make sure you can board in. structuring starting march twenty fourth on g.w. . this is the only news ally from berlin britain and the european union take a step closer to break that they use chief negotiator mission value says the two sides have agreed an agreement on a two year transition period that will make life easier for citizens and businesses our business correspondent has all the details also coming up turkey promises to

push on with its offensive against the kurds in syria that's after it seized control of the city of affy displacing around one hundred fifty thousand people and it was certainly does give lot of air putin's election victory a guarded welcome germy says it expects russia to remain a quote difficult partner with putin in charge. tom little rock it's great to have you along everyone always start off with that brags it breaks through the european union and britain are one step closer to agreeing to a divorce settlement the u.k.'s negotiator says there has been significant progress towards a final deal all according to e.u. chief negotiator michel barnier the two sides have agreed on a large part of britain's would draw all deal including the terms of a post brings a transitional period lasting. until the end of twenty twenty and although tensions

remain over the irish border britain's brags that negotiators said the twenty one month transition gave the certainty demanded by businesses and citizens across britain and the european union well with chief breaks that negotiators shaking hands on this transitional deal and it has been hailed by some as a milestone well let's find out just how much of a breakthrough this is with our brussels correspondent garrick much to say good to see you gay or what exactly did they agree on today i think the key thing they have agreed on today is the transition phase in other words the period of march next year when the u.k. drops out of the e.u. and then remains if you want as though it is inside the you so all the rules and regulations remain to apply by the way also all the obligations of the u.k. so in that period the u.k. will have to follow all the rules of the e.u.

but has no voting rights in other words it will be a rule taker and the interesting thing here is that basically the u.k. has given for the transition period it's crossed all the redlines it's set itself so the jurisdiction of the european court of justice will apply for that transition period all the e.u. citizens who arrive in that period of time will be treated as though they have arrived before the transition phase and also in fisheries no taking back of control ok now garrick so why this change of heart from britain right now. i think the simple answer here is that the cliff of threats it is coming closer and closer we're almost just one year away from it now people are basically asking if i want to sell a car from the u.k. into the e.u. after march next year will it still be possible will the legal standards be applied people have been thinking about booking through flight tickets will they will let be still be possible so a lot of questions here pushing the u.k.

government really to agree to all these conditions in order to ensure that for business there is some sort of really relied ability for a few more years basically pushing that terrible cliff edge and the possibility of a crashing out of the e.u. further and further away they're still not there because there's still a major stumbling block that they have to overcome absolutely or quantity is not quality and the biggest stumbling block the i responder has not been resolved one good example here is that they have agreed on a backstop solution so in other words if in the if there would be a hard brecht's that where the u.k. crashes out of the of the customs union and the internal market in other words it's a hard border would occur and then the agreement is things remain as they are there will be no hard border but the problem is of course that nothing is agreed on july

everything's agrees so this is written down on paper that there is a back so-called backstop solution but of course until there is an idea how to guarantee that there is no hard border in reality this paper is not worth a lot and that's the real problem they haven't moved forward on keeping the irish border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland open as it is now in any way. this reporting from brussels thank you. turkish president rich of tire baritone has vowed to expand his country's military campaign in syria to more kurdish held areas stretching eastward towards the border with iraq well the announcement comes a day after turkey declared victory in syria's northern nothing region claims the campaign is targeting kurdish militants that ancora considers terrorists while the turkish president also warned the country may extend its offensive all the way into

northern iraq if god fails to clear her dish militants from that region. and co bani we will continue until we completely clear this corridor of kurdish held areas. if necessary we will take permanent control of the terrorist camps in northern iraq we have told the iraqi government if you're going to do it do it and if you can't take care of it one night we might suddenly intercede jar and clean out the kurdistan workers party. or they can pick up a lot of the time isn't. all right well for more on these developments i'm now joined by simon may but who is a mideast analyst and international relations lecturer at lancaster university in the u.k. good of you to spend time with us simon present everyone not mincing his words there says turkey has no intention of invading syria so what are they doing in

