this is news coming to you live from berlin as the u.k. deepens its investigation into the poisoning of a former spy a foreign minister boris johnson points the finger at the kremlin. has to be responsible somebody has to be accountable and we in the u.k. think that the. evidence points the evidence with culpability points to the russian state. and since comments come as international chemical weapons experts begin analyzing the nerve agent used in the attack also coming up britain and the e.u.

agree on plans for a two year transition period after breakfast and we'll talk with take a look at what it means for businesses. and where the european court set rule on the case of two jailed turkish journalists we look at how that country's crackdown on the media and civil society is affecting thousands of lives. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us. we begin in the u.k. where international weapons experts have begun analyzing the talks and used to poison a former russian spy and his daughter in the city of saul's berry says russia hits back at british allegations that it is behind the attack moscow is demanding that britain provide evidence to back up its claims but police in the u.k.

say their investigation is likely to take months. the military hauls away a car for forensic testing the same car used to pick up. daughter of x. russian spy sergei script from the airport when she returned from moscow at the beginning of the month hours after her return both father and daughter were found unconscious on this bench in salzburg the england. scientists at this bio chemical weapons facility say they were poisoned with the nerve agent novacek this finding is now central in britain's case against russia but a direct link to putin remains elusive. correspondent john a name still of us sat down with british foreign minister boris johnson have any solid evidence that poor didn't directly or did they because what he said is them lost their wrecked over russia's leader that and or somebody has to be responsible somebody has to be accountable and we in the u.k.

think that the. evidence points the evidence or culpability points to the russian state and as it did in the case of alexander litvinenko the trail of polonium led back very clearly to the russian state and in the end. mr putin is in charge and that is that i'm afraid he cannot escape responsibility and cope ability ations will have to be answered they will either need to be backed up with something evidence or they'll need to apologize. international comical weapons experts are in the u.k. to test the samples of the substance that sick in the script those results are expected to take at least two weeks. well let's bring in our correspondent emily sure win in moscow for more emily president putin's first public denial in this poisoning case came shortly after his reelection on sunday was the timing

significant well let you know putin himself mentioned the timing of this whole case in that first public denial he said that it was unthinkable that russia would do something like poisoning. before the presidential elections and before the upcoming world cup of course we don't know it's important to point out that we don't know at this point at this point that it definitely was the russian government that's behind this poisoning there's an ongoing investigation going on but interesting lee whether it was russia or not the. political scientists here in russia after the election have been discussing the fact that this case definitely could have health people health putin with his record result could have helped push people to the polls and in fact some of the people i have been speaking to said that they actually decided to vote

because of this ongoing case and because of the sort of anti western campaign as people see it here that the west is waging the anti russian campaign excuse me that the west is waging against russia and the fact that putin kind of kept out of this whole case during the campaign is also interesting he kind of kept out of the political mudslinging that was going on in the run up to the presidential elections and now he's charming and ok you know this investigation as you pointed out is ongoing just the kremlin reacted to reports that the poison used against screwballs his daughter was no bit chalk that's a nerve agent developed by the soviet union. well they've denied any links to nova chalk from the beginning and from the beginning they've also demanded that the u.k. provide russia with samples of this nerve agent that sergei screwball and his

daughter were poisoned with and over the weekend once again we heard the foreign ministry spokesperson mighty as the hot of she said that there never was research or production of an agent code named nova chalk and she said that that happened didn't happen either in the soviet union or in russia and in said she instead she said that no the choke was actually produced in the west by a group of russian chemists who were brought to the west in the one nine hundred ninety s. so that's that's the kind of newest official version that the hot oven is presenting there and putin also chimed in after the election he said that if it had been a military grade nerve agent then people would have died on the spot and he also pointed out that russia destroyed his its chemical weapons. under the under the watchful eyes of observers so there has been basically

