he made sure he wanted. brain surgery starting march twenty fourth on t w. this is c w news live from berlin a fourth term in office for russian president vladimir putin he thanked his supporters in moscow with results giving him over three quarters of the vote we will have full analysis for you. also coming up turkish fighters raised their flag in the syrian town of puffery their victory follows a two month offensive against

a kurdish militia more than eight hundred fifty thousand people have been forced to flee the fighting we will find out what's next. plus a day of drama in the bundesliga like seacoast a runaway leader inspired munich and keep the variance for the first time ever. the . i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us. latimer putin has been reelected to a fourth term as russia's president near final results give him around three quarters of the vote many say his victory was a foregone conclusion that's after his most serious rival opposition leader alexina volley was barred from running. it was the birth. of the precious currency and future in the terror plot to me

a person was met by jubilant supporters when he made a brief appearance near moscow's iconic red square. should thank you for your support. this victory demonstrates how much we've achieved in the last years under very difficult circumstances. this victory demonstrates the hope and the trust of the russian people that we will work just as hard and just as responsibly and just as effectively in the coming years. he later joined in the election celebrations as his campaign headquarters and then it was back to business i see by. official results said more than seventy six percent of russians voted for his reelection was never in doubt but voter apathy and calls for a boy cost could have compromised his legitimacy opposition leader annexing of on the he was barred from running urged his supporters to boycott the election in an

attempt to undermine the results he highlighted the ways putin was trying to boost his number of seats. in the past few weeks the government has been doing anything it can even using its civil servants to get people to go to the polls. in the end official tallies put turn a sneer sixty percent but some question if the turn ace was really that high hidden cameras installed to prevent election fraud show signs of forged ballots that had already been filled out being submitted a few dozen such incidents have already been report says. even ahead of the election independent monitors said they'd seen an alarming rise in complaints people kind their employers were pressuring them to vote especially when it came to state owned companies. seeing how people were bussed from their workplace to the polling stations on election day that's

a violation of the rules. so there may be some obligations of fraud the outcome of the election won't change putin will still have another six years at the helm of the country. and for more let's bring in our correspondent in moscow gary with shadow who is standing by with the very latest in europe you know we've just seen there the criticism of the democratic process in russia what is the state of that democratic process especially in this most recent election. while sarah i would say this time there was an attempt at least to make the election as democratic as possible and you electoral commission was established video cameras in the polling stations were installed to observe the election also lots of election observers from very different sides to the party but despite all these seemingly democratic innovations that the russian opposition to report the thousands of manipulations during the election the injury

or goal loss reported ballots having been handed to down several times also as their observers war hindered we've heard about cases where universities pressure to their students to vote at their workplaces rather than to their homes in an effort to control their participation particularly affected to work must go said because the work and the public of the year olds a video published by the kremlin critic of ali on his website shows clearly how fake ballots war stuffed into a ballot boxes in a polling station in the far east of russia for example yuri when putin gave his expect his acceptance speech and it was it was a relatively short and sweet acceptance speech we have to mention one of the things that bet he said was he promised his supporters success. what to those who have voted for putin what do they have to expect from him now i mean it's important question sara is of course what's coming in the next month as will the putin system

go on or will protests grow in the country will mr putin foster a successor will liberal or conservative forces in the kremlin russia needs modernization through the twenty years that have passed the country hasn't developed that much neither economically not politically even culturally people in russia face more and more censorship and ultimately regression so russia needs a modernization very of a shadow in moscow thank you. and for more we have joining us here in the studio this morning we have been ignoring pork who sits on the german parliament for the greens thanks so much for joining us thank you for having me we know that you're on the foreign affairs and the defense committees you follow of course what happens in russia quite closely what do you make of the results because we had just a few moments ago heikal mosse the german foreign minister speaking in brussels saying there can be no question that the russian election was fair do you agree i

do not agree this is disturbing statement. i don't think he would make it i have no idea you know maybe he's trying to discuss and of course i would love to to see that situation would reverse the display thing but you can't announce that you'd think after candidate has been excluded of the elections so we have to be clear to russia we have to go on talking we have to try to find ways of this collation but this is not a boat's selling or our positions i mean this is what the mass is doing in this moment what do you think happened yesterday what's your takeaway from this election and of course today's results has been no surprise but. it's obvious that putin would win elections without any manipulations either he's controlling the media in a country so the question is why is he doing this why is he excluding candidates who are not dangerous for him why is he trying to too many played a to turn out of the fifty elections i have no idea i think. it's illusion