syria what's the end game here. well i think it's interesting that he says they have no intention of invading because i think if you were to ask a lot of international experts and indeed many across syria that's exactly what they would say has been happening that the turkish forces have gone into sovereign syrian territory and indeed invaded because there weren't many people who were actually advocating for their presence so i think that it's interesting what he's saying obviously he's trying to frame things in a particular way but i think that his words and the ones words reveal a great deal not is that he's trying to strengthen turkey southern border and make it far stronger as a state now simon turkey has a voice set its flag in half a day in syrian territory why is the mask a sledding this happened and you know let's also focus all of it on iraq will they just roll over well i'm not sure that the mosque is letting this happen i mean if

you go back to before they are uprisings you saw that damascus they were they had positive relations i mean assad and had a one they used to go on holiday together but things very quickly soured now as for your question i think that it's more of more the issue that damascus can actually do anything about it i mean if britain is is right in the rebel controlled areas so damascus doesn't really have much influence in that part of syria now asked for but that i doubt that that would be would be particularly happy or receptive to turkish forces going into iraq so i think that it will it will raise a lot of questions about the construction of security are us talk about the the kurds they played a very pivotal role in the american led coalition that is fighting i-s. are any of their allies now likely going to come to their aid. well i guess that's the million dollar question and going back to my point about regional

security you've got all these different groups each with a vested interest and these alliances that we've seen have often been quite fluid as the case we've seen with the with the kurds and the americans now what we'll see in the days to come is the extent to which that relationship is solid the extent to which the u.s. feels some kind of loyalty or has some kind of responsibility for the kurdish groups and and the type of answer that the u.s. gives will will really have an impact on turkey because if the u.s. decides to back the the kurdish groups in syria then we could very easily have to nato allies going head to head in a in a form of standoff or often helps even conflict now i don't think that's particularly likely but i think that that it is a really important time right now to see how things will play forward and what the u.s. will do simon talk to us a little bit about the civilians said that the people the residents of afi what

will happen to those who have been displaced by fighting. well we've heard rumors and and on it go to reports that around one hundred fifty thousand have been displaced from three and they're obviously going to struggle to find somewhere with with safety and shelter and protection from this fighting because we've also heard that the kurdish fighters aren't just going to give up after him without a fight and that whilst this is not necessarily going to be a conventional military battle it will involve. fighting and and more improvised insurgent tactics and they of course have how real humanitarian impacts as well so in addition to the struggle for health for food for shelter then you'll also see increased violence as well so i think it's important and integrity that the u.n. and aid get into into northern syria and provide some type of humanitarian

relief to these people that it once again being displaced from their homes are and this of course all happening as syria enters its eighth year of war thank you so very much simon maven mideast analyst and international relations lecturer lecturer at lancastrian university for. thank you all right want to tell you now about some of the other stories making news around the world. the substance used to poison russian ex-pirate sergei script all and his daughter yulia in the u.k. is due for testing an international team of weapons experts has arrived to test samples of the nerve agent used in the attack known as novacek well the u.k. alleges russia is most likely behind the attack. heavy flooding in croatia plunging homes and roads under water the country declared a state of emergency yesterday due to the rising water levels the flooding has cut off road access to several hundred people. police in austin texas are

investigating the latest in a string of bombings in the u.s. city this month the newest blast injured two on sunday and authorities say the explosion was detonated by a trip wire follows three other unexplained parcel bombings in austin since march the second two people have died in the blasts. you're watching news we still have a lot more to tell you about including the top goals from sunday's one is legal action including a mouth watering match up between illegal ears byron munich and a life. but first soul searching at facebook after the latest abuse of user data and i want to it's never a good sign is it later when a company announces it's launching a full review both internally and externally and that's exactly what facebook has done it's launching that review in the wake of those explosive whistleblower claims that the personal data of fifty million users was misused by britain's cambridge

analytic the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election and facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg is facing some serious questions. facebook's mark zuckerberg enjoys the limelight as much as the next guy hurt least when the news is good but as far as the latest data scandal is concerned he's keeping a low profile more than two years ago his company discovered that cambridge analytical was using a data leaked to spy on fifty million of facebook's uses but facebook failed to inform those affected cambridge analytical was simply told to delete the data which according to media reports never happened instead facebook has opted to delete the accounts of those who brought the scandal to light people like chris wiley former research director at cambridge analytics he's described how the company worked on margin i don't ask you i say hey if i give you

