player. this is deja vu news live from berlin britain's allies declare their support and its standoff with russia prime minister to resume a this is the city where the former russian spy and his daughter were poisoned nato the u.s. france and germany are all rallying to her supporters also coming up thousands of syrians who plead to seize eastern good time as government forces close in the battle for the rebel held enclave has been one of the deadliest in the country's seven year civil war plus what is in your bottled water new research shows it

probably contains micro plastics is this a new public health threat in the making evil i ask our environment correspondent and it gets very cold in winter and has one of the world's highest suicide rates yet the u.n. says it's now the happiest place on earth say with us to find out where exactly that it is. i'm sorry kelly thanks so much for joining us. we don't want another cold war but we will defend our allies the words of nato chief jens stoltenberg as ever more countries rallied to support britain the us france and germany have all expressed solidarity over an assassination attempt on former double agent sergei script all which took place on british soil

a british prime minister to resign may visited the site of the attack the southern british city of solsbury to discuss the poisoning with local investigators her visit comes after she announced the expulsion of almost two thousand russian diplomats from the u.k. giving them just a week to leave. and moscow continues to deny any involvement in the attack and is promising retaliate. until recently britain's prime minister to resign may had to tone being accused of not being hard enough on russia on wednesday she got her redemption standing before parliament me and equivocally accuse the kremlin of attempting to murder a former russian double agent living in the u.k. what followed was a series of punitive measures against russia the united kingdom will now expel twenty three russian diplomats who have been identified as undeclared intelligence offices they have just one week to leave this will be the single biggest expulsion

of over thirty years and it reflects the fact that this is not the first time that the russian state has acted against our country. with russia u.k. relations now soured london is rallying its allies for support. he used donald tusk has said he believes the attack was most likely quote inspired by moscow and will table the matter at an e.u. summit next week but it was at an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council that britain got its strongest backing yet the united states stands in absolute solidarity with great britain the united states believes that russia is responsible for the attack on two people and the united kingdom using a military grade nerve agent russia though is sticking to its script denying any involvement in the poisoning the kremlin has now promised to hit back of britain.

soon after the united kingdom announced unfriendly actions against russia retaliatory measures can be expected as we said on wednesday. superdelegates but they are currently under consideration and will be taken in the near future just on the hopes of study but i would keep the thing at the british. while moscow contemplates its response police in the u.k. are working to establish the events which led to the attempted murder. and for more we're joined now by conservative m.p. tom toucan ha the chairman of the parliament's foreign affairs committee he is in westminster in london thanks so much for joining us this afternoon and. as we've just heard there britain has announced serious punitive measures against russia is this not a little early considering that there is no proof of russian involvement or do you know something that we don't. there is proof of russian involvement this is a russian defector who's been threatened by the president on several occasions this

is a russian made weapons grade nerve agent made in a large tree in moscow which has now been confirmed by british intelligence and ratified by american and french this is a very clear pass and we know in germany for example of russian information operations and indeed yes you know it's not rationed that have been extremely active in recent years we know the invasions of ukraine the destruction and murder of several hundred people in m.h. seventeen aircraft over ukraine yannick sation of crimea the occupation of georgia the attempted murder of the montenegrin from as i can go on this is part of a very long pattern of russian aggression and it's got to stop so it's not just about this one specific incident russia for its part it has actually just responded to this and i just want to bring and what sergei lavrov just had to say and he said the russian response will come very soon he promises us that he also said that your

ak accusations are absolutely borish if british diplomats are expelled from russia do you care what is borish is to allow a chemical that although it's left three people in hospital and thirty people seeking medical treatment how did you know going on the london underground for example would have killed hundreds of people and to use it next to a children's playground where i had the children mean that it would have killed thirty or forty children this is this is a completely unacceptable war i can't buy a violent and deranged regime that he's weakening and lashing out this is a corrupt dictatorship that has to stop. i'd like you to respond also to something else that russia has said in response to your accusations russia has in five that theresa may is trying to look strong in front of her own people to distract from political problems at home is this true. no what is true is that the president of

