this is due to. agree to stop a you recall presence on the german chancellor in paris and agreed to prepare a road map by june also on the program. britain's foreign secretary says it's likely that the russian president vladimir putin personally ordered the nerve agent attack on a former spy in britain. and tensions in germany's new government us the new interior minister says islam is not part of germany. disagrees.

both of the story of the martial arts champ in place in the trial for muslim women roxana baker could the world in kick boxing sports have previously considered off limits to female most of the things you care about the parents you have to overcome to reach the. time so go welcome to the program german chancellor i'm going to machall is in paris for talks with french president emmanuel macro about plans to reform the european union the summit comes just days after chancellor merkel was confirmed in office for. the difficulties in forming a coalition delayed from turkey i mean talks on deep european integration today chancellor and president said they would prepare a road map for reforming the e.u. and the eurozone in time for a new summit in june chancellor merkel also stressed the importance of e.u.

countries working even more closely together. they believe that we're learning from experience that it's not in europe's common interest to have different rules and standards in each e.u. member states we have to protect our borders we have to develop a unified africa strategy that's an area in which france and germany have already made big steps forward and we need to work even more closely together. well macsoftware discover in those talks in paris welcome maxwell will start with a nice to see shall we at times where merkel spoke in blowing terms about germany and france his track record of working together his shoes it was my we want to find a common path in the history of franco german relations hard work an honest corporation have always brought success we don't always share the same opinion but throughout history germany and france have achieved a lot together we are intent i am intent on reaching our goals and i believe we will do that that's what is. so much often buses are the highlights what do france

and germany want to change. all the emphasis phil on the sound bite common asylum system in the european union something they have strife for for many years it's not working at the moment because it would implicate that you need kind some kind of system to redistribute the migrants within the european union there's a huge divide over that especially between eastern and western european countries and yet the two want to resolve as you just said until june that's going to be very difficult then the reform of the euro zone mccraw a started the discussion in fall by saying he wanted euro zone budget and he also wanted a finance minister for the euro zone something that the european union for now does not have we know that the germans are not in favor of something like that of this design so although we always have the show of unity between michael and medical

this is something where they will have to really find a real compromise how they work for get together for something like that we don't know yet but as we just heard the chancellor say it will involve hard work so how would so between them france and germany have to put together this this this road map for europe i wonder how other countries feel about bad rolls being reduced to mere rubber stamp those of a franco german plot. you're of course referring to a discussion that is as old as the european union if germany and france don't work together than everybody else criticize them saying they need to work together to get something done if they do work together as they do now that many countries feel left out but of course you have to keep in mind that germany and france represent different parts of the european union for example the netherlands or scandinavian country usually fall in line with germany when they hammer out some kind of compromise with friends now the southern countries usually are in accordance with

france so if those two germany and france you manage to agree on something then a majority of the european union usually at least in the past fall in line even if there's criticism beforehand after bragg says there was a lots of talk especially from chancellor merkel europe's need for a new stot face doesn't look like it because to outsiders this looks like just trying to make the old system. a little bit better just taking with it. well at least you have ideas that have been around for a while for example the european finance minister or the finance minister for the euro zone that's not a new idea what would be new now is that the german french engine is working again that's something that hasn't been the case for a long time so if they actually get things done now that would be new and it doesn't really matter how old the ideas are as long as there are good ideas

everybody can agree on the commission president the commission president of the european union. recently said you need to repair the roof of the european union as long as the sun is shining and even if that's not the case here in paris at the moment the sun is more or less shining over the e.u. economies are doing well you have the french german engine back so if they want to get reforms and if they want to and they act ideas even if they're you know a little bit dated in some cases the time is now. when the new roof and a new engine and paris we thank you roger some of the other stories making news around the world south africa's former president jacob zuma is to be charged for what racketeering and money laundering the voting against the posse false him to resign as head of state last month after years of scandal the charges relate to a multi-billion dollar government tom's just in the late one nine hundred ninety s. . two israeli soldiers in the west bank have been killed and at least two others