a full out denial of any link to nova chalk here in russia. and those are correspondent emily sure was talking to us a little while ago from moscow and it you can watch to complete interview with british foreign secretary boris johnson about the poisoning case that's online. dot com. some other stories making headlines around the world today several hundred opposition supporters have gathered in moscow to condemn president blathered near putin's reelection protesters at the rally said they don't recognize the results of sunday's ballot and say it was held under unfair conditions putin secured a fourth term in the election after taking nearly seventy seven percent of the vote . an angry rant against the trumpet ministration palestinian president mahmoud abbas has used strongly insulting language in reference to the us ambassador to israel david friedman was donald trump's personal lawyer before being appointed

last year he's a longstanding supporter of israeli settlement building in the west bank and harvey weinstein's former company has filed for bankruptcy months after the oscar winning producer was accused of multiple sexual assaults weinstein was fired as chairman last october when the allegations were first reported he has denied having non consensual sex with anyone. for an airstrike on a school shelter in syria's eastern has killed at least fifteen children and two women that's according to the syrian observatory for human rights it says the strikes came from russian planes this comes as thousands of civilians have fled the besieged on clay. for more now i'm joined by our correspondent. who's monitoring the situation from beirut lebanon and show what can you tell us about the current situation in eastern. we didn't matter because life and iraq we at c.n.n.

are also decent to reveal it was and it is an odd sort of evil a lot of misconceptions of a hat was just beginning and how the families are huddled up in basements and essentially never there's not enough it's not enough men to eat for those who have been into that since that stockade a lot of people of mine. who live there they think they don't know which one of those messiahs they need more excited. remember when their if you have met not play million minutes ago when you shouldn't use fifty stop eighty percent of them and then only passing thing by who's even since the key in the areas was up on a seat since it then moves east and will not and i really need to hear the better perhaps than to open such i'm thinking she should be the best though that events are not getting up to we're getting different reports here we're hearing on the one

hand the russian planes are bombarding places and and we're hearing the same time evacuations are taking place also led by the russians can you clarify this for us. well absolutely it is all happening at the same time so far here is that i don't see that you strategy for them to me and it is once again you seen it happen in the court as well what's with that massive air. assault on the area that they're going to invent a growing number of the movements there this evening and that is the minority unless you see that which there are people who cited it as you will see that in fact the other question is in these. seventy s. if they want to put up with more people see they don't see these absences as a that missions but this cd and they do that there has been since you arrived. with its that is what one thing he did he asked and then saying it's not enough to get

him or to the next last letter in the end of these people in seven incidents the u.n. says before the hoodie see our. politicians three thousand three thousand remember only a very few a quarter million under spotlights doesn't have any math ok and child there correspondent talking to us from beirut lebanon thank you so much britain and the european union have laid out plans for a two year transition period calling the u.k.'s exit from the e.u. the deal includes british concessions which will allow it to stay in the single market and customs union until the end of two thousand and twenty l. a deal does not remove the uncertainty surrounding britain's long term status but it does provide businesses and residents with breathing room for the next three years. a rare sight the two chief brags that negotiators were all smiles and feel of mutual compliments it might be to air the to call it

a breakthrough but it is hoped it will prevent a so-called hard brags that what it will do you have after is a life or a transition period until the end of twenty twenty thanks to concessions from the british. during this transition period person will no longer participate in each decision making because it will no longer be a member of the e.u. as of march thirtieth two thousand nine hundred but it will continue to benefit from all the advantages of the single market and the customs union and it will abide by all. if you're not sure unique unions and industrial associations throughout europe have been sounding mornings about the m. pact of a hard break that monday's provides for a twenty one month transition period when g t's an expert barriers will not be applied after preston leaves the e.u. next year. businesses leave decisions all rushed through contingency plans based on guesses about the future the. one key issue that remains unresolved is the

border between ireland an e.u. member a northern ireland which is part of the u.k. nevertheless there's strong hope that the other twenty seven e.u. leaders will endorse the transition deal later this week. well over to christophe europe hasn't given up hope of getting an exemption from new u.s. tariffs right area took some hard lobbying but a compromise could be reached during this week that's according to germany's new economy minister peter altmire he's in washington for talks with the u.s. secretary of commerce wilbur ross after which he said it is still possible to reach at least a provisional solution which could avoid a decline into a heavy trade conflict new u.s. terrorists on steel and the men. are set to come into effect by friday. he's only just arrived in office but the newly minted german economy minister is already faced with a difficult mission. must avoid