russia is knows that he has completely failed to rebuild the a russian economy he's stolen hundreds of billions of dollars off the russian people he and his acolytes not even his cellist has got assets but a few billion dollars and he didn't get that for recording rights got more money than elton john his son in law just had to hand over two billion dollars his only qualification was to be the son in law of the president or rather the accidental this is a man who has looted the russian people and destroyed the russian economy over twenty years and he knows it and so what he's doing is he's lashing out and he's trying to hide it by playing a hyper nationalist card we know this schoolbook we read this play before we've seen the movie we've seen it in sadly we've seen it across europe before we've got to stand up to it because the alternative is if we do not stand up to it now we will be forced to stand up to it in the future and when it comes to standing up to it we know that both the united states the french have come forward to back britain and its accusation accusations toward moscow how much is britain the overlying on its allies at this precarious time because we know for example and the united

states when it comes to u.s. foreign policy that has often been shall we say in flux recently. the united kingdom has always relied on her allies we have been a very strong international player and that's exactly what the kremlin is trying to undermine what they're trying to do is to destroy the multilateral system that has kept us safe for seventy years that has kept us working together so we are working with our allies we're working with countries like a stone year in germany and france and sweden we're working with the united states with the finalized community of canada and australia we're working with nato and we are absolutely standing together on this because we know that we are stronger than a failing russian regime is a weakening state it's barely capable of deploying its military anymore as we saw in the rather second rate troll of that went through the english channel that calls itself the russian aircraft carrier we are seeing a failed regime and a failing government and it's a tragedy because russia is a great country and should have a great leader and instead it's going to be for a liar and a warmonger pointed where it's india tonton had conservative m.p.

for tonbridge and malling joining us from westminster in london we thank you so much for your perspective that's accurate. and as we have heard earlier the leaders of the united states france and germany joined britain on thursday in blaming russia for poisoning this former spy with a powerful nerve agent in fact they called the attack the first offensive use of a nerve agent in europe since the second world war and political correspondent repeater bald is following that aspect of this story a pretty strong statement here but i mean they added that there is no plausible alternative explanation to russian responsibility here absolutely what they're saying is that it's highly likely that russia is behind the attack on urge russia to provide on says to the questions on the road to these allegations and what they mean by that is that russia needs to open more allow access to it's not a program that's the nerve agent that was used in syria is very they want to access

granted to explodes from the organization for prohibition of chemical weapons which is some sort of a. u.n. but it's an intergovernmental organization but is there to control chemical weapons in the world so this is quite a very very tough stuff they have brought up here together they also say that the attacks are clearly a violation of international law and they remind russia to say it in the diplomatic language of its responsibility as a member of the security council of the united nations so this is a little bit more than we have heard in the polls from the e.u. on the united states against russia so we're hearing a lot we're hearing a lot of strong words are we likely to see a strong action we know that twenty three diplomats for example have been now expelled from the united kingdom are is that likely to go further though because you know when it comes to sanctions against russia when it comes to the european union as you say in english sometimes you can cut off your nose to spite your face

i mean the sanctions don't only hurt russia they are so you absolutely have the russia if these sanctions for instance are highly discussed here in germany because many. germany say we hope good strong economic interests in russia so that the sanction issue is not on the table yet on board is quite interesting interesting in this declaration of course there are no sanctions mentioned in it there's no where in it you can there's anything mentioned on what are we going to do if russia does knowledge of these allegations but what we already see here is at least a little shift in german foreign policy just remind the old us we have seen. a change from one foreign minister to the other six my god he was out of office and now we have high kumasi in office same policy built a different stance on russia i could most already ha said that he wants to go tough own russia especially on the ukraine policies. and i think this declaration today is one of the first measures you see of this day that is very own they were privy

to putting this statement into context for us thank you so much no one come through well now let's get a quick check of some other stories that have been making news around the world tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of the hungary of capital budapest the demonstrators at the so-called peace march are supporting the country's president viktor orbán ahead of the parliamentary elections in three weeks at the same time several smaller opposition rallies are being held across the city. in brazil an identified attackers have shot and killed a leftist member of rio de janeiro city council franco and her driver were in a car with men in another vehicle opened fire franco was an expert on police violence and known for her social work in videos psalms. to syria now where it looks like the siege of rebel held eastern could be coming to an end and monitoring group says that twelve thousand civilians are now leaving the area and crossing

