this. of the president in solidarity with britain as nations expelled russian diplomats suspected of being spied three weeks after a poison attack on a former russian spy. the united states and fifteen european union members are telling russian diplomats delete russia says it will respond to the income also coming out the e.u. foreign to save its migration deal with turkey president agreed to take back

refugees who had set out for the e.u. from turkey but now he says europe is not sticking to. the bargain plus. he waits to hear whether a german judge will extradite him just cattle on capital barcelona is on edge after a night of protest against the month's detention. and germany's coach brings the changes ahead of the friendly please find world champions brazil is looking to keep cool and unbeaten record that has stood since nineteen eighty. it's good to have you with us tonight the support that she had hoped for britain's prime minister says it is. arduous expulsion of russian diplomats in history the

united states fifteen european union members and several other nations are kicking out more than one hundred russian diplomats over the poisoning of a former russian spy on british soil russia tonight continuing to deny any involved . at the russian embassy in berlin there's little sign off what's going on inside but behind the close curtains for diplomats are clearing their desks berlin says it's responding not just to the attack on former russian double agent sergey script pollin the u.k. but also to the cyber attack on the german government's computer network it wasn't an easy decision for us to expel the russian diplomats but the facts and evidence point to russia. investigators believe that x. intelligence officer said paul and his daughter you leo were poisoned with novae chalk a soviet era nerve agent the two were found unconscious on

a park bench in the southern english city of celts perry on march fourth they remain critically ill in hospital. at an e.u. summit in brussels last week all twenty eight member states come damped the attack the expulsion of russian diplomats by many e.u. countries is a coordinated action they say all the evidence points to russia. back in london the british prime minister welcome the joint move and this is the largest collective expulsion of russian intelligence offices in history. i have found great solidarity from our friends and partners in the e.u. north america and nato and beyond over the past three weeks as we have confronted the aftermath of the soulsby incident but moscow continues to insist it's in a sense it has to respond in kind and warned western governments that the expulsion of russian diplomats was a mistake. all right there's a watch one pack and tonight in this story to do that so i'm joined by our

political analyst simon young he is here in berlin and our correspondent claire richards and she is on the story for us tonight in washington good evening to both of you simon let me start with you it has been a day of expulsions germany got the ball rolling if you will today i mean what have government officials here said about this. you know brant this is intended. as a demonstration of solidarity with the united kingdom and also of the fact they say that attacks against germany's allies and partners can all go unanswered but at the same time in the foreign ministry here has stressed that they remain open for a dialogue with moscow and they've also said that they linked to this action today of expelling four diplomats with a cyber attack against government computer systems here in germany which they also blame on russia or the russian state in particular so it's

a wide ranging response that is broadly in line with what the government in london has been asking for and clearly let's talk about the government in washington sixty diplomats there have been told to pack their bags you've got a consulate in seattle that is being closed and yet there hasn't been a single tweet from president trump about this what has the white house said that's right brant we haven't heard this announced from trump himself but the white house has said it's blaming russia for what it calls a brazen attack on british soil a spokesman said today that the u.s. wants a cooperative relationship with russia but moscow has made that impossible so now the u.s. is hoping to send a strong and unified message together with its nato allies they going around poisoning people is not acceptable. i think it probably should be acceptable in most countries and so i mean let me ask you all of this that we're seeing right now it seems to have come to a head at the e.u.

summit which we saw when asked week are we now seeing a a unified response to russian aggression. well it is broadly unified of course not all countries are sending diplomats home but they are all saying they do believe that russia is behind this attack and that a response is needed and this is of course a demonstration of solidarity for the u.k. while it still remains a member of the european union one can speculate whether the response might have been a bit different. breaks it. a new council president donald tusk has said that you know this may not be the end of the action these explosions there may be more explosions to come in the coming weeks and the action might even be stepped up in the form of economic sanctions against russia as well and claire we know the u.s. president on trump's closeness or his affinity for mr putin it has concerned. i