a dollar two dollars could you fill out the survey for me just do it on this op you say fine right i don't have capture what your responses are i capture all the information about you from facebook but also this app then crawls through your social network and captures all about data also so by you filling out my survey i capture three hundred records the user's facebook friends were spied on without their consent of course their likes their gender sexual orientation and political leanings everything was gathered on friday facebook announced it had suspended cambridge analytical but that's not enough for politicians in britain and the u.s. they now want to tackle the issue and confront those responsible from facebook. well for more on this developing story we're joined by e.w. social media editor jared reed now in the studio jared how long was all of this

data gathered in the first place the dod the dod it was gathered through an add on to facebook that paid uses a small amount of money to download a personality quiz hellen if you downloaded this personality crees you'd be consenting to the terms of how they migrate now and so you'll be consenting to your personal information being given to the developers of this. where you live what you live what your political leanings are and also your friends least and what their personal preference preferences are where they live what they like for example and so the spiral to encompass fifty million people and all of these dots it ends up in the hands of cambridge analytical which as we heard was was used by donald trump in the presidential campaign and that was a company that was hated by steve benen at the time which he went on to work for donald trump so this company harvested the dos and then created software to target voters with. predicting what they would want to do and hitting them with ads and

stories and one of the big questions in this whole story is whether the about how any effect on the election that huge web of powerful information that how is facebook responded to all of this or this is a pretty big scandal but just as controversial is how facebook's responded because it's been revealed that it found out in twenty fifteen this was happening and all it seems to have done was asked the companies involved to delete the information but it didn't really follow up as to whether it had done that because it's been reported that some of the information is still online and more importantly didn't tell any of the fifty million users involved that this had been happening facebook has released a statement we can take a look at that it says the claim that this is a doctor break it is completely false and it goes on to say people knowingly. provided their information and that's true to some extent people did knowingly download this quiz but you can't really argue that they would have knowingly given away their friends' information and that they could have possibly not in that

information would be being used as it was it seems to be another case of facebook sort of not taking its influence seriously enough it's been accused of having the sort of lax regulations that allowed the platform to be tampered with in the us presidential election and breaks it and now as well and as you point out facebook was aware of this since twenty fifteen that's an awfully long time should we expect repercussions now for facebook in light of this it's really hard to say we do know as we've heard the companies denied wrongdoing the massachusetts attorney general's launched an investigation they've been calls for mark zuckerberg to appear before the u.s. senate and the e.u. has launched an investigation of its own these of course will take some time and what effect they'll have a bit too early to say right now and on the users is well it certainly makes you want to reconsider your facebook account i have to say jared read from our social media desk thank you very much indeed for. well to find out how the markets are

reacting to the news of that massive facebook breach now let's turn to do my loan at the frankfurt stock exchange general tell us market jitters over the facebook revelations. well last i checked facebook shares were down nearly seven percent so that would represent thirty eight close to thirty eight billion dollars being knocked off its market value now it's also worth noting that the shares of other social media companies like twitter and snap are also down at the open now it's hard to discern how much of a problem this will be for facebook's business going forward many seem to think this is a fixable problem facebook just has to invest more in security and make sure that it's systems in place like up these this kind of thing early and keeps damage to a minimum and it's not like advertisers will drop facebook from one day to the next but we also keep hearing about facebook's response isn't exactly confidence inspiring not to users and a nod to investors and many here are left wondering whether the adequacy of that

response is basically a consequence of facebook not really knowing how to respond so investors want to see a plan quickly all right out of the front for stock exchange for us thank you. as back to layla now and from russia with ambivalence it seems later thank you helena western leaders have given a loop more welcome to vladimir putin's reelection as russian president france wished him luck modernizing the country and germany meanwhile said it expects that the russian leader would remain a quote difficult partner but has done little to dampen enthusiasm back home for the man who swept to a record victory. greeted like a pop star the man who has dominated russia's political stage for years and who now has the mandate to stay here for more. spicy warm i should thank you for your

