed against parasites losing four nil in paris and then winning six one at home to go through in the one of the biggest comeback victories of all time so i think they very much have it in them to you know. that could be a very good match and there was some action last night as well who had been there well we had a couple surprises actually not so much on one of them in terms of you know stature but certainly on the other manchester united are the most storied clubs in the world one of the richest clubs in the world lost two one at home to sivia and this was just a matter of perhaps manchester united not really don't forget it was a draw away in seville in the first leg. i'm but still they didn't put their foot

on the gas until the very end after severe had already scored twice you know yet or came off the bench scored two goals in the space of about four minutes and then you know just looked dazed after that they got one back but that wasn't enough that was basically two away goals were severe and that was too big of a mountain for them to clog the other match also quite interesting was so roma getting a one at home to shakhtar donetsk they had lost the first leg so shocked or kind of went into the game thinking that they you know just needed to keep clean sheet but it turned out not to be enough i mean roma also played in a fairly conservative way as man united did but they played it better they got an earlier goal they got a goal from jacko their striker of many years in the fifty second minute and they were prepared with a game plan that what the whole dong unholy assault shocked are to get back in the game but you know sometimes these things work out all right matt just don't put on the spot very briefly here of the big three that you mentioned barcelona byron and

rail who's going to win it all this year. all right we'll see if you're right matt hermann for devious for thank you very much. and we just have time for a minder of our top stories that we're following for you here on u.s. school students across the nation have walked out of class they're calling for tougher gun laws and to commemorate the seventeen people who were killed at a school in florida four weeks ago. america has been sworn in for her fourth term as german chancellor she won reelection by a slim margin in the german parliament just nine votes but her in operation today and almost six months of political uncertainty. and britain's prime minister theresa may is to expel twenty three russian diplomats in the row over the poisoned ex by they get just a week to leave in the thinking of russian diplomats in thirty years. you're watching news phil gallo will have an update on those headlines for you coming up in just a few minutes. the be. the best

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