injured in a car running attack by palestinian israeli army hasn't confirmed the deaths but said the attacker have been arrested and taken to hospital the incident cames palestinians protested across the region to mark one hundred days since washington recognized jerusalem as israel's capital. and independent monitoring group says the russian asked drugs have killed at least forty six people in eastern due to this as more civilians flee the rebel held the areas outside the capital damascus russia says more than four thousand people left today russia and syria launched an offensive on the region almost four weeks ago. golddigger itself litter the runway in the eastern russian city of you. after a freight claim lost part of its cargo on takeoff but the plane was carrying eight tons of gold and other precious materials three tons of been recovered officials have claimed a defective door. another salvo in the standoff between russia and western

allies over the poisoning of a former double agent in britain britain's foreign secretary boris johnson has said it is likely that the russian president vladimir putin personally ordered the nerve agent attack on surrogate script daughter the kremlin call that statement shocking an unforgivable moscow denies any involvement in the attempted murders. in london british foreign secretary boris johnson visits a memorial from world war two back then russia with an ally now russia and britain are in a war of words of the poisoning of the former russian spies say guys great power on british soil. is it putin's credit and with his decision and we think if it were. that it was his decision to direct the use of agent on the streets of the u.k. and strictly for the first time since the second world war that is that is why they

are at odds. with pollution on the campaign trail ahead of elections on sunday russia called johnson's claims shocking and unforgivable britain ordered the expulsion of twenty three russian diplomats over the attack now russia has said it will respond in kind russia also announced its own investigation into the attempted murder of script pounds daughter yulia a russian citizen it said the country was ready to cooperate with authorities in the u.k. in britain police say are around one hundred thirty people may have come into contact with the military grade nerve agent used to poison script power on march the fourth the former spy and his daughter a still in critical condition. british police have also announced that they have launched a murder investigation into the suspicious death of another russian living in britain. businessman nicholas was found dead due to a compression of the neck in his london home on monday but police and that at this

stage there is nothing to suggest a link to the nerve agent attack. or. foreign affairs committee he spoke about the investigation into the suspicious death of. well i don't know whether it's not time to go is the nz or part of a part of the same incident but it certainly it certainly echoes doesn't it that we've got a pattern of russian violence and we're talking about the united kingdom at the moment of course because of the dramatic piece of aggression in salzburg that could of course have killed hundreds of people thank god it didn't but we've seen it all over all over europe and and possibly further afield and we've certainly seen the attempted murder of montenegrin prime minister only a year or so ago we've seen the invasion of ukraine the murder of hundreds of dutch and other citizens in the russian attack on the mh seventeen and even today as

we're talking we're seeing russia supporting the use of chemical weapons and bombing of civilians by the hazard regime so we're seeing a very hostile very road russian regime that is using violence as a state policy and is using murder as a as a means of influencing outcomes as conservative m.p. tom toobin has to chesapeake problem and so far a fast committee. there is tension tonight in germany's new government formed only three days ago interior minister horse they hoffa has said he doesn't consider islam to be part of germany although he added that the muslims who live with us are of course out of germany his boss the chancellor of america automatically that she did not agree terminus him interior minister rejects criticism of his remarks that all the muslims who live here have a place in germany islam does not. this country has been culturally

influenced by christianity for hundreds of years so. that's why it's wrong to say that islam belongs to german. chancellor angela merkel disagrees and she very quickly and publicly slapped down her interior minister and party ally inspiration and didn't. in the four million muslims who currently live in germany practiced their religion. and they belong here just as much as their religion does. germany's new justice minister offered a reminder that freedom of religion is strictly protected in the constitution and mentioned i mean i think people are tired of these theoretical discussions about terminology it's clear to everyone that we need practical solutions to our problems i hope we can agree that our value system encompasses everyone's basic rights. the central council of muslims in germany says politicians shouldn't adopt far right

rhetoric in the run up to a regional election. it's kind of we don't need a wedge in the society we have to stick together we need social cohesion and bridge building. the interior minister offered to enter a dialogue with muslim associations in germany on the condition they all reject violence. this is day dubliners live from berlin still to come kickboxing so i think there's a secret passion for. now she's a world champion we'll hear about her journey from the underground gems to the top of the world. donald trump in the world with have to import terrorists but now he seems to be showing a bit more flexibility kristoff indeed fill the white house says president trump is negotiating with a number of countries over possible exemptions to new u.s. import tariffs but they didn't clarify which countries are involved and there's no time to waste a week from now these increased terrorists on steel and aluminum are set to come

