history of this imposing house of worship. starting march twenty eighth. this is d w news coming to you live from russia slams the mass expulsion of its diplomats and warns of harsh response to calm us in more than twenty western countries unite to kick out scores of russian diplomats accord nato action to protest the poisoning of a former spy on british soil also coming up shortly at this high security train to

beijing called speculation that kim jong il has made his first visit to china as north korea's leader our correspondent in beijing has the latest from. brazil gets a chance to heal the wounds balling trauma against germany the two sides meet to berlin tonight in a world cup warm up match for the first full strength encounter since two thousand and fourteen when germany just roy brazil seven one in the biggest football upset of all time brazil a race the painful memory. hello i'm terry barton good to have you with us. moscow has vowed to respond harshly to the mass expulsion of russian diplomats by the u.s. and other western allies in accordingly to action washington and many e.u. member states including germany are kicking out a total of one hundred thirty russian diplomatic staff the move is

a show of solidarity with the u.k. after the poisoning of a former russian spy on british soil but the kremlin insists there's been a rush to judgment. behind the closed curtains for diplomats are clearing their desks but out in front of the russian embassy in berlin the ambassador remained defiant. we still haven't heard any evidence we keep hearing the words great probability which of course does not convince us that all. via started. we are of course very disappointed by this decision and we obviously not happy that our partners the taking part in this provocation by the english authorities. and burn lynn says it's responding not just to the attack on former russian double agents saikai script out in the u.k.

but also to a major cyber attack on the german government's computer network. british investigators believe that x. intelligence officer script and his daughter junia were poisoned with novae choke a soviet era nerve agent the two were found unconscious on a park bench in the southern english city of soulsby on march the fourth they remain critically ill in hospital. that's an e.u. summit in brussels last week all twenty eight member states condemned the attack the expulsion of russian diplomats by fourteen a u. countries was a coordinated action they say all evidence points to russia 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 beyond over the past three weeks as we have confronted the aftermath of the incident. continues to maintain its innocence it is vowed to

retaliate in kind and warned western governments that the expulsion of russian diplomats was a mistake. for more on this developing story let's bring in hunt us out of mind he's a specialist in russian and european affairs and a non resident fellow at the university of kele's institute for security policy thank you so much for being with us this morning on the news russia has threatened a harsh response to these expulsions what should western powers be bracing for well i don't think that the response is going to be all that i think it's just going to be the usual a tit for tat so they will be expelling diplomats from united states and from european countries canada australia and i think it is should be pretty much the end of it give us an overview of where things stand right now in relations between russia and the west because on the face of it it looks pretty bad how bad is it well it is really more tense situation than it has been for quite some time in

some ways more tense than during the cold war even though at the time at present it's more a d. a rhetorical level of but nevertheless and i think the root causes of that can be found in fundamental shift of policy that put in embarked upon when he was elected to for the third time to. the office of a president because he took a fundamental decision to actually conduct a much more strident aggressive actually policy towards the west based on the nationalist. foundations and this is the way or the state of affairs that we are living in now and this is just continuing in this type of policy were you surprised that washington decided to expel sixty diplomats a significant number given how donald trump has phased out

a mere putin in the in the past well hazari praised him but the his not as it is in a critical about him that's true in fact he who went as far as the congratulating him despite the advise from the security advisor and to from also the. four ministers for regulating on his recent on the idea actually that's ok so you have to that is that it isn't a surprise but it is even more surprising that as far as i know he actually took the lead to actually call european leaders to urge them to adopt strong measures that that actually is a big surprise when the u.s. was explaining why it was expelling the sixty diplomats it linked it only in part to what happened with the poisoning in the u.k. it also mentioned that there are other aspects from its point of view that it finds problematic is the u.s. and is washington or washington or more moscow on a confrontational course now well at the rhetorical level as i said yes i don't