that it's an illusion that after the election the situation going to be easier there are a couple of countries where you can see there is someone complaining and after the campaign and after he has won the elections everything's going to get better but this i'm afraid it's not be the kind of won't be the case in the case of russia you mentioned his iron grip on information in the country on the message on the media in his acceptance speech which we have to mention was was quite short and sweet he mentioned that. success would follow for his supporters what do you think he meant by that and what do you think we can expect from him over these next six years i think that to the kremlin it's in the full modus of controversy and they have a competition with our system this is about they are weak liberal democracies they don't want to be part of it and when he's talking about success i think it's about

defeating the other system it's quite the same thinking like we have in the in the cold war this is not a comparable situation but i think that the country conscious of the systems the way russia is just playing in and trouble is playing it is the same in just the past week there was a confrontation with the other system the other system being the west of course i want to talk a little bit more about what i'm referring to last week's nerve agent attack on the u.k. of course we know that germany joined britain france the united states in making this a joint statement to condemn the attempted murder this poisoning of the script. how far is germany willing to go would you say in its support of britain could we see new sanctions here against russia i am this sure if the sanctions are the right answer in this moment because now we have a chain of of a lot of evidences but there is not a. smoking gun there so it's important to show to our british friends that we are standing with them and it's obvious that the highest priority of german foreign

policy is the european union and great britain is a member of through ukraine union so so we're going to we're going to be the best part of the kind that britain has talked about potentially freezing the assets of tycoons in the country russian. you know russians who are living there is that something that germany would also support i wouldn't do this in in germany i'm not sure it's a good idea to go for ex-pat you know there is that we didn't we shouldn't play in . the. the accord to these people we have to try to get them back and we have a huge community in germany we have to find them to fight for them in the fight for their hearts minds i want to talk a little bit about the challenges in dealing with putin's russia because we know that former german chancellor gerhard schroeder often defends him in public on the wall street journal has recently called him quote putin's most important all the dark how big of a challenge is that for germany this is a big one and i agree with what the world was redrawn as this is written recently i

wouldn't say that we should. should no we do not need sanctions against further he didn't well in the last but we need the. creation of events of that what's going on and there are described information campaigns in our country and there are a lot of people who are very well known like the former chancellor schroeder who are playing putin spy game in this country and this is this is dangerous it's all about power politics ahmed nouri poor who sits on the german parliament for the greens we thank you so much for joining us this morning thank you well now let's get a quick check of some other stories that have been making news around the world authorities are warning people in southeast australia to remain alert as wildfires rage in the region the blazes in victoria and new south wales have destroyed dozens of homes and forced hundreds to flee it's thought that they were sparked by lightning and then fanned by hot dry winds. two people have been injured in an explosion in austin texas the blast follows a series of parcel bombings in the u.s.

city this month in which two people were killed authorities have warned residents not to touch unexpected packages and at least a thousand people marched in brazil's rio de janeiro on sunday in the latest of a number of rallies protesting the murder of a councilwoman and human rights activist mariel franco and her driver were shot dead last week while returning from an event prosecutors say that the shooting appears to be a political assassination. and myanmar's leader aung sang suu kyi has received a ceremonial military welcome on this it to australia trip comes amid international criticism of suchi for her response to the row hinge of crisis some seven hundred thousand rohinton have fled violence me on mars august australia's prime minister malcolm turnbull has said that he will raise human rights issues during the visit. to syria now where turkish forces have taken control of the northern town of a free and it has been the target of turkey's two month campaign against the syrian kurdish militia it views as terrorists the fall of our friend marks

a major victory for turkey which has vowed to expand its offensive to other key towns along its border with syria. it was the moment turkey had been fighting for this town have been controlled by syrian kurds for the past five years now it's the turkish flag that waves over after in. the turkish backed forces captured the center of the town on sunday these fight is a proud to have ousted the kurdish militia known as the people's protection units a y p g techie says the y. p.g. is an offshoot of the kurdish nationalist p k k group it claims it's made up of terrorists and is a threat to its national security. across the board to news of africa's capture was met with cuban nation by turkish president andrew and his supporters. most of the terrorists have already fled with their tails between their legs our special forces

and members of the free syrian army are cleaning the remains of the traps they left behind in the center of the free in the symbols of trust and stability are waving instead of the ranks of terrorists. one of the first actions of the turkish back to fight is was to demolish a statue commemorating a legendary kaddish take a. there are also reports from the syrian observatory for human rights of looting right across the city. but the kurds remain defiant with an official warning that the war with turkey has now entered what they called a new phase was that the how what or how forces and afghan will be a nightmare for the turkish troops and its allies the resistance and afrin will continue until the liberation of every inch of the town and until the return of the residents of afrin into their villages and homes. what are you what you already. for this is really an population of affray in turkey's offensive has been