over into government controlled territory the exodus began after regime forces advanced overnight seizing the eastern half of the key town of hama. it comes seven years to the day since a violent crackdown by security forces on protests against president bashar al assad beginning the war hundreds of thousands have been killed since and the u.n. estimates fourteen million people have been displaced. many families like the ones that you are about to see in our next report are living as internal refugees and fear that they will have to move on again they abandoned aleppo in twenty sixteen and are now living in a blip one of the last rebel strongholds in syria. both of the few out on musser is fifteen years old and he's already supporting a family of six his father was killed in an airstrike now fouad sells vegetables and earning twenty euros a month that leaves no time to go to school. i

have to provide for the whole family i read from morning to night to make ends meet . warplanes are approaching again. is used to the sound of sirens. shouted does every day. good live is the last province in syria to be controlled by islamist rebels two million people live here many of them fled the syrian government's assault on aleppo. musser and her nephew fu escaped after wafa as her husband died in an airstrike and she lost her three sons in the fight against government troops. now mainly women and girls are left they lead a meager existence for wafa musri the seventh anniversary of the uprising against

president assad is not a happy occasion when the fed will lessen the risk if it has nothing to celebrate it was celebrating when the uprising began because we had reasons why then and the fall of a hurry well of no interest to the streets for our freedom but the regime responded with violence but i lost so much well i mean i've been away i mean but i was. the government sent in tanks to crush protests in twenty eleven. the civil war escalated across the country. aleppo was besieged in twenty sixteen and was cut off from food supplies amid constant shelling. and her family got on a bus evacuating civilians. there wanted a horny but they brought us here on the green buses but we don't feel safe here either it doesn't feel like a home and we didn't know it and there was no what carol we've committed metaphor.

now the family's new home is under fire from the syrian government and russian forces. so have. jets and tanks have been shooting every morning and evening for days when they will be where am i supposed to go in the for when the through. this time there's no way out. and his family can only hope that this seven year war will finally come to an end. and let's get more now on the situation in syria i am joined by hello thorn and schmidt the c.e.o. a story of a teenager who has been displaced by the war and is now supporting a family of six in syria what does this do to such a young person and how common are stories like these. they're very very common seeing new levels of horror in syria right now this is

a war that's lasted for seven years and now we're seeing that this is being taken to a new level reassessing record numbers of the displacement the girls the girl we heard about here two hundred fifty children are displaced every day we're seeing a new numbers of casualties which are also breaking the record second we are seeing bombardments of places where children should be safe schools and hospitals and the fourth thing we're seeing which is also looks like a new weapon of war is the nile of axis for humanitarian help for these people meaning food and medical supplies so the people stuck in good stead right now they are experience new levels of horus we save the children have asked these people what they're seeing and the experience you got from this young girl here is one of many other stories that we hear inside syria we have seen countless imagery coming

out of the country all of it pretty horrifying do you feel that the world has become desensitized to the plight of civilians in syria. it in a sense we have there is a tendency when these horrors leave our t.v. screen screens release kind of hope that things have gone better but the thing in syria is that things are actually getting worse now and that's why we need to save the children we are trying to to bear witness of the people who are in there we can't work directly on the ground in syria we work through populous it is extremely difficult work for our partners working in there but we are supporting them and we are asking people inside syria mothers fathers and children what they are seeing and that's why on this horrific anniversary of the seventh year of war in syria we are trying to shout again to the world and make the world aware that we are seeing new levels of horror inside syria because of this talk is that on

a town where people live this is just a sample of damascus it's very densely populated and that is why have these horrors of war become intensified when on top of that you have increased denial of humanitarian access into these people bombings of the of the health services and hospitals bombing every second day of the health service in there you can just imagine the horrific situation inside eastern ghouta right now and our job is to shout for these children and shout for these families and ask the world to step in and stop the horrors this is a war on children as an end it has to be stopped well we thank you so much for joining us this afternoon to tell us a little bit more about those efforts about the horrors especially coming out of eastern go to hell a thorn in schmidt c.e.o. of save the children and the former prime minister of denmark we really appreciate it. we have some breaking news coming in here on d w the president of