into effect meanwhile e.u. officials have prepared list of u.s. produced items that could face levees in return the u.s. economic hit list is pages long and includes american favorites like corn peanut butter whiskey tobacco jeans and motorcycles products worth in total two point eight billion euros in annual trade says brussels the list as a reaction to u.s. president donald trump announced tariffs on steel and aluminum that the european union says flies in the face of the u.s. relations. with the tariffs that the united states has imposed are against these principles of the world trade organization and they want to change or solve these problems by discussion as possible. which is why germany's new economics minister paid to it maya is traveling to washington on sunday followed by e.u. trade commissioner cecilia mines through both hope they can convince u.s.

officials to exempt european products from trump's terrace. and it's not just the e.u. which is worried now the most influential business lobbying group in the united states has warned donald trump against imposing terrace on chinese goods chamber of commerce president thomas donohue says such measures could eventually heard u.s. consumers and the economy is remarks after reports that trump is considering slapping terrorists on up to sixty billion dollars worth of chinese imports. shares of snap tumbled for a second day on friday that after singer rianna told her fans to delete snap chat the company's social media app spoke out after snapchat ran an ad for a smartphone game which poked fun at the violence you have endured in an abusive relationship she denounced snap chat to her sixty one million followers on rival platform instagram snapchat apologized and to down the ad but brianna few refused

to accept the apology. for more let's cross over to our markets many unscored in new york ends when was the last time you saw a singer move the market. well the bright worlds of social media but actually i don't have to look that far back because just a couple of weeks ago reality a t.v. personality kylie jenner made a post on her twitter account saying that she's not happy with the new design and layout of snapchat and that actually cause the doc to drop seven percent just a couple of weeks ago but what we're seeing right now is pretty mess of just on thursday it lost a good six hundred million dollars in market cap and now on friday the stock dropped below its i.p.o. price of seventeen dollars a piece mess of moves that those celebrities are causing in the world of social

media and in other news carmaker ford once almost exclusively go hybrid tell us more it's certainly a very big step but especially if you look at north america business has not been stellar for ford last year in north america profits dropped by seventeen percent and now they want to go all hybrid and electric latest by twenty twenty one for it actually wants to become the number one hybrid car manufacturer and sawyer toyota and they specially want to focus on s.u.v.s on pickup trucks and also some muscle cars like a mustang because those are much more profitable than your regular car. in new york thank you. it's back to phil now and what could turn out to be historic negotiation krista thank you that's why even has been saying that it is willing to

play a key role in bringing about a meeting between u.s. president donald trump and north korea's leader kim jong un which is planned for make this comes after a secret meeting in stockholm north korea's foreign minister really a gung ho flew from beijing for the talks with the swedish counterpart margaret. said their discussions have been good and constructive but she refused to say whether they had discussed a possible something between the u.s. and north korean leaders sources say the two ministers of plan to continue their talks on saturday. first british prime minister stefan was also at that meeting before traveling to berlin he said his country would do whatever it code as a mediator and that sweden's long standing relationship with north korea meant it enjoyed a position of trust we have a responsibility to act as a service a facilitator we all countries everybody need to help out here too we would need to

find a way to build a common security. the substance to the head actors is the north korea south korea china united states japan they of the group of countries that have to find a solution we can facilitate and try to help and support the process of that is what we have offered. so what are the chances of success why sweden involves the director of foreign policy studies at the cato institute can probably tell us john glaser and he joins us from washington welcome let's start with the well with one of the two main players donald trump who's been speaking with south korea's leader both of them say they are cautiously optimistic about the prospect of summit talks going ahead what more can you tell us. well cautious optimism is probably the right tack to take to mean diplomacy of any kind is extremely difficult but particularly with two antagonistic adversaries like the

united states and north korea they're really challenging and it's even more challenging given the two leaders that are involved trump and kim are both erratic and have been kind of exchanging. barbs and insults and even threats of nuclear aggression so this is a particularly difficult and delicate. sort of plan for a diplomatic standoff and you know i think. normally such a meeting between heads of state would happen only at the last step of a long process of lower level diplomatic negotiations done mostly in private and so that raises the stakes even more talking is better than where we were just a few weeks ago threats and escalation and so on but it's still we need to manage our expectations certainly i mean why is sweden involved.

