is it good malaria must go on so millions can live. this is deja vu news live from berlin russia retaliates foreign minister sergei lavrov says moscow is expelling british diplomats in a tit for tat for sponsors to london's decision to kick twenty three russian embassy staff out of the country this comes as western allies stand with britain blaming moscow for a poison attack on a former spine. in rio de janeiro tens of thousands of people take to the streets

to protest the killing of a popular local politician the outspoken critic of police violence that was gunned down by unknown assailants plus. one of the biggest german i.p.o. in decades as human beings often medical equipment division. i'm serious i was gonna thank you for joining us russia's foreign minister says moscow will expel u.k. diplomats after western allies accuse it of attempting to murder a former russian spy in britain and a joint declaration the u.s. france and germany backed britain and directly blaming moscow for last week's nerve agent attack in the city of souls for e. british prime minister to reason may is one of the few visitors to salzburg these days traders in the cathedral town say

tourists and shoppers are staying away in the wake of the poisoning of former russian double agent sergei script and his daughter yulia may visit at the restaurant where the chemical attack took place and put the blame squarely on moscow. it is right that the u.k. government reacts in a robust way to what has happened here in seoul break that is exactly what we've done i've announced that we will explain it be expecting twenty three russian diplomats who declare that intelligence officers will have an impact on the intelligence network the we all the measures will be taking britain's allies are showing their support france germany and the united states have signed a statement repudiating russia and president all trump says he thinks moscow probably carried out the attack. nato is a top military commander sees this as part of a wider pattern of russian misbehavior and see on land and in the year russia's increasingly modernized military is operating at levels not seen since the cold war

at the same time russia is using indirect activities to advance its strategic objectives throughout europe along its periphery in the middle east and beyond russia has demonstrated a willingness and capability to use political provocation spread different decision from asian and undermine democratic institutions but russia is firing back accusing britain of dishonesty foreign minister sergei lavrov says it would be absurd to launch an attack against another state ahead of a presidential election and the fee for world cup. i can't tell you the motives of our british colleagues but i don't think there are honest because the if they were britain would answer the questions we've been asking and would follow the procedures of the chemical weapons convention. britain says it is ready to share the evidence it has collected foreign minister boris johnson says that will make

the results of the tests and souls very available to a team of international observers to dispel any doubts and be can talk to anthony gleason is the director of the center for security and intelligence studies at the university of buckingham in the u.k. anthony thank you for joining us on our program now we're seeing essentially tit for tat measures here britain says it is the offended party it's head out of russia now moscow was striking back with its decision what could be the next escalation here. well i think that next question is whether there is going to be an escalation you could argue that britain has responded quickly and robustly strongly supported by germany by france and by the united states perhaps the united states support was initially a bit anemic nothing really much from president donald j. trump but it has got stronger and it could be in putin's interest to kind of leave

things that yes there will be tit for tat expulsions british officials will be sent from moscow no question about that however it is possible that putin might want to run things up a bit him we've read with some concern in the papers here in the united kingdom this morning but the department of homeland security in washington has warned that the russians are in a position to interfere with some of our critical national infrastructure via the internet so there is that possibility. it could sue polluted just he's made his point and we've made our point and then let him get on with his election so actually let's talk about the case at the center of this controversy everyone is talking about russia's possible involvement but what about british security services are they also to blame for not adequately protecting circus kfar . well i don't think you should ever confuse the victim of

a crime with the perpetrator of a crime and a prime minister has made it very clear that one way or another she holds the russian state responsible and culpable for the use of a nerve agent which the russian government held under lock and key who precisely did it so now that matter however it is true that our security service m i five has the duty to protect people in the united kingdom from this kind of state and unfortunately self evidently they failed to do so quickly our secret intelligence service m i six the sort of james bombs just ought to have given a government warning that it was an intentional on the part of the russians to launch an attack of this kind in the united kingdom they didn't do that either and then finally i got a question for m i five what was a russian former russian military intelligence officer doing in seoul's bery