slovakia has said that he accepts prime minister robert offer to resign on condition that his party be allowed to pick the next government feed so had offered to step down as long as his party was allowed to choose his successor the political crisis was sparked by the murder of a journalist investigating corruption in the government that's all we have so far but keep it here for further developments. still to come on our program what is your bottled water new research shows it probably contains micro plastics we will find out whether this is a new public health threat in the me. but first germany has a new government and monica jones is here to tell us what that means when we look at the economics certainly the business world only has eyes for one man sarah and that is the new finance minister there are many open questions of course like will

the social democrat continue the policy of nicely balanced books that his predecessor follows to the letter and more importantly will he continue to demand fiscal discipline from spendthrift members. some of the more demands a more formal olaf show seen here on the left is leaving his position as mayor of hamburg to step into the shoes of this mom both during choice. during his time as finance minister should be became known for his face fiscal discipline his ability to save billions of euros and balance germany's budget for the first time since one nine hundred sixty nine but his policies also attracted a wealth of criticism sparked tension within the coalition government. choiceless hardline stance on austerity joining the eurozone financial crisis was heavily criticized especially in greece but years later the greek economy does appear to be recovering and choice is taking the credit for it. now it's all his time

one thing he's already revealed is that he'd like to keep the balanced budget brought about by his predecessor. internationally schultze isn't wasting any time. he's due to visit paris on friday before meeting with representatives of the g seven point zero sirees next week on this. trip so what can we expect from germany's new finance minister let's talk about that with their hands peter buck a finance and banking professor at when have a university good to have you with us well thanks joy blip was much criticised but it was also very much respected by the financial world how will that world receive all national it's well with expectations that he won't change very much in this respect and all those these are social democrats and they might have a certain tendency towards panic and maybe mold more liberal attitude towards spending money in europe or france himself looks more like conservatives he looks down to earth solid personality if you release will find out later but for the most

expectation is that change very much ok because he does inherit a very healthy annual budget what should he spend it on what should be spent on investment mainly and less on consumption because the truth is this very healthy but it mainly based on outside circumstances like the weak euro the low interest rate of as well run the economy which is driven by external factors so i think all of france must be aware that if you keep this position longer he might not always have such a probable circumstance that means investment important spending on consumption should be real reduced occasion now is the time to spend which is also something that would to pieces european neighbors i mean what kind of sort of relationship do you expect shoulders to develop for example with france which wants a more integrated european union i think germany won't go into the direct too much because the conservatives party knows they lose a lot of voters if they go too far in this direction and so there's not too much to

expect it. will be a representative of this policy a place to go roll somebody just spoiled the game because he's not willing to spend too much on these kind of european project and what about his relationship with washington he's going to need his u.s. counterpart next week. i simply don't know what he'll do with washington because washington is absolutely calm controllable because all this from coming from washington is not consistent policy but for sure he looks like a person who can stand his position and say come on you do this and we do that and we'll have a trade war if you really want to have that i wonder if you really plays this game in the end but one point where you might be more friendly toward beauty friends i could have made was that you develop some understand that we have to spend more money in defense of something washing would like ok i just very briefly the very priority of shorts is to do list. should be to prepare for worst types call though

it will be worse times coming when the budget will be not so easily it could clearly rated as today ok hans-peter book of finance banking professor at one time university thank you so much pleasure. and six months ago iconic toy store chain toys r us have filed for bankruptcy in the united states now the retailer has announced it will close all seven hundred thirty five of its u.s. stores that will affect thirty three thousand employees across the country toys r us also says it will shut down all of its one hundred stores in the united kingdom as well as sell off its canadian and potentially its international business toys r us was formerly the u.s. is the largest a toy retailer but in recent years it's increasingly struggled to keep up with the online competition. all right out of a mountain girl by birth but this scarcely absolutely we with this guy can do with just a little bit of chalk and some some nice equipment is really incredible because this