well sweden is a country with very long lasting diplomatic formal diplomatic relationship with north korea they got a diplomatic post there in the early one nine hundred seventy s. and they have consistently acted as an intermediary between the united states and north korea which don't mean that these two countries do not have formal diplomatic ties they also helped in the. release of auto warm beer the american that was held hostage in north korea and so they play this role traditionally but frankly at the end of the day i think the venue wherever it ends up if this summit does actually happen is less important than what the both sides expect to get out of it. if these talks do happen what we know that north korea has been pushing for these talks as so sometimes the resistance is to the american side how much of a risk is this the president. well there's all

kinds of risks involved in this kind of diplomatic standoff. it might be the case that these two leaders are not as committed to a peaceful resolution or as willing to make concessions to the other side which means that sort of the failure of the diplomacy is a foregone conclusion and when a failure when diplomacy is seen to fail by the trough administration might bolster the case for a more extreme and militaristic approach and that would obviously be bad. you know i think with luck and with enough preparation it can be a constructive first meeting that will lead to others and will hopefully come to some kind of compromise that is peaceful as opposed to having an unrivaled into some kind of war every all the analysis that we know of on a north-south conflict that involves the united states and potentially other regional powers predicts other calamity with extremely high casualty rates and

almost uncontrollable escort tory risks so we want to keep this peaceful and with luck enough preparation i think possibly we can get there still risky though very interesting john glaser from the caterer is yours in the bush and thank you. now look sort of begun as an athlete like no other she's british and she's kind of the world kick boxing champion and the sport's only female was the title holder known as the water princess she's not a switch in sports preparing a first boxing match another barrier broken for a woman who's already overcome so many in order to chase the dream. those fish soup theory belong to resign a begum now a seasoned fighter she once had to hide her passion from her traditional muslim family. and one day i noticed there was

a sign thank you both in class off to school so i tend to and i completely fell in love with the sport it was fast and furious explained safe and he just took me away from all my challenges in life at that point my prime didn't actually marry that i was too tired both seemed they just thought i was going to no one shame for fitness purposes they didn't take groups out along to achieve accolades in the sport she fell in love with she soon became a british and european my thai champion and won the world kick boxing association title. her success convinced others to put on the gloves. the fad by dave inspired so many females from backgrounds in particular people from my faith and ethnic minority backgrounds and i thought to myself this is what we need spies me to be the best that i can be and push myself and excel in

a move mainstream sport to inspire the next generation hollywood script writers but her story right so she could be headed to the big screen soon but first she's looking to knock out her competition in her boxing debut. in football the draw for the champions league quarter finals has taken place in switzerland and brazil some great match ups twenty fifteen champions bosler will face italian side russia germany is by and munich pad with us via your ventures will take on the holders round madrid in a repeat of last year's final and ral are going for a third title in a row liverpool will meet manchester city in an old english much of the first legs will be played in the first week of april. the draw for the road league quarterfinals was also made to the rb leipzig the first team out of the pot the german side will meet must say in the last eight els where the two favorites for

the title at arsenal and athletic of madrid avoided each other in the drill and souths burke who were who dumped out a brochure dormant in the last round will face last year. the eiffel tower is the world's most visited monument but for one day it was transformed into a race course more than one hundred athletes from around the globe were fired for the fastest of. the towers in one thousand six hundred and fifty five steps is a grueling workout for the days the event is now on to its fourth year because time is just under eight minutes. is a reminder that top stories at this hour president emanuel from seven german chancellor. of. the european union on the eurozone i hope for a june e.u. summit president mocker said he wanted to be clear on. this use of foreign secretary johnson has accused russian president vladimir putin personally.

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starting march twenty fourth on d w. russian former spy service free pal and his torso were poisoned by a highly toxic nerve agent britain's prime minister accused russia of focus tracing the attack as twenty three russian diplomats prepared to pack their bags and leave london after being expelled u.k. foreign minister now heats up the route saying that he believes flooded we have putin must have organized the attack i'm phil gayle in berlin this is the day.