mean tweet or no tweets does this move today does it signal a significant shift with him and does it put him in line with nato allies sure well there's expunging this expulsion is the toughest action the trump administration has taken against russia and it's a major turn from what we've seen as you mentioned in fact just last week you saw trump calling him your perch and to congratulate him on his election victory despite widespread claims of fraud and not only that but in this call there was no mention of the placing so it's important to remember that the u.s. has sent suspected russian spies home before obama did it in late two thousand and sixteen when he sent thirty five russians back to russia in response to meddling in the u.s. elections but this is certainly the biggest expulsion we've seen since the mid eighty's when president reagan expelled almost the same number as were saying today

right our clear riches in washington and our simon young here in berlin to both of you you thank. well it's not only russia tonight top eba fishel is a meeting with the turkish president to discuss a deal to stem migration into europe or garry hosted the gathering which included turkish president richard pryor baird a wine as well as the european council president and the european commission president you see them walking and standing there john klobuchar two years ago turkey agreed to take back refugees who had set out for e.u. countries from turkey in exchange for billions of euros to house them and the meeting came amid rising tensions between her and several e.u. members doubletalk said it ended with no sign of progress. we have come on the interest of specificially comes to civil aviation of the region but then

comes to co-create solutions. we didn't achieve any kind of concrete control less today but they still owe that. to the both of. those are certainly not the best words the best outcomes that donaldson's was hoping he would be able to share with us today let's go now to our correspondent barbara bays and she joins us from varna in bulgaria she's been covering this summit good evening to you barbara president aired on complained about the e.u. not coming up with the cash that it has promised is he is it right is he telling the truth mean what has the e.u. said. this seem to be actually two sets of accountancy going on here one that era and keeps on complaining that the e.u. hasn't paid the money the e.u. of course said yes we did pay all the money however it did not go in its largest part to the turkish state but it went directly to the refugees and to n.g.o.s who

cater for them and try to help them so obviously has sort of an ongoing problem there because he wants to have the money he just wants to receive it directly and then do with it as he pleases and the european union says no this is not something three billion another three billion to be paid to support the turkish state but to directly support the refugees they simply don't trust the turkish president to do right by them and speaking of trust are one today that turkey still expects to join the european union but relations between the two sides have been increasingly strained to be how do turkey's chances of ever joining the e.u. how do they look right yeah. they look like nothing at all i mean we heard on until skip the president off the european council who represents the member states member

of the e.u. talking about him under michel in france and america in berlin and lots and lots of other heads of government because everybody criticizes him and that's something that aired and complains about criticizing him of course for throwing journalists in jail for not maintaining human rights for not having an independent just in system and so on and so forth. if you sort of want to sum it up it's they say turkey is not a democracy and then therefore turkey cannot become a member state of the european union that it's quite clear that nothing has changed there yeah i mean we have european leaders criticizing president ever wanting for tarion rule to turkey you rightly pointed out it has more to imprison journalists than trying your dose at the moment double to us tonight criticize turkey's crackdown for we that failed coup attempt back in twenty sixteen i mean when you look at all of this over expecting any new e.u.

demands from turkey. we're not expecting any new demands i mean aaron sort of repeats what what he says he you know he sort of paints a picture of himself that nobody can recognize or sort of make out in reality and from the european side of course they keep pushing these points they keep talking about cyprus and the rights of cyprus to sort of drill for energy their gas in oil they talk about two greek soldiers that have been imprisoned by turkey and the list is long and longer and it doesn't get shorter as they have nothing is really resolved the problems just get turned around like you know washing machine you put them in the top and they come out dirty if you open the machine and the problem was this is that they were really living. two different planets president and the european union they keep keep on talking but that's all they do they don't achieve anything in the end it's right that gives

a new meaning to the spin cycle when you're washing clothes for days along the story tonight. barbara thank you very much so i'd spain's most wanted fugitive is back in jail as he waits to hear whether a german court will allow him to be extradited cattle on separatist leader carlist voyage to maul was detained on sunday or traveling through germany to belgium where he's been in self-imposed exile he's wanted by spanish authorities over his role in catalonia unauthorized independence. pushed the most attention has ignited anger in catalonia supporters of the former leader brought traffic to a standstill near the region's border with the rest of spain. despite the protests madrid isn't backing down in pursuit of its most wanted man. but china. said it many times.