devastating more than one hundred fifty thousand people most of them kurds have been forced to flee for their lives in the last week as turkey attacked the city from the air and the ground at the bottom of the of us we fled because of the airstrikes and the bombardment of our villages by the turks there is no united nations or international community anymore they have forgotten all morality what can we do if civilians turkey is amongst a country. without the north up until the recent turkish attacks african had been a safe haven cheering syria's war now in its eighth year after the capture of a free and it's unclear what will become of those fleeing the town and if or when they will be able to return to their homes. and for more let's bring in d.w. correspondent dorian jones who is standing by with the latest developments for us so dorian tell us we just saw some of the civilians there fleeing the city what is

likely to happen to them. well that's a big question as many as one hundred fifty thousand believed to have fled this town in the last week or so in the run up to this turkish operation where they are now is nor really quite knows they are believed to have fled south to the syrian regime controlled area in villages around there we're getting reports of the north are being allowed to proceed to the kurdish regions more to the east of syria and there are also reports of many haven't eaten or drinking water for the last two days so there is growing concern for the humanitarian situation facing these people and it has been pointed out even if they are allowed to proceed east of the kurdish controlled regions this is the next area of target for the turkish military operation for so for these people it's a very uncertain future absolutely turkey has vowed to push the kurds onward and further east in fact and in the wake of this turkish victory in offering this

syrian kurdish militia for their part they say that they are starting a new phase of growth of warfare what is that likely to mean. well that's the thing everyone is waiting for in fact there was quite a big deal of surprise that they did leave our friend it was his expectation that they would fight a long and bitter struggle in the town they warn that they would fight to the last breath but in the last few days they appear to have changed their minds and now they say they're going to engage in a long guerrilla warfare in this region they say they know this area well they have their forces all over africa and they say they're going to make a nightmare for the turkish forces and the syrian militia militias that they are backing so everyone will be waiting now as will turkey to will there be a new wave of operations and that in many ways could determine what turkey's next act will be will it be to proceed further east all it will be forced to consolidate its position for him and dorian i just want to ask you a little bit more about how this area was was taken by turkey in fact because in

this turkish backed forces they they basically went into a frame with little resistance why was that. well that's well but that is something people are asking creasing me here in turkey there was his expectation as i said that they would be very bitter battle these are deeply experience of fighting urban warfare the syrian militia fighting the islamic state very successfully for the last few years and this is fueling some speculation possibly that there was some sort of deal the syrian militia said they withdrew because of humanitarian concerns they didn't want the city refused to rubble and the civilians killed in there but the fact that they did withdraw and they did appear to withdraw with impunity the turkish forces didn't appear to prevent them from leaving is leading to speculation of some sort of deal and also the fact that the day that this effort was taken was the martyr's day in turkey that was very fortunate for the turkish president he has made a lot of political hay out of this so there is this speculation although both sides will categorically deny any kind of deal ok so some changing dynamics there on the

ground in syria dorian jones putting it all into perspective for us thank you dorian. we're going to head over to chris stuff now with the latest business news and we're talking about apple that's right and potentially bad news for the tech giant suppliers many of them located in asia because apple is apparently developing its own micro l.e.d. device displays in a secret plant in california that's according to the news service bloomberg the report says apple is investing heavily into the project micro screens are flat panel displays that make gadgets thinner brighter and use less power compared with the current displace it could take up to five years before the screens appear on the market so far apple only designs chips for its mobile devices. for more on this let's cross over to our markets correspondent. frank for you now apple has not commented on these reports so far but why would the company start

producing screens now. now the name of the game here is a vertical integration the move would be in line with apple's strategy to produce more products in-house you already mentioned that they designed their own chips for their own mobile services so that's another example of that now in twenty four thousand apple acquired locks for you which of course has proprietary tech in micro alevi so news that apple is moving into the space really doesn't come as that much of a surprise and as you already said that this tech would make the gadgets slimmer brighter and more efficient now if apple does manage to make this the industry standard edging out. that would definitely represent premiums for apple now some speculate that this could have to do with tariffs on tech components from china that would seem less likely because they only have a small small of production capacity within the u.s.