a military how the united kingdom and the center of a chemical weapons research institute so if you look at this from the russian perspective russia says it had nothing to do with carrying out this attack and there's also been some speculation that the kremlin wouldn't do such a thing so close to its own elections and also the upcoming soccer world cup is that attack like this are these tactics that can be definitely tied to the russian state. can definitely be tariq directly or indirectly to the russian state bearing in mind the nature of the nerve agent use which has been identified and i don't believe that we would get be getting such strong support from the french president the german chancellor in the american president had they don't see the secret intelligence assessment that led mrs major hold the russians responsible wants to win an election we know he's going to win it in any case he

wants to also portray the west as his enemy and nato as an enemy you know way he's got already said he may he may leave us alone right anthony cleese the director of the center for security and intelligence studies at the university of buckingham thank you so much for sharing your insights with us today now to some other stories making news around the world officials in miami florida have raised to six the number of people killed when a new pedestrian bridge collapsed crews have been working since thursday to reach cars crushed by the nine hundred fifty ton concrete span it was erected on saturday and scheduled to open next year north korea's foreign minister rio ho is in sweden the visit is prompting speculation that he may be laying the groundwork for a summit between u.s. president donald trump and north korea's kim jong il and sweden has been mentioned as a possible venue for the meeting between the two leaders. the washington post is reporting that the president trump has decided to dismiss his national security advisor h.r.

mcmaster the paper says the move will be announced when a successor is lined up earlier this week trump fired his secretary of state rex tillerson states to the world. to brazil now where the execution style murder of a city councilwoman a sparked huge protests in rio de janeiro and beyond but here franco was known as an outspoken critic of police brutality the united nations and amnesty international have demanded a thorough investigation of her death. but a community in mourning mariel franco was a beacon of hope for the poor and marginalized of rio. black female and lesbian she was a rarity in brazil's political scene franco rose from the slums to become a leading voice against police violence which disproportionately affects the black population a powerful voice now silenced. if she was. they killed

my friend they killed our colleague. but if they think that will make us retreat they are wrong. i. suppose he doesn't shut up and feels like they're trying to remove our voices the voices of all the black women in this country amok only to their own. franco was gunned down in her car late on wednesday evening she was shot in the head four times by two unknown assailants her driver was also killed her press officer injured. shortly before franco spoke at an event encouraging black women to enter politics it was the last time she championed one of her many causes. rizzo's president has publicly condemned her killing. to. the murder of

a council member mario and her driver is unacceptable but you can see like other sussan nations that happened in rio de janeiro's. it's an attack against the rule of law. signed against democracy. many in brazil believe franco was assassinated for her political activism a day earlier she blamed the police for the death of a young male in a shia franco was a vocal critic of the president's decision to put the military in charge of security in rio and was part of a committee investigating military abuses as grief turns to anger the question on everyone's mind is who killed mariel franco. you're watching d.w. news still to come crimea and the russian election and national vote takes place exactly four years after the disputed region sanitation will find out how it helped

who can define his presidency. but first a health care company looking to go public and make a big splash exactly so he is germany's siemens which is expected to raise four point two billion euros in an initial public offering of its health than is medical tech business the i.p.o. was initially took to be one of the biggest in germany but the dead buick frankfurt stock exchange turned out to be much more modest shares where went on to the market at twenty eight euros currently trading a bit higher the sale is part of seaman c.e.o. joe cases major restructuring of europe's top engineering company. the mood was buoyant as help in years shares started trading siemens is reinventing itself for the future and spinning off an encore businesses is part of that strategy. siemens is probably best known for gas turbans and power plants. that c.e.o.

joe kayser like into his company to a giant tanker ship that he wants to turn into a fast moving fleet they have the near side was only the latest move into that direction siemens is also in the process of finalizing the merger off its rail division but francis sought stone last april that combined its renewable energy unit but spanish wind turbine make again may some. of. these spinoffs allow investors to buy targeted shares in specialist companies and set up a diversified conglomerate it's also easier for individual businesses to cut costs in health in years case saving an expected two hundred and forty million euros. the stock offering was one of germany's biggest in recent years siemens hopes to small the ships in its fleet will maneuver easier and grow faster.