is one that is not for the faint hearted a long row bare is a front climber famous for scaling the eiffel tower and the world's tallest building the burj khalifa in dubai his gravity defying obsession began at age eleven but it's a passion that gets him off to into trouble with the law have a look. and then roberto is probably the closest humans will ever get to spiderman he makes scaling skyscrapers look pretty easy and this office building in paris is no exception it took just over an hour to climb the one hundred eighty seven needed building. he's a household name in extreme sports and is not slowing down any time soon. paul was you're doing it for me to stop climbing one day that's out of the question unless i had a very serious illness that prevented me from climbing if not i'll just keep going . just hopes the authorities don't notice this was earlier when he

was caught trying to stay in a different building. often his climbs are in nice oath so reaching the top isn't even the most difficult caught. it's incredible how he hoists himself each time how he goes from one story to the next you have the impression he's leveled but no he is vertical. how he does it the best simply uses climbing shoes some chalk and a whole lot of courage neither age he's fifty five nor the thought of jail can stop him from doing what he loves. absolutely incredible you're watching the news still to come tales of person and torture as the life thick book fair opens we talk to a romanian author about life under the dictator and how the corruption has continued to this day. all that more coming up in just

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and we're determined to build something here for the next generation. global ideas multimedia environment series on d. w. . welcome back news i'm sarah kelly and where let our top stories as british prime minister to resign made visited the city where the former russian spy and his daughter were poisoned britain's allies have declared their support and best sound off with russia nato the u.s. france and germany are all rally. behind britain. well fake news has been one of the biggest buzz words of recent times although the term means different things to different people much of the discussion has focused on the spread of misinformation online tech giants like facebook and twitter have been implicated and are scrambling to find ways to react now you tube says it has

a plan to tackle the conspiracy videos that frequently trend on the platform to find out more let's bring in jared raid from social media welcome to you jared so tell us a little bit more about the plan to tackle these conspiracy theories each of housing given a lot of details but what we do know is that in the near future it's going to be placing boxes of text and links inside some of these conspiracy and syrian hoax videos it's not producing this information itself it's taking it from the online encyclopedia we could pay via you tube see gave this video as an example probably one of the most famous conspiracy theories about time that one that won't go away that the moon landing in nine hundred sixty nine was a fake in future videos like this could contain a link to the we could p.t. a page on the moon landing to you and i believe you was to fully inform themselves

on topics like this of course that makes the basic assumption that the wikipedia entries are going to be a reliable doesn't you know there's been a problem for quite a while so why is you tube doing this now hoaxes and conspiracy theory videos are a part of you tube and you tube to be that allows them to be the boss i guess in this era of fake news in the debate around fake news people have called on you tube to be a bit more accountable for the videos that it harvests on its website one of the good examples of this was off to the florida school shooting last month now there was a video that trended very highly on you tube that alleged one all of the student i . that was calling for gun control was an act this youtube eventually took this video down but hundreds of thousands of views and share is this is probably a bit of an exception though you tube isn't going to stop taking down every conspiracy theory video but probably what we will see in the near future is probably topics like the moon landing like gun control like a non a live and not

a track conspiracy theorists and maybe videos that question science like anti vaccination videos probably they're the ones that are going to be getting this edition of information from wikipedia so jared what do people make of this well it's taken a lot of people by surprise and actually taken we could pedia by surprise because you didn't tell it beforehand that it was going to be doing this i guess it sounds like a good idea using publicly available information to push back against crazy theories but how you tube is doing it is really annoyed a lot of people you have to keep in mind it's owned by google which is a multi-billion dollar company and it's in effect taking information from wikipedia which is a nonprofit website whose information is said by volunteers so that's leading people to say well hang on how come it's doing this it's piggybacking off we could pedia and also be exposing we could pedia to the types of people itself trying to avoid one of the people who criticize you tube is

a woman named barbara fish she works for the we can media foundation here in germany it all to rights we could pay via she had this to say it looks as if you tube in google is once more pocketing with kapadia and volunteers only to rid themselves of their responsibility of the media platform so a bit of skepticism sarah we just have to wait and see how effective this is going to go down to village and the age of the internet shared read out from our social media does this is a topic that is most certainly not going away and we thank you so much for joining us to put it on context at least these latest polls have yet to. well now the family of avery wand an official killed in the one thousand nine hundred four genocide is seeking justice and a brussels court he was one of two thousand people massacred in a school where they had sought refuge his daughter says that belgian troops posted at the school could have stopped the killing but instead with true leaving those inside their fate. yolanda is