think that it's going to spill over in any way into the military sphere but i think this very important what they were just saying i think that these measures both by the united states and also by european countries are not to be understood simply as a reaction to the poisoning but it's a much broader context in which these measures. and also the rhetoric has been the preceding and you know that we saw it with the statement by the german government that it was based not just on the the measures not just based on the poisoning him but also on the cyber attack against the internet facilities for the german government but even beyond that i think it's a response against this is strident and western policy conducted by putin does that since two thousand and twelve so there's a lot more at play here than we're just the poisoning of

a former russian spy now i understand that either is also considering further measures against russia what options does that even have first of all it's difficult to say whether it went to ask. whether he was really the only you because it takes a unanimous decision for sanctions ones to be taken so i think he was thinking more in terms of those european countries that have not adopted any measures that they may be following suit i don't think that the quality of these measures is going to be increased honest out of might specialise in russian and european affairs an anon resident fellow at kiel university's institute security policy thanks so much for talking to us this morning and you know news. the number of children who died in a massive fire at a shopping center in siberia stands at forty one russian president vladimir putin visited the same today and laid flowers at a makeshift memorial to the victims of

a fire he said criminal negligence was to blame for the high death toll a blaze broke out on the fourth floor of the complex in the coal mining city of quetta rovell on sunday. north korean leader kim jong il is rumored to have visited beijing but there's been no official confirmation from either side a train thought to be carrying him left the chinese capital earlier sources in beijing confirmed a senior north korean official had been intel but did not know exactly who unconfirmed visit would be kim's first since coming to power in two thousand and eleven and it comes ahead of planned meetings with south korea and the u.s. . or more or less bring in our beijing correspondent but. why do people believe that this train was carrying the north korean leader kim jong un well the most striking reason is

that it looks exactly like the train that has been carrying his father kim jong il on his state visits he always traveled by this train never by plane there have been high security measures in beijing in all of the areas that are usually used for state visits although no state visit of fishley is taking place at the moment so all of this points to the drawn might be in this train or at least an other high ranking north korean official people have been speculating it might be sister who has been representing north korea at the pynchon's lympics earlier this year and who seems to be trusted by kim jong un to handle international affairs and we were seeing some pictures of the train just there of the of the train from north korea and we saw also motorcade going through the city china has admitted that there was a visit by someone they just haven't said who why all the secrecy surrounding this

. you know very good question it has been like this before kim jong il when he visited beijing never announced it before hand it was always kept secret until he was back on north korean soil now whether this was his paranoia and he tactical. idea behind i don't know is however a reason to keep this as low key as possible as relations are not very good at the moment and maybe both sides have two sided to wait with the results of this visit. frankly mathias just tell us if this was kim jong un or some other high ranking north korean official in the train visiting beijing why would this be so significant. it would be quite significant as kim jong un has never visited any country officially since he has been in power china is

most important ally and although relations due to the nuclear crisis have down beijing might insist it might be the first country that he will visit later this year we have a visit by him scheduled probably with donald trump with south korean president moon so china would insist on being the first ok thank you so much spelling out there reporting from beijing. let's take a look at some other stories making headlines today polls about been for day two voting for egypt's new president incumbent leader abdel fattah el-sisi is expected to win easily with his only challenger a little known most of. the other hopefuls have been either forced out or arrested in the run up but it will end on wednesday. in fred's to people have been charged

with the murder of an elderly french jewish holocaust survivor eighty five year old know it was repeatedly stabbed in her body such a light in her apartment last week you know if your visual source says the crime is being treated as at the summit. well here in germany the country's biggest lender is facing troubles again yes especially the person who is right at the helm of that particular doj bank is looking for a new boss that's according to a report by the british newspaper the times which says doj as chief executive john crime is about to be ousted to due to daughter's miserable financial results the fifty seven year old took the helm of the lender in twenty fifteen after a failed c.e.o. a range meant in recent months he experienced many setbacks in efforts to rehabilitate the bank his profit warning in january dashed all hopes that germany's