a trade war with the united states. this. there's a lot at stake here jobs in germany and europe the trade relationship with the united states as well as the trade architecture of the whole world oh take two or innovate in. the new tariffs come into force on friday and in some ways the german and european steel industries could simply sit back and relax after all steel and aluminum make up only a very small proportion of european exports to the us and yet the e.u. will be the trading partner to be hit hardest by the new taxes. the e.u. as a whole all twenty eight countries would have six point five billion dollars worth of steel and aluminum exports affected by the new tariffs it's followed by china with an export volume of around three billion dollars germany would pay taxes on a total of one point seven billion dollars worth of such exports each year making

it the country most affected from within the e.u. . some experts warn that the new tariffs might herald the beginning of a cascade of others which will spread across further sectors and countries the european steel industry fears that europe may soon be flooded with cheap steel imports it being an alternative cheaper dumping ground. chinese premier league appealed to washington to knock act quote emotionally and avoid disrupting trade over steel technology and other disputes promising that beijing will be open wider to imports and investment nice said further that no one can emerge the winner in a trade war he was speaking on the sidelines of china's national people's congress the number two chinese leader made no mention of a possible chinese response in the event that u.s. president donald trump raises import barriers and he hopes all parties act rationally wasn't being led by emotions and that china doesn't want to see

a trade war. well for more let's bring in catherine yang she's a investment director for equities of stability international and she joins me from hong kong good to have you on the program catherine china's premier urges the united states not to act emotionally on trade has we had any signs from beijing as to how it plans to deal with the us president donald trump and the prospect of a possible trade war. if we look at the recent tariffs that were announced by the us so steel an aluminum am when we put it in terms of total production it's actually very very small so about zero point one percent of total production still wise it goes the us about two percent for aluminum and so whilst the impact is minimal in terms of these two industries it could be the beginning of a dialogue or discussions about other sectors and tariffs on both sides so in fact the big risk for the market is these ongoing trade discussions in the united states many companies have urged president trump to refrain from slapping terrorist

specifically on chinese imports has that resonated in china. at this stage with the whole process regarding the national people's congress the m.p.c. with us being in china in terms of the earning season there's a lot of domestic focus what is interesting though is with some of the struggling state owned enterprises what we call s.-o. we there's some mixed ownership reform going on and it's sort of being highlighted that the chinese are very open to foreign entities actually taking part in this make the ownership reforms so you could begin to see more new supply which could benefit u.s. companies as well as other foreign companies. beijing has appointed several new leaders for the finance and economic cabinet including a new head of the people's bank of china you get a receipt pards have his education in the united states is he the right person for the job. it was very much expected by the market so no big surprise if

we look at his background he has a very strong academic background so he went to the university of peking in china and then actually went to the university of illinois spent about a decade in china before starting the u.s. before turning to china he's been with the central bank the p.b.'s c. since nine hundred ninety seven more recently as the deputy governor so a lot of alignment and consistency regarding prudent monetary policy is expected in the foreseeable future and now that these several new figures have been appointed from your perspective how will china's economy and capital market develop. in terms of what the government is really focusing on there's also been the appointment of a vice premier who again has got good u.s. trade relations so he's likely to well there was likely to see more of him and regards to trade discussions but he's also been appointed as the head of the financial stability and development commission and this new regulatory body which with established last year is going to really be forging ahead with financial

regulation so in order to see growth continue albeit at a slower pace we do need to see a better regulatory framework and that is likely to be the case this year has been yang of fidelity international joining me from long kong catherine thank you for your insight facebook shares have taking a bit of tape because on the stock market the shaving more than thirty billion dollars off the value of the company the nearly seven percent tumble marks the stock's biggest drop in four years behind it is the recent controversy over cambridge and the legs alleged spying of fifty million facebook customers which hasn't turned sparks demands for increased regulation for large tech companies and of course there's the issue of trust with some users already volleying to stop using the social network. for hoover is suspending its south driving car program after one of its vehicles struck and killed a pedestrian in arizona the vehicle wasn't a total miss mode at the time of the accident an operator sat in the driver's seat