just off to sea or happens my colleague genelle guzman caught up with the c.e.o. of health in the us. so my first question is very easy first day of trading how are you feeling very good i mean this is has been a long journey an exciting journey for us it's a great moment we're happy about how the first day went and you know we. continue with the company forward with even more passion i believe. first was below expectations of then above expectations so a bit of a rough and tumble there in terms of what we got in the end but this isn't the most certain of market environments was not really the right time for an i.p.o. and i'm definitely yeah because i mean this is not about selecting on the perfect timing this is this i.p.o. was a means to an end it is creating the biggest me tech company in europe it is creating the biggest company global leverage is there to make health care provider successful we have a long way to think in long terms this is

a major milestone and i think yesterday showed it. turned out very well now what are you doing now to convinced the market that improvement is on the way first of all i need to challenge the question you have because we have you have in most of our businesses a very strong track record of market share gains and that's one segment which is about thirty percent of our business which is our diagnostics business where. we grew below market but this is changing now this will change with a revolutionary platform attendee com which we have every tree are currently introducing and that was actually one of the reasons which got its investors excited. now one final question of course one of the challenges would be a getting laboratories to switch over to your systems now switching systems of course is very expensive for them what would make them do it actually in net bag

gnostics switching costs are not so high because this is mainly a business with reagents it's not a cap next year you have an upfront payment and with a ten you can be have lots of arguments to convince customers by their business case why the f.p. and l. will be better. very soon after installing so we don't really see a picked area i mean it comes to switching ok walk us through the future in terms of acquisitions well first and foremost i want to say we have a super strong point for you i'm very happy there is no geographical gap we are. globally present we have market leading positions in in the americas in europe in asia. our part for you has a lot of organic potential so we don't have to do emanate but we can and we have areas where we can get stronger in advance there are p.n. molecular diagnostics in digital health but this will be bold on acquisitions and

no current thinking is not to have any transformative floor so thank you very much thank you. turns all dutch a bunch is in worse trouble than it had indicated only last months and it predicted a loss of four hundred ninety seven million euros for last yet now the bank has tweaked its accounting to include tax payments in britain after reports of actual losses for twenty seventeen well total seven hundred and thirty five million euros george remains committed to net profit for this year it says after losing money for the last story is. for that you go the singer iana wants her fans to delete snapshots shaz of snap the company behind the social media drop by almost five percent rianna spoke out after snapchat ran an ad for a game which poked fun at the violence she had endured in an abusive relationship

she denounced snapshots two hundred sixty one million followers on rival platform instagram snapchat apologized and took down the amount of brianna reese used to accept the apology. now to development efforts to help families hit hard by global warming that's right gary hart and pick last year the drought that had scorched parts of east africa put twenty million people on the brink of famine the extreme dry spell is withered crops and killed livestock turning one of the region's worst food crises in decades the german government is just approved fifty million euros to help hard hit communities the money will fund aid in the horn of africa for families forced to leave their homes in search of food and water get a visit a doll in the somali ethiopian border. it's early morning in dollar a small town and somalia these women are waiting to receive aid for themselves and their sick children they all came here around

a year ago when the drought was at its worst and shepherds were losing their livestock. oh how much all you need houses we need jobs and schools for our older children actually we need everything. well but all of that most of us survive and the relatives give us so far not all of us have received support from aid groups as well as the to help. the aid groups who are struggling to cope with the number of families that keep arriving but funds from germany and now set to bolster this project jointly run by unicef and the world food programme has examined and treat malnourished children. the project also teaches mothers how to protect their babies from illness and monu tristian through breastfeeding. refugees registered digitally in order to get long term aid with a kind of debit cards the women can pick up food items you. know we have

assistance and livelihood with two shows for the child abroad to actually receive us all of them they have their housing. but the livelihoods of the somalian cattle drovers have been destroyed thousands of animals starved or died of thirst during last year's drought only very few made it to the refugee camp in dollar with their own as it's the first time these doesn't nomads and living with other people now and many have never worked in a town before all. over the house and on about bias about our life is marked by hardship and the struggle for survival or we have nowhere to go back to sleep we don't have a proper life here but we can't move anywhere else because we don't have any money or killing. well how will that lament obama going forward drought is hitting the country more and more often and the money from germany will last for three years but it won't help the council drivers return to that she dish in