not just financial institution was on the mend after two years of crisis. of more on that story but to die of cold at the front that stock exchange danielle is crimes replacement a done deal. well for more for the moment those are rumors but it's clear that mr kreiner facing some serious problems as door to his contract is due in twenty twenty and he has said in the path that you could imagine to extend this but it seems that behind closed doors the supervisory board is already looking for a successor shareholders and employees are frustrated since the beginning of this year the share price of daughter tumbled by twenty eight percent and two thousand and seventeen has been the third year with big losses the times is also reporting that crime has recently had a big argument with the chairman of the supervisory board power act light not about how to bring the bank back into the winning zone and also how to restructure the

land that we are hearing that crime is asking for even bigger reforms mainly in the capital market division which used to be very profitable we have to see if this how this all develops but many here are already thinking about a future without crying so who could put things right who does the supervisory board have in mind. well there are a couple of names already in the discussion we also asked doj of bank for a statement but they did not want to comment about this which of course gives even more room for speculations we are hearing that the lender has apparently talked to the vice chairman of goldman sachs richard good not to take over but it seems he has already said that he's not interested you can also hear two other names here quite often on the trading floor the boss of huge credit bang john p. . and also bill winters he is the c.e.o. of the british lender standard charter those are also two possible candidates for the job a job that is certainly going to be very challenging sounds like it's not too

attractive at the moment. in frankfurt thank you so much for this. well spanish authorities lauding the arrest of an international criminal mastermind his gang used some of the most sophisticated technology to rob hundreds of bank accounts around the world the cyber heists netted a million dollars each on average. it's a major breakthrough for the police in spain after a three year investigation they have arrested the mastermind of an international criminal gang. 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 i report on a little different book 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 one of the benefits gained in the cyber attack were about one million dollars on average you know on your email there's already a media many banks and authorities in several countries worked together to snare the gang leader so the arrest is being celebrated around the world. isn't the only capital struggling with getting its applet up and running the new mexico city airport could also run into difficulties if leading presidential candidate to address manuel lopez obrador wins the election in july because he wants to abandon the thirteen billion dollar project the epilepsy a warns that the cancellation would cost more than half that amount. it's the biggest public construction project in the country but the face of the thirteen

billion dollar airport being built here depends on the outcome of mexico's upcoming election its biggest opponent this man andrus manual lopez obrador and leftists who's currently leading opinion polls he's called the deal's behind the project corrupt and has threatened to scrap construction if elected he's since softened his stance calling for a review first but is has left the company responsible for building the airport on the defensive. armor plated against corruption it's being wheeled abiding by the law it's all public transparent it's a glass box through which any citizen can see what's happening in real time where the bad guys look is. the stakes couldn't be much and i believe you take us into syria maybe out of it some people are leaving at least eastern but monica is not good some are calling it the bus ride out of hell thousands of syrians have been

leaving eastern go to rebel territory help just outside of damascus it's been all but destroyed in a weeks long bombardment by government forces backed by russia observers say more than sixteen hundred civilians have been killed in the siege evacuation deals have allowed buses loaded with fighters and civilians to head north and seek with scarce aid is available there. leaving their homes behind for more uncertainty as people desperate for change are on the move in syria. but what lies ahead for these families said to be from eastern guta is anything but clear. these are some of the buses said to be carrying people out of the destroyed damascus suburb and north to rebel held territories around it live province. the regime has displaced us following shelling siege and starvation. for seven years we've lived through conditions that no one knows except cold. my

family have been sitting inside a basement for two months with no water no food where living an impossible life we left by a miracle and thank god for everything. the number of evacuees differs considerably between sources but syrian state media aid organizations and rebel groups report several hundred of his sick hungry and war torn residents have been bussed north. to convoy arrive today from rural damascus from. there were twenty two people in critical condition and they were sent to specialist hospitals. so we classified the passengers women and children in one tent wounded elsewhere and those with nutritional needs in another we have three mobile clinics. where these people will land next and how they will survive elsewhere remains