a survivor she witnessed the genocide in rwanda we meet at my place because she wants to protect her children and doesn't want them to know how close she came to death she finally once justice and believes that thousands of lives could have been saved us a clue what i'm really angry our lives were worthless in rwanda at the time of aunty you land us father was once the country's foreign minister these pictures show him at a meeting soon after the family had to flee from hutu militias you and i was thirteen years old the family sought refuge at the don bosco school in kigali which was protected by belgian un peacekeepers you learn that shows me a photo of her sister in front of the building she says they believe the u.n. soldiers would keep them safe but then suddenly a un jeep drove away i heard people shouting they are leaving my mother panicked

and tried to get away people were asking the soldiers to shoot them otherwise they would be lynched von rush a. people were trying to hold on to the legal spot the soldiers shot into the air to get rid of them i saw them driving away and was shocked at thirteen i didn't dare imagine what would happen next. as men by. the belgian peacekeepers withdrew on the eleventh of april one thousand nine hundred ninety four the unspeakable followed hutus attacked the school on the same day murdering two thousand to seize. a brussels court is now deciding who is to blame for the mess or we need your london smothered there her family is suing the belgian state for failing to protect civilians the trial has already gone on for more than ten years now it's drawing to a close. then we can finally overcome our grief and tell ourselves that the

victims souls are resting in peace with a pause and the main question in the trial is whether the bajan un soldiers abandoned the two thousand refugees and left them to die an independent inquiry team sharply criticized the budget decision to pull out of front and the early days of the genocide the decision of urgent peacekeepers to retreat from the school leaving civilians inside to report sure it is described as disgraceful the families of the victims are weighed the verdict and hope that the version state finally house to recognise its part of responsibility in the genocide of rwanda the belgian state denies responsibility and says soldiers riffle owing un orders but lawyers of the victims insist that the order to withdraw came from brussels. for. the belgian strongly intervened in preparing their troops to pull out had they

stayed only two days longer this bloodbath wouldn't have happened the produce. unanimous father couldn't be safed he died at the hands of hutu militias it's in his memory that you learn that and her family refused to give up in their fight for justice. over to monica now and the water everyone needs it but is it safe that is the big question sara a new study is claiming that bottled water can contain micro plastics the health implications are largely unknown but just to get an idea of the scale of this issue ten years ago the world drank two hundred twelve billion liters of bottled water the latest figures show that number has nearly doubled the biggest market is china last year consumers there spent thirty seven billion dollars on bottled water the united states was next with a twenty three billion dollars and insert place with mexico and it's

a global business with many players the french company down normally has the largest share it's followed by coca-cola and the swiss food giant nestlé but consume us appear to be drinking more than just water. most people think of water is clean and pure but research by the nonprofit organization or by media suggests that the bottled kind often contains microscopic plastic particles. researchers analyzed bottled water from a total of nineteen locations in nine different countries the results came as a surprise. every brand of bottled water that we looked at had plastic every single brand. the occurrence varies kind of kind of dramatically certain brands had much higher counts than than other brands are the highest

concentrations of plastic particles were found in nestle's pure life brand of bottled water. the indian brand pissed larry had about half as many particles per liter. as did germany's carol steiner and our quote which is owned by the french food giant known. nestle and carol steiner have rejected the study's findings. they're not slow us is a research at the life and it's institute of freshwater ecology he says it's not yet clear whether micro plastics of the kind found in bottled water are harmful to humans. we're just starting our research chemists biologists and toxicologists still need to conduct tests we don't even know what kind and size of micro plastics are to be found in the environment and in the food chain as long as we counter certan that we don't know what we're talking about this is the tip of the iceberg this icebergs micro plastic contamination

appears to be widespread but what effect it might have in the long term is not clear it's most likely liable to do far more harm than good. so where is the micro plastics coming from the bottle or the water sunny indian from environment desk casts this explanation. well that's not clear and it can't be ruled out that the plastics in these bottled waters are coming from the bottles themselves although it was also found in glass bottles it might actually be from the lid as well which contains plastics but really plastic is everywhere from the most remote reaches of the ocean to the depths of the antarctic and plastics are even in tap water so you can imagine if it's there it's also in a lot of other things that we consume there deliberately added into some of our personal hygiene products like toothpaste and facial scrub and even