those people currently on trial and those in prison are not being punished for their ideas. but for not obeying the law. mission. in barcelona catalan lawmakers staged a partial strike to protest the arrest of pro independence leaders chanting for freedom. on the streets there are mixed feelings about push to most attention. see they were forced to go in they think if europe which it claims to be. should be free and which the president of kut lonia. if not we will be witnessing the decline of europe as an international community. i understand his supporters are angry. but i also understand the spanish government

the laws he has to serve time in prison he did something that was illegal. no one is above the law that they gave no not you but my freedom for extradition his detention in germany has put berlin in a delicate position and prosecutors say not to expect an immediate decision. this is kind of. this is not a question of ours but something that needs to be examined very thoroughly and accurately a decision should. not be expected before them. the german regional court will now have to decide whether the charges against bustamante bear legal weight in germany . but here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the white house says president donald trump strongly denies having an affair with an adult film actress stormy daniels this a day after she said that she had been threatened and told to keep quiet about an

alleged sexual encounter with trucks and she received a one hundred thirty thousand dollars payment just days before the u.s. presidential election. sierra leone's election commission has rescheduled the country's presidential runoff for saturday this after the country's top court room the vote which was originally due to take place tomorrow could go ahead as planned the ruling party had filed a suit to block the runoff after alleging fraud by the opposition in the first round i discovered today now and facebook the regulators are coming a slight someone could throw the book at facebook we'll have to see the u.s. federal trade commission is investigating the social network the consumer watchdog is trying to determine whether the company's privacy practices cause substantial injury to use its facebook stock plunged to thought the depths of the news

following last week's decline the social media company has been under pressure following a series of privacy scandals. hash tag delete facebook has a new supporter lawn musk the billionaire tech maverick has now deleted the pages of his company's tesla and space x. but that's by no means the biggest blow for facebook big advertisers are jumping ship like firefox creator mozilla speaker manufacturers so knows the privacy scandal is expanding rapidly politicians the world over are raring to take action against data breaches. in the future we're going to monitor companies like facebook much more closely as well as punish data protection violations quickly severely and seriously. on friday these images of a police raid on cambridge analytical went around the world the company reportedly misused the data of fifty million facebook users to target election ads to influence the twenty sixteen u.s.

presidential vote the federal trade commission's probe raises the threat of billions of dollars in penalties for facebook. and staying inside the spacetime michel thora he's a lord and the arrest of an international criminal hakka his gang used some of the most sophisticated technology to rob hundreds of bank accounts around the world behind snatch at an average of over a million dollars a pop it's a major breakthrough for the police in spain after a three year investigation they have arrested the must the mind of an international criminal guy. it stole as much as one billion euros according to spain's interior ministry the group operated in some forty countries using technology to change account balances and instruct the cash machines to issue the money. so. just to give you an example of how important the detention is in twenty thirteen

this group managed to access practically every bank in russia the benefits gained in cyber attack were above one million dollars on average one. day media many banks and authorities in several countries worked together to snare the gang leader so the arrest is being celebrated around the world. tax cuts and increased government spending could accelerate economic growth in the u.s. over the next two years that's according to a new survey projecting two point nine percent growth this year outpacing the last three years since the national association of business economics last issued its forecast from a trump has pushed a one and a half trillion dollar tax cut through congress u.s. president and u.s. president insists this will keep growth above three percent. and is almost a force how realistic all these growth projections. well it's

possible but a lot of analysts and economists are skeptical how likely it is the u.s. is still running a huge trade deficit and that is so far increasing every single month so that could be a denver or grows in the united states and then also we have to wait and see how the whole trade talks especially with china turn our to well there were some comments from china that they're willing to talk but that doesn't necessarily mean that those trading talks or trade talks will also be successful one thing is for certain when texas especially for corporations are falling and that is good news for the balance sheets of corporations but it also doesn't mean that those corporations will spend much more it's all of the bottom line is for the moment lower taxes are good news for corporations good news for profits and good news for wall street but that doesn't that doesn't necessarily mean that we also will see