a mystery. the month long government bombardment of left the once thriving community a wasteland the daily pauses and fighting are allowing the exodus of thousands but with an estimated population of around four hundred thousand there is no sign the severity of the humanitarian crisis there will improve. a german court has ordered spain's most wanted fugitive to wait in jail as it decides whether he'll be extradited catalan separatist leader collis pushed him on was detained in northern germany on sunday while on the route to belgium where he's been in self-imposed exile he's wanted by madrid for his role in catalonia as an authorised independence vote and his arrest threatens to deepen spain's political divide. pushed a month detention has sick night it and catalonia supporters of the former lead up the traffic to a standstill at the region's border with the rest of spain. despite the protests

metric isn't backing down in the pursuit of its most wanted man. said it many times. those people currently on trial and those in prison i'm not being punished for their ideas. but for not obeying the law. mission. station a partial strike to protest the arrest of independence leader as chanting for freedom. freedom extradition push to months attention in germany has put in a tele key position and prosecutors say not to expect an immediate decision. this is kind of. this is not a question of balance but something that needs to be examined very thoroughly and

accurately a decision should not be expected before. the german regional coach will now have to decide whether the charges against bush to mount in germany. well sports now and there's a flurry of international football action tonight as countries seek to finalize their world cup squads ahead of the summer's tournaments in russia my colleague mark meadows sports is here with us to talk about all that's in just a moment but first the pick of the bunch has to be germany against brazil putting the reigning world champions against the team they defeated seven one in the twenty fourteen world cup semifinal win for the hosts would mean a record equalling twenty three games in a row without heat but coach. and i was trying out a wide range of players says the performances more important than the result. of course mark this is not just about squad selection is it you know obviously

brazil want revenge they want revenge for that home home late night seven one defeat and they won't revenge on german soil. but it's also important for them because this is the last friendly before the will cup squads need to be announced and have to say brazil are probably very very shocked at their playing this game now against germany where they can try and exercise these demons and not giving up against them saying the no that will be final when they say from one school and suddenly racism to the seven one must still be in their minds though let's remind ourselves just how hard that seven one humbling hit brazil. fellow horizontal july eighth two thousand and fourteen my. nation week. i. dream of a whole new world title. i'm actually happy that we have this game because i

don't want to take the ghost of the seven month defeat to the world cup. they keep it. it's. replacing coach louis philippe scolari with carlos don't go after the debacle didn't change things for the next which in two thousand and sixteen did following the appointment of brazil have won fourteen games out of eighteen losing just once with joy and passion. knows what he's doing see the nuts why brazil won their qualifying group convincingly and have developed as a team. that's why i think he can give this team a clear identity. someone shot from. the trauma of two thousand and fourteen is a mortal eyes nick up about on a beach. but so too are the hopes of the street artists a world cup win in russia will go some way to raising that seven months goal line

from the brazilian collective memory. did every sports to still with so obviously mark this game is extremely important for brazil but it's also important for germany who wants to defend this world cup title what is german coach you're good nerve planning well i think tonight is going to rotate the squad quite a lot you played a full trip a full strength team against spain on friday but now he wants to basically try out is squad players to see who he's got before he has to name the final squad on may the fifteenth so i think we might see him class and spend left back playing up front last sandra wagner. get a look in i think not both of those players can go to the world cup so it's maybe a straight fight between the two of them so they'll be looking for some goals and i think the left hand side he's the only one with a realistic chance of breaking into that first eleven given union jacks that hasn't been playing much the season will go on then give us a quick prediction for that result germany game and maybe some of the other

friendlies tonight given germany going to be playing a second side and given how much it means to brazil you've got to say brazil would win but maybe only by a goal with also getting the thing it's really a home so they've probably got the edge there spain against thousand say you know what a juicy clash that is i'm looking for a high scoring draw i think and then we'll keep post russia playing france france really need to win because they lost their last friendly wow a lot to look forward to tonight marc madison d.w. sports thanks so much. you're watching d.w. news coming to you from berlin we have another whole bolton top next hour of course to get all our stories online clipping a look at those friendlies tonight stay with us. the claims. the cuts. are going. to.

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