a big source is synthetic fabrics so those fleece jackets and microfiber blankets that we toss in the washing machine released tens of thousands of fibers in each wash. from the environment desk and now to moscow because everybody is talking about these days and it's all because of the election monica russia's election going into sunday's presidential election d.w. has been focusing on the race and the candidates this week president vladimir putin is expected to easily win re-election who tended not to join his challengers for a televised debate two weeks ago the debate turned into a free for all with the nationalists firebrand of latin america share an office taunting his rival can send yet check until she left the set in tears. and moscow bureau chief yuri was shadow spoke with sharon off earlier this week and here's part of that interview. it's your

sixth round. at this point. how can something like that. do you get bored interviewing people. it's work but it's the most responsible and worthwhile work there is. you've got to begin it to when. you said to that the russia needs an elected monarchy are you saying you want russia to be ruled by a desire that goes by the name of. russia achieved a tremendous amount as a monarchy that we should have kept the monarchy just like great britain denmark sweden and norway. but as an alternative like the monarch now and change a country's name to the russian empire the president would then be called supremes . that can do that as

a candidate foreign relations can to be an afterthought russia has come to that and in ukraine what are the next steps that need to be taken. one way or the other ukraine. to take the western part of hungary the competition mountains. and we take the whole of nova russia ukraine has no future. i can't imagine ukraine welcoming statements what needs to be done to improve relations yes. there is an empty russian regime in control and that's the point. so you think ukraine is to blame for everything that not politics. ukraine is your lame with it's anti russians very western and unconstitutional. ukrainians will crack and we'll have to build them up again. in other regions. the west has punished russia for the illegal an extension of crimea so. back and do

what needs to be done to do what. i like the situation we have today the sanctions are strengthening our domestic economy. turning to america when president trump drank champagne in celebration but then relations with the us. better to be straight and get them to do celebrate. like good morning. we celebrated trumps victory. predicted it so i just celebrated my own correct prediction. one that was the point. it's a good thing he hasn't improved relations. of these concessions have gotten us.

are you saying the boss of the better. it's better when the west regards us as an enemy and restricts us everywhere sanctions sanctions and more sanctions that's when we rise up and grow faster. but you are the first presidential candidate i've met who once he's country punished. more but rather the west he's incapable of anything else and that's its mistakes but it's advantageous for russia just the west with a tree just the same way as ukraine working together would be. we would have softened a long time ago except that everything and being degraded. instead were getting stronger and that will help us destroy the west so it doesn't need to feel with us . so you want to destroy the west. it's interfering with humanity america germany how's germany harm your community. is ruling over europe but why

germany is russia's most. important economic partner. we do not need it don't buy from us we won't buy from you if you didn't buy gas would have no gas pipes and if you didn't boil oil it would be cheaper for us. eighteenth eight pm of election results should be clear. what can russia expect at the end of this election. i could win. the next morning the entire country all one hundred fifty million people and into the streets with a smile on their face and rejoice. will end of the two to three months. europeans and americans will toe the line me and i'll take the world to the brink of war i'll say do what i say or go hide in a bunker. which sounds like a great dictator. why do you want to interfere with us we don't interfere with you

. why do you want to say how we russians should live. crimea is russian territorial russians. russians also live in donbass that we gave you germans the chance to unify. pays for the privilege. ten times less than you should. europe should be trembling even if i don't we don't much the regime in russia will force you to stop trying to teach us about why we russians when be ordered about by us. are the words . think you for the interview that interview pleasure. time now for culture news of peter craven of the annual book fair in the eastern german city of leipzig opened on wednesday and it is now in full swing and what do we have to look forward to plenty sara because this is of course the second biggest book fair in germany after the frankfurt book fair is going to run for four days