support. this victory demonstrates how much we've achieved in the last years under very difficult circumstances. to a rather subdued audience the head of the russian election commission confirmed a lot to me of putin's landslide victory he won almost seventy seven percent of the vote but that victory is overshadowed by allegations of election fraud cameras inside polling stations showed signs of forged ballots being submitted by the handful although russian authorities have denied widespread irregularities the reports concern of is germany was quick to voice its reservations about putin's win and of fear regarding the russian election we can't talk about a fair election as we know it you desire so and so forgive us for that's why we assume russia will remain a difficult partner but we need russia to solve the major international issues we are currently facing and that's not quite so we hope to maintain

a dialogue. china though has welcome putin's latest success. i'm sensing that we believe in the president putin's leadership russia will continue its stable development and play a bigger role in international affairs. president putin has allowed himself some time to celebrate yet again he's on the front pages and the top man in the russian federation. all right let's bring in the nicholai of petroff he is a professor in the social and political science faculty at the higher school of economics in a moscow are very good evening sir president putin has already announced a plans for changes in russia what are these changes. i would see as several major directions for these changes one is connected with the fact that puts in should start reshaping the political system to enable

himself not to become a lame duck in my view it will look like drone sort of power but not from the president will president somebody else will be rather transfer of power from putin the president to putin somebody else like national leader second the government was almost paralyzed in this sense that. pretty long gibbet when pulling the enter in presidential elections it could not on duty a serious major us to improve the russian economy being afraid of negative impact and negative while if you do it of our important group of russian voters and now we mediate laughter elections they can start these process and finally have to look at the presidential address delivered recently not only there was i mean we connected with russian the way of twenty three but there was

the first watt with the show's goals in social economic development which can model be realized without softening the relations with a we asked them why i would wait for russian moves in this direction as well all right well let's pick up on that point to mr petrel because on the international stage a president wins relations with the west are at a low point but today he seems to be striking a more conciliatory tone let's take a listen and then we'll pick up from there. when you seem to benefit we have no intention of engaging in some kind of arms race it was just the opposite we will seek to develop constructive relations with other countries. we call on our partners to have a constructive dialogue but. constructive dialogue mr petroff what can the world expect from vladimir putin's next term in office well he softened more of that

tough rhetoric well i would say they have in his recent interview to end this see president putin several times cleaned for negotiations with the united states and what is deadly needed for russian economy not even to improve it but to keep it afloat is in the last months and technologists and these commodities. received without improving the relations with the west right professor nicholai petroff who is with the higher school of economics in moscow thank you sir for spending time with us. oh it's a sports news now in the honestly on sunday are the lights it came from behind to work or to record a first ever win over runaway lear's byron munich while it was buyers first defeat in one thousand matches and keep slaves six firmly in the hands for one of the

league's four champions league places. the start of this match was more noticeable for he was on the bench rather than the pitch top scorer robert live in one of six arrested by by an all round hospital left out his captain in center back really all been among another six others like the coach may have been ruling that decision early on the home defense all it see sondra buckner was the happy recipient. at the other end their heroics from strength rice in the acrobatic meatless sooner with keeping by and ahead it was only a matter of time until right see breakthrough county case blocked once twice. the hosts with the momentum after a frantic first half. and they crashed on in the second period teamers than a play through on goal and the striker on a sub made no mistake panicking ending his seven game goal drought in the business mika. banner then got greedy as he tried to see

a light six win. but the visitors couldn't break through again buckner sending the last chance of the match high and right. and so another milestone in the light six story banner inspired first of a victory over by an. already for a late i want to remind you main headlines right now. britain and the european union have reached an agreement on a two year transition phase following britains were drawn from the block and a green mention should provide clarity for businesses and citizens although there were main sticking points over the issue of the irish border and western leaders have given a garden welcome to vladimir putin's real action as russian president germany's foreign minister said he expected moscow would remain a quote difficult partner. and good e.u. foreign ministers have condemned the poisoning of former russian spy sergei script

ball and his daughter in the english city of seoul is very they say they take extremely seriously london's assessment that moscow is to blame for all this as chemical weapons inspectors begin analyzing the substance used in the attack. don't forget you can always get you know use on the go just download are out from google play pork from the apple store i'll give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news you can also use the detail we do now to send us your photos and videos. you've been watching ditto your news on les la iraq in berlin on behalf of the entire team here thank you so much for spending this part of your day with us and of course the news continues at the top of the hour see that.

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