a way of life. now russia goes to the polls this weekend on a big anniversary lot of may putin has march eighteenth circled on his calendar as he looks at the cruise to victory it was on the same day four years ago that russia annexed the crimean peninsula from ukraine all but a handful of countries have declared that annexation illegal for president putin it's a symbol of russian identity and national strength or ukraine correspondent nicholas connelly went to crimea to find out how people there feel about their antics ation anniversary and how they're likely to vote. at forty meters the soldier in salem ornament towers about sebastopol a potent reminder of the city's place in soviet and russian military history. even when sebastopol became part of independent ukraine russia's black sea fleet stayed put. when russia annexed crimea and twenty fourteen not even russia's closest allies recognize the move but the locals like activist or good drama all of that

doesn't matter. crimea and russia she says sharon i didn't see we didn't we all greet just die of relief it was about returning home before i didn't have a country i could be proud of when the olympics were on i always supported russia when it came to reading my child bedtime stories the stories were russian ones which i told my kids about russian history russians are as good that's what i nosed to get. back in twenty fourteen the west responded with economic sanctions that just took place international companies left and mcdonald's became peace good. more crucially so did many banks sanctions mean the international cards are not accepted in crimea and it's not possible to withdraw cash it's the same story with foreign mobile phones crossing into crimea means losing signal but apart from sanctions what else has changed for people in sebastopol it's not an easy question to answer expressing doubts about the legitimacy of russia's control of the region can carry

a jail term of up to five years my life became a lot easier to i lived the same life i lived before not much has changed for me i feel great. she says life has changed. and we have more certainty she was one thing you called mrs sebastopol of the upcoming presidential elections at every turn post is remind people of their duty to vote but certainly not by just turned eighteen and voting for my first time and voting is a big deal for me. national security i hope that my generation makes the right choice is deliberately with my in my opinion that's fighting near that amir of it which in the world is in this wonderful country of ours there's no point in going to vote. even russia's cosmonauts have been enlisted to bring out the vote. one group that's less likely than others to follow that call crimea's muslim tartar

minority persecuted by soviet authorities and deported to central asia in the one nine hundred forty s. tartars were only allowed to return home after the end of communism since twenty fourteen russian authorities have banned the middle east the target communities ruling body and close the tartar language t.v. channel but this conflict is also about land instead of financial compensation for the deputy under ukraine these tartuffe families and many like them were given land to build homes they say russian authorities and now are making on that commitment. what i wrote now too if they're threatening to bring in the bulldozers and pull down our own people who are in despair afraid of ending up on the street we've held hunger strikes but local media don't cover them if you're going to as even a small protest with a few banners they put you in jail for ten days. to the head of a group if i was ill he's been arrested just as much on national. as

a lot you war i thought it was from various them as the evening draws in downtown service to pull grinds to a halt true to form. keeps everyone guessing awaiting for what will be an appearance of just a few minutes. thanks to your decision sebastopol in crimea have returned home to our common. to mother russia three of those years. i think on sunday russia and crimea go to the polls today it is no coincidence coming as it does for you today this russian makes the peninsula really twenty years since you first became president vladimir putin will now be hoping the memory of those in the events is enough to bring people to politics this despite the fact that many see the election as a foregone conclusion. here in sebastopol those memories are still very much alive

what's less clear is where the crimea still has the same emotional pull across the length and breadth over russia's ten times owns. was. ok two are developing now on our top story of the route between russia and western allies over the poisoning of former double agent a surrogate script all in britain now in comments made just a short while ago where british foreign secretary boris johnson has said that it was likely that russian president vladimir putin personally made the decision to carry out the nerve agent attack let's listen to what he had to say. but i want to stress one thing again that the quarrel of the u.k. government is not with russian people these are the russians living here in this country just not with people who come to the u.k. to make their lives and contribute to our country we have nothing against the russians themselves there is there is to be no russophobia as a result of what is happening all quarrel all quarrel is with putin's kremlin and

with his decision and we think it overwhelmingly likely that it was his decision to direct the use of a nerve agent on the streets of the u.k. on the streets of europe for the first time since the second world war that is that is why we are at odds with russia. the british foreign secretary speaking just a short while ago at a football no and now in the draw for the champions league quarter finals has taken place in switzerland and there are some great match ups ahead of barcelona at the two thousand and fifteen chance will face italian side roma germany's byron munich were paired with save the ventus will take on holder israel madrid in a repeat of last year's final ryall are going for a third straight title and liverpool will meet manchester city and an all english match up the first life will be played in the first week of april. thanks for watching you have units.

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