but maybe this is a way to keep all their bases covered and what would such a move mean to the companies that have been supplying apple so far. well that's obviously not good news we've already seen shares down of japan display and of course all obviously samsung now samsung would be would take the obviously biggest hit here because of course it's the undisputed market leader and. it has about a third of the market of both small and miss midsize displays delivered about ninety six percent of smartphone size. last year now the biggest threat to some so would be of course if there was an industry wide shift if apple does manage to push micro l.e.d. on more and more products while being able to maintain a special hold on the intellectual propriety that would of course be an issue for samsung. thank you. g twenty finance ministers are meeting in one of the writers on monday and tuesday and the future of global trade

will be high on their agenda insiders are looking for signals that the united states and china may back off from last week's protectionist posturing now here in germany people are also watching the debut of the country's newly appointed finance minister all of its germany and host country argentina will be advocating free trade at the g. twenty summit together they've stressed the crucial role of the international trading system. we were speaking today that we would like to. reach an agreement in terms of what they knew. the wording of. sustaining the benefits of trade germany's new finance minister all of showed stated germany will invest in infrastructure another key topic of the g. twenty gathering. very strong economy and the new government would invest a lot into. it with a lot to increase the investment into public infrastructure which is part of the

debates we have for the overview of what could be done to have that growth shunts also warned that protectionism could harm future economic prospects and that germany would continue talks to dissuade the united states from punitive tariffs the multi decade old international consensus over trade has come under threat from the u.s. president donald trump's protectionist plans. now while g. twenty leaders are discussing the bigger picture u.s. allies are scrambling to seek exemptions from the terrorists to try and ministration has threatened to impose germany's economy minister is currently in washington for talks the e.u. trade commissioner will follow on tuesday and the talks taking new u.s. import tariffs on steel and aluminum could be imposed as early as friday. the plan of u.s. tariffs would hit europe's steel industry particularly hard germany's new economy minister says

a trade war must be avoided at all costs so he's off to washington for emergency talks and says he's willing to make concessions that's the problem with the current situation is that there is a risk that we will get into a spiral of uni lateral actions that runs counter to the idea of global free trade and it would mean turning away from what we have been doing worldwide for the last sixty years we have to talk to one another not criticize each other publicly we have to try to find compromises germany's pro-business f.d.p. party says trump may have a point it's calling on europe to reduce its own tariffs but i think he has legitimate positions but we contact cept that he's addressing european protectionism by introducing protectionism of his own the solution should be clear rules open markets a new talks about transatlantic free trade he would be best for i'm going to medical to do this face to face but trump doesn't just want compromise on trade from the europeans he's connecting the issue with other demands such as an increase in military spending the post communist left party calls this blackmail and says

the answer is for germany to reduce its dependency on exports. and it's back to sara and the latest bonus legal action you know microsoft everyone likes it when an underdog wins at least most of the time right i have a story here for you now because on sunday life's a came from behind to record a first ever win over runaway leaders byard we nick it was byron's first defeat in one thousand matches and keeps lights they firmly in the hunt for one of the league's four champions league places have aleck. the start of this match was more notable for he was on the bench rather than the pitch top scorer robert live and one of six arrested by by an all round hospital left out his captain and center back really open among another six others might see coach may have been ruling that decision early on the home defense all it see sundry wagner was the happy recipients. at the other end only heroics from strength in the acrobatic meekness sooner we keeping brian ahead it was only

a matter of time until wright see break through have a case of not once but twice. the hosts with the momentum after a frantic first half. and they pressed on in the second period team event have played through one goal and the striker on a sub made no mistake frankly ending his seven game goal drought in the been a sneaker. fan and then got greedy as he tried to see a light six win. but the visitors can break through again buckner sending the last chance of the match high and white. and so another milestone in the light six story a banner inspired first of a victory over brian. so let's take a look at all the bundesliga results from match day twenty seven on sunday dortmund down to hanover cologne got a crucial victory over laver couzin and there was a win for leipsic over by in frankfurt dumped months shaka what in wolfsburg and stood guard beat freiburg so what of all those results mean for the bundesliga

table here it is by earned stumble against life c. but are still almost a shoo in for the title shot are in second dortmund's make amends for crashing out of europe and secure third frankfurt move up to fourth in the bottom half hamburg also look like a shoo in but this time to be relegated cologne and mights also in big trouble with only seven more rounds to go. a quick reminder now of the top stories that we've been following for you here i'm glad amir putin has won and unexpected and expected rather a landslide victory in russia's presidential election but extending his role for another six years it comes at a time of increasing strange relations with the last. and with that you are up to date now on g.w. news i'm sorry kelly in berlin thank you so much for joining us i hope to see you again.

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