and some free. hundred thousand visitors are expected they can take party workshops with new and upcoming authors lectures and readings by famous writers all of which means the leipsic claim to be the largest reading festival in europe and this year rumania is the guest of honor but i must tell you sarah there is a back story to all this because the the the latest figures on the number of people buying books here in germany have given a lot of cause for concern to the book trade in germany these are the figures that the chewing over the number of book buying germans has fallen in recent times by six million. big number the biggest drop as you've guessed among younger readers so that's a subject for greater concern and this is what the head of the german publishers and booksellers association has been saying let's listen in. from two thousand and thirteen to two thousand and seventeen there have been six point four million book buyers who have been lost and that of course is an alarm signal for us. but

because of the lives in a multitasking society people are stressed and the fact that they must be online all the time and constantly acting and reacting meaning stress for then so that they no longer have the time to read if you haven't made it so a lot of stress to go around and i'm sure that's also cutting into the profits as well peter not a bad what is the atmosphere there in leipsic this week i'm so well there was a demonstration yesterday evening four hundred people turned out to protest against the fact that the organizers in leipsic have chosen to in the interests of freedom of expression as they put it to invite right wing hunt full of right wing publishing houses that didn't go down well in all quarters as regards the good news that i mentioned earlier where i said the remainder is the featured country this time around there are forty new translations of roumanian books novels and poetry what have you so that's quite impressive under the the same time. you know remain here is a country that remains torn between hope i would say and despair on the other hand

there's a real embezzlers there and that is reflected in two of the leading remaining a right as we have to be a profile have. mirror check out our rescue is one of romania's most acclaimed contemporary writers eloquent shop and someone who doesn't mind speaking uncomfortable truths that people who are poor in the ninety's stayed poor. but that. there is now very beach people who got their reach most of them ninety percent of them because of the corruption. romania's communist regime under a dictator. who may have crumbled in one thousand nine hundred nine but many of the old ladies simply reorganized and corruption remains a huge problem. in his sprawling blinding trilogy cause rescue work through his time under the chacha school regime it tells of coersion drills of hunger and

fear of torture. it wasn't the year for last nine hundred eighty nine the people heard about wars and uprisings but they feared not because that too must come to pass in his books carter eskew mixes real scenes with surreal ones dreamlike sequences with nightmarish episodes katana screws latest novel saul annoyed is unique among the author's works because for the first time contra school has created a main character who doesn't only think of himself but for the good of the community carter eskew says that he has learned that literature should be humane and it said the big questions. my mom look at as a mother has been working in spain for so long that it seems like forever she works in tourism at the seaside and comes home once a year out of season she arranges it says she will catch the winter holidays for years and years she hasn't seen romanian leaf or in bloom she always comes when

it's muddy when people are grey and muffled up and she gets the impression that the country is a depressing place. lavinia burnished his debut novel interiors zero was a surprise hit in romania it's the story of a young woman who tries to build a life and future in bucharest while her mother lives and works in spain being left behind is a common story british his own mother has lived and worked in western europe for years. recently reported to us i think it was with. foster's depopulating countries in the world and they were all. living near british don't wants to stay in romania she feels she belongs here even if life for the young is not always easy. and we can find out so much more about what's ahead at the leipzig book fair on our website right w dot com forward slash cultural. heritage or craven always on the story thank you

so much. for. an hour every year the u.n. releases a study ranking the world's countries by happiness and surprise surprise the nordic countries dominate the list once more finland is now officially the world happiest nation up from fifth place last time around the study looks at factors such as life expectancy income social support and corruption the finns top to neighbors like norway and denmark who were also on the list top five while germany was fifteen. you see days long winter nights and the wide social safety net is that the stuff of happiness the finns seem to have at least some of the answers. well our politics said economics i think we have the basic stuff is quite good in finland so it makes a great like basis why it's why we are doing so good here. that sounds

strange are we friends really that happy with our names on the list. or to be able to follow we have all the services that we need here daycare is nearby and the parks as well we can play and slide down hills if we want just like here. the study also says being happy seems to be contagious it found a high correlation between the happiness of citizens and that of immigrant newcomers. what explains those countries with less fortunate rankings like the us which fell for places to number eighteen. i think it's the general uncertainty and political unpredictability people don't know what to expect in their future i don't know that's my guess but. for now the finns and their nordic neighbors know what their future likely holds more sterling scores on quality of life indexes even if their heat and don't always play along.

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