a huge economic growth in the next couple of months and years here in the u.s. so there's still some skepticism even if wall street recovered quite a bit here on monday after this deep losses that we saw especially last week thursday and friday it's going to thank you very much like here in europe breaks it is still causing a major headache britain's plan split from the e.u. is leading to major uncertainties when that comes to future trade relations of course if britain leaves both the customs union and the single market border controls and customs checks will be reintroduced slowing down the traffic of goods and that's bad news not least for the flower business. since flowers only hold their beauty for a limited time getting them to the market quickly is crucial here in the dutch time if we inspect the floral trade dates back more than a century flowers auction here come directly from bro its greenhouse is

a third of the flowers on sale here are destined for the united kingdom. normally they have to be in the room before six seven in the morning as latest everywhere that's will to try to do speed is the watchword in this business but when britain breaks away from the european union things could slow down considerably and costs could increase. our exports a spirit that there fresh blossoms will spoil and shipment as they wait in line for customs clearance. will be trouble for all customers in the customers of the worse it's everywhere in england. so for the same day it's hard to sell those flowers this is no small deal either the floral business plays an important role in the dutch economy sales of flowers to the u.k. alone total aranda billion euros a year. i think that's in the u.k. people at the moment don't know what they are facing in next here it will be

a big problem. but also for fruits and french mills and no one on the dutch side knows whether the floral business will continue to blossom after breakfast either but one thing's sure trade in general will become more complicated once the u.k. leaves the e.u. . now let's see if things are going to come up roses in the egyptian election a good question day no three days of voting in egypt president joy like should have begun there's little doubt that the of those sisi will win a second term his only challenger as well as one of his supporters the biggest concern of egyptian authorities is that enough voters turn out for the vote to be credible. his victory may be assured but abdel fattah el-sisi needs the numbers to consolidate his authority with nearly sixty million eligible voters the former general is hoping his supporters will march to the polling stations and

there's plenty of praise for the incumbent. police everyone who voted for president research of great success for example visual thing a new administrative capital. there is one rival candidate. he's not a household name and perhaps surprisingly he himself admits that he admires. the people will decide who the best candidate is the voters who go to the polls with the soon we'll know the result. and how. many in the opposition believe mousavi is only in the race to create the appearance of democracy at first there were more candidates but some were imprisoned after they announced their candidacy others withdrew from the race often under great pressure . in. the government's worry is that if there were more real

candidates there would have to be debates about real issues. bob the. egyptian media is similarly one sided there's even a hotline where citizens can report journalists who criticise the government. promised a heavy hand against terrorists earlier this month there was another bomb attack in alexandria on the same night peninsula the egyptian army is busy fighting a jihadist insurgency. supporters point to his focus on economic stability the all important tourism sector has been recovering under his rule now since he has fashioned the presidential election as a referendum on his leadership he's hoping for a high turnout to legitimize his rule. germany's world cup preparations cranked up a notch on tuesday with

a hotly anticipated friendly against brazil. a win for the host would mean a record equalling twenty three games in a row without defeat but. says the performance is more important than the result. the prospect of a record equalling result hasn't persuaded you uk english to play it safe in stark contrast to the full strength squad he chose for friday's clash against spain the germany coach will test a string of second tier players in the capital. a win or a draw against brazil will see the world champions much their unbeaten run of twenty three games set under you and one nine hundred eighty. germany will start with several key players among the much. music on thomas. but one stalwart was desperate to start the game. berliner saying.

it's something very special for me as a child i dreamt of playing in the olympic stadium against brazil. even though it's just a friendly match it still means a lot to me because it's here in my hometown i'm delighted to be playing the game. after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around for the. music . we'll.

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just starting april seventh on d w. around the globe russian diplomats called out for being spies and told to get out explosions like the world has never seen before tonight the u.k. prime minister she gets the support that she needs will vladimir putin ever give her the answers she wants i'm bringing off in berlin this is the day. that all. eighteen countries have announced their intention to.