the accident occurred in tampa one of the four a cities in the us where the right heading giant was testing the vehicles has invested heavily in autonomy as driving which it considers key to its future business model the accident marks the first time that the desperate has been killed by a vehicle in the top of this boat. expect a very now and the legal fallout of the failed coup in turkey two years ago that's right kristie of the european court of human rights is set to rule later today in the case of two turkish journalists who were detained in the wake of the failed two thousand and sixteen military coup in turkey one of the two men shot heene alpine he was released from detention on saturday weeks after turkey's constitutional court ruled that his rights had been violated by his imprisonment shaheen. called i'm extremely happy to rejoin my family but i can't say i have regained my freedom . these twenty months in prison were very difficult. and when i got out i

left thousands of people behind who have nothing to do with terrorism or the coup. i believe that turkey will not be free as long as they are not. that that's all i have to say thank you. the seventy four year old alpine is not entirely free though because he is required to stay in turkey under house arrest and met out is still behind bars although turkey's constitutional court has also ruled that he must be released from detention he's one of around one hundred fifty media representatives who've been imprisoned in turkey. and they are just the tip of the iceberg fifty thousand people have been arrested in the post-coup crackdown and one hundred fifty thousand people have been fired or suspended from their jobs or istanbul correspondent junia hahn sent us this report on how the purge is destroying people's lives. we will resist

that's what these demonstrators are shouting in istanbul scotto district for more than a year they have come here at least once a week to protest their dismissals. the to jail and takes part as often as she can the sooty two year old who used to work with the stumbles development agency until she was sacked in january twenty seventh she still remembers the last day of her old life there really well. so well. it was on a friday night i was sitting outside with my friends we heard the news that the government had sect thousands of people by a new decree. they published a list with all the names on it we had to look to find out if we knew anyone. and then i saw my name i felt so terrible your whole life is ruined just because your name is on

a list i was furious and told them i will be back and demand justice. be to jail it says she has nothing to do with terrorists she thinks she was sacked because she is a leftist unionist critical voice. better by no means an isolated case since the failed coup attempt in summer twenty sixteen up to one hundred fifty thousand people have been sacked suspended from their jobs many of them have even been jailed they were civil servants teachers doctors professors once pillars of society they were suddenly declared to be enemies of the state often with very. little explanation why. sociologist by rum arizona law law also lost his job during one of the purges he used to teach at the university of. now he lives in istanbul and documents the names and stories of those who get sacked you can the pictures of mass arrests that were broadcasted on

turkish t.v. still shocking. maybe almost here look. prosecutors and have to prove that you are a criminal that terrorist but in our case in my case or even in our case we have got to prove that we are innocent those who are being accused of. being a member of this organization called. we cannot stand the charges and source in this crash was hostile stigma some of them commit suicide some of them near their home their lives stays so that they come. out they become invisible invisible at another place so that they can't.

leave the. they've made. it easier for hooting to official figures some four thousand turks who were dismissed after the coup attempts have since gotten their jobs back one of them agreed to give an interview but anonymously because officially he's not allowed to talk about his case the primary school teacher says he was suspended for about three months a relatively short forced break compared to many other cases. overnight i suddenly got my job back. and of course i was very happy. but i don't believe it had anything to do with justice. still being investigated. for weeks i didn't get paid but i had psychological problems. and who knows maybe i'll be sacked again the threats still exist. back today to jail it at

home her cancer waiting for her she used to have a flatmate until a short while but she moved out because she was afraid to get into trouble with the authorities herself friends who suddenly turned their back that's also something better had to get used to. it. i know there are many people like me they die as so-called civil death but i don't want to accept this while i try to resist for the rest of my life i will fight for everyone who experiences injustice and unlawfulness and i hope to get back my job in the meantime only if we resist can we keep the hope of life. and that's why the two g. leaving for the next. one here are though she had a well paid job as a civil suit and she has become an activist fighting to get back. the report